http://www.ExtremeExperts.com This is the syndication feed for ExtremeExperts.com. Every software development project requires a proper build process for delivering a quality product. Generally, the build process involves many repetitive and time consuming manual steps. Automating these steps not only reduces time and resource utilization but also helps to implement other processes like Continuous Integration, nightly or daily builds. By this, you can always ensure a stable product at any point of time during the development.This article explores the new build automation tool "Team Build" from Microsoft and it explains how to use Team Build scripts to implement other processes, like nightly build and continuous integration. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/Net/Articles/AutomatingTeamBuild.aspx Saravana Kumar Nov 25, 2006 Exception handling is critical to all applications for troubleshooting the unexpected problems in the application. Windows Communication Framework (WCF) provides several options for handling exceptions in WCF services. This article discusses these approaches and describes the advantages and disadvantages of each. The following options are provided to handle exceptions in WCF: Using returnUnknownExceptionsAsFaults, Using FaultException and Using IErrorHandler. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/Net/Articles/ExceptionHandlingInWCF.aspx Saravana Kumar Nov 5, 2006 This article explains about a sample Application that demonstrates the capabilities of ASP.NET Whidbey. Sourcecode of this applicatin is also available with this article. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/Net/Articles/DynamicWebApplication.aspx Saravana Kumar Nov 7, 2005 Most of us would have come across a situation where we need to display a custom message other than the error message from validators in the validation summary. For example, based on business logic check you need to display a message to the user. Already you have a validation summary in the page where you are displaying error message to the user, you might prefer to add your message to that validation summary. This faq explains about one of the way to achieve this. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/Net/FAQ/DisplayCustomMsgInValidationSummary.aspx Saravana Kumar Jul 10, 2005 During application development, you might come across a situation where you need to write the same code repeatedly with just a few changes. VS.NET 2005 is coming up with a new feature called code snippets, which will help developers to insert code snippets from a snippet store into the program with just a few key strokes. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/Net/Articles/CodeSnippetsPart2.aspx Saravana Kumar Mar 20, 2005 As we work with SQL Server 2005 the concept of using system objects shifted from the traditional MASTER database to an hidden READONLY database called as RESOURCEDB. We have already discussed briefly about ResourceDB in a different article. In this tip, we will try to bring out some of the changes that happened post SQL Server 2008 release to this internal database http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/sql/Tips/ResourceDB_Location.aspx Vinod Kumar Dec 22, 2009 This is Part II of the series on Database Mirroring that we will continue in this article. What we missed in Database Mirroring Part I is the archietecture, topology and factors that we need to keep in mind when working with Database Mirroring. Database mirroring is a highly flexible high-availability technology that does not need specialized hardware and storage technologies. However, before selecting database mirroring as your high-availability technology, you must consider its implications on your environment. You should also plan and document the approaches you will adopt when configuring security, network infrastructure, hardware, and server configurations for database mirroring. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/sql/articles/DBMirroring2.aspx Vinod Kumar Jul 20, 2009 Database mirroring was introduced with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 technology that can be used to design high-availability and high-performance solutions for database redundancy. It is designed to maintain a hot standby server with a transitionally consistent copy of the database. Mirroring is cost-effective, speedy, requires no special hardware, and ensures transactional consistency. This article will describe the different modes of database mirroring and how it is different from other technologies. Here will not get into the specifics of the SQL Server 2008 enhancements but will take a high level tour of SQL Server Mirroring concepts. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/sql/articles/DBMirroring1.aspx Vinod Kumar Jan 6, 2009 Extended Events (xEvents) is something that we introduced with SQL Server 2008 version. This is a complete tracing environment and must NOT be confused with the profiler version. Though the fundamentals of xEvents revolves around a general event-handling and at certain cases can be linked to OS functions via the ETW (Event Tracing for Windows). ETW has been around with the OS for a while now and this detailed view of stack dumps of memory, threads for a given process are quite a revelation to many. Though the number of people who would like this level of sophistication is limited, it is always good to know these features as in highly-transactional production environment systems they can come really handy for troubleshooting or performance tuning if needed. In this article we will get some basics understanding on how to use xEvents with SQL Server 2008. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/sql/SQL2008/xEvents.aspx Vinod Kumar Jan 5, 2009 This topic in general is available at various locations on the internet and SQL Server Books Online. Here is our attempt to have some of the features from both these versions a.k.a SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 side by side so that you will understand some of the enhancements that has been introduced in the new version. This is NOT an exhaustive list but just representative list which are categorized for your references only. http://www.ExtremeExperts.com/sql/SQL2008/SQL2005Vs2008.aspx Vinod Kumar Dec 26, 2008