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This component framework looks amazing for recreating a Windows Desktop user experience in web sites. Just have a look at the demos.

"Microsoft SQL Server performs dynamic memory management based on the memory requirements of the current load and activities on the system. On a Windows Server 2003 or a Windows XP or later version system, SQL Server can use the memory notification mechanisms that are provided by the QueryMemoryResourceNotification Windows API. On a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server-based system, SQL Server periodically calculates the free physical memory on the system by using the native Windows API. Based on this information from the QueryMemoryResourceNotification Windows API or from the memory calculation, SQL Server responds to the current memory situation on a specific system. This provides the following benefits:"

" Fred George discusses Programmer Anarchy, a development process where programmers are not just empowered to act but the driving force behind a product, leading to substantial increase in results. "

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"Column-Based Query Accelerator will help dramatically increase query performance ~10x and reduce performance tuning through interactive experiences with data for near instant response times and streamlined setup which removes the need to build summary aggregates."

"Lurking on any machine that has Windows Scripting Host installed (virtually all machines these days, although scripting can be disabled), is a powerful Regular Expressions facility, the VBScript.RegExp scripting object. You can get to it from any COM client that supports the IDispatch interface. IDispatch, you'll recall, is COM's popular late-binding interface - it allows applications to use COM components without knowing anything about them at compile-time. In T-SQL, we get to IDispatch via the sp_OA stored procedures. Via a simple UDF, we can access the RegExp object as though it were part of T-SQL:"

"The authors of the agile manifesto asked us ten years ago to rethink the way we (programmers) collaborated with our customers. I, along with my PhD advisors, Robert Biddle and James Noble, were intrigued, hopeful, and also simply keen to understand how it all worked in practice. Not how people think it should have worked, as is so often reported, but how it really worked. We spent the next six years understanding this, and over that time, visited eleven agile teams[1] in five different countries. We visited teams across a variety of industries, with the teams ranging in size from 5 to 60 people."

"In an earlier blog post, Creating or modifying Entity Framework EDMX files from code: an introduction to HuagatiEDMXTools.dll, I wrote about the EDMX file wrapper that is used by the Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools add-in for parsing, updating, creating, and writing EDMX files. HuagatiEDMXTools adds an easy to use object model on top of EDMX files (see documentation at http://huagati.com/edmxtools/help ), making it a lot easier to create/read/update EDMX files, and to write LINQ queries against Entity Framework 4 metadata. It also has a number of built-in queries and lookup functions that make it a breeze to work with Entity Framework 4 EDMX files from code."

"The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework."

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users

"Hopefully if you're reading this you've noticed that I've started a series of Tips recently. The tips will mostly apply to Entity Framework or Data Services. Seeing as I expect to have a lots of tips, it probably makes sense to have some sort of index. That is what this is post is, as I add a new tip I will add it to this page too. If you have any suggested topics for tips please let me know by leaving a comment or emailing me directly at Microsoft (Alexj is my alias at Microsoft, and emails at Microsoft are in the form alias@microsoft.com) Without further ado here are what I have so far:"

"Assuming a WorkItem has many WorkItemNotes..."

"At first glance you're going to hate the "advanced layout" that is currently a W3C working draft. Maybe it's the similarity to table-based layouts, of which we all still have nightmares. Mainly, you'll likely cringe just because it's such a foreign way to write CSS. I think you'll eventually come around."

"Many experienced database professionals have acquired a somewhat jaded view of parallel query execution. Sometimes, this is a consequence of bad experiences with older versions of SQL Server. Just as frequently, however, this view is the result of misconceptions, or an otherwise incomplete mastery of the techniques required to effectively design and tune queries for parallel execution."

"The CTP includes some work called the Productivity Improvements for EF which aims to provide a simpler and more productive experience writing data access code with EF. Along with a bunch of conventions that take care of a lot of common tasks the Productivity Improvements also include some more subtle improvements over the core EF API. One of these is the introduction of an Include method that uses a lambda rather than strings to specify the include path."

"This topic describes patterns that you can use to load related entities. Entity types can define navigation properties that represent associations in the data model. You can use these properties to load entities that are related to the returned entity by the defined association. When entities are generated based on the data model, navigation properties are generated for entities at both ends of an association. These navigation properties return either a reference on the "one" end of a one-to-one or many-to-one relationship or a collection on the "many" end of a one-to-many or many-to-many relationship. For more information, see Navigation Properties and Defining and Managing Relationships. "

" I don't see how having the entire team working on the same story is generally the best approach. "

" My concerns are (1) as soon as we start tracking non-story tasks we'll lose focus on delivering customer value, And (2) if we don't make these sorts of tasks visible, we won't make progress on them at the rate we need to. What are good patterns you've seen for dealing with technical tasks that aren't directly attached to a story (or that cut across multiple stories)? "

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"I guess this could be considered a continuation of my last post about SQL Server Memory, Understanding the VAS Reservation (aka MemToLeave) in SQL Server, but for a long time I have noticed that when people don't understand how SQL Server uses memory on their server, they immediately begin to think that SQL Server has a memory leak. So in this post I'll dive into how SQL Server allocates and uses the physical memory available on a server."