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 jquery value in and value out

  $('#ControlID').val(“This is the string to set”); 

alert($('#ControlID').val());   

C#  CodeControl1.Text = Control2.Text;  

jquery Equivlent$('#ControlID1').val($('#ControlID2').val())); 

NetBooks, a cross between an IPHONE and a LAPTOP. Or a small laptop, that will run on 3g services.

More to come....

PlayStation3 goes Home

New virtualworld opens to all PS3 owners

Eat your heart out, New Xbox Experience.Tomorrow, all Playstation 3 owners will get a chance to experience Sony's ownanswer to online socializing and game playing: a virtual world called Home.

There's no charge for the new feature, whichwill come in the form of a multi-gigabyte download that'll update the firmwareof PS3s around the world. Once applied, the first step for new Home residentsis to design an avatar, a process that's already necessary on the Xbox 360 andWii, but one that will be new to many PS3-only gamers. Sony's avatar system,though, allows for considerably more realism and detail than either of itscompetitors.

Once you're in Home's world, you can chat withfriends, set up multiplayer gaming sessions, listen to streaming music, watchmovies, and play minigames. It'll be a familiar layout to anyone who's playedwith other virtual worlds like World of Warcraft, Runescape, or even SecondLife, the anything-goes social world that Home most resembles. Sony has alreadylined up an impressive range of partners -- including Red Bull, Diesel, andParamount Pictures -- who'll be offering sponsored content inside Home.

On the official PlayStation blog,Home director Jack Buser gives some useful advice from getting the most out ofyour new online life.

"We have a tutorial built in that willget you started with the controls, as well as help menus for you to referencein the Menu Pad. If you don't have a USB keyboard or Bluetooth headset pairedwith your PlayStation 3, now is the time to do so -- either option will allowyou to easily talk and meet everyone," he said in a post today.

Officially, Sony's calling the much-delayedlaunch an "open beta," which means they're pretty sure it works, butif you break it, don't bother suing.

XBOX 720 already in development?

Yes, it is. Microsoft has already begun work on developing the Xbox 720. In an interview, Peter Moore, Ex boss of Interactive Entertainment Division at Microsoft, confirmed that “the production team from the Xbox 360 is working on the next Xbox 720 [our pet name], and they’re looking into what kind of CPUs will be available on the market in 2011-2012″. In fact, development on the Xbox 720 might have been going on for longer than we think, as Robbie Bach, the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft, said, “We started thinking about the next generation before we shipped the Xbox 360″. So, we can be dead certain that the X720 is already in development.

HDMI and Wi-Fi will be built in

The Xbox 360 Elite already has HDMI and in 2012, Wi-Fi will be a standard and so, it should be built into the Xbox 720. The PS3 already has a built in Wi-Fi Ethernet and Bluetooth.

A 4.7GHz CPU on the Xbox 720? It could happen

The Xbox 720 could feature something similar to Sony’s Cell-like processor. But will Microsoft invest in something like that? We already have four cores on today’s PC. They might not have to look farther than their partnership with IBM. IBM has already developed a dual core 4.7GHz server CPU, dubbed the Power6. Who’s to say that Microsoft won’t put it into their X720? Those extra GHz could go towards assisting the GPU and more realistic AI. Looks like Microsoft’s partnership with IBM is finally paying off.

public Hashtable searchHash = new Hashtable();
System.Reflection.FieldInfo[] fields = [myStructName].GetType().GetFields();
foreach (System.Reflection.FieldInfo field in fields)
{
searchHash.Add(field.GetValue([myStructName]).ToString(), "|");
}

Great book by Eric Evens discussing the domain driven approach to software design.

Finishing up this book...a book review will be comming soon...

What does all that nerd lingo mean?

Basically I have some data I need to take out of the database and pass it to another server for processing in a service oriented architecture.
When this remote process is complete it will pass me back the results that I will save in the database.
The transport mechanism we will use is WCF or windows communication foundation.  To use this on the client side, which happens to be a database process. We will create a proxy class.
SQL SSIS is SQL Server's new DTS on steroids performance enhanced DTS. SSIS allows scripting in VB.net only (don't ask), and to use outside compiled dll's you have to register them in the Global Assembly Cache with a strong name, this is just a fancy way of making sure your dll's are unique.
This will happen on a timed interval.  Seams pretty simple huh?

In order to leverage windows communication foundation within SQL Server SSIS there are a number of things you have to do to make this happen. 

Build your client proxy WCF service model bindings from WCF service.

1. Build an assembly that will wrap the logic for your WCF call.
2. Sign the assembly with a strong name. (sn.exe or VS IDE).
3. GAC your new assembly on the SQL box by copying into C:\WINDOWS\assembly.
4. Merge your proxy app settings into DtsDebugHost.exe.config and DTExec.exe.config.
5. Welding in custom assemblies in SSIS with configuration variables.

 Make sure your dll is GAC'ed and refernced in your SSIS script project.

 Make sure your dll is added to your Package.dtsx.

This particular feature will get ya ! if your not aware of it.

When using the SvcUtil.exe and specifying shared collectionTypes;

The expression in the collectionType switch for a shared collection is followed by a back quote (`) and a 1.
For generic types, you must specify the number of generic parameters with a back quote followed by the number of generic parameters.
Do not confuse the back quote (`) with the single quote (').

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin\SvcUtil"
      /language:cs
      /out:ServiceClient.cs 
      /namespace:*,ShareTypes.Client
      /noconfig
      /reference:..\ShareTypes.Common1\bin\Debug\ShareTypes.Common1.dll
      /reference:..\ShareTypes.Common2\bin\Debug\ShareTypes.Common2.dll
      /collectionType:ShareTypes.Common.SharedCollection1
      /collectionType:ShareTypes.Common.SharedCollection2`1
      net.tcp://localhost:9042/Service/mex

Great article here on this topic...

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCFCollectionTypeSharing.aspx

If you download zipped up Visual Studio project files and extract them with out Unblocking the zip file first, you will get an error.

Right click on the zip and Unblock -> press apply before extracting.

Speaking of untrusted zones ....

Coming soon...

learning Object Oriented Programming...

      OR

OOP ! I did it again !!! - A lesson in object cloning...

At the end you will be able to snatch the pebble from my hand...

You down with  OOP ! - Yeah You Know Me !!!

The ability to access a member in the global namespace is useful when

the member might be hidden by another entity of the same name.

In this example, the namespace System is used to include the class TestClass therefore, global::System.Console must be used to reference the System.Console class, which is hidden by the System namespace. Also, the alias mcLovin is used to refer to the namespace System.Collections; therefore, the instance of a System.Collections..::.Hashtable was created using this alias instead of the namespace.

Thread t = new Thread (...);

t.SetApartmentState (ApartmentState.STA);

class Program {

  [STAThread]

  static void Main() {

  ...

• it will marshal over to a single-threaded apartment
• it will crumble and fail.

Need more cow bells ?

Except for the guys that work at a R&D software think-tank most of us have a business need that drives our software development, which in turn drives our paychecks.

To turn your back on business value is to bite the hand that feeds you.

Remember middle managment needs to look important also !!!

 This is a simple example of how to wrap your LINQ db.DataContext SubmitChanges() in a Transaction.

This is much like using transaction in SQL Server.

I used a simple add function to outline the pattern to use when wrapping your LINQ commits in transactions.

*Add a ref to System.Transactions;

New LINQ the home verion. now you and your friends can play "Map that Relational Object" on a Friday Night !!!

* Some assembily required.

   (database not included)

  using System.Transactions;

 Welding in custom assemblies in SSIS with configuration variables. 

(I will pop a GAC in your CACHE !!!!)

Pre-requisites

SQL Server 2005 (including SSIS), Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 / 2008, .NET Framework v2.0-3.5

Prep the Assembly

Adding a reference to the Assembly in SSIS script designer

 Intuitively one would think your next step is to open your SSIS script editor and within your project explorer simply add a reference to your newly GAC’ed assembly.  However when you right click on References -> Add Reference and browse the list of available assemblies - yours is not there.I will not spend time trying to explain the intricacies of why this is, instead I will focus on how to get your .dll registered so you can get up and working.  The bottom line is your going to have to modify the Package.dtsx manually edit the *.dtsx script file to add additional paths to look for your defined assemblies. For example:  Open the file and first search for “<Build>”.

Add yours to the end of the ReferencePath attribute. 

<Build>         
ReferencePath = "C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.SqlServer.ScriptTask\9.0.242.0__89845dcd8080cc91\;
C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.SqlServer.ManagedDTS\9.0.242.0__89845dcd8080cc91\;
C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\ myAssembly \1.0.0.0__5d6caf3fc6396ac3\"

Then you can define you assemblies in the References Tags a little further down: 

<References>           
<Reference Name=" myAssembly " AssemblyName=" myAssembly " /> 
            *Next time you fire up the script in Visual Studio of Applications it will be referencing Next Search for “<References>”.  

<References>               
            <Reference Name = "myAssembly" AssemblyName = " myAssembly "/> 
</References>

Using a configuration varibles.