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Visual Studio 2012 and TFS Admin updates
Grant’s not on holiday (ho ho! Snap!), as we can tell because he’s posted a couple of updates about...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/26/2012
Using Distributed Replay to load test your SQL Server–Part 2
In the first part of this series, Batuhan Yildiz, a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft Dubai,...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/14/2012
Using Distributed Replay to load test your SQL Server–Part 1
This article has been contributed by Batuhan Yildiz, a Premier Field Engineer from Microsoft Dubai....
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 11/08/2012
How To Secure SQL Server Data With Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
It's not news that data security should always be top-of-mind for DBAs. So, for those of you using...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/17/2012
SharePoint Custom Code Review Service (MSPFE Video Blog)
Article by Tamer Maher, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Have you ever been in a situation...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/15/2012
Windows 8–the Super Workstation OS
Vijayshinva Karnure, a Premier Field Engineer from India, writes about using Windows 8 as his...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/11/2012
Mobile or Cloudy?
Damana (Geek Diva), a developer PFE from Australia, explores how you choose what your next...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/09/2012
SharePoint 2013 Developer Ignite Training (MSPFE Video Blog)
Article by Tamer Maher, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. As part of the excitement around...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 10/09/2012
How WebSockets and the ASP.Net Web API look in memory
Nelson’s been spelunking around the memory structures of WCF 4.5’s support for WebSockets and the...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/20/2012
Explore your application to test it with Visual Studio 2012
Continuing their series on new features in Visual Studio 2012, Brad over at the PFE Developer Notes...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/20/2012
Did you know: Visual Studio 2012 now provides Caller Information?
Brad at the PFE Developer Notes for the Field blog shares news of Caller Information, a new feature...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/19/2012
Moving TFS from Server to Service, on Windows Azure
Grant Holliday is a PFE from Canberra who recently worked with the TFS product group in Redmond....
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/18/2012
Got a Windows 8 App idea? Built it? Does it need polish?
My colleague Damana is running Windows 8 Application Excellence labs too, and she’s compiled a list...
Author: Premier Field Engineers Date: 09/05/2012
The brilliance of SharePoint 2013's new Work Management Service Application!!
Have you ever walked into your office in the morning, and wondered if you were forgetting something...
Author: webtamer Date: 08/22/2012
The Dawn of SharePoint 2013!
Hello Friends, Colleagues and SharePoint fans!!! I'm sure that by now you are as excited as I am...
Author: webtamer Date: 07/21/2012
SharePoint Governance plans and why are they important?
Before we dive into answering this question, we have to acknowledge that technology is meant to...
Author: webtamer Date: 07/21/2012
Visual Studio 2012 and Parallel Watch Window
Traditionally, debuggers have been very per thread centric. For example, a debugger most typically...
Author: Mario Hewardt Date: 06/11/2012
Visual Studio 2012 and WinDbg Integration
Microsoft has always provided two primary debugging experience: Visual Studio and Debugging Tools...
Author: Mario Hewardt Date: 06/05/2012
Fault Isolation + SharePoint = Content Resilience!
One of the common poor design decisions I have seen in the field is using a single Web Application...
Author: webtamer Date: 06/01/2012
The Non Blocking Monitor Wait
One of key things we are taught about lock constructs in general is that a thread will wait...
Author: Mario Hewardt Date: 05/31/2012
Index Rebuild and Parallelism
Recently there have been some conversations around why SQL Server does not use parallel index...
Author: Arvind Shyamsundar Date: 05/30/2012
Implementing MDX Drillthrough in SSRS
Let’s say for some reason your users want to implement MDX DRILLTHROUGH statement (equivalent to the...
Author: Arvind Shyamsundar Date: 03/19/2012
T-SQL Anti-pattern of the day: 'all-in-one' queries
Scenario A common requirement for enquiry queries on an OLTP database is to have search criteria...
Author: Arvind Shyamsundar Date: 12/19/2008