Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Date format in WPF/Silverlight

Here is an example for formatting date in WPF (Format: MM/DD/YYYY):

<TextBlock Text="{Binding CreationDate, StringFormat=\{0:MM/dd/yyyy\}}" />

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Error when referencing assembly from network share - Silverlight 4 (.NET Framework 4.0)

I got this error today when I added reference to an assembly from network share:

"Error 3 Could not load the assembly file://\\CM\libraries\Microsoft\Rx\Reactive Extensions v1.0.2677.0\SL4\System.Observable.dll. This assembly may have been downloaded from the Web. If an assembly has been downloaded from the Web, it is flagged by Windows as being a Web file, even if it resides on the local computer. This may prevent it from being used in your project. You can change this designation by changing the file properties. Only unblock assemblies that you trust".

I am using Silverlight 4 (.NET Framework 4.0).

To fix this issue I added following entry in the Visual Studio 2010 devenv.config file.

< loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true" />
To the runtime section of:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

SQL Script to Create a Database

Note: You will need to modify lines 2 and 4 to adjust the file paths for the data and log files to land the database on your files system wherever you want it. That should be the only modifications needed.

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CREATE DATABASE [MyDatabase] ON PRIMARY
( NAME = N'MyDatabase_data', FILENAME = N'C:\SQL\Data\MyDatabase.mdf' , SIZE = 1048576KB , FILEGROWTH = 10%)
LOG ON
( NAME = N'MyDatabase_log', FILENAME = N'C:\SQL\Log\MyDatabase.ldf' , SIZE = 220160KB , FILEGROWTH = 10%)
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_dbcmptlevel @dbname=N'MyDatabase', @new_cmptlevel=90
GO

ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET ANSI_NULLS OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET ARITHABORT OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET AUTO_SHRINK OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET CURSOR_DEFAULT GLOBAL
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET DATE_CORRELATION_OPTIMIZATION OFF
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET PARAMETERIZATION SIMPLE
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET READ_WRITE
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET RECOVERY SIMPLE
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET MULTI_USER
GO
ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] SET PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM
GO
USE [MyDatabase]
GO
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sys.filegroups WHERE is_default=1 AND name = N'PRIMARY') ALTER DATABASE [MyDatabase] MODIFY FILEGROUP [PRIMARY] DEFAULT
GO