Want to take a XAML quiz?

What is the difference between a Windows Markup File and a XAML file? While the IE brings up a nice little button in one the other brings up a message to save the file. Opened with Notepad there is no difference between the two. Both have the same extension.

What do you understand by XAML_auto_file?

Don't Google it, you won't find an answer.

Silverlight(1.0) - 101

There are many products that can deliver rich internet applications to the user which includes Java, Adobe, Google, Yahoo, several JavaScript based frame works which includes Silverlight from Microsoft. Silverlight has moved to version 2.0 which is still in Beta. This article is based on Silverlight 1.0

Read this Silverlight 1.0 article to get a full flavor of what is needed to get Silverlight experience with your browser. This is a beginners tutorial, and if you already know how to work with Silverlight this may not be for you. There is so much written up on Silverlight 1.0 from its early days to the present that there are different ways of referring namespaces that a beginner can find it difficult to comprehend. The present article places the code in the article in the defined context of the article.

Silverlight 101

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Retrieve a saved package into Visual Studio 2005

Say, you have a package stored in your Integration Services Server adn you want to bring it up into Visual Studio.

This is what you need to do:

Create a BI Project. Right click the SSIS Packages node in the Solution Explorer and choose Add Existing Package.This brings up the screen where you need to locate the package you want to bring it in. You need to know the name of your server; provide authentication, and identify the packge on the server, or file system as shown in the following figure.

If you are a beginner I suggest you take a look at my book which will bring you up to speed in under two weeks.

Beginners book on SSIS

DTS packages with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

You should be able to access a DTS package (Of course created in SQL Server 2000) using the Execute DTS 2000 package task. You need to provide all relevant information regarding the package, its storage location, permissions, etc.

If you want to migrate a package to SSIS then you may do so from Project-->Migrate DTS 2000 Package.

End of days for Cathode Ray TV Tubes

On hearing that Sony is going to stop making TV CRTs...

This endangered species is facing imminent extinction, but you will not regret it. This is yet another dinosaur fading away.

I personally feel great loss as I used to harvest the High Voltage sources from thrown away TV sets to power my lasers during Sydney days.