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Featured Articles (updated 7/14/13)

Uploading (and Resizing) Images to a SharePoint Picture Library via a Webpart

By Matthew Yarlett
July 14, 2013

Getting a file to upload to SharePoint is very easy; essentially it involves adding an asp:FileUpload control to your webpart and adding a button to click on (to upload the selected file!). In this example we're going to create a visual webpart that allows a user to upload an image to SharePoint. During the upload process, the image dimensions are checked, and if the image's width or height exceeds 300px, we'll resize the image...

Windows Azure SQL Database Connection Management

By Selcin Turkarslan
July 6, 2013

Windows Azure SQL Database provides a large-scale multi-tenant database service on shared resources. In order to provide a good experience to all SQL Database customers, your connection to the service may be closed due to several reasons, like throttling. This article introduces SQL Database and its network topology. Then, it lists the reasons for connection losses and provides guidelines and best coding practices on how to...

T-SQL: Dynamic Pivot on Multiple Columns

By Naomi N
July 2, 2013

The problem of transposing rows into columns is one of the most common problems discussed in Transact-SQL forum. Many times the problem of creating a dynamic pivot comes into the light. One thing that many people who ask this question forget is that such transposing is much easier to perform on the client side than on the server where we need to resort to dynamic query. However, if we want to make such pivot dynamically...

Retreiving the Screen Resolution for Windows Phone 8 Emulator

By isenthil
June 29, 2013

The Windows Phone 8 supports 3 different screen resolutions like WVGA,WXGA,720P. If you are a developer and want to retreive the screen resolution dynamically , you can use the ScaleFactor property defined in App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor. Eg: string data = App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor.ToString(); This will retreive the one of the 3 values 100 , 160 , 150 which refers to the screen resolutions...

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