Visit a content portal to find information, resources, and help over a wide range of topics, projects, and issues.
By Naomi N September 3, 2013
This article will consider a simple classical Gaps & Islands problem asked recently in Transact-SQL Forum at MSDN with the title "Query Help". The thread originator was kind enough to provide DDL of the table and some data to describe the task. And he also provided the desired output. The problem is to find consecutive vouchers (100-104, then 106). As mentioned, this is a common problem in Transact SQL and it was described by...
By Reed Kimble August 31, 2013
There are times when an application may require a very large index of strings for some specific purpose, and you desire the ability to search for strings that begin with given characters. A simple spell check, or syntax matching routine might want to check to see if each word entered by a user exists in a collection of known words that contains thousands of entries, and support auto-complete functionality. A research assistant application...
By Jaliya Udagedara August 30, 2013
Sometimes back when I was watching a presentation of a third party reporting product, I saw some nice animated charts. I wanted to create something similar to those charts and when I checked on SSRS, unfortunately what I wanted isn't possible with SSRS. So I moved into Silverlight Charts and I was really surprised with what I can do with Silverlight chart control. But today I am not going to write about Silverlight Chart control....
By Isenthil August 29, 2013
This article will introduce the Location features in Windows Phone 8 and how the windows phone developers can use the new location features in their app to get the current location of the device. The Windows Phone SDK provides Location and Maps APIs for the developers to develop location aware applications. With the Location API's the developers can utilize the Phone's hardware like GPS, Wifi etc. to identify and track the location....
More featured articles