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Hello all,

I have post a blog about Exam 71-562 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development about 3 months ago. And I was lucky to realize that the results of this beta certification exam was announced recently.

On the Prometric site I saw that I had passed the beta exam 71-562 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development and I checked my Microsoft Certified Professional Transcript from Microsoft Learning MCP site.

I'm happy to see that I had been certified with Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Applications

Actually, for Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Applications certifications, 70-536 certification exam is a requirement. But since I had fullfilled this requirement by passing the 70-552 UPGRADE: MCAD Skills to MCPD Windows® Developer by Using the Microsoft® .NET Framework exam.

You can get more information about Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 certification tracks.

Hello,


I had a problem with loading an ASP.NET page twice recently. I knew from my previous experiences with such a problem that one of the main reasons that cause loading an ASP.NET page twice is the AutoEventWireup attribute of the page declaration in ASP.NET pages.

If AutoEventWireup attribute is set to True and if you are using an IDE like MS Visual Studio in your development environment, since Visual Studio automatically binds events to controls and because of AutoEventWireup attribute is True identifiying page events to be wired up automatically, each event triggered is processed twice on the server side.

But there is one reason causing events defined to be triggered twice on the server side. I think this happens when you copy and go editing on an existing asp.net web page on the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or VS2008 rapid development IDE environments.

Here is the reason I'm trying to mention above.

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load, Me.Load

You see Page_Load event is defined twice for MyBase.Load and Me.Load (Page.Load) events. So it runs twice and even if you try to control the flow of the process using Page.IsPostBack property you will fail to prevent the execution of the Page_Load sub routine twice.

Removing the MyBase.Load will work successfully in this case.

Hello all SQL Server professionals, administrators and developers,

If you aim gaining Microsoft SQL Server 2008 certifications, you can try and see your knowledge and experience for the new version of MS SQL Server by taking the beta certification exam 71-432 TS: MS SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance which has been extended till the end of July, 2008.

You can register beta certification exam 71-432 TS: MS SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance for free by using the promotion code 943F6 on the Prometric Testing and Assessment web site.

Since using the above promo code will enable you to take the exam 71-432 for free, you will have the chance to experience the exam even if you fail in the exam. And if you pass the beta exam 71-432, you will be credited as you have passed the released version of this exam 70-432.

If you want more detail about the content of the exam and want to get guidance from Microsoft, you can review the Preparation Guide for Exam 70-432 TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance.

One of the main topics in prepration for 70-432 certification exam TS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance is the installation and configuration of MS SQL Server 2008. This topic is considered to have a weight of 10% when compared with the overall exam questions. I have created a photo gallery in which you can find screenshots that I had during the installation of MS SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate (RC0) at Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC0 Installation Screenshots.

Note that if you pass the 71-432 or released version of this beta exam 70-432, you will complete the requirements for Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance certification.

Hello,

I have been working on customizing Team Foundation Server (2008) Work Item (WI) Templates for a while.

I have realized something strange actually a behaviour conflict between the Work Item edit GUI in VS2008 and the WI edit web GUI, VSTS Web Access GUI so I want to share it with you in this blog.

The problem arises when a custom HTML field is added to the Fields tab in the Work Item Template opened by Process Editor.
I added this custom field also to the layout on the Layout tab.

During a bug is being edited using the updated work item template, when I enter some data into the recently added customer HTML field (this is the same type as the Microsoft.VSTS.CMMI.Symptom) and then change the State field from Proposed to Active, the contents of the new field is cleared.

But this problem does not occur on the Visual Studio Team System Web Access New Work Item (Bug) template which also inherits from the same WI (Work Item) template.

Web Access seems to be working better than the GUI used in the Visual Studio 2008.

Is there any thing am I doing wrong, I do not know.

Hello all,

Microsoft Learning is going to release the final version of certification exam Exam 70-561 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development in June 2008.

But the beta version of the certification exam 70-561 is now available for MCP's who are invited to take the pre-release of this 70-561 exam, Exam 71-561 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development.

You can take the beta exams for free if you are invited by Microsoft Learning. And if you are successfull in the beta exams, you are rewarded as you have taken the final release of this beta exam and got the same credits.

You can get more detailed information about the topics covered in the exam from Microsoft Learning site Preparation Guide for Exam 70-561 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development

But if short information is required to give about the exam, you should have good information on Structured Query Language (SQL), Stored procedures and Data-bound controls.

You can register for the beta exam Exam 70-561 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development using the Promotion Code 561B1 and take the exam in April till the first days of May 2008.

Hello Internet Explorer users,

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers Edition like me, you should have noticed that just like IE7 is asking to the user "Do you want to close all tabs?" while the user is closing the browser, IE8 is also asking a similar question to the user "Do you want to close all tabs, or the current tab?"

This is not astonishing yet. The main point I want to take your attentions is that in IE7 there was an option for the user to select "Open these the next time I use Internet Explorer"

This option enables the IE 7 browser users to re-open the web sites currently running on their IE7 browser tabs. That is a great functionality and I love it so much. Because I generally have to clause my computer or the MS Internet Explorer although I have not completed my work on the related web sites and addresses. The easiest way to keep those web addresses and urls and not to forget them the next time I open the browser is checking the "Open these the next time I use Internet Explorer" option before I'm closing the browser.

I have not found this option in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers although I have looked for it alot. I want this function back. I need this option much in IE 8. I suggest the Microsoft Internet Explorer developers the IE Team to keep this option in the next beta releases and the RTM release of Internet Explorer 8.

Hello all,

If you are planning to install Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers, I have a few unimportant notes to share with you. If you have already installed the IE 8 Beta 1, you can also comment on my blog post here on Kodyaz on the topics I'll be writing about now.

First of all, Internet Explorer 8 still crashes. But as I note on an other post on this blog, IE8 has some features to return back to its stable state. So this is a very nice feature. Also if you have to close the IE 8 Beta 1 web browser from an unusual way, such as using the task manager, etc on a problem when you re-open this new web browser, IE 8 Beta 1 asks you if you wish to recover the web requests that was on the browser instance during that time. This feature is also a very good enhancement.

Again to note on new enhancements of Internet Explorer 8, crash recovery features is very useful for a web browser. That is the pros of IE8.

I have finished reading the Technology Overview documentation of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers, and I get pleased with the "Connection Events" of IE 8 web browser. Now you can define what a browser is expected to do when it returns from online to offline or from offline to online. And you can handle it with just a few lines of code as an attribute on the body tag of the web page html source code.

"Data URI Support" is also something I liked to see in the new web browser IE8 Beta 1. This feature, Data URIs will enable web developers like me :) to embed files or resources like images, CSS files, javascript files, etc on a web page. This will make a web page request response as a single download to the client.

Working with the cookies will be easier now with Internet Explorer 8. Instead of a 50 key/value pair store limitation in cookies now with the enhancements in IE8 a domain has the ability to store 10MBs of data.

Domain highlighting is a a simple but yet good feature in order to inform the users about where or which site they are surfing on. This will be a warning for web users to be more carefull while navigating on the internet.

One more topic as todays pros list is the Activities in the Internet Explorer. Actually Activities are web service applications that posts or sends the highlighted text area on the web page content and processes that data like places the address on a map, or translates a word into an other language, etc. By the way, for whom interested to create an activity in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser, there is a guide for developers describing how to create activities using an XML based configuration.

Below you can see two pictures of activities, one is menu activated and displayed with default activity list.

     

One point which I can not find the reason yet is that sometimes the green Activity selector arrow is not displayed. I do not know if there is a bug within IE8, or property on the page prohobits the selector to be displayed successfully.



There are more points to deal with as positive changes in the Internet Explorer with the new beta version Beta 1.

I want to say a few points I would like they were also handled with previous success. One of the points is using the Ctrl+F to make search on the web site content. In previous versions, IE7 warns the user if there is not any text or string that is being looked for in the page files content. In the new beta IE 8 Beta 1, if the browser fails to find an instance of the search string, there is no warning or an extra message to the users. This behaviour causes me as a web user to think that did I fail to see the highlighted string on the page. Perhaps this change in the informing the user that no match is found on the page is configured to display a not found message. But I could not find such a settings in the Advanced Settings tab, or somewhere else.

Second simple point is that I have a long list of favorites links on my Favorites - Links folder. When I display them on the toolbar, and have a long list of web addresses in the folder, I can not navigate up or down in the folder contents using the up and down arrows. I had to use the mouse. Below is a screenshot illustrating the point.



I want my mobility on this long list of favorites folder on the toolbar using the up and down keys.

I will be working on the Developer Tools enhancements on the IE8 soon and planning to post a blog on this subject soon. By then may the force be with you :)

Hello,

As a .NET programmer and a SQL Server developer I’m using frequently the Microsoft development tools for developing software and IT solutions.

As I had the chance to download and install the new beta from Microsoft, Windows Explorer 8 Beta 1 web browser in its first released day, I could try it on my daily works.

I can say I liked it. But if you asked me about Internet Explorer 7, it was also very exciting for me in its early days. In short I like the betas :)

What I want to share with you is the results of Acid 2 Browser test on Microsoft Windows Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 1.

Yes, I know it was announced that IE 8 has tested the Acid2 test before. But with the release of the first beta of IE8, I see it my self on the Acid 2 browser test page. I can say that IE8 is very successfull with Acid 2 test.

I will be adding screenshots of Acid 2 test page on web browsers IE7 and the latest FireFox version here. They are far away from the excellent results of IE8 has achieved.

Internet Explorer 7 IE7 Acid2 Test Result

Firefox 2.0.0.12 Acid2 Test Result

Internet Explorer 8 IE8 Acid2 Test Result

I guess the success of IE8 on Acid2 test is a very good news especially for the web developers and for the web designers.

If you want to learn more about Acid 2 and see the results of your web browser with the Acid2 Browser Test that the Web Standards Project has offered you can visit the The Second Acid Test web page.
Goodluck!

I’ll be glad if you share your results here with me and the readers of this blog post. Send your browsers results here