In the December post, SharePoint 2016 Initial Configuration, Part 2, I created some managed accounts, a web application and a root site collection using the Graphical User Interface and PowerShell. The third blog in this series details creating a User Profile Service Application and importing users. In SharePoint 2016 Preview and SharePoint 2016 Beta 2, theRead more
Overview SQL Server 2016 is the latest version of the data platform from Microsoft (currently in public preview). Per Microsoft, “It is the biggest leap forward in Microsoft’s data platform history with real-time operational analytics, rich visualizations on mobile devices, built-in advanced analytics, new advanced security technology, and new hybrid cloud scenarios.” There’s a tonRead more
Recently, I was in the office and was asked to look at a reported bug in an ASP.NET MVC 5 application that another developer was debugging. Under development was an ASP.NET MVC 5 application that was constructed to support the entering, tracking and approving of employee labor hours for a major enterprise. The application wasRead more
I recently worked on a project that used web services to feed information to the SSRS reports that were created for the various business segments at this particular organization. Stemming from that project, this blog post will present how to create a simple web service that returns a serialized dataset and a simple SSRS reportRead more
Introduction Many software applications present formatted data to the user via user interfaces and reports. Often times the code that formats the data is difficult to read and maintain. This blog will briefly touch on a new C# 6.0 feature, String Interpolation, to format string data. In many cases, using string interpolation reduces the sizeRead more
Introduction Common Cloud and Software as a Service (SAAS) applications, typically require the use of data from multiple sources. Accessing data from multiples sources can be complicated. This blog will discuss how accessing data from multiple sources can be simplified using an open source Object Relational Mapper (ORM) as part of the multi-tenant application. AnRead more
This statement is a bit misleading. Clearly, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) never actually went away. At Superior Consulting Services (SCS), SSRS never left our arsenal of tools for meeting client business needs. We have been using SSRS to create robust reporting and data visualization solutions all along. We have continued to train and mentorRead more
Searching for keys in key-value columns and retrieving values in another table. Whether you are a database programmer or an applications programmer working with Transact-SQL, there are common problems that reoccur. One such problem is when you need to search for keys in columns set up as key-value type record structures while inserting the valueRead more
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern separates an application into three main components: the Model, the View and the Controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating web applications. It is a lightweight, highly-testable presentation framework that is being used to easily create large, scalable and highly-performant websitesRead more
Scenario In many environments, having a code review policy and procedure is a worthwhile and sometimes necessary practice. Maintaining a regression testing process is almost universally important. Issue Just keeping track of who reviewed what can be tedious and even burdensome if you don’t have a tool that manages that tedium effectively. Managing a suiteRead more
