Google Hosts Popular JavaScript Libraries script.aculo.us, Prototype, jQuery, Dojo and more

If you've ever wanted to use a JavaScript library like script.aculo.us, Prototype, jQuery or Dojo, but you couldn't upload its files to a site or you found it difficult to manage all the different versions, Google hosts them for you.

Check it out here: AJAX Libraries API

Now if they also had Ext JS things would be good

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Released

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 has been released.

Download the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3

Much more(videos, tutorials) here: http://www.asp.net/mvc/

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Announced By Microsoft

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# has been announced. Here is what I found on the Microsoft site:

This tool is known internally within Microsoft as StyleCop, and has been used for many years now to help teams enforce a common set of best practices for layout, readability, maintainability, and documentation of C# source code.

Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation. Most of that information is stripped away during the compilation process, and thus cannot be analyzed by FxCop.

The ultimate goal of Source Analysis is to allow you to produce elegant, consistent code that your team members and others who view your code will find highly readable.

More info can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/

Source Analysis for C# can be downloaded here: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=sourceanalysis.

LessThanDot - A New IT Community Coming To You June 1st

Some friends and I are launching a new IT Community site. This site will have a forum, blogs and a wiki. The co-founders are experts from many of the top forums around the internet, who also blog on professional blogs, such as http://sqlblog.com/ and http://weblogs.asp.net.. If you're even a semi regular user of places like Tek Tips, Google Groups, Microsoft Forums, Experts Exchange, LinuxQuestions and many others, you are likely to have been helped by one of the 30+ co-founders of LessThanDot - many of whom are top MVP's in their fields.

LessThanDot intends to cover all aspects of IT - from Web Developers to Sys Admins, from Architects to Data Management, IT Professionals (e.g. Project & Service management) to IT Students and Researchers, Desktop Developers to Enterprise Developers. And if it's not there - just ask.

There will be a "blow off some steam" forum where you can read fun stuff, tech rants, a tech news stream and more.

Unlike other fora we will accept questions from students, but instead of giving an answer we will direct you to where the answer can be found. After all you want to do some work yourself.

Right now you can see 3 screen shots here LessThanDot and make sure to come back June 1st.

SQL people that should be followed on twitter

A fellow blogger statisticsio has made a post: SQL people that I follow on twitter
If SQL is your thing I recommend checking out the link and subscribing to some of these people on twitter

And don't forget my Use Twitter To Stay On Top Of The .NET Programming News

Podcast: Brad Abrams and Omar Khan from Microsoft officially announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Dotnetrocks has a podcast where Brad Abrams and Omar Khan from Microsoft officially announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and detail all the new features and improvements!


Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both clients and web based applications as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET, Atlas, and Windows Forms. Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ship as a core part of the .NET Framework. Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. Brad has been deeply involved with the WinFX and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning. Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.


Omar Khan is Product Unit Manager at Microsoft corporation responsible for running the Visual Web Developer product team. Since joining Microsoft in 1995, Omar has worked on several product releases, including Visual InterDev 1.0 , Visual InterDev 6.0, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, and Visual Studio 2008. Prior to joining Microsoft, Omar attended the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor from 1992-1995, majoring in a Bachelor's of Computer Science.

Listen to the podcast here: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=340
Download the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533447.aspx
Scott Guthrie wrote about it here: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Check If xp_cmdshell is enabled on SQL Server 2005

How do you check from Transact SQL if xp_cmdshell has been enabled on SQL Server 2005?

Run the following code

USE master;
GO

EXEC SP_CONFIGURE 'show advanced option', '1';

RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE;
EXEC SP_CONFIGURE;

You will see a long list but the one you want to check is at the bottom

Output:
name minimum maximum config_value run_value
----------------------------------------------------------
xp_cmdshell 0 1 1 1


here is the complete list

Ad Hoc Distributed Queries
affinity I/O mask
affinity mask
Agent XPs
allow updates
awe enabled
blocked process threshold
c2 audit mode
clr enabled
common criteria compliance enabled
cost threshold for parallelism
cross db ownership chaining
cursor threshold
Database Mail XPs
default full-text language
default language
default trace enabled
disallow results from triggers
fill factor (%)
ft crawl bandwidth (max)
ft crawl bandwidth (min)
ft notify bandwidth (max)
ft notify bandwidth (min)
index create memory (KB)
in-doubt xact resolution
lightweight pooling
locks
max degree of parallelism
max full-text crawl range
max server memory (MB)
max text repl size (B)
max worker threads
media retention
min memory per query (KB)
min server memory (MB)
nested triggers
network packet size (B)
Ole Automation Procedures
open objects
PH timeout (s)
precompute rank
priority boost
query governor cost limit
query wait (s)
recovery interval (min)
remote access
remote admin connections
remote login timeout (s)
remote proc trans
remote query timeout (s)
Replication XPs
scan for startup procs
server trigger recursion
set working set size
show advanced options
SMO and DMO XPs
SQL Mail XPs
transform noise words
two digit year cutoff
user connections
user options
Web Assistant Procedures
xp_cmdshell


When using sp_configure to change a setting, use the RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE statement for the change to take immediate effect. Otherwise, the change takes effect after SQL Server is restarted.