.Net Road Show

I went to the northeast .net road show this week. Some of the sessions were very interesting. Chris Bowen had an interesting session about Linq. It's the same thing I was hearing about LINQ for the last year but the way he presented was very well and had some useful content. Some of the useful info:

- LinqPad is a great tool for creating LINQ expressions. It's free. Click here to download.
- ZoomIt tool from SysInternals was very handy for presentations. Click here to download.

In the afternoon, Bob Familiar did a great session about Silverlight 2. His presentation was very lively and useful. His blog has all the info about the presentation. Here some useful links.

- Woodgrove Financial web version using Silverlight
- HardRock Memorabilia built using Silverlight. Scott Guthrie already mentioned about this in his blog.

Happy Coding,

Madhu

How to debug stored procedures in Visual Studio 2008

It's very easy to debug the stored procedures in Visual Studio 2008. All you have to do is connect to the database from VS 2008 and run a stored procedure. Here are the steps:

1. Go to Server Explorer and open a data connection.





2. Once you add a database connection, open the stored procedure.




3. Step in to the stored procedure.





4. Pass the inputs.






5. Start debugging !





Happy Coding,

Madhu

Reading email headers using Outlook Remption

Previously I posted on how to add custom information to the an email header. Obviously we do that for a purpose and need to retrieve it. The Outlook Redemption library makes it very easy to read that information from the email header.

RDOFolder inbox = Session.GetDefaultFolder(rdoDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);

RDOItems mails = inbox.Items.Restrict("Select * from Folder where Unread='true'");

foreach (object obj in mails)
{
RDOMailItem item = obj as RDOMailItem;

string header = item.get_Fields(PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS).ToString();

}

I think retrieving the header can also be done using WebDAV and Office outlook libraries. But redemption makes it much simpler. For more information about Outlook Redemption, click here.

Happy Coding,

Madhu