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For this demo we will use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to generate the SQL scripts and migrate an existing database from SQL Server 2008 to  SQL Azure. [AzureSupport.com]

I’ve had a good chance to try out the Rackspace Cloud for Windows Servers.. [CloudHostingMag.com]

In C# it is  illegal to call a destructor explicitly it must be called by the garbage collector. If you handle  unmanaged resources  that need to be closed and disposed of as soon as possible, you should implement the IDisposable interface.   IDisposable requires implementers to define one method, named Dispose(), to perform the necessary [...]

As C# has an inbuilt garbage collection it is not necessary to explicitly destroy your objects. However, for objects which control unmanaged resources, these resources need to be explicitly freed when they are no longer require. In C#, implicit control over unmanaged resources is provided by a destructor, which can be called by the garbage [...]

Overview of Windows cloud hosting providers and pricing [CloudingHostingMag.com]

Over of the newly released Windows Azure Drive. [AzureSupport.com]

One of the most useful new features of SQL 2008 R2 for DBA’s is the ability to manage and administer multiple instances of SQL Server from a central location using the new SQL Server Utility tool.

Step by step walkthrough of creating a custom snippet in Visual Studio 2010 [VisualStudioTutor.com]

Covariance allows casting of generic types to the base types, for example, IEnumerable<X> will be implicitly convertible an IEnumerable<Y> if X can implicitly be converted to Y. // List of strings IList<string> stringList = new List<string>(); // We can convert it to an Enumerable collection IEnumerable<object> Obj= strings; For this purpose IEnumerable is marked with [...]

C# 4.0 introduces named parameters which is primarily for code readability or for use with optional parameters.Named parameters free developers from the requirement to remember or to look up the order of parameters in the method’s signature. The parameter for each argument can be specified by providing the parameter name. For example, a function which [...]