So here we go (a very basic example which sync the quantity field in the Products table):

-- DELETES THE DUPLICATES IF ANY! (THIS IS A MUST WHEN YOU USE MERGE)
DELETE everything FROM (
SELECT *, rownum = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ItemID ORDER BY ItemID)
FROM QuantityUpdates
) everything
WHERE rownum > 1;
 
-- please notice that you can also use group by to prevent duplicate rows !!!
 
MERGE INTO
Products AS Prod
USING
QuantityUpdates AS Qty
ON
Prod.ItemID = Qty.ItemID
WHEN
MATCHED
THEN UPDATE SET
QtyInStock = Qty.QtyInStock,
UpdatedDateStamp = GETDATE(),
Discontinued = CASE WHEN Qty.QtyInStock > 0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END;

Voila! Hope this helps someone

Windows 8 – First Impressions

Sometime about a month ago, I asked my dear friend what he thinks about the new Microsoft Operating System – Windows 8?
Here’s what he told me:

Hello Yugo,

I think their aim is to compete with the likes of Apple and also to make Windows feel more ‘modern’.  And of course they’ll look forward to keeping 20% of all app sales, which will possibly be a big chunk of cash once Windows 8 is fully established.

I don’t think people will want to change to Windows 8 anywhere as quickly as they changed to Win 7.  In fact, a couple of people who have bought laptops with Win 8 installed have asked me to help them replace the OS with Win 7.

The missing Start button is a mistake by Microsoft.  In my opinion, someone decided that they’d force people to go to the tiles page and the best way of doing that was to give them little other choice.
One MS spokesman said something like “We’ve surveyed Win 7 usage and not many people used the Start button”.    The multiple complaints that it’s missing certainly highlight the lie that this obviously is! Also, the popularity of the replacement 3rd party Start buttons shows that people do like it.

(Whoever is in charge of MS PR these days is doing a poor job.  For example, insisting on pretending that they never meant Metro to be the name for the new kind of apps; that it was just a temporary code word.)

On a desktop with two monitors, Win 8 is very good.  You effectively have Win 8 on one screen and win 7 on the other (although of course you can change the configuration very quickly). But on a single screen laptop, I don’t like it anywhere near as much.

Because of the way the industry works, MS will force hardware manufacturers to ship with Win 8 installed.  The majority of users probably wouldn’t reformat a new drive and install Win 7, so Win 8 usage will creep up over time.  Whether it will really take off before Windows 9 comes along is the question.

The big factor will be how many people will want to use Windows Store Apps.  And also whether MS can speed up the sales of Windows Phones.  If they can increase both those numbers then Win 8 will do well.

It’ll be interesting to see.

Regards

Do you have a Google Chrome installed on your computer?

If you do please go ahead and uninstall it. Well at least, it worked for me.

Now my PC works flawlessly!

Hope this helps anyone else having the same problem

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To fix this (to disable/suppress uppercase conversion) you have to create a new DWORD in the Registry Editor.

1. run RegEdit.exe (type RegEdit in the Run)

2. Expand the HKEY_CURRENT_USER as shown on the image below

Registry Editor

3. Right-click General node and then select New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value as shown on the image below.

Context Menu

4. Name it “SuppressUppercaseConversion” and click OK!

5. Double click the newly created value and set the Value data to 1 (as shown on the image below)

Value data

Voila. Now re-open your Visual Studio 2012 and your Menu items will appear like in the previous version of your favorite IDE

VS 2012 Main Menu uppercase items

Hope this helps to someone! Cheers

CTRL + M + L will expand all.

CTRL + M + P will expand all and disable outlining.

CTRL + M + M will collapse/expand the current section.

Hope this helps to someone

XML Parsing Error

If condition = True Then
   MyPanel.Visible = True
Else
   Visible = False
End Try

Once i changed to the below it worked like a charm.

If condition = True Then
   MyPanel.Visible = True
Else
   MyPanel.Visible = False
End Try

Hope this helps to someone at least

file:///C%7C/Users/Stephen/Desktop/Projects/STX00063%20-%20WebsiteSpark-WW/2011-09/US/http://pages.email.microsoftemail.com/page.aspx?QS=11dfbe111fab00ea111afe11db11111e1836ec1111111ed&emailid=111111&memberid=1111111111&jobid=1111111&listid=1111111&listname=Subscription_111111111_111111&subscriberkey=myemail@domain.com&emailaddr=myemail@domain.com&subscriberid=111111111

Then i took only the portion which starts with http:// and pasted in the address bar.

This is what i ended with

WebsiteSpark Unsubscribe

Well guys, as you see you have to read all that crap coming from Microsoft. Don’t get me wrong, i am a MS man myself. I do .NET since its beginning but, this should not happen to such gigantic corporation like is Microsoft. Shame