Sachin Thamke

DotNetNuke Tip Modifying your Portal Aliases Browse to your DotNetNuke database, open up the PortalAlias table. You can either Modify your existing Alias, or you can add a new Alias to this table. test.myurl.com for example, be sure to setup the proper portal ID if you're adding a new alias and you have a lot of different aliases in there. You might also need to setup the aliases for the child portals as well if you plan on using those. The next step is crucial. You'll want to reset your website before you try to hit the new alias. You can do that in a couple of ways, I always prefer to open up the web.config file, add a carriage return and hit save. This will cause IIS to reload the site, clearing out the cache and loading the new portal aliases.

Introduction http://eappointments.codeplex.com/releases/view/8053 The Department of Health for one of the developed countries is trying to bring the doctors and patients together into a single market place. According to their research, patients want to be more involved in making decisions and choosing their healthcare. Most of the patients who are offered a choice of hospital view the experience as positive and valuable. Keeping this in mind, the E-Appointments system has been designed to provide more choice and flexibility to patients. It allows patients to exercise choice of doctors and therefore facilitates a seamless appointment and booking process. Patients will be able to choose from a range of hospitals as well as choose a convenient date and time for an appointment to see a specialist. Current Process The current process for Referral is manual in nature where a General Practitioner refers to a Hospital or Consultant and the patient does not have the choice to the same. New Sys...

The calculation of Work, Duration, and Units 1 day Duration = 8 hours Work /100% Units Units= Units are the percentage of a resource’s workday For example, if you want Joe to work half-time on a task, you would assign him at 50 percent Units. If a resource’s workday is eight hours and he or she is assigned to work on a task at 100% Units (for eight hours of work), then the Duration is eight hours (one day by default). Work= NO OF hours Duration: - no of days to complete the task. If a resource’s workday is four hours and he or she is assigned to work on a task at 50% Units (for eight hours of work), then the Duration is eight hours (one day by default).

http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2010/11/22/10-essential-tools-for-building-asp-net-websites.aspx 10 Essential Tools for building ASP.NET Websites I recently put together a simple public website created with ASP.NET for my company at Superexpert.com. I was surprised by the number of free tools that I ended up using to put together the website. Therefore, I thought it would be interesting to create a list of essential tools for building ASP.NET websites. These tools work equally well with both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. Performance Tools After reading Steve Souders two (very excellent) books on front-end website performance High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites, I have been super sensitive to front-end website performance. According to Souders’ Performance Golden Rule: “Optimize front-end performance first, that's where 80% or more of the end-user response time is spent” You can use the tools below to reduce the size of the images, JavaScript files, ...

SQL Sentry Plan Explorer is a FREE tool which builds upon the graphical plan view in SSMS to make query plan analysis more efficient. It contains many of the plan analysis features introduced in SQL Sentry v6, however, the lightweight tool does not require a collection service or database. Features There are several ways to load a plan: * In SSMS, right-click a graphical plan and select “Show Execution Plan XML”, then copy and paste the plan XML into the Plan Explorer. It doesn’t matter which pane is active, the clipboard handler is global and will auto-detect the plan XML. * Save an execution plan from SSMS to a .sqlplan file, then open the file using the Open toolbar button, File->Open menu, or Ctrl + O. Raw plan XML files and .QueryAnalysis files (our own proprietary format) are also supported. * Right-click an existing .sqlplan file in Windows Explorer and select “Open with -> SQL Sentry Plan Explorer”. * Drag-and-drop a plan file onto the application. * R...

http://10rem.net/blog/2010/11/22/20-interesting-wpf-projects-on-codeplex-some-for-silverlight-too