Handling Deadlocks in SQL Server

A deadlock is defined in the dictionary as "a standstill resulting from the action of equal and opposed forces," and this turns out to be a reasonable description of a deadlock in SQL Server: two or more sessions inside of the database engine end up waiting for access to locked resources held by each other. In a deadlock situation, none of the sessions...

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Hate That Gray? Wash It Away! Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor

Microsoft’s Matthew Johnson has updated his excellent free tool. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05 Once we repair the cosmetics, Visual Studio 2012 is going to be very good indeed. Is there an icon editor for VS 2012? Visual Studio Icon Patcher http://vsip.codeplex.com/ More...

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WiX v3.6 released

It is my pleasure to announce that WiX toolset v3.6 is now officially declared Production/Stable. The final build number is v3.6.3303.0. You can download it from here. WiX v3.6 delivers the much anticipated bootstrapper: Burn. I look back at my introductory blog post about Burn in 2009 and can't help but be impressed. Every feature in that list exists now plus features like package reference counting, related bundles and support forsoftware tagging...

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An open source, distributed version control and bug tracking system for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Veracity is an open source version control and bug tracking system for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.veracity-scm.com Bug tracking, milestone management, build tracking, and wiki pages are all handled via our web interface - which can run locally on each developer’s machine, as well as via shared servers (including our onVeracity.com server). Checkins and synching between machines are done via familiar command-line tools, or Tortoise shell integration...

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