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On Saturday, June 20, 2009, several local technology vendors and user groups will collaborate on hosting a summer picnic, called "TECHnic". The event is scheduled from 10AM-8PM at St. Sava's Picnic Grove in Parma, OH. For more information, please visit www.tinyurl.com/TECHnicPicnic .

CodeStock 2009 is a conference for software developers held in Knoxville, TN. The event is aimed at providing the latest and greatest topics in software development across various platforms. In addition, the event also has "open spaces" where fellow developers can gather and discuss any topic on their mind at the moment. This could range from advantages of C# vs. VB.Net to the pros/cons of Agile development to surviving a tough economic period. This year's event will be held June 26 - June 27, providing a variety of topics for 2 full days. The full list of sessions is available at http://codestock.org/Sessions.aspx with the exact scheduling due out soon. Tickets for the event are $25 if purchased before June 1st, and $45 afterwards. For members of the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group, 2 tickets have been provided free of charge to the first 2 people to respond to this blog. To claim your ticket, simply send an e-mail to sam@clevelanddotnet.info . If you're int...

Q: I always used databases provided by Microsoft to practice on. Today I tried to create my own and ran into trouble. Problem is that I cannot set the identity specification on a primary key. The column properties show up as no and I cannot change it to yes. I’m using SQL Server Express 2005 on a Vista machine. Any thoughts? A: . To change column properties, you must modify the table (right click table and select “Modify”). Select and highlight the column you want to change, then expand the “Identity Specification” in the “Column Properties” pane. Change the “Is Identity” property to “Yes”. Please note the change must be made to the “Is Identity” property, not the “Identity Specification”.

The Cleveland office of Sogeti USA will be hosting the following IT events in April. April 21: Taking the cost out if IT Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Location: Microsoft Office 6050 Oak Tree Blvd. Independence, OH 44131 Agenda: > Introductions Microsoft and Sogeti > Taking the Cost out of IT > Break > Optimizing Microsoft Solution Delivery > Testimonials > Open Forum To register, go to http://www.clicktoattend.com/ then enter Event Code: 137141 April 30: "Me the Media - Rise of the Conversation Society" Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009 Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Location: Beacon Place (lower level conference room), 6055 Rockside Woods Blvd. Independence, OH 44131 The speaker at this event will be Erik van Ommeren,who is managing the US branch of the Sogeti InternationalResearch Institute for New Technology. He is an author andpublic speaker on topics such as innovation, collaboration,service oriented architecture, crowdsourcing and new media. You’re invited! ...

Listed below are .Net related events for April 2009: April 9: Ann Arbor Cloud Camp ( http://bit.ly/a2cc ) April 9: Ohio North SQL Server User Group - Executive Dashboards using SharePoint 2007 ( http://www.bennettadelson.com/seat.aspx?sig=sql&ID=141 ) April 14: .Net User Group - Silverlight 3.0 Beta ( http://www.bennettadelson.com/seat.aspx?sig=net&ID=145 ) April 28: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group - IronRuby ( http://www.clevelanddotnet.info/ ) April 30: ArcReady ( www.arcready.com ) April 30: MSDN Unleashed ( http://www.msdnevents.com/unleashed ) April 30: TechNet Unleashed ( http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032410537&Culture=en-US ) April 30: Cleveland Architecture SIG .

Q: How can I automate the FTP process so it runs on scheduler without user intervention? A: The FTP.EXE (File Transfer Protocol) command line utility comes standard with the Windows Operating system. Because it's a command line utility, it allows for many options to be entered at run time (simply enter FTP /? at the command prompt for a complete list). When using the -s: filename switch allows for the commands to be read from the filename specified. For example, first create a text file called myFTP.prm with the following commands: open www.myftpsite.com myUserID myPassword prompt off binary mput myfile *.txt From a command line, execute FTP -s: myFTP.prm . Please note there's no specific extension for file containing the FTP commands. For more info on this, please visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96269 Q: How can I execute a command line utility from with a VB Script? A: The CMD.EXE is a command line utility used for running other command...

The term "Tablix" can mean different things to different people. However, in the Microsoft realm it refers to the ability of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to combine a table and a matrix together.