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Some useful Xpath expressions

Thursday, 28 January 2010 11:43 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Development - ASP.NET

Here are some useful Xpath expression which were a little hard to figure out for a newbie like me so I am making an attempt to document them. Here are 2 of them,

Get unique values using xpath
Get leaf node only using xpath

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Sample of Pivot SQL

Tuesday, 06 April 2010 14:16 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Development - SQL

As a part of reporting, my friend faced a simple looking problem. He was struggling for almost half a day to solve this by a SQL query. When he showed me the problem, I just realized that it is something that we usually do in excel called pivot tables and I asked him to look over the internet if there is something called "pivot query" and to our surprise there is something called as that...we just didn't know, so I am going to document it.

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Database Deployment through MSBuild and TFS build

Monday, 27 December 2010 15:35 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Testing - Test Automation

I recently came across a problem where I had to deploy a database as part of the TFS (Team Foundation Server) build process. The default build process templates you get out of the box does not have a way to deploy database as part of a build process. There are 2 ways to do this depending on which build definition you use -

If you are using TFS 2010 build definition, add custom steps/actions in build process template to deploy database,
If you are using old MSBuild 2008 – TFSBuild.proj file, you can call external batch file or command(s) to deploy database.

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Microsoft Test Manager 2010 - Tips and Tricks

Friday, 16 July 2010 03:57 Ajay Majgaonkar

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Retain a Microsoft.NET site’s ranking with search engines with the help of 301 redirection

Saturday, 09 May 2009 21:19 Roopmay Roy Software Development - ASP.NET

Web sites on the internet need to undergo technological changes or revamps. This results in the same features and functions to be available at a different URL.

If visitors to your site have bookmarked such pages of the site prior to it undergoing the revamp, their attempts to access the site after the revamp are going to result into 404 (page not found) errors.

This causes the site to be black listed / de-ranked with search engines.

Assuming that your new site is built using Microsoft .NET, this document is to illustrate an easy way in .NET to retain a site’s ranking with the help of a 301 re-direction.