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Jambo Sana! We’ve got an app for Safari to Kilimanjaro

Going for a Safari this summer to Kilimanjaro? East Africa ? We’ve got an app for you!
You will learn to speak common phrases in Swahili in a short while. How better to enjoy your safari than learning to speak swahili itself with this audible app? Then you can try engage the local people in their own Swahili language!

Jambo Sana appEnglish-Swahili
 
Jambo Sana appItalian-Swahili

Jambo Sana is a handy app with audible English-Swahili phrases in the following categories:

  1. Greetings – 12 phrases on common greetings
  2. Internet – 5 phrases on technology and internet terminologies
  3. Fun stuff – 10 phrases on fun and humour stuff
  4. Emergency – 12 phrases on emergency and police services
  5. Food – 7 Phrases on food and hospitality
  6. Animals – 12 animals names
  7. Money – 5 phrases on money and foreign exchange
  8. Travel – 11 phrases on travel matters

All audio provided by a native Swahili speaker (female voice)!
No internet connection is needed as all content is on the phone
TRIAL MODE: Limits how many times you use the app.

Update
Now Italian-Swahili Version available!

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Formatting RDL/RDLC values as percentage

I thought I’d share how to format percentage values in ReportViewer report.
Say your data source has the following fields:

  • TotalLow
  • TotalHigh
  • Total

Suppose we want to display the values for TotalLow and TotalHigh as  percentage of Total.

We can use the following expressions.
=String.Format(“{0:p0}”,Sum(Fields!TotalLow.Value)/Sum(Fields!Total.Value))
=String.Format(“{0:p0}”,Sum(Fields!TotalHigh.Value)/Sum(Fields!Total.Value))

You notice the RDL/C allows you to use .NET String object Format method.

Hope this helps.

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Get the Free Windows Azure platform trial

Official Windows Azure website says:

Try Windows Azure and SQL Azure for free with no obligations.

You can run an Extra Small Windows Azure instance free through September 30th, 2011 using the Windows Azure platform free trial. You also get a free 1GB SQL Azure database for the first 90 days of your trial.

Get it from Windows Azure website

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TechEd 2011 OData app marketplace download stats as at May 13th

We released TechEd 2011 OData app on Apr 22nd and TechEd 2012 OData app on May 13th. We like to share the download stats.

Many thanks for checking out these apps. We are impressed that you were as enthusiastic as we are and hope that our apps helped spread the word for Tech.Ed 2011 conference.

See you at TechEd 2012 Europe!

Stats

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SQL Service fails to start with error code 126

Got this tweet notification:
 
myitforum
SQL Service fails to start with error code 126
 
Thought I’d share the links which I found useful too.
http://techiethings.blogspot.com/2009/01/sql-server-service-not-starting.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_protocols/archive/2005/12/05/500013.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_protocols/archive/2006/04/28/585835.aspx
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Tech.Ed Europe 2012 will be in the summer timeframe, and you will need an app for it!

Mark Your Calendars TechEdEU2012

The next Tech·Ed Europe will be held the week of June 25, 2012 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in the historical and picturesque city of Amsterdam.

TechEd 2012 is a free handy app for attendees of Tech.Ed 2012 Europe to be held in Amsterdam. This app in now available for download in the marketplace.
As TechEd 2011 in Atlanta comes close, this app allows you to start browsing the curriculum for TechEd 2012 Europe
tech.ed2011 Helper marketplace

  1. Browse recently updated sessions by timeslots
  2. Browse all Speakers, Tags and Tracks available
  3. Browse filtered sessions by Session Type such as Breakout, Hands-on-labs
  4. Browse filtered sessions by Levels such as Intermediate, Advanced, Expert
  5. Browse filtered sessions by Speakers and Tracks such as Architecture, Windows Phone, etc
  6. Browse filtered sessions by Tags and Audience categories
  7. Manage/Save your favorite sessions lists on the app for easier access later
  8. View details of each session including schedules, speakers, tracks, level, tags

The app uses:
* phone’s internet connection
to access the TechEd 2012 Conference Session OData feeds.


Note: The OData feeds dates are yet to be updated the reflect the June 25-29 2012 dates.