This is a new image optimizer in the Visual Studio 2010 Extensions Gallery that uses SmushIt and PunyPNG to optimize images, called Image Optimizer. Image Optimizer essentially reduces the sizes of images by removing a lot of the EXIF and metadata in the file. The size reduction does not affect the quality of the image. For those wanting to build high performance websites that have a lot of images, shaving a few bytes from your images using Image Optimizer may make a difference.
More importantly, however, is that Image Optimizer is a Visual Studio 2010 Extension that will reduce the size of images in bulk when you right-click on a folder in a Visual Studio Solution that contains a lot of images.

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In this article we will be seeing how to connect to the Oracle database using WCF in Silverlight and will perform a search to retrieve the data from the database, display them in the Silverlight data grid using Visual Studio 2010. In the Oracle database we will be having a table Employee Details with three columns Employee_ID, FirstName and LastName, having more than 10,000 data. Based on the Employee_ID we can search for the employees using this Silverlight search page.
Steps Involved:
Creating a Silverlight Application:

I. Open Visual Studio 2010.

Go to File => New => Project.
Select Silverlight from the Installed templates and choose the Silverlight Application template.
Enter the Name and choose the location.
Click OK.

Click OK.

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If we do not want to explicitly set address for each EndPoint in our service then we define BASE ADDRESS for the EndPoint exposed for our service
In above configuration, we added one more base address using net.tcp protocol.

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Instead of having a bunch of separate drives to deal with, why not put them together into one big drive? You can use software RAID to accomplish this, and here’s how to do it.
Windows has built in functionality to set up a software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) without any additional tools. This makes it easy to turn your existing spare hard drives into massive storage or even redundant backups. In this example we are going to set up a spanned disk that takes three 2 GB disks and creates one 6 GB disk using Windows 7 Professional.

Set Up Your Disks

The first step you need to do is backup your information on the disks you want to use in the RAID. While it is not required that you format your disks for some of the RAID options, don’t take the chance and make a backup.
Once all of your information is backed up, open your start menu, right click on computer and open manage.
When computer management opens click on disk management on the left side. Any disk you want included in your RAID you need to delete them from the top area of disk management.
Once they are deleted you should only be left with disks you do not want included in the RAID. The other disks will still be there but they will show up in the lower pane and show their spaces as unallocated.

Create Your RAID