Dictionary Not Found

Kept getting the error: "Dictionary Not Found..." once I uploaded new changes to the web server to allow spell checking. So, my first step was to open the developer tools in IE (F12) and do a quick capture of the network traffic.

Which gave:

URL: /fieldperformance/C1Spell_en-US.dct
Method: GET
Result: 404
Type: text/html
Received: 1.37 KB
Taken: 265 ms 
Initiator:
Wait‎‎: 1482
Start: 62
Request: 203
Response‎: 0
Cache: 0
read‎‎ Gap‎‎: 5067

So, it's looking in the fieldperformance folder for the dictionary file. Doing a quick check, yes the file is located there. The problem then ends up being the MIME type is missing.

Going to the IIS Manager, I added the Extension dct with a MIME type of application/octet-stream.

WCF & Silverlight max buffer size issue

Ran into these problems a few times with the WCF errors, in which the buffer size was the issue:

• “The remote server returned an error: NotFound”
• "Unable to read data from the transport connection: The connection was closed"
• "The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element."

This would be an easy solution if only dealing with the WCF. Since, we are using the WCF layer to pass data to/from the Silverlight layer the problem arises in two locations -- not one.

Over at Mehroz's Experiments (http://smehrozalam.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/retrieving-huge-amount-of-data-from-wcf-service-in-silverlight-application/) he goes into good detail on solving this problem.

So in the Silverlight's ServiceReferences.ClientConfig we increase the buffer size.

Code Snippet

 <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IScientificDataService"   closeTimeout="00:01:00"openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00" maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered">
    <security mode="None"/>
binding>

In the WCF's Web.config, we needed to increase the maxBufferSize and maxReceivedMessageSize to a larger number Code Snippet   <system.serviceModel>     <behaviors>       <serviceBehaviors>         <behavior>           <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />           <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />           <dataContractSerializer maxItemsInObjectGraph="2147483647"/>         behavior>       serviceBehaviors>     behaviors>     <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="false" />   system.serviceModel>

SQL String Manipulations

Interesting article in SQL Server Magazine about String Manipulations by Itzik Ben-Gan (http://www.sqlmag.com/article/tsql/string-manipulation-tips-techniques-part-1-136427)

So to give me a quick reference in the future, I'll summarize it here:

Counting Occurrences of a subString within a string:

DECLARE
  @str    AS VARCHAR(1000) = 'abchellodehellofhello',
  @substr AS VARCHAR(1000) = 'hello';

SELECT (LEN(@str) - LEN(REPLACE(@str, @substr, ''))) / LEN(@substr);


Exactly N Occurrences of a substring within a string:

DECLARE
  @str    AS VARCHAR(1000) = 'abchellodehellofhello',
  @substr AS VARCHAR(1000) = 'hello',
  @N      AS INT           = 3;

SELECT
  CASE
    WHEN (LEN(@str) - LEN(REPLACE(@str, @substr, ''))) / LEN(@substr) = @N
      THEN 'True'
    ELSE 'False or Unknown'
  END;
-OR-

SELECT
  CASE
    WHEN @str LIKE '%' + REPLICATE(@substr + '%', @N)
         AND @str NOT LIKE '%' + REPLICATE(@substr + '%', @N+1)
      THEN 'True'
    ELSE 'False or Unknown'
  END;

Replacing Multiple Contiguous Spaces with a single space:

DECLARE @str AS VARCHAR(1000) = 'this   is     a   string    with     lots   of   spaces';

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@str, ' ', '~ '), ' ~', ''), '~ ', ' ');

Replacing Overlapping Occurrences:

DECLARE @str AS VARCHAR(1000) = '.x.x.x.x.';

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(@str, '.x.', '.y.'), '.x.', '.y.');

-OR-

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@str, '.', '..'), '.x.', '.y.'), '..', '.');
String Formatting Numbers with Leading Zeros:

DECLARE @num AS INT = -1759;

SELECT CASE SIGN(@num) WHEN -1 THEN '-' ELSE '' END + REPLACE(STR(ABS(@num), 10), ' ', '0');

-OR-

SELECT CASE SIGN(@num) WHEN -1 THEN '-' ELSE '' END + RIGHT('000000000' + CAST(ABS(@num) AS VARCHAR(10)), 10);

-OR (In Denali)-

SELECT FORMAT(@num, '0000000000');

Left Trimming Leading Occurrences of a Character:

DECLARE @str AS VARCHAR(100) = '0000001709';

SELECT REPLACE(LTRIM(REPLACE(@str, '0', ' ')), ' ', '0');

Checking That a String Is Made of Only Digits:

DECLARE @str AS VARCHAR(1000) = '1759';
SELECT
  CASE
    WHEN @str NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%' THEN 'True'
    ELSE 'False or Unknown'
  END;

-OR-

CHECK (col1 NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%')