How to delete all stored procedures from MSSQL database using cursor

Here is a code for deleting all stored procedures in SQL Server database using cursor.

DECLARE @name varchar(500)
DECLARE @sql varchar(max)
SET @sql = ''

DECLARE cur CURSOR
      FOR SELECT [name] FROM sys.procedures
      OPEN cur

      FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @name
      WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
      BEGIN
			SET @sql = 'DROP PROC ' + @name
			PRINT @sql
			EXEC (@sql)
            FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @name
      END
      CLOSE cur
      DEALLOCATE cur


How to close all connections to a MSSQL database

This script closes all connections to MS SQL database USE master; GO ALTER DATABASE dbName SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE; GO ALTER DATABASE dbName SET MULTI_USER; GO

Animated iPhone-style ImageButton with Silverlight 4

In this article I am presenting a way to create animated iPhone-style ImageButton control in Silverlight 4. Button will have icon on it, rounded corners and will zoom-in/zoom-out on hover. It will be done programmatically, with very minimum amount of XAML. I start with creating ImageButton class. I use ButtonBase as base class: I want…

Using Sets in .Net

Great post by James Michael Hare I came across about using Sets in .Net. Definitely worth taking a look. http://geekswithblogs.net/BlackRabbitCoder/archive/2011/02/03/c.net-little-wonders-the-useful-but-overlooked-sets.aspx

WCF Custom tool error: Failed to generate code for the service reference.

Very recently, building multi-tier application involving Silverlight front-end inter-operating with WCF back-end, I encountered very odd, yet annoying behaviour of Visual Studio 2010. I was building new functionality using Telerik RadMap for Silverlight control that was to display some spartial data supplied by WCF service. To achieve this my Silverlight application had to reference few…

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