Lots of Exciting Announcements from WPC - Windows 8, Windows Serv... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 16,000 Microsoft Partners are attending our annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Toronto, and the atmosphere is absolutely buzzing with positive energy and excitement around many of the ... Lots of Exciting Announcements from WPC - Windows 8, Windows Serv... 0 0 0
SQL Saturday #150–Louisiana Region ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 If you are in the region of Baton Rouge, LA on August 4th and are looking for some great fun, be sure to stop by SQL Saturday #150. We had more than 400 people attend last years event, and this it will ... SQL Saturday #150–Louisiana Region 0 0 0
O'Reilly deal of the day 12/July/2012 - Programming ASP.NET MVC 4... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's deal of the day from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 "With Early Release ebooks, you get books in their earliest form — the author's ... O'Reilly deal of the day 12/July/2012 - Programming ASP.NET MVC 4... 0 0 0
PowerShell to delete usage of Content Type(s) and delete the Cont... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Are you stuck with the error: "Error: content type in use."You have to delete all of the content type's children and its usage before you can proceed.Once the dependencies are gone, you can delete the ... PowerShell to delete usage of Content Type(s) and delete the Cont... 0 0 0
Managing Hotfixes Centrally pattontech, January 1, 0001 Historically I've not paid much attention to hotfixes or patches, but lately I've decided that I need to change that aspect of my management. I used to create a folder on the server that had the problem, ... Managing Hotfixes Centrally 0 0 0
Free E-Book - Office 365 (Connect and Collaborate) KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 MS is offering this free e-book for Office 365 enthusiats - Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (ISBN 9780735656949), by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook also available ... Free E-Book - Office 365 (Connect and Collaborate) 0 0 0
Geekswithblogs.net | Screen Resolutions of our Readers Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I talked about the Browsers we see being used by our readers driven off of our Google Analytics traffic and today I want to share with you the Screen Resolutions we see. As a web developer most ... Geekswithblogs.net | Screen Resolutions of our Readers 0 0 0
Update the model on HttpPost and render the changes in the View Etienne Giust, January 1, 0001 With MVC3, I came over that problem where I was rendering a view with an updated model at the end of an HttpPost and the changes to the model were never applied to the rendered view : NOT working as expected ... Update the model on HttpPost and render the changes in the View 0 0 0
HTML 5 + Knockout + ASP.NET Web API + SignalR = Webstack of Love Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 This is a talk by Brad Wilson on Norwegian Developers Conference about HTML5 + Knockout + ASP.NET Web API + SignalR ... HTML 5 + Knockout + ASP.NET Web API + SignalR = Webstack of Love 0 0 0
Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure - Book... Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 Microsoft P&P team make available to download an ebook where we can learn how to building hybrid applications in the cloud on Windows Azure.Download ... Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure - Book... 0 0 0
Gridview Custom Paging on ASP.NET 2.0 Oscar Ribbeck, January 1, 0001 Hello again :).There is an interesting entry about Gridview Custom Paging on ASP.NET 2.0 subject on here: Asp.Net ForumsI tweaked the original code for my own convenience and posted it on this thread but ... Gridview Custom Paging on ASP.NET 2.0 0 0 0
Self Welcoming Post on geekswithblogs.net OscarRibbeck, January 1, 0001 Hello!.As you may notice :), this is my first post on geekswithblogs.com . I have been using the .Net Framework mainly to develop ASP.NET WebApps for some years now and I am moving from using the .Net ... Self Welcoming Post on geekswithblogs.net 0 0 2
How to Implement Single Sign-On between Websites hmloo, January 1, 0001 Introduction Single sign-on (SSO) is a way to control access to multiple related but independent systems, a user only needs to log in once and gains access to all other systems. a lot of commercial systems ... How to Implement Single Sign-On between Websites 0 0 4
Multiple instances of Intellitrace.exe process Vincent Grondin, January 1, 0001 Not so long ago I was confronted with a very bizarre problem… I was using visual studio 2010 and whenever I opened up the Test Impact view I would suddenly see my pc perf go down drastically… Investigating ... Multiple instances of Intellitrace.exe process 0 0 2
10 steps to enable ‘Anonymous Access’ for your ShareP... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 What’s Anonymous Access? Anonymous access to your SharePoint site enables all visitors to view your SharePoint site anonymously without having to log in. With this blog I’d like to go through an easy step ... 10 steps to enable ‘Anonymous Access’ for your ShareP... 0 0 0
Twitter Bootstrap styling conflicts with plug-ins like jqGrid and... Renso, January 1, 0001 Issues:The concern with Twitter Bootstrap framework is that some of their css selectors are simply too generic and have incompatibility issues and conflicts with most third party plug-ins and css libraries, ... Twitter Bootstrap styling conflicts with plug-ins like jqGrid and... 0 0 3
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 9/Jul/2012 - Windows® Communica... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's Deal of the Day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Windows® Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step"Teach yourself the essentials of Windows ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 9/Jul/2012 - Windows® Communica... 0 0 0
Tree Surgeon 2.0 - The future on the T4 Express Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 If you've never been a fan of TreeSurgeon (http://treesurgeon.codeple... then skip this post.However, if have been there have been some interesting developments over the last couple of years.The biggest ... Tree Surgeon 2.0 - The future on the T4 Express 0 0 5
Whitepaper about a project involving BizTalk & Lagan Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Just completed a whitepaper about a case study involving the integration of Lagan CRM and BizTalkhttp://connectedsyst... ... Whitepaper about a project involving BizTalk & Lagan 0 0 0
ResolveUrl() from WCF service Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to ResolveUrl() from WCF service and foundhttp://www.west-wind.c... .However the function assumes that the call is synchronous, in asynchronous ... ResolveUrl() from WCF service 0 0 0
DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We've used the following DataContractSerializeToXml method for a long time, but recently noticed, that it doesn't return full XML for a long object, but truncated it and returns XML string with the length ... DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... 0 0 1
Convert collections of enums to collection of strings and vic... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Recently I needed to convert collections of strings, that represent enum names, to collection of enums, and opposite, to convert collections of enums to collection of strings. I didn’t find standard LINQ ... Convert collections of enums to collection of strings and vic... 0 0 0
SearchServer2008Express Search Webservice Mike Koerner, January 1, 0001 I was working on calling the Search Server 2008 Express search webservice from Powershell. I kept getting <ResponsePacket xmlns="urn:Microsoft.Search... domain=""><Status>... ... SearchServer2008Express Search Webservice 0 0 0
Code Smells: Regions in C# codeWithoutFear, January 1, 0001 #region -- Foo Property -- private Foo Foo { get { if (_foo == null) { _foo = FooManager.Instance.Load(); } return _foo; } } #endregion "Moderation in all things, including moderation." -Petronius Code ... Code Smells: Regions in C# 0 0 4
Why CoffeeScript is tough to maintain Renso, January 1, 0001 I recently started trying out CoffeeScript only to find out that it caused more headaches. The abstraction level of jQuery was perfect, it did not dictate to coders how to design their code, it just works. ... Why CoffeeScript is tough to maintain 0 0 8
New Feature! Automatic Categories for Geekswithblogs.net Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 One of the features we have been working on is a way to categorize posts without the need of all our bloggers getting on the same page with what categories we have and making them select the categories. ... New Feature! Automatic Categories for Geekswithblogs.net 0 0 4
New Look for Geekswithblogs.net Homepage Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 I wanted to alert everyone to the new look of the Geekswithblogs.net Community Page. I removed the tabs, cleaned up the posts and fonts, replaced the logo with our brighter logo, and mucked with the CSS ... New Look for Geekswithblogs.net Homepage 0 0 4
Service Discovery in WCF 4.0 – Part 2 Shaun, January 1, 0001 In the previous post I discussed about the basic usage of WCF Discovery in 4.0. I implemented a managed discovery service by inheriting from System.ServiceModel.Discove... I utilized a concurrent ... Service Discovery in WCF 4.0 – Part 2 0 0 6
Service Discovery in WCF 4.0 – Part 1 Shaun, January 1, 0001 When designing a service oriented architecture (SOA) system, there will be a lot of services with many service contracts, endpoints and behaviors. Besides the client calling the service, in a large distributed ... Service Discovery in WCF 4.0 – Part 1 0 0 2
Free book from Microsoft on on Office 365 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mic... you can get a free book from Microsoft on Office 365 ... Free book from Microsoft on on Office 365 0 0 0
Where did I write that code ? Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Every been in that situation when you desperately need to find that code you checked into TFS a few days back but just can’t remember what team project, what branch, what solution or what file you checked ... Where did I write that code ? 0 0 2
Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Query... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 In the past few weeks, I have been reading “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying” by Itzik Ben-Gan et al. In the next few lines, I will be providing a quick book review having finished reading ... Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Query... 0 0 0
Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Charles Cline, January 1, 0001 For all you admins and other technical people out there who have watched the Windows OS spool the data from network storage to your workstation and then back to network storage, watch for Offloaded Data ... Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) 0 0 0
Good use of the Charms Bar in Windows 8 Metro. Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 If you’re using Win8 yet, no doubt you’ve run into the charms bar. There’s a feature to extend via Share, links to your application. Details on the HOW are here: Adding share (Metro style apps using JavaScript ... Good use of the Charms Bar in Windows 8 Metro. 0 0 0
Quest PowerShell Tools Charles Cline, January 1, 0001 A couple of free Powershell tools I use a lot are ActiveRoles Management Shell for AD and PowerGUI Script Editor. The management shell I like because it reduced the number of lines I used in my code, and ... Quest PowerShell Tools 0 0 0
Html 5 – new size units Norgean, January 1, 0001 There are some new size units with CSS 3, which allows you to resize elements relative to the viewport size. They are vw, vh, vmin (that’s vm in IE), and perhaps vmax. (Viewport width, height, smaller ... Html 5 – new size units 0 0 0
Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 In this blog post I’ll show you how you can play back the IIS Logs in Visual Studio to automatically generate the web performance tests. You can also download the sample solution I am demo-ing in the blog ... Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio 0 0 3
Azure WNS to Win8 - Push Notifications for Metro Apps JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Background The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 allows you to build a Windows Azure Cloud Service that can send Push Notifications to registered Metro apps via Windows Notification Service (WNS). Some ... Azure WNS to Win8 - Push Notifications for Metro Apps 0 0 1
Free Document/Content Management System Using SharePoint 2010 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 That’s right, it’s true. You can use the free version of SharePoint 2010 to meet your document and content management needs and even run your public facing website or an internal knowledge bank. SharePoint ... Free Document/Content Management System Using SharePoint 2010 0 0 0
Configuring Claims and Forms Based Authentication in Sharepoint 2... Gino Abraham, January 1, 0001 Found this link very useful for setting Form Based authentication for a Sharepoint web application. http://sharepointchick.com/... ... Configuring Claims and Forms Based Authentication in Sharepoint 2... 0 0 0
Finding Near-Earth Asteroids TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 One of the puzzling aspects of hunting for Near Earth Asteroids is that more has been spent on Hollywood films about potential disasters should one hit the Earth than on finding them in the first place. ... Finding Near-Earth Asteroids 0 0 0
Using LINQ to Twitter OAuth with Windows 8 Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 Update (1/19/2013): This doesn't work anymore and there's a better way to perform OAuth with LINQ to Twitter on Windows 8. Please see WinRtAuthorizer–A Better Way to do OAuth with LINQ to Twitter in Windows ... Using LINQ to Twitter OAuth with Windows 8 0 0 3
Windows 8 Camp–Ways to Prepare Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 When Windows 8 was announced at the BUILD conference back in September, it created quite a buzz among the developer community. By the spring of 2012, Windows 8 Developer Camps started popping up everywhere ... Windows 8 Camp–Ways to Prepare 0 0 0
jQuery with SharePoint solutions KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 For me jQuery is the 'Plan-B' for everything.And most of my projects include the use of jQuery for something or the other, so I decided to write a small note on what works best while using jQuery along ... jQuery with SharePoint solutions 0 0 0
Another year of being a Microsoft MVP Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Yes, Just got an email from Microsoft that I have been re-awarded as an ASP.NET/IIS Microsoft MVP for 2012. The last year for sure was very busy with projects and I’m glad I made it again and able to contribute ... Another year of being a Microsoft MVP 0 0 1
Roll your own free .NET technical conference Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 If you can’t get to a conference, let the conference come to you! There are a ton of free recorded conference presentations online… Microsoft TechEd Let’s start with the proverbial 800 pound gorilla. Recent ... Roll your own free .NET technical conference 0 0 2
Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs In my opinion the biggest adoption ... Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure 0 0 2
Kendo UI Mobile with Knockout for Master-Detail Views Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 Lately I’ve been playing with Kendo UI Mobile to build iPhone apps. It’s similar to jQuery Mobile in that they are both HTML5/JavaScript based frameworks for buildings mobile apps. The primary thing that ... Kendo UI Mobile with Knockout for Master-Detail Views 0 0 6
Creating large SharePoint structures from Powershell and xml, par... Norgean, January 1, 0001 In this second part, we show how we can build an xml structure from information we get from SharePoint. This xml can later be edited, and used as input to the SharePoint creator from part i. Creating large SharePoint structures from Powershell and xml, par... 0 0 1
St. Louis ALT.NET Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 I’m a huge fan of the St. Louis .NET User Group and a regular attendee of their meetings, but always wished there was a local group that discussed more advanced .NET topics. (That’s not a criticism of ... St. Louis ALT.NET 0 0 0