Windows Azure Evolution – Welcome to VS2012 Shaun, January 1, 0001 When the Microsoft released the first preview version of Windows 8 and Visual Studio, many people in the community were asking if the windows azure tool is available to it. The answer was “NO”. Microsoft ... Windows Azure Evolution – Welcome to VS2012 0 0 0
Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal Shaun, January 1, 0001 With the MEET Windows Azure event on 7th June, there are many new features and updates in windows azure platform. In the coming several posts I will try to cover some of them. And in the first post here ... Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal 0 0 0
IPhone track title woodbase, January 1, 0001 If you have an IPhone, you probably know that the name in the playlist comes from the “Title”-attribute instead of the filename. Usually that is not a problem. But when I plug my IPhone to the car stereo ... IPhone track title 0 0 1
Top ten things that don't make sense in The Walking Dead iamjames, January 1, 0001 For those of you that don't know, The Walking Dead is a popular American TV show on AMC about a group of people trying to survive in a zombie-filled world.Here's the top ten eleven things that don't make ... Top ten things that don't make sense in The Walking Dead 0 0 0
Microsoft Lowers Cloud Barrier To Entry Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Once in a while, the technology stack changes enough to create a disturbance in the IT industry. Microsoft did just that today and has officially closed the gap with its #1 competitor: Amazon. What is ... Microsoft Lowers Cloud Barrier To Entry 0 0 1
Windows Azure v1.7 Spring Release Today–New Management Dash... ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 Today, Microsoft will be publicly releasing a new version of Azure for public consumption. The web conference, at http://www.meetwindowsazure... will be airing at 1 PM PST. They have already released ... Windows Azure v1.7 Spring Release Today–New Management Dash... 0 0 0
Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 3 Steve Loethen, January 1, 0001 The Wasabi Hands on Labs give you a good look at the basic mechanics, but I don’t find the setup too practical. Using a local console application to host the Autoscaler and rules files is probably the ... Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 3 0 0 0
KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation tom, January 1, 0001 This summer I went to a the Kansas City Developers Conference (April 27 and 28th, 2012). It was fun and I learned a lot. I have been 3 times before and this is my first time blogging on it so here goes. ... KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation 0 0 0
Excel to SQL import error shehan, January 1, 0001 Running the import wizard on my Windows 7 (64 bit) machine, to create a table by importing an Excel file, gave me the following error: the 'microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered on the local ... Excel to SQL import error 0 0 1
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks-Part 2: Key Short... ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 Ask anyone that knows me, and they will confirm that I hate the mouse. This isn’t because I deny affection to objects that don’t look like their mammalian-named self, but rather for a much more simple ... Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks-Part 2: Key Short... 0 0 0
My Tech Ed North America Preview - Certification Edition Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 In my previous TechEd North America Preview, I addressed all the content I wanted to see at the show. This time, we shall turn our attention to the certifications I might try to pick up. If you have never ... My Tech Ed North America Preview - Certification Edition 0 0 0
Fixing some Visual Studio 2012 RC install issues terje, January 1, 0001 Updated: June 7th 2012: Cause for the issues found! Unsupported scenario having TFS 11 Beta side-by-side. Uninstall TFS 11 Beta before or even after install of VS 2012 RC. The Visual Studio RC has shown ... Fixing some Visual Studio 2012 RC install issues 0 0 4
Tech-Ed 2012 North America – meet me there! Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 I’m excited to be near home in Orlando, FL next week for Tech-Ed 2012 NA. Here are the times you can come chat with me about the Windows Phone topics at the TLC stations in the main expo hall: Monday 7:00pm ... Tech-Ed 2012 North America – meet me there! 0 0 0
Windows 8 Location Services ryanabr, January 1, 0001 I spent the afternoon with the Geolocator object in the WinRT and Widows 8 platform. I have also been working with doing Windows Phone 7 development, and first had to wrap my head around the fact that ... Windows 8 Location Services 0 0 0
Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 1 Steve Loethen, January 1, 0001 It has been a while since I have had time to sit down and blog. I need to make sure I take the time. It helps me to focus on technology and not let the administrivia keep me from doing the things I love. ... Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 1 0 0 0
Buy ReSharper 6 - Get Version 7 Free!? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A tip that has just been passed to me by my good friends at Jet Brains.JetBrains ReSharper is approaching its new major release later this summer. We're delighted to announce a limited 2-in-1 offer: all ... Buy ReSharper 6 - Get Version 7 Free!? 0 0 0
Out of band Microsoft Update TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Microsoft have issued an out-of-band update at http://support.microsoft.co... entitled "Unauthorized digital certificates could allow spoofing".Out-of-band updates such as these should be applied ... Out of band Microsoft Update 0 0 0
#mvvmlight V4 for Windows 8 RP is available Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I took a moment out of a very busy weekend to publish an update to MVVM Light for Windows 8 Release Preview. Read the rest of this entry » ... #mvvmlight V4 for Windows 8 RP is available 0 0 0
PowerShell Try Catch Finally PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 PowerShell Try Catch Finally I am a relative novice to PowerShell and tried (pun intended) to use the “Try Catch Finally” in my scripts. Alas the structure that we love and use in C# (or even – shudder ... PowerShell Try Catch Finally 0 0 1
Review–Build Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio with Nom... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Nomad is a Visual Studio extension that allows you build apps for both Android and iOS platforms in Visual Studio using HTML5. There is no need to switch between .Net, Java and Objective-C to target different ... Review–Build Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio with Nom... 0 0 1
SQL Injection – Beyond the Basics - A good article TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.sqlmag.com/conte... there is an excellent article on the measures needed to defeat SQL Injection ... SQL Injection – Beyond the Basics - A good article 0 0 0
Defining a service layer: the text-based adventure Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 Applications these days have more options than ever for a user interface, and it’s only going to grow. A successful product might require native applications for mobile devices, a regular web implementation, ... Defining a service layer: the text-based adventure 0 0 0
Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24... Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 I am extremely proud to announce that book I helped author is now out and available nationwide and online! Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours It’s been a a great journey ... Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks–Part 1: Ext... ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 I don’t know about you, but when it comes to development, I prefer my environment to be as free of clutter as possible. It may surprise you to know that I have tried ReSharper, and did not like it, for ... Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks–Part 1: Ext... 0 0 0
My Tech Ed North America Preview - Content Edition Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 As I promised in my last post, I feel the need to give you a rundown on all the technical content I am looking forward to checking out at Tech Ed this year. We shall start with the content I know I'll ... My Tech Ed North America Preview - Content Edition 0 0 0
List of Upcoming Appearances Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 Greetings. I know I have been in work sponsored hiding lately. We are working furiously on a beta project to secure a contract, and I can't really talk about it yet. Hopefully, the contracts will be soon ... List of Upcoming Appearances 0 0 0
.NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! simonc, January 1, 0001 So, although you will be able to use your existing .NET skills to develop Metro apps, it turns out Microsoft are limiting Visual Studio 2011 Express to Metro-only. From the Express website: Visual Studio ... .NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! 0 0 0
How to restore your production database without needing additiona... David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 Production databases can get very large. This in itself is to be expected, but when a copy of the database is needed the database must be restored, requiring additional and costly storage. For example, ... How to restore your production database without needing additiona... 0 0 0
Setting up your project ssoolsma, January 1, 0001 Before any coding we first make sure that the project is setup correctly. (Please note, that this blog is all about how I do it, and incase i forget, i can return here and read how i used to do it. Maybe ... Setting up your project 0 0 0
What is Stackify? Matt Watson, January 1, 0001 You have developers, applications, and servers. Stackify makes sure that they are all working efficiently. Our mission is to give developers the integrated tools they need to better troubleshoot and monitor ... What is Stackify? 0 0 1
Atlanta Code Camp 2012 SURESH GIRIRAJAN, January 1, 0001 It was really exciting weekend at Atlanta code camp 2012. This was my first code camp, I presented on “Windows Kinect for Enterprise”. Walked through couple of demos, how we can integrate Kinect with WPF ... Atlanta Code Camp 2012 0 0 1
AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Our team at AJI Software has been hard at work over the past year on certifications and projects that has allowed us to reach Gold Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. We have focused on providing ... AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 25/May/2012 - Pro Internet Explorer 8 & ... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development"This book is an in-depth guide to writing applications that embrace and extend ... APress Deal of the Day - 25/May/2012 - Pro Internet Explorer 8 & ... 0 0 0
St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 Scott Spradlin, January 1, 0001 The St. Louis .NET User Group is proud to announce that registration for the St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 is now open! The conference will once again be held at the Ameristar in St. Charles, Missouri, on ... St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 0 0 0
Sterling NoSQL Sample Console App Patrice Calve, January 1, 0001 Jeremy Likness built a lightweight, NoSQL , object-oriented database for .Net 4.0 called Sterling. First, wow. Second, links: - CodePlex: http://sterling.codeplex.com/ - WikiPedia: NoSql http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ... Sterling NoSQL Sample Console App 0 0 2
West Palm Beach Dev Group May 2012 Meeting Recap Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Rich Dudley from ComponentOne was our May 2012 speaker at the West Palm Beach Dev Group. Rich shared with us his excellent presentation from VSLive on jQuery and HTML5. This event was a great success and ... West Palm Beach Dev Group May 2012 Meeting Recap 0 0 0
VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Recently I looked into speeding up Visual Studio builds – I found the results interesting… I decided to do a few POC’s to see where the bottleneck is with large solutions in Visual Studio. After some searching ... VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck 0 0 6
Encryption and Decryption in the .NET Framework hmloo, January 1, 0001 What Is Symmetric Encryption? Symmetric encryption uses the same key for both encryption and decryption. Symmetric Algorithm in the .NET Framework What Is Asymmetric Encryption? Asymmetric cryptography ... Encryption and Decryption in the .NET Framework 0 0 0
WANTED: SQL Saturday and Tech Day Speakers on Windows Phone and W... PaulJohnson, January 1, 0001 If you are a Windows Phone enthusiast, or really into the Windows 8 platform that is coming soon, then I ask you to consider sunny Baton Rouge, Louisiana as your vacation spot this coming August 4 for ... WANTED: SQL Saturday and Tech Day Speakers on Windows Phone and W... 0 0 0
Kinect for Windows SDK V1.5 SURESH GIRIRAJAN, January 1, 0001 It’s really exciting news that new SDK V1.5 Kinect for Windows was released on May 21st 2012. There are lot of new features and enhancement made as part of this release. Let me highlight few here and I ... Kinect for Windows SDK V1.5 0 0 1
IdentityMine is hiring in Seattle! Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Are you willing to work for a dynamic firm, on the latest platforms, with super modern and enthusing technologies (XAML, C#, Kinect, VUI, NUI, and much more)? Read the rest of this entry » ... IdentityMine is hiring in Seattle! 0 0 0
Agile Programming Practices 101 with the Nimble Pros Calendars Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 For the last two years, I’ve ordered the Nimble Pros Software Craftsmanship calendars, which use ‘motivational poster’ style pictures to depict various software practices and principles worth keeping in ... Agile Programming Practices 101 with the Nimble Pros Calendars 0 0 0
Copying Files into a TFS Workspace: Which Files Changed? Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server 2010 is a “server-side” version control system. Developers use to Subversion and other “client-side” systems are often frustrated in certain situations where they want to see only ... Copying Files into a TFS Workspace: Which Files Changed? 0 0 0
Windows Embedded for Application Developers Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 If you are an application developer and you’re tempted by “the dark side” (Embedded devices), don’t miss this series of webcasts organized by Arrow and Adeneo Embedded: http://www.arroweurope.com/... ... Windows Embedded for Application Developers 0 0 0
The emergence of Atlassian’s Bamboo (and a free SQL Source ... David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 The rise in demand for database continuous integration has forced me to skill-up in various new tools and technologies, particularly build servers. We have been using JetBrain’s TeamCity here at Red Gate ... The emergence of Atlassian’s Bamboo (and a free SQL Source ... 0 0 0
Fixing the certifications issues for the Windows 8 App Store and ... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 If you used the latest MVVM Light version for Windows 8, you may have noticed that a couple of issues cause your app to fail the Windows App Certification Kit. It is really quite simple: By mistake, I ... Fixing the certifications issues for the Windows 8 App Store and ... 0 0 0
Sweden Windows Azure Group Meeting - Migrating Applications to Wi... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Wednesday, May 23, 6:00 PM, Stockholm Migrating Applications to Windows Azure – Shay Friedman Windows Azure is the next big thing for server-side applications and one of its major use cases is hosting ... Sweden Windows Azure Group Meeting - Migrating Applications to Wi... 0 0 0
Useful .NET Delegate Internals Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Delegates in .NET are a very handy addition to the language. With the introduction of LINQ they did become mainstream and everyone is using them or is at least finding them cool. But what the CLR is really ... Useful .NET Delegate Internals 0 0 3
Get-SPSolution idiosyncrasy PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 I have written a nifty little tool in PowerShell that eases the deployment of SharePoint solutions (WSP) files. The tool serves as a management tool for new features. It uses an XML configuration to select ... Get-SPSolution idiosyncrasy 0 0 1
TFS API Find out who deleted your build? Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I am sure you have been in the situation where you start following a change through the list of builds and suddenly realize a lot of the builds have been deleted by some one! The good news is, when the ... TFS API Find out who deleted your build? 0 0 1