Windows Dev News for December 12, 2011 - #0010 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews Windows Dev News for December 12, 2011 - #0010 0 0 0
TFS 2011 API–How to Get Exploratory Testing And Feedback Ma... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 In this blog post I’ll show you how to use the TFS 2011 API to get the Exploratory Testing & Feedback Manager session information programmatically. Introduction TFS 2011 includes Exploratory Testing ... TFS 2011 API–How to Get Exploratory Testing And Feedback Ma... 0 0 0
Dallas event: State of .NET Fall 2011 Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Don’t miss out on these great session with Markus Egger in the Dallas office! Where: Microsoft Dallas Office – 7000 SR-161 (George Bush Turnpike), Dallas, TX 75039 When: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 – 1:30 ... Dallas event: State of .NET Fall 2011 0 0 0
RIP DryadLinq, or long live LINQ-to-Hadoop? John Conwell, January 1, 0001 About a month ago'ish I read some very sad news. Microsoft announced that they were killing off the DryadLinq (or LINQ-to-HPC) project in favor of Hadoop. I was one of the first users of DryadLinq outside ... RIP DryadLinq, or long live LINQ-to-Hadoop? 0 0 1
Remove full path of PDB file from C# dll or exe. (/pdbaltpath in ... Vaibhav Gaikwad, January 1, 0001 I came across a challenge last week, wherein I was asked to remove the path information from the dll files which were build inside my project. For those who don’t have an idea about what I am talking about, ... Remove full path of PDB file from C# dll or exe. (/pdbaltpath in ... 0 0 4
The value of a Diagnostics service Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 For an integration solution with lots of dependencies, it's difficult to definitively state that everything is wired up correctly and that all components in the stack are working. A while ago, Michael ... The value of a Diagnostics service 0 0 2
Lync 2010 for mobiles Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Lync mobile client is now available for Windows Phone Microsoft Lync lands in the Windows Phone Marketplacehttp://www.neowi... Lync Mobile Feature ... Lync 2010 for mobiles 0 0 1
Windows Dev News for December 11, 2011 - #0009 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews Windows Dev News for December 11, 2011 - #0009 0 0 0
Wrong SGen For x64 Targets Used Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 This is another x64 issue where I was really surprised that it does exist. When you compile in VS2010/MsBuild a managed target for which the corresponding serialization assembly is generated you will find ... Wrong SGen For x64 Targets Used 0 0 1
Customizing TFS 2011 Process Template for Exploratory Testing Tou... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 In this blog post I’ll be walking you through the process of customizing the TFS 2011 Scrum 2.0 Process Template to add a new work item type, introducing new work item queries, modifying existing queries, ... Customizing TFS 2011 Process Template for Exploratory Testing Tou... 0 0 1
MVVM Light for Silverlight 5 is on Codeplex #mvvmlight Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Here we go! After the Microsoft team released version 5 of Silverlight yesterday, MVVM Light is available for this version of the framework too. I did not create the installer yet (that will take a few ... MVVM Light for Silverlight 5 is on Codeplex #mvvmlight 0 0 0
Microsoft == x86 && Sometimes !x64 Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Whenever I do use Visual Studio and try to compile something under 64 bit I run into problems. It seems that most MS Devs for Visual Studio and the relevant tool chain are still mainly writing 32 bit applications. ... Microsoft == x86 && Sometimes !x64 0 0 0
Silverlight 5 is released! Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Microsoft just released the version 5 of Silverlight! It’s a great news and I really want to congratulate the whole team on this impressive collective effort. The official announcement is on the Silverlight ... Silverlight 5 is released! 0 0 0
Chicago Windows Phone Accelerator Lab Recap Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 This week I spent three day with close to 30 of my new best friends doing lots of Windows Phone coding and helping each other with our application. The sessions were lead by Jeff Blankenburg and Dave Bost ... Chicago Windows Phone Accelerator Lab Recap 0 0 0
Fix for NDbUnit - DbCommandBuilder.CreateSelectCommand(DataSet, s... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I have recently been using NDbUnit for integration tests exercising the database. I am new to the tool, so the following exception caused a few hours of scratching my head before I figured out the obvious. ... Fix for NDbUnit - DbCommandBuilder.CreateSelectCommand(DataSet, s... 0 0 2
BizTalk Server 2010 R2 Announced Charles Young, January 1, 0001 Yesterday, Microsoft announced the forthcoming release of BizTalk Server 2010 R2 on the BizTalk Server blog site. This is advanced notice, given that this new version will ship six months after the release ... BizTalk Server 2010 R2 Announced 0 0 0
Windows Dev News for December 08, 2011 - #0008 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews Windows Dev News for December 08, 2011 - #0008 0 0 0
The Road To LINQ-dom Part 2–Delegates Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 In my previous post we started a discussion about concepts that are critical to really understanding LINQ. The next couple of posts will build on the same theme by introducing three very closely related ... The Road To LINQ-dom Part 2–Delegates 0 0 2
SilverlightShow Top 5 for November 28 - December 4, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 The top 5 list for last week at SilverlightShow is up at WindowsDevNews SilverlightShow Top 5 for November 28 - December 4, 2011 0 0 0
Tutorial - How to Send Email in ASP.NET 2.0 ChrisD, January 1, 0001 Today tutorial, I will show you how to send email in ASP.NET 2.0. If you use ASP.NET 4 to send email, here is the tutorial that discuss sending email from ASP.NET 4 – C# Sample .The steps required to send ... Tutorial - How to Send Email in ASP.NET 2.0 0 0 0
Daytona - Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Daytona - Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure Overview MapReduce is a framework for processing highly distributable problems across huge datasets using a large number of compute nodes. It is a generic ... Daytona - Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure 0 0 2
How I increased my typing speed - now does this make me a better... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I am not the fastest typist… I know it. Up till about a year ago I was a two finger typist and my two fingers could fly over the keyboard doing all sorts of acrobatics getting me up to a whopping 30 odd ... How I increased my typing speed - now does this make me a better... 0 0 2
Microsoft OpenDoor Event–Nairobi Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 This was a very interesting event, I had never spoken in an event with so many developers in one place. It was cool! I had two talks, one on HTML5 and IE9 where I demonstrated the HTML5 and CSS3 coverage ... Microsoft OpenDoor Event–Nairobi 0 0 0
TFS Build Deep Dive at PrDC Calgary Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 PrairieDevCon is a great conference hosted in Canada a few times a year. For the first time it’s coming to Calgary in March and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve participated as a speaker in every PrDC ... TFS Build Deep Dive at PrDC Calgary 0 0 0
Anyone catch the Sept 2011 WA Service Bus flick? Daemon, January 1, 0001 Build 2011 announced the September release of the Windows Azure Service Bus. For those of you who have just tuned in, the WA Service Bus is part of the AppFabric middleware that enables almost seamless ... Anyone catch the Sept 2011 WA Service Bus flick? 0 0 0
Windows Dev News for December 06, 2011 - #0007 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews Windows Dev News for December 06, 2011 - #0007 0 0 0
Viewing the User Token from Visual Studio 2010 Debugger Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 When you’re debugging security related things, sometimes you need to take a look at the thread identities user token. When you’re inside of Visual Studio 2010 – in the watch windows you enter ‘$user’ and ... Viewing the User Token from Visual Studio 2010 Debugger 0 0 0
KB2644137: Windows Network Load Balancing does not work in an Exc... marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 MS knowledge base article which is of interest: Consider the following scenario: You have multiple servers that are running Microsoft Exchange Server. The servers that are running Exchange Server are hosted ... KB2644137: Windows Network Load Balancing does not work in an Exc... 0 0 0
Microsoft Philippines Event - Windows Azure Cloud Camp Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 The Microsoft team will be conducting an event in Cebu regarding Windows Azure this coming December 8, 2011 at 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. So if you are new to Azure and want to learn this new exciting developer ... Microsoft Philippines Event - Windows Azure Cloud Camp 0 0 0
Windows Dev News for December 05, 2011 - #0006 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews Windows Dev News for December 05, 2011 - #0006 0 0 0
The Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Overview Windows HPC Server 2008 is infrastructure for high-end applications that require high performance computing clusters – i.e. for scaling out parallelizable across many compute nodes in a grid. ... The Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK 0 0 1
Exchange 2010 SP2! marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 Has been released! Get your copy right here! And make sure to get it while it is hot ! There has been some long awaited (at least by me ) features included in it and you can read more on that here. And ... Exchange 2010 SP2! 0 0 0
Simple Linq PIVOT to one row Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 My friend in Zimbabwe sent me an email a day ago with the following contents suppose i have a table called week_days with only 3 fields i.e. SEQUENCE DAY SALES as follows: SEQUENCE DAY SALES 1 Sun 23 2 ... Simple Linq PIVOT to one row 0 0 0
Installing of SDKs, Visual Studio and additional toolsets on buil... Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Last week I get the information directly from Microsoft, that at build machines SDKs must be installed to guarantee that MSBuild works well in some circumstances. We have the problem, that a self-containing ... Installing of SDKs, Visual Studio and additional toolsets on buil... 0 0 0
50% off on DataObjects.NET Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 I have been closely following the updates on http://x-tensive.com/ and been impressed with the new features that keep getting added into DataObjects.NET. A few days ago, I saw the 50% sale blog post here ... 50% off on DataObjects.NET 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 5/Dec/2011 - Beginning WF Windows Workfl... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0."Indexed by feature so you can find answers easily and written in an accessible ... APress Deal of the Day - 5/Dec/2011 - Beginning WF Windows Workfl... 0 0 0
Windows Dev News for December 04, 2011 - #0005 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews Windows Dev News for December 04, 2011 - #0005 0 0 0
Deploy Visual Studio LightSwitch on a Shared Server ChrisD, January 1, 0001 Here is the official documentation on how to publish a LightSwitch application – How to: Deploy a LightSwitch Application. For this example, I’m going to show how to deploy a simple application that does ... Deploy Visual Studio LightSwitch on a Shared Server 0 0 0
SilverlightShow for November 21 - 27, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Sorry the link was broken earlier:The top 5 list for last week at SilverlightShow is (finally) up at WindowsDevNews ... SilverlightShow for November 21 - 27, 2011 0 0 0
Using CTT to modify config files for different environments Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We previously tried to use msbuild to adjust configuration files for different environments. Recently I found C onfig Transformation Tool(CTT) on CodePlex and with addition of global replace using powershell ... Using CTT to modify config files for different environments 0 0 0
Unit Testing a ConcurrentPriorityQueue JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 I’m leveraging a ConcurrentPriorityQueue – from http://code.msdn.microsoft.... This class basically is a thread safe IProducerConsumerCollection wrapper for a binary heap that prioritizes ... Unit Testing a ConcurrentPriorityQueue 0 0 1
C++ AMP JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Overview C++ AMP is a GPGPU API – it allows you to define functions (kernels) that take some input, perform an expensive calculation on the GPU and return the output to CPU. GPU supports fast calculative ... C++ AMP 0 0 2
Windows Dev News for December 03, 2011 - #0004 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 My latest post is up... check it out at WindowsDevNews Windows Dev News for December 03, 2011 - #0004 0 0 0
Part 3–Load Testing In the Cloud Automating Test Rig Deploy... 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 Is this blog post worth your ... Part 3–Load Testing In the Cloud Automating Test Rig Deploy... 0 0 5
Simple Producer Consumer With Tasks And .NET 4 Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Threading was never so easy since .NET 4 with the TPL has been released. I know I am a bit late but there are so many nice things which might still be new to many of us. The IEnumerable interface has become ... Simple Producer Consumer With Tasks And .NET 4 0 0 4
2011 Year In Review Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 2011 has been an amazing year in which I ended up working on an exciting number of projects. SharePoint has continued to be the hottest requested technology that I deal with. At the same time Windows Phone ... 2011 Year In Review 0 0 0
Windows Azure Development Resources Kevin Grossnicklaus, January 1, 0001 On November 28th, 2011 I had the opportunity to give a presentation at the St. Louis .NET User Group on my experiences developing software for the Windows Azure and SQL Azure platform. Having been at PDC ... Windows Azure Development Resources 0 0 0
Code Clone Analysis on Rawr – Part 2 Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 In the 2nd Code Clone result it’s pointing out a block of code that is duplicated across 5 different screens. TLDR: Refactored the code out to a abstract ViewModel base class. Also identified a bunch of ... Code Clone Analysis on Rawr – Part 2 0 0 0
Been diagnosed with Acute Windows Azure Diagnostics Understanding... Daemon, January 1, 0001 I have had a total of 2 years, 3 months, 2 hours of Windows Azure developer experience and it humiliates me to suicidal extents to confess that I am hardly conversant with the platform’s native Diagnostics ... Been diagnosed with Acute Windows Azure Diagnostics Understanding... 0 0 0
WPF Asynchronous Wait Cursor using Task Parralel Library Jacob L. Adams, January 1, 0001 While working on a WPF application, I had a need to show the wait cursor while performing a long running operation. You would expect the code to look as follows: System.Windows.Input.Cursor previousCursor ... WPF Asynchronous Wait Cursor using Task Parralel Library 0 0 4