Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2010 -- #837 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Joe McBride, Kirupa, Maurice de Beijer, Brad Abrams, Phil Middlemiss, and CorrinaB. Shoutout: Charlie Kindel has a post up about the incompatibility between VS2010RTM ... Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2010 -- #837 0 0 1
Upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM done Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM doneToday is the big day, with the Launch of Visual Studio 2010 already done in Asia, and rolling around the world towards us, we are getting ready ... Upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM done 0 0 9
Great event : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch @ Microsoft Tec... sathya, January 1, 0001 Great event : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch @ Microsoft TechEd Blore I was really excited on attending the day 1 of Microsoft TechEd 2010 in Bangalore. This is the first Teched that am attending. ... Great event : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch @ Microsoft Tec... 0 0 0
Applications: Colliding Marbles in C Sharp TechTwaddle, January 1, 0001 If you follow this blog, you know how much I love marbles. I was staying up for Microsoft's It's Time To Share event and I thought I'll write up a C# version of Colliding Marbles. It's a pretty straight ... Applications: Colliding Marbles in C Sharp 0 0 1
Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Upgrading Visual Studio 2010I have been running Visual Studio 2010 as my main development studio on my development computer since the RC was released. I need to upgrade that to the RTM, but ... Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
Imaginet Resources acquires Notion Solutions Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Huge news for my company and me especially. http://www.imaginets.com/ne... With the acquisition we become a very significant player in the Microsoft ALM space. This ... Imaginet Resources acquires Notion Solutions 0 0 0
#iPad at One Week: A Great Device Made with a Heavy Hand andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 I have now had my iPad for a little over a week. In that time, Apple introduced the world to its iPhone OS 4 (and the SDK agreement’s draconian new section 3.3.1), HP introduced is Slate, and Microsoft ... #iPad at One Week: A Great Device Made with a Heavy Hand 0 0 1
VS 2010 ALM Whitepapers – link from Neno Loje johndoucette, January 1, 0001 Overview of Visual Studio ALM Whitepapers by Microsoft Overview Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance Installation, Configuration & Administration Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual ... VS 2010 ALM Whitepapers – link from Neno Loje 0 0 0
Using the “Settings.settings” functionalities in VB.NET can be tr... Vincent Grondin, January 1, 0001 Sometime you’re searching for something forever and when you find it, you realize it was right under your nose. Maybe you were distracted by other things around… or maybe that thing right under your nose ... Using the “Settings.settings” functionalities in VB.NET can be tr... 0 0 2
Windows CE: SDK Doesn’t Show up in Visual Studio 2008 Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 A customer recently contacted me because after installing an SDK it didn’t show up in Visual Studio 2008. So being a good vendor I installed VS2008 and then installed the SDK – no problem the SDK showed ... Windows CE: SDK Doesn’t Show up in Visual Studio 2008 0 0 11
Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListIte... Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 One of the things that might be surprising in the LINQ Distinct standard query operator is that it doesn’t automatically work properly on custom classes. There are reasons for this, which I’ll explain ... Using LINQ Distinct: With an Example on ASP.NET MVC SelectListIte... 0 0 4
Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2010 -- #832 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Alex van Beek, Gill Cleeren, SilverlightShow, Michael Sync, Rénald Nollet, Charles Petzold, The-Oliver, and Max Paulousky. Shoutouts: Denislav Savkov of SilverlightShow ported his Slider ... Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2010 -- #832 0 0 0
.NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip Blog Author, January 1, 0001 The .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip sold out in under 3 hours. If you read my blog, you got a one day head start over everyone else. If you have not registered yet we are taking names for a wait ... .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip 0 0 0
Registration for Los Angeles stop now open Blog Author, January 1, 0001 We are now taking registrations for the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Roadshow. Here is the link: http://www.eventbrite.com/e... ... Registration for Los Angeles stop now open 0 0 0
MVC Portable Areas – Web Application Projects Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 This is the first post in a series related to build and deployment considerations as I’ve been exploring MVC Portable Areas: #1 – Using Web Application Project to build portable areas #2 – Conventions ... MVC Portable Areas – Web Application Projects 0 0 2
MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 He he I start to sound like Microsoft… Anyway… I just released a service pack (SP1) for MVVM Light Toolkit V3. Why? Well mostly because I worked a bit more with the Windows Phone 7 tools that were released ... MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2010 -- #828 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Robert Kozak, Kathleen Dollard, Avi Pilosof, Nokola, Jeff Wilcox, David Anson, Timmy Kokke, Tim Greenfield, and Josh Smith. Shoutout: SmartyP has additional info up on his ... Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2010 -- #828 0 0 0
Found a good tool for jQuery Coding – jQueryPad Shaun, January 1, 0001 Just found a good (looks like) tool for jQuery coding and debugging from the appinn.com (Chinese) named jQueryPad by Paul Stovell. With it we don’t need to switch between the visual studio and the browser ... Found a good tool for jQuery Coding – jQueryPad 0 0 0
.NET Rocks VS2010 Road Trip Blog Author, January 1, 0001 .NET Rocks!! is going on the road again in honor of the release of VS2010, and here are the details: Carl and Richard are loading up the DotNetMobile (a 30 foot RV) and driving to your town again to show ... .NET Rocks VS2010 Road Trip 0 0 1
Loading symbols in Visual Studio 2008 Slow Scott Wojan, January 1, 0001 I was fighting with this issue today... Visual Studio was taking FOREVER to load the symbol files (.pdb) in order to start debugging. It seems if you clear all of your break points, the issue is corrected. ... Loading symbols in Visual Studio 2008 Slow 0 0 7
Performance Testing – Quick Reference Guide – Release... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Why performance test at all right? Well, physics still plays a role in what we do. Why not take a better look at your application – need help, well, the Rangers team just released the following to help: ... Performance Testing – Quick Reference Guide – Release... 0 0 0
I’m IN! Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Got an email this morning.(yes I checked and it wasn’t an April Fools joke) congratulating me on becoming a Microsoft MVP. I’ve been working with and among MVP’s for quite a while and quite frankly felt ... I’m IN! 0 0 1
Microsoft Events Come Back to Fort Collins Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 It’s been a while since Microsoft MSDN and TechNet events have been in Fort Collins. I’m very pleased to be able to pass on Microsoft’s announcement that on April 21st, these events will be held at the ... Microsoft Events Come Back to Fort Collins 0 0 0
BizTalk 2009 - Architecture Decisions Stuart Brierley, January 1, 0001 In the first step towards implementing a BizTalk 2009 environment, from development through to live, I put forward a proposal that detailed the options available, as well as the costs and benefits associated ... BizTalk 2009 - Architecture Decisions 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 RC installed BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Today took the plunge and installed visual studio 2010 RC. Working through the various samples and ‘walk thro’s’ All looking rather good. Visual Studio 2010 RC installed 0 0 2
Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason ZanderMicrosoft are hosting a launch event for Visual Studio 2010 on Friday 16th April in Edinburgh. The have managed to convince one of the ... Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander 0 0 0
Windows CE Chat Transcript (March 30, 2010) Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 For those of you who missed the chat today, here is the raw transcript. By raw, I mean that I copied and pasted the discussion without any edits. This is divided into two parts, the top part is the answers ... Windows CE Chat Transcript (March 30, 2010) 0 0 0
Multiple Monitors mroberts, January 1, 0001 At my workplace .Net developers get pretty much the same equipment. A decent Dell workstation / Desktop, mine is a Dell Precision 390. One dual core 2.40 GHz. Eight GB RAM. Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. ... Multiple Monitors 0 0 5
Sqlite & Entity Framework 4 Dane Morgridge, January 1, 0001 I have been working on a few client app projects in my spare time that need to persist small amounts of data and have been looking for an easy to use embedded database. I really like db4o but I'm not wanting ... Sqlite & Entity Framework 4 0 0 1
Scott Guthrie in Glasgow Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Scott Guthrie in GlasgowLast week Scott Guthrie was in Glasgow for his new Guathon tour, which was a roaring success. Scott did talks on the new features in Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, ... Scott Guthrie in Glasgow 0 0 0
It's intellisense for SQL Server Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 It's intellisense for SQL Server Anyone who has ever worked with me heard me speak, or read any of writings knows that I am a HUGE fan of Reflector. By extension, I am a big fan of Red - Gate I have recently ... It's intellisense for SQL Server 0 0 0
Goodbye XML… Hello YAML (part 2) Brian Genisio's House Of Bilz, January 1, 0001 Part 1 After I explained my motivation for using YAML instead of XML for my data, I got a lot of people asking me what type of tooling is available in the .Net space for consuming YAML. In this post, I ... Goodbye XML… Hello YAML (part 2) 0 0 0
BizTalk Server 2009 R2 = BizTalk Server 2010 Rajesh Charagandla, January 1, 0001 Microsoft has renamed BizTalk Server 2009 R2 as BizTalk Server 2010, and is now telling customers that the evolution of the product recommends it as a major version versus a minor update. BizTalk Server ... BizTalk Server 2009 R2 = BizTalk Server 2010 0 0 0
Adding Custom Pipeline code to the Pipeline Component Toolbox Geordie, January 1, 0001 Add ... "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\GacUtil.exe" /nologo /i "$(TargetPath)" /f xcopy "$(TargetPath)" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\Pipeline Components" /d ... Adding Custom Pipeline code to the Pipeline Component Toolbox 0 0 1
5 Steps to getting started with IronRuby Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 IronRuby is a Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET, heavily relying on Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime. The project's #1 goal is to be a true Ruby implementation, meaning ... 5 Steps to getting started with IronRuby 0 0 0
Frederick .NET User Group April 2010 Meeting John Blumenauer, January 1, 0001 FredNUG is pleased to announce that we have an excellent speaker lined up for April. On April 20th, we’ll start with pizza and social networking at 6:30 PM. Then, starting at 7 PM, Dane Morgridge will ... Frederick .NET User Group April 2010 Meeting 0 0 0
Uganda .NET Usergroup meeting (February 2010) Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 We had a very interesting .NET meeting in which i gave a short presentation on the new features of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. The main presentation came from Jake Markhus @jmarkhus who talked about ... Uganda .NET Usergroup meeting (February 2010) 0 0 3
Twitter API Voting System Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So I blatantly got this idea from the MIX 10 event. At MIX they held a rockband talent competition type thing (I’m not quite sure of all the details). But the interesting part for me is how they collected ... Twitter API Voting System 0 0 0
CoolCommands for Visual Studio 2010 ChrisD, January 1, 0001 Gaston Milano has just informed me that he has a new version of CoolCommands for Visual Studio 2010. In addition to all the existing commands, the new release, now called CoolX, supports Context Explorer ... CoolCommands for Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
Running Windows Phone Developers Tools CTP under VMWare Player - ... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 This blog is the result of a fellow twitter, @CraigHawker, mentioning that he was not allowed to run CTP tools on his development workstation at work. I decided to perform a quick investigation of running ... Running Windows Phone Developers Tools CTP under VMWare Player - ... 0 0 1
FREE Windows Azure evening in London on April 15th including FREE... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Did I overdo the use of FREE in the title? :-)] April 12th to 16th is Microsoft Tech Days – 5 days of sessions on Visual Studio 2010 through to Windows Phone 7 Series. Many of these days are now full ... FREE Windows Azure evening in London on April 15th including FREE... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2010 -- #818 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Jeremy Likness, Mark Tucker, Christian Schormann, Page Brooks, Brad Abrams(-2-), Jeff Wilcox, Unnir, Bea Stollnitz, John Papa and Adam Kinney, and Bill Reiss(-2-). Shoutouts: ... Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2010 -- #818 0 0 0
Tom Brokaw -- C# or VB.NET? , January 1, 0001 Not sure why this hasn’t been covered yet on the blogosphere, but yesterday at Microsoft 2008 Launch Event, Tom Brokaw gave a ~15 minute monologue about technology to introduce Steve Ballmer , the plight ... Tom Brokaw -- C# or VB.NET? 0 0 1
SharePoint Customization: Using WSS List Templates in SPS Areas svanvliet, January 1, 0001 Update 2010-03-23 – Sorry, but the images and downloads were hosted on a server that is no longer available. I will try to find the sample code bits and images on a backup sometime! Lists created in WSS ... SharePoint Customization: Using WSS List Templates in SPS Areas 0 0 4
Microsoft TechEd 2005 Recap , January 1, 0001 It seems that the server on which this blog is hosted was experiencing problems over the weekend, so I’m sorry that my recap was not posted sooner. Ending the week with a fun night at Universal Orlando ... Microsoft TechEd 2005 Recap 0 0 1
Day Two: Microsoft TechEd 2005 , January 1, 0001 After burning the midnight oil until something past 4:00 AM to get our demo working, I missed the keynote. However, a flash of emails from others at the keynote informed me that the next "wave" or products ... Day Two: Microsoft TechEd 2005 0 0 0
Reporting Services Wierdness , January 1, 0001 So, I recently installed Windows SharePoint Services on my laptop (running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition) and found that my Reporting Services installation was hosed. So, I searched on the internet ... Reporting Services Wierdness 0 0 2
Search Engine Safe Urls in ASP.NET svanvliet, January 1, 0001 Update 2010-03-23 – Sorry, but the images and downloads were hosted on a server that is no longer available. I will try to find the sample code bits and images on a backup sometime! I first came across ... Search Engine Safe Urls in ASP.NET 0 0 16
Microsoft Certification Exam - I Passed! , January 1, 0001 I took the Microsoft Certification Exam 70-315 (Developing and Implementing Web Applications with C# and Visual Studio .NET) and passed with a score of 856/1000. The test was pretty straight forward, but ... Microsoft Certification Exam - I Passed! 0 0 1
Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machi... John Alexander, January 1, 0001 From a message from Brian Keller: “Back in December we posted a set of virtual machines pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, and 7 hands-on-labs. ... Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machi... 0 0 22