Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2010 -- #927 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Brian Noyes, Rudi Grobler, Benjamin Gavin, Walter Ferrari, Shawn Wildermuth, Jeff Wilcox(-2-), David Anson, Jeremy Likness, and Manuel Felício. Shoutout: Cigdem Patlak ... Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2010 -- #927 0 0 0
Calendar syncing Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 I’ve been syncing my calendars for years. If you’re interested in why I am using Google, then read the history section, otherwise skip down to the how to section of this post. History For past six years ... Calendar syncing 0 0 1
Capturing Nature Through Lens Mohammad Azam, January 1, 0001 I think most of the programmers have this disease of keeping them self busy with work and I am no exception. Several months ago I was interested in gardening and spent most of the time growing my vegetables. ... Capturing Nature Through Lens 0 0 2
An alternative repository Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 Since I published the state of my project goals, I got a few questions about my repository implementation, so here goes… The ‘classic’ repository interface looks like this: public interface IRepository<T> ... An alternative repository 0 0 6
Linq error: MSDTC on server 'servername' is unavailable Sglima, January 1, 0001 Occasionally an application that I am working on throws the above error... After trying to fix my code for a bit, and not finding the problem I googled a bit and discovered that this error is caused by ... Linq error: MSDTC on server 'servername' is unavailable 0 0 0
What is Windows Phone 7? dotgeek, January 1, 0001 For me, its the smart phone that really speaks to me. When news about this device came out this past February and they showed off the interface and what was planned, I had a huge smile on my face and said, ... What is Windows Phone 7? 0 0 0
Cloud Platform Vendors Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Cloud services platforms are still in their infancy considering the size of the market, but big players like Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Google have made significant investments for the future in offering ... Cloud Platform Vendors 0 0 10
Cloud Ecosystem Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Understanding Cloud Architecture Fundamentally, cloud architectures are based on creation of large data centers with a management fabric defining clear abstraction between server hardware and operations ... Cloud Ecosystem 0 0 16
La tendencia XaaS: Todo como Servicio Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 En el artículo anterior se definieron los conceptos de la Nube y Cloud Computing, y se repasó rápidamente la evolución de tecnologías que favorecieron el surgimiento de dicho paradigma. En el presente ... La tendencia XaaS: Todo como Servicio 0 0 37
Going asynchronous - AOP made easy with Event-Based Components &n... Ralf Westphal, January 1, 0001 Logging, validation, exception handling: that´s easy aspects to insert into an Event-Based Components design as I´ve shown in my previous post. But what about multi-threading? Or better: parallel and asynchronous ... Going asynchronous - AOP made easy with Event-Based Components &n... 0 0 0
Aspect Oriented Programming made easy with Event-Based Components... Ralf Westphal, January 1, 0001 AOP still is pretty much a pain when living according to “traditional” object orientation. You need fancy tools or you need to do some advanced code slinging. With Event-Based Components, though, introducing ... Aspect Oriented Programming made easy with Event-Based Components... 0 0 3
Searching for a new phone chadmcook, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; ... Searching for a new phone 0 0 0
Geocoding with the Yahoo Geocoding API Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Yahoo provides their Geocoding Web Service to allow you to find specific latitude and longitude for an address; it's also useful for cleaning addresses where you're not sure of the exact zip code, spelling ... Geocoding with the Yahoo Geocoding API 0 0 1
Using Event-Based Components for Library Development Ralf Westphal, January 1, 0001 Can Event-Based Components (EBC) be used to design libraries? Sure they can. FallenGameR asked a question along this line in response to my previous article. Let me demonstrate this with a simple library ... Using Event-Based Components for Library Development 0 0 2
TellagoStudios is lanched today with its first product SO-Aware Vishal, January 1, 0001 And the day is Today. Today Tellago launches its new sister company “Tellago Studios” which focuses on developing Enterprise Software’s. The basic motive of the company is to convert the lessons we learn ... TellagoStudios is lanched today with its first product SO-Aware 0 0 1
The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Imagine we are awhile into the future. How do you get open source releases down to your project so that you can use them? How do you get the products down to your computer so that you can use them? Is ... The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery 0 0 5
Improving the Event-Based Components Desktop Calculator Ralf Westphal, January 1, 0001 In my previous article I designed and implemented a small desktop calculator using Event-Based Components. That was fun and went smoothly – but in the end I was in a hurry and missed a bug and a feature. ... Improving the Event-Based Components Desktop Calculator 0 0 4
Finshed the new project Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 Time for me to evaluate the progress on the original goals of our project. In januari, I started on a new project and set myself/the project a few goals. These goals were explicitly written down in a previous ... Finshed the new project 0 0 1
Event-Based Components – Leaving the beaten path of canonic... Ralf Westphal, January 1, 0001 Since long I´ve been doubting the canonical object oriented way of programming was of much help. I´ve never seen a “true” object oriented software system that also was maintainable. And I´ve never seen ... Event-Based Components – Leaving the beaten path of canonic... 0 0 4
HAPPY PROGRAMMERS!! raysmithequip, January 1, 0001 Welcome to the GEEKSWITHBLOGS/RAYSMITHEQUI... Programming dept. Blog! Welcome to my new blog....I will try to steer my programming blogging here! I will cover the gamut of programming but as you might ... HAPPY PROGRAMMERS!! 0 0 1
Transform ordinary Sitemap into a Wonderful jQuery powered Multi ... Max, January 1, 0001 First of all, sorry for not posting for a quite long time. I have started working on designing and developing a charity website for blood donation. So all my leisure time was diverted into that. I will ... Transform ordinary Sitemap into a Wonderful jQuery powered Multi ... 0 0 0
How To – UppercuT and Gems Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 In a previous post I mentioned how I was going to show you how UppercuT (UC) has the ability to make gems stupid simple to create and publish. You ask if gems can get any easier and to that I answer, “Why ... How To – UppercuT and Gems 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7, and the Court of Pundit Opinion andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 On Thursday, a scathingly bad review of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) was published by InfoWorld. I had considered writing a post to refute some of its points, but Paul Thurrott did just that, and did it masterfully. ... Windows Phone 7, and the Court of Pundit Opinion 0 0 1
dotCover - a new kid on the (development) block Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 These days, JetBrains (the manufacturer of ReSharper (R#)) released the beta version of a new code coverage tool – dotCover. Because I’m a big fan of the R# add-in, I was particularly curious about having ... dotCover - a new kid on the (development) block 0 0 5
How To - Gems And .NET Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 In my last post I showed gems being used for .NET. Now let’s talk about How. Most of this stuff I’ve learned over the past two days, so if I have a mistake here or you have a better idea, please don’t ... How To - Gems And .NET 0 0 0
Gems - Package Management For .NET Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 The Ruby community has enjoyed a great user experience with a package management system they use called Gems. A gem is a package (or a library), compressed with some additional metadata, and can be either ... Gems - Package Management For .NET 0 0 3
JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 An article was published at JupiterJS.com (titled “JavaScript vs Silverlight”) arguing that JavaScript is better than Silverlight. Unfortunately, there is no way to post comments on that page (weird, really) ... JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer 0 0 0
Verwenden von partiellen Klassen für COM-Belange Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Motivation Schon im Whitepaper „Auszeichnung von COM-Kategorien an .NET-Klassen mittels Attributen und deren Verwendung für Setup-Builds“ [1] habe ich deutlich gemacht warum das Verwenden von COM-Registrierungsfunktionen ... Verwenden von partiellen Klassen für COM-Belange 0 0 0
WebMatrix, Razor and a Return to Simplicity andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 This week, Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft’s Developer Division, announced, via blog post, the early Beta release of a new tool called WebMatrix. WebMatrix is a free developer tool ... WebMatrix, Razor and a Return to Simplicity 0 0 7
JQuery Tab: Retain Selected Tab Across Postbacks in ASP.NET Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Few months ago I've been seeing many users in the forums asking how to retain the selected tab in JQuery Tab across postbacks, so I've decided to write this post as reference to others who might encounter ... JQuery Tab: Retain Selected Tab Across Postbacks in ASP.NET 0 0 17
ASP.NET Session Keep Alive PhubarBaz, January 1, 0001 I was recently tasked with coming up with a way to keep the session alive in ASP.NET as long as the user had the web page open. That way if they started filling out a form, then went to lunch and came ... ASP.NET Session Keep Alive 0 0 0
How to disappear on the net iamjames, January 1, 0001 Remember when the internet was like the wild west, you could do and say anything you wanted and no one could track you or stop you? It's not like that anymore and it's getting worse: seems every week there's ... How to disappear on the net 0 0 2
How to change default browser in Silverlight applications Mamta, January 1, 0001 You don’t have to be stuck with the default browser for testing/running your Silverlight applications. If say, you wanted to change it from Internet Explorer to Google Chrome, you can do it. Within Visual ... How to change default browser in Silverlight applications 0 0 1
Design Time Formatting of RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 Mamta, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; ... Design Time Formatting of RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 0 0 0
Silverlight FAQs Mamta, January 1, 0001 Some commonly asked questions about Silverlight. These aren't deep, but are often asked by beginners. What is Silverlight? Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform software framework to create Rich ... Silverlight FAQs 0 0 0
Dots.do.not.matter@gmail.com Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 I wish I had known about this before I went to TechEd two years ago - I'm still getting email from vendors who scanned my badge there… Gmail ignores periods in user names and doesn't care about capitalization. ... Dots.do.not.matter@gmail.com 0 0 2
Thursday "Virtual Brown Bag" Meetings Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 One of the best ways for developers to learn from each other is "brown bag meetings", where they bring their lunch to a conference room and share tips & tricks. That's something I've always wanted ... Thursday "Virtual Brown Bag" Meetings 0 0 0
Chrome vs. <asp:Menu> Simon Moon, January 1, 0001 Microsoft disgusts me. Out-of-the-box Asp.NET assumes that Google Chrome and Apple Safari are not "modern" browsers. In order to make use of some of the Asp.NET web controls with those browsers, you need ... Chrome vs. <asp:Menu> 0 0 2
Teaching Principles, Patterns and Practices in .net Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 I recently got the opportunity to teach a 3 day course on the subject of "Principles, Patterns and Practices in .net". I must say it was a fun and enriching experience. I have never taught a course before, ... Teaching Principles, Patterns and Practices in .net 0 0 2
GWB | If we held a Game Design Contest, would you build one? Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 It has been 4 years since we ran our original Geekswithblogs.net Game Development Contest! Wow does time go by fast. George Clingerman wrote a game called Bob the Fish that shocked the world (well our ... GWB | If we held a Game Design Contest, would you build one? 0 0 6
OO Refresher Course Codekiwi, January 1, 0001 My current contract is drawing to a close so I once again find myself in the unenvieable position of looking around for my next challenge (I hate interviewing). One of the positions I applied for was with ... OO Refresher Course 0 0 0
CodeStock 2010 Dane Morgridge, January 1, 0001 I attended my first CodeStock this year and in short it was awesome. Like 100 billion hot dogs awesome. The travel there was crazy to say the least, but I met lots of new people, had a session go well ... CodeStock 2010 0 0 0
Happy 10th Birthday, CODE magazine Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: CodeCast,CODE magazine I really enjoyed listening to the June 18th episode of the "CodeCast" podcast: http://www.code-magazine.co... ... Happy 10th Birthday, CODE magazine 0 0 0
Application Verifier – First Steps Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Microsoft publishes way too many tools to check all of them out. One pretty cool debugging tool is Application Verifier which you can download here. The official docs mention that it is only meant for ... Application Verifier – First Steps 0 0 2
Testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Technology&rs... andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 June 21st, 2010 The Importance of Open Government Data To all those present, good afternoon. My name is Andrew Brust. I help run a consulting firm, twentysix New York, here in Manhattan. I am also a technology ... Testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Technology&rs... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2010 -- #889 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Mark Monster, Brian Noyes, Michael Klucher, i-programmer, and Mike Snow. From SilverlightCream.com: Capture usage information of a Windows Phone 7 application using Google Analytics Google ... Silverlight Cream for June 24, 2010 -- #889 0 0 0
.NET Configuration Service Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 My rule of thumb for storing configuration settings is: if it does not need to change hard code it if it needs to change but the user of the application can’t change it, store it in the configuration file ... .NET Configuration Service 0 0 1
SeaTest - C Unit Testing Framework DesigningCode, January 1, 0001 Today I released an open source project for doing xUnit style unit testing. Recently I got roped into doing some embedded C code for a project and I wanted to TDD it. On investigating my unit testing framework ... SeaTest - C Unit Testing Framework 0 0 9
Kansas City Developers Conference (KCDC) Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I attended KCDC in Kansas City. It was a great time and I had the opportunity to spend time with people much smarter than me. Even with all of the people I already know, I met quite a few new ... Kansas City Developers Conference (KCDC) 0 0 0
Kansas City Developer Conference Recap Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: .NET,Kansas City Thanks to the KC development community for a great free event. The Johnson County Community College provided very nice facilities. I’m the sort of guy who would willingly ... Kansas City Developer Conference Recap 0 0 0