Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2010 -- #861 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Jeff Prosise, DaveDev, Joe Zhou, Chris Eargle, John Papa(-2-, -3-), and David Anson(-2-). Shoutouts: In with the links I've listed below, Sigurd Snørteland also sent a ... Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2010 -- #861 0 0 0
A Visual Studio Release Grows in Brooklyn andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Yesterday, Microsoft held its flagship launch event for Office 2010 in Manhattan. Today, the Redmond software company is holding a local launch event for Visual Studio (VS) 2010, in Brooklyn. How come ... A Visual Studio Release Grows in Brooklyn 0 0 0
AJAX Control Toolkit- ModalPopup conflicts with the current stab... Guilherme Cardoso, January 1, 0001 For those who are using the current stable version of AjaxToolKit (40 412) will face an annoying problem. The ModalPopup cannot be used together with an UpdatePanel and one textbox. This is because during ... AJAX Control Toolkit- ModalPopup conflicts with the current stab... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 -- #859 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this All Submittal Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Ken Johnson, Alan Beasley, Pencho Popadiyn, Phil Middlemiss, Khawar(-2-), Levente Mihály, Alex van Beek, Bart Czernicki, Michael Washington, and Mark Monster. ... Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 -- #859 0 0 0
Do you like Google Gadgets? Check out this gadget for DotNetNuke ... Brian Scarbeau, January 1, 0001 I discovered this cool Google gadget over at STP Systems. The gadget once installed allows you to see information about your DotNetNuke Server directly in your iGoogle account. You can view information ... Do you like Google Gadgets? Check out this gadget for DotNetNuke ... 0 0 0
Assigning a DLL strong name DAXShekhar, January 1, 0001 Hi Guys, few days back I needed to install few DLL assemblies to GAC, since I hardly knew about this topic, so googled on the internet and here is what I learned; There is a utility named ‘gacutil.exe’ ... Assigning a DLL strong name 0 0 1
CoffeeScript Test Framework Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Tonight the Brisbane Alt.NET group is doing a coding dojo. I am hoping to talk someone into pairing with me to solve the kata in CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript is an awesome language, half javascript, half ... CoffeeScript Test Framework 0 0 0
Silverlight for Everyone!! subodhnpushpak, January 1, 0001 Someone asked me to compare Silverlight / HTML development. I realized that the question can be answered in many ways: Below is the high level comparison between a HTML /JavaScript client and Silverlight ... Silverlight for Everyone!! 0 0 0
In the Mobile and Tablet World, How Much is Too Much? andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 The week of April 26th was a huge one in the world of mobile and tablet devices, There were so many individual developments, announcements and solidifications of strategy, it’s almost impossible to believe ... In the Mobile and Tablet World, How Much is Too Much? 0 0 0
Chicago Code Camp Recap Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 My presentation on leveraging Open XML was a great experience and the attendees were very gracious. I was pleasantly surprised to have a full room. There was even one person sitting on the floor. You can ... Chicago Code Camp Recap 0 0 0
Working with Primary Keys and Generators - Quickstart with NHiber... BobPalmer, January 1, 0001 In this NHibernate tutorial, I'll be digging into the ID tag and Generator classes. I had originally planned on finishing up a series on relationships (parent/child, etc.) but felt this would be an interesting ... Working with Primary Keys and Generators - Quickstart with NHiber... 0 0 5
Project Corndog: Viva el caliente perro! Matt Christian, January 1, 0001 During one of my last semesters in college we were required to take a class call Computer Graphics which tried (quite unsuccessfully) to teach us a combination of mathematics, OpenGL, and 3D rendering ... Project Corndog: Viva el caliente perro! 0 0 1
Tellago announces SQL Server 2008 R2 BI quick adoption programs Vishal, January 1, 0001 During the last year, we (Tellago) have been involved in various business intelligence initiatives that leverage some emerging BI techniques such as self-service BI or complex event processing (CEP). Specifically, ... Tellago announces SQL Server 2008 R2 BI quick adoption programs 0 0 0
NHibernate 3.0 and FluentNHibernate, how to get up and running&he... DesigningCode, January 1, 0001 First up. Its actually really easy. I’m not very religious about my DB tech, I don’t really care, I just want something that works. So I’m happy to consider all options if they provide an advantage, and ... NHibernate 3.0 and FluentNHibernate, how to get up and running&he... 0 0 4
Office 2010: It’s not just DOC(X) and XLS(X) andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Office 2010 has released to manufacturing. The bits have left the (product team’s) building. Will you upgrade? This version of Office is officially numbered 14, a designation that correlates with the various ... Office 2010: It’s not just DOC(X) and XLS(X) 0 0 1
LinkedIn Woopsie with the Outlook 2010 Social Media Connector Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: LinkedIn Woopsie with the Outlook 2010 Social Media ConnectorI have always used the LinkedIn toolbar for Outlook to sort out, upload and sync my contacts. Because of this I have over 2000 contacts ... LinkedIn Woopsie with the Outlook 2010 Social Media Connector 0 0 0
Day 5 - Tada! My Game Menu Screen Graphics D., January 1, 0001 So, tonight I took some time to mash up some graphics for my game menu screen. My artistic talent sucks...but here goes nothing...voila, my menu screen!! The Menu Screen The screen above is displaying ... Day 5 - Tada! My Game Menu Screen Graphics 0 0 1
Mocking the Unmockable: Using Microsoft Moles with Gallio Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 Update 29/04/10: In contrary to what I initially stated in this post, Moles is not only available as part of the Pex framework, but also stand-alone on Visual Studio Gallery, and this is completely free ... Mocking the Unmockable: Using Microsoft Moles with Gallio 0 0 10
A note to college students using forums to do research Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 Recently, on a software development forum, a person who shall remain nameless posted the following Hi, Is there good material available on the net/elsewhere for the following topics? 1. Transitioning an ... A note to college students using forums to do research 0 0 0
Day 3 - XNA: Hacking around with images D., January 1, 0001 Yay! Today I'm going to get into some code! My mind has been on this all day! I find it amusing how I practice, daily, to be "in the moment" or "present" and the excitement and anticipation of this project ... Day 3 - XNA: Hacking around with images 0 0 1
Day 2 - Game Design Documentation D., January 1, 0001 So yesterday I didn't cut any code for my game but I was able to do a tiny bit of research on the XNA Game Development Technology and the communities out there and do you know what? I feel I'm a bit closer ... Day 2 - Game Design Documentation 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 -- #845 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Jason Allor, Bill Reiss, Mike Snow, Tim Heuer, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, and Dave Campbell. Shoutouts: You saw it at MIX10 and DevConnections... now you can give it a dance, John Papa announced ... Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 -- #845 0 0 0
Mapping Object Relationships - QuickStart with NHibernate (Part 3... BobPalmer, January 1, 0001 For this third tutorial, we'll be introducing users new to NHibernat to basic object relationships, starting with a simple many-to-one relationship. I decided that it would make sense to at least get the ... Mapping Object Relationships - QuickStart with NHibernate (Part 3... 0 0 4
Using Wordpress as a client to GeeksWithBlogs Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 I am really missing the tools in wordpress, that seem to be absent from GeeksWithBlogs [GWB]. The biggest two are being able to store drafts and being able to set a publish date. I have done a little research ... Using Wordpress as a client to GeeksWithBlogs 0 0 5
10 PowerShell One Liners BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Here are a few one-liners that use NetCmdlets. Some of these I've blogged about before, some are new. Let me know if you have questions, which ones you find useful, or how you altered these to suit your ... 10 PowerShell One Liners 0 0 0
User Already Exists in the Current Database - SQL Server bullpit, January 1, 0001 I was moving a lot of databases from one SQL Server to another, and my applications were giving me errors saying "Login failed for <user>". The user was already in the database with appropriate rights ... User Already Exists in the Current Database - SQL Server 0 0 4
A quick hello to the Western Kentucky .NET User Group Muljadi Budiman, January 1, 0001 A few days back, I got a chance to speak at the Western Kentucky .NET User Group meeting in Murray, Kentucky. The opportunity came up because the original speaker, Jeff Blankenburg, had another obligation ... A quick hello to the Western Kentucky .NET User Group 0 0 0
Easily use google maps, openstreet maps etc offline. samkea, January 1, 0001 I did it and i am going to explain step by step. The explanatination may appear long but its simple if you follow. Note: All the softwares i have used are the latest and i have packaged them and provided ... Easily use google maps, openstreet maps etc offline. 0 0 0
ElectionTracker v1.0 Screen Shots samkea, January 1, 0001 The Election tracker as the name suggests, is a web application that will help in monitoring Election Polls in any particular country in real time so that interested stakeholders in any part of the world ... ElectionTracker v1.0 Screen Shots 0 0 1
ASP.NET MVC Cookbook – public review Andrew Siemer - www.andrewsiemer.com, January 1, 0001 I have recently started writing another book. The topic of this book is ASP.NET MVC. This book differs from my previous book in that rather than working towards building one project from end to end – this ... ASP.NET MVC Cookbook – public review 0 0 5
WinMo’s Demise: Notifying Next of “Kin” andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 This past Monday, April 12th, Visual Studio 2010 was launched. And on that same day, Microsoft also launched a new line of mobile phone handsets, called Kin. The two product launches are actually connected, ... WinMo’s Demise: Notifying Next of “Kin” 0 0 0
Upgrading from MVC 1.0 to MVC2 in Visual Studio 2010 and VS2008. Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 With MVC2 officially released, I was involved in a few conversations regarding the feasibility of upgrading existing MVC 1.0 projects to quickly leverage the newly introduced MVC features. Luckily, Microsoft ... Upgrading from MVC 1.0 to MVC2 in Visual Studio 2010 and VS2008. 0 0 0
Implementing a Repository with NHibernate - Quickstart with NHibe... BobPalmer, January 1, 0001 This is the second in a series of tutorials I am working on to help developers quickly get up to speed with NHibernate. In this tutorial, I'll be focusing on an implementation of a repository pattern. ... Implementing a Repository with NHibernate - Quickstart with NHibe... 0 0 12
Chuck Norris Be Thy Name Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Chuck Norris doesn’t program with a keyboard. He stares the computer down until it does what he wants. All things need a name. We’ve tossed around a bunch of names for the framework of tools we’ve been ... Chuck Norris Be Thy Name 0 0 2
A way of doing real-world test-driven development (and some thoug... Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 Lately, I exchanged some arguments with Derick Bailey about some details of the red-green-refactor cycle of the Test-driven development process. In short, the issue revolved around the fact that it’s not ... A way of doing real-world test-driven development (and some thoug... 0 0 3
The Silverlightning Talks Brian Genisio's House Of Bilz, January 1, 0001 Tomorrow, I will be speaking in Grand Rapids at the Silverlight Firestarter. It is a one day event intended to get people bootstrapped with Silverlight. I will be giving the “Advanced Topics” presentation. ... The Silverlightning Talks 0 0 0
SBUG Session: The Enterprise Cache EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... I did a session on "The Enterprise Cache" at the UK SOA/BPM User Group yesterday which generated some useful discussion. The proposal was for a dedicated ... SBUG Session: The Enterprise Cache 0 0 5
Why can't I get 100% code coverage on a method that calls a const... Martin Watts, January 1, 0001 Today I came across a wierd issue in a Visual Studio 2008 Code Coverage Analysis. Consider the following method: private IController GetController<T>(ICon... context) where T : IController, new() ... Why can't I get 100% code coverage on a method that calls a const... 0 0 3
Becoming A Great Developer Lee Brandt, January 1, 0001 I’ve been doing the whole programming thing for awhile and reading and watching some of the best in the business. I have come to notice that the really great developers do a few things that (I think) makes ... Becoming A Great Developer 0 0 3
MVC Portable Areas Enhancement – Embedded Resource Controll... Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 MvcContrib contains a feature called Portable Areas which I’ve recently blogged about. In short, portable areas provide a way to distribute MVC binary components as simple .NET assemblies where the aspx/ascx ... MVC Portable Areas Enhancement – Embedded Resource Controll... 0 0 15
Change in Job Title and Responsibilities John Conwell, January 1, 0001 I've spent the past 7 years focused primarily on code and database performance. It's an area that I have a passion for, as well as a propensity. But what I've found is that its very hard to change the ... Change in Job Title and Responsibilities 0 0 0
MVC 2 Breaks my Charts? GeekAgilistMercenary, January 1, 0001 I wonder if anyone has had issues with running MSCharts with MVC 2? I have tried a couple of different issues, but still have not got them to render correctly. In the end I always end up with broken image ... MVC 2 Breaks my Charts? 0 0 2
Twin Cities Code Camp 8 Retrospective Lee Brandt, January 1, 0001 I just got back (a few hours ago) from Minneapolis, where I was speaking at the Twin Cities Code Camp 8. I’d never been to a Twin Cities Code Camp, and I have always heard such great things, so I submitted ... Twin Cities Code Camp 8 Retrospective 0 0 0
Why Apple’s New SDK Limitation is So Offensive TStewartDev, January 1, 0001 I am not an Apple fanboy, nor have I ever been. However, I have owned a Mac, an iPod, and an iPhone in my lifetime, and for more than a decade, I have defended Apple against the untruths that the haters ... Why Apple’s New SDK Limitation is So Offensive 0 0 1
Hello NHibernate! Quickstart with NHibernate (Part 1) BobPalmer, January 1, 0001 When I first learned NHibernate, I could best describe the experience as less of a learning curve and more like a learning cliff. A large part of that was the availability of tutorials. In this first of ... Hello NHibernate! Quickstart with NHibernate (Part 1) 0 0 5
Using an alternate search platform in Commerce Server 2009 Lewis Benge, January 1, 0001 Although Microsoft Commerce Server 2009's architecture is built upon Microsoft SQL Server, and has the full power of the SQL Full Text Indexing Search Platform, there are time however when you may require ... Using an alternate search platform in Commerce Server 2009 0 0 0
#altnetseattle – CQRS GeekAgilistMercenary, January 1, 0001 This is a topic I know nothing about, and thus, may be supremely disparate notes. Have fun translating. : ) . . .and coolness that the session is well past capacity. Separates things form the UI and everything ... #altnetseattle – CQRS 0 0 0
ALT.NET Seattle GeekAgilistMercenary, January 1, 0001 Time to rock the ALT.NET scene and head up to the conference this weekend. I must say, out of all the conferences I have been to the ALT.NET Conference is by far one of the best. Great minds, great attitudes, ... ALT.NET Seattle 0 0 0
Phoenix Silverlight UserGroup Meeting Wednesday April 7, 2010 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 The next regularly-scheduled meeting of the Phoenix Silverlight User Group is Wednesday April 7. We meet at Interface Technical Training at roughly Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix beginning with ... Phoenix Silverlight UserGroup Meeting Wednesday April 7, 2010 0 0 0
Weekend With #iPad andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Saturday morning, I got up, got dressed and took a 7-minute walk up to the Apple Store in New York’s Meatpacking District to pick up my reserved iPad. This precinct, which borders Greenwich Village (where ... Weekend With #iPad 0 0 1