Working with documents and SharePoint - Best practices KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Follow these simple guidelines to make collaboration using SharePoint easier:1. File Name:While it is allowed to use spaces in your filename (and maybe it seems even logical to do so), don’t use them if ... Working with documents and SharePoint - Best practices 0 0 2
What is testable code? Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We are improving quality of code and trying to develop more unit tests. The question that developers asked was "How to make code testable ?" From http://openmymind.net/2010/... ... What is testable code? 0 0 0
Why do I post details of book offers? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Recently I received a challenging email about posting details of book offers, so to put the record straight, here are a few notes:I post details of worthwhile offers to help the community. These are for ... Why do I post details of book offers? 0 0 0
Localization in ASP.NET MVC – Upgraded Shaun, January 1, 0001 This is the upgraded version of one of my previous post named “Localization in ASP.NET MVC – 3 Days Investigation, 1 Day Job”. I updated my solution to the latest ASP.NET MVC 4, Visual Studio 2012 with ... Localization in ASP.NET MVC – Upgraded 0 0 32
Working with Timelines with LINQ to Twitter Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 When first working with the Twitter API, I thought that using SinceID would be an effective way to page through timelines. In practice it doesn’t work well for various reasons. To explain why, Twitter ... Working with Timelines with LINQ to Twitter 0 0 0
Please Stop Voting Against a Candidate Brian Lanham, January 1, 0001 DISCLAIMER: This is not a post about “Romney” or “Obama”. This is not a post for whom I am voting. This is simply a post to address an issue that I cannot ignore any longer. This two-party system that ... Please Stop Voting Against a Candidate 0 0 0
Cloud Computing Forces Better Design Practices Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Is cloud computing simply different than on premise development, or is cloud computing actually forcing you to create better applications than you normally would? In other words, is cloud computing merely ... Cloud Computing Forces Better Design Practices 0 0 0
Stackify Gives Devs a Crack at the Production Server Matt Watson, January 1, 0001 Originally published on SDTimes.com on 7/9/2012 by David Rubinstein.It was one of those interviews where you get finished talking about a company’s product, and you wonder aloud, “Well, THAT makes sense! ... Stackify Gives Devs a Crack at the Production Server 0 0 1
Stackify Aims to Put More ‘Dev’ in ‘DevOps’ Matt Watson, January 1, 0001 Originally published on VisualStudioMagazine.com on 8/22/2012 by Keith Ward.The Kansas City-based startup wants to make it easier for developers to examine the network stack and find problems in code.The ... Stackify Aims to Put More ‘Dev’ in ‘DevOps’ 0 0 1
Adventures in Windows 8: Placing items in a GridView with a Colum... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Currently working on a Windows 8 app for an important client, I will be writing about small issues, tips and tricks, ideas and whatever occurs to me during the development and the integration of this app. ... Adventures in Windows 8: Placing items in a GridView with a Colum... 0 0 0
Support ARMv7 instruction set in Windows Embedded Compact applica... Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 On of the most interesting new features of Windows Embedded Compact 7 is support for the ARMv5, ARMv6 and ARMv7 instruction sets instead of the ARMv4 “generic” support provided by the previous releases. ... Support ARMv7 instruction set in Windows Embedded Compact applica... 0 0 1
Selling Visual Studio ALM Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Introduction As a consultant I have been selling Application Lifecycle Management services using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. I’ve been contacted various times by friends working in organization ... Selling Visual Studio ALM 0 0 0
MVC 4 Authentication Aligned, January 1, 0001 Edit on April 10, 2014: A lot has changed since I started this now out of date post and Microsoft has created and updated the authentication system to ASP.Net Identity. Please look at this first. Here's ... MVC 4 Authentication 0 0 5
New Items in ReSharper 7! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://tv.jetbrains.net/vid... there is an excellent video on a selection of the new items in ReSharper 7.As I have said before, if you develop in C# or VB.NET, ... New Items in ReSharper 7! 0 0 0
Resharper 7.0.1 bugfix update is available. TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Jet Brains have issued ReSharper 7.0.1. This fixes a number of issues with version 7. Get the update details at: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/... you program ... Resharper 7.0.1 bugfix update is available. 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Big Data Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 As the name implies, what we’re talking about here is the explosion of electronic data that comes from huge volumes of transactions, devices, and sensors being captured by businesses today. This data often ... Windows Azure Recipe: Big Data 0 0 0
How to develop a Windows 8 app in 30 days! Scott Spradlin, January 1, 0001 Begin your 30-day journey to create a Windows Store style app. Sign up to get started and receive: Insider tips and tricks on Windows 8 application development. Personal on-the-phone access to a Windows ... How to develop a Windows 8 app in 30 days! 0 0 0
Introducing Windows Azure Mobile Services Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Today I’m excited to share that the Windows Azure Mobile Services public preview is now available. This preview provides a turnkey backend cloud solution designed to accelerate connected client app development. ... Introducing Windows Azure Mobile Services 0 0 0
New Beta of GhostDoc v4 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A new beta of GhostDoc v4 is available at http://submain.com/download... updated license key is at http://submain.com/blog/Gho... are some of the excellent features ... New Beta of GhostDoc v4 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Social Web / Big Media Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 With the rise of social media there’s been an explosion of special interest media web sites on the web. From athletics to board games to funny animal behaviors, you can bet there’s a group of people somewhere ... Windows Azure Recipe: Social Web / Big Media 0 0 0
Validating a linked item’s data template in Sitecore Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 I’ve been doing quite a bit of work in Sitecore recently and last week I encountered a situation that it appears many others have hit. I was working with a field that had been configured originally as ... Validating a linked item’s data template in Sitecore 0 0 0
Cloud-Burst 2012–Windows Azure Developer Conference in Swed... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 The Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) will running “Cloud-Burst 2012”, a two-day Windows Azure conference hosted at the Microsoft offices in Akalla, near Stockholm on the 27th and 28th September, with ... Cloud-Burst 2012–Windows Azure Developer Conference in Swed... 0 0 0
Deploying an SSL Application to Windows Azure – The Dark Se... ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 When working on an application that had been in production for some time, but was about to have a shopping cart added to it, the necessity for SSL certificates came up. When ordering the certificates through ... Deploying an SSL Application to Windows Azure – The Dark Se... 0 0 0
Windows 8–Custom WinRT components and WinJS Jonas Bush, January 1, 0001 Wow, I’m still alive! I installed the RTM of Windows 8 when it became available, and in the last few days have started taking a look at writing a windows 8 app using HTML/JS, which in and of itself is ... Windows 8–Custom WinRT components and WinJS 0 0 0
Find out the URL of a RSS feed in Outlook Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Challenge In the past I added some RSS feeds to outlook. For one of these feeds now I would like to know the original URL. But this is not very intuitive to eliminate. Problem Via (intuitive) right mouse ... Find out the URL of a RSS feed in Outlook 0 0 1
Book Review: Inside Windows Communicat?ion Foundation by Justin S... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 In gearing up for a new major project, I have taken it upon myself to research and review various aspects of our Microsoft stack of choice seeking new creative ways for us to leverage in our upcoming state-of-the-art ... Book Review: Inside Windows Communicat?ion Foundation by Justin S... 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Mobile Computing Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 A while back, mashups were all the rage. The idea was to compose solutions that provided aggregation and integration across applications and services to make information more available, useful, and personal. ... Windows Azure Recipe: Mobile Computing 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Enterprise LOBs Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Enterprises are more and more dependent on their specialized internal Line of Business (LOB) applications than ever before. Naturally, the more software they leverage on-premises, the more infrastructure ... Windows Azure Recipe: Enterprise LOBs 0 0 0
Auto-Suggest via ‘Trie’ (Pre-fix Tree) Strenium, January 1, 0001 Auto-Suggest (Auto-Complete) “thing” has been around for a few years. Here’s my little snippet on the subject. For one of my projects, I had to deal with a non-trivial set of items to be pulled via auto-suggest ... Auto-Suggest via ‘Trie’ (Pre-fix Tree) 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Software as a Service (SaaS) Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 The cloud was tailor built for aspiring companies to create innovative internet based applications and solutions. Whether you’re a garage startup with very little capital or a Fortune 1000 company, the ... Windows Azure Recipe: Software as a Service (SaaS) 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Consumer Portal Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Nearly every company on the internet has a web presence. Many are merely using theirs for informational purposes. More sophisticated portals allow customers to register their contact information and provide ... Windows Azure Recipe: Consumer Portal 0 0 0
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate Announ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Windows Server 2012 Essentials, which will ultimately replace the existing Small Business Server (SBS) and Home Server products, has reached the Release Candidate milestone! Essentials provides a simple ... Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate Announ... 0 0 0
DataObjects.Net releases a community version and some goodies Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 I have been following the events at X-tensive.com and excited by the release of DataObjects.Net community license and new features in version 4.5.4. I have always had a sweet spot on DataObjects.Net, mainly ... DataObjects.Net releases a community version and some goodies 0 0 0
Campwood Source Monitor TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Campwood provide an excellent free tool for checking code for issues such as cyclomatic complexity.You can download Source Monitor from http://www.campwoodsw.com/s... I have found it very ... Campwood Source Monitor 0 0 0
Upgrading Win8 RP to RTM on OS X with VMware Fusion mbrit, January 1, 0001 Quick pro-tip.Say you have Win8 RP in a VHD. You want to create a replacement VM for RTM. Once you delete the VHD with RP (or more likely move it).If you do this, allocate all of the space in the new VHD. ... Upgrading Win8 RP to RTM on OS X with VMware Fusion 0 0 0
Renaming columns - and location them in stored procedures woodbase, January 1, 0001 I had to rename in a column in my database - let's call it Customer.CellPhone. Now 'CellPhone' needs to be 'Mobile'. Not to hard using the build-in SP:use WebShopEXEC sp_rename 'Customer.CellPhone', 'Mobile'goBut ... Renaming columns - and location them in stored procedures 0 0 1
My Startup Weekend Winnipeg Experience! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I finally have some time to blog about my experience two weekends ago at the Winnipeg Startup Weekend event. The idea of Startup Weekend is simple: bring together bright people who are interested/passionate ... My Startup Weekend Winnipeg Experience! 0 0 0
Gambit RIP MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 In November of 2004 my best friend, Leah, wanted me to watch her female cat and litter of kittens. The kittens eyes were supposed to open up during Thanksgiving or right after, so I would come by Leah’s ... Gambit RIP 0 0 4
Get Certified on Windows Server 2012 ... Join the "Early Experts"... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 The new Microsoft certification exams for MCSA on Windows Server 2012 will be released over the upcoming weeks and to help you prepare early for certification on Windows Server 2012, we're launching a ... Get Certified on Windows Server 2012 ... Join the "Early Experts"... 0 0 1
Questions You Should Ask Before Moving Your App to the Cloud Jeremy Morgan, January 1, 0001 Cloud Computing is currently the hot topic in the developer world these days, and it seems all anyone wants to talk about is the cloud. If you're like me you signed up for something like Windows Azure ... Questions You Should Ask Before Moving Your App to the Cloud 0 0 4
Inside the DLR - Invoking methods simonc, January 1, 0001 So, we've looked at how a dynamic call is represented in a compiled assembly, and how the dynamic lookup is performed at runtime. The last piece of the puzzle is how the resolved method gets invoked, and ... Inside the DLR - Invoking methods 0 0 0
Basics of oops MuraliSankarM, January 1, 0001 using System;using System.Collections.Generic;... System.Text;namespace OOPS{ /// <summary> /// Example for a class which is not allowing to create a object or instance by using private constructor. ... Basics of oops 0 0 1
MSChart disappearing on postback BenAdler, January 1, 0001 MSChart disappears on postback. The easiest fix is to simply enable viewstate, which is turned off by default: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions ... MSChart disappearing on postback 0 0 0
What is a Hi-Dad MVP? Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 Well, I am one. Not that that tells you anything. Ok, title of this post is not the official MVP title I have, but it helps me remember it. Officially, I am a Hardware Interaction Design and Development ... What is a Hi-Dad MVP? 0 0 0
The Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects you should be following Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 If you haven’t already, I would strongly recommend getting started with the great guidance documents produced by the Visual Studio ALM rangers. Project Name Description Release / Updated Applicable to ... The Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects you should be following 0 0 0
How to clear Visual Studio Team Explorer Cache Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Switching between Team Project Collections sometimes messes up documents and reports and gives a red X next to both these artefacts in Team Explorer. I have run into this several times in the last couple ... How to clear Visual Studio Team Explorer Cache 0 0 2
"No matching items found in your workspace" error in the TFS buil... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 After creating MS Build Definition for a new branch I've got an error "No matching items found in $/MyBranch/subDir in your workspace, or you do not have permission to access them".I was trying to find ... "No matching items found in your workspace" error in the TFS buil... 0 0 0
Monitoring a BizTalk and Lagan Integration Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Recently I was asked by a organisation about how to monitor their BizTalk integration with Lagan CRM to ensure their integration solution was working effectively. The organisation was happy with their ... Monitoring a BizTalk and Lagan Integration 0 0 0
Compare Pocket and Instapaper on IPad (again) Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Since my last post http://geekswithblogs.net/m... I use both applications on iPad, trying to use Instapaper more often. Unfortunately, I wasn't fully satisfy ... Compare Pocket and Instapaper on IPad (again) 0 0 0
AppFabric DataCacheFactory pooling. Strenium, January 1, 0001 For one of my projects I've been using Windows Server AppFabric Caching (on-premise) (http://tinyurl.com/2usm9bs). I've setup a simple cluster: 2 nodes, with 4 Gigabytes in total, running in a high-availability ... AppFabric DataCacheFactory pooling. 0 0 0