GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using E... Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 In my most recent project we had to support classes with fairly deep object graphs where any of the nodes could validly be null. We didn't want to have lots of 'if not null' checks everywhere, so I wrote ... GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using E... 0 0 2
Windows Azure Mobile Services Update Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including: ... Windows Azure Mobile Services Update 0 0 0
My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012 Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 I thought I’d brain dump a few thoughts after the recent BizTalk summit and how some of the information will help shape solutions with the customers whom I work with. BizTalk On-Premise Traditionally for ... My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012 0 0 494
AJI Report #21 | Russ Fustino of GrapeCity Talks About Windows 8 ... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Russ Fustino, Senior Developer Evangelist at GrapeCity, sits down with us to close the Iowa Code Camp to talk about Windows 8 development. Russ is a former Microsoft Developer Evangelist and host of the ... AJI Report #21 | Russ Fustino of GrapeCity Talks About Windows 8 ... 0 0 2
Include your JavaScript references in the correct order Aligned, January 1, 0001 I was stuck for 2 hours on this. I was using Wijmo library and was including the complete library before the open js file. I kept getting’Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'formatString' of undefined’. ... Include your JavaScript references in the correct order 0 0 4
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 My good friend and colleague, Tommy Patterson, recently blogged about leveraging the Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) preview offering to build a FREE lab environment in the Cloud. You ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... 0 0 7
2012 in review Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing about starting my 4th year at IdentityMine, and here we are now, more than a year later. The year 2012 has been particularly interesting for all of us ... 2012 in review 0 0 0
MVVM Light V4.1.26 change log Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I just published the change log for MVVM Light V4.1.26, which is available on Nuget only at this time. The full version is available here, while the “libraries only” version is available here. I am working ... MVVM Light V4.1.26 change log 0 0 0
How to preserve state across pages in a Windows 8 app Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 When designing a Windows 8 app, you need a way to preserve the state of various items as you navigate from page to page. Windows allows this using the pageState dictionary - a dictionary that can contain ... How to preserve state across pages in a Windows 8 app 0 0 1
Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 WatiN lets you attach to browser windows so you can verify their contents and close them as part of your tests, but the standard API doesn't detect windows with PDF documents in them. Adapted from this ... Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window 0 0 1
Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back again for another episode in our System Center 2012 ConfigMgr SP1 series with Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and ... Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 - Metro Revealed: Building Win... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C#"The key features of developing for Microsoft’s eagerly anticipated ... APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 - Metro Revealed: Building Win... 0 0 0
Chapter Review: The Utility Database (by Chris Shaw) and how it a... Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Sometimes you end up reading a great chapter and feel like writing a review about it… well here it is! Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw, http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com ) wrote a chapter in the PRO SQL Server 2012 ... Chapter Review: The Utility Database (by Chris Shaw) and how it a... 0 0 0
Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ... Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 0 0 0
Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Problem If you go in Explorer to the GAC folder (%windir%\Assembly) a shell extension gives you a special view of the content there: In this view you couldn’t copy the DLLs to somewhere else. Solution ... Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks 0 0 3
Bridged Adaptors in Windows 8 Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 So, this just happened. I just took down an entire corporate network with bridged adaptors in Windows 8. Let's back up. Last night, I was preparing for my talks at CodeMash. When I give Xbox development ... Bridged Adaptors in Windows 8 0 0 1
Passing Certification For Enterprise Windows Phone 7.5 Apps Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Your Enterprise Windows Phone 7.5 application has different requirements and restrictions than the majority of apps in the store. While we now have Windows Phone 8 with different distribution methods, ... Passing Certification For Enterprise Windows Phone 7.5 Apps 0 0 0
Task Scheduler Error Code 0x8007010B bconlon, January 1, 0001 I wasted a bit of time on this issue today, so I thought I’d add it to my blog.I just wanted to schedule a task in Windows 7 Task Scheduler to run every hour forever. I already had this working on an old ... Task Scheduler Error Code 0x8007010B 0 0 2
Chocolatey Automatic Packages Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 I updated three packages this morning. I didn’t even notice until the tweets came in from @chocolateynuget. How is this possible? It’s simple. I love automation. I built chocolatey to take advantage of ... Chocolatey Automatic Packages 0 0 0
Google Code Prettify for geekswithblogs.net Soe Tun, January 1, 0001 This blog post is based on the information I found from this blog post http://geekswithblogs.net/w... I find it very difficult and tedious to ... Google Code Prettify for geekswithblogs.net 0 0 1
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I have been re-awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in Visual Studio ALM for 2nd year in a row. Thank you Microsoft for re-awarding me the MVP award, it’s a great feeling to start the ... Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM 0 0 7
How to add a shortcut to notepad in the "Send to" menu on Windows... bconlon, January 1, 0001 As a techie it is often useful to quickly look at a file in notepad, so I always add it as a shortcut in the 'Send to' right click option of Windows explorer. Trouble is I always forget where to add the ... How to add a shortcut to notepad in the "Send to" menu on Windows... 0 0 0
Custom domain for Windows Azure in the new portal Nuri Halperin, January 1, 0001 The new Windows Azure Portal looks great, but has moved things around a bit. This post serves as note to self and others: How do I set a custom domain name for blob/ table/ queue? Go to the new portal ... Custom domain for Windows Azure in the new portal 0 0 0
The year 2012 in highlights! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 2012 has been an overwhelming year, I had my share of up’s and down’s. The year started on a high note with Microsoft presenting me the MVP award for Visual Studio ALM. I changed my availability status ... The year 2012 in highlights! 0 0 2
A Look Ahead to 2013 Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 It’s been a busy holiday season with a couple of flights to visit family. I ended up getting a few interesting tech related gifts this year. First, I’m enjoying a nice new sound system from Cyber Acoustics ... A Look Ahead to 2013 0 0 5
Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful. It’s a diagramming tool that allows you to draw ... Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! 0 0 2
2012: Study Plan Year in Review JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Over the past year I went into study overdrive: I learned A LOT about C++, Maths, Algorithms, Finance & JavaScript. It was a great year in terms of knowledge acquisition. pro amore scientiam ! C++ ... 2012: Study Plan Year in Review 0 0 2
Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views ihaynes, January 1, 0001 There are issues with displaying phone numbers on web pages. You may want them to display as clickable links on a mobile phone but not on the tablet or desktop view of the page.HTML5 gives us the href="tel:+44 ... Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views 0 0 2
Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 So some guy named Brian Boyko posted a video on YouTube entitled “Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation”. Brian laments his attempt to use Windows 8 for 30 days on an Acer laptop, and begins to rant on all ... Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation 0 0 6
How To Make Your System Slower With WMI Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler. Lets e.g. query for some system properties via WMI. static void Main(string[] ... How To Make Your System Slower With WMI 0 0 0
PRO SQL Database for Windows Azure Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 After months of work, rework, revisions and reviews, the second edition of the APress book PRO SQL Database for Windows Azure is out! You can get it on Amazon (Paperback or Kindle) or through Barnes & ... PRO SQL Database for Windows Azure 0 0 0
Scalable Distributed Workload with Azure Queues Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 If you develop an application for the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure, you may need to create a distributed workload. Distributing workload in the cloud is one of the fundamental aspects of scalability, ... Scalable Distributed Workload with Azure Queues 0 0 0
LINQ (C#) Many to Many Query using Entity Framework Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Using a MVC 4 Code First project I noticed that my intermediate table between a many to many relationship was missing. In other words, Table 1 has many Table 3, and Table 3 has many Table 1. In the database ... LINQ (C#) Many to Many Query using Entity Framework 0 0 0
Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... Om Talsania, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET has a good number of default controls which usually satisfy your needs. Especially the ListView control, which is a template based fully customizable control which can be tweaked to suit your needs. ... Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... 0 0 29
Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue Vitus, January 1, 0001 I just found an interesting behaviour of Windows Phone 7 TextBox default template. When TextBox is disabled, inner text is rendered with margin: To reproduce it, create new Silverlight WP application and ... Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue 0 0 0
Big Data–Where to Start JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 I recently read the Big Data Glossary - http://www.amazon.com/Big-D... Big Data is essentially a MapReduce stack for scatter-gather-aggregate scaleout of compute jobs. ... Big Data–Where to Start 0 0 1
BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 A source code could be downloaded from here.Global artifacts are usually tentative things. Languages and tools have different methods to limit the artifact visibility. Think about public and private variables, ... BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule 0 0 1
Using SYSPREP in Windows Embedded Standard 7 Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 Using Windows Embedded Standard 7 you can quickly build an Operating System configuration that support your hardware and include only the components required to run your application. Being able to customize ... Using SYSPREP in Windows Embedded Standard 7 0 0 2
2 really Popular Windows 8 Script Samples from All-In-One Script ... Tim Robinson, January 1, 0001 Here are two really popular Windows 8 script samples from Microsoft All-In-One Script Framework. One of them is ranking the 1st among all 7000+ script samples on TechNet Script Center based on popularity. ... 2 really Popular Windows 8 Script Samples from All-In-One Script ... 0 0 0
ASP.NET is adding new pants to its wardrobe Cory Koski, January 1, 0001 This isn’t “new” news, but it’s new to me. The ASP.NET team has come up with a way to make web applications behave like Windows applications with the love of some technologies: HTML5 + JavaScript Knockout ... ASP.NET is adding new pants to its wardrobe 0 0 0
Using cascading ListBoxes to display hierarchical data in Windows... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 When you're dealing with hierarchical data (a tree-like data format such as folders that have sub-folders that have subfolders, etc.) you have to come up with an organized way of displaying it. You could ... Using cascading ListBoxes to display hierarchical data in Windows... 0 0 1
Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 A colleague of mine asked me how he can find out why his laptop does consume 30% CPU in the SYSTEM process after it did wake up from hibernate. That is easy I replied: Open Process Explorer select the ... Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way 0 0 1
Comparing WFE servers PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 Comparing WFE servers One of the SharePoint farms I am involved with has a load balanced pair of WFE. One of the web parts had acted sporadically – at times working well, at others not at all and I suspected ... Comparing WFE servers 0 0 0
The Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge is Back! Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I’m excited to announce that we have re-launched the Rock, Paper, Azure challenge! For the next 6 weeks Developers will compete in an online game based on rock, paper, scissors, with the opportunity to ... The Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge is Back! 0 0 0
AppFabric Private Caching: What to Watch Out For jasont, January 1, 0001 The ability to have a private AppFabric cache deployed as a cluster of worker roles, or piggy-backing your existing roles, is great. But there are some things to watch out for, which can cost you a lot ... AppFabric Private Caching: What to Watch Out For 0 0 1
Retrieving a list of eBay categories in a .Net 4.5 Windows Store ... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Previously I wrote a post on how to get the eBay category list using their .Net SDK. I wanted to try doing the same thing in a Windows Store App for Windows 8 using Visual Studio 2012, but quickly ran ... Retrieving a list of eBay categories in a .Net 4.5 Windows Store ... 0 0 1
SSAS: Executing MDX Scope statements using SSMS Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 So usually when I want to test an MDX expression in SSMS I'll write a query with a "WITH MEMBER…" clause to create a query scope calculated measure. But sometimes you may want to test a scoped assignment ... SSAS: Executing MDX Scope statements using SSMS 0 0 5
Create iOS, Android and Mac APPS in C# and .NET mrad, January 1, 0001 Last nite was presenting at JAX-UX an intro to writing x-platform native apps using C# and .NET Xamarin's MonoTouch and Mono (www.Xamarin.com).Since it was held at JAX-UX - my emphasis was on UX, rather ... Create iOS, Android and Mac APPS in C# and .NET 0 0 0
My New Productivity Enhancer – SQL Complete by Devart Compudicted, January 1, 0001 As the new year is quickly approaching I am feeling increasingly worried about what goals I should be setting for 2013 as a database professional. I tried to get a glimpse back into 2012 analyzing trends ... My New Productivity Enhancer – SQL Complete by Devart 0 0 0