Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 After my previous post on getting AzureReader2 up and running with ImageResizer – I ran into a problem – I had a page with a foreach on it, where I had a link to each fullsize image. It was all working ... Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer 0 0 0
Consume Third-Party Services at Windows Azure Store Shaun, January 1, 0001 It has been long time didn’t blog anything since last November. There are many exciting things happened during this period. I attend Microsoft TechED 2012 China and provided a session about Node.js and ... Consume Third-Party Services at Windows Azure Store 0 0 22
Making jQuery UI Droppable Testable Aligned, January 1, 0001 I’m using jQuery UI’s droppable for drag and drop capabilities. I wanted to be able to test it with Jasmine, but I couldn’t find a way to mock it. I found Jasmine jQuery, but wasn’t able to figure out ... Making jQuery UI Droppable Testable 0 0 0
Beginning PHP On Windows 8 Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 It is always interesting to find out what technology I will have to work with next. One of the latest that I’ve had to learn is PHP and since I am running Windows 8 I had to get it working in that environment. ... Beginning PHP On Windows 8 0 0 2
Microsoft Refreshes Sample Browser with the support for 13 new La... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Shortly after releasing Sample Browser last month, our team refreshes the app with an important feature for global developers: Localized sample search experience. Please visit http://bit.ly/ZxmISi to get ... Microsoft Refreshes Sample Browser with the support for 13 new La... 0 0 0
Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Win... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 When you create a new Windows 8 application, the Common folder contains a file named StandardStyles.xaml. Amongst other styling resources, this file contains a trove of application bar buttons styles, ... Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Win... 0 0 0
TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working with a lot of clients over the past couple years helping them adopt TFS Lab Management. One discussion that always comes up is how to architect the infrastructure required to run TFS ... TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling 0 0 1
Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part II Justin Jones, January 1, 0001 In my previous post I laid out my current pet project and began showing the framework I set up to isolate CSLA business objects from the data access code. I listed (sans code comments for brevity) the ... Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part II 0 0 6
Getting Started with MongoDB presentation (C#, MVC4) David Green, January 1, 0001 Another NoSQL presentation, this time on MongoDB. This was my first run at it….hopefully will present again at Carolina Codecamp, Codestock, and MADExpo…Inshallah! As with each attempt, hopefully the style ... Getting Started with MongoDB presentation (C#, MVC4) 0 0 4
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This is the second in a series of articles looking at using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (formally Windows Azure Access Control Service), to integrate the authentication services provided ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 1
EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user ... Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 Today I made a clean, brand new install of EPiServer 7 on a Windows 2012 server using VS2012. For googlers finding this post with any issue present in title, just look for the bold text to try my solutions ... EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user ... 0 0 0
Exchange 2013: A new look… marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 The Exchange Server product line experienced a few changes with the introduction of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 brings with it a whole new set of services, technologies and features ... Exchange 2013: A new look… 0 0 0
Super-Fast Failover with VM Guest Clustering in Windows Server 20... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 My good friend and colleague, Matt Hester, recently wrote a great article on Hyper-V Host Clustering as part of our latest article series, Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days! In this article, I’ll ... Super-Fast Failover with VM Guest Clustering in Windows Server 20... 0 0 2
Use the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests Aligned, January 1, 0001 Thanks to Danyal Aytekin for his Stackoverflow answer. If you want to use the toThrow in Jasmin tests on actual functions, you can use the “Function.bind, which was introduced in JavaScript 1.8.5. This ... Use the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests 0 0 1
Can Trim Packages Help Us Make Sense of OS Editions? Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 I was thinking about some of the confusion that springs up from time to time over how Microsoft names the editions of it Operating Systems. We can all agree that Windows RT is a particularly bad name. ... Can Trim Packages Help Us Make Sense of OS Editions? 0 0 0
Exchange 2013: The Client Access Server marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 We've been beaten to death with it at this point: "Exchange 2013 introduces fundamental changes in roles and architecture compared to earlier versions." But what does this mean? Today we are going to have ... Exchange 2013: The Client Access Server 0 0 5
Orlando Code Camp 2013 - KendoUI Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mo... mrad, January 1, 0001 Link to my my KendoUI sessionHere are the slidesCode samples download (pls check back in couple of days)Kendo UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform ... Orlando Code Camp 2013 - KendoUI Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mo... 0 0 0
Febuary 26 - JaXArcSig - Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and... mrad, January 1, 0001 Practice run of my presentation for Orlando Code Camp 2013. UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform for HTML5/JavaScript development. Whether you ... Febuary 26 - JaXArcSig - Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and... 0 0 0
SQL Server: I need to get to a remote server and management stud... Paula DiTallo, January 1, 0001 Try using osql . It can be a life saver. Here's an example of the most common usage:osql -E -S myMSSQLServerName /* This uses windows authentication to connect to a server */osql -? /* lists all the switches ... SQL Server: I need to get to a remote server and management stud... 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 5: Building a Simple User Interface Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 5: Building a Simple User Interface 0 0 0
March 2013 Chicago IT Architects Group Wrap-up Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The group got to know their neighbors a lot better this month with only half the normal room size and a pretty good turn out. Given that, I would really like to say thank you to everyone who came out on ... March 2013 Chicago IT Architects Group Wrap-up 0 0 0
Accelerating the Cloud with Windows Server 2012 BranchCache KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Traditional file sharing protocols, such as Server Message Block ( SMB ) in Windows Server 2012, are primarily designed for low-latency, high-bandwidth scenarios commonly found in Local Area Networks ( ... Accelerating the Cloud with Windows Server 2012 BranchCache 0 0 0
Presenting Windows Azure Sessions Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 A couple of weeks ago I was on the road, presenting at SDC in Gothenburg, TechDays in Finland and TechDays in The Netherlands. I delivered five sessions, the “Grid Computing with 256 Windows Azure Worker ... Presenting Windows Azure Sessions 0 0 0
4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Most web sites will have an input form somewhere even if it is nothing more than a contact form. Any web application will have lots of input forms. Regardless of why you have the input form or what it ... 4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 4: Running the Windows Store Applicatio... Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 4: Running the Windows Store Applicatio... 0 0 0
Adding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 If you’re building a Windows Store app that plays audio you have the option of being able to play your app’s audio in the background (i.e. when the app is not running). Over the course of three posts I ... Adding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2012.2 Hanging When Editing Razor Pages Aligned, January 1, 0001 Since I installed the v2 update, Visual Studio has been hanging on occasion. The CPU for the process jumps to 25% and stays there and Visual Studio stops responding. I found a Microsoft Connect feedback ... Visual Studio 2012.2 Hanging When Editing Razor Pages 0 0 1
Be careful setting up disc for SQL Server Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Been going through different setup for SQL server setup. One problem I ran into was that I ran into this error "{FileName}.mdf is Compressed But Does not Reside in a Read-only Database or Filegroup. The ... Be careful setting up disc for SQL Server 0 0 0
Tried making a striped volume out of my old hard drives Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Brought in 2 perfectly working 400GB SATA drives and needed to set up a spare drive at work to keep the SQL files. Was on my merry way to create a striped volume, and bang, bang, bang, bang. Just can't ... Tried making a striped volume out of my old hard drives 0 0 0
Review: Feed Me for Windows Phone Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Prior to the announcement that Google will be shutting down Google Reader I was using Feed Reader to keep up with a number of blogs. The announcement of course sent me scrambling like everyone else. The ... Review: Feed Me for Windows Phone 0 0 0
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This article is the first in a series of three articles looking at using the Windows Azure Access Control Service to implement web site authentication using social identity providers. It will show how ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 8
WCF Transactions are not supported by Azure. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We have a service operation, for which it is very important to ensure that a client receives the status, that was determined at the end of operation.If client does receive the response, the server status ... WCF Transactions are not supported by Azure. 0 0 0
Exposing your API via Windows Azure Service Bus Queues and Topics Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Recently I wrote an article for UK MSDN Flash about using Windows Azure Service Bus Queues & TopicsIve had some great feedback on this article from friends! Check it out belowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/... ... Exposing your API via Windows Azure Service Bus Queues and Topics 0 0 41
Specification Test for the Authorized Attribute in MVC Aligned, January 1, 0001 I wanted to Unit Test (in BDD I’d call it a specification) that the controller had the authorize attribute so I found this approach in a GoodSearch a while back and forgotten who to give credit for it, ... Specification Test for the Authorized Attribute in MVC 0 0 0
Microsoft Tool :Use Windows Live Writer for Blogs Writing AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 Use Windows Live Writer for writing blogs URL to download :http://windows.microsoft.c... Great tools for offline writing and publish in blog site with Photos ... Microsoft Tool :Use Windows Live Writer for Blogs Writing 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 3: Exploring the Windows Store Project Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 3: Exploring the Windows Store Project 0 0 0
The trilogy of Sample Browser – Search samples in Visual St... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/one... Sample Browser has reached its third milestone with the new Windows Store app since we released the desktop version and the Visual Studio version in ... The trilogy of Sample Browser – Search samples in Visual St... 0 0 0
Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio ... Alex Hildyard, January 1, 0001 In part 1 we looked at the structure of a WiX setup project, and created a simple installer. We looked at the staging paradigm which gave us complete flexibility in the way we harvested files and packaged ... Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio ... 0 0 0
Book Review: Knockout.js Succinctly Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 First of all I'd like to thank the Syncfusion team for choosing me to do this book review, I appreciate the opportunity.Syncfusion provides a one stop for various .NET components. They offer high-performance ... Book Review: Knockout.js Succinctly 0 0 0
Step-by-Step: Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Windows Server 2012 and our completely FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 certainly have some really cost effective new storage options, with Storage Spaces and Hyper-V over SMB 3.0. However, many IT Pros have already ... Step-by-Step: Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 0 0 2
Here’s why the Unit of Work is needed Aligned, January 1, 0001 I didn’t understand why I would want to use the Unit of Work pattern before I ran into this. I had a ManagerBase class that had an IRepository. (The managers implement ManagerBase which have a private ... Here’s why the Unit of Work is needed 0 0 4
SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table Vipin, January 1, 0001 We could find the maximum and minimum value in a table by using the SQL inbuilt aggregate functions MAX() and MIN() respectively. But, many times there comes a scenario when we need to find the second ... SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table 0 0 2
Android to Windows 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Store Pr... Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Store Pr... 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 1: Setting up the Development Environme... Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 1: Setting up the Development Environme... 0 0 0
Entity Framework POCO and JSON serialization Jake Rutherford, January 1, 0001 An application I've been working utilizes the jQuery DataTables plugin and server side processing for pagination.My initial set up had my controller call a view model which in turn called my business layer ... Entity Framework POCO and JSON serialization 0 0 4
Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting ... Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track 0 0 1
Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 0 0 0
Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Over the weekend I sat down with another book in the Succinctly series. I have wanted to learn more about Knockout.js for a while now. I approached this book knowing very little about Knockout.js, but ... Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly 0 0 0
Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product ... Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 In Part III, we started creating a very basic MVC application to host our store. We also created a simple table to store products and methods to perform CRUD transactions and validate data. Now we we introduce ... Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product ... 0 0 0
Session material from TechDays BE and NL Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: Added the videos Note: Like all material on this blog, this blog post and all the referenced material are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to reuse ... Session material from TechDays BE and NL 0 0 0