SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB – How to get started krislankford, January 1, 0001 As many of you aware, SQL Server can be a bit of a pig when it comes to system resources on your development machine. As part of the 2012 products Microsoft has added SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB which ... SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB – How to get started 0 0 4
Microsoft Sync. Framework with Azure on iOS Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 A bit of a revelation this evening. I discovered something obvious, but missing from my understanding of the brilliant iOS example that ships with the Sync. Framework 4.0CTP It seems that on the server ... Microsoft Sync. Framework with Azure on iOS 0 0 0
Application Integration Future – BizTalk Server & Windo... SURESH GIRIRAJAN, January 1, 0001 I am really excited to see lot of new news around BizTalk in TechEd 2012. I was recently watching the session presented by Sriram and Rajesh on “Application Integration Futures: The Road Map and What's ... Application Integration Future – BizTalk Server & Windo... 0 0 3
Create a Remote Git Repository from an Existing XCode Repository codeWithoutFear, January 1, 0001 Introduction Distributed version control systems (VCS’s), like Git, provide a rich set of features for managing source code. Many development tools, including XCode, provide built-in support for various ... Create a Remote Git Repository from an Existing XCode Repository 0 0 3
Windows Azure Evolution – Caching (Preview) Shaun, January 1, 0001 Caching is a popular topic when we are building a high performance and high scalable system not only on top of the cloud platform but the on-premise environment as well. On March 2011 the Windows Azure ... Windows Azure Evolution – Caching (Preview) 0 0 0
My Xbox Live App for Android and iOS chankeypathak, January 1, 0001 My Xbox Live App for AndroidMy Xbox Live App for iOS ... My Xbox Live App for Android and iOS 0 0 0
Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 4 Steve Loethen, January 1, 0001 Now that I have the rules and services XML files in the cloud, it is time to sever the bounds of earth and live totally in the cloud. I have to host the Autoscaling object in Azure as well, point it to ... Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 4 0 0 0
Configuration setting of HttpWebRequest.Timeout value Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to set in configuration on client HttpWebRequest.Timeout.I was surprised, that MS doesn’t provide it as a part of .Net configuration.(Answer in http://forums.silverlight.n... thread: ... Configuration setting of HttpWebRequest.Timeout value 0 0 0
A Guided Tour of Complexity JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 I just re-read Complexity – A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell , protégé of Douglas Hofstadter ( author of “Gödel, Escher, Bach”) http://www.amazon.com/Compl... ... A Guided Tour of Complexity 0 0 1
AT&T - Customer service hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha AreYouSerious, January 1, 0001 Okay, I'm a separated 2 time Iraq war veteran, living in Germany Supporting the military. About a year and a hald ago I bought an iPhone 4 off a guy from Craigslist. I thought the phone was unlocked, but ... AT&T - Customer service hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 0 0 0
Nerdstock 2012: A photo review of Microsoft TechEd North America ... The Un-T Guy, January 1, 0001 Not only could I not fathom that I would ever be attending a tech event of the magnitude of TechEd, neither could any of my co-workers. As the least technical person in the history of Information Technology ... Nerdstock 2012: A photo review of Microsoft TechEd North America ... 0 0 0
TechEd 2012 - last day Stefan Barrett, January 1, 0001 Miss when TechEd was 5 days long!, it's Thursday already and we are on the last day. The snacks haven't appeared, but more developer sessions have. Having access to online schedule is very important, since ... TechEd 2012 - last day 0 0 0
Windows Azure Evolution – TFS Integration (WAWS Part 2) Shaun, January 1, 0001 So this is the fourth blog post about the new features of Windows Azure and the second part of Windows Azure Web Sites. But this is not just focus on the WAWS since the function I’m going to introduce ... Windows Azure Evolution – TFS Integration (WAWS Part 2) 0 0 0
TFS Rant *WARNING* negative opinions are being expressed. ryanabr, January 1, 0001 It has happened several times now where I end up installing TFS "over the shoulder" of the system admin guy whose job it will be to "own" the server when I am gone. TFS is challenging enough to stand up ... TFS Rant *WARNING* negative opinions are being expressed. 0 0 0
TechEd 2012: Day 3 – Morning TFS Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 My morning sessions for day three were dominated by Team Foundation Server. This has been a hot topic for our clients lately, so this topic really stuck a chord. The speaker for the first session was from ... TechEd 2012: Day 3 – Morning TFS 0 0 0
Review of TechEd 2012 - so far Stefan Barrett, January 1, 0001 Disclaimer: probably going to next years TechEd. (but not 100% sure) As with most TechEd's, this is not one of the best - but it's not bad. Some impressions so far: The food is not bad, through perhaps ... Review of TechEd 2012 - so far 0 0 0
Something in the world of Firewall Hosted SSL VPN's AreYouSerious, January 1, 0001 I run a Physical firewall at my residence. Call me paranoid, but I appreciate the added security. I have been working to get the VPN to work properly, but had until today not managed this. I worked with ... Something in the world of Firewall Hosted SSL VPN's 0 0 0
Windows Azure Evolution - Web Sites (aka Antares) Part 1 Shaun, January 1, 0001 This is the 3rd post of my Windows Azure Evolution series, focus on the new features and enhancement which was alone with the Windows Azure Platform Upgrade June 2012, announced at the MEET Windows Azure ... Windows Azure Evolution - Web Sites (aka Antares) Part 1 0 0 7
TechEd 2012: Dude Where’s My Azure Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 It has been a fun first morning at TechEd North America. They keynote was both informative and entertaining. Some of the high points included a walk through of Windows Server 2012 and its new Hyper-V capabilities ... TechEd 2012: Dude Where’s My Azure 0 0 0
O'Reilly Deal of the day - 10/June/2012 - Introducing HTML5 Game ... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's deal of the day from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Introducing HTML5 Game Development"Making video games is hard work that requires technical skills, ... O'Reilly Deal of the day - 10/June/2012 - Introducing HTML5 Game ... 0 0 0
Linux,Apache,NetBeans,PHP == Windows,IIS/Cassini,Visual Studio,AS... Neil Smith, January 1, 0001 I've worked out how to get my linux based Netbeans PHP development machine to behave much like what happens when you create a new ASP.Net project in Visual Studio. Firstly create multiple PHP project in ... Linux,Apache,NetBeans,PHP == Windows,IIS/Cassini,Visual Studio,AS... 0 0 0
C# tip: do not use “is” type, if you will need cast “as” later Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We have a debate with one of my collegues, is it agood style to check, if the object of particular style, and then cast as this type. The perfect answer of Jon Skeet and answers in Cast then check or check ... C# tip: do not use “is” type, if you will need cast “as” later 0 0 3
Code review recommendations and Code Smells Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Some time ago Twitter told that I am similar to Boris Lipschitz . Indeed he is also .Net programmer from Russia living in Australia. I‘ve read his list of Code Review points and found them quite comprehensive. ... Code review recommendations and Code Smells 0 0 1
Windows Azure Evolution – Welcome to VS2012 Shaun, January 1, 0001 When the Microsoft released the first preview version of Windows 8 and Visual Studio, many people in the community were asking if the windows azure tool is available to it. The answer was “NO”. Microsoft ... Windows Azure Evolution – Welcome to VS2012 0 0 0
Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal Shaun, January 1, 0001 With the MEET Windows Azure event on 7th June, there are many new features and updates in windows azure platform. In the coming several posts I will try to cover some of them. And in the first post here ... Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal 0 0 0
IPhone track title woodbase, January 1, 0001 If you have an IPhone, you probably know that the name in the playlist comes from the “Title”-attribute instead of the filename. Usually that is not a problem. But when I plug my IPhone to the car stereo ... IPhone track title 0 0 1
Top ten things that don't make sense in The Walking Dead iamjames, January 1, 0001 For those of you that don't know, The Walking Dead is a popular American TV show on AMC about a group of people trying to survive in a zombie-filled world.Here's the top ten eleven things that don't make ... Top ten things that don't make sense in The Walking Dead 0 0 0
Microsoft Lowers Cloud Barrier To Entry Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Once in a while, the technology stack changes enough to create a disturbance in the IT industry. Microsoft did just that today and has officially closed the gap with its #1 competitor: Amazon. What is ... Microsoft Lowers Cloud Barrier To Entry 0 0 1
Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 3 Steve Loethen, January 1, 0001 The Wasabi Hands on Labs give you a good look at the basic mechanics, but I don’t find the setup too practical. Using a local console application to host the Autoscaler and rules files is probably the ... Autoscaling in a modern world…. Part 3 0 0 0
KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation tom, January 1, 0001 This summer I went to a the Kansas City Developers Conference (April 27 and 28th, 2012). It was fun and I learned a lot. I have been 3 times before and this is my first time blogging on it so here goes. ... KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation 0 0 0
Is Innovation Dead? wulfers, January 1, 0001 My question is has innovation died? For large businesses that do not have a vibrant, and fearless leadership (see Apple under Steve jobs), I think is has. If you look at the organizational charts for many ... Is Innovation Dead? 0 0 1
Excel to SQL import error shehan, January 1, 0001 Running the import wizard on my Windows 7 (64 bit) machine, to create a table by importing an Excel file, gave me the following error: the 'microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered on the local ... Excel to SQL import error 0 0 1
Business Case for investing time developing Stubs and BizUnit Tes... charlie.mott, January 1, 0001 I was recently in a position where I had to justify why effort should be spent developing Stubbed Integration Tests for BizTalk solutions. These tests are usually developed using the BizUnit framework. ... Business Case for investing time developing Stubs and BizUnit Tes... 0 0 1
Raspberry Pi + Azure + Mobile App Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 Ongoing project idea. So this is of long running personal interest to build a Mobile App that shows you a push notification/pop up alert, when anyone calls your house phone. So I've taken delivery of a ... Raspberry Pi + Azure + Mobile App 0 0 0
Say goodbye to System.Reflection.Emit (any dynamic proxy generati... mbrit, January 1, 0001 tl;dr - Forget any form of dynamic code emitting in Metro-style. It's not going to happen.Over the past week or so I've been trying to get Moq (the popular open source TDD mocking framework) to work on ... Say goodbye to System.Reflection.Emit (any dynamic proxy generati... 0 0 0
Migrating Core Data to new UIManagedDocument in iOS 5 samerpaul, January 1, 0001 I have an app that has been on the store since iOS 3.1, so there is a large install base out there that still uses Core Data loaded up in my AppDelegate. In the most recent set of updates, I raised the ... Migrating Core Data to new UIManagedDocument in iOS 5 0 0 0
Macro to Add using System.Linq Aligned, January 1, 0001 I have Visual Studio 2010 setup to remove and sort settings on save with the Power Commands extensions. This is great, but sometimes it removes the using System.Linq at the top. I also find myself scrolling ... Macro to Add using System.Linq 0 0 2
Fixing some Visual Studio 2012 RC install issues terje, January 1, 0001 Updated: June 7th 2012: Cause for the issues found! Unsupported scenario having TFS 11 Beta side-by-side. Uninstall TFS 11 Beta before or even after install of VS 2012 RC. The Visual Studio RC has shown ... Fixing some Visual Studio 2012 RC install issues 0 0 4
Review–Build Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio with Nom... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Nomad is a Visual Studio extension that allows you build apps for both Android and iOS platforms in Visual Studio using HTML5. There is no need to switch between .Net, Java and Objective-C to target different ... Review–Build Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio with Nom... 0 0 1
Workflow 4.5 is Awesome, cant wait for 5.0! JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 About 2 years ago I wrote a blog post describing what I would like to see in Workflow vnext: http://geekswithblogs.net/J... At the time WF 4.0 ... Workflow 4.5 is Awesome, cant wait for 5.0! 0 0 2
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks–Part 1: Ext... ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 I don’t know about you, but when it comes to development, I prefer my environment to be as free of clutter as possible. It may surprise you to know that I have tried ReSharper, and did not like it, for ... Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks–Part 1: Ext... 0 0 0
IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warnin... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I’ve used the following extension method in many places. public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this Object[] myArr) { return (myArr == null || myArr.Length == 0); }Recently I’ve noticed that Resharper shows ... IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warnin... 0 0 0
.NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! simonc, January 1, 0001 So, although you will be able to use your existing .NET skills to develop Metro apps, it turns out Microsoft are limiting Visual Studio 2011 Express to Metro-only. From the Express website: Visual Studio ... .NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! 0 0 0
NDepend 4.0 Released Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 Last week version 4.0 of NDepend was released. NDepend is a Visual Studio add-in designed for intense code analysis with the goal of high quality code. A month ago I wrapped up my evaluation of the previous ... NDepend 4.0 Released 0 0 3
AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Our team at AJI Software has been hard at work over the past year on certifications and projects that has allowed us to reach Gold Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. We have focused on providing ... AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... 0 0 0
VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Recently I looked into speeding up Visual Studio builds – I found the results interesting… I decided to do a few POC’s to see where the bottleneck is with large solutions in Visual Studio. After some searching ... VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck 0 0 6
Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users 0 0 1
Sweden Windows Azure Group Meeting - Migrating Applications to Wi... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Wednesday, May 23, 6:00 PM, Stockholm Migrating Applications to Windows Azure – Shay Friedman Windows Azure is the next big thing for server-side applications and one of its major use cases is hosting ... Sweden Windows Azure Group Meeting - Migrating Applications to Wi... 0 0 0
Useful .NET Delegate Internals Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Delegates in .NET are a very handy addition to the language. With the introduction of LINQ they did become mainstream and everyone is using them or is at least finding them cool. But what the CLR is really ... Useful .NET Delegate Internals 0 0 3
TFS API Find out who deleted your build? Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I am sure you have been in the situation where you start following a change through the list of builds and suddenly realize a lot of the builds have been deleted by some one! The good news is, when the ... TFS API Find out who deleted your build? 0 0 1