Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013 Randy Walker, January 1, 0001 Pictures - 2013 Microsoft Global MVP Summit VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Back in February, I had the honor to attend Microsoft’s annual Summit for MVP award winners. As an award winner we get invited to ... Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013 0 0 0
PLINQ–Not Just a Cool Sound ToString(theory);, January 1, 0001 One of my favorite features in .Net 4 is the addition of the PLINQ extensions off the IEnumerable<T> for parallel queries of type ParallelQuery<T>. Even after talking to bunches of developers, ... PLINQ–Not Just a Cool Sound 0 0 0
Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user –... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 A while ago I blogged about a powershell script I made that would automatically update your ClickOnce project file’s Minimum Required Version to the latest version of your application so that users would ... Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user –... 0 0 3
List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have ... List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build 0 0 0
Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our official Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services. Android developers now have easy access to structured data storage, authentication, push notifications ... Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services 0 0 0
A Look at NDepend Aligned, January 1, 0001 I was contacted by NDepend and asked if I wanted a free version of their professional license in exchange for writing a post about it. I agreed and have been running it for a few weeks. My first impression ... A Look at NDepend 0 0 0
Streetlight Store - Part II: Black Boxing Products and Improved A... Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 In Part I, I introduced the concept of the Streetlight Store and the architecture. In this segment, we will walk through the creation of a data contract for products, interfaces for managing transactions, ... Streetlight Store - Part II: Black Boxing Products and Improved A... 0 0 3
Pondering Azure PAAS vs IAAS Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 I was having a chat with one of the guys in the office today and was wondering about the considerations you would make when deciding between a web/worker role and a VM in Azure.To give an example we have ... Pondering Azure PAAS vs IAAS 0 0 7
A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog, I wrote about Building A Custom View Engine to Create Excel Files in MVC. In this blog, I skipped over the grammar that we might use in the View definition. I have had a few people email ... A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC 0 0 0
ASP.NET 4.5 - FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET SignalR is pretty new and very exciting feature in ASP.NET. You might want to play around with it and may encounter some hiccups during your implementation. This post will cover some issues that ... ASP.NET 4.5 - FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions 0 0 0
Some Windows 8 observations. (aka "Just can't keep quiet anymore... Lorin Thwaits, January 1, 0001 Almost a year and a half ago when I installed the first beta, the Start Menu was still present. In the next iteration, it was disabled by default but could be brought back with a registry hack on a per-user ... Some Windows 8 observations. (aka "Just can't keep quiet anymore... 0 0 0
Dynamic Sorting with LINQ Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 If you use LINQ to retrieve data and display this data in a grid, you may have come across the problem of allowing the user to control how the data is sorted. Users always want to be able to sort data ... Dynamic Sorting with LINQ 0 0 0
Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I promised my friend Chuck that I would post the Power Shell script to get the list of most discussed topics and the tops writers in an email distribution list. Generally there are loads of emails that ... Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends 0 0 0
SharePoint Saturday Philly Slides JKenderdine, January 1, 0001 List of IE bugs on SharePoint Experience blog Responsive Master Pages http://kyleschaeffer.com/ http://blog.sharepointexper... HTML5 http://w3schools.com/html/h... CSS3 http://www.w3schools.com/cs... ... SharePoint Saturday Philly Slides 0 0 0
Exam 70-483: Programming in C# deepakpuri, January 1, 0001 Hi Friends, I gave the Beta exam for 70-483 Programming in C# back in August 2012 and passed and from what I can remember if you have about a year of working knowledge you should be able to pass it no ... Exam 70-483: Programming in C# 0 0 0
Tuning Sql Server 2012 & SharePoint 2013 (MVA) deepakpuri, January 1, 0001 SharePoint stores most of its data in SQL Server, optimizing the overall SharePoint user experience has focus on how these products are integrated. During this Jump Start, two of the industry’s most popular ... Tuning Sql Server 2012 & SharePoint 2013 (MVA) 0 0 0
How to write CSS only for Internet Explorer 10 ? Anirudha, January 1, 0001 Recently I hear about IE 10 launch for windows 7. It’s sound pretty good to me. I have check if this have something good for me as a designer’s prospective. I start checking the code that is break in Ie9 ... How to write CSS only for Internet Explorer 10 ? 0 0 22
TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. This feature has officially ... TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... 0 0 0
GridView–Implementing Cascading DropDownList on Edit Mode Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Introduction: This question has been asked many times at the forums (http://forums.asp.net) and definitely there are already bunch of different solutions provided. Most of the examples from the web are ... GridView–Implementing Cascading DropDownList on Edit Mode 0 0 0
Open SharePoint Alerts Page Using JavaScript Jacob L. Adams, January 1, 0001 The page to set up alerts for a SharePoint list requires the list ID to be passed in as a query string. The follow code will get the ID for the list with a specific title. It will then open the alerts ... Open SharePoint Alerts Page Using JavaScript 0 0 0
Exporting XML Comments to Your Application Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Recently I blogged about adding SQL Doc Documentation to you Application. This makes it easy to keep your documentation visible and more likely current. I wanted to do the same thing with my code documentation. ... Exporting XML Comments to Your Application 0 0 0
Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Several weeks ago we launched a new hub for Windows Azure on Channel 9. This hub will serve as an index and entry point for all video content related to Windows Azure. Since the launch we have already ... Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 0 0 1
Adding SQL Doc Documentation to your Project Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog post, we talked about using SQL Doc to stream line documenting your database. This tool makes it a lot easier to put the documentation close to the source so that it is more likely to ... Adding SQL Doc Documentation to your Project 0 0 0
Free books from Syncfusion TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.syncfusion.com/r... SyncFusion have made available a series of E-Books that succinctly describe a number of new technologies such as MVC and JQuery.You will need to register ... Free books from Syncfusion 0 0 0
Windows Store C++ DirectX Bloom Sample released (and other sample... Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 At long last, I’ve finished the Bloom sample. You can get it here: http://www.bobtacoindustrie... It is a near replica of the XNA Bloom sample written in C++ ... Windows Store C++ DirectX Bloom Sample released (and other sample... 0 0 1
Microsoft SQL Server Webcast Series Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Highly recommended top shelf free to attend presentation material: Microsoft SQL Server webcast series ... Microsoft SQL Server Webcast Series 0 0 0
Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2 Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 I finally downloaded the html client preview 2 to give it a run, had not had a chance to look at Lightswitch since last summer… http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lig... ... Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2 0 0 1
HttpSecureCookie Eric Newton, January 1, 0001 A while back, I wrote an article on codeproject.com about being able to encrypt the value of an HttpCookie. Adam Tibi wrote a follow up article regarding this, but the original code still works great as ... HttpSecureCookie 0 0 0
GhostDoc 4.5 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 SubMain have released GhostDoc 4.5. GhostDoc is a tool for both C# and VB.Net developers to help them produce XML documentation. GhostDoc provides the basic framework. Where naming of a function and its ... GhostDoc 4.5 0 0 0
ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 So, as part of my on-going project I’ve recently made the decision to shift all my images (uploaded by ME and my USERS) to Azure Blob Storage, instead of the quite frankly ridiculous ‘unique folder system’ ... ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) 0 0 6
Converting NUnit to MS Test and the birth of a new project on Cod... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Recently I realised that while I had provided a number of examples of NUnit, I had not provided an example of MSUnit on CodePlex. The obvious candidate to convert was http://commonfilter.codeple... ... Converting NUnit to MS Test and the birth of a new project on Cod... 0 0 0
ReadOnly TextBox value in AJAX Calendar Extender on postback ASP.... Nouman Zakir, January 1, 0001 Read only controls are not posted back to the server. So, when you do a postback you will lose the value in a read only control. You will need to not make the control read only. Instead, you can set the ... ReadOnly TextBox value in AJAX Calendar Extender on postback ASP.... 0 0 14
SQL Server Identity Quirks Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... SQL Server Identity Quirks 0 0 0
MVP Summit 2013 D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I got back on Thursday last week from the Microsoft MVP Summit in the Seattle area. MVPs are tech community leaders who are awarded annually by Microsoft based on their contributions and leadership. They ... MVP Summit 2013 0 0 3
Step-by-Step: Deploying Windows 8 Apps with System Center 2012 Se... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Among a whole host of new management features, Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager adds the ability to now deploy and manage Windows 8 apps for enterprises. These Windows 8 apps ... Step-by-Step: Deploying Windows 8 Apps with System Center 2012 Se... 0 0 3
New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I'm excited to share the news that we have released a number of new iOS samples for Windows Azure Mobile Services. These samples demonstrate common scenarios that developers will run into when using Mobile ... New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available 0 0 0
Sample Pricing Comparison: On-Premise vs. Private Hosting vs. Clo... Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Last week I blogged about some of the basic pricing differences between Amazon AWS and Microsoft’s Windows Azure (http://wblo.gs/da7) and concluded that while there was a price difference, it was important ... Sample Pricing Comparison: On-Premise vs. Private Hosting vs. Clo... 0 0 0
Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 The nice folks at Syncfusion reached out to me last week to tell me a little bit about their Succinctly series of books. As they describe the concept, their goal is take 500+ pages of content and distill ... Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly 0 0 0
Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team has just released the new Sample Browser for Windows 8. It’s available for download in the Windows Store now! Go and get it and get access to over 5000 pieces of ... Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 0 0 0
Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 0
Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 1
2013 MVP Global Summit - The Experience! Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 As I've mentioned in my previous blog post, this was my first time attending the Summit and yes it was a blast! Aside from the interesting session contents and cool stuffs presented at the summit, I was ... 2013 MVP Global Summit - The Experience! 0 0 0
New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 As versions of the server products have changed, and a more “modern” interface and cleaner display is about. Well, so are the Visio stencils we should be using when designing our infrastructure or enterprise ... New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 0 0 0
MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) deepakpuri, January 1, 0001 IT Professionals working in Web Applications Dot Net can gain their MCSD: Web Applications certification by following this post. I passed these 3 exams in Feb 2013.I) Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 ... MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) 0 0 4
Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ... Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... 0 0 0
MCSD: Windows Store Apps using HTML5 deepakpuri, January 1, 0001 Last October Microsoft Technical Evangelists Jeremy Foster and Michael Palermo and delivered two of the most popular Jump Starts ever produced. These accelerated courses were aimed at experienced developers ... MCSD: Windows Store Apps using HTML5 0 0 0
Great app for learning code on Windows 8! Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team has just released the new Sample Browser for Windows 8. It’s available for download in the Windows Store from today! You can search code samples; learn code samples ... Great app for learning code on Windows 8! 0 0 0
Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 Last night, I was playing around with my port. I was having a bit of a problem getting the mouse click to behave as I expected. In a fit of inspiration, I solved that problem in such a way that it allowed ... Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps 0 0 0
ALM Mag – Harnessing the cloud for Performance Testing Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Recently my blog post ‘Leveraging the cloud for Performance Testing’ got featured in the ALM Mag Vol. 1 Issue 1 – January 2013. Figure 1 – Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure – featured in ALM ... ALM Mag – Harnessing the cloud for Performance Testing 0 0 0
Paul Preiss visiting the IASA South Florida Chapter 02/20/2012 Rainer Habermann, January 1, 0001 IASA SE Florida Chapter Event - Enterprise Architecture in TransformationDate/Time: February 20th, 2013 @ 6:00 PMLocation: Citrix-Systems - Town Center Meeting Area, 6363 NW 6th Way, Fort Lauderdale, FLSign ... Paul Preiss visiting the IASA South Florida Chapter 02/20/2012 0 0 0