Google Chromebook is best Christmas present for kids Ken, January 1, 0001 Each child this year seemed to have a Christmas list that included a Mac Book and/or iPad. Since the budget is nearer to stone tablet and chisel this just wasn’t going to be their year. However, I did ... Google Chromebook is best Christmas present for kids 0 0 0
NOW AVAILABLE: Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine and Hand... John Alexander, January 1, 0001 From Brian Keller: “I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine along with 6 hands-on-labs / demo scripts. This marks an exciting milestone in our journey ... NOW AVAILABLE: Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine and Hand... 0 0 5
Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 BizTalk Adapter doesn’t w... Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 has a 32-bit BizTalk Adapter which is not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows or BizTalk. Under Windows Server 2003, the AX 4.0 Adapter would not even install on the 64-bit ... Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 BizTalk Adapter doesn’t w... 0 0 0
Thoughts on Optimization and a first look at RedGate's ANTs Perfo... Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 In this blog post I intend to capture some thoughts on code optimization in general and on how the new version of RedGate's ANTs Performance Profiler can be used to "optimize optimization". As developer's ... Thoughts on Optimization and a first look at RedGate's ANTs Perfo... 0 0 0
Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve just published a web-browsalbe version of “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide”. “The Developers Guide to AppFabric” has been re-branded, and has a new title of “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer ... Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide 0 0 0
Setting a variable when a breakpoint hits jkauffman, January 1, 0001 Occasionally I run into a problem difficult to reproduce in that it takes a laborious amount of tinkering. Sometimes I’ve gone through the work of plugging away at the user interface or forcefully moving ... Setting a variable when a breakpoint hits 0 0 3
Closures and Captured Variable C# rajeevr, January 1, 0001 1 What are closures? 1.1 Evolution of Delegates in C# 1.2 Delegates => Closure 2 Captured Variable 2.1 Value of Captured variable 2.2 Lifetime of Captured Variable 1 What are closures? Closures are ... Closures and Captured Variable C# 0 0 1
IASA SE Florida Chapter Meeting Report 02/21/2012 Rainer Habermann, January 1, 0001 Nina Grantcharova gave an excellent presentation about Enterprise Architecture Patterns with details and examples in front of a large audience. Nina answered many questions and gave a complete overview ... IASA SE Florida Chapter Meeting Report 02/21/2012 0 0 0
A SharePoint session for you at BASIS SOFTEXPO 2012 MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 -Who is interested about SharePoint Web Development but looking for a guideline how to start? A SharePoint Technical session will be held on Tomorrow 12PM at BASIS SOFTEXPRO 2012. I hope you already registered ... A SharePoint session for you at BASIS SOFTEXPO 2012 0 0 2
Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 This post is in continuation with my earlier post, so you may want to read that first before continuing. Once I removed all the TasksController files and the TodoItem, I chose the Models folder, right ... Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... 0 0 43
Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Single Page Application Frameworks are gaining popularity in the ever evolving web community with lot of libraries such as JavaScriptMVC, Backbonejs and many other libraries. ASP.NET MVC 4 introduces experimental ... Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... 0 0 35
Android tutorial–Adding images to your custom multi-line Li... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 In a previous post I showed how to create a custom Android ListView that was bound to an ArrayList. I've had a few people ask how to include images in the ListView, so here it is. We’ll do this by adding ... Android tutorial–Adding images to your custom multi-line Li... 0 0 2
TechEd for Novices, 2012 Edition Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 In 2007, Microsoft created a "Tips for the Newbie" page for TechEd (which is apparently no longer available) and I created a follow-on post called Tech·Ed for Novices. I created a similar post in 2008 ... TechEd for Novices, 2012 Edition 0 0 1
WinForms and MVP: Making a testable application lennykean, January 1, 0001 With modern frameworks available that were built with loose coupling and separation of concerns in mind, working in WinForms may seem like a testability wasteland. But there are times when the options ... WinForms and MVP: Making a testable application 0 0 6
Type initializer for [ClassName] threw an exception jkrebsbach, January 1, 0001 I was helping a coworker with some code changes on a windows console application, when suddenly the entire program refused to load:The type initializer for [program] threw an exception.was thrown at the ... Type initializer for [ClassName] threw an exception 0 0 0
Why no flash on Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod? Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 A good article by the man himself as to why Flash is not supported on iPhones, iPads and iPods, at http://www.apple.com/hotnew... there is also a long history between Apple and Adobe ... Why no flash on Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod? 0 0 1
BizTalk Amazon S3 Adapter Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 A few days ago I read an article by Richard Seroter comparing the different cloud storage options and comparing Windows Azure and Amazon S3. I commented on his blog about how Id like to see companies use ... BizTalk Amazon S3 Adapter 0 0 5
An Open Letter to Mint.com Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Windows Phone has now been out for just over a year and Mint.com has had four active threads on their support forums for almost the same amount of time (here, here, here, and here). Out of the four requests, ... An Open Letter to Mint.com 0 0 0
Staff of Geeks will be in London in March Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 John and I will be making a visit to the UK in March for a week and we are very excited. If we have any London based bloggers or readers, please let us know if you would be up for a gathering while we ... Staff of Geeks will be in London in March 0 0 0
Nivo Slider In SharePoint 2010!?! juanlarios, January 1, 0001 A little while ago I was part of architecting and leading a project and one of my very talented ex-coworker was in charge of doing most of the branding. He incorporated the Nivo Slider as part of the rotating ... Nivo Slider In SharePoint 2010!?! 0 0 7
Who Follows Coding Standards? tom, January 1, 0001 Standards You've probably done it. I know I have and I'm not too proud to admit that I've stepped outside the lines a time or two and not followed my company's coding standards to a T. Have you done the ... Who Follows Coding Standards? 0 0 2
Converting Hyper-V to VMWare Robert May, January 1, 0001 Our company is standardizing on VMWare for a number of reasons. I won’t list them here, but wanted to write about a problem that I had using VMWare Standalone Converter version 5.0 to convert Hyper-V virtual ... Converting Hyper-V to VMWare 0 0 4
Developing BizTalk Server 2010 solution for integrating with Peop... Vishal, January 1, 0001 In this post we will see few of the initial steps for developing BizTalk Solutions for integrating with PeopleSoft Enterprise Systems using PeopleSoft Adapter. In order to proceed further, you must have ... Developing BizTalk Server 2010 solution for integrating with Peop... 0 0 2
Setting the background in a Blackberry Playbook AIR app midoBB, January 1, 0001 Many mobile apps define a texture as a background.Especially those on tablets like the iPad. So to make your app more appealing you can add a Background Texture to your app.Fortunately Blackberry provided ... Setting the background in a Blackberry Playbook AIR app 0 0 0
CKS tools to Package Columns\Content Types\Lists Templates and Li... juanlarios, January 1, 0001 I have some basic rules when it comes to checked in code to TFS. The one at the top of the list of rules is that, any developer should get the latest code from TFS, deploy and have a working web part, ... CKS tools to Package Columns\Content Types\Lists Templates and Li... 0 0 0
A “near miss” using DirectX’s Nearest-Point Sam... jkauffman, January 1, 0001 Summary I ran into a visual issue using DirectX (in C# via SlimDX) in which the texture filtering was not aligning properly. This is difficult to describe in words, so read the fully explanation below. ... A “near miss” using DirectX’s Nearest-Point Sam... 0 0 0
Windows Phone Marketplace Requests Custom Statuses Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Thanks to the UserVoice team for enabling custom statuses on Windows Phone Marketplace Requests! I have added a few additional statuses (I’m still working out exactly what makes the most sense), but the ... Windows Phone Marketplace Requests Custom Statuses 0 0 0
How to migrate an InfoPath form from test to production in ShareP... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 In order to migrate (copy) an InfoPath form from one environment (say test to production), there are several things to consider. First, does your form use a data connection to retrieve or submit data? ... How to migrate an InfoPath form from test to production in ShareP... 0 0 7
Restoring removed thumbnails in Google Chrome “New Tab&rdqu... Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Normally the thumbnails at the new tab page are organized by how often you visited a page. But after removing such a thumbnail by clicking the little gray cross at the right top corner deactivates the ... Restoring removed thumbnails in Google Chrome “New Tab&rdqu... 0 0 10
Impressions, slides and code from TechDays Belgium and Netherland... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Update: Posted the video of “MVVM Applied” below. This week I was “on tour” in Belgium and Netherlands and presented 3 times: Read the rest of this entry » ... Impressions, slides and code from TechDays Belgium and Netherland... 0 0 0
A Super-Fast C# Extension Method using Expression Trees to Create... Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 Having written an extension method to create an instance from a Type and been a bit underwhelmed by its performance, I looked into exactly what was happening and have now got it working much, much faster.To ... A Super-Fast C# Extension Method using Expression Trees to Create... 0 0 13
Solving the ObservableCollection bug on Windows 8 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 If you tried to build applications for Windows 8 with XAML/C#, you may have noticed an annoying issue: If you have a list controls (for example a GridView) and you bind the ItemsSource property to a property ... Solving the ObservableCollection bug on Windows 8 0 0 0
We have statistics (that don't prove anything.) Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 I had a few minutes of free time at the Windows Phone Garage. During that time, I created the Statistics object for Card Roulette. Of course, all it does is count the types of cards in a deck. With this ... We have statistics (that don't prove anything.) 0 0 0
app_offline.htm doesn't work as expected during deployment pvanhouten, January 1, 0001 Let me start off by stating that I am in no way an expert on MSBuild, writing build scripts, MSDeploy, Web Deploy, etc. I learned a lot in this process about those things which helped me find a workable ... app_offline.htm doesn't work as expected during deployment 0 0 0
Tweaks to Card Roulette Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 I made some tweaks to Card Roulette. I added some quick interface code so I could make sure the Decks and Cards were working as expected. This lead to the addition of the ability of to add a card to a ... Tweaks to Card Roulette 0 0 0
MVP Spotlight Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Each week, the different MVP Leads send out an email communication to their MVPs letting us know about upcoming events and other things relevant to us. As part of that newsletter, an individual MVP is ... MVP Spotlight 0 0 0
Launch of Geekswithblogs.net Short URLs | wblo.gs Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 Today we launched a new feature on Geekswithblogs.net to make it easier to share your posts with short URLs. The domain we are using is wblo.gs and you can share individual post or you can share you main ... Launch of Geekswithblogs.net Short URLs | wblo.gs 0 0 0
Book Review - .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Few days ago I have received an invitation from Packt Publishing to review this book. I myself is a big fan of Generics and is very interested about it, so I've decided to give it a go. Thank you for letting ... Book Review - .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide 0 0 1
Red Gate Releases The Next Version of Their Performance Profiling... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Red Gate launched the Ants Performance Profiler 7.0 product today. This application is simply amazing! SharePoint 2010 support! Decompilation without PDB using Reflector’s engine! Azure and EC2 Support! ... Red Gate Releases The Next Version of Their Performance Profiling... 0 0 0
I'm Baaaaaaaa-aaacccckkkkk Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 Well, hello there. I have returned after 5 months of radio silence. Those of you that follow me on Twitter or G+ know that my wife and I welcomed a new child in mid-December, which explains most of my ... I'm Baaaaaaaa-aaacccckkkkk 0 0 1
APress Deal of the Day - 16/Feb/2012 - Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS"This book will immerse you in a variety of advanced topics, including architecting different application ... APress Deal of the Day - 16/Feb/2012 - Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS 0 0 0
Screenshots of my #mvvm demo at #techdaysbe Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Today I gave a talk in TechDays in Belgium about MVVM in Silverlight 5, Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8. This was the first time I gave that particular talk, and in addition keep in mind this is a developer ... Screenshots of my #mvvm demo at #techdaysbe 0 0 0
Comment Spam | Results After Akismet Launch Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 Just a few months after the launch of the new total site spam tools, I have some very good early results. Right now about 45% of all feedback left on the site has been flagged as spam by the service. That ... Comment Spam | Results After Akismet Launch 0 0 0
In the mind of a New Hire…. IndyTechCenter, January 1, 0001 On January 3, embarks the new start for 24 individuals. When I started with Kronos we all were escorted to the office and quickly noticed the graffiti wall. This particular wall demonstrates a unique picture ... In the mind of a New Hire…. 0 0 0
Unit Testing an MVVMLight Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) application 80n, January 1, 0001 If you're like me and are using MVVMLight to build Windows Phone apps, you probably want to unit test your ViewModels as well. One of the benefits of the MVVM pattern is the separation of concerns between ... Unit Testing an MVVMLight Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) application 0 0 1
Full Version of AdventureWorks database for SQL Azure and and SQL... ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 Some Background The AdventureWorks database has been around for over a decade; a staple amongst sample databases. The first version of the AdventureWorks database appeared in time for SQL Server 2000. ... Full Version of AdventureWorks database for SQL Azure and and SQL... 0 0 1
Error while connecting with BizTalk Server Enterprise Adapter. (P... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Commonly when you try to connect the Enterprise Applciatons with BizTalk Adapters you might get errors like : E-PSFT0029: JVM was not started OR Unable to find JAVA_HOME. As the error says, it is unable ... Error while connecting with BizTalk Server Enterprise Adapter. (P... 0 0 0
REDUCED SQL Azure Pricing! ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 You asked for it, you got it! To help meet the needs of existing and future SQL Azure customers, Microsoft has announced that they are lowering the price of SQL Azure, and as well introducing a 100MB database ... REDUCED SQL Azure Pricing! 0 0 0
Windows application to a cross-platform web-based solution withou... Webgui, January 1, 0001 A Windows healthcare application for clinics and physicians needed a cost-effective way to accommodate all operating systems without reducing the existing functionality and security. Since users use a ... Windows application to a cross-platform web-based solution withou... 0 0 2
Updated release for XPMore TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 There is an updated release of XPMore at http://xpmore.codeplex.com/... is an excellent free utility for managing Windows 7 Virtual Machines (XP Mode and any other). I used to run ... Updated release for XPMore 0 0 0