Windows 2008: Yeah! xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 Its coming. Brand new OS for those of us Microsoft fans and also the masses. Check out this post for the news from Build: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/... ... Windows 2008: Yeah! 0 0 0
Working with Android on Windows and without Cygwin raccoon_tim, January 1, 0001 Our engine is written in almost pure C++ with some part in C# that run on Mono. The code base is huge which mans that we’re primarily looking for platforms that support C++ development. Looking at the ... Working with Android on Windows and without Cygwin 0 0 0
Dallas event: Windows Phone Camp Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 What's a Windows Phone Camp? A free, full day event chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or just getting started with .NET ... Dallas event: Windows Phone Camp 0 0 0
Live Blogging Build Keynotes D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 We're 10 minutes away from the Build keynote, and I'm going to be live blogging the event. Now, to be clear, you shouldn't just read this - I mean, the keynotes are streaming live online. But I want to ... Live Blogging Build Keynotes 0 0 0
//Build/ - Day 0 D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Today was Day 0 of the Microsoft Build conference here in Anaheim - a day for attendees to travel, get their registration done early, and set up their session schedule for the remainder of the week.But ... //Build/ - Day 0 0 0 2
Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 The world of Bash is new to me so for those going through the same experience I thought I would list a few things to save time. Some of these are specific to me, while others may have general use. Useful ... Some Basic Bash Commands I found useful for Git Bash 0 0 2
TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Download Demo - LINQpad Query In this blog post I’ll be showing you how to query TFS using LINQpad. 1. Download LINQpad Those who are familiar with LINQpad know its benefits and ease of use, i would urge ... TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS 0 0 2
Google Feeds API shehan, January 1, 0001 I was given with a simple requirement – create an online component that has the ability to pull RSS feeds asynchronously from websites. I could have written a server control, but that would mean I would ... Google Feeds API 0 0 0
Research for the Week–How IIS Works Mike Huguet, January 1, 0001 In the world of custom web application development a critical component of our success is the hosting environment and services. We can choose to deploy our web applications using 3rd party hosting providers ... Research for the Week–How IIS Works 0 0 1
//BUILD - 2 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 //BUILD - 2 Well... here I am in Anaheim, on 9/11, a day early for the Billy Hollis PreCon tomorrow. Sitting here wondering what this week is going to bring. I believe there are a few people I count as ... //BUILD - 2 0 0 5
New Release of SQL Azure Shaun, January 1, 0001 On the 9th Sep, the SQL Azure team announced that the new version of SQL Azure had just been release. In this version not only the SQL Azure engine had been upgraded, the SQL Azure Management Portal had ... New Release of SQL Azure 0 0 0
Windows 8 a fitting competitor for the Apple iPad iOS Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Although Android tablets have been gaining increasing market share, they are still not as popular as the iPad, could Microsoft challenge the tablet market with their new OS Windows 8? It certainly looks ... Windows 8 a fitting competitor for the Apple iPad iOS 0 0 2
Changing “Trusted Sites” list affected HttpWebRequest in applicat... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We have a webscraper ASP.Net application, that worked fine on developers and test environments, but didn’t work on some machines with more strict security settings. HttpWebRequest failed with System.Net.WebException: ... Changing “Trusted Sites” list affected HttpWebRequest in applicat... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2011 -- #1145 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, David Anson, Cheryl Simmons, Ryan Alford, Peter Kuhn, Ollie Riches, Mike Hole, Allen Lee, WindowsPhoneGeek, Mike Taulty, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, and Vikram ... Silverlight Cream for September 09, 2011 -- #1145 0 0 0
Necessity to lock your workstation lavanyadeepak, January 1, 0001 Most of our computers have sophisticated desktop locking tricks. Even in the older style Windows 98 we did have 'Password protected screensavers'. Why were they for? When we step away of computers there ... Necessity to lock your workstation 0 0 0
This .NET Guru can cook!! Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Come on, who doesn’t love a good cheeseburger? Ok, I’ll rephrase that. Other than the Chik-fil-a cows and vegetarians, who doesn’t like a good cheeseburger? Check out this episode of the Grapevine TV’s ... This .NET Guru can cook!! 0 0 0
EMR - TB Module Deployment Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 Today, We deployed the “David Blaine” version of the TB Module for our EMR solution here at IDI (http://idi.mak.ac.ug). This was mainly for bug fixes and usability improvements based on the feedback that ... EMR - TB Module Deployment 0 0 1
Is Patch Tuesday coming early this month? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 I have had a report that Patch Tuesday is coming early this month. I suggest that you run Windows Updates periodically this weekend. Is Patch Tuesday coming early this month? 0 0 0
I am proud to announce that I have joined Telerik. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 2011 has been a very exciting year for me so far. I was awarded the Microsoft Silverlight MVP. I was renewed as the DZone MVB. I was awarded as a GeeksWithBlog Influencer. I won the CodeProject Windows ... I am proud to announce that I have joined Telerik. 0 0 8
Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction You might have noticed that the Silverlight 5 (Release Candidate) is out. One of the new features included in the RC is the ability to call P/Invoke. In this short demo, we will write a Silverlight ... Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 08, 2011 -- #1144 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Tony Champion, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Justin Angel, and Shawn Wildermuth(-2-). Above the Fold: ... Silverlight Cream for September 08, 2011 -- #1144 0 0 0
SilverlightShow for August 29 - Sept 04, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 29 - Sept 04, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Windows Phone 7 MVVM ... SilverlightShow for August 29 - Sept 04, 2011 0 0 0
What do I expect from Build Windows? Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 Well, quite a lot actually. The fact that the official agenda is completely empty (they're not even telling us who is doing the keynote ontheir website) leaves us with wondering what will happen. Of course, ... What do I expect from Build Windows? 0 0 0
Reading Registry value using T-SQL kazim sardar mehdi, January 1, 0001 DECLARE @RegLoc VARCHAR(100) select @RegLoc='SOFTWARE\Microsoft... NT\CurrentVersion' EXEC [master].[dbo].[xp_regread] @rootkey='HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', @key=@RegLoc, @value_name='ProductName' The above ... Reading Registry value using T-SQL 0 0 1
Build Windows, 13 - 16 september 2011 Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 I will be attending Build Windows next week. It's a funny thing: there is literally nothing known about the contents. Well, there is: it's going to be about Windows 8 and Touch. When I read that last part ... Build Windows, 13 - 16 september 2011 0 0 0
HTC lanza sus smartphones con Windows Phone 7 Mango jogarriot, January 1, 0001 Para los que quieren smartphones con Mango, cada vez hay más a la venta. La compañía Taiwanesa HTC es la segunda en sacar lanzar smartphones con Windows Mango. Mango es la última versión del sistema operativo ... HTC lanza sus smartphones con Windows Phone 7 Mango 0 0 0
Awesome Visual Studio Videos deadlydog, January 1, 0001 I watched an awesome Channel 9 Visual Studio Tips And Tricks video, so I thought I'd share. Some great VS gems in there. Even a few Windows 7 ones, like using Alt+D to jump to the address bar in Windows ... Awesome Visual Studio Videos 0 0 1
Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” - Building Windows 8 ... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 This is huge – and a welcomed addition. Been waiting too long for this. Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs ... Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” - Building Windows 8 ... 0 0 0
Windows phone 7 - Why does it not support unmanaged code? AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 I went through a lot api's for windows phone 7 and couldnt find a single way to include my unmanaged code in it. Is there any way to do the same. If not why is it so ? Even in .net, microsoft allows unmanaged ... Windows phone 7 - Why does it not support unmanaged code? 0 0 2
St. Louis Day of .NET 2011 - Sessions Materials Muljadi Budiman, January 1, 0001 I have to say that it has been awhile (just over a year actually) since I've updated my blog. I feel embarassed. On the other hand, I have been quite busy - so it's not like I don't do it because I am ... St. Louis Day of .NET 2011 - Sessions Materials 0 0 1
Use CE Debugger Extension (CeDebugX) to Find Stack Size Kate Moss' Open Space, January 1, 0001 I have introduced a method to detect the stack size and other stack info during runtime in this article http://geekswithblogs.net/K... But what ... Use CE Debugger Extension (CeDebugX) to Find Stack Size 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2011 -- #1143 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tony Champion, Ollie Riches, Gill Cleeren, Koen Zwikstra(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Xianzhong Zhu, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Sumit Dutta(-2-), Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar(-2-), ... Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2011 -- #1143 0 0 0
Creating Development Certificates for WCF Token and Transport Sec... Jamie Kurtz, January 1, 0001 When developing WCF services that interact with a custom Security Token Service (STS), you will need to create at least one X.509 certificate. If you have access to a trusted certificate authority – e.g. ... Creating Development Certificates for WCF Token and Transport Sec... 0 0 0
Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011 Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 I received a surprise mail from Microsoft saying that I’ve been recognized as Microsoft Community Contributor for the year 2011. I am delighted that my contributions in TFS and ALM space have been recognised ... Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2011 -- #1142 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Lee, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, XamlNinja, Ollie Riches, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown(-2-, -3-), Dhananjay Kumar, Sumit Dutta, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2011 -- #1142 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2011 -- #1141 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Tony Champion, Kevin Hoffman, Pete Brown(-2-), Mike Gold, Jeremy Likness, Xpert360, Den Delimarsky, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Vikram Pendse, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2011 -- #1141 0 0 0
Red Gate Ants Memory Profiler 7.1 – Initial thoughts and ge... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I was really excited when I heard Red Gate wanted a review of their memory profiler done. I have been a fan of Red Gate products for years… being first exposed to their products via reflector a few years ... Red Gate Ants Memory Profiler 7.1 – Initial thoughts and ge... 0 0 0
Laying Out Windows Phone 7 ListBoxes Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 A listbox can be a very boring display surface, but it doesn’t have to be. Ok, so it may never be exciting. At least we can create a more flexible output. The first element you need to learn about his ... Laying Out Windows Phone 7 ListBoxes 0 0 0
Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 RC mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Today the release candidate of Microsoft’s Silverlight 5 was released to the public. If you want to know “What’s new in Silverlight 5” then check out this page on Silverlight.net and continue reading the ... Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 RC 0 0 1
MVVM light V3 installer for non-English systems Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 After I released the MVVM Light installer, I got a note saying that parts of the installation failed on non-English systems (in that case a German installation of Expression Blend and Visual Studio). Specifically, ... MVVM light V3 installer for non-English systems 0 0 0
NullReferenceException when calling the Retrieve method of the Or... Geordie, January 1, 0001 I have recently started to update a very successful SAP CRM integration I originally built 5 or 6 years ago. We have recently started the implementation of CRM 2011 so the business has decided to take ... NullReferenceException when calling the Retrieve method of the Or... 0 0 0
Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction By now, most of you have heard that Windows Phone 7 – Mango release will support Local Databases (SQL CE) using Linq to SQL. But what you probably haven’t heard much about is how to extract ... Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 -- #1140 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-), Andrea Boschin, Peter Kuhn, Shawn Wildermuth, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Pete Vickers, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Chad Campbell, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, ... Silverlight Cream for August 31, 2011 -- #1140 0 0 0
Red Gate | SQL Compare Review Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 To start, I love Red Gate Software’s Tools. I have loved them since the first time I started using SQL Backup and SQL Compare when I first started Geekswithblogs.net. I think they create quality products ... Red Gate | SQL Compare Review 0 0 3
Fall 2011–East Coast Phone Camps Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 From Joe Healy’s Dev Fish Blog but worth repeating!! What’s a Windows Phone Camp? For those who went to our "Windows Phone Garage" series last year, its one of those. For those new to the scene, its a ... Fall 2011–East Coast Phone Camps 0 0 0
FormsAuthentication Ignores web.config LoginUrl Settings Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 Today, I was testing a Web site for deployment and encountered the problem described in the subject of this post. However, the process leading up to realizing the true problem was far from clear. This ... FormsAuthentication Ignores web.config LoginUrl Settings 0 0 1
Git Revisited MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Having worked with TFS & SVN for a while now, I recently was put in a position where I had to get up to speed with Git. My only experience with Git up to now was attending a brief presentation on the ... Git Revisited 0 0 0
Time Make IT Easy, January 1, 0001 Over the past couple of days I have noticed that our time on our computers just keeps getting further and further off. I noticed that our Domain Controller had the incorrect time, so, after doing some ... Time 0 0 0
TFS SDK: Workspace Explorer & Statistics Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 The Team Explorer is a wonderful view of the position of your version control in the team foundation server. However, there is no one window of such truth available for the workspace. I am a very active ... TFS SDK: Workspace Explorer & Statistics 0 0 19
3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction Have you ever wondered how to update the Application Tile in your Windows Phone 7 Mango application? Me too. But before we dig in, let’s look at the properties of a Tile. Microsoft defines ... 3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango 0 0 0