Mounting VHD comes to Windows Explorer in Windows 8 Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 I'm glad to see that mounting a VHD file has escaped the Computer Management (Disk Management) administrator console in Windows 7, and made it to Windows Explorer in Windows 8. That should make the feature ... Mounting VHD comes to Windows Explorer in Windows 8 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 29, 2011 -- #1139 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Gill Cleeren, Shawn Wildermuth, WindowsPhoneGeek, Erno de Weerd, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Post Comments Using Silverlight" Asim Sajjad ... Silverlight Cream for August 29, 2011 -- #1139 0 0 0
WCF Deployment To IIS Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 If you are developing you WCF service for web service deployment under IIS and coding with the Visual Studio web server you are in for a rude awakening when it comes time to deploy your solution. Ok, so ... WCF Deployment To IIS 0 0 0
Using HTML5 Local Storage in ASP.NET Applications Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 I recently delivered a Zeollar session on Using HTML5 Local Storage in ASP.NET Applications Following it up with a blog post on the contents, since a few mentioned that the code was not better aligned/readable. ... Using HTML5 Local Storage in ASP.NET Applications 0 0 6
Where has the last 6 months gone! BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Well simply put - flat out on a big Government IT project. This is due to go live next month and I'll be writing a number of pieces here on it. Built on BizTalk, WCF, Windows Foundation, MVC, Entity framework ... Where has the last 6 months gone! 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2011 -- #1138 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Asim Sajjad, Thomas Martinsen, Johan Danforth, Kunal Chowdhury, Loek van den Ouweland, XAMLNinja, WindowsPhoneGeek, Erno de Weerd, Sumit Dutta, and David Yack. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2011 -- #1138 0 0 0
Upcoming Projects rodelljr, January 1, 0001 I know I haven't been blogging like I should be. Been playing alot of PC games in my free time. I will dial down some of that for some upcoming projects. I will be doing mobile applications in both Android ... Upcoming Projects 0 0 0
SharpBox 1.1 SR1 Dirk Eisenberg, January 1, 0001 Our brand new and first service release for SharpBox 1.1 is out. This is the first release which follows the idea to deliver every 4 to 6 weeks a small service release with the latest bugfixes from the ... SharpBox 1.1 SR1 0 0 0
What can TFS do for me, as an IT Pro? An Overview. Part 1 of 3. Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Let’s define what this should mean and be about. How can I as an IT Pro be able to use TFS for the tasks and activities I normally do. Whether it is controlling a project or creating scripts and such. ... What can TFS do for me, as an IT Pro? An Overview. Part 1 of 3. 0 0 1
SmartAssembly 6.1 Review Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a GeeksWithBlogs.net Influencers review. This time, I had the opportunity to check out Red Gate’s SmartAssembly 6.1, which is a integrated collection of tools for ... SmartAssembly 6.1 Review 0 0 0
Using XSLT with ASP.NET controls Lukasz Kurylo, January 1, 0001 In my previous post I have shown how we can use a C# function in the XSLT. Now I want to go one step further and use in the transformation the ASP.NET controls along with their events. Let's start from ... Using XSLT with ASP.NET controls 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2011 -- #1137 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, Loek van den Ouweland, XAMLNinja, Ollie Riches(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Den Delimarsky, and Sumit Dutta. Above the ... Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2011 -- #1137 0 0 0
Hotkey for creating a new folder in windows 7 explorer DesigningCode, January 1, 0001 This blog post is entirely trivial, but I just discovered it! As a keyboard centric guy I like to drive most of windows through the keyboard. One thing that’s always annoyed me in explorer is the difficulty ... Hotkey for creating a new folder in windows 7 explorer 0 0 3
Microsoft releases Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 If your question is, what is this? or perhaps more around … what does this mean? Let me explain a bit about it. Microsoft has been providing this type of services through partners within a given competency ... Microsoft releases Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services 0 0 0
JaxCodeCamp 2011 - AgileThought Team on-board! Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Excited to come speak at JaxCodeCamp this coming weekend, there are many amazing session and speakers! Jacksonville .NET Code Camp - http://jaxcodecamp.com What: All day geek fest focusing on code and ... JaxCodeCamp 2011 - AgileThought Team on-board! 0 0 0
Who says Silverlight can’t run on a tablet? mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction: One of the concerns that I keep hearing from customers is, “We can’t deploy Silverlight because it won’t run on a tablet.” I usually reply to that question stating, “What do you mean it can’t ... Who says Silverlight can’t run on a tablet? 0 0 4
Call C# code inside Silverlight application on click of Custom Ri... Nilesh, January 1, 0001 Here is the screenshot of final output. Here is what PoC is doing 1. There is Silverlight application hosted in CRM on custom area-subarea. This in-turn needs two web resources 2. There is Custom button ... Call C# code inside Silverlight application on click of Custom Ri... 0 0 4
Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2011 -- #1136 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Sigurd Snørteland, Kunal Chowdhury, Todd Brix, MIke Ormond, XAMLNinja, Ollie Riches(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Morten Nielsen, and Gill Cleeren. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for August 23, 2011 -- #1136 0 0 0
I’m a Survivor… MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 I’ve had a lot of bad things happen to me in my life. The past few weeks I believe have been a huge test I’ve had some problems with my personal life and some natural disasters. I was thinking during this ... I’m a Survivor… 0 0 2
Classic ASP in Windows Server 2008 R2 TheJuice, January 1, 0001 I had a bit a of trouble today getting some classic ASP pages to load in IIS 7. Here is what I had to do: 1. Install ASP Feature for IIS if it is not installed. Server Manager -> Roles -> "Role Services" ... Classic ASP in Windows Server 2008 R2 0 0 0
SharePoint 2010 Not Indexing OneNote 2010 files Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 Our SharePoint team at work noticed that our SharePoint 2010 farm wasn’t returning search results based on the contents of OneNote files that were saved in document libraries. I did a little research and ... SharePoint 2010 Not Indexing OneNote 2010 files 0 0 4
Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2011 -- #1135 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Gill Cleeren, Chris Koenig, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Ryan Alford, and Shawn Wildermuth(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Relative Source Binding in Silverlight" Kunal ... Silverlight Cream for August 22, 2011 -- #1135 0 0 0
Creating Emails For Windows Phone 7 Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 There are many reasons that you may want to add email capability to your Windows Phone 7 application. There are a number of ways you can communicate information out from an application. The mechanism for ... Creating Emails For Windows Phone 7 0 0 3
Platform Builder on Windows 7 (64-bit) "Tools Install Dir in regi... Doug Moore, January 1, 0001 Resolve "Tools Install Dir in registry is missing" and Remote Tools issues on Windows 7 (64-bit) system after Platform Builder is installed by exporting [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR... ... Platform Builder on Windows 7 (64-bit) "Tools Install Dir in regi... 0 0 2
DNS Meltdown Make IT Easy, January 1, 0001 Recently we upgraded to Hyper-V. Everything was working great, until Friday. I had just installed Windows Updates for August, and was going through and restarting our two domain controllers (on separate ... DNS Meltdown 0 0 0
Giving feedback on SQL Server “Denali” CTP3 and SQL A... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 SQL Server “Denali” is at CTP3 – and would therefore very much welcome feedback. SQL Azure continues an aggressive cycle of release - and would therefore very much welcome feedback. Which is why we have ... Giving feedback on SQL Server “Denali” CTP3 and SQL A... 0 0 0
When is it ok to come 10th and 5th? When the folks in front of yo... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Guy who runs the excellent DotNetDevNet user group out of Bristol posted back in June on the top speakers from the first 50 meetings and let me know I made the top 10 for knowledge (Cough! ) and presentation ... When is it ok to come 10th and 5th? When the folks in front of yo... 0 0 0
Deciding on Windows Azure – much more than just a technical... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 This post on the Windows Azure blog caught my eye as a) it includes UK early adopter eTVMedia and b) its an interesting look at the wider picture of adopting Windows Azure – including coming up with the ... Deciding on Windows Azure – much more than just a technical... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 - 2 -- #1134 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Beth Massi, Ryan Alford, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jeremy Likness, John Papa(-2-), Jeff Wilcox, Mike Ormond, Ollie Riches(-2-), and Mijail Cisneros. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 - 2 -- #1134 0 0 0
Quick FreeDrag Optimization Tip Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 Today, I just wanted to share a quick WP7 gesture trick. When you're using FreeDrag gesture, you get a lot of sample points every time you get an update1. Instead of processing them all, you really only ... Quick FreeDrag Optimization Tip 0 0 0
Using the Default Silverlight Page in a Window Phone Rich Graphic... Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 When Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 7.5 would support applications that contained both Silverlight and XNA, I was really excited. However, after I played with it, I ran into one little annoyance. ... Using the Default Silverlight Page in a Window Phone Rich Graphic... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 -- #1133 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Dhananjay Kumar, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, John Papa, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Andrej Tozon(-2-), and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: ... Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 -- #1133 0 0 0
TFS SDK: Work Item History Visualizer using TFS API Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Download from here If you track your project tasks against work items, you would know the importance of Work Item History. This is one way for you to reflect on who did what and when, some organizations ... TFS SDK: Work Item History Visualizer using TFS API 0 0 11
Slides / Code / Resources for my OData Talk at devLINK 2011. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 On August 19th 2011 I gave a presentation at devLINK titled, “Producing and Consuming OData in an Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Application”. As promised, here is the Slides / Code / Resources to my ... Slides / Code / Resources for my OData Talk at devLINK 2011. 0 0 0
Dev4Devs–with my GWB Influencers Shirt MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 So, it took a bit of time to arrive, but 2 weeks ago I received my GWB Influencers shirt in the mail. Perfect timing for my talk at Dev4Devs at Microsoft ... Dev4Devs–with my GWB Influencers Shirt 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2011 -- #1132 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this All Submittal Issue: Michael Washington, SilverlightShow(-2-), Mark Monster(-2-), Oren Gal, Andrea Boschin, Sigurd Snørteland, Peter Kuhn, Mijail Cisneros, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Gill Cleeren Above ... Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2011 -- #1132 0 0 0
Huge response to on-line AI course Charles Young, January 1, 0001 Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun are offering a free on-line course on AI later this year in conjunction with Stanford University. The course is broadly based on Peter Norvig's book "Artificial Intelligence: ... Huge response to on-line AI course 0 0 0
SharePoint 2010 Master Page with Code behind David Jacobus, January 1, 0001 I had added some code behind to a SharePoint 2010 master page and it worked beautifully! I followed Andrew Connell’s blog and article on MSDN. I had actually created two more master pages with an identical ... SharePoint 2010 Master Page with Code behind 0 0 1
MSDN vs. TechNet Mark Treadwell, January 1, 0001 For a period of time, I have access to both an MSDN and a TechNet subscription. Both offer Microsoft software for download. I wondered what the similarities and differences were between the two subscriptions. ... MSDN vs. TechNet 0 0 6
The Power Of Windows Phone 7 Tasks Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 One of the things that is important to learn when you are developing any application is how it will interact with the environment it lives in. I’m not talking about simply interacting with files or database ... The Power Of Windows Phone 7 Tasks 0 0 0
ZeroMQ blocking on the constructor for Context on Windows Server ... cdpcodingblog, January 1, 0001 We had an issue once we deployed our .Net 4.0 C# ZeroMQ solution to a Windows Server 2008 instance where the application would freeze up or block, seemingly on the initialization of our ZeroMQ library. ... ZeroMQ blocking on the constructor for Context on Windows Server ... 0 0 0
Windows mobile devices get 30.5% market share :-) Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Ok… it doesn’t really but this still cheered my Thursday eve. Whilst perusing the blog of BF3 I spotted that publisher behemoth EA were doing an “innocent poll” on mobile devices. As background, BF3 is ... Windows mobile devices get 30.5% market share :-) 0 0 0
FREE Online Windows Phone Mango training August 23rd and 24th Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! Microsoft Learning hosted a Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (plus an update course) last year and it was an absolute smash. Now that "Mango" has made such a huge splash, ... FREE Online Windows Phone Mango training August 23rd and 24th 0 0 0
Troubleshooting exchange web services marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 Since exchange versions from 2007 and up put more emphasis on the webservices for use in the distribution of the offline address book, out of office, the scheduling assistant and autodiscover (a.k.a outlook ... Troubleshooting exchange web services 0 0 4
Modify properties of “Git Bash Here” shortcut in Expl... Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Essentials Run the bash for this as administrator. The shortcut is located in the Git installation folder. "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Git”. Good Setting for the layout are: Screnn buffer size Width: 160 Height: ... Modify properties of “Git Bash Here” shortcut in Expl... 0 0 4
Did Google and HP Thread WP7’s Needle? andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 I’m on vacation this week, and I didn’t intend to write a blog post. But after the sea changes in the mobile computing industry and, ironically, my extra time to ponder it, I really couldn’t stay silent. ... Did Google and HP Thread WP7’s Needle? 0 0 1
MSMQ and cached IP addresses John Breakwell, January 1, 0001 Jimmy Bogard has blogged about his experiences after his hosting providers switched a number of servers from external IP addresses to NAT-ted internal ones. As Jimmy speculates, this was probably because ... MSMQ and cached IP addresses 0 0 0
Dreams WonderOfItAll, January 1, 0001 Poster-Comment Received a few comments on my Dreams posting and I never realized the posting was that sad/downer. I appreciate the kind words from those who commented. We've all been down a few times in ... Dreams 0 0 0
WCF Service Development Basics Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Part of the fun of being a consultant is that the technology you use changes from day to day. Recently it is WCF which, while knowing the concepts of since it came out I haven’t used up until now. The ... WCF Service Development Basics 0 0 0
Running Unit Tests against Azure Table and Blob Storage Rohit Gupta, January 1, 0001 While developing applications for Windows Azure, we are all aware that we need to create Web and Worker Roles and use the Azure Compute Emulator (previously known as the Development Fabric) for running ... Running Unit Tests against Azure Table and Blob Storage 0 0 2