Windows Phone 7 TextBox InputScope Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I originally started looking for how to make a TextBox have autocomplete capability. Strangely all the articles said that it couldn’t be done. The last thing you want is for your applications to make your ... Windows Phone 7 TextBox InputScope 0 0 2
Updating WinForms progress bar using Tasks from Task Parallel Lib... Lukasz Kurylo, January 1, 0001 I'm not a desktop application developer. I wrote only one app using the WinForms, but I must tell, it was interesting experience. Now I'm writting second WinForms app and second time, I needed the possibility ... Updating WinForms progress bar using Tasks from Task Parallel Lib... 0 0 0
Handling Windows Phone 7 Back Button Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 When you have an application that navigates to more than one level of pages you find situations where you don’t want to go back to the previous page. Originally I was thinking that the answer was to capture ... Handling Windows Phone 7 Back Button 0 0 0
FREE One Day Windows Azure Discovery Workshops for product author... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 In September we will start to deliver monthly workshops on the Windows Azure Platform to help Microsoft partners who are developing software products and services and would like to explore the relevance ... FREE One Day Windows Azure Discovery Workshops for product author... 0 0 0
Microsoft and Windows Azure–deploying a customer facing app... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I often get asked about how we are using Windows Azure internally and under NDA I can share some of the details – but its great to be able to point publicly at some of the excellent work that has been ... Microsoft and Windows Azure–deploying a customer facing app... 0 0 0
Check out the new Building Windows 8 blog – B8 Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 A new blog has appeared from the engineering team to have a two-way dialog with you about design choices, real-world data and usage, and new opportunities that are part of Windows 8. We showed you a preview ... Check out the new Building Windows 8 blog – B8 0 0 0
Practical Window Phone 7 ListBox Usage Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Almost every example of a Silverlight ListBox that I have found merely shows how to get data bound to it, not what to do once you get it there. What good is a ListBox that you can’t get a reference back ... Practical Window Phone 7 ListBox Usage 0 0 0
Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010 Issues BWCA, January 1, 0001 Several Outlook 2010 users with Exchange 2010 mailboxes reported the following issues. When creating a new message and adding a Universal distribution list to the To: field, they attempt to expand the ... Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010 Issues 0 0 2
Sending Large Arrays With WCF Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Windows Communication Foundation is a powerful tool for building contract based messaging. As with most powerful technologies with flexibility comes a fair amount of complexity. I ran into one of these ... Sending Large Arrays With WCF 0 0 0
SharePoint 2010 MY Links without My Sites David Jacobus, January 1, 0001 I have a client that desired to have the MOSS 2007 capability of My Links but in no way wanted My Sites in SharePoint 2010. I took some steps that gave them the capability of My Links by creating a personalized ... SharePoint 2010 MY Links without My Sites 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2011 -- #1131 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Michael Crump, Nigel Sampson, Ben Gracewood, Jeremy Likness, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, Morten Nielsen(-2-), and Alex Sorokoletov. ... Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2011 -- #1131 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 Key Silverlight Page Events Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Often times you want to you need to update a page when you enter it or save information automatically when you leave it. When you look through the events list on the property page you won’t find an event ... Windows Phone 7 Key Silverlight Page Events 0 0 2
2 Good Reasons to update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh Updat... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 So, you grabbed the latest Mango Build and installed it on your phone. Now your probably thinking, Why should I update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh? Well, I will give you two good reasons. New Screen ... 2 Good Reasons to update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh Updat... 0 0 1
Do You Know The Costs Of Garbage? Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 If you want to write scalable applications with a high throughput you need to take care of good data structure design to make your application scale. If you want to read for example 200 MB data from a ... Do You Know The Costs Of Garbage? 0 0 3
More Windows Phone 7 Panorama Notes Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The saga goes on. There is always something more to learn. While I thought that ManipulationCompleted would do the trick from me it turned out it won’t. It turns out that if you want to figure out what ... More Windows Phone 7 Panorama Notes 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 Panorama Page Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Creating a WP7 application with a Panorama page is fairly simple. Teaching it to do tricks is another thing altogether. As with most development controls the key is to learn the event model along with ... Windows Phone 7 Panorama Page 0 0 0
Chrome going native raccoon_tim, January 1, 0001 Microsoft isn’t the only one who seems to be pushing native computing once again. We’re now seeing Google at the same table with the current beta release of Chrome. Yes, Chrome now supports native applications ... Chrome going native 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 11, 2011 -- #1130 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Mike Taulty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Oscar Agreda, and Morten Nielsen(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx" Mike Taulty WP7: "New Video ... Silverlight Cream for August 11, 2011 -- #1130 0 0 0
MSMQ and WCF – queue length limit of 124 characters John Breakwell, January 1, 0001 The KB article is so short, I may as well paste it in. KB article 2021894 MSMQ ReceiveContext does not receive messages from the queue and no exception is thrown On a computer that is running Windows Server ... MSMQ and WCF – queue length limit of 124 characters 0 0 0
Removing Linux Bootloader on Windows 7 Make IT Easy, January 1, 0001 After installing Linux, on my personal machine, I realized I don't use it very much, or at all. So, I wanted it gone. A few months ago I tried to just delete the partition and go on, but the bootloader ... Removing Linux Bootloader on Windows 7 0 0 0
Nominate Visual WebGui now for your chance to win a Free ProStudi... Webgui, January 1, 0001 DevProConnections and WindowsITPro are now accepting nominations for the 2011 Community Choice Awards. These awards allow you to nominate developer products and services for special recognition. We’d like ... Nominate Visual WebGui now for your chance to win a Free ProStudi... 0 0 8
Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2011 -- #1129 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Morten Nielsen(-2-), Mike Gold, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, and Oscar Agreda. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight MVVM Code Smith Templates" Oscar ... Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2011 -- #1129 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2011 -- #1128 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Rajat Jaiswal, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, and Oscar Agreda. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for August 09, 2011 -- #1128 0 0 0
Silverlight, My Love, Please Don’t Go Away MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 Occasionally I write a rant or two and this one has been boiling for ages. First off you need to read Mike Watson’s Blog Post on Silverlight Ambiguity in Office 365: http://jmikewatson.wordpres... ... Silverlight, My Love, Please Don’t Go Away 0 0 1
PowerShell - Defragment Make IT Easy, January 1, 0001 Windows Server 2008 R2 has a built in Scheduled Task that defragments your hard drive sometime over night. But, I was wondering if this is actually working, and on one server I have found it isn't. So, ... PowerShell - Defragment 0 0 0
Parallel Programing, PLINQ and Globalization George Mamaladze, January 1, 0001 I’m going to start with a simple code snippet which sorts an array of strings using LINQ. 1 IEnumerable<string> line = new[] {"Z","A","Ä"}; 2 var result = line.OrderBy(letter => letter); 3 Console.WriteLine("{0}", ... Parallel Programing, PLINQ and Globalization 0 0 0
Communicator Call Issue BWCA, January 1, 0001 Recently, several enabled Remote call control (RCC) users reported that they were having issues making phone calls from Communicator. When they attempted to call a number, they got a “Cannot locate <user>” ... Communicator Call Issue 0 0 0
MVC 3 and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010–August... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 The new version of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 i.e. the August 2011 release just got out. You can read and download it from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/win... ... MVC 3 and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010–August... 0 0 5
Silverlight Cream for August 08, 2011 -- #1127 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Ollie Riches, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Mike Taulty, Den Delimarsky, Derik Whittaker, Oscar Agreda, Austin Andrews, Manas Patnaik, and Jesse Liberty(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for August 08, 2011 -- #1127 0 0 0
SilverlightShow for August 1 - 7, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 1 - 7, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: ... SilverlightShow for August 1 - 7, 2011 0 0 0
TFS 2010 Power Tools–August 11 Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 The TFS 2010 Power Tools, August 11 release shortly on its way, read more about the teaser here at Brian Harrys blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bha... ... TFS 2010 Power Tools–August 11 0 0 0
Another free tool - A Ruler for Windows TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 When working on Web Forms and Windows forms, it is useful to be able to measure height and width on the screen. I have used Iconico ruler before and it is a very useful gadget. Download it from http://www.arulerforwindows... ... Another free tool - A Ruler for Windows 0 0 0
AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new H... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Its been a while since I played with Web forms, AJAX stuff. I was curious in checking out, particularly how the AJAX Control Toolkit which used to be my favorite in the past is evolving. There is a new ... AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new H... 0 0 6
Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 - 2 -- #1126 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), Derik Whittaker, Peter Kuhn, Michael James, XamlNinja, Adam Kinney, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Alex Sorokoletov(-2-), and Den Delimarsky. Above the ... Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 - 2 -- #1126 0 0 0
Patch Tuesday 9th August TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Next Tuesday Microsoft will release patches to fix 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio. Be prepared to patch your PCs. Details are at: http://www.microsoft.com/te... ... Patch Tuesday 9th August 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 -- #1125 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Mike Talbot, Michael Washington, Davide Zordan, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Pete Brown, Dhananjay Kumar, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Peter Torr, ... Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 -- #1125 0 0 0
Working on part 2 of series for PHILLYNJ.NET RonGarlit, January 1, 0001 Just an update .... I'm currently working on the next presentation in the multi-part of a series on the Applied Design Patterns project called “AdventureWorksDesignPatterns” . It has been a busy summer ... Working on part 2 of series for PHILLYNJ.NET 0 0 0
Automated installer for MVVM Light V3! Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 For a very (too) long time, the installation procedure for MVVM Light sucked. It involved downloading and unzipping files in various locations. Unfortunately, creating an automated installer is not completely ... Automated installer for MVVM Light V3! 0 0 0
Windows Phone Garage event - Jacksonville, FL - 8/27/2011 Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 Hey everyone... I'm throwing a Windows Phone Garage event in conjunction with Jacksonville Code Camp!! If you're looking to learn about Making Games for Windows Phone 7 with XNA, this is the place you ... Windows Phone Garage event - Jacksonville, FL - 8/27/2011 0 0 1
Silverlight at the speed of light! Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 If you plan to use Silverlight for Windows Embedded on an i.MX53 from Freescale, give a look at: http://www.adeneo-embedded.... Adeneo Embedded ... Silverlight at the speed of light! 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2011 -- #1124 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Oren Gal, Oscar Agreda(-2-), Michael Washington, Mike Gold, John Papa, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty(-2-), András Velvárt, and Derik Whittaker. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "here is a Complete ... Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2011 -- #1124 0 0 0
Dallas TechFest 2011 August 12-13 T, January 1, 0001 After a few months of work, I am very happy to announce that the Dallas TechFest Speaker line up and schedule is full and finalized. You can find it on the Dallas TechFest website or on Michael Perry’s ... Dallas TechFest 2011 August 12-13 0 0 0
SilverlightShow for July 25 - 31, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for July 25 - 31, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: LightSwitch: We Now Have Our ... SilverlightShow for July 25 - 31, 2011 0 0 0
Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction One of the things that I recently had someone show me was using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. I later found out that this was demoed at MIX11 ... Using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to... 0 0 1
Migrate Database to SQL Azure Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 This is very cool Just found this fab, tool to generate all the insert statements you need from a SQL database. If you have SQL Server 2008 R2 Installed - Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Publishing\... ... Migrate Database to SQL Azure 0 0 0
Using GMap.NET – Great Maps for Windows Forms & Present... saifkhan, January 1, 0001 Recently I was working on a project where I needed to implement mapping functionality - I am not new to mapping technology, as a matter fact, a few years back I created my own Winform mapping control which ... Using GMap.NET – Great Maps for Windows Forms & Present... 0 0 58
New Version Avaliable - Windows Azure Tools for VS2010 Shaun, January 1, 0001 This morning I got the information that the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 - August 2011 Upgrade had been released. The version of this new upgrade is 1.4.40727.1601 with the Windows Azure ... New Version Avaliable - Windows Azure Tools for VS2010 0 0 0
Does Visual Studio LightSwitch have a place in the SharePoint spa... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Recently, I have found myself using Visual Studio LightSwitch more and more. And needless to say, it got me thinking about a strategy for LightSwitch in a SharePoint environment. Yes, the product positions ... Does Visual Studio LightSwitch have a place in the SharePoint spa... 0 0 1
Connector for Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Onl... Shaurya Anand, January 1, 0001 Keeping things short and simple, here I am will demonstrate on how to setup synchronization between Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 using the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. ... Connector for Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Onl... 0 0 2
"Cancel me if you can" or PLINQ cancelability & responsiveness in... George Mamaladze, January 1, 0001 Download Source Code Challenge Just had the first chance to apply PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) to the real task. When I am playing around with some new technology everything works fine, the real understanding ... "Cancel me if you can" or PLINQ cancelability & responsiveness in... 0 0 3