Slides for Windows Azure Developer Track on Monday 23rd Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 This is a placeholder for the folks who attended the Microsoft UK tech days developer track on the Windows Azure Platform and asked me to share my decks asap. I will create a much more detailed posting ... Slides for Windows Azure Developer Track on Monday 23rd 0 0 0
First blog entry raccoon_tim, January 1, 0001 This is my first blog entry on geekswithblogs.net. I will mainly be blogging about my experiences in C/C++ and Visual Studio but I will also blog about other technologies and languages when something interesting ... First blog entry 0 0 0
Adding Intellisense to Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 ECM... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 Several people have already written about how to add Intellisense to Visual Studio for SharePoint 2010’s Client Object Model (ECMAScript or JavaScript). Here’s one that I followed: http://praveenbattula.blogs... ... Adding Intellisense to Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 ECM... 0 0 0
Free eBooks from Microsoft/MSDN Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Just reminder of a post I wrote back in December. Don’t forget that there is a variety of free ebooks available for download on a number of different developer and IT topics. Developer subjects include ... Free eBooks from Microsoft/MSDN 0 0 0
Upgrading VSCommands2010 Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 VSCommands2010 adds multiple convenient features to Visual Studio 2010. For instance, one feature of VSCommands2010 I use frequently is the ability to visually "Group" partial classes in Solution Explorer. ... Upgrading VSCommands2010 0 0 2
A few tips for working with XAML inside of Visual Studio 2010. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 If you work with XAML day in and day out then surely you will have your own tips/tricks for working inside of Visual Studio 2010. Here are mine. I hope that you find them useful. Tip #1 When Double Clicking ... A few tips for working with XAML inside of Visual Studio 2010. 0 0 4
Introducing Debugger Canvas Power Tool for VS 2010 Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Oh this is just too cool… check out the new Debugger Canvas Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010. You have got to watch the demo video. It’s called the Debugger Canvas and the best news is that it’s going ... Introducing Debugger Canvas Power Tool for VS 2010 0 0 0
Microsoft Visual Studio - Vnext Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 There have been some great announcements at the Tech-ed North America 2011. The announcements have been around, Enhanced User Experience Agile Planning Tools Lightweight Requirements Stakeholder Feedback ... Microsoft Visual Studio - Vnext 0 0 0
Automating a Visual Studio Build with PowerShell - Part 1 Dittenhafer Solutions, January 1, 0001 One of the several hats I wear at work is one of configuration manager for the internal data management application my employer uses. This app currently has 11 solutions of active code which need to be ... Automating a Visual Studio Build with PowerShell - Part 1 0 0 4
Seatest v0.04 Released! Simple Unit Testing for C code. DesigningCode, January 1, 0001 I’ve released a new version of seatest which fixes some little bugs / flaws and also introduces global setup / teardowns. It can be found at http://code.google.com/p/se... I’ve found it really useful ... Seatest v0.04 Released! Simple Unit Testing for C code. 0 0 0
Highlight Report Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 Its been a while since I blogged. Its been hard balancing blogging time, work and many other activities. Most my days and even evenings have been cluttered with a number of tasks ranging from mundial to ... Highlight Report 0 0 1
Tech Ed 2011: The Wide-Open Road, at 55 MPH andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 For Microsoft these days, great things are happening at the macro level, and yet there’s fits-and-starts progress down below. This year’s Tech Ed North America conference represented, in event-form, that ... Tech Ed 2011: The Wide-Open Road, at 55 MPH 0 0 1
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 - training kit Natasa Gavrilovic, January 1, 0001 If you are trying to get up to speed on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 you can get a training kit from Microsoft website for free. It is 411 MB exe file and after install you can navigate thru ... Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 - training kit 0 0 1
jqGrid y Asp.net, un primer acercamiento Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 Luego de varios días de intenso trabajo, hoy he tomado un pequeño espacio de tiempo para dedicar un post al trabajo con datos en forma de tablas en asp.net Todos los que hemos trabajado desde hace bastante ... jqGrid y Asp.net, un primer acercamiento 0 0 29
Visual Studio vNext simonc, January 1, 0001 At TechEd this year, there's only a few sessions and expo booths aimed squarely at devs rather than sysadmins and DBAs, but one of the things I picked up on was what's going into Visual Studio vNext. There's ... Visual Studio vNext 0 0 4
IntelliTrace Answers from my DEV320 Talk at Tech Ed 2001 NA Mickey Gousset, January 1, 0001 [Updated with an answer to Question 3] Once again I want to thank everyone who came out for my talk on IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate yesterday at Tech Ed 2011! After querying some MVPs and ... IntelliTrace Answers from my DEV320 Talk at Tech Ed 2001 NA 0 0 0
Free .NET Decompiler from JetBrains? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 All right this is a repeat, but it well worth you having the email I have recieved from those nice people at JetBrains. Following recent developments in the .NET decompiling tools market, JetBrains is ... Free .NET Decompiler from JetBrains? 0 0 0
Orchestration debugging–how to disable it (or enable it) Thomas Canter, January 1, 0001 Recently I was working in the Staging environment at my current client. A Debugging Opportunity occurred and I needed to trace into a Called Orchestration. “No symbolic information was found for this orchestration. ... Orchestration debugging–how to disable it (or enable it) 0 0 0
Tech Ed 2011: T-3 Days Till My Tech Ed Presentation Mickey Gousset, January 1, 0001 Wow, where does the time go? Here I am, sitting in the Memphis airport on Sunday evening, waiting for my flight to Atlanta for Tech Ed 2011 – North America. I love going to Tech Ed, as it is the conference ... Tech Ed 2011: T-3 Days Till My Tech Ed Presentation 0 0 0
Suppressing Add-in-registration task during build process Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 If you develop ArcGIS Add-ins with Visual Studio under limited permissions you get during the build process an error, that the stuff could not be registered. Normally its enough to run one times this build ... Suppressing Add-in-registration task during build process 0 0 0
Updated Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Available Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Microsoft has released an updated virtual machine for Visual Studio 2010 RTM including TFS, Microsoft Test Manager, all the bits. Also includes sample projects and hands on labs. The previous version expires ... Updated Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Available 0 0 0
Telerik "Just Code" Ben Bastiaensen, January 1, 0001 My visit to TechDays paid off really will since i got a free copy of Telerik "Just Code". And this is a really nice tool to add to Visual Studio. JustCode assists in code analysis, refactoring, code formatting, ... Telerik "Just Code" 0 0 0
HSLS syntax highlight in Visual Studio 2010 Vitus, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2010 is not support built-in syntax highlight for HLSL, and I found great soultion – NShader – HLSL\ GLSL \ CG - Shader Syntax Highlighter add-in for Visual Studio. And now editor window ... HSLS syntax highlight in Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
ESRI 2011: Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit ArcObjects Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Vorkenntnisse: Kenntnisse einer Programmiersprache sind hilfreich. Zielgruppe: Dieser Workshop richtet sich an alle Softwareentwickler und Softwarearchitekten, die Lösungen in Form von ArcGIS Desktop Erweiterungen ... ESRI 2011: Professionelle Softwareentwicklung mit ArcObjects 0 0 0
New version of the Inmeta Build Folder Extension terje, January 1, 0001 The 1.0.1 version of the Build Folder Extension is now out and can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Code Gallery at http://visualstudiogallery.... ... New version of the Inmeta Build Folder Extension 0 0 0
Using the MailDefinition class in .NET Framework 4 Console Applic... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 One of my colleagues pinged me to check, how to use the MailDefinition class for creating formatted mails from a .NET Console Application. She was referring to this article http://www.search-this.com/... ... Using the MailDefinition class in .NET Framework 4 Console Applic... 0 0 1
Report Builder needs to be less flexible... Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 Sometimes the IDE for building report definition files (rdlc and rdl) needs to be a little more constraining. How often do we run a report after some edit and get interspersed (nearly) blank pages? Since ... Report Builder needs to be less flexible... 0 0 0
Online code repository & version control Ahsan Alam, January 1, 0001 Recently, I felt the need to utilize online source code repository and version control system (SVN) for my personal project. As I started searching, I found plenty, and many of them are free of cost; however, ... Online code repository & version control 0 0 8
Deal Groupie – Learning WP7 and ASP.NET MVC 3 David Paquette, January 1, 0001 Lately, I have been taking some time to learn some new technologies. For me, the best way to learn a new technology is to jump head first into a project: Daily deal websites such as GroupOn, LivingSocial, ... Deal Groupie – Learning WP7 and ASP.NET MVC 3 0 0 2
Cool Resources: SharePoint Edition Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 One thing that has become clear over the last couple of years is the inclusion of helpful tools and resources in every Administrator’s Toolbox. Gary Lapointe created a PowerShell Cheat Sheet (a one pager ... Cool Resources: SharePoint Edition 0 0 0
XNA Custom Content Pipeline Extensions Sample Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 For the longest time, the Content Pipeline was a magic transmogrification device to me. I would add content to a content project and it would get mystically turned into stuff I would load in my game with ... XNA Custom Content Pipeline Extensions Sample 0 0 0
MVVM Light V3 on NuGet (now with WP7 support) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 There was already a version of MVVM Light on Nuget before. However the old version did not support Windows Phone 7. This is now corrected. Also the new version now adds a ViewModelLocator to your project ... MVVM Light V3 on NuGet (now with WP7 support) 0 0 0
Compact Framework Visual Inheritance P/Invoke Designer Error FranHoey, January 1, 0001 This is a problem I've struggled and struggled with. No workaround or fix I found on the internet worked. In fact the work around I finally got to work incorporates a combination of fixes. Symptoms The ... Compact Framework Visual Inheritance P/Invoke Designer Error 0 0 2
WCF adapter change causing BizTalk project build failure due to m... Edmund Zhao, January 1, 0001 If you organize your BizTalk projects based on the type of artifacts, e.g., a solution contains schema project, pipeline project, map project, orchestration project, you might often encounter build failure ... WCF adapter change causing BizTalk project build failure due to m... 0 0 1
Windows Azure Diagnostics Notes Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Boot Camp: Diagnostics (http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.... Remote desktop MonAgentHost.exe starts Auto, listener wired up in app/web.config Need to define a storage account User can set quota ... Windows Azure Diagnostics Notes 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 -- #1084 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, David Anson, Rob Tiffany, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Performance Optimization ... Silverlight Cream for May 04, 2011 -- #1084 0 0 0
SilverlightShow, CodeStock and Devlink lined up for the next coup... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I just finished delivering 4 sessions for www.sswug.org at the end of April 2011. Above is a screenshot that was taken inside of the studio. Now, I am going to do a webinar on Silverlight 5 then head to ... SilverlightShow, CodeStock and Devlink lined up for the next coup... 0 0 2
NuGet 1.3 and the NuGet Package Explorer Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 NuGet (pronounced NewGet), is an open source .Net Package Management Tool compatible with Visual Studio 2010 both Express and Commercial Editions. This simple-yet-powerful tool offers a simple way for ... NuGet 1.3 and the NuGet Package Explorer 0 0 0
Awesome VS 2010 extensions I can't live without deadlydog, January 1, 0001 With the ability to extend Visual Studio 2010, lots of great extensions have popped up. These not only increase productivity, but make the whole coding experience much nicer. To find and install extensions, ... Awesome VS 2010 extensions I can't live without 0 0 0
What do you use for Database Source Control? Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 I have found myself using more and more of the tools Red Gate software makes. They have proven (to me) to be effective and to the point. This time I am talking about SQL Source Control. Simple to use, ... What do you use for Database Source Control? 0 0 0
Dynamically change Body Background-image! intermark, January 1, 0001 What if you need to dynamically change the Body Background-image based on whether the Page IsPostback? You have a CSS Stylesheet for the page, and that Stylesheet has a background-image defined for the ... Dynamically change Body Background-image! 0 0 0
ReportViewer local – rdlc – handle subreports with mu... intermark, January 1, 0001 1: using System; 2: using System.Collections; 3: using System.Configuration; 4: using System.Data; 5: using System.Linq; 6: using System.Web; 7: using System.Web.Security; 8: using System.Web.UI; 9: using ... ReportViewer local – rdlc – handle subreports with mu... 0 0 0
ReportViewer local - Add a line number to the .rdlc textbox intermark, January 1, 0001 //Add a line number to the .rdlc textbox: use this formula =RowNumber(nothing) //ReportViewer Conditional Formatting of BorderStyle based on whether anything is in the report. =iif(CountRows()=0,"None","... ... ReportViewer local - Add a line number to the .rdlc textbox 0 0 2
Implement handlers for the DataGridView control's CellValidating ... intermark, January 1, 0001 The CellValidating event handler is where you determine whether the value of a cell in the SchoolName column is empty. If the cell value fails validation, set the Cancel property of the System.Windows.Forms.DataGr... ... Implement handlers for the DataGridView control's CellValidating ... 0 0 0
…Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is... intermark, January 1, 0001 I am using VS2008 in a Vista Ultimate environment. Here is the complete error message: ”Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, ... …Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is... 0 0 2
How to force update of Intellisense without opening and closing a... intermark, January 1, 0001 In Visual Studio 2008, I periodically see the error in the status bar: ”Error updating JScript Intellisense, see Error list” HOWEVER, there are no errors about this in the Error list! And, the site compiles, ... How to force update of Intellisense without opening and closing a... 0 0 0
Colorado Rapids Suffering from "”Mysterious White Box ... intermark, January 1, 0001 As you can see from the screen-shots below, the syndrome may be fatal to their Website! Figure 1 In Figure 1, notice the prominent white-box (which is supposed to be a menu drop-down list) covering the ... Colorado Rapids Suffering from "”Mysterious White Box ... 0 0 0
Eclipse Vs Visual Studio cyberycon, January 1, 0001 As Harry Hill might say, "I like Visual Studio. And I like Eclipse. But which one is better? Only one way to find out…" For a lot of people a lot of the time, the question is irrelevant. If you are doing ... Eclipse Vs Visual Studio 0 0 18
Friendly visual studio solution names for working with multiple b... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 If you have the latest version of the Visual Studio 2010 extension VSCommands you can give your solutions friendly names that display in the window’s title bar. This is nice when you are working in different ... Friendly visual studio solution names for working with multiple b... 0 0 6
JustTrace and JustDecompile Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 Telerik has released two new tools, still in beta, for download, JustTrace and JustDecompile. JustTrace Profiler Types Live Data Attach to Running Process Visual Studio Integration Profiling Child Processes ... JustTrace and JustDecompile 0 0 1