Error Cannot map server path because it is not rooted beneath a t... Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 What happened: I have an online TFS account (if you don’t have one please go to visual studio and subscribe, free for 5 people team). I recently bought a surface pro and started creating various test projects. ... Error Cannot map server path because it is not rooted beneath a t... 0 0 5
BizTalk Automated Multi Server Deploy RobBowman, January 1, 0001 Background I’ve been working with BizTalk since 2006r1 (the one without the handy WCF adapters). Since that time I’ve tried various community offerings to improve the deployment process. In 2008 I was ... BizTalk Automated Multi Server Deploy 0 0 8
BizTalk: the Naming Conventions in Examples Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 See the BizTalk: BizTalk Solution Naming Conventions article. In small application we do not really care about names. When the number of objects start growing, we start pay attention to the names. Experienced ... BizTalk: the Naming Conventions in Examples 0 0 2
AppFx.ServiceBus – One Way Error Handling Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 In this article we will revisit the first sample about one way messaging and look at how the AppFx.ServiceBus framework implements error handling and retries. In this article we want to achieve the following: ... AppFx.ServiceBus – One Way Error Handling 0 0 232
Microsoft: A Brave New World BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 9th of February will be the start of the ‘Brave New World’ for Microsoft punctuated by the launch of Surface Pro and the re-launch of Windows 8. After the launch of the disappointing Surface RT we now ... Microsoft: A Brave New World 0 0 3
Azure Deployment Error: requested resources are too large for the... charlie.mott, January 1, 0001 source: http://geekswithblogs.net/c... I am using the Windows Azure PowerShell CmdLets to perform deployments of Cloud Services. This was all working well until I started to receive the error “total ... Azure Deployment Error: requested resources are too large for the... 0 0 0
Tips of the Week for Microsoft Products Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products Learn an amazingly useful tip about Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox, Visual Studio, and any other Microsoft products every 24 hours! Windows Tip: Dock ... Tips of the Week for Microsoft Products 0 0 0
Scratch–Programming For Kids Or Going Old School Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I was watching the TED session on Scratch after seeing it linked to in the DZone newsletter. I was interested to find out what it was and see if my kids might be interested in playing with it. Of course ... Scratch–Programming For Kids Or Going Old School 0 0 0
Why you Should be Using SQL Prompt! Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 You have probably seen this ad floating around the Internet. Probably see it on this very blog. If you are already familiar with this wonderful tool, the ad makes perfect sense to you. SQL Prompt is to ... Why you Should be Using SQL Prompt! 0 0 2
Windows Tip: Print PDF in Windows 8 Reader Tim Robinson, January 1, 0001 Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products Learn an amazingly useful tip about Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox, Visual Studio, and any other Microsoft products every 24 hours! Offered by Scott ... Windows Tip: Print PDF in Windows 8 Reader 0 0 0
Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working on this on and off for over a year now (having essentially restarted entirely in the latter half of 2012). At last it is finished. I give you a Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base. ... Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base 0 0 4
TFS2012 QU2 - New Feature - Work Item Tagging Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP1 as part of the TFS 2012 QU2 release. In this blog post I’ll be talking about some practical uses of ‘Work Item ... TFS2012 QU2 - New Feature - Work Item Tagging 0 0 1
A Day In The Life… of a Software Development Manager / Exe... jasont, January 1, 0001 I’ve realized as of late that I come home nearly every day (which, quite often is the next day) and do the following: - Say something along the lines of “what a day!” -Pour a big glass of a nice rye whiskey ... A Day In The Life… of a Software Development Manager / Exe... 0 0 6
TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Problem Definition I am about to take ownership of a TFS 2005 repository that has projects for BizTalk, SharePoint, SSIS, SSAS, different flavors of .NET, to complicate things, the customer is using different ... TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions 0 0 0
TFS In the Cloud! ryanabr, January 1, 0001 Late last year Microsoft launched TFS in the cloud at https://tfs.visualstudio.com. It is free for 5 users and less. Microsoft hasn’t completely worked out the pricing yet for larger teams, but that will ... TFS In the Cloud! 0 0 0
C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Unit testing is critical for quality code – they help you: find problems early facilitate change by avoiding breakage of other functionality simplify integration via a bottom up approach document the code ... C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest 0 0 1
Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 For probably over a year now I’ve been hearing lots of hype around package managers and NuGet in particular. I’ve never really “got it” – that is until last week. So what, NuGet will download the nHibernate ... Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet 0 0 1
Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products The blog posts an amazingly useful tip about Microsoft products every 24 hours, covering Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, ... Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products 0 0 0
Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products Tim Robinson, January 1, 0001 My friend Scott Ge started his “Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products” blog. http://www.scottge.com Scott posts an amazingly useful tip about Microsoft products every 24 hours, covering Windows, Office, ... Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products 0 0 0
Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 In this blog post I’ll show you the fix for the TF51011 exception (refer to the screen shot below), Blocked Tasks TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist. The error is caused by «'Demo\Release ... Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist 0 0 0
This is not the OnKeyDown you are looking for. Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 I've been working on porting my sample game code to WinRT. One of the immediate things I found is that there is no direct access to the keyboard buffer. I mean, sure. WinRT is meant to work with devices ... This is not the OnKeyDown you are looking for. 0 0 0
Why Won’t my SharePoint Project Open? MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So I kept getting this really weird “Unable to load Visual Studio Project” basically it was the I’m missing a template error message look in the output. I eventually realize there is a dependency for the ... Why Won’t my SharePoint Project Open? 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2012 Set Default Target Framework to DotNET4 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 First time you create a new project in Visual Studio 2012 the target framework is set us .NET 4.5. A lot of the fellow developers end up creating the project in .NET4.5 in accident. Figure 1 – Default ... Visual Studio 2012 Set Default Target Framework to DotNET4 0 0 0
How to change Rating values in Microsoft Feedback Client Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I had a customer request that they would like to change the value the Microsoft Feedback Client Rating gets translated to. Currently the stars in the Rating are mapped as follows, 0 – Not Rated 1 – Poor ... How to change Rating values in Microsoft Feedback Client 0 0 0
Too Many AutoHotkey Shortcuts To Remember? There’s An App F... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 I love AutoHotkey (AHK). Ever since I discovered it a little over a year ago I am constantly surprised and pleased with what I am able to accomplish with it. And there in lied my problem. Out of the box, ... Too Many AutoHotkey Shortcuts To Remember? There’s An App F... 0 0 9
A Recipe for Integrating the XNA GS Content Pipeline projects int... Michael Cummings, January 1, 0001 Overview There are several series from fellow Microsoft Evangelists on using MonoGame for your Windows 8 Store apps. I don’t want to duplicate what they have already done, so instead I’ll refer you to ... A Recipe for Integrating the XNA GS Content Pipeline projects int... 0 0 4
The Importance Of R&D For Consultants Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 In most companies it is important to keep up with the latest technologies. In a consulting firm it is critical because what you are selling is knowledge and experience. The ability for a consultant to ... The Importance Of R&D For Consultants 0 0 0
iOS and WP7/WP8 in SharePoint 2013 MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 As you guys know I have decided to start delving into mobile development. I bought a Macbook Air a few months back and I am now getting an HTC 8x. Here are some things that I have learned in my attempts ... iOS and WP7/WP8 in SharePoint 2013 0 0 0
Solving the ALM puzzle using Microsoft Suite of tools Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I presented a talk at the #vBug user group run by David Ringsell at Bristol. David in his day job runs his own venture known by the name of “Talk-IT” which provides training for developers. You can check ... Solving the ALM puzzle using Microsoft Suite of tools 0 0 0
ASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modules Cory Koski, January 1, 0001 Original article by Nilesh Hirapra, February 29th, 2012 Updated and revised by Cory Koski, January 15th, 2013 History This article is an updated version of the “ASP.NET MVC - Pluggable application modules/components/area/fea... ... ASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modules 0 0 56
VS12 Team Member Photos not showing in Chrome Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Issue The Team Members photo doesn’t show up in the Members section in the Team Home Page in Team Web Access when browsing using Chrome. However, the team members photo does show up as expected when browsing ... VS12 Team Member Photos not showing in Chrome 0 0 2
Windows 8 Hackathon Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Windows reimagined. Extraordinary apps.Combining the broad reach of Windows, best-in-class developer tools, a re-imagined user experience, and a built-in store, Windows 8 is the largest developer opportunity ... Windows 8 Hackathon 0 0 4
2012 in review Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing about starting my 4th year at IdentityMine, and here we are now, more than a year later. The year 2012 has been particularly interesting for all of us ... 2012 in review 0 0 0
Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ... Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 0 0 0
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I have been re-awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in Visual Studio ALM for 2nd year in a row. Thank you Microsoft for re-awarding me the MVP award, it’s a great feeling to start the ... Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM 0 0 7
The year 2012 in highlights! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 2012 has been an overwhelming year, I had my share of up’s and down’s. The year started on a high note with Microsoft presenting me the MVP award for Visual Studio ALM. I changed my availability status ... The year 2012 in highlights! 0 0 2
A Look Ahead to 2013 Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 It’s been a busy holiday season with a couple of flights to visit family. I ended up getting a few interesting tech related gifts this year. First, I’m enjoying a nice new sound system from Cyber Acoustics ... A Look Ahead to 2013 0 0 5
Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful. It’s a diagramming tool that allows you to draw ... Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! 0 0 2
Microsoft ends development of Expression Web ihaynes, January 1, 0001 On the 20th December 2012 Microsoft announced that development on the Expression Studio products was being stopped (In reality it had largely been stopped for many months). See http://expression.microsoft... ... Microsoft ends development of Expression Web 0 0 0
Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... Om Talsania, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET has a good number of default controls which usually satisfy your needs. Especially the ListView control, which is a template based fully customizable control which can be tweaked to suit your needs. ... Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... 0 0 29
BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 A source code could be downloaded from here.Global artifacts are usually tentative things. Languages and tools have different methods to limit the artifact visibility. Think about public and private variables, ... BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule 0 0 1
this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Recently I mentioned this.Log. Given the amount of folks that were interested in this.Log, I decided to pull this source out and make a NuGet package (well, several packages). Source The source is now ... this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance 0 0 0
C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 In my last post I discussed the approach we used at my job to convert an ASP .NET web forms application written in VB .NET to C#. In that post I alluded to some of the issues that we encountered during ... C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues 0 0 0
Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 A colleague of mine asked me how he can find out why his laptop does consume 30% CPU in the SYSTEM process after it did wake up from hibernate. That is easy I replied: Open Process Explorer select the ... Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way 0 0 1
Retrieving a list of eBay categories in a .Net 4.5 Windows Store ... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Previously I wrote a post on how to get the eBay category list using their .Net SDK. I wanted to try doing the same thing in a Windows Store App for Windows 8 using Visual Studio 2012, but quickly ran ... Retrieving a list of eBay categories in a .Net 4.5 Windows Store ... 0 0 1
My New Productivity Enhancer – SQL Complete by Devart Compudicted, January 1, 0001 As the new year is quickly approaching I am feeling increasingly worried about what goals I should be setting for 2013 as a database professional. I tried to get a glimpse back into 2012 analyzing trends ... My New Productivity Enhancer – SQL Complete by Devart 0 0 0
Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 This morning, Microsoft Channel 9 interviewed Mei Liang - Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - to introduce the newest Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio 2012 &2010. This ... Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... 0 0 1
TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working on a hobby project for the past little while, and I wanted to blog my way through it as I go. My intent is to use a lot of new technologies, agile best practices, and some trendy architecture ... TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro 0 0 0
Entity Framework for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1: Reverse Enginee... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I had a couple of minor delays setting up Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. Reverse engineering the database failed with the following error: “A processor named 'T4VSHost' could not be found ... Entity Framework for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1: Reverse Enginee... 0 0 0
Sharing DataAnnotations between the UI and the business logic Martin S. Johansen, January 1, 0001 Along with with .Net version 4.0 came DataAnnotations which is a library for validating properties in classes. The library consists of validation-attributes, core classes and interfaces for validating ... Sharing DataAnnotations between the UI and the business logic 0 0 1