Windows 8 Store App Crash Logs David Paquette, January 1, 0001 I was recently working on a Windows 8 app, and the application was crashing occasionally. When resuming the application, the app would crash and close immediately without providing any feedback or information ... Windows 8 Store App Crash Logs 0 0 1
Where'd My Data Go? (and/or...How Do I Get Rid of It?) David Paquette, January 1, 0001 Want to get a better idea of how cascade deletes work in Entity Framework Code First scenarios? Want to see it in action? Stick with us as we quickly demystify what happens when you tell your data context ... Where'd My Data Go? (and/or...How Do I Get Rid of It?) 0 0 0
VS2010 crashes when opening a vsp generated using VS 2012 Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 I recently profiled some web applications using Visual Studio 2012, a vsp (Visual Studio Profile) file was generated as a result of the profiling session. I could successfully open the vsp file in Visual ... VS2010 crashes when opening a vsp generated using VS 2012 0 0 0
Web optimization hmloo, January 1, 0001 1. CSS Optimization Organize your CSS code Good CSS organization helps with future maintainability of the site, it helps you and your team member understand the CSS more quickly and jump to specific styles. ... Web optimization 0 0 2
My Visual Studio Demo Video Link disappeared – How do I get... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 ***Special thanks to Adam Cogan for asking this question and to Andrew Bragdon for answering this question on the ALM Champs list.*** 1. Problem – The link to demo videos will disappear once you have watched ... My Visual Studio Demo Video Link disappeared – How do I get... 0 0 1
SharePoint Unit Testing and Load Testing Finally? Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 It has always been a real pain to incorporate extensive SharePoint Unit Testing and Load Testing in a project, could Visual Studio 2012 finally make this easier? It certaining looks like it, here's a brief ... SharePoint Unit Testing and Load Testing Finally? 0 0 1
Adding SQL Cache Dependencies to the Loosely coupled .NET Cache P... Rhames, January 1, 0001 This post adds SQL Cache Dependency support to the loosely coupled .NET Cache Provider that I described in the previous post (http://geekswithblogs.net/... ... Adding SQL Cache Dependencies to the Loosely coupled .NET Cache P... 0 0 0
VSDB to SSDT part 4 : Redistributable database deployment package... Etienne Giust, January 1, 0001 The goal here is to use SSDT SqlPackage to deploy the output of a Visual Studio 2012 Database project… a bit in the same fashion that was detailed here : http://geekswithblogs.net/8... ... VSDB to SSDT part 4 : Redistributable database deployment package... 0 0 0
VSDB to SSDT part 3 : command-line deployment with SqlPackage.exe... Etienne Giust, January 1, 0001 For our continuous integration needs, we use a powershell script to handle deployment. A simpler approach would be to have a deployment task embedded within the build process. See the solution provided ... VSDB to SSDT part 3 : command-line deployment with SqlPackage.exe... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now Live! Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Today was the formal launch event for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, a state-of-the-art development solution for building modern applications that span connected devices and continuous services, from ... Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now Live! 0 0 1
VSDB to SSDT Part 2 : SQL Server 2008 Server Project … wit... Etienne Giust, January 1, 0001 With Visual Studio 2012 and the use of SSDT technology, there is only one type of database project : SQL Server Database Project. With Visual Studio 2010, we used to have SQL Server 2008 Server Project ... VSDB to SSDT Part 2 : SQL Server 2008 Server Project … wit... 0 0 1
VSDB to SSDT Part 1 : Converting projects and trimming excess fil... Etienne Giust, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2012 introduces a change regarding Database Projects : they now use the SSDT technology, which means old VS2010 database projects (VSDB projects) need to be converted. Hopefully, VS2012 does ... VSDB to SSDT Part 1 : Converting projects and trimming excess fil... 0 0 0
VSDB to SSDT Series : Introduction Etienne Giust, January 1, 0001 At the office, we extensively use VS2010 SQL Server 2008 Database Projects and SQL Server 2008 Server Projects in our Visual Studio 2010 solutions. With Visual Studio 2012, those types of projects are ... VSDB to SSDT Series : Introduction 0 0 0
AutoHotkey cannot interact with Windows 8 Windows…or can i... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 If you’ve installed Windows 8 and are trying to use AutoHotkey (AHK) to interact with some of the Winodws 8 Windows (such as the Control Panel for example), or with apps that need to be Ran As Administrator, ... AutoHotkey cannot interact with Windows 8 Windows…or can i... 0 0 0
Adventures in Windows 8: Solving activation errors Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Note: I tagged this article with “MVVM” because I got a few support requests for MVVM Light regarding this exact issue. In fact it is a Windows 8 issue and has nothing to do with MVVM Light per se… Sometimes ... Adventures in Windows 8: Solving activation errors 0 0 0
Are you reporting Visual Studio 2012 issues to Microsoft correctl... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Issues you may run into while using Visual Studio need to be reported to the Microsoft Product Team via the Microsoft connect site. The Microsoft team then tries to reproduce the issue using the details ... Are you reporting Visual Studio 2012 issues to Microsoft correctl... 0 0 2
C++ Succinctly now available! Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 Over the summer I worked with SyncFusion to create an eBook based off of my C# to C++ guide for their free Succinctly Series of eBooks. Today the result, C++ Succinctly, was published for download. It ... C++ Succinctly now available! 0 0 5
Defaulting the HLSL Vertex and Pixel Shader Levels to Feature Lev... Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 I love Visual Studio 2012. But this is not a post about that. This is a post about tweaking one particular parameter that I’ve found a bit annoying. Disclaimer: You will be modifying important MSBuild ... Defaulting the HLSL Vertex and Pixel Shader Levels to Feature Lev... 0 0 0
VS2012 launches Sept 12 09:30 PDT 17:30 BST TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Next Wednesday (12th Sept 2012), Visual Studio 2012 will be officially launched at 09:30 PDT 17:30 GMT Details at http://www.visualstudiolaun... the video link is http://www.visualstudiolaun... ... VS2012 launches Sept 12 09:30 PDT 17:30 BST 0 0 0
ComponentOne: New Extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwi... Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 The ComponentOne team presents the most complete collection of extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch. This collection of ready-to-use extensions snaps right into your applications and extends ... ComponentOne: New Extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwi... 0 0 0
Adventures in Windows 8: Understanding and debugging design time ... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 One of my favorite features in Expression Blend is the ability to attach a Visual Studio debugger to Blend. First let’s start by answering the question: why exactly do you want to do that? Read the rest ... Adventures in Windows 8: Understanding and debugging design time ... 0 0 0
Localization in ASP.NET MVC – Upgraded Shaun, January 1, 0001 This is the upgraded version of one of my previous post named “Localization in ASP.NET MVC – 3 Days Investigation, 1 Day Job”. I updated my solution to the latest ASP.NET MVC 4, Visual Studio 2012 with ... Localization in ASP.NET MVC – Upgraded 0 0 32
Stackify Aims to Put More ‘Dev’ in ‘DevOps’ Matt Watson, January 1, 0001 Originally published on VisualStudioMagazine.com on 8/22/2012 by Keith Ward.The Kansas City-based startup wants to make it easier for developers to examine the network stack and find problems in code.The ... Stackify Aims to Put More ‘Dev’ in ‘DevOps’ 0 0 1
Adventures in Windows 8: Placing items in a GridView with a Colum... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Currently working on a Windows 8 app for an important client, I will be writing about small issues, tips and tricks, ideas and whatever occurs to me during the development and the integration of this app. ... Adventures in Windows 8: Placing items in a GridView with a Colum... 0 0 0
Support ARMv7 instruction set in Windows Embedded Compact applica... Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 On of the most interesting new features of Windows Embedded Compact 7 is support for the ARMv5, ARMv6 and ARMv7 instruction sets instead of the ARMv4 “generic” support provided by the previous releases. ... Support ARMv7 instruction set in Windows Embedded Compact applica... 0 0 1
Selling Visual Studio ALM Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Introduction As a consultant I have been selling Application Lifecycle Management services using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. I’ve been contacted various times by friends working in organization ... Selling Visual Studio ALM 0 0 0
VS2012 - How to manually convert .NET Class Library to a Portable... Igor Milovanovic, January 1, 0001 The portable libraries are the response to the growing profile fragmentation in .NET frameworks. With help of portable libraries you can share code between different runtimes without dreadful #ifdef PLATFORM ... VS2012 - How to manually convert .NET Class Library to a Portable... 0 0 4
Migrating VB6 to HTML5 is not a fiction - Customer success story Webgui, January 1, 0001 All of you VB developers in the present or past would probably find it hard to believe that the old VB code can be migrated and modernized into the latest .NET based HTML5 without having to rewrite the ... Migrating VB6 to HTML5 is not a fiction - Customer success story 0 0 1
TFS Shipping Cadence Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Brian Harry has formally announced a change to the TFS shipping cadence from the traditional 2-3 years to production cycle to a more agile and refreshing minimum once in a 3 weeks cycle! The change didn’t ... TFS Shipping Cadence 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: High Performance Computing Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 One of the most attractive ways to use a cloud platform is for parallel processing. Commonly known as high-performance computing (HPC), this approach relies on executing code on many machines at the same ... Windows Azure Recipe: High Performance Computing 0 0 0
New Beta of GhostDoc v4 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A new beta of GhostDoc v4 is available at http://submain.com/download... updated license key is at http://submain.com/blog/Gho... are some of the excellent features ... New Beta of GhostDoc v4 0 0 0
Determining if you’re running on the build server with MSBu... ParadigmShift, January 1, 0001 When you're customizing MSBuild in building a visual studio project, it often becomes important to determine if the build is running on the build server or your development environment. This information ... Determining if you’re running on the build server with MSBu... 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Social Web / Big Media Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 With the rise of social media there’s been an explosion of special interest media web sites on the web. From athletics to board games to funny animal behaviors, you can bet there’s a group of people somewhere ... Windows Azure Recipe: Social Web / Big Media 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2012 - Setting the target framework in C++ Projects Igor Milovanovic, January 1, 0001 The Visual Studio 2012 doesn’t have a UI to set the Target Framework in C++ Projects. Target Framework : 4.0 The online documentation does say to edit the .vcxproj project and change the TargetFrameworkVersion ... Visual Studio 2012 - Setting the target framework in C++ Projects 0 0 2
Deploying an SSL Application to Windows Azure – The Dark Se... ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 When working on an application that had been in production for some time, but was about to have a shopping cart added to it, the necessity for SSL certificates came up. When ordering the certificates through ... Deploying an SSL Application to Windows Azure – The Dark Se... 0 0 0
Are you cashing in on the MVP complimentary subscriptions ? Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 The two most asked questions in the Microsoft technology communities around the Microsoft MVP program are, 1. How do I become a Microsoft MVP? 2. What benefits do I get as an MVP? The answer to the first ... Are you cashing in on the MVP complimentary subscriptions ? 0 0 4
Neo4J and Azure and VS2012 and Windows 8 Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 Now, I know that this has been written about, but both of the main places (http://www.richard-banks.o... and http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/... ... Neo4J and Azure and VS2012 and Windows 8 0 0 3
Windows Azure Recipe: Mobile Computing Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 A while back, mashups were all the rage. The idea was to compose solutions that provided aggregation and integration across applications and services to make information more available, useful, and personal. ... Windows Azure Recipe: Mobile Computing 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Enterprise LOBs Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Enterprises are more and more dependent on their specialized internal Line of Business (LOB) applications than ever before. Naturally, the more software they leverage on-premises, the more infrastructure ... Windows Azure Recipe: Enterprise LOBs 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2012 first impressions...no Macros! bconlon, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 for the first time (all 8.5GB) and after 20 years of (mostly) happy times using VS they have removed Macros, one of the most handy features.The first ... Visual Studio 2012 first impressions...no Macros! 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Software as a Service (SaaS) Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 The cloud was tailor built for aspiring companies to create innovative internet based applications and solutions. Whether you’re a garage startup with very little capital or a Fortune 1000 company, the ... Windows Azure Recipe: Software as a Service (SaaS) 0 0 0
Windows Azure Recipe: Consumer Portal Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Nearly every company on the internet has a web presence. Many are merely using theirs for informational purposes. More sophisticated portals allow customers to register their contact information and provide ... Windows Azure Recipe: Consumer Portal 0 0 0
Windows Azure Training Kit – August 2012 Released Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 In this release of the training kit we have delivered 41 HOLs covering a wide variety of bug fixes and screen shot updates for Visual Studio 2012. We now have 35 Presentations with new content surrounding ... Windows Azure Training Kit – August 2012 Released 0 0 0
Windows 8–Getting started with ListView binding CSharpZealot, January 1, 0001 Most of the tutorials and quickstart articles on binding data to a list on the interweb at the moment, shows how to bind the data from a static array of data. I assume that this does have some actual benefits, ... Windows 8–Getting started with ListView binding 0 0 0
Nuget Errors and Microsoft not a trusted publisher? Aligned, January 1, 0001 I was having all kinds of problems with a new machine after installing VS 2012 RTM. First the Nuget Package Manager Console started spewing out this error: “ The following error occurred while loading ... Nuget Errors and Microsoft not a trusted publisher? 0 0 6
Campwood Source Monitor TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Campwood provide an excellent free tool for checking code for issues such as cyclomatic complexity.You can download Source Monitor from http://www.campwoodsw.com/s... I have found it very ... Campwood Source Monitor 0 0 0
O'Reilly deal of the day 21/Aug/2012 - Get Concurrent with C# TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's deal of the day from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... is Get Concurrent with C# (5.0!) "Stop struggling with threads, locks, and synchronization primitives. ... O'Reilly deal of the day 21/Aug/2012 - Get Concurrent with C# 0 0 0
The Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects you should be following Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 If you haven’t already, I would strongly recommend getting started with the great guidance documents produced by the Visual Studio ALM rangers. Project Name Description Release / Updated Applicable to ... The Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects you should be following 0 0 0
How to clear Visual Studio Team Explorer Cache Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Switching between Team Project Collections sometimes messes up documents and reports and gives a red X next to both these artefacts in Team Explorer. I have run into this several times in the last couple ... How to clear Visual Studio Team Explorer Cache 0 0 2
Issues with mixed C++ and C# projects in Visual Studio 2012 runni... terje, January 1, 0001 If you have projects created under Visual Studio 2010 (SP1), and mixed C++ and C# projects in the solution, and you are using other configurations than Debug/Release x86 you may hit a very strange situation ... Issues with mixed C++ and C# projects in Visual Studio 2012 runni... 0 0 0