A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog, I wrote about Building A Custom View Engine to Create Excel Files in MVC. In this blog, I skipped over the grammar that we might use in the View definition. I have had a few people email ... A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 5/Mar/2013 - Applied WPF 4 in Context TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at is Applied WPF 4 in Context"Applied WPF 4 in Context shows developers that applications don't exist by themselves—they sit in the real world, with its attendant ... APress Deal of the Day 5/Mar/2013 - Applied WPF 4 in Context 0 0 0
Some Windows 8 observations. (aka "Just can't keep quiet anymore... Lorin Thwaits, January 1, 0001 Almost a year and a half ago when I installed the first beta, the Start Menu was still present. In the next iteration, it was disabled by default but could be brought back with a registry hack on a per-user ... Some Windows 8 observations. (aka "Just can't keep quiet anymore... 0 0 0
Programming Is Not for Everybody? Everyone needs to be Encourage... Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 I just read this blog Programming Is Not for Everybody. I have to admit to being taken aback by the premise. I believe that in their heart of hearts everyone wishes that they could program computers. No ... Programming Is Not for Everybody? Everyone needs to be Encourage... 0 0 0
SQL Server - get last executed SQL statement Vipin, January 1, 0001 We all know the usage of sp_who2 command in SQL server, its life-saver when you need to know what's causing your query take longer time to execute or in other words who's blocking you r query.But, SQL ... SQL Server - get last executed SQL statement 0 0 9
What are Java Beans? Rahul Anand, January 1, 0001 JavaBeans are reusable software components written in Java. It is only a standard defined to follow a convention of class design. It enables the ability to transform Java Bean objects into a single object ... What are Java Beans? 0 0 0
Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I promised my friend Chuck that I would post the Power Shell script to get the list of most discussed topics and the tops writers in an email distribution list. Generally there are loads of emails that ... Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends 0 0 0
Azure Workshops–Update BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Solidsoft in conjunction with Microsoft has run a couple of of Azure workshops. Both were very well received and will be repeated in the future. Michael Royster of Microsoft commented: Over the last two ... Azure Workshops–Update 0 0 1
TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. This feature has officially ... TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... 0 0 0
Why Automated Tests Are So Great Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 I've recently done work at a company where there are no automated tests, and tests aren't part of the culture. I've been writing tests for so long now that it's jarring to consider working without them, ... Why Automated Tests Are So Great 0 0 0
GridView–Implementing Cascading DropDownList on Edit Mode Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Introduction: This question has been asked many times at the forums (http://forums.asp.net) and definitely there are already bunch of different solutions provided. Most of the examples from the web are ... GridView–Implementing Cascading DropDownList on Edit Mode 0 0 0
Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Several weeks ago we launched a new hub for Windows Azure on Channel 9. This hub will serve as an index and entry point for all video content related to Windows Azure. Since the launch we have already ... Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 0 0 1
Adding SQL Doc Documentation to your Project Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog post, we talked about using SQL Doc to stream line documenting your database. This tool makes it a lot easier to put the documentation close to the source so that it is more likely to ... Adding SQL Doc Documentation to your Project 0 0 0
O'Reilly Deal of the Week to 23:59 PT March 7 2013 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering 50% off all Early Release E-Books. With Early Release E-Books, you get access to books while ... O'Reilly Deal of the Week to 23:59 PT March 7 2013 0 0 0
Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2 Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 I finally downloaded the html client preview 2 to give it a run, had not had a chance to look at Lightswitch since last summer… http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lig... ... Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2 0 0 1
ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 So, as part of my on-going project I’ve recently made the decision to shift all my images (uploaded by ME and my USERS) to Azure Blob Storage, instead of the quite frankly ridiculous ‘unique folder system’ ... ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) 0 0 6
Teach Your Kid to Code – BaltoMSDN Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 This Wednesday my son and I will be presenting “Teach Your Kid to Code” at BaltoMSDN. We did this presentation in November at CMAP and had a great turnout! We hope to see you (and your child!) on Wednesday ... Teach Your Kid to Code – BaltoMSDN 0 0 0
MVP Summit 2013 D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I got back on Thursday last week from the Microsoft MVP Summit in the Seattle area. MVPs are tech community leaders who are awarded annually by Microsoft based on their contributions and leadership. They ... MVP Summit 2013 0 0 3
Step-by-Step: Deploying Windows 8 Apps with System Center 2012 Se... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Among a whole host of new management features, Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager adds the ability to now deploy and manage Windows 8 apps for enterprises. These Windows 8 apps ... Step-by-Step: Deploying Windows 8 Apps with System Center 2012 Se... 0 0 3
Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 The nice folks at Syncfusion reached out to me last week to tell me a little bit about their Succinctly series of books. As they describe the concept, their goal is take 500+ pages of content and distill ... Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly 0 0 0
Notepad 6.3++ now available TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Earlier this month, the Notepad++ developers released their version 6.3. Notepad++ is replacement for the original Notepad. It is:1) Very fast to load2) Adapts to a variety of programming languages by ... Notepad 6.3++ now available 0 0 0
Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team has just released the new Sample Browser for Windows 8. It’s available for download in the Windows Store now! Go and get it and get access to over 5000 pieces of ... Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 0 0 0
Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 0
Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 1
MVP Summit 2013 Recap Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 Just sitting in the Seattle airport finally returning home from my first MVP Summit (well in truth I’m flying directly to my next client, no home till next weekend). As I said this was my first time attending ... MVP Summit 2013 Recap 0 0 2
New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 As versions of the server products have changed, and a more “modern” interface and cleaner display is about. Well, so are the Visio stencils we should be using when designing our infrastructure or enterprise ... New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 0 0 0
Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ... Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... 0 0 0
Book Review of Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 I don’t really like to toot my own horn, but I am not above shining the light on someone doing it for me. Ein Gedanke has written a wonderful review of the book that I co wrote.http://blog.fabse.net... ... Book Review of Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management 0 0 0
Exchange 2010, Simplified OAB distribution Kay Sellenrode, January 1, 0001 I think many of you have strugled or are now struggling on how to get the Offline Address Book distributed to all CAS servers.When you try to add a new server to the OAB and you already have a large number ... Exchange 2010, Simplified OAB distribution 0 0 0
Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business! Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365for business!Date Wednesday, February 27th 8 am PDT and 5 pm PDTWhy Attend? • Learn how the new Office 365 can help people do their best work in a world of devices ... Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business! 0 0 0
SCCM 2012 SP1 – How to deploy SCCM agents using GPO Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 The question is …. Where the (…) is this ccmsetup.msi. File has been moved into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\bin\i386. But if you are thinking that you know everything you need … you ... SCCM 2012 SP1 – How to deploy SCCM agents using GPO 0 0 4
Topics on Steroids TechnicalWriting, January 1, 0001 Ektron product documentation puts a new twist on topic-based information, creating a streamlined, single-sourced, multi-formatted, topic-based information delivery system.Traditional topic-based documentation ... Topics on Steroids 0 0 0
Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 Last night, I was playing around with my port. I was having a bit of a problem getting the mouse click to behave as I expected. In a fit of inspiration, I solved that problem in such a way that it allowed ... Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps 0 0 0
Microsoft’s MVP Program–Evolving, not Dying D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Thomas Larock blogged about the impending uncertainty/doom of the MVP summit; the topic isn’t new, as all of us as MVPs can remember the various glory days of only a few years ago compared to today. For ... Microsoft’s MVP Program–Evolving, not Dying 0 0 8
SkyDrive for South Florida Code Camp! Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 We held out 9th annual South Florida Code Camp on 2/9/2013. Unlike past years, instead of stuffing bags with brochures and papers from the vendors, we bought 700 2gb USB keys and had all the vendors send ... SkyDrive for South Florida Code Camp! 0 0 0
The magic of touch Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 Tell me something. Why do people love the iPad but fail to recognize Microsoft was the first one out there with a touch device? Why do people stand in line for an iPhone while there are other better offerings ... The magic of touch 0 0 0
Pixel Perfect Collision Sample - Improved! Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 One part I wasn’t quite satisfied with in the original pixel perfect collision sample was the need to render the image in order to extract its data. Shawn Hargreaves suggested that I skip the middle man ... Pixel Perfect Collision Sample - Improved! 0 0 2
Developer training, where to go? Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 Quite often people come to me and ask me: how do you manage to keep up with what's going on in your field? Whenever this happens my first reaction is always (in my head) "so, they do believe I keep up ... Developer training, where to go? 0 0 0
Azure Office Hours are back! Mike Benkovich, January 1, 0001 We’re back! Scott Klein (http://www.scottlklein.com) and I are kicking off a new series of weekly Office Hours to help developers find answers to tough questions. Similar to what we did over the last couple ... Azure Office Hours are back! 0 0 1
Linux – Text processing commands Rahul Anand, January 1, 0001 Linux/Unix offers many text processing tools which are very powerful and can be used together to process data and extract information from files. Some of these are listed below with few commonly used examples: ... Linux – Text processing commands 0 0 0
Upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP3 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Last week I upgraded my TFS 2012 test environment to CTP3 to try out the new features rolled out in preview as part of the Visual Studio 2012 Upgrade 2 CTP. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the ... Upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP3 0 0 0
Designing for accessibility– a new web culture BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Let's Design for Accessibility When Solidsoft was engaged on the Tell Us Once project for the UK government one of the many key requirements was to meet all the accessibility requirements. At the time ... Designing for accessibility– a new web culture 0 0 6
Designing for accessibility– a new web culture BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Lets Design for Accessibility When Solidsoft was engaged on the Tell Us Once project for the UK government one of the many key requirements was to meet all the accessibility requirements. At the time this ... Designing for accessibility– a new web culture 0 0 13
AppFx.ServiceBus – Scatter Gather Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 AppFx.ServiceBus – Scatter Gather 0 0 12
A few Azure scaling thoughts BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 A lot of noise around cloud and in particularly Microsoft Windows Azure is the ability to scale up or down at will. This is a very important aspect of the whole cloud story but it is also something that ... A few Azure scaling thoughts 0 0 4
I spoke on SharePoint Workflow Problem and its Resolution Today MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 Today we arranged monthly usergroup meet-up at Microsoft by our SharePoint Experts–Bangladesh community. It is first offline meet-up with community members/ outside community (who were interested to join ... I spoke on SharePoint Workflow Problem and its Resolution Today 0 0 0
AzureGames Chilberto, January 1, 0001 With a couple of colleagues, I have started a new project: AzureGames. I was inspired by the Microsoft Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games, and was started as a CodePlex site. We are currently flushing ... AzureGames 0 0 1
How to backup the TFS 2012 databases Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server Backups - You need to install the ‘Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update xx Power Tool’ on the application-tier for Team Foundation Server. The tool can schedule backups ... How to backup the TFS 2012 databases 0 0 0
EntLIb editor corrupts config files Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I've tried to use Microsoft Enterprise Library(EntLIb) editor, as it was suggested in http://weblogs.asp.net/suku... ... EntLIb editor corrupts config files 0 0 0
Static methods not always bad for testability Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Some time ago I've posted a few links about What is testable code?Reading the links someone can feel that any static methods are bad for testability. However it is a wrong impression- static methods without ... Static methods not always bad for testability 0 0 0