New Working Environment Starting November Jenson, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is actually a post dated update. After I’ve been working in the private sectors for so many years (the 2 years when I was ... New Working Environment Starting November 0 0 0
Good Customer Service Example MightyZot, January 1, 0001 Here’s another good customer service example for you! My wife purchased a Galaxy last week and she loves the phone. She asked me to add it to our AT&T Microcell last night. I purchased the AT&T ... Good Customer Service Example 0 0 0
TouchDevelop: The Fast Path to Windows 8 and Phone Apps Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Are you looking for a little extra cash for the upcoming holidays? Then you might be interested in creating some cool apps to sell in the Windows Store. Or maybe you’re simply curious and want to try your ... TouchDevelop: The Fast Path to Windows 8 and Phone Apps 0 0 0
Call Webservices…Maybe!? MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So I have been doing preliminary work for my iOS talk for a while, but did not get into the meat of the project until recently. One day I envision my talk uploading pictures from a camera on an iPhone ... Call Webservices…Maybe!? 0 0 1
Have Windows Automatically Login Without Entering Your Password deadlydog, January 1, 0001 If you are like me and don't want to have to enter your password each time Windows loads, you can have Windows start up without prompting you to enter a user name or password. The simple (and BAD) way ... Have Windows Automatically Login Without Entering Your Password 0 0 6
Connect to running web role on Azure using Remote Desktop Connect... Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 We want to be able to collect IntelliTrace information from our running app and also use remote desktop to connect to the IIS and look around(probably debugging). 1. Create certificate 1.1 Right-click ... Connect to running web role on Azure using Remote Desktop Connect... 0 0 1
2012–The End Of The World Review Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The end of the world must be coming. Not because the Mayan calendar says so, but because Microsoft is innovating more than Apple. It has been a crazy year, with pundits declaring not that the end of the ... 2012–The End Of The World Review 0 0 0
How to use Azure storage for uploading and displaying pictures. Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 Basic set up of Azure storage for local development and production. This is a somewhat completion of the following guide from http://www.windowsazure.com... that ... How to use Azure storage for uploading and displaying pictures. 0 0 0
Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 3 of 3–Clrizr) ToString(theory);, January 1, 0001 Welcome back! In the first two posts in this series, I covered some of the awesome features in CSS precompilers such as SASS and LESS, as well as how to get an initial project setup up and running in ASP.Net ... Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 3 of 3–Clrizr) 0 0 0
Hyper-V Manager version 6.2, an experience in virtual switch setu... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 The version number of Hyper-V manager is 6.2.9200.16384 This is what came with my Windows 8 work laptop (by enabling Windows features) The blogs I read indicated that I need an external switch for my guest ... Hyper-V Manager version 6.2, an experience in virtual switch setu... 0 0 0
Performance Optimization – It Is Faster When You Can Measur... Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Performance optimization in bigger systems is hard because the measured numbers can vary greatly depending on the measurement method of your choice. To measure execution timing of specific methods in your ... Performance Optimization – It Is Faster When You Can Measur... 0 0 0
Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published terje, January 1, 0001 During the summer and fall this year, me and my colleague Jakob Ehn has worked together on a book project that has now finally hit the stores! The title of the book is Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter ... Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published 0 0 5
Using Definition of Done to Drive Agile Maturity Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been an Agile Coach at a lot of different clients over the years, and I want to share an approach I use to help them adopt and mature over time. It’s important to realize that “Agile” is not a black/white ... Using Definition of Done to Drive Agile Maturity 0 0 1
OAS - The operation with name getMBeanInfo could not be found. Ken Hortsch, January 1, 0001 I saw this in the OC4J log when I stopped and started the application. This is a false error. When I undeployed and redeployed the app, the true error displayed in Oracle Enterprise Manager: ORA-01017: ... OAS - The operation with name getMBeanInfo could not be found. 0 0 0
Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... jasont, January 1, 0001 The folks over on the TFS / Visual Studio team have been working hard at releasing a steady stream of new features for their new hosted Team Foundation Service in the cloud. One of the most significant ... Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... 0 0 4
Great Customer Service Example MightyZot, January 1, 0001 A few days ago I wrote about what I consider a poor customer service interaction with TiVo, a company that I have been faithful to for the past 12 years or so. In that post I talked about how they helped ... Great Customer Service Example 0 0 0
light.exe : error LGHT0217: Error executing ICE action ‘ICE... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Hi there, Recently I was working with BizTalk Deployment Framework v5.0 for my BizTalk Sever 2009 projects and TFS 2010 Builds. I had followed all the steps mentioned in the BTDF documentation to create ... light.exe : error LGHT0217: Error executing ICE action ‘ICE... 0 0 0
Benny's Identity & Integration Journal Benny Mathew, January 1, 0001 Click here for to get directed to my new blog: http://bennykmathew.wordpress.com/ Benny's Identity & Integration Journal 0 0 0
RiverTrail - JavaScript GPGPU Data Parallelism JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Where is WebCL ? The Khronos WebCL working group is working on a JavaScript binding to the OpenCL standard so that HTML 5 compliant browsers can host GPGPU web apps – e.g. for image processing or physics ... RiverTrail - JavaScript GPGPU Data Parallelism 0 0 2
Azure Diagnostics: The Bad, The Ugly, and a Better Way jasont, January 1, 0001 (This is a copy of a blog I wrote for my company blog at: http://www.stackify.com/azu... If you’re a .Net web developer today, no doubt you’ve enjoyed watching ... Azure Diagnostics: The Bad, The Ugly, and a Better Way 0 0 1
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 0
RadioButtons and Lambda Expressions MightyZot, January 1, 0001 Radio buttons operate in groups. They are used to present mutually exclusive lists of options. Since I started programming in Windows 20 years ago, I have always been frustrated about how they are implemented. ... RadioButtons and Lambda Expressions 0 0 0
Call Stored Procedures from Script Components dataintegration, January 1, 0001 The source task and the destination task are the easiest ways to transfer data in SSIS. You can use source and script components to output data to the data flow.This article shows how to create a script ... Call Stored Procedures from Script Components 0 0 0
Download files from a SharePoint site using the CData SSIS Compon... dataintegration, January 1, 0001 The CData SSIS data flow components allow you to easily import and export data from various data sources. However, in some cases the type of operation you need does not fit the SSIS Source or the SSIS ... Download files from a SharePoint site using the CData SSIS Compon... 0 0 0
Access Salesforce From Excel Macros (VBA) dataintegration, January 1, 0001 The CData Salesforce Excel Add-In makes it easy to retrieve and update data from Salesforce from within Microsoft Excel. In addition to using the CData ribbon, you can use Excel Macros (VBA) and Excel ... Access Salesforce From Excel Macros (VBA) 0 0 0
Introducing Ben Barreth, Community Builder & Software Develop... Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 Please extend a warm welcome to Ben Barreth as the new community builder and full-time software developer at Geeks With Blogs. We've been wanting to add some cool features to the site but haven't had the ... Introducing Ben Barreth, Community Builder & Software Develop... 0 0 0
CSOM (Client Side Object Model) - What's new with SharePoint 2013 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 SharePoint CSOMThe Client-Side Object Model or CSOM came out with SharePoint 2010. CSOM is accessible through client.svc but all client.svc calls must go through supported WFC entry points (supported entry ... CSOM (Client Side Object Model) - What's new with SharePoint 2013 0 0 0
Default configuration of MSMQ MP causes event flooding. John Breakwell, January 1, 0001 Vedran Matica has blogged about the “Improper default configuration of the Message Queuing Management Pack for Operations Manager” which caused event flooding ... Default configuration of MSMQ MP causes event flooding. 0 0 0
Twitter Integration in Windows 8 Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 Glenn Versweyveld, @Depechie, blogged about Twitter Integration in Windows 8. The post describes how to use WinRtAuthorizer to perform OAuth authentication with LINQ to Twitter. If you’re using LINQ to ... Twitter Integration in Windows 8 0 0 0
Poor Customer Service Example MightyZot, January 1, 0001 Lately I have been frustrated by examples of poor customer service. At least one is worth writing about because I don’t think companies realize the effects of their service policies on loyal customers. ... Poor Customer Service Example 0 0 0
Don’t Kill the Password Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 A week ago Mr. Honan from Wired.com penned an article on security he titled “Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore.” He asserts that the password is not effective and a ... Don’t Kill the Password 0 0 5
A Simple Entity Tagger Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 In the REST world, ETags are your gateway to performance boosts by letting clients cache responses. In the non-REST world, you may also want to add an ETag to an entity definition inside a traditional ... A Simple Entity Tagger 0 0 4
Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3.5: Node... Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 This is an extension to Part 3 in the IPASBR series, see also: Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 1: Exposing the on-premise service Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, ... Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3.5: Node... 0 0 5
Microsoft Forcing Dev/Partners Hands on Win 8 Through Certificati... D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I remember 2.5 years ago when Microsoft dropped a bomb on the Microsoft Partner community: all Gold competencies would require .NET 4 based premiere certifications (MCPD). Problem was, this gave a window ... Microsoft Forcing Dev/Partners Hands on Win 8 Through Certificati... 0 0 8
Migrating My GWB Blog Over To WordPress deadlydog, January 1, 0001 Geeks With Blogs has been good to me, but there are too many tempting things about Word Press for me to stay with GWB. Particularly their statistics features, and also I like that I can apply specific ... Migrating My GWB Blog Over To WordPress 0 0 0
A story of Murphy–my technical issues at TechDays Switzerla... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I had two sessions at the recent Swiss TechDays. While the first one (Advanced Development for Windows Phone 8) went extremely well (I think), I had a very annoying technical issue in the beginning of ... A story of Murphy–my technical issues at TechDays Switzerla... 0 0 0
Key Windows Phone Development Concepts Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 As I am doing more development in and out of the enterprise arena for Windows Phone I decide I would study for the 70-599 test. I generally take certification tests as a way to force me to dig deeper into ... Key Windows Phone Development Concepts 0 0 2
Simple Little Registry Editor - New Release Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 I have posted a new release of the Simple Little Registry Editor found in Windows CE: Simple Little Registry Editor. This release fixes a problem with writing DWORD values when the most significant bit ... Simple Little Registry Editor - New Release 0 0 0
Some of my favourite Visual Studio 2012 things–Teams Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Getting the balance right for when and how many team projects to create has always been a bit of a balance. On large initiatives, there are often teams who work toward a common system. These teams often ... Some of my favourite Visual Studio 2012 things–Teams 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 I’d like to thank Packt for providing me with a review version of Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices eBook. In fairness I also know the author Peter having seen him speak at DevTeach on many occasions. ... Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices 0 0 2
Blogging from Office RT Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 During the last Build conference all attendees were given a brand new sparkling exciting Surface RT device (I love that machine despite its name but that's beside the point). On it came a version of Office ... Blogging from Office RT 0 0 1
Time to stop using “Execute Package Task”– a wa... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 I set out to find a way to dynamically call package in SSIS 2012. The following are 2 excellent blogs I found; I used them heavily. The code below has some addition to parameter types and message types, ... Time to stop using “Execute Package Task”– a wa... 0 0 3
Credentials Not Passed From SharePoint WebPart to WCF Service Jacob L. Adams, January 1, 0001 I have spent several hours trying to resolve this problem, so I wanted to share my findings in case someone else might have the same problem. I had a web part which was calling out to a WCF service on ... Credentials Not Passed From SharePoint WebPart to WCF Service 0 0 1
ReSharper 7.1 update TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Jet Brains have announced ReSharper 7.1: a considerable update to the powerful .NET developer productivity tool for Visual Studio. They invite you to download ReSharper 7.1 and take it for a free 30-day ... ReSharper 7.1 update 0 0 0
Measuring Code Quality DotNetBlues, January 1, 0001 Several months back, I was tasked with measuring the quality of code in my organization. Foolishly, I said, "No problem." I figured that Visual Studio has a built-in code metrics tool (Analyze -> Calculate ... Measuring Code Quality 0 0 0
Enable Automatic Code First Migrations On SQL Database in Azure W... Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 Now that Azure supports .NET Framework 4.5, you can use all the latest and greatest available features. A common scenario is to be able to use Entity Framework Code First Migrations with a SQL Database ... Enable Automatic Code First Migrations On SQL Database in Azure W... 0 0 4
Building Enterprise Smartphone App – Part 4: Application De... Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 This is the final part in a series of posts based on a talk I gave recently at the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group. Feel free to leave feedback. Application Development Considerations Now ... Building Enterprise Smartphone App – Part 4: Application De... 0 0 0
Oredev 2012: Summary and source code Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 This week, I had the pleasure to be invited to talk at Oredev, a really cool conference taking place in Malmo, Sweden. The whole event is awesome, including a very special dinner on Monday including sauna ... Oredev 2012: Summary and source code 0 0 0
Book Review: Professional ASP.Net MVC4 Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 The past few weeks have been particularly busy as I continue to dedicate a bigger portion of my free time to refreshing my memory and enhancing my knowledge of best practices pertaining to technologies ... Book Review: Professional ASP.Net MVC4 0 0 0
WPF: Timers Ilya Verbitskiy, January 1, 0001 I believe, once your WPF application will need to execute something periodically, and today I would like to discuss how to do that. There are two possible solutions. You can use classical System.Threading.Timer ... WPF: Timers 0 0 1