Nice to have tools for the SharePoint IT Pro Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Coming from SPC a couple of weeks ago, during the keynote there was a demo on some great Visio Diagrams. It was created using the following: http://visiospfarmaddin.cod... Expect a post here in ... Nice to have tools for the SharePoint IT Pro 0 0 0
DropkicK–Deploy Fluently Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 DropkicK (DK) has been in development for over two years and has been used for production deployments for over a year. Dru Sellers originally posted about DK back in 2009. While DK isn’t yet as super easy ... DropkicK–Deploy Fluently 0 0 0
RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 “Because everyone wants to kick their database, but sometimes kicking your database is a good thing!” Many would not argue that you should version your code, and few would argue against versioning your ... RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning 0 0 2
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Just in line with the release of the Visual Developer Preview and the availability of the Visual Studio Developer Preview 11 ALM virtual machine, now we have access to the Developer Preview Training kit. ... Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit 0 0 0
Resharper setting to show method usage expanded. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 During code analysis my favorite key is Shift-F12 to show usage of method/variable. And after this I needed to expand the list to show each line of usage. Recently my collegue showed me that the results ... Resharper setting to show method usage expanded. 0 0 0
Some non-generic collections simonc, January 1, 0001 Although the collections classes introduced in .NET 2, 3.5 and 4 cover most scenarios, there are still some .NET 1 collections that don't have generic counterparts. In this post, I'll be examining what ... Some non-generic collections 0 0 0
Because I Care To Share Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 I was supposed to be a lawyer. At least that's what my mom used to tell me. And here I am, many years later, a lowly software developer. How boring, right? For the past 15 years, my life has resembled ... Because I Care To Share 0 0 0
More on Metro Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 You must have heard about it. Windows 8 will all about Metro. Sure, you can run ‘old-school’ applications on the platform, but most attention these days is about the new user interface. The UI is based ... More on Metro 0 0 3
Improvements in Hosted Service In-Place Upgrade Shaun, January 1, 0001 Today the Microsoft announced that the In-Place Upgrade feature had had some improvements. The major one would be, now the user could be able to change the VM Size by In-Place Upgrade, without redeploying ... Improvements in Hosted Service In-Place Upgrade 0 0 0
Deployed Azure ValidateUser failing LEV, January 1, 0001 I have been developing an MVC3 application with the intention of deploying to the Cloud. It was configured to use Forms Authentication with SQL Membership on SQL Azure. Everything seemed to be working ... Deployed Azure ValidateUser failing 0 0 0
Hallelujah - Rememberance of an Important Day in My Life WonderOfItAll, January 1, 0001 I meant to post this way back in September, but am now just 'catching up', if you will, and cannot let this one just sit. There's a great Leonard Cohen Song entitled Hallelujah. It always conjures up memories ... Hallelujah - Rememberance of an Important Day in My Life 0 0 1
Biscuits WonderOfItAll, January 1, 0001 Isn't it funny the random stuff we think of from time-to-time? For whatever reason, the past week brought back a memory that's interesting to me, so I thought I would blog about it. Way back in 1987, my ... Biscuits 0 0 0
My Windows 8 Development Article Collection. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Below you will find my entire collection of Windows 8 Development Articles. I will focusing on XAML / C# Metro Applications in Windows 8, but may occasionally post on HTML / JS. Please bookmark this page ... My Windows 8 Development Article Collection. 0 0 0
Azure Storage Client using Async API Rohit Gupta, January 1, 0001 When using the storage client library to access Azure Storage, it is recommended that we make use of the Async calls to execute queries against the Azure Tables/Blobs. TableClient and BlobClient expose ... Azure Storage Client using Async API 0 0 0
How to Deploy Your ASP.NET MVC 3 with SQL CE 4.0 & Entity Framewo... ChrisD, January 1, 0001 If you are planning to deploy your application with SQL CE as your application backend then here are the steps you need to perform. If you’re planning to deploy your application with SQL Server, than please ... How to Deploy Your ASP.NET MVC 3 with SQL CE 4.0 & Entity Framewo... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2011 -- #1158 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Ollie Riches, Jesse Liberty, Peter Torr, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, WindowsPhoneGeek, Morten Nielsen, Michael Crump, Asim Sajjad, Andrej Tozon, Dhananjay Kumar, ... Silverlight Cream for October 17, 2011 -- #1158 0 0 0
Occupy BayStreet–What’s the Point Again? D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 We’ve all been inundated with images from the various Occupy Wallstreet demonstrations that have been occurring throughout the United States. Hordes of people frustrated with how their country’s financial ... Occupy BayStreet–What’s the Point Again? 0 0 3
Introduction to Branching by Quality [Branching-Merging Technique... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 There is no one best branching strategy, the branching strategy that best fits the requirements of your enterprise is the best strategy for you. The ALM rangers have comprehensive guidelines to help you ... Introduction to Branching by Quality [Branching-Merging Technique... 0 0 3
Kinect Motion Capture - Avatar Control Carlos Alberto Chavez Villafuerte, January 1, 0001 Síguenos en : Exacto Soluciones Hola a todos , quería compartir con vosotros la forma de capturar movimientos a través de un sensor como Kinect o Asus y llevarlos a un escenario, para esto usaremos el ... Kinect Motion Capture - Avatar Control 0 0 0
QUnit - Client side unit testing with TDD Guilherme Cardoso, January 1, 0001 I've wrote this article a few months ago but in Portuguese: http://pontonetpt.org/blogs... I've decided to translate it to ... QUnit - Client side unit testing with TDD 0 0 0
Realizando pruebas con Kinect + XNA Carlos Alberto Chavez Villafuerte, January 1, 0001 Bueno luego de comprar hace algún tiempo Kinect y jugar por una hora los juegos de estos y darnos cuenta de su potente procesador fabricado por primesense y sus demás características y limitaciones como ... Realizando pruebas con Kinect + XNA 0 0 0
Robots Militares y el futuro de la Guerra Carlos Alberto Chavez Villafuerte, January 1, 0001 Cuando las fuerzas de EEUU fueron a Irak en 2003, no tenían un solo robot en el terreno. Para el final de 2004, el número ascendía a 150. Para el final de 2005, con 2.400 unidades, cifra que duplicó al ... Robots Militares y el futuro de la Guerra 0 0 0
Useful iPhone/iPad tip: take a screenshot screengrab Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 To take a screenshot of what you currently see on your iPad or iPhone, press the power button on the top of the iPhone/iPad + the main circle button (the only hard key that takes you to the home screen) ... Useful iPhone/iPad tip: take a screenshot screengrab 0 0 10
End-to-end WCF code coverage with PowerShell Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 I'm a big fan of automated testing which actually proves something. Unit tests may prove all the components in a solution work independently, but that doesn't mean you have a working solution. Integration ... End-to-end WCF code coverage with PowerShell 0 0 0
How to Fix error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified ChrisD, January 1, 0001 This is an error message that we can find when we connect to SQL Server: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or ... How to Fix error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified 0 0 0
Installing iOS5 from iOS4.2 for iPad1 Doug Butscher, January 1, 0001 So Apple released iOS5 yesterday, and Apple servers are getting slammed with people trying to download iTunes 10.5 and iOS5. I downloaded and installed iTunes 10.5, plugged in the iPad, and clicked Check ... Installing iOS5 from iOS4.2 for iPad1 0 0 10
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Keyset does ... Saqib Ullah, January 1, 0001 This issue is related to permission on MachineKeys folder. I think this is right place where you should know what the determination of MachineKeys folder is. What is MachineKeys Folder? The MachineKeys ... System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Keyset does ... 0 0 16
Size of object in .Net AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 I am here to take your attention on size of .Net object when we call a service. This will help when you want to find out the size of .net object in a service call. This might happen when you face a buffer ... Size of object in .Net 0 0 0
KnockoutJS Custom Binding for Invoking an Action with Enter Key Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 KnockoutJS is an awesome MVVM JavaScript data binding framework for building rich user experiences. As sites get more interactive and more presentation logic gets pushed to the client-side, it’s important ... KnockoutJS Custom Binding for Invoking an Action with Enter Key 0 0 17
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 2 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Welcome back, in part 1 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a developers perspective. In this blog post I’ll be discussing the new features available for Business Analysts and ... What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 2 0 0 0
(Technology) Holy Wars Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 As the song says “War! What is it good for?”. Well, maybe not absolutely nothing, but it is definitely a distraction. Whether we are talking about Apple vs. Microsoft, C++ vs. Java vs. .NET, Lotus Notes ... (Technology) Holy Wars 0 0 1
Error when trying to access SharePoint 2010 via PowerShell in a n... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 I got this error today while trying to access my new SharePoint 2010 environment via PowerShell: Cannot access the local farm. Verify that the local farm is properly configured, currently available, and ... Error when trying to access SharePoint 2010 via PowerShell in a n... 0 0 0
Simplifying Asynchronous Programming in C# MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I have dabbled in async programming in the past but never put any real effort into understanding how things worked. With the new async features in .Net 5 I thought I would give it a look. Here is a quick ... Simplifying Asynchronous Programming in C# 0 0 5
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft officially released the preview of Vnext i.e. VS 2011, TFS 2011 and TFS Azure (also known as TFS Service) at the Build conference on 13th September 2011 @ California. It wasn’t too long ago I ... What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 0 0 1
SharpBox 1.1 SR2 Dirk Eisenberg, January 1, 0001 The new Service Release 2 of SharpBox 1.1 comes with support for many new storage providers, e.g. Strato HiDrive, CloudMe or FTP. In addition to that we are also proud to offer our library with SR2 via ... SharpBox 1.1 SR2 0 0 0
Why programming languages are designed the way they are. TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A reader of this blog wrote "It would be great to find out the reasons why programming languages are designed the way they are." The first computer languages were the assemblers. When I started programming ... Why programming languages are designed the way they are. 0 0 0
Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 “If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine.” Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager ... Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows 0 0 0
Thoughts on Steve Jobs Death from a Non-Mac Fanboi D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 In the hours since Steve Jobs death was announced, the world has seemingly fallen into a conjoined state of mourning…well, at least according to my Twitter feed. Quotes Steve made over the years fill the ... Thoughts on Steve Jobs Death from a Non-Mac Fanboi 0 0 6
Steve Jobs, the legacy Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Today is a weird day. I just got the news, as I woke up, that Steve Jobs passed away last night. This news affected me more than I thought it would. I felt the need to write about these emotions, and about ... Steve Jobs, the legacy 0 0 0
My presentation on “Getting Started with the Kinect SDK&rdq... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I was informed that my presentation on “Getting Started with the Kinect SDK” is now live on UserGroup.tv. The video quality is not that great, but that is my fault. Our camera quit working and someone ... My presentation on “Getting Started with the Kinect SDK&rdq... 0 0 0
Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? Alfredo Delsors, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure AppFabric ofrece servicios en dos areas distintas. La primera la forman servicios de middleware como Service Bus, Access Control, Caching e Integration. La segunda está formada por un servicio ... Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? 0 0 0
Best Live Stream for Apple Iphone5 Event Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Nearly instant update from Apple event... http://live.thisismynext.co... ... Best Live Stream for Apple Iphone5 Event 0 0 2
Windows Azure Storage REST API Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Los servicios de almacenamiento de Windows Azure, son expuestos nativamente desde una interface REST lo cual permite su uso desde cualquier tipo de aplicacion y plataforma.Los servicios del API REST permiten ... Windows Azure Storage REST API 0 0 0
Windows Azure y ALM Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) permite la gestion y control de los procesos involucrados en el desarrollo de soluciones dentro de una empresa, estableciendo buenas practicas y un marco medible, ... Windows Azure y ALM 0 0 0
Windows Azure Extra Small Instance Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 En el PDC10 del año pasado se realizaron una serie de anuncios alrededor de la Plataforma de Windows Azure, entre estas se incluyo el anuncion de una beta privada para la instancia ExtraSmall de Windows ... Windows Azure Extra Small Instance 0 0 0
Roles en Windows Azure Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Un servicio de hospedaje en Windows Azure, consiste en una aplicación diseñada para correr en la Nube de Microsoft y unos ficheros XML de configuración que definen cómo debe funcionar.El modelo del servicio ... Roles en Windows Azure 0 0 0
Caracteristicas Esenciales Cloud Computing Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 El modelo Cloud Computing cuenta con una serie de caracteristicas, las caracteristicas esenciales son 5:1. Auto-Servicio bajo demanda: el consumidor podrá aprovisionar recursos computacionales en forma ... Caracteristicas Esenciales Cloud Computing 0 0 0
Modelos de Despliegue en la Nube Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 El NIST define 4 modelos de despliegue dentro del entorno de Cloud ComputingNube Privada Una Nube privada es la implementación de servicios de la nube sobre los recursos que se dedican a su organización, ... Modelos de Despliegue en la Nube 0 0 0
Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 El Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología y su laboratorio de tecnología información, NIST por el acrónimo en idioma inglés, han definido Cloud Computing de la siguiente manera:“Cloud Computing ... Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing 0 0 0
Scanning My Book Collection eddraper, January 1, 0001 I’ve been a bookworm for years and have amassed a significant volume of books of all kinds. Most of my collection is technology related, but volumes of Conan, manga, astronomy, philosophy, genetics, personal ... Scanning My Book Collection 0 0 1