.NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! simonc, January 1, 0001 So, although you will be able to use your existing .NET skills to develop Metro apps, it turns out Microsoft are limiting Visual Studio 2011 Express to Metro-only. From the Express website: Visual Studio ... .NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! 0 0 0
NDepend 4.0 Released Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 Last week version 4.0 of NDepend was released. NDepend is a Visual Studio add-in designed for intense code analysis with the goal of high quality code. A month ago I wrapped up my evaluation of the previous ... NDepend 4.0 Released 0 0 3
Setting up your project ssoolsma, January 1, 0001 Before any coding we first make sure that the project is setup correctly. (Please note, that this blog is all about how I do it, and incase i forget, i can return here and read how i used to do it. Maybe ... Setting up your project 0 0 0
VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Recently I looked into speeding up Visual Studio builds – I found the results interesting… I decided to do a few POC’s to see where the bottleneck is with large solutions in Visual Studio. After some searching ... VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck 0 0 6
Copying Files into a TFS Workspace: Which Files Changed? Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server 2010 is a “server-side” version control system. Developers use to Subversion and other “client-side” systems are often frustrated in certain situations where they want to see only ... Copying Files into a TFS Workspace: Which Files Changed? 0 0 0
Stylecop 4.7.24.0 has been released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Stylecop 4.7.24.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... Notes Compatible with the Visual Studio 11 Preview.Install order should be : VS10VS11R#6.1.1 msi (for VS10)R#6.1.1 ... Stylecop 4.7.24.0 has been released 0 0 0
TFS API Find out who deleted your build? Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I am sure you have been in the situation where you start following a change through the list of builds and suddenly realize a lot of the builds have been deleted by some one! The good news is, when the ... TFS API Find out who deleted your build? 0 0 1
Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 Since I have been interested in cross-platform mobile application development, but reluctant to leave behind the IDE goodness that is Visual Studio, I was invited to participate in a private early beta ... Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad 0 0 2
Accessing QuickBooks with Entity Framework 6 dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping framework that can be used to work with data as objects. While you can run the ADO.NET Entity Data Model wizard in Visual Studio to handle generating the ... Accessing QuickBooks with Entity Framework 6 0 0 0
Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 It’s a Friday evening and you have just checked in that last bit of code, you are waiting for the build to go all green so that you could call it a day. Just then the build summary page comes back red ... Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API 0 0 0
Microsoft Test Manager–Test Cases Not in a Test Plan Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 provided support for system testing. Test cases were added as a work item type. But test plans and suites are not work items and this greatly limits ... Microsoft Test Manager–Test Cases Not in a Test Plan 0 0 1
Integrating SharePoint with Fruity Products MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So as you can see this blog has not been the best in the world lately. Life changes and burn out are killing me lately. Don’t get me wrong I love my job. I love writing things in Visual Studio, in fact ... Integrating SharePoint with Fruity Products 0 0 0
Sass vs Less Renso, January 1, 0001 I know there are afew places where you can check out the differences between Sass or Less, but I thought it may be helpful for others to know why I chose one over the other.Here are some of my sources:http://sass-lang.co... ... Sass vs Less 0 0 0
Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers Sabbatical for Coded UI Word ... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Earlier this Summer I had the privilege of working for 16 days onsite at the Microsoft offices in Redmond and Vancouver. The assignment, a "Rangers Sabbatical," is part of the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM ... Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers Sabbatical for Coded UI Word ... 0 0 0
Resolving Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Install Problems Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I experienced the following errors when attempting to upgrade Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on my TFS application server (WS08 R2): The file '[path\file prefix].msi' is not a valid installation package for ... Resolving Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Install Problems 0 0 0
TFS 2010 SDK Assembly Reference Locations for Team Build Process ... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I pulled these from Ewald Hoffman's Customize Team Build 2010 - Part 4 post and posted here for easy reference. Note: you will also have to add a project reference for the code files project in your solution. ... TFS 2010 SDK Assembly Reference Locations for Team Build Process ... 0 0 0
Visual Studio ALM (TFS) Benefits Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Here's a summary of TFS 2010 enabled improvement opportunities. This is based on my research and work with TFS 2010 to-date. Unlike a list of features, this information is organized around the typical ... Visual Studio ALM (TFS) Benefits 0 0 0
Stylecop 4.7.20.0 has been released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Stylecop 4.7.20.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... Notes Compatible with the Visual Studio 11 Preview.Install order should be : VS10VS11R#6.1.1 msi (for VS10)R#6.1.1 ... Stylecop 4.7.20.0 has been released 0 0 0
C# Tutorial for log4net huwyss, January 1, 0001 Here's a short tutorial on how to use log4net in C#1. Get log4net from the apache website.2. Open your project with visual studio.3. Add the reference to your project: You find the reference in the zip ... C# Tutorial for log4net 0 0 17
How to do debugging with visual studio 2008/2010 ? Chandradev, January 1, 0001 HiIf you have good debugging skill then you can save lots of time. In visual studio lots of options are available for debugging. Here are some good URL for debugging. It will be really useful in our daily ... How to do debugging with visual studio 2008/2010 ? 0 0 0
Pre-Processing Directives for Multi-Platform Support Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 Over the last several months, I’ve been modifying LINQ to Twitter to support multiple platforms. Originally, I had targeted full profile .NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, and ASP.NET MVC apps. An easy stop along ... Pre-Processing Directives for Multi-Platform Support 0 0 3
ReSharper 7 EAP now available for all VS versions TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Jetbrains at http://blogs.jetbrains.com/... have released the following:"ReSharper 7 EAP opened up just over a month ago providing early support ... ReSharper 7 EAP now available for all VS versions 0 0 0
What should we do with our Windows CE/Windows Mobile apps? Webgui, January 1, 0001 I would like to share a post from the Visual WebGui Blog on ASP.NET. The post "The link between Windows CE/Windows Mobile applications, ASP.NET and HTML5" discusses the developer's alternatives when facing ... What should we do with our Windows CE/Windows Mobile apps? 0 0 0
Visual Studio error when adding a BizTalk HL7 (BTAHL7) Project to... Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 When you try to add a BTAHL7 Common Project, e.g. BTAHL7V2XCommon, to your Visual Studio 2010 solution you may encounter the following error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” This ... Visual Studio error when adding a BizTalk HL7 (BTAHL7) Project to... 0 0 0
LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8 Metro Style Apps Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 In the Developer Preview of Windows 8, Visual Studio 11 conveniently allowed references to .NET 4.0 apps. I had blogged previously on how to use LINQ to Twitter with Windows 8. Subsequently, the Consumer ... LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8 Metro Style Apps 0 0 2
Is Expression Web Moribund? - A response ihaynes, January 1, 0001 A post on the Expression Forum asked the question, 'Is Expression Web moribund?'. It was prompted by this article written by add-in developer Dennis DeRobertis. It gave rise to some interesting replies. ... Is Expression Web Moribund? - A response 0 0 0
BizTalk SSO Storage Application for BizTalk Server 2010 Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 Jon Flanders did some great work with SSO for storing BizTalk configuration data (used by .NET code) within the Enterprise SSO Database and the BizTalk team created a sample application for using SSO as ... BizTalk SSO Storage Application for BizTalk Server 2010 0 0 0
ArgumentException with Windows Phone Mango SQLCE Decimal ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 Quick math question… If I asked you, “is 8 both greater than 0, and less than 38,” what would be your answer?? Well, if you answered yes, than you would be wrong… At least according to LINQ-to-SQL: My ... ArgumentException with Windows Phone Mango SQLCE Decimal 0 0 0
Windows Azure Step by Step, Roberto Brunetti; Microsoft Press Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 A while back I started my path with Windows Azure and in general the surrounding technologies and changes that have happened since the start of it. Finding resources now has become rather easy, from the ... Windows Azure Step by Step, Roberto Brunetti; Microsoft Press 0 0 0
Stylecop 4.7.19.0 has been released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Stylecop 4.7.19.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... release fixes a problem I reported at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... whereby the need for "this." ... Stylecop 4.7.19.0 has been released 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool terje, January 1, 0001 Download from VS Gallery In my work I meet many developers, tester and project managers, all using Visual Studio. When I ask them if they have updated it to the latest version, there are many who simply ... Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool 0 0 19
Membership Provider Parte 2. Creación de un Modelo de Base... Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 En mi post anterior se hablaba sobre la importancia del Membership Provider de asp.net y algunas de sus funciones. Sin embargo, para los que ha usado el proveedor se habrán dado cuenta de que contiene ... Membership Provider Parte 2. Creación de un Modelo de Base... 0 0 1
Tiny UML Sequence Diagram Markup Language for Agile Developer Doc... George Mamaladze, January 1, 0001 I hate overdocumented software components and frameworks. There are top 3 reasons for that: Only the code tells the truth(programmer.97things.o... The ... Tiny UML Sequence Diagram Markup Language for Agile Developer Doc... 0 0 0
Four Recommendations to Improve Internet Explorer Market Share Steve Albers, January 1, 0001 Whether you believe the StatCounter hype from last month or not, everyone can agree that Internet Explorer market share is down from previous years. Chrome usage is creeping up, and changes in the market ... Four Recommendations to Improve Internet Explorer Market Share 0 0 3
Stylecop 4.7.18.0 has been released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Stylecop 4.7.18.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... Notes Compatible with the Visual Studio 11 Preview.Install order should be : VS10VS11R#6.1.1 msi (for VS10)R#6.1.1 ... Stylecop 4.7.18.0 has been released 0 0 0
Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008 Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 Since I recently went through this I figured it would be worthwhile to compile the downloads, regedits and other steps into one location. Downloads for Visual Studio 2008 You’ll need to download and install ... Connecting to TFS2010 with Visual Studio 2008 0 0 0
SQL Server source control from Visual Studio David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 Developers have long since had to context switch between two IDEs, Visual Studio for application code development and SQL Server Management Studio for database development. While this is accepted, especially ... SQL Server source control from Visual Studio 0 0 0
Community TFS Build Manager – Build Notes Preview Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 The Community TFS Build Manager (TBM) is an open source build management solution developed by the ALM rangers, the build manager simplifies the management of builds in medium to large Team Foundation ... Community TFS Build Manager – Build Notes Preview 0 0 0
How to perform CRUD and Search operation on SharePoint List Items... Michael M. Bangoy, January 1, 0001 Hi…In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to perform Create, Read, Update, Delete and Search operation against a SharePoint List on a Windows Forms Application using the SharePoint Client Object Model. ... How to perform CRUD and Search operation on SharePoint List Items... 0 0 5
NDepend Evaluation: Conclusion Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 NDepend is a Visual Studio add-in designed for intense code analysis with the goal of high code quality. NDepend uses a number of metrics and aggregates the data in pleasing static and active visual reports. ... NDepend Evaluation: Conclusion 0 0 5
SSDT – Makes SQL Azure Development Easy Shaun, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I attended an online meeting with Microsoft and got an overview about a new database tool, SQL Server Data Tool (SSDT), which was shipped alone with the SQL Server 2012. After the meeting I decided ... SSDT – Makes SQL Azure Development Easy 0 0 2
Redis on Windows Shaun, January 1, 0001 This morning I received an email from the Microsoft said that, a meaningful company, Microsoft Open Technologies Inc., had just release their first pre-production, the Redis on Windows. Redis If you had ... Redis on Windows 0 0 13
Develop SharePoint Solutions without installing SharePoint on Vis... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 If you want to stay away from installing SharePoint on your client OS (Windows 7) but still develop cutting edge solutions, webparts etc for a SharePoint server running on a different VM. You can just ... Develop SharePoint Solutions without installing SharePoint on Vis... 0 0 0
Connect QuickBooks to SQL Server through SSIS dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Using SQL Server as a backup for critical business data provides an essential safety net against loss. In addition, backing up data to SQL Server enables business users to more easily connect that data ... Connect QuickBooks to SQL Server through SSIS 0 0 0
Connect SalesForce to SQL Server through SSIS dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Using SQL Server as a backup for critical business data provides an essential safety net against loss. In addition, backing up data to SQL Server enables business users to more easily connect that data ... Connect SalesForce to SQL Server through SSIS 0 0 0
Using Cookie-Based Authentication with the CData SharePoint Data ... dataintegration, January 1, 0001 This article walks through the process of using the SharePoint Data Provider and authenticating with SharePoint Online / Office 365. This tutorial covers how to perform authentication programmatically ... Using Cookie-Based Authentication with the CData SharePoint Data ... 0 0 0
LINQ to QuickBooks dataintegration, January 1, 0001 This article demonstrates how to use LINQ to access tables in QuickBooks through the QuickBooks ADO.NET Data Provider. To do this you will LINQ to Entity Framework, which is used to generate the connection ... LINQ to QuickBooks 0 0 0
Connect to QuickBooks From LightSwitch Applications dataintegration, January 1, 0001 The CData Data Providers for ADO.NET enable you to integrate disparate data sources into LightSwitch applications. In this demo, you will create a LightSwitch application that connects with QuickBooks ... Connect to QuickBooks From LightSwitch Applications 0 0 0
Accessing website data using ADO.NET dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Accessing Website Data Using ADO.NETBy i-programmer, January 24, 2011 This article was originally written and hosted on i-programmerIntroductionInt... with websites via the wide range of APIs that ... Accessing website data using ADO.NET 0 0 0
Databind Charts to Salesforce Data dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Databinding enables bidirectional access to data from UI controls. You can use the CData ADO.NET Provider for Salesforce to easily databind Salesforce data to Windows Forms and Web controls in Visual Studio. ... Databind Charts to Salesforce Data 0 0 0