Bye bye Quicksilver, hello Alfred Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 I've been using the application launcher Quicksilver on my Mac for about a year and a half now. It was the first app I installed. However, with Quicksilver, I've never been able to go further than the ... Bye bye Quicksilver, hello Alfred 0 0 2
Windows Phone 7, and the Court of Pundit Opinion andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 On Thursday, a scathingly bad review of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) was published by InfoWorld. I had considered writing a post to refute some of its points, but Paul Thurrott did just that, and did it masterfully. ... Windows Phone 7, and the Court of Pundit Opinion 0 0 1
Fault Injection Done Right Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Patrick Smacchia has shared his thoughts why 100% test coverage is a desirable thing to have. You can test 80% of your code quite easy but the edge cases are the hard ones which take 80% of the time to ... Fault Injection Done Right 0 0 2
Get information for your SQL Server Leonard Mwangi, January 1, 0001 If you are a DBA you should be familiar with @@Version to get the information for you SQL Server, but whatif you want to get a little more that the @@Version information. Here is a head start. CREATE PROCEDURE ... Get information for your SQL Server 0 0 0
Creating and running VS 2010 Web Application Projects and Web Sit... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 One of the clear changes in Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005, is the dependency of VS on IIS for creating websites/web applications. In VS 2005 until its SP1 you only had the choice to create Websites ... Creating and running VS 2010 Web Application Projects and Web Sit... 0 0 11
Visual Studio tips for SharePoint Admins Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 A while back it was clear: Roses are red, violets are blue … if you are a dev you use Visual Studio. Now: Roses are blue, violets can be red … if you do SharePoint,Visual Studio is the right tool for you. ... Visual Studio tips for SharePoint Admins 0 0 0
Using Thinking Rock in a Dropbox folder on WinXP Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; ... Using Thinking Rock in a Dropbox folder on WinXP 0 0 4
Autocomplete Textbox con Ajax y WebServices Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 Existen ocasiones en que por distintos motivos, se deben brindar a los usuarios de un sistema elementos que permitan: 1-Hacer un uso mas enriquecedor 2-Ayudarlo a evitar errores 3-Una rápida utilización ... Autocomplete Textbox con Ajax y WebServices 0 0 12
Exchange 2010 Deployment Notes – Office 200x and Exchange 2... BWCA, January 1, 0001 If you review some of my older blog articles, you will notice that we have seen some issues with Outlook 2003 in our mixed Exchange 2003/2010 environment. Since Exchange 2010 supports Outlook 2003, 2007, ... Exchange 2010 Deployment Notes – Office 200x and Exchange 2... 0 0 1
Connect to TFS2010 Server using VS 2005 Client jehan, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... Connect to TFS2010 Server using VS 2005 Client 0 0 24
I have an iPad and I am using it as my utility display with Windo... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 I have used a utility called Maxivista for a while now that allows me to extend my desktop to other laptops. Recently, I have been using an HP Envy 15 and also carrying my iPad. Today while checking for ... I have an iPad and I am using it as my utility display with Windo... 0 0 0
A very strange problem with SSIS data dump into a pipe delimited ... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 [Update: 2010-07-14] Don't know what difference does one day make, but I re-tried this today and the file on the network looks fine. I know I'm not crazy because I tried the same steps yesterday twice ... A very strange problem with SSIS data dump into a pipe delimited ... 0 0 0
JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 An article was published at JupiterJS.com (titled “JavaScript vs Silverlight”) arguing that JavaScript is better than Silverlight. Unfortunately, there is no way to post comments on that page (weird, really) ... JavaScript vs Silverlight: An answer 0 0 0
Con la cabeza por las nubes Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Uno de los temas que esta de moda es hablar de “Cloud”. Para los que hemos estado involucrados en Internet por ya algun tiempo, pues ese era el nombre o talvez para ser mas preciso el simbolo con el que ... Con la cabeza por las nubes 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2010 -- #902 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andrea Boschin, Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-), Jaime Rodriguez, Brandon Watson, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Scott Guthrie. Shoutouts: Walt Ritscher announced a new Shazzam is shipping ... Silverlight Cream for July 13, 2010 -- #902 0 0 0
jQuery UI autocomplete / IE6 fix with bgiframe plug-in Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: jQuery,JavaScript I'm using the jQuery UI Autocomplete plug-in on my current intranet project, and am impressed with how powerful and easy to use it is. It works great on my development ... jQuery UI autocomplete / IE6 fix with bgiframe plug-in 0 0 4
WAPA: Microsoft in a Box Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 If you were listening to the waves generated by Microsoft at its Worldwide Partner Conference you probably realized that the announcement of offering Windows Azure in a box (a big, big box) is an interesting ... WAPA: Microsoft in a Box 0 0 0
EC2 Launcher: A User-Friendly Instance Launcher for Amazon’s Elas... EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... EC2 Overview Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) lets you rent a virtual PC in the cloud. You have full admin access to the machine, ... EC2 Launcher: A User-Friendly Instance Launcher for Amazon’s Elas... 0 0 2
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Finally! Read about it: http://windowsteamblog.com/... “ First things first: go get the Windows Phone Developer Tools ... Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta Released 0 0 1
Verwenden von partiellen Klassen für COM-Belange Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Motivation Schon im Whitepaper „Auszeichnung von COM-Kategorien an .NET-Klassen mittels Attributen und deren Verwendung für Setup-Builds“ [1] habe ich deutlich gemacht warum das Verwenden von COM-Registrierungsfunktionen ... Verwenden von partiellen Klassen für COM-Belange 0 0 0
Stub out your project using Visual Studio's Class Diagram HighAltitudeCoder, January 1, 0001 A while back I was tasked with creating a class diagram for one of the applications created by my company. While I knew there was a possibility I might have to manually create the diagram by hand, I knew ... Stub out your project using Visual Studio's Class Diagram 0 0 0
WHERE IN()-style Queries in LINQ to Entities EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; ... WHERE IN()-style Queries in LINQ to Entities 0 0 8
Silverlight Cream for July 10, 2010 -- #900 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 For Issue 900, I wanted to do another "best of" and it's a little tricky. I can't do best of from 800 to 900 because it will be heavily weighted to the early posts. So what I did was best of for 2010 so ... Silverlight Cream for July 10, 2010 -- #900 0 0 1
HTPC - Windows Media PC – Step 3 – The Post Analysis Scott Spradlin, January 1, 0001 So, I’ve been using this Windows Media Center setup for a year now. Here are some random thoughts about it. The two TV Tuner Cards had to be placed side-by-side on the motherboard since that was the only ... HTPC - Windows Media PC – Step 3 – The Post Analysis 0 0 2
Programming Contemporary Concepts UNISA studies - Chap 2 MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Any ramblings and blog posts associated with the UNISA COS 2144 tag should be considered study notes for my lectures... Chapter 2 This chapter covered an Introduction to classes and objects, and How member ... Programming Contemporary Concepts UNISA studies - Chap 2 0 0 0
SDEC10 in Winnipeg this October! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Last year my employer, Protegra, put on the first ever Software Development and Evolution Conference (SDEC) in Winnipeg. The event was such a huge success and the feedback we got was so positive that we’re ... SDEC10 in Winnipeg this October! 0 0 0
Hablemos de SharePoint Foundation Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 ¿Sabe usted cual es la diferencia entre SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server? Hay que empezar por el principio. Veamos, cuando pensamos en construir una casa, normalmente (y con justa causa recomendable) ... Hablemos de SharePoint Foundation 0 0 2
Looking for TFS 2010 and Project Server Integration? Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 In the past couple of weeks I have heard of people interested in seeing what possibilities are available for integration between Microsoft Project/Project Server and TFS 2010. There are a couple of items ... Looking for TFS 2010 and Project Server Integration? 0 0 0
Changing the Team Project Collection of the Team Build Controller Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Changing the Team Project Collection of the Team Build Controller When you are doing demos or training for Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS 2010) you may have multiple Team Project Collections ... Changing the Team Project Collection of the Team Build Controller 0 0 0
TFS: how to find checked out files in different workspace Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 My machine crashed and I wanted to find which files were checked out by me on that machine. It wasn't obvious, but finally I found, that I can search for user. You need to have installed Team Foundation ... TFS: how to find checked out files in different workspace 0 0 1
WCF: Suppress authentication for testing on different domain. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I have a WCF service and client, which worked fine, when I debug it on my local machine. However when I deployed the service to test server on the different domain. I've started to receive error System.ServiceModel.Securit... ... WCF: Suppress authentication for testing on different domain. 0 0 0
Remix10 AU- lessons learned. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I've attended Australian Remix10 and below is a list the points, that I've learned and/or want to read more about. The materials of US MIX10 conference are here http://live.visitmix.com/ Windows Azure ... Remix10 AU- lessons learned. 0 0 0
Windows Daily Reset David Douglass, January 1, 0001 What I’ve seen in most corporate environments is that PCs are up all the time; at the end of the day people either just log off or lock the machine. You can take advantage of this to reset Windows every ... Windows Daily Reset 0 0 2
MEF 101 - Part1 Abhijeet Patel, January 1, 0001 The Managed Extensibility framework or MEF is a framework released as part of .NET 4 and Silverlight that provides a mechanism to dynamically compose an application at runtime out of loosely coupled parts ... MEF 101 - Part1 0 0 5
Programming Contemporary Concepts UNISA studies begin – Cha... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Today I thought I would start the second semester of my UNISA studies, and after some psyching up I eventually pulled out the study guidelines and made a study schedule. By chance my Contemporary Concepts ... Programming Contemporary Concepts UNISA studies begin – Cha... 0 0 0
Design Time Formatting of RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 Mamta, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; ... Design Time Formatting of RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 0 0 0
Kin Post Mortem, Top-10 Style andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that their short-lived social networking-oriented phone, Kin, was being discontinued. I’m glad. In a post I wrote over a month ago, I implored Steve Ballmer to kill the ... Kin Post Mortem, Top-10 Style 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2010 -- #894 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Ben Hodson, Marcel du Preez, Karl Shifflett(-2-), Rishi, Chris Koenig, Adam Kinney, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeremy Likness, and CrocusGirl. Shoutouts: Victor Gaudioso posted an inteview: Checkout ... Silverlight Cream for July 01, 2010 -- #894 0 0 0
C++ Array Size Function Rob, January 1, 0001 I'm dividing my time between the .NET world and developing in C++ again, so I'm going to be posting some handy snippets here. Rather than using: sizeof(array) / sizeof(element) to determine the size of ... C++ Array Size Function 0 0 0
Firefox: Launch New Tab From Searchbox Rob, January 1, 0001 I've been a member of GWB for a year and a half or so and haven't blogged anything yet, so it's time to change that! Everytime I install Firefox on a new (virtual machine), I want my searchbox searches ... Firefox: Launch New Tab From Searchbox 0 0 0
C# Lambda & Predicate Basics MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Okay… don’t judge me… I have been coding in C# for a few years now and up till the point that I got into F# I never used lambda’s. This last week I realized just how much I am using the lambda expression ... C# Lambda & Predicate Basics 0 0 0
Microsoft ASP.NET | IIS Express Announced Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Since installing Option Pack 4 for Windows NT to get IIS running Classic ASP, we have all felt the lack of ease from Microsoft to actually create websites on a developer box. There has always been an expressed ... Microsoft ASP.NET | IIS Express Announced 0 0 1
The iPhone 4 Antenna Controversy eddraper, January 1, 0001 I have to admit to a certain degree of puzzlement regarding the uproar over the new iPhone 4’s alleged reception issues. ( First, I have to qualify this and say that I don’t own an iPhone and have not ... The iPhone 4 Antenna Controversy 0 0 1
Exchange 2010 Deployment Notes – Communicator 2007 R2 issue... BWCA, January 1, 0001 After we moved user mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, we had several users report issues with Communicator 2007 R2. Issue: There was a problem connecting to Microsoft Office Outlook. The e-mail ... Exchange 2010 Deployment Notes – Communicator 2007 R2 issue... 0 0 1
Chrome vs. <asp:Menu> Simon Moon, January 1, 0001 Microsoft disgusts me. Out-of-the-box Asp.NET assumes that Google Chrome and Apple Safari are not "modern" browsers. In order to make use of some of the Asp.NET web controls with those browsers, you need ... Chrome vs. <asp:Menu> 0 0 2
GWB | If we held a Game Design Contest, would you build one? Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 It has been 4 years since we ran our original Geekswithblogs.net Game Development Contest! Wow does time go by fast. George Clingerman wrote a game called Bob the Fish that shocked the world (well our ... GWB | If we held a Game Design Contest, would you build one? 0 0 6
Error Product SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add In for Share... Patrick Olurotimi Ige, January 1, 0001 I was setting up a Sharepoint foundation 2010 to integrate with Reporting Services. But to get this working you will need to install the SSRS 2008 version of the add-in or the SSRS 2008 R2 version of the ... Error Product SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add In for Share... 0 0 0
OO Refresher Course Codekiwi, January 1, 0001 My current contract is drawing to a close so I once again find myself in the unenvieable position of looking around for my next challenge (I hate interviewing). One of the positions I applied for was with ... OO Refresher Course 0 0 0
The Dip by Seth Godin D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 The Dip Seth Godin Amazon.ca Amazon.com Chapters/Indigo I’ve seen Seth Godin give Ted talks, and I’ve heard people go on and on about “purple cows”, but I never was intrigued enough to actually read him. ... The Dip by Seth Godin 0 0 0
CodeStock 2010 Dane Morgridge, January 1, 0001 I attended my first CodeStock this year and in short it was awesome. Like 100 billion hot dogs awesome. The travel there was crazy to say the least, but I met lots of new people, had a session go well ... CodeStock 2010 0 0 0