Philly GiveCamp 2010 wulfers, January 1, 0001 Spent the weekend helping out several non-profits doing what we like to do best... Designing, developing and making people very happy with their new websites, systems, applications and features. Form what ... Philly GiveCamp 2010 0 0 0
MySQL - Configuration Stuart Brierley, January 1, 0001 Having previously detailed how to install MySQL Server, the next step is configuring MySQL. The MySQL configuration wizard can either be run immediately following installation from the MySQL installation ... MySQL - Configuration 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2010 -- #876 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Brian Genisio, Michael Washington, Fons Sonnemans , Don Burnett, Xianzhong Zhu, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Victor Gaudioso, David Kelley(-2-), and Matias Bonaventura . Shoutout: Anoop has ... Silverlight Cream for June 06, 2010 -- #876 0 0 0
Hello, T4MVC – Goodbye, ASP.NET MVC “magic strings&rd... Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,ASP.NET MVC,T4MVC I’m working on my first ASP.NET MVC project, and I really, really like MVC. I hate all of the “magic strings”, though: <div id="logindisplay"> <% Html.RenderPartial("LogOnUs... ... Hello, T4MVC – Goodbye, ASP.NET MVC “magic strings&rd... 0 0 4
VS 2010 snippet manager and quickCode Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 During the last few years I've used QuickCode and it was very helpful. Visual Studio 2010 has Code Snippets Manager that MS finally made quite convenient to use, so I will use it in a future. I will need ... VS 2010 snippet manager and quickCode 0 0 2
to ArrayList">How to "cast" from generic List<> to ArrayList Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We are writing new code using generic List<> , e.g. List<MyClass>. However we have legacy functions, that are expect ArrayList as a parameter. It is a second time, when I and my colleague asked, ... to ArrayList">How to "cast" from generic List<> to ArrayList 0 0 0
Platform Builder: Disable the USB Driver Dialog Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 For a long time, Windows CE developers and users have wanted to disable the USB Driver Dialog that is displayed when an unknown USB device is plugged into the host controller. Of course the question is ... Platform Builder: Disable the USB Driver Dialog 0 0 4
Getting WCF Services in a Silverlight solution to play nice on de... brendonpage, January 1, 0001 I have come across 2 issues with deploying WCF services in a Silverlight solution, admittedly the one is more of a hiccup, and only occurs if you take the easy way out and reference your services through ... Getting WCF Services in a Silverlight solution to play nice on de... 0 0 0
WWDC and Tech Ed: A Tale of Two DevCons andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Next week marks the first full week of June. Summer will feel in full swing and it will be a pretty big season for technology. In seeming acknowledgement of that very fact, both Apple and Microsoft will ... WWDC and Tech Ed: A Tale of Two DevCons 0 0 1
ApiChange Is Released! Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 I have been working on little tool to simplify my life and perhaps yours as developer as well. It is basically a command line tool that allows you to execute queries on your compiled .NET code base. The ... ApiChange Is Released! 0 0 1
Going to TechEd 2010 North America - WP7 Enterprise - TechEd 2010... Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 After years of one night community and volunteering tasks; and even running cool events like ]inbetween[ weekend, I finally get to go to the actual event! And this time it’s not in Orlando – it’s in New ... Going to TechEd 2010 North America - WP7 Enterprise - TechEd 2010... 0 0 0
Console 2: An upgraded windows console Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Lately I have been using the windows console a lot. I find that I often need a number of console windows open at once. The regular windows console does not handle this well. Console2 is a more advanced ... Console 2: An upgraded windows console 0 0 0
Links for PrDC10 Session Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Here are the links I promised to post from my session on Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools. To download and configure the TFS 2010 Virtual Machine the best instructions are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bri... ... Links for PrDC10 Session Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools 0 0 0
Death March Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 It is a horrible sight to watch a project fail. There are few things as bad. Watching a project fail regardless of the reason is almost like sitting in a room with a "Dementor" from Harry Potter. It will ... Death March 0 0 1
Twitter Customer Sentiment Analysis Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 The breakable toy that I am currently working on is a twitter customer sentiment analyser. It scrapes twitter for tweets relating to a particular organisation, applies a machine learning algorithm to determine ... Twitter Customer Sentiment Analysis 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2010 -- #874 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Alan Beasley and Michael Washington, Miroslav Miroslavov, Max Paulousky, Teresa and Ronald Burger, Laurent Duveau, Tim Heuer, Jeff Brand, Mike Snow, and John Papa. Shoutouts: ... Silverlight Cream for June 01, 2010 -- #874 0 0 0
TechEd 2010 Schedule and Twitter Tool Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 If you’re going to TechEd 2010* (North America), be sure to check out the TechEd 2010 Schedule and Twitter Tool. If you have a mobile device (Windows Mobile 6.5, Android, iPhone), a tablet (Windows 7, ... TechEd 2010 Schedule and Twitter Tool 0 0 2
Finally, I have my HP 6910p laptop running with 8Gb RAM Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 Today, I received two Corsair Value Select 4Gb DDR SO-DIMMs (from overclock.co.uk) for my aging HP 6910p to give it the extra lease of life to keep it going until the end of 2010. And here is the proof ... Finally, I have my HP 6910p laptop running with 8Gb RAM 0 0 28
Win7 is not a tablet OS, no matter what the boys in Redmond think... John Conwell, January 1, 0001 Despite what execs at Microsoft think, Windows 7 is NOT a tablet OS. Just because you can install some software (or OS) on a device, doesn't mean that device is meant to run that software. This seems to ... Win7 is not a tablet OS, no matter what the boys in Redmond think... 0 0 3
Search engine optimization Links Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Below there are a few links, that I used for my Search engine optimization research for PrintPagesOnline site. : http://websearch.about.com/... Keyword Selection Guidelines ... Search engine optimization Links 0 0 1
What's New in ASP.NET 4 Navaneeth, January 1, 0001 The .NET Framework version 4 includes enhancements for ASP.NET 4 in targeted areas. Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express also include enhancements and new features for improved ... What's New in ASP.NET 4 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2010 -- #873 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Matthias Shapiro, Colin Blair(-2-), Mike Snow, Marlon Grech, Victor Gaudioso. Shoutout: If you're going to be anywhere near Mission Viejo, California on June 19th, set your calendar for ... Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2010 -- #873 0 0 0
One of my VMs went boom using Virtual Box and how it got fixed Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 I am running an HP Envy 15, 16GB and 500GB (7200 RPM) Hard drive. Had a VM configured from another environment, created the virtual machine config file on Virtual Box, everything seemed ok. Fired it up, ... One of my VMs went boom using Virtual Box and how it got fixed 0 0 0
Better than dynamic SQL - How to pass a list of comma separated I... Rodney Vinyard, January 1, 0001 Better than dynamic SQL - How to pass a list of comma separated IDs into a stored proc: Derived form "Method 6" from a great article: · How to pass a list of values or array to SQL Server stored procedure ... Better than dynamic SQL - How to pass a list of comma separated I... 0 0 2
Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment Manesh Karunakaran, January 1, 0001 It’s been more than a month since SharePoint 2010 RTMed. And a lot of people have downloaded and set up their very own SharePoint 2010 development rigs. And quite a few people have written blogs about ... Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment 0 0 17
Expression Studio 4 Community Launch Event Timmy Kokke, January 1, 0001 Event On June 7th Expression Studio 4 will be launched at the Internet Week in New York. One day later, on June 8th, the Dutch Silverlight and Expression User Group SIXIN organizes the Dutch Community ... Expression Studio 4 Community Launch Event 0 0 0
Q&A: Can you develop for the Windows Azure Platform using Win... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 This question has come up several times recently as we take several hundred UK developers through 6 Weeks of Windows Azure training (sorry – we are full). Short answer: In the main, yes Longer answer: ... Q&A: Can you develop for the Windows Azure Platform using Win... 0 0 1
Learning Objective-C for iPad/iPhone/iPod Development Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 I am learning how to write apps for the iPad/iPhone/iPod! Why, well several reasons. One reason, I have 5 devices in my house on the platform. I had an iPad and iPhone, Michelle has an iPhone, and each ... Learning Objective-C for iPad/iPhone/iPod Development 0 0 2
FIX: Visual Studio Post Build Event Returns –1 when it shou... ChrisD, January 1, 0001 I had written a Console Application that I run as part of my post build for other projects.. The Console application logs a series of messages to the console as it executes. I use the Environment.ExitCode ... FIX: Visual Studio Post Build Event Returns –1 when it shou... 0 0 1
High Availability mattjgilbert, January 1, 0001 Udi Dahan presented at the UK Connected Systems User Group last night. He discussed High Availability and pointed out that people often think this is purely an infrastructure challenge. However, the implications ... High Availability 0 0 0
Letter to Ballmer: Making Better Consumer Devices andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Last year, I wrote Steve Ballmer an email, and he was kind enough to write me back. The email contained a scan of a column I wrote praising Microsoft’s BI strategy. His reply contained three simple words: ... Letter to Ballmer: Making Better Consumer Devices 0 0 11
SharePoint 2010 Information Worker VM available for download Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 If you interested in a test drive of the technologies around the Wave 14 launch, take look at the VM made available from Microsoft. It is a very well rounded option to explore the new products. 2010 Information ... SharePoint 2010 Information Worker VM available for download 0 0 0
Agile Like Jazz Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 (I’ve been sitting on this for a week or so now, thinking that it needed to be tightened up a bit to make it less rambling. Since that’s clearly not going to happen, reader beware!) I had the privilege ... Agile Like Jazz 0 0 2
Share Files and Folders and Internet between Guest OS and the Hos... Manesh Karunakaran, January 1, 0001 For those who are familiar with the VirtualPC, vmWare and VirtualBox environments will be quite irritated to find out, in Hyper-V, there is no direct way to share files from the Host machine to the Virtualized ... Share Files and Folders and Internet between Guest OS and the Hos... 0 0 18
Work Item Visualizer for TFS 2010 - New Extension MikeParks, January 1, 0001 I released another new extension to the Visual Studio Gallery again today called Work Item Visualizer for TFS 2010. I've only heard positive things about it so far, hopefully it stays that way :) Basically, ... Work Item Visualizer for TFS 2010 - New Extension 0 0 27
Tools and Utilities for the .NET Developer mbcrump, January 1, 0001 You can reach this page anytime at http://tools.michaelcrump.net Thanks to everyone that has contributed so far, we are getting several thousands hits from all sorts of developers a day. Recent Contributors ... Tools and Utilities for the .NET Developer 0 0 26
Exception Handling Differences Between 32/64 Bit Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 I do quite a bit of debugging .NET applications but from time to time I see things that are impossible (at a first look). I may ask you dear reader what your mental exception handling model is. Exception ... Exception Handling Differences Between 32/64 Bit 0 0 0
iPad Discussion Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 I had reason to meet up with someone I don't see very often a bit ago. In the course of the conversation, he told me he bought an iPad. I don't know if I was expected to ooh and ahh, but I didn't. After ... iPad Discussion 0 0 4
Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 -- #869 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Miroslav Miroslavov, Victor Gaudioso, Phil Middlemiss, Jonathan van de Veen, Lee, and Domagoj Pavlešic. From SilverlightCream.com: Book Folding effect using Pixel Shader On the new CompleteIT ... Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 -- #869 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2010 -- #868 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Victor Gaudioso, Weidong Shen, SilverLaw, Alnur Ismail, Damon Payne, and Karl Erickson. Shoutout: Tim Greenfield posted his slides and materials (not the padlock yet) from Portland Code ... Silverlight Cream for May 24, 2010 -- #868 0 0 0
My First 5K, the recap. Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 It was a nice day to be outside (and trust me, those aren't words you'll hear from me often.) I got to the site around 7:45, hit the pre-reg table and got my number along with a goody bag full of coupons ... My First 5K, the recap. 0 0 3
High-Powered Sites for low Cost HighAltitudeCoder, January 1, 0001 Ahh, I am experiencing the intimidation of my very first post - visible by the whole world. Ok, here goes. This first post is nothing exceptional. It is simply a recommendation based (fittingly, I suppose) ... High-Powered Sites for low Cost 0 0 0
TFS work items tips Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We started using TFS to track requests using Work items. 1. Telerik's TFS Work Item Manager (beta version for TFS 2010 is available) that could be interesting to use instead of standard VS2010, especially ... TFS work items tips 0 0 0
F# for the C# Programmer mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Are you a C# Programmer and can’t make it past a day without seeing or hearing someone mention F#? Today, I’m going to walk you through your first F# application and give you a brief introduction to the ... F# for the C# Programmer 0 0 1
TFS 2010 Basic Concepts 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; ... TFS 2010 Basic Concepts 0 0 5
Testing Reference Data Mappings Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Background Mapping reference data is one of the common scenarios in BizTalk development and its usually a bit of a pain when you need to manage a lot of reference data whether it be through the BizTalk ... Testing Reference Data Mappings 0 0 0
Copying files from GAC using xcopy or Windows Explorer Rohit Gupta, January 1, 0001 use this command for copying files using a wildcard from the GAC to a local folder. xcopy c:\windows\assembly\Microso... c:\gacdll /s/r/y/c The above command will continue even it encounters ... Copying files from GAC using xcopy or Windows Explorer 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2010 -- #866 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Mike Snow, Victor Gaudioso, Ola Karlsson, Josh Twist(-2-), Yavor Georgiev, Jeff Wilcox, and Jesse Liberty. Shoutouts: Frank LaVigne has an interesting observation on his site: The Big Take-Away ... Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2010 -- #866 0 0 0
Own an iPad, iPhone, or Touch? Add GWB to your Home Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 I know it is goofy to geek out about such things, but I am a pretty goofy geek. Today we published support for the Apple icons for devices like the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Now when you add Geekswithblogs.net ... Own an iPad, iPhone, or Touch? Add GWB to your Home 0 0 0
Designer resources for Developers DarrenFieldhouse, January 1, 0001 If like me, you have to turn your hand to design every now and then, you might find some of these useful: Fonts Free for commercial use fonts. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ More free fonts http://www.1001freefonts.com ... Designer resources for Developers 0 0 2