Mocking the Unmockable: Using Microsoft Moles with Gallio Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 Update 29/04/10: In contrary to what I initially stated in this post, Moles is not only available as part of the Pex framework, but also stand-alone on Visual Studio Gallery, and this is completely free ... Mocking the Unmockable: Using Microsoft Moles with Gallio 0 0 10
A Bad Day at Work TehGrumpyCoder, January 1, 0001 There's lots of ways of having a bad day at work... I suppose for many people, just being *at* work makes it a bad day, but I happen to be one of those people that found a way to do something I like for ... A Bad Day at Work 0 0 0
Time Travel 101 or Learning Stuff Faster by Speeding Things Up! Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 I’m thinking maybe I should have used Time Crunching 101 as the title instead… or maybe ‘Duh Duffy, where have you been? Everyone knows that!” Ok, so maybe you won’t actually learn how to travel through ... Time Travel 101 or Learning Stuff Faster by Speeding Things Up! 0 0 0
Steps for MySQL DB Replication Manish Agrawal, January 1, 0001 Following are the steps for MySQL Replication implementation on Linux machine: Pre-implementation steps for DB Replication: 1. Identify the databases to be replicated 2. Identify the tables to be ignored ... Steps for MySQL DB Replication 0 0 1
A note to college students using forums to do research Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 Recently, on a software development forum, a person who shall remain nameless posted the following Hi, Is there good material available on the net/elsewhere for the following topics? 1. Transitioning an ... A note to college students using forums to do research 0 0 0
Working with Visual Studio Web Development Server and IE6 in XP M... Igor Milovanovic, January 1, 0001 (Brian Reiter from thoughtful computing has described this setup in this StackOverflow thread. The credit for the idea is entirely his, I have just extended it with some step by step descriptions and added ... Working with Visual Studio Web Development Server and IE6 in XP M... 0 0 0
Integrating Windows Form Click Once Application into SharePoint 2... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 (This is a series of posts covering how to include a WinForm app inside a SharePoint 2007 application. For further info, please see Posts One, Three, and Four. All of the code can be downloaded in this ... Integrating Windows Form Click Once Application into SharePoint 2... 0 0 0
Starting Spring Lineup onefloridacoder, January 1, 0001 This morning I finished removing all VS2008 related frameworks and installed items related to VS2010 based on posts around the community. Here’s what I started with on my dev laptop, the config for my ... Starting Spring Lineup 0 0 0
Create Pivot collections much faster than DeepZoomTools Collectio... John Conwell, January 1, 0001 I've been playing with Microsoft Live Labs Pivot to create a hierarchy of collections all linked together to allow someone to explore a hierarchy of data visually. The problem has been the generation time ... Create Pivot collections much faster than DeepZoomTools Collectio... 0 0 0
Browser History ASP.Net AJAX: Microsoft.Web.Preview Narendra Tiwari, January 1, 0001 I remember in 2006 we were working on a portal for our client Venetian, Las Vegas and the portal is full of AJAX features. One of my friend facing a challange to retain browser history with all AJAX operation. ... Browser History ASP.Net AJAX: Microsoft.Web.Preview 0 0 1
Attribute Key Not found Error while processing the cube in SSAS sathya, January 1, 0001 Attribute Key Not found Error occurs in SSAS due to the following reasons : Dimensions processed after measure groups Null values / references in Keys Please check for the Null values in Interrelated dimensions. ... Attribute Key Not found Error while processing the cube in SSAS 0 0 1
Adding a value to a 'datetime' column caused overflow. sathya, January 1, 0001 Adding a value to a 'datetime' column caused overflow. Came across this error today. So thought of posting the same. Whenever you try to do a dateadd like this dateadd(mm,12,datefield) you might face this ... Adding a value to a 'datetime' column caused overflow. 0 0 0
Why was Apple’s prediction on iPads so wrong? BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 by Robert Scoble on April 14, 2010 Apple has announced it is selling far more iPads than it expected and is delaying the worldwide launch by a month. I am seeing this problem in US too. There are lines ... Why was Apple’s prediction on iPads so wrong? 0 0 0
Building the Bootsector of BIOSLOADER Kate Moss' Open Space, January 1, 0001 Windows CE is a 32 bits OS since day one, so it makes sense tools shipped with PB, compiler, linker, assembler and etc, are for targeting to 32 bits system. But occasionally, if you are developing x86 ... Building the Bootsector of BIOSLOADER 0 0 0
Microsoft 2010 Product Tour Randy Walker, January 1, 0001 I’m proud to announce that two Microsoft employees, Sarika Calla and Kevin Halverson, who works on the Visual Studio Product Team will be visiting various User Groups and Companies in Arkansas and Texas! ... Microsoft 2010 Product Tour 0 0 0
MSDN Subscription Dave Yasko, January 1, 0001 My work just started (a couple of months ago actually) allowing us access to our MSDN subscriptions. This is totally cool. I’ve been begging, borrowing, and stealing all these years to have access to Visual ... MSDN Subscription 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 and Target Framework Version Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Almost two years ago, I wrote about a Visual Studio macro that allows you to change the Target Framework version of all projects in a solution. If you don’t know, the Target Framework version is what tells ... Visual Studio 2010 and Target Framework Version 0 0 8
eBooks on iPad vs. Kindle: More Debate than Smackdown andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 When the iPad was presented at its San Francisco launch event on January 28th, Steve Jobs spent a significant amount of time explaining how well the device would serve as an eBook reader. He showed the ... eBooks on iPad vs. Kindle: More Debate than Smackdown 0 0 3
Useful utilities - PFE, Notepad++ and XML Notepad 2007 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 All three editors are free to download and use! PFE http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staf... XML Notepad 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/do... ... Useful utilities - PFE, Notepad++ and XML Notepad 2007 0 0 0
What’s new in VS.10 & TFS.10? johndoucette, January 1, 0001 Getting my geek on… I have decided to call the products VS.10 (Visual Studio 2010), TP.10 (Test Professional 2010), and TFS.10 (Team Foundation Server 2010) Thanks Neno Loje. What's new in Visual Studio ... What’s new in VS.10 & TFS.10? 0 0 0
Strange Happenings MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 There are weeks we go about our life thinking nothing is going to change nothing will happen. Then there are other weeks a billion things happen at once. Friday started off very weird for me. I flew into ... Strange Happenings 0 0 0
Reusing WCF Proxy to reduce Memory Usage Sudheer Kumar, January 1, 0001 I am working on a program that uploads BLOB from DB to a Document Management System. I have a WCF service to interact with the DMS. I have a multi-threaded client program that uploads the BLOBs to DMS ... Reusing WCF Proxy to reduce Memory Usage 0 0 4
SQL Azure Security: DoS Part II Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Ah! When you shoot yourself in the foot... a few times... it hurts! That's what I did on Sunday, to learn more about the behavior of the SQL Azure Denial Of Service prevention feature. This article is ... SQL Azure Security: DoS Part II 0 0 0
Easily use google maps, openstreet maps etc offline. samkea, January 1, 0001 I did it and i am going to explain step by step. The explanatination may appear long but its simple if you follow. Note: All the softwares i have used are the latest and i have packaged them and provided ... Easily use google maps, openstreet maps etc offline. 0 0 0
CHM Issue: The page can not be displayed Narendra Tiwari, January 1, 0001 Some times when we access few CHM (compiled HTML) files over network share, CHM content doed not display and shows an error "The Page Can not be displayed". This may be due to a Microsoft security update ... CHM Issue: The page can not be displayed 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2010 -- #841 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Jeremy Likness, Giorgetti Alessandro, Antoni Dol, Mike Taulty, and Braulio Diez. Shoutout: Bart Czernicki lists compelling reasons to use Silverlight 4 for LOB apps: ... Silverlight Cream for April 19, 2010 -- #841 0 0 0
Seattle Code Camp 2010 Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Seattle Code Camp was a two-day intensive software development conference. Ostensibly a technology agnostic event the reality is that code camp continues to focus on Microsoft technologies. Notable exceptions ... Seattle Code Camp 2010 0 0 0
WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Active Directory Forms Based Authentication Peo... John Haigh, January 1, 0001 WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Active Directory Forms Based Authentication PeoplePicker no users found After finding these steps online from http://dattard.blogspot.com... in ... WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Active Directory Forms Based Authentication Peo... 0 0 1
Useful utilities - LINQPAD TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Recently I came across LINQPAD at http://www.linqpad.net/ a free utility by Joseph Alabahari. This is an excellent tool for developing and testing LINQ queries before you incorporate them into your C# ... Useful utilities - LINQPAD 0 0 2
CLR via C# - first post of many! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 I am currently reading CLR via C# ISBN 978-0-7356-2704-8. Whilst quite correctly described by the publisher as a "Deep Dive", this is a book that C# developers with 6-18 months plus experiance ought to ... CLR via C# - first post of many! 0 0 0
No Visual studio template information found. See application log ... sathya, January 1, 0001 I tried installing the .NET Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework through the web platform installer. It took a long time and finally i had a restart in between for .NET 4 installation and after that ... No Visual studio template information found. See application log ... 0 0 20
FAT Volume and CE Kate Moss' Open Space, January 1, 0001 Whenever we format a disk volume, it is a good idea to name the label so it will be easier to categorize. To label a volume, we can use LABEL command or UI depends on your preference. Windows CE does provide ... FAT Volume and CE 0 0 0
Integrating Windows Form Click Once Application into SharePoint 2... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 (This is a series of posts covering how to include a WinForm app inside a SharePoint 2007 application. For further info, please see Posts Two, Three, and Four. All of the code can be downloaded in Post ... Integrating Windows Form Click Once Application into SharePoint 2... 0 0 3
A way of doing real-world test-driven development (and some thoug... Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 Lately, I exchanged some arguments with Derick Bailey about some details of the red-green-refactor cycle of the Test-driven development process. In short, the issue revolved around the fact that it’s not ... A way of doing real-world test-driven development (and some thoug... 0 0 3
SQL Azure Security: DoS Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Since I decided to understand in more depth how SQL Azure works I started to dig into its performance characteristics. So I decided to write an application that allows me to put SQL Azure to the test and ... SQL Azure Security: DoS 0 0 2
SBUG Session: The Enterprise Cache EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... I did a session on "The Enterprise Cache" at the UK SOA/BPM User Group yesterday which generated some useful discussion. The proposal was for a dedicated ... SBUG Session: The Enterprise Cache 0 0 5
VS2010 changes your ASP.NET Version on setup projects to 4 - rega... blomqvist, January 1, 0001 When converting your projects to VS2010 you get the question to migrate them to .net4. But even if you do not do that VS set the ASP.NET version to 4 for setup projects. And then when you try to install ... VS2010 changes your ASP.NET Version on setup projects to 4 - rega... 0 0 11
I want to hit Apex SQL with a big stick Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 <Whinge> Thought id just have a little whinge about this product which caused me a load of grief the other day..... So the background was that my development machine had a completely full hard disk ... I want to hit Apex SQL with a big stick 0 0 9
Visual Studio 2010 plus Help Index : have your cake and eat it to... Adrian Hara, January 1, 0001 Although the team's intentions might have been good, the new help system in Visual Studio 2010 is a huge step backwards (more like a cannonball-shot-kind-of-leap really) from the one we all know (and love?) ... Visual Studio 2010 plus Help Index : have your cake and eat it to... 0 0 1
Creating SparseImages for Pivot John Conwell, January 1, 0001 Learning how to programmatically make collections for Microsoft Live Labs Pivot has been a pretty interesting ride. There are very few examples out there, and the folks at MS Live Labs are often slow on ... Creating SparseImages for Pivot 0 0 0
Twin Cities Fragathon II - Electric Fragaloo - Halo 3 ODST Tourna... Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 If you're in the Twin Cities and play Halo 3 ODST, or like to watch other people play, or enjoy smack talk, or pizza, or just have nothing better to do... well then you're in luck!! The Twin Cities XNA ... Twin Cities Fragathon II - Electric Fragaloo - Halo 3 ODST Tourna... 0 0 1
Defining scope for Record Count functoid: ArunManick, January 1, 0001 Problem: One of the most common scenarios in BizTalk is calculating the record count of repeating structure. BizTalk has come up with an advanced functoid called Record Count functoid which will give the ... Defining scope for Record Count functoid: 0 0 6
MVC Portable Areas Enhancement – Embedded Resource Controll... Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 MvcContrib contains a feature called Portable Areas which I’ve recently blogged about. In short, portable areas provide a way to distribute MVC binary components as simple .NET assemblies where the aspx/ascx ... MVC Portable Areas Enhancement – Embedded Resource Controll... 0 0 15
Hello, World! codingbloke, January 1, 0001 I realise that the topic above is likely not the most original but that’s best I could come up with. Apparently it is customary to use the first blog to introduce oneself so that’s what I’m doing here. ... Hello, World! 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2010 -- #837 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Joe McBride, Kirupa, Maurice de Beijer, Brad Abrams, Phil Middlemiss, and CorrinaB. Shoutout: Charlie Kindel has a post up about the incompatibility between VS2010RTM ... Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2010 -- #837 0 0 1
Why Apple’s New SDK Limitation is So Offensive TStewartDev, January 1, 0001 I am not an Apple fanboy, nor have I ever been. However, I have owned a Mac, an iPod, and an iPhone in my lifetime, and for more than a decade, I have defended Apple against the untruths that the haters ... Why Apple’s New SDK Limitation is So Offensive 0 0 1
#iPad at One Week: A Great Device Made with a Heavy Hand andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 I have now had my iPad for a little over a week. In that time, Apple introduced the world to its iPhone OS 4 (and the SDK agreement’s draconian new section 3.3.1), HP introduced is Slate, and Microsoft ... #iPad at One Week: A Great Device Made with a Heavy Hand 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 -- #836 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Rénald Nollet, Roboblob, Laurent Bugnion, Timmy Kokke, Michael Sync(-2-), Victor Gaudioso, and Bill Reiss. Brought to you from a tiny table in my no-tell-motelTM in 'Vegas AKA "cheaper than ... Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 -- #836 0 0 0
Using an alternate search platform in Commerce Server 2009 Lewis Benge, January 1, 0001 Although Microsoft Commerce Server 2009's architecture is built upon Microsoft SQL Server, and has the full power of the SQL Full Text Indexing Search Platform, there are time however when you may require ... Using an alternate search platform in Commerce Server 2009 0 0 0
BDD IS Different to TDD Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 One of this morning’s sessions at Alt.NET 2010 discussed BDD. Charlie Pool expressed the opinion, which I have heard many times, that BDD is just a description of TDD done properly. For me, the core principles ... BDD IS Different to TDD 0 0 1