Building a Distributed Commerce Infrastructure in the Cloud using... Lewis Benge, January 1, 0001 One of the biggest questions I routinely get asked is how scalable Commerce Server is. Of course the text book answer is the product has been around for 10 years, powers some of the largest e-Commerce ... Building a Distributed Commerce Infrastructure in the Cloud using... 0 0 0
What is "Open" anyway? EmbeddedInsider, January 1, 0001 This terms is often used with many meanings. For example, some people consider Flash 'open' and 'multi-platform' . But Flash is a product of Adobe systems, locked down, copy protected and distribution ... What is "Open" anyway? 0 0 0
Agile Development James Oloo Onyango, January 1, 0001 Alot of literature has and is being written about agile developement and its surrounding philosophies. In my quest to find the best way to express the importance of agile methodologies, i have found Robert ... Agile Development 0 0 1
Can’t eject external USB or Firewire drive in Windows 7 Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 As a SharePoint developer, I work a lot with Virtual Machines (presently using Windows Virtual PC, with Windows 7). I’m using these VMs with my laptop, and in order to get better performance, I’ve moved ... Can’t eject external USB or Firewire drive in Windows 7 0 0 1
Chunking a List - .NET vs Python Abhijeet Patel, January 1, 0001 Chunking a List As I mentioned last time, I'm knee deep in python these days. I come from a statically typed background so it's definitely a mental adjustment. List comprehensions is BIG in Python and ... Chunking a List - .NET vs Python 0 0 5
From Binary to Data Structures Cédric Menzi, January 1, 0001 Table of Contents Introduction PE file format and COFF header COFF file header BaseCoffReader Byte4ByteCoffReader UnsafeCoffReader ManagedCoffReader Conclusion History This article is also available on ... From Binary to Data Structures 0 0 12
Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Appl... Bobby Diaz, January 1, 0001 Quick Links Adding Volcanos and Options - Earthquake Locator, part 2 Live Demo Source Code The recent wave of earthquakes (no pun intended) being reported in the news got me wondering about the frequency ... Introducing the Earthquake Locator – A Bing Maps Silverlight Appl... 0 0 2
Why values in my WCF data contract were suddenly wrong... mipsen, January 1, 0001 A WCF Service I provided took a very simple data contract as parameter (containing one string and one int...) and had a very simple task to do. A .NET 3.5 client was created using the VS2008 feature "Add ... Why values in my WCF data contract were suddenly wrong... 0 0 0
SPRoleAssignment Crazy Caveats MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 I’m not sure if this bug exists on any other environment, but here are a few issues I ran into when trying to use SPRoleAssignment and SPGroup: When trying to use Web.Groups[“GroupName”] it basically told ... SPRoleAssignment Crazy Caveats 0 0 0
Platform Builder: Removing the Version Information from the Desk... Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 The question of how to remove the version information from the desktop has been around for a long time. It came up again today. The question is about the string displayed on the desktop that looks like ... Platform Builder: Removing the Version Information from the Desk... 0 0 1
Adopting DBVCS Wes McClure, January 1, 0001 Identify early adopters Pick a small project with a small(ish) team. This can be a legacy application or a green-field application. Strive to find a team of early adopters that will be eager to try something ... Adopting DBVCS 0 0 0
Outstanding Silverlight User Group Meeting last night Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 We had a great Silverlight User Group Meeting in Phoenix last night! Before I go any farther I want to say thanks again to David Silverlight and Kim Schmidt for coming to talk to us! And not to forget ... Outstanding Silverlight User Group Meeting last night 0 0 4
Krusader To The Rescue gjfox, January 1, 0001 Krusader is one of those must-have computing tools that turns difficult or tedious computing tasks into easy, point-and-click operations. It's an advanced twin-panel file manager that's loaded with features. ... Krusader To The Rescue 0 0 0
Third coding dojo Michel Grootjans, January 1, 0001 We just did our third coding dojo today. Just to keep things interesting, we did it in Ruby this time. The whole thing has been done on a Mac with TextMate. The topic we set off to implement was a game ... Third coding dojo 0 0 0
Reading a file for input in Aris, using Aris Script (Server/Repor... Tim Huffam, January 1, 0001 The Aris scripting language provides a couple of ways to select and read a file for input. This is useful for auto populating Aris (generating models and objects). To select a file on the clients machine: ... Reading a file for input in Aris, using Aris Script (Server/Repor... 0 0 24
Tips to Optimise asp.net Web Applications Prasenjit, January 1, 0001 1) Turn off Tracing unless until required Tracing is one of the wonderful features which enable us to track the application's trace and the sequences. However, again it is useful only for developers and ... Tips to Optimise asp.net Web Applications 0 0 1
You already have all those icons blomqvist, January 1, 0001 Icons for that “little application” have always been a problem for me, finding something that looks ok. And now i discovered that I have been sitting right on top of a whole bunch of them all the time. ... You already have all those icons 0 0 0
Cellular device WIFI Capability AreYouSerious, January 1, 0001 I don't know about the IPhone, because I don't have one, and I'm willing to bet that most of you won't be able to answer this either; but here's a scenario. You have your phone unlocked so that you can ... Cellular device WIFI Capability 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2010 -- #806 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Phil Middlemiss, Jim Wightman, Jeremy Likness, Ross Wozniak, SilverLaw(-2-), XAMLNinja, Victor Gaudioso(-2-), Sergey Barskiy, and Jeff Handley. Shoutouts: Chris Klug posted The CommandManager ... Silverlight Cream for March 02, 2010 -- #806 0 0 2
Products | SnagIt on the Mac Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 I have recently needed a screen capture tool for my Mac and remembered that TechSmith had recently launched SnagIt, the only screen capture tool for Windows in my eyes, for the Mac. SnagIt is an amazing ... Products | SnagIt on the Mac 0 0 1
How to: Reset table index on SQL Server Sglima, January 1, 0001 DBCC CHECKIDENT (yourtable, reseed, 0) Enjoy :) ... How to: Reset table index on SQL Server 0 0 0
Embedded Data Mining .NET James Oloo Onyango, January 1, 0001 The .NET community, unlike the Java and python community do not provide Data Mining solutions outside the framework of their RDBMS MS SQL Server. In my quest to integrate Data mining into an existing ASP.NET ... Embedded Data Mining .NET 0 0 0
Axiom v0.8.0.0 Beta 2 Released Michael Cummings, January 1, 0001 I am pleased to announce the next release of Axiom, v0.8.0.0 Beta 2. Get it here. Axiom v0.8.0.0 Beta 2 Released 0 0 0
Assembly Native Image Load Failures Jeff Ferguson, January 1, 0001 You may find during application performance analysis that you can improve your application’s cold start time by using native images for both your application and its dependent assemblies. Native images ... Assembly Native Image Load Failures 0 0 2
Prairie Dev Conference!!! Registration open! juanlarios, January 1, 0001 HI all, a good freind of mine, is heading up Prairie Dev Conference 2010. It is going to be held in Regina, Saskatchewan. Great line up of speakers and some great tracks in the works. If you are looking ... Prairie Dev Conference!!! Registration open! 0 0 0
Technical Support Conversations Nouman Zakir, January 1, 0001 The following are a number of transcribed conversations to technical support departments: -- Tech support: What kind of computer do you have? Christine says: A white one... =============== Customer: Hi, ... Technical Support Conversations 0 0 5
Thou Shalt not Iterate! : Part 2 Sarang, January 1, 0001 Last time we saw some interesting initialization constructs possible with LINQ. Hope some of you have tried it out. If not, it’s never too late. LinqPad is a good friend in need. This time around we’d ... Thou Shalt not Iterate! : Part 2 0 0 2
Winnipeg Code Camp Rolls On! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Lunch has been devoured, prizes have been handed out, and now its all about the afternoon sessions! We had some great prizes handed out: a full Telerik suite, JetBrains licenses, O’Reilly books, a conference ... Winnipeg Code Camp Rolls On! 0 0 0
Pluralsight On-Demand Training library Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: General Pluralsight is an online .NET Training library which provides online training materials for .NET developers. Example trainings available on demand: · .NET 3.5 · Agile Team Practices ... Pluralsight On-Demand Training library 0 0 0
Azure - Part 2 - Develop and Debug Azure Application Shaun, January 1, 0001 Although the azure application will be running on the sky we still need to develop it on the ground since we would not be able to fly. In order to make it easy and simple to work with azure on local machine ... Azure - Part 2 - Develop and Debug Azure Application 0 0 12
Be Prepared David Douglass, January 1, 0001 Your machine is dead. Now what? I keep these bootable CDs on hand, just in case: SpinRite. This program has saved me several times. Fixes unusable disks that cause systems to hang. Worth $90 the first ... Be Prepared 0 0 0
Draggable Image on Silverlight Sayre Collado, January 1, 0001 Hello Guys, Early this morning I’m thinking about the draggable Image in Silverlight. I created a sample with simple snippets. 1. Create one Image, rectangle, and button. 2. Create an event handler for ... Draggable Image on Silverlight 0 0 1
Thou Shalt not Iterate! : Part 1 Sarang, January 1, 0001 LINQ as we all know provides intrinsic data querying capabilities to the framework languages supporting LINQ. Going forward its an obvious way to code clean, and with growing number of LINQ providers (LINQ ... Thou Shalt not Iterate! : Part 1 0 0 5
Running Remote Desktop Connection client (mstsc.exe) from inside ... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 One of the annoying absences in Hyper-V Server 2008 is the lack of a remote desktop connection client (mstsc.exe). This is due to the (welcome) reduction in clutter within Server 2008 Core, on which Hyper-V ... Running Remote Desktop Connection client (mstsc.exe) from inside ... 0 0 6
Sexy Windsor Registrations Wes McClure, January 1, 0001 After working with FluentNHibernate and seeing examples of registries in StructureMap, I started craving the same thing for my registrations with Windsor. Our registrations often look like the following: ... Sexy Windsor Registrations 0 0 3
Possible to write Memory leak free code, but SharePoint might sti... juanlarios, January 1, 0001 I had an interesting scenario where a bunch of memory leaks were showing up. I googled around and found a bunch of issues. I'm sure if you are reading this, you have either just started the search or have ... Possible to write Memory leak free code, but SharePoint might sti... 0 0 0
Commerce Server 2007: Direct Mailer Is Not Working Please Help! mikedopp, January 1, 0001 Cannot tell you how much fun this can be if it is not working correctly. First make sure SMTP is set up correctly in your IIS install (IIS6-IIS7.5(which uses IIS6 but thats for another story)) Direct Mailer ... Commerce Server 2007: Direct Mailer Is Not Working Please Help! 0 0 0
Toys of Joys – Part 2 Upgraditis Sarang, January 1, 0001 Come late 2000 and I started experiencing first symptoms of a disease which would haunt me the rest of my life. Its not that I am complaining though its actually been a blessing in disguise this Upgraditis ... Toys of Joys – Part 2 Upgraditis 0 0 0
Commerce Server 2007 PUP Check. mikedopp, January 1, 0001 So as you all know I am a Non-MVP for Commerce Server 2007 however I have worked tirelessly with this server. I know a ton of the in’s and outs of the architecture and have written a good number of scripts ... Commerce Server 2007 PUP Check. 0 0 0
Azure - Part 1 - Introduction Shaun, January 1, 0001 To me Azure is a new technology but in fact it's not that new. In the PDC08 Microsoft announced that their cloud computing platform had been released with the name Azure, which stand for the color of the ... Azure - Part 1 - Introduction 0 0 1
Why you should check out MVC Ryan Ohs, January 1, 0001 While my home development computer is fried I’m going to hack away at my backlog of non-code related posts. Today I’d like to discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of using Microsoft MVC over ... Why you should check out MVC 0 0 13
RoundhousE – ADO.NET over SMO Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 One thing most database change management tools use is SQL Server Managment Objects (SMO). Most do that because ADO.NET doesn’t allow the batch statement separator keyword GO in sql statements. So most ... RoundhousE – ADO.NET over SMO 0 0 1
Collapse Project as a Visual Studio AddIn. Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 I’ve taken that macro that’s been passed around for years, and put it into a VS Addin. The following links for the full VS Solution and the MSI installer http://cicoria.com/download... ... Collapse Project as a Visual Studio AddIn. 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2010 -- #802 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Rik Robinson, Jeremy Likness, Ryan Lee, EQATEC, Rui Marinho, Victor Gaudioso(-2-), Steve Strong and Deb Walker, and Martin Duffy. Shoutout: Adam Kinney posted Carbon Counter and EcoLight ... Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2010 -- #802 0 0 0
Come Here Me Speak – 11th March Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 I’m doing a talk on Mobile application development Covering Windows Mobile,iPhone and Blackberry development. Its been organised by Anglia Business Solutions and the Cambridge Network. For Information. ... Come Here Me Speak – 11th March 0 0 0
Enumerable::ToList() - C++ Missing From MSDN Tom Hines, January 1, 0001 I would like to make one of these entries for every example I don't find on MSDN. I'm not sure if the intention is to ignore C++ or if this was just expected to be too hard, too easy or too ugly for developers ... Enumerable::ToList() - C++ Missing From MSDN 0 0 1
Goodbye XML… Hello YAML (part 1) Brian Genisio's House Of Bilz, January 1, 0001 Part 2 This is the first in a many-part series in which I will be writing about using YAML in the .Net space – particularly within C#. I will cover the whys, the hows, and show some tricks using the dynamic ... Goodbye XML… Hello YAML (part 1) 0 0 9
SharePoint Excel Services 2007 is Exciting, HUH? Mike Huguet, January 1, 0001 Over the past three plus years that I have been working with SharePoint, I have never had the pleasure of giving an Excel Services presentation to a client. Well, thanks to our awesome sales team this ... SharePoint Excel Services 2007 is Exciting, HUH? 0 0 0
Virtual Machines for Consultants and Developers Bob Porter, January 1, 0001 This is not a new topic for most of us, however there are aspects of using Virtual Machines that are applicable to us as developers and consultants that are not often discussed. As a consultant, when I ... Virtual Machines for Consultants and Developers 0 0 3
How to: force a Windows Installer Custom Action form to show on t... Bretshawn, January 1, 0001 Custom Actions can be a simple way to add needed UI elements to the Visual Studio Setup Project, without having to get your hands dirty. However, Windows Vista and Windows 7 push those Custom Action forms ... How to: force a Windows Installer Custom Action form to show on t... 0 0 10