Enabling Frame Rate Counters for HTML Applications in Windows 8 mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction Just the other day I blogged about “Enabling Frame Rate Counter for XAML Applications in Windows 8”. At the very end of that post, I reminded everyone that that method does not work for HTML ... Enabling Frame Rate Counters for HTML Applications in Windows 8 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 29/Sep/2011 - Pro HTML5 Programming TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the day from Apress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro HTML5 Programming. "In this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology—available ... APress Deal of the Day - 29/Sep/2011 - Pro HTML5 Programming 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 -- #1151 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Pete Brown, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, Alexandra Rusina, Mohamed Mosallem, and Stephen Forte. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 -- #1151 0 0 0
Another Benefit of Asynchronous Processing of ASP.Net MVC Results Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 Most people who are really into ASP.Net MVC probably enjoy its test-driven nature or "unit-testability". This is a key benefit of the asynchronous model used by the MVC framework when action results are ... Another Benefit of Asynchronous Processing of ASP.Net MVC Results 0 0 3
Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2011 -- #1150 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Nguyen Pham, Nigel Sampson, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, and Andrea Boschin. Above ... Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2011 -- #1150 0 0 0
Tools:Migrate Quality Center to Team Foundation Server 2010 Using... AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 Hi Migrate Quality Center to Team Foundation Server 2010 Using Scrat Scrat :Scrat converts and migrates all of your HP Quality Center™ projects and items over to Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010™. ... Tools:Migrate Quality Center to Team Foundation Server 2010 Using... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 - 2 -- #1149 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Scott Hanselman, David Anson, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Rajat Jaiswal, MIke Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit ... Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 - 2 -- #1149 0 0 0
Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in Win... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 In the developer preview of Windows 8, I just noticed a breaking change in the way that data bindings react to the PropertyChanged event. Read the rest of this entry » ... Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in Win... 0 0 0
Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Metro-style apps are very similar to Windows Phone apps. They have a similar application model (for example they can be suspended, and when suspended they can be killed by the operating system if memory ... Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 0 0 0
Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Microsoft loves MVVM and INotifyPropertyChanged so much that they included this very useful interface twice in the new WinRT framework. Unfortunately, only one of these is working correctly (and the other ... Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8... 0 0 0
The //Build Report–Thoughts on the Event D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 So its been a few weeks since Microsoft’s Build conference, where they unveiled Windows 8 and shared what the developer story will be. I had blogged about Day 1 of the conference here, but I wanted to ... The //Build Report–Thoughts on the Event 0 0 1
Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 One of the very useful features of the MVVM Light toolkit is to help with the creation of design time data, in order to give something to see on the design surface (Expression Blend, Visual Studio designer). ... Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT 0 0 0
Dealing with types in WinRT Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Another quick tip: Most of the interaction with the System.Type class in Windows 8 is now done through the TypeInfo class. An instance of TypeInfo for a give type is retrieved using an extension method ... Dealing with types in WinRT 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 -- #1148 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, and Dhananjay ... Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 -- #1148 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2011 -- #1147 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Ollie Riches, Oscar Agreda, Samidip Basu, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, Andy Beaulieu(-2-), ... Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2011 -- #1147 0 0 0
The WebMatrix v2 Beta Release Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 I had written earlier about the WebMatrix v2 Beta release that happened recently at the BUILD Conference As I had mentioned earlier, WebMatrix is a light weight tool for Web Development, Profiling, Database ... The WebMatrix v2 Beta Release 0 0 4
Change DocType dynamically Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I have a single page(created before Master pages were available) that loaded dynamically one or another user control.Some child controls have css for quirk mode, but for new controls I want to use latest ... Change DocType dynamically 0 0 2
Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 This is a quick tip, because it confused me at first. But thanks to the always excellent Tim Heuer and Peter Provost (from the Visual Studio team), here is the answer: Usual disclaimer: This is for XAML/C#. ... Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) 0 0 0
Killer Build Interviews and XAML Sessions. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I have been watching the influencer interviews with Richard Campbell as well as the Build Sessions recently published on Channel 9. Like most of you, I am trying to learn as much as I can about this new ... Killer Build Interviews and XAML Sessions. 0 0 1
Find your name in e and pi! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.dr-mikes-maths.c... and http://www.dr-mikes-maths.c... you can find your name in e and pi expressed in base-27. (It helps if you name is short!) ... Find your name in e and pi! 0 0 2
How to Remove Quotes and Replace the Delimiter in a File using Po... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Recently I was tasked with a file cleansing exercise. The endeavor looked simple, but the solution was not, I needed to prepare a file for processing, but wanted to first proof concept my approach so I ... How to Remove Quotes and Replace the Delimiter in a File using Po... 0 0 0
jwplayer file not found or access denied checklist BenAdler, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... jwplayer file not found or access denied checklist 0 0 9
Simple MVC 2 Pager Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 I wrote a simple pager AjaxHelper extension. You can convert this to an HtmlExtension method by just removing the AjaxOptions and swapping out the AjaxHelper with HtmlHelper. This assumes that your parameter ... Simple MVC 2 Pager 0 0 0
The Marshmallow Challenge MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Today we did the marshmallow challenge. For those that are not familiar with this challenge, it is a fun way to get teams to experience simple lessons in collaboration, innovation and creativity (that’s ... The Marshmallow Challenge 0 0 0
Dallas event: AT&T Mobile App Hackathon Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Saturday, November 5, 2011 at the AT&T Foundry in Plano, TX Dev-ing. Mobile. Cloud. APIs. Good food. Awesome prizes. Interested in building your own app? This hackathon will introduce you the the latest ... Dallas event: AT&T Mobile App Hackathon 0 0 0
Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8 mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction One of the things that we all look at before we ship software is the performance of our apps. Last November, I posted a quick and easy way to do it in Silverlight. Today, I am going to walk ... Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8 0 0 0
Performance Optimization tips for ASP.NET application AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 For more formatted view .. Goto http://ankitagrawal57.blogs... any web application, performance is basic necessity. Earlier internet speed used to be limited thus users got inclined to pages which ... Performance Optimization tips for ASP.NET application 0 0 4
SVG - an introduction JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 So someone moved your Silverlight cheese? Go and get some HTML5 cheese! Before WPF/E & Avalon were anything more than vapourware, W3C had the SVG standard(Scallable Vector Graphics) for 2D vector graphics ... SVG - an introduction 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2011 -- #1146 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Eric Jensen, Andrea Boschin, Gill Cleeren, Rene Schulte, Colin Eberhardt(-2-), Mark Tucker(-2-), Mark Monster, Walter Ferrari, and Michael Washington(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Welcome ... Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2011 -- #1146 0 0 0
My Windows 8 slate has split personalities–and what Microso... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I had dinner the other night with my good friend Josh Smith, and of course we started talking about Windows 8. Something he said was pretty much spot on: He said that Windows 8 feels as if it has split ... My Windows 8 slate has split personalities–and what Microso... 0 0 0
How to handle ""Maximum request length exceeded" exception Sglima, January 1, 0001 In global.asax: protected void Application_BeginRequest(Ob... sender, EventArgs e) { HttpRuntimeSection runTime = (HttpRuntimeSection)WebConf... //Approx ... How to handle ""Maximum request length exceeded" exception 0 0 10
The BUILD Conference Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 What a week it has been! The BUILD Conference just concluded http://www.buildwindows.com... and there were tons of announcements. This is one of the reasons I am passionate about ... The BUILD Conference 0 0 5
SSIS: How to Remove Occasional Quotes and Replace The Column Deli... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Recently I was assigned a task of helping a developer to cope with an unusual input file processing. The file we needed to load into SQL Server had double quotes surrounding those fields that contained ... SSIS: How to Remove Occasional Quotes and Replace The Column Deli... 0 0 5
Quick tip: Adding objects in resources. Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 If you are using MVVM-Light style ViewModel creation (often referred to as “view-first”), you might have noticed that you cannot build if you have an object in the view’s resources. It means that the code ... Quick tip: Adding objects in resources. 0 0 0
Research for the Week-Memory Management Part 1 Mike Huguet, January 1, 0001 Do you know what happens when you create a new instance of a class? Why do we need a value type and a reference type? Do you know what is meant when the .NET framework is referred to as a “managed” platform? ... Research for the Week-Memory Management Part 1 0 0 0
Database changes between TFS 2010 and TFS 2011 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Our friends at Microsoft have done a wonderful job releasing TFS 2011 preview, there has been great amount of preview documentation and video samples released to help understand the new features. In this ... Database changes between TFS 2010 and TFS 2011 0 0 4
//BUILD + 2 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 I'm back... what did I miss?? Oh wait... you're expecting info from me about my week I guess :) I had an awesome time: Met tons of people that I didn't already know. Renewed friendships with another ton ... //BUILD + 2 0 0 2
Error creating PowerPivot Service Application in SharePoint 2010 ... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 A few weeks ago I ran into an error while setting up our test farm. I was creating the service applications and when I got to PowerPivot, I got the following error: I was able to work around this error ... Error creating PowerPivot Service Application in SharePoint 2010 ... 0 0 2
What to do if the Bluetooth keyboard stops working? (#Win8 #bldwi... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 At times it is quite tough to be on the bleeding edge. I have been using the Samsung slate that Microsoft gave us at the Build conference last week for about 5 days now, and in fact I even left my laptop ... What to do if the Bluetooth keyboard stops working? (#Win8 #bldwi... 0 0 0
So did you notice? (Invisible references in WinRT apps) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Just a quick note: When you create a new WinRT application for XAML/C# in Visual Studio 11, you will notice that the References folder is empty. Read the rest of this entry » ... So did you notice? (Invisible references in WinRT apps) 0 0 0
TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft has officially launched the TFS Azure service preview also known as TFS in the cloud. I am sure not all of us would be upgrading our base machines by installing Visual Studio 2011 which is still ... TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure 0 0 6
TFS Azure - KB2581206 causes VS2010 with SP1 to stop working Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 To connect and authenticate with the Team Foundation Service Preview you need to install the hotfix KB2581206. While setting up a new machine to work with TFS Azure (#TfsService) i encountered a problem ... TFS Azure - KB2581206 causes VS2010 with SP1 to stop working 0 0 2
My thoughts about Build, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML and Silverlight Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Last week, Microsoft held their long awaited Build Windows (or simply "Build") conference in Anaheim CA. About 5000 people packed the convention center to discover the latest version of the Windows operation ... My thoughts about Build, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML and Silverlight 0 0 0
A Tale of Two Windows andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 As I write this post, Microsoft’s Windows 8-focused //build/ conference has just ended. The apprehension so many developers had around the show is now dissipated, the developer platform and tools have ... A Tale of Two Windows 0 0 2
SourceMonitor V3.1.5.190? released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 SourceMonitor V3.1.5.190has been released at http://www.campwoodsw.com/s... "The freeware program SourceMonitor lets you see inside your software source code to find out how much code you ... SourceMonitor V3.1.5.190? released 0 0 1
Performance Analysis Tools for SQL Server Server , IIS , SharePoi... AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 The PAL(Performance Analysis of Logs ) tool is used to generate an HTML-based report that graphically charts important performance monitor counters and generates alerts when thresholds for these counters ... Performance Analysis Tools for SQL Server Server , IIS , SharePoi... 0 0 0
TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I have been part of the Azure TFS Technical Access Preview (TAP) since March 2011. TFS Azure has been previewed and officially announced as TFS Service in the 2011 Build Conference, California. The Non-Disclosure ... TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! 0 0 6
Build - Not all it could be. JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Programming for Metro Metro is the future http://zd.net/rnT9VZ .NET is for old apps. WinRT replaces WPF & WCF. XAML is big. There were no Silverlight sessions. HTML 5 and Javascript ( Blend for HTML) ... Build - Not all it could be. 0 0 3
Download all the Build Videos with RSS mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction The conference sessions are starting to appear on the Channel 9 RSS feeds right now. If you are like me then you probably want to download all of them and watch them later. Here is the method ... Download all the Build Videos with RSS 0 0 3
Professional Windows Embedded Compact 7 Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 This new book targets embedded developers that want to use the latest release of the Windows CE/Windows Embedded Compact OS family. It has been written by Samuel Phung (that wrote also the excellent “Professional ... Professional Windows Embedded Compact 7 0 0 0