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What is testable code?

We are improving quality of code and trying to develop more unit tests. The question that developers asked was "How to make code testable ?" From http://openmymind.net/2010/... ...

Localization in ASP.NET MVC – Upgraded

This is the upgraded version of one of my previous post named “Localization in ASP.NET MVC – 3 Days Investigation, 1 Day Job”. I updated my solution to the latest ASP.NET MVC 4, Visual Studio 2012 with ...

Adventures in Windows 8: Placing items in a GridView with a Colum...

Currently working on a Windows 8 app for an important client, I will be writing about small issues, tips and tricks, ideas and whatever occurs to me during the development and the integration of this app. ...

VS2012 - How to manually convert .NET Class Library to a Portable...

The portable libraries are the response to the growing profile fragmentation in .NET frameworks. With help of portable libraries you can share code between different runtimes without dreadful #ifdef PLATFORM ...

MVC 4 Authentication

Edit on April 10, 2014: A lot has changed since I started this now out of date post and Microsoft has created and updated the authentication system to ASP.Net Identity. Please look at this first. Here's ...

Migrating VB6 to HTML5 is not a fiction - Customer success story

All of you VB developers in the present or past would probably find it hard to believe that the old VB code can be migrated and modernized into the latest .NET based HTML5 without having to rewrite the ...

APress Deal of the Day - 28/Aug/2012 - The Essential Guide to HTM...

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is "The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design"."A contemporary update of Craig Grannell's acclaimed The Essential Guide ...

Validating a linked item’s data template in Sitecore

I’ve been doing quite a bit of work in Sitecore recently and last week I encountered a situation that it appears many others have hit. I was working with a field that had been configured originally as ...

Visual Studio 2012 - Setting the target framework in C++ Projects

The Visual Studio 2012 doesn’t have a UI to set the Target Framework in C++ Projects. Target Framework : 4.0 The online documentation does say to edit the .vcxproj project and change the TargetFrameworkVersion ...

Deploying an SSL Application to Windows Azure – The Dark Se...

When working on an application that had been in production for some time, but was about to have a shopping cart added to it, the necessity for SSL certificates came up. When ordering the certificates through ...

Are you cashing in on the MVP complimentary subscriptions ?

The two most asked questions in the Microsoft technology communities around the Microsoft MVP program are, 1. How do I become a Microsoft MVP? 2. What benefits do I get as an MVP? The answer to the first ...

Windows 8–Custom WinRT components and WinJS

Wow, I’m still alive! I installed the RTM of Windows 8 when it became available, and in the last few days have started taking a look at writing a windows 8 app using HTML/JS, which in and of itself is ...

#mvvmlight V4 update for Win8 RTM

With Windows 8 RTM out of the doors (at least for some of us), it was also time to create an update to MVVM Light. I selected the V4 RTM to do this (V4.0.23).This RTM version was released a few weeks ago ...

Neo4J and Azure and VS2012 and Windows 8

Now, I know that this has been written about, but both of the main places (http://www.richard-banks.o... and http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/... ...

Converting Creole to HTML, PDF, DOCX, ..

Challenge We documented a project on Github with the Wiki there. For most articles we used Creole as markup language. Now we have to deliver a lot of the content to our client in an usual format like PDF ...

Windows Azure Recipe: Mobile Computing

A while back, mashups were all the rage. The idea was to compose solutions that provided aggregation and integration across applications and services to make information more available, useful, and personal. ...

Windows 8–Getting started with ListView binding

Most of the tutorials and quickstart articles on binding data to a list on the interweb at the moment, shows how to bind the data from a static array of data. I assume that this does have some actual benefits, ...

Campwood Source Monitor

Campwood provide an excellent free tool for checking code for issues such as cyclomatic complexity.You can download Source Monitor from http://www.campwoodsw.com/s... I have found it very ...

Facebook login in ASP.NET web application with Visual Studio 2012

One of the new features on Visual Studio 2012, is the ability to integrate a social login (Facebook, Twitter, etc) in our web applications. In this example, we can see how easy is to add Facebook login ...

Six0Run Scores Big with Windows Azure

What do you get when you cross a college basketball coach, a lawyer, and a software architect? In the case of local St. Louis startup Six0Run Software, you get a dynamic software development team focused ...

Knockout Js and External MVC cshtml templates

I can pass the name of the template to the controller like this (/Templates/KnockoutTemplat... where 'radial' is the name of a view (radial.cshtml), return a partial view of that name ...

GridView to Excel - prevents RegisterForEventValidation can only ...

GridView to Excel - prevents "RegisterForEventValidation can only be called during Render()"'-----------------... 'aspx '--------------------------... ...

RavenDb NoSql Sample Asp.Net MVC Embedded

RavenDB is an Open Source, document DB (NoSql) Links: - CodePlex: http://ravendb.net/ - WikiPedia on NoSql http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... RavenDB can run as a server (standalone) or embedded in your ...

Wijmo and Knockout js

I get to be a part of a project that is re-writing dashboards from a Flash implementation to all HTML5. Our lead developer liked the Wijmo gadgets (as do I), so I've been putting the gadgets to the test. ...

Well That Was Fun (The wrong way to migrate mailboxes in Office 3...

NOTE: BY FOLLOWING THE STEPS HERE YOU WILL PERMENENTLY AND IRREVOCABLY DELETE USERS AND THEIR DATA!!! MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BACKUPS (PST’S)! Ugh. First, I want everyone know know that this was a self-inflicted ...

Modify .NET configuration in run-time.

Being able to change file-based configuration settings in runtime is a nice facet in the ASP.NET world. Low-friction and seamless, this little feature allows for traffic to go on uninterrupted and helps ...

Validate SSRS Report Input Parameters the Proper Way

It should not be a secret that sooner or later in the BI developer’s career one would face the necessity to perform a complex input parameter validations. This necessity to validate data is typically triggered ...

SharePoint 2013 – Mobile Support.

With the increase in mobile browsing and greater demand for a mobile workforce, I’m pleased to see that SharePoint 2013 offers vast improvements to the mobile browser experience. SharePoint 2013 introduces ...

SharePoint 2013 – Everything is an ‘App’!

Lists, libraries, sites and even calendars are now ‘Apps’. In an interesting move that will at one stroke empower end users, reduce load on overworked IT operations departments and add fuel to the already ...

Comparing Service Bus for Windows Server & RabbitMQ

Recently I have been working a little with RabbitMQ and also learning about the new Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server offering which is now released in beta. As part of my learning I thought it ...

Stub and Shim in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test

Unit test is very important in modern software development, especially after adopted agile. Microsoft had added the unit test support since the Visual Studio 2008. Then with some enhancement and improvement ...

GridView Custom Paging with LINQ

In this post we will take a look at how to do pagination in GridView control. Paging is very helpful in presenting huge amount of data in the page because this helps speeding up the loading performance ...

O'Reilly deal of the week to 23:59 PT 16/Aug/2012 - 5-Star Ebooks...

Until 23:59 PT 16/Aug/2012, O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... are offering 50% off a range of best-selling 5-star rated books. I have read CLR via C# ISBN 978-0-7356-2704-8. ...

Clean-up BizTalk BizUnit tests only on failure

This article discusses, from a BizTalk\BizUnit perspective, implementing the Channel Purger Enterprise Integration Patten to “keep 'left-over' messages on a channel from disturbing tests.” If one test ...

10 coolest new features of SharePoint 2013

1. Everything is an app! Lists, libraries, sites and even calendars are now ‘Apps’. In an interesting move that will at one stroke empower end users, reduce load on overworked IT operations departments ...

Running PowerShell AppFabric cmdlets in MSBuild on x64

We have a simple PS script to switch Auto-Start on for WCF services running under AppFabric 1.1: Import-Module ApplicationServer Set-ASApplication -SiteName "Default Web Site" -VirtualPath "/x.y.z" -AutoStartMode ...

O'Reilly deal of the week to 23:59 PT 14/Aug/2012 - Learn Web Des...

Until 23:59 PT 14/Aug/2012, O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... are offering 50% off a range of books and videos on Learning Web Design from the Experts"Learn ...

VSNomad – Interesting Cross Mobile Platform Development fro...

I have recently been looking at VSNomad - a Visual Studio extension RedGate is working on to target IOS and Android development using Visual Studio as your IDE. Fellow GeeksWithBlogs blogger Kyle Burns ...

RabbitMQ – Implementing Scatter Gather in .net

In this article we will try to talk through an implementation of the scatter gather pattern using RabbitMQ. The sample is written using .net to show how this can be achieved. Before going into the detail ...

Using JQuery Ajax method to pass Json to a MVC3 Action and return...

ASP.NET MVC3 provides out of the box support for binding a Json data object into a Model on postback. This maybe used with a JQuery Ajax function call to post selected data back to an action. It is also ...

Safely Cloning Virtualized Domain Controllers with Windows Server...

When virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers in the past, we've needed to be very careful that we don't invoke any steps, such as applying an old snapshot, that could possibly cause USN rollback ...

Weather station with .NET - Part 1

I’ve always been a fan of those little ARM-boards that can be programmed with C#. So far, I was playing around with a Netduino-board in my office. I use it for automatic testing my software where I need ...

APress Deal of the Day - 1/Aug/2012 - Foundation HTML5 Animation ...

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript"Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript takes the code from Keith Peters' ...

ReSharper and StyleCop work well together

I have just found a list at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... of the the many fixes within StyleCop and ReSharper to help you produce standards ...

Part 3–PassBook Server

So far we have covered some basic principals, a simple database schema to store pass-jobs. Next step is to go about actually tie all this together and generate some passes. I’m being careful to avoid talking ...

SharePoint 2013 - 5 things to look out for!

1. Search Engine Optimization & Analytics is in Search – Search is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server ...

Modernizr - Detect HTML5 and CSS3 features

We all know not all browsers support all HTML5 and CSS3 features at this moment. Modernizr comes to rescue here for all Sites that want to use rich HTML5 and CSS3 features. So what is Modenizer? Modernizr ...

An Introduction to WebGL

What is WebGL? low-level JavaScript API to access the GPU from within scripts on web pages Usage: performant real-time 3D graphics in the browser. It's a web standard doesn't need a plugin managed by Khronos ...

The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains

I have written already some time ago how big a .NET object is. John Skeet as also made a very detailed post about object sizes in .NET. I wanted to know if we can deduce the object size not by experiments ...

Disappearing Boundaries in the Post-PC/BYOD World

A lot has been written recently about how we live in the Post-PC world. But what does mean practically? Up until relatively recently, even as smartphones became more technology capable and increasingly ...