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How to use ‘Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’ Art A...

A large part of my current job is to work with developers to encourage and help them create apps and or games. Many developers do not have the necessary skills to create quality artwork for their app or ...

Truth, Equality, and the Meaning of Null

There’s been some discussion recently about whether it’s proper for a language to support null values or not. My guess is that the people having these discussions are a whole lot smarter than myself, so ...

Winnipeg Code Camp–Cancelled or Postponed, Your Call

Sadly, we’re going to have to cancel the Winnipeg Code Camp that was scheduled for late April. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we won’t have a code camp this year though – it’s really the community’s ...

Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer

After my previous post on getting AzureReader2 up and running with ImageResizer – I ran into a problem – I had a page with a foreach on it, where I had a link to each fullsize image. It was all working ...

Making jQuery UI Droppable Testable

I’m using jQuery UI’s droppable for drag and drop capabilities. I wanted to be able to test it with Jasmine, but I couldn’t find a way to mock it. I found Jasmine jQuery, but wasn’t able to figure out ...

Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Win...

When you create a new Windows 8 application, the Common folder contains a file named StandardStyles.xaml. Amongst other styling resources, this file contains a trove of application bar buttons styles, ...

Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par...

This is the second in a series of articles looking at using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (formally Windows Azure Access Control Service), to integrate the authentication services provided ...

Exchange 2013: A new look…

The Exchange Server product line experienced a few changes with the introduction of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 brings with it a whole new set of services, technologies and features ...

Use the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests

Thanks to Danyal Aytekin for his Stackoverflow answer. If you want to use the toThrow in Jasmin tests on actual functions, you can use the “Function.bind, which was introduced in JavaScript 1.8.5. This ...

Two Free Microsoft Workshops Saturday May 4th!

(Note: Cross-posted from the Prairie Dev Con Blog - http://prairiedevcon.blogsp... Microsoft, our Platinum Sponsor, is providing two *free* workshops ...

Orlando Code Camp 2013 - KendoUI Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mo...

Link to my my KendoUI sessionHere are the slidesCode samples download (pls check back in couple of days)Kendo UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform ...

Febuary 26 - JaXArcSig - Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and...

Practice run of my presentation for Orlando Code Camp 2013. UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform for HTML5/JavaScript development. Whether you ...

Converting PHP’s “openssl_seal” and “open...

I've been doing a bit of external API integration work lately. Sounds mundane (and it is for the most part) - but there was one notable "gem" I had to tackle. To make long story short, there's this external ...

4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better

Most web sites will have an input form somewhere even if it is nothing more than a contact form. Any web application will have lots of input forms. Regardless of why you have the input form or what it ...

Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par...

This article is the first in a series of three articles looking at using the Windows Azure Access Control Service to implement web site authentication using social identity providers. It will show how ...

Specification Test for the Authorized Attribute in MVC

I wanted to Unit Test (in BDD I’d call it a specification) that the controller had the authorize attribute so I found this approach in a GoodSearch a while back and forgotten who to give credit for it, ...

ASP.NET MVC Helper Method for Enums... supports override of text ...

public static MvcHtmlString DropDownListFromEnumFor<... TProperty>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> helper, Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression, object htmlAttribute = null) ...

Book Review: Knockout.js Succinctly

First of all I'd like to thank the Syncfusion team for choosing me to do this book review, I appreciate the opportunity.Syncfusion provides a one stop for various .NET components. We offer high-performance ...

SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table

We could find the maximum and minimum value in a table by using the SQL inbuilt aggregate functions MAX() and MIN() respectively. But, many times there comes a scenario when we need to find the second ...

Retain and Set Posted Checkbox Value in the MVC 4 Controller

I believe this is a bug where only the checkbox value is not retained when passing the model from the view to a post method. Model public bool CoreField { get; set; } View @model List<Model> @Html.CheckBoxFor(m ...

Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly

Over the weekend I sat down with another book in the Succinctly series. I have wanted to learn more about Knockout.js for a while now. I approached this book knowing very little about Knockout.js, but ...

Session material from TechDays BE and NL

UPDATE: Added the videos Note: Like all material on this blog, this blog post and all the referenced material are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to reuse ...

List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build

A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have ...

Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Applicat...

To keep things simple, I am going to retain the default security framework created by Visual Studio when I created the application. However, I am going to change the database name to something more meaningful. ...

A Look at NDepend

I was contacted by NDepend and asked if I wanted a free version of their professional license in exchange for writing a post about it. I agreed and have been running it for a few weeks. My first impression ...

A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC

In a recent blog, I wrote about Building A Custom View Engine to Create Excel Files in MVC. In this blog, I skipped over the grammar that we might use in the View definition. I have had a few people email ...

JsonIgnore attribute in Json.Net to ignore properties

We’re using Entity Framework to query a complex object graph using the .Include(“”) method to eager load the results, then sending it to the client with the WebApi. We’ve overridden the JavaScript Serializer ...

ASP.NET 4.5 - FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions

ASP.NET SignalR is pretty new and very exciting feature in ASP.NET. You might want to play around with it and may encounter some hiccups during your implementation. This post will cover some issues that ...

Dynamic Sorting with LINQ

If you use LINQ to retrieve data and display this data in a grid, you may have come across the problem of allowing the user to control how the data is sorted. Users always want to be able to sort data ...

Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends

I promised my friend Chuck that I would post the Power Shell script to get the list of most discussed topics and the tops writers in an email distribution list. Generally there are loads of emails that ...

SharePoint Saturday Philly Slides

List of IE bugs on SharePoint Experience blog Responsive Master Pages http://kyleschaeffer.com/ http://blog.sharepointexper... HTML5 http://w3schools.com/html/h... CSS3 http://www.w3schools.com/cs... ...

How to write CSS only for Internet Explorer 10 ?

Recently I hear about IE 10 launch for windows 7. It’s sound pretty good to me. I have check if this have something good for me as a designer’s prospective. I start checking the code that is break in Ie9 ...

TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro...

Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. This feature has officially ...

Why Automated Tests Are So Great

I've recently done work at a company where there are no automated tests, and tests aren't part of the culture. I've been writing tests for so long now that it's jarring to consider working without them, ...

GridView–Implementing Cascading DropDownList on Edit Mode

Introduction: This question has been asked many times at the forums (http://forums.asp.net) and definitely there are already bunch of different solutions provided. Most of the examples from the web are ...

Open SharePoint Alerts Page Using JavaScript

The page to set up alerts for a SharePoint list requires the list ID to be passed in as a query string. The follow code will get the ID for the list with a specific title. It will then open the alerts ...

Exporting XML Comments to Your Application

Recently I blogged about adding SQL Doc Documentation to you Application. This makes it easy to keep your documentation visible and more likely current. I wanted to do the same thing with my code documentation. ...

Adding SQL Doc Documentation to your Project

In a recent blog post, we talked about using SQL Doc to stream line documenting your database. This tool makes it a lot easier to put the documentation close to the source so that it is more likely to ...

High Schools Get Failing Grade in Computer Science

“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer…because it teaches you how to think.” – Steve Jobs That’s the starting frame of a fantastic short vid introducing the code.org website. ...

Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2

I finally downloaded the html client preview 2 to give it a run, had not had a chance to look at Lightswitch since last summer… http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lig... ...

ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!)

So, as part of my on-going project I’ve recently made the decision to shift all my images (uploaded by ME and my USERS) to Azure Blob Storage, instead of the quite frankly ridiculous ‘unique folder system’ ...

ReadOnly TextBox value in AJAX Calendar Extender on postback ASP....

Read only controls are not posted back to the server. So, when you do a postback you will lose the value in a read only control. You will need to not make the control read only. Instead, you can set the ...

SQL Server Identity Quirks

If you’ve worked with SQL Server for any length of time odds are that you’ve used the IDENTITY property to create a surrogate key for a table. These auto-incrementing primary keys can be very handy, but ...

Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly

The nice folks at Syncfusion reached out to me last week to tell me a little bit about their Succinctly series of books. As they describe the concept, their goal is take 500+ pages of content and distill ...

MVP Summit 2013 Recap

Just sitting in the Seattle airport finally returning home from my first MVP Summit (well in truth I’m flying directly to my next client, no home till next weekend). As I said this was my first time attending ...

MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5)

IT Professionals working in Web Applications Dot Net can gain their MCSD: Web Applications certification by following this post. I passed these 3 exams in Feb 2013.I) Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 ...

Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme...

A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ...

Speaking At The 2013 Chicago Code Camp

It has been a couple of years since I last spoke at the Chicago Code Camp. Not for lack of trying. Our community has so many top quality speakers and subjects the team that runs the conference has a tough ...

MCSD: Windows Store Apps using HTML5

Last October Microsoft Technical Evangelists Jeremy Foster and Michael Palermo and delivered two of the most popular Jump Starts ever produced. These accelerated courses were aimed at experienced developers ...

Topics on Steroids

Ektron product documentation puts a new twist on topic-based information, creating a streamlined, single-sourced, multi-formatted, topic-based information delivery system.Traditional topic-based documentation ...