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Webinar: Async Programming in C# 0 0 0 Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding Aligned, May 7, 2013 Knockout Js Our tester found a bug with my search box. The search box filters a grid using observables. IE 9 and 10, and Crome adds in a x clear option, this wasn’t changing the observable, so the filter wasn’t getting ... Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding 0 0 0 Knockout Js .NET Security Part 2 simonc, May 7, 2013 So, how do you create partial-trust appdomains? Where do you come across them? 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Choosing Aggregate Boundaries – Invariants Spanning Aggregates 0 0 0 BizTalk 2013 Map Unit Testing Gotcha Michael Stephenson, May 5, 2013 BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing Ive been trying to get the sample for the BizTalk Map unit testing scenario working. I kept getting the following error:"Transformation Failure" This was happening everytime I executed the test even though ... BizTalk 2013 Map Unit Testing Gotcha 0 0 1 BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing Carolina Code Camp 2013: Introduction to SharePoint Development Kelly Jones, May 5, 2013 SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Server 2007 .NET Development I spoke this weekend at the Carolina Code Camp on the CPCC campus here in Charlotte and my topic was an Intro to SharePoint Development for .NET Developers (those that have no knowledge of SharePoint). ... Carolina Code Camp 2013: Introduction to SharePoint Development 0 0 2 SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Server 2007 .NET Development Azure VM - Endpoint Not found: There was no endpoint listening Ken Hortsch, May 5, 2013 .NET The only solution was to delete the VM and recreate. There are ways to clone the VM from the VHD that was used, but the original VM must be deleted. Strangely enough I had a running VM, then added an SSL ... Azure VM - Endpoint Not found: There was no endpoint listening 0 0 0 .NET Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service Enrique Lima, May 4, 2013 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools Recently I made the switch from having a local TFS deployment to using the hosted Team Foundation Service. As I had been using it back when it was TFSPreview, there were projects that had been left over, ... Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service 0 0 0 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft D'Arcy Lussier, May 4, 2013 Go and read this. There is so much win in this blog post its obscene. One of the best commentaries on work/life balance I’ve read ever with loads of great suggestions and insight. http://blog.jongallant.com/... ... Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft 0 0 0 Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) Marko Apfel, May 4, 2013 F# Tools IDEs, Editors, .. Here are my favorites in descend order Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web yes! - it allows you free F# development, notably for libraries LINQPad again and again a wonderful tool! SharpDevelop ... Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) 0 0 0 F# Tools Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Testing/Debugging/Logging When creating a new data class, it’s a good idea to override ToString() method to output most of the data.It will help to see details in logs.The only exception if the class has a sensitive data like CreditCard ... Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. 0 0 0 Testing/Debugging/Logging Deploy PDB files into production to ease exception report investigation. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Deployment Testing/Debugging/Logging For a long time I believed that PDB as a part of debugging information should not be included in production deployment. Recently my colleague suggested to copy them to simplify exception investigations. ... Deploy PDB files into production to ease exception report investigation. 0 0 0 Deployment Testing/Debugging/Logging New Release - DAX Studio 1.2 (with Excel 2013 support) Darren Gosbell, May 4, 2013 It’s been a long while coming, but the next release of DAX Studio is out. If you already have DAX Studio running in Excel 2010 you will not see anything new in this release, this release is all about getting ... New Release - DAX Studio 1.2 (with Excel 2013 support) 0 0 0 Iron Man 3 (I've seen it, you probably haven't...) Chris G. Williams, May 3, 2013 Here's the short, non-spoily version: It's fun popcorn movie, with lots of action. A little too much interpersonal touchy-feely crap for an Iron Man movie, and not enough "suit blowing shit up" time, imo, ... Iron Man 3 (I've seen it, you probably haven't...) 0 0 1 Page: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20
Why I Chose WordPress Over Geeks With Blogs, And Moving From WordPress.com To A GoDaddy Hosted Solution deadlydog, May 17, 2013 A while back I wrote about some reasons why I didn’t like GWB (Geeks With Blogs) and was attracted to WordPress. 6 months later and I am confident that I made the right decision. GWB was good to me, but… ... Why I Chose WordPress Over Geeks With Blogs, And Moving From WordPress.com To A GoDaddy Hosted Solution 0 0 0
Exploiting the Non-Uniqueness of Guids Chris Gardner, May 17, 2013 .NET C# You know those seemingly random Guids? Guess what? They're not random. I'll give your head a moment to recover from that bombshell. Ok, back with me? Good. I was digging DEEP in some hardcore specs when ... Exploiting the Non-Uniqueness of Guids 0 0 0 .NET C#
APress Deal of the Day 17/May/2013 - Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 TATWORTH, May 17, 2013 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012"Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is written to help ASP.NET developers make the leap ... APress Deal of the Day 17/May/2013 - Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 0 0 0
I was surfing io13 and found this interesting article from google foxjazz, May 16, 2013 io13 jobs skills career http://readwrite.com/2013/0... here just in case the link breaks.10. Something That Seems Secure TodayThe TIOBE Programming Community Index lists C, Java, ... I was surfing io13 and found this interesting article from google 0 0 0 io13 jobs skills career
Powershell functions to get an xml node, and get and set an xml element’s value, even when the element does not already exist deadlydog, May 16, 2013 I’m new to working with Xml through PowerShell and was so impressed when I discovered how easy it was to read an xml element’s value. I’m working with reading/writing .nuspec files for working with NuGet. ... Powershell functions to get an xml node, and get and set an xml element’s value, even when the element does not already exist 0 0 0
.NET Security Part 3 simonc, May 16, 2013 You write a security-related application that allows addins to be used. These addins (as dlls) can be downloaded from anywhere, and, if allowed to run full-trust, could open a security hole in your application. ... .NET Security Part 3 0 0 1
Extending Team Explorer 2012 – Associating Recent Work Items Jakob Ehn, May 16, 2013 Visual Studio 2012 TFS Extension available at: http://visualstudiogallery.... I have been playing around a bit lately with extending Team Explorer 2012, mostly because it is ... Extending Team Explorer 2012 – Associating Recent Work Items 1 0 2 Visual Studio 2012 TFS
Live Coding During Presentations–Good or Bad? D'Arcy Lussier, May 15, 2013 This is a response/continuation of the discussion that Chad McCallum started over on his blog. He wondered what people’s view was on doing live coding within a presentation – for or against. Where. To. ... Live Coding During Presentations–Good or Bad? 1 0 0
Use the NotMapped Attribute with Entity Framework in Partial Classes Aligned, May 15, 2013 Entity Framework I wanted to add a property to send to my JavaScript class through WebApi, but didn’t want it in the database. I was getting an error telling me I had an invalid name on the EF 5 selection from the database. ... Use the NotMapped Attribute with Entity Framework in Partial Classes 1 0 0 Entity Framework
Tech Learning–Always Start with Hello World D'Arcy Lussier, May 15, 2013 Remember Hello World? It was the program that we all started out with at some point. We did something that would make Hello World display somehow. But as we got older and more into our careers as developers, ... Tech Learning–Always Start with Hello World 1 0 5
Special Tampa WPUG meeting - How I became a Millionaire writing apps! Nikita Polyakov, May 15, 2013 DO NOT MISS THIS 5/21 6PM : Special Tampa WPUG meeting - How I became a Millionaire writing apps! If you are in Tampa the night of 5/21 you should not have any excuses not to show up to this event. There ... Special Tampa WPUG meeting - How I became a Millionaire writing apps! 0 0 0
Nokia: Your vision is clouded rodelljr, May 15, 2013 In the last week or so we have seen two new phones announced by Nokia: the Lumia 928 and 925. The 925 version looks to be the next evolution in Nokia’s lineup of Lumia devices while the 928 at a glance ... Nokia: Your vision is clouded 1 0 3
Using Windows Azure Mobile services to develop Android Applications–Nigeria DevCamp Malisa L. Ncube, May 14, 2013 Windows Azure I have blogged about the Dev camp event we had in Nigeria, where I did a session on using Windows Azure Mobile Services on Android Applications. I run through a recipe, in which I created a shopping list ... Using Windows Azure Mobile services to develop Android Applications–Nigeria DevCamp 0 0 1 Windows Azure
Which kind of API service provider are you? Michael Stephenson, May 12, 2013 Architecture API Ive been pondering this one for a while and been meaning to put something out there about it. During some of the architecture discussions I've had with colleagues some of the examples that are often put ... Which kind of API service provider are you? 0 0 0 Architecture API
Integration between Resource and Message Based Architectures Michael Stephenson, May 11, 2013 BizTalk BizTalk I've been thinking for a while about the way in which resource based architectures and messaging based architectures interact with each other. Resource based architectures have increased in popularity ... Integration between Resource and Message Based Architectures 0 0 1 BizTalk BizTalk
I Finished My First 5k Run Brian T. Jackett, May 11, 2013 Personal This post is a bit more personal than most. Two weekends ago my fiancé and I (along with two friends) completed our first 5k run. To many people this may not sound like a big deal, but to me it was a very ... I Finished My First 5k Run 0 0 0 Personal
Tip Of the Day - Modal Popup and ValidationSummary Controls: Fixing Object Expected Error Vincent Maverick Durano, May 10, 2013 ASP.NET Tips&Tricks ASP.NET AJAX If you are working with ASP.NET AJAX controls and encounter "Object Expected" error when using ValidationSummary and ModalPopup. The quick fix for this is to put your ModalPopup declaration at the top ... Tip Of the Day - Modal Popup and ValidationSummary Controls: Fixing Object Expected Error 1 0 0 ASP.NET Tips&Tricks ASP.NET AJAX
Chrome Responsive Inspector extension ihaynes, May 9, 2013 RWD Adobe developers Piotr Walczyszyzn and Filip Lysyzyn have released a beta of their Responsive Inspector extension for Chrome.This cool tool allows you to view the media queries on a responsive web page ... Chrome Responsive Inspector extension 0 0 0 RWD
PowerShell function to create a password protected zip file deadlydog, May 9, 2013 There are a few different ways to create zip files in powershell, but not many that allow you to create one that is password protected. I found this post that shows how to do it using 7zip, so I thought ... PowerShell function to create a password protected zip file 0 0 0
PowerShell Format Idiosyncrasy PointsToShare, May 9, 2013 Here is a piece of code I tested for the conversion of the numbers 0 thru 99 into 20 strings of exactly 2 digits. The first is 04, the next 09, then 14,19,24,29, etc. all the way to 94, 99. The code: "{0:D2}" ... PowerShell Format Idiosyncrasy 1 0 2
ADMT – How to migrate users and computers from domain to the other Waclaw Chrabaszcz, May 9, 2013 ActiveDirectory As a first step you should prepare SQL server within destination domain, and install ADMT on server within destination domain. I am going to use Domain Controller for this role, what might not be a best ... ADMT – How to migrate users and computers from domain to the other 1 0 1 ActiveDirectory
Nokia Developer Ambassador Bill Reiss and Big Southeast Nokia Ambassador Giveaway Nikita Polyakov, May 9, 2013 I am happy to say that one of my good friends, not only to me but to our entire developer community, is Bill Reiss. Clearly I am not the only one that noticed and Nokia has awarded him with Nokia Developer ... Nokia Developer Ambassador Bill Reiss and Big Southeast Nokia Ambassador Giveaway 0 0 0
Exchange 2010: Generating test data for your lab environment marc dekeyser, May 9, 2013 As an addition on populating this post gives an easy way to create test data in your lab: http://www.mikepfeiffer.net... ... Exchange 2010: Generating test data for your lab environment 0 1 0
Exchange 2010: Populating your test environment with users marc dekeyser, May 9, 2013 Exchange I came across this article and it is pretty easy and decent! http://www.mikepfeiffer.net... ... Exchange 2010: Populating your test environment with users 0 1 0 Exchange
New Syncfusion 'Succinctly iOS' e-Book ihaynes, May 8, 2013 iOS I mentioned a while back the excellent 'Succinctly' series of free eBooks by Syncfusion. Well there's a new one, 'iOS Succinctly' written as a companion to 'Objectice-C Succinctly'. Both excellent resources ... New Syncfusion 'Succinctly iOS' e-Book 0 0 0 iOS
BizTalk Server 2010 - Add New Item Schema Missing in Visual Studio Stuart Brierley, May 9, 2013 BizTalk Administration and Troubleshooting BizTalk Infrastructure and Installation I recently encountered an issue when developing a BizTalk Server 2010 solution using Visual Studio 2010. When selecting to add a new item to a project, the schema item was missing in the Visual Studio ... BizTalk Server 2010 - Add New Item Schema Missing in Visual Studio 0 0 0 BizTalk Administration and Troubleshooting BizTalk Infrastructure and Installation
Windows 8.1 Start Button - Again ihaynes, May 8, 2013 Windows 8 To quote from an article on the UK PC Pro site:Julie Larson-Green, corporate vice-president for Windows, revealed that Windows Blue will arrive as a "public preview" at Microsoft's Build conference, which ... Windows 8.1 Start Button - Again 0 0 0 Windows 8
Blogging Withdrawal Tim Murphy, May 8, 2013 Misc Did you know that blogging is a drug and that if you go too long without posting something you actually go into withdrawal? It turns out to be the case, at least for me. Whatever the excuse may be, when ... Blogging Withdrawal 0 0 0 Misc
jQuery 1.9.1+ Ajax Post is Failing even though it has a 200 Status Aligned, May 8, 2013 JavaScript jQuery I’m using my DataService and AjaxService for JavaScript and upgraded to jQuery 1.9.1. One of my post methods, which was working before, started hitting the deferred fail, instead of the deferred’s done, ... jQuery 1.9.1+ Ajax Post is Failing even though it has a 200 Status 0 0 0 JavaScript jQuery
Increasing the number of lists a Content Query Webpart can enumerate through simonh, May 8, 2013 SharePoint 2010 CQWP Content Query WebPart Issue: By default the Content Query WebPart can only enumerate through 1000 lists/libraries/etc, this is for performance reasons, if this amount is increased too far, then the SQL server can experience ... Increasing the number of lists a Content Query Webpart can enumerate through 1 0 0 SharePoint 2010 CQWP Content Query WebPart
Semantic Versioning Bob Hardister, May 8, 2013 In a discussion about software product versioning, the post on Semantic Versioning came up. I found the essay to reflect commonly recognized best practices. However, the value of the essay is in the concise ... Semantic Versioning 0 0 0
BREAKING CHANGE on GeeksWithBlogs for Custom Domains - IP Address Change Staff of Geeks, May 7, 2013 UPDATE 05/08/2013 - IP address of 208.67.195.49 is also affected. Hi Bloggers, I’m posting this urgent message because we've decided to move the hosting of GeeksWithBlogs to Azure. This means that any ... BREAKING CHANGE on GeeksWithBlogs for Custom Domains - IP Address Change 0 0 0
Webinar: Async Programming in C# Joe Mayo, May 7, 2013 Tomorrow, I’m doing a live webinar with Learn Now on Async Programming in C#. More details here: http://bit.ly/17JT792. @JoeMayo ... Webinar: Async Programming in C# 0 0 0
Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding Aligned, May 7, 2013 Knockout Js Our tester found a bug with my search box. The search box filters a grid using observables. IE 9 and 10, and Crome adds in a x clear option, this wasn’t changing the observable, so the filter wasn’t getting ... Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding 0 0 0 Knockout Js
.NET Security Part 2 simonc, May 7, 2013 So, how do you create partial-trust appdomains? Where do you come across them? There are two main situations in which your assembly runs as partially-trusted using the Microsoft .NET stack: Creating a ... .NET Security Part 2 1 0 0
An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance Steve Michelotti, May 6, 2013 KnockoutJS JavaScript TypeScript A few months back, Ryan Niemeyer posted about a simple editor pattern for Knockout.js (anyone doing any significant Knockout development should be subscribing to his blog). Historically, I have used the ... An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance 0 0 2 KnockoutJS JavaScript TypeScript
Kansas City Developer Conference Muljadi Budiman, May 6, 2013 Android KCDC This past Thursday through Saturday, the Kansas City Developer Conference happened. It was an awesome event - attendees, speakers, and vendors all totalled over 800 people. Learning and fun was had by ... Kansas City Developer Conference 0 0 0 Android KCDC
I am now a VTS Leonard Mwangi, May 6, 2013 Its official, my Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist (VTSP) has been approved, another mile stone to helping clients and partners find value in Microsoft Products in particular SQL Server, Business ... I am now a VTS 0 0 0
How to change Windows Store App’s Start Page? Ilya Verbitskiy, May 6, 2013 Windows Store Finally I have had a chance to start developing Windows 8 applications. I have started with C#/XAML applications. The reason is obvious: I had done a lot of WPF development in the last three years. I have ... How to change Windows Store App’s Start Page? 0 0 0 Windows Store
Choosing Aggregate Boundaries – Invariants Spanning Aggregates Dylan Smith, May 5, 2013 In the last couple of posts I talked about how larger aggregates make enforcing invariants easier, but smaller aggregates reduce concurrency conflicts. You need to use domain knowledge to choose aggregate ... Choosing Aggregate Boundaries – Invariants Spanning Aggregates 0 0 0
BizTalk 2013 Map Unit Testing Gotcha Michael Stephenson, May 5, 2013 BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing Ive been trying to get the sample for the BizTalk Map unit testing scenario working. I kept getting the following error:"Transformation Failure" This was happening everytime I executed the test even though ... BizTalk 2013 Map Unit Testing Gotcha 0 0 1 BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing
Carolina Code Camp 2013: Introduction to SharePoint Development Kelly Jones, May 5, 2013 SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Server 2007 .NET Development I spoke this weekend at the Carolina Code Camp on the CPCC campus here in Charlotte and my topic was an Intro to SharePoint Development for .NET Developers (those that have no knowledge of SharePoint). ... Carolina Code Camp 2013: Introduction to SharePoint Development 0 0 2 SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Server 2007 .NET Development
Azure VM - Endpoint Not found: There was no endpoint listening Ken Hortsch, May 5, 2013 .NET The only solution was to delete the VM and recreate. There are ways to clone the VM from the VHD that was used, but the original VM must be deleted. Strangely enough I had a running VM, then added an SSL ... Azure VM - Endpoint Not found: There was no endpoint listening 0 0 0 .NET
Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service Enrique Lima, May 4, 2013 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools Recently I made the switch from having a local TFS deployment to using the hosted Team Foundation Service. As I had been using it back when it was TFSPreview, there were projects that had been left over, ... Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service 0 0 0 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools
Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft D'Arcy Lussier, May 4, 2013 Go and read this. There is so much win in this blog post its obscene. One of the best commentaries on work/life balance I’ve read ever with loads of great suggestions and insight. http://blog.jongallant.com/... ... Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft 0 0 0
Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) Marko Apfel, May 4, 2013 F# Tools IDEs, Editors, .. Here are my favorites in descend order Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web yes! - it allows you free F# development, notably for libraries LINQPad again and again a wonderful tool! SharpDevelop ... Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) 0 0 0 F# Tools
Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Testing/Debugging/Logging When creating a new data class, it’s a good idea to override ToString() method to output most of the data.It will help to see details in logs.The only exception if the class has a sensitive data like CreditCard ... Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. 0 0 0 Testing/Debugging/Logging
Deploy PDB files into production to ease exception report investigation. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Deployment Testing/Debugging/Logging For a long time I believed that PDB as a part of debugging information should not be included in production deployment. Recently my colleague suggested to copy them to simplify exception investigations. ... Deploy PDB files into production to ease exception report investigation. 0 0 0 Deployment Testing/Debugging/Logging
New Release - DAX Studio 1.2 (with Excel 2013 support) Darren Gosbell, May 4, 2013 It’s been a long while coming, but the next release of DAX Studio is out. If you already have DAX Studio running in Excel 2010 you will not see anything new in this release, this release is all about getting ... New Release - DAX Studio 1.2 (with Excel 2013 support) 0 0 0
Iron Man 3 (I've seen it, you probably haven't...) Chris G. Williams, May 3, 2013 Here's the short, non-spoily version: It's fun popcorn movie, with lots of action. A little too much interpersonal touchy-feely crap for an Iron Man movie, and not enough "suit blowing shit up" time, imo, ... Iron Man 3 (I've seen it, you probably haven't...) 0 0 1