Always open XAML files in full XAML view

Lately in my current project, I have been doing lot of UI work and hence I constantly juggle between ViewModels and Views (xaml files). When I double click the xaml files in Solution Explorer, it opens ...

3 new free E-Books from Microsoft Press

At http://www.microsoftvirtual... Microsoft are offer 3 new free E-books. They are available in MOBI, EPUB and PDF formats ...

Visual Studio Light Switch Resources

Whilst researching for my next Dot Net project, a desktop LightSwitch application, I discovered a number of resources relating to LightSwitch. LightSwitch is a free RAD tool for versions of Visual Studio. ...

APress Deal of the Day - 20/Apr/2014 - Beginning Windows 8.1

Today's $10 Book of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning Windows 8.1 "Beginning Windows 8.1 takes you through the new features and helps you get more out of the familiar ...

PowerShell Script Browser 1.0 is Released

Microsoft has just released PowerShell Script Browser 1.0. It makes it easier to find and use 9000+ script samples when you are writing scripts to automate Microsoft products. Download Script Browser for ...

Common Key 0.2 Password generator released

At https://commonkey.codeplex.... I have released as a free download a random password generator.This version has three options for generating passwords.Passwords with A-Z and 0-9Passwords ...

Escape from XP (and IE6) - the shoot-them-up game

For those into shoot them up games, there is an fun game at http://www.modern.ie/en-us/... a lot of fun ...

APress Deal of the Day - 19/Apr/2014 - SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes

The APress $10 deal of the offer at http://www.apress.com/97814... is SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes "SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Recipes is an example-based guide to the Transact-SQL language that is at ...

Checking for Heartbleed Vulnerability

At https://lastpass.com/heartb... there is checker for the heartbleed vulnerability. Whilst not conclusive for all https sites, it does indicate sites that were vulnerable and provides useful advice ...

Getting a free version of Visual Studio - Visual Studio Express

Today, I received this message from one of my readers "PLEASE I NEED TO DOWNLOAD Visual Studio and C# TEXT BOOKS FOR MY CERTIFICATION EXAM" Microsoft provide a free version of Visual called Visual Studio ...

Project: C# Coding Guidelines

So I started a little project on GitHub of some C# coding guidelines. I want to do this to open up a community driven discussion about guidelines and best practices. I don't want it to be written gospel ...

A full day of architecture conferences in Montreal !

On Saturday May 10th, our usergroup is offering it's members a full day of conferences on emerging architectures including architectures for cloud based solutions! You have to be a member of .NET Montreal ...

Telerik announce Open Source version of Kendo UI Core

At http://www.telerik.com/camp... Telerik have announced an open source version of their Kendo UI core Download the Kendo UI core at http://www.telerik.com/down... ...

APress Save 40% on 4 Titles by Adam Freeman to 20/Apr/2014

Please go to http://extras.apress.com/Ea... for this offer. The books are: Pro Windows 8 Development with HTML5 and JavaScript The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Pro jQuery 2.0 Pro JavaScript ...

Discovery of an Earth "cousin" planet

At http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/new... NASA have announced the discovery of Kepler 186f, a planet orbiting a red dwarf star some 500 light years from us. As the estimated size of Kepler ...

12 little known facts on CSS and a free E-book on jump-start HTML5 basics

At http://www.sitepoint.com/12... besides some useful facts on CSS by precept and example, there is the offer of a free E-book on HTML5 basics.The book is available as PDF, MOBI and ...

Default to HTTPS rather than HTTP for web sites.

For a long time I have advocated that my clients use for all their Extranet web sites, whether the information is confidential or not.Now there is an excellent article by Kent Finley at http://www.wired.com/2014/0... ...

APress Deal of the Day - 18/Apr/2014 - SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes "SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes provides focused and practical solutions ...

Easter egg – OMG^2 the true PowerShell in bash window

Let's continue this crazy experiment. More or less it should works on any distro in my case it is Ubuntu 13. The idea is to use wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator J) to install Powershell 2.0 for Windows XP. ...

‘Tap size’ for radio buttons and checkboxes on mobile devices

Have you ever had trouble selecting a radio button or checkbox on your mobile phone? Two aspects of web forms that often get overlooked for mobile page views are the ‘tap size’ of radio buttons and checkboxes, ...

APress Deal of the Day - 17/Apr/2014 - Foundation Version Control for Web Developers

The APress $10 Deal of the day at http://www.apress.com/97814... is an E-book - Foundation Version Control for Web Developers. "Foundation Version Control for Web Developers explains how version control ...

Business Analysis – We’re Doing It Wrong

Do you know what a Business Analyst does? They analyze business practices. Doesn’t that seem simple? And yet organizations the world over, and even the IIBA it would seem, consider them a super role that ...

Has JavaScript Gone Too Far?

I, unfortunately and unwittingly, started a minor Twitter flame war earlier today. Of course, there is only one way that could turn out. The subject was on the importance of JavaScript. The original tweet ...

Running MDX Studio against SQL 2012

Even though MDX Studio has not been updated since SQL 2008 it’s still a fantastic tool for working with MDX. However if you have only installed SQL 2012 (or later) on your machine then you may get errors ...

Reinstalling NuGet Packages from the Package Manager Console

Reinstall all packages in ALL PROJECTS of the current solution: Update-Package -Reinstall Reinstall all packages in SPECIFIC PROJECT of the current solution: Update-Package -ProjectName 'ProjectNameGoesHere' ...

Prairie Dev Con’s Evolution – Thoughts on Covering Speaker Expenses

Greg Young tweeted this recently… This started a really good Twitter discussion about whether conferences should cover travel expenses (airfare and hotel) for speakers, with some event organizers weighing ...

Here’s My IP

The Windows Phone App Store just certified my new app, Here’s My IP. This app shows your IP address and approximate location. @JoeMayo ...

JSON Odata, baby steps

So this is what I feel are some really constructive steps for next gen. mobile. Allow your App. to talk to your backend datasource via OData. I've spent a tonne of hours trying to make a combination of ...

Seeing Eclipse 1 of the current tetrad of Eclipses of the Moon

During an eclipse of the moon by the Earth, the moon can can fade to a dark coppery red. The first of an important series of 4 eclipses (known as a Tetrad) occurs tonight. Tonight's is essentially only ...

postgres vip pointing to two servers

ERROR: cannot execute DELETE in a read-only transactionI kept getting errors like that but I didn't think anything had changed with my company's PostgreSQL installation. It turned out that there was a ...

Upgrading to Developer Preview of Windows Phone 8.1

Woot! I’ve got it, the new preview release of Windows Phone 8.1. Since the announcements at Build where they introduced the next generation of apps for Windows and Windows Phone I’ve been working to get ...

APress Deal of the Day - 14/Apr/2014 - Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C#

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C#. One of the authors is Adam Freeman who is excellent at providing practical code examples. "ASP.NET ...

Dynamically Load jQuery From Unobtrusive JavaScript Library

I am tasked with dynamically injecting jQuery into each page if it is not already loaded from an Unobtrusive JavaScript Library. The normal way of injecting a script tag would be: Code Snippet var jq = ...

Meeting Azure - Top Azure features every ASP.NET developer should know about

On Monday April the 28th in Montreal comes the father of the first Azure UserGroup, Bill Wilder. Bill comes from Boston for this event and we know this is going to be a meeting the montreal devs won't ...

APress Deal of the Day - 13/Apr/2014 - Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure "Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure, 2nd Edition introduces you to Microsoft's cloud-based ...

Resources from my April 2014 talk at CRMUG Florida

I had a wonderful experience and great feedback at my talk: Speaking at CRMUG Florida Regional Chapters on April 10th 2014 Speaking at CRMUG Florida Regional Chapters on April 10th 2014 Here are some resources: ...

APress Deal of the Day - 12/Apr/2014 - Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration. "Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration provides the essential skills and knowledge ...

How to install XenApp 7.5

Ha!Ha! XenApp is back! ... Not exactly ... For me XenApp that's IMA architecture, here we have XenDesktop's FMA. Is it better, that's very good question. For me it is just different. Of course I like Broker-Agent ...

¿Cuánto cuesta una Maestría en el ITAM?

Y sí: Yo, como muchos, me preguntaba justamente eso.Actualmente estoy cursando un diplomado en el ITAM. El nivel del curso y, particularmente, el nivel de los profesores, es muy bueno. En general mi experiencia ...

APress Deal of the Day - 11/Apr/2014 - C++ Quick Syntax Reference

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is C++ Quick Syntax Reference "The C++ Quick Syntax Reference by Mikael Olsson is a condensed tutorial and quick code syntax ...

Renaming Woes

As I was working on updates to The Krewe Windows Phone App, I ran into a very aggravating situation. I needed to blow away my Azure deployment project (more on a later date) and recreate a new one. When ...

Review for Learning Three.js: The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL

This book aims to teach you how to draw and animate 3D scenes in JavaScript using WebGL. It uses a library called Three.js which makes it easier to interact with WebGL. It starts off with the basics of ...

Are your servers bleeding?

Looking at the news today I came across an article about how the latest exploit Heartbleed has the tech community in a frenzy. This is a flaw in OpenSSL which is used to encrypt data communications between ...

How much Azure kit do you need to serve 2,000 requests per second?

I met with a prospective client looking to move an existing API to Azure, and they had an interesting problem. Part of their API is supporting over-the-air (OTA) auto-update, so an app calls home, finds ...

CSSCOP (FXCOP for stylesheets)

At http://visualstudiogallery.... there is a free add-on for Visual Studio which will check CSS for conformance to standards. It runs the CSS Lint engine ...

#DAX – Joining to a Slowly Changing Dimension

The following is one of the scenarios that I showed during my “Drop your DAX” talk at SQL Saturday #296 in Melbourne. Currently SSAS Tabular and PowerPivot models can only have a relationship based on ...

Life is short, sometimes too short

Today was a sad day for the developer communities in Chicago and in the US in that we lost a good friend and advocate for the right way to use technology, Dave Bost. He was a big guy who was able to connect ...

APress Free Book - Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms

At http://www.apress.com/97814... APress are offering a free E-Book on Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms "This book explains Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Servers, ...

How Do I Alphabetize the Application Icons on my Droid?

Click on the App Button (aka: "Drawer" ) -- That's the key with the multiple squares, click on menu , select view type, select alphabetical grid.