New version of Syncfusion Metro Studio V2

Syncfusion have released an updated version of their free Metro Studio V2.If you've not seen it before it's a collection of 2500 'Modern UI' style icons which you can edit/modify and use without restriction ...

Xat.com Image Optimiser - a little known tool for RWD

An article in the July 2013 issue of .Net Magazine, "Optimise your site for mobile", highlights the importance of image optimisation and has a link to a list of tools for the job.This mentions several ...

ssis error deploying package

I was getting the error below when trying to deploy to my SQL 2008 R2 cluster, which was odd since I had never had any trouble before. The problem ended up being that when I double clicked on the SSISDeploymentManifest ...

Windows 8 for Developers Online Camp

On May 21st, Ziff Davis is hosting an eSeminar, Windows 8 for Developers Online Camp. Speakers include Greg Levenhagen, @GregLevenhagen, and myself. Here’s the agenda: - Building a Windows 8 App in 15 ...

Another cause of Internal Error 2761 - BizTalk 2013

I had another occasion where I was getting the internal error 2761 error when trying to install BizTalk 2013.This time it was not related to the "Run as Administrator" trap I fell into a couple of weeks ...

New Book: Pro Team Foundation Service

The last couple of months I have been working together with Mathias Olausson, Mattias Sköld and Joachim Rossberg on a new book project for Apress that has just been published. The book is called Pro Team ...

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token u. file JavaScript Error in MVC

I was getting a JavaScript error that pointed to line number 1 of my MVC page. I have a form on the page and expected the Unobtrusive Validation to work with the Data Annotations. It took me a while to ...

Capturing HTTP traffic on an iPhone with Fiddler

This is a simple update to the great entry at http://conceptdev.blogspot.... with the new Fiddler interface. 1. Get Fiddler Download Fiddler 2. Set-up Fiddler ...

What is Application Domain (AppDomain)...?

When we launch the Notepad program in Windows, the program executes inside of a container known as a process. We can launch multiple instances of Notepad, and each instance will run in a dedicated process. ...

ReadOnlyObservableCollection

Use a ReadOnlyObservableCollection when you allow people to subscribe to changes to a collection, without allowing them to make changes to the collection. ReadOnlyObservableCollection is a object from ...

Enterprise Architecture – SOA with a Dash of PubSub

The past few weeks I’ve been helping a client come up with an Enterprise Architecture and I realized that I seem to have zero’d in on an EA that I would probably use at most places. First off what do I ...

SharePoint QuicLaunch Maker with PowerShell

At times I create so many sites and sub-sites that the Top-Nav cannot handle it. It is better to add the new links to the Quick Launch.The function below makes it a snap.Here is how it is used:The first ...

PowerShell Idiosyncrasy Explained

Doug Finke, A PowerShell MVP tested it in .Net where it fails as well. He explained that The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'System.Math.Floor(decimal)' and 'System.Math.Floor(double)' ...

Things to Watch out for with a Production system in Microsoft Azure

At Industrack,we migrated our production backend to Azure. Our platform is a real-time data collection system of GPS data streaming from remote devices. For the most part it is working well, there are ...

SCCM2012SP1 – How to download prerequisites for offline installation

Sometimes your datacenter polices disallows to have Internet access from servers. Let's prepare ourselves for offline installation. Go to ADK download site and save on your PC ADKsetup.exe http://www.microsoft.com/en... ...

Why I Chose WordPress Over Geeks With Blogs, And Moving From WordPress.com To A GoDaddy Hosted Solution

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… ...

Exploiting the Non-Uniqueness of Guids

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 ...

APress Deal of the Day 17/May/2013 - Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012

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 ...

I was surfing io13 and found this interesting article from google

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, ...

Powershell functions to get an xml node, and get and set an xml element’s value, even when the element does not already exist

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. ...

.NET Security Part 3

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. ...

Extending Team Explorer 2012 – Associating Recent Work Items

Extension available at: http://visualstudiogallery.... I have been playing around a bit lately with extending Team Explorer 2012, mostly because it is ...

Live Coding During Presentations–Good or Bad?

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. ...

Use the NotMapped Attribute with Entity Framework in Partial Classes

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. ...

Tech Learning–Always Start with Hello World

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, ...

Special Tampa WPUG meeting - How I became a Millionaire writing apps!

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 ...

Nokia: Your vision is clouded

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 ...

Using Windows Azure Mobile services to develop Android Applications–Nigeria DevCamp

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 ...

Which kind of API service provider are you?

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 ...

Integration between Resource and Message Based Architectures

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 ...

I Finished My First 5k Run

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 ...

Tip Of the Day - Modal Popup and ValidationSummary Controls: Fixing Object Expected Error

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 ...

Chrome Responsive Inspector extension

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 ...

PowerShell function to create a password protected zip file

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 Format Idiosyncrasy

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}" ...

ADMT – How to migrate users and computers from domain to the other

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 ...

Nokia Developer Ambassador Bill Reiss and Big Southeast Nokia Ambassador Giveaway

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 ...

Exchange 2010: Generating test data for your lab environment

As an addition on populating this post gives an easy way to create test data in your lab: http://www.mikepfeiffer.net... ...

Exchange 2010: Populating your test environment with users

I came across this article and it is pretty easy and decent! http://www.mikepfeiffer.net... ...

New Syncfusion 'Succinctly iOS' e-Book

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 ...

BizTalk Server 2010 - Add New Item Schema Missing in Visual Studio

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 ...

Windows 8.1 Start Button - Again

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 ...

Blogging Withdrawal

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 ...

jQuery 1.9.1+ Ajax Post is Failing even though it has a 200 Status

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, ...

Increasing the number of lists a Content Query Webpart can enumerate through

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 ...

Semantic Versioning

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 ...

BREAKING CHANGE on GeeksWithBlogs for Custom Domains - IP Address Change

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 ...

Webinar: Async Programming in C#

Tomorrow, I’m doing a live webinar with Learn Now on Async Programming in C#. More details here: http://bit.ly/17JT792. @JoeMayo ...

Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding

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 ...

.NET Security Part 2

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 ...