Automated development environment

Over the past couple of months I've added more and more customization to my development machine. So much so, that I'd like to write down what I did in case I'll need to re-implement it - and maybe also ...

ConcurrentCollections Can Be Prohibitively Expensive

Since most of us use multiple threads we get all sorts of race conditions which we can solve with proper locking and concurrent data structures. A simple issue is if you have concurrency on an object which ...

Speaking at Tampa Florida CRMUG Chapter Meeting on Dynamics CRM 2015 What's new in Mobile on 2/5/2015

Although I will be presenting remotely from Microsoft Dynamics Technical Conference 2015; I hope you join the local chapter meeting of CRMUG simulcast across Florida to hear me speak and interact others ...

Moving On

This blog has moved!I've had a good run here on GeeksWithBlogs.net, but I've decided to move this blog over to a new domain and host. You can now find all of my Gruff Code content over at http://gruffcode.com ...

Node.js and TypeScript Modules: Internal, External... Shake it All About

Well, that was painful. When I decided to write a JavaScript game, I knew I'd need to run the same logic on the server and the browser, so Node.js was an obvious choice. It's JavaScript on the server, ...

Mobile Dev with VS.NET Talk Resources

Thanks to everyone who came out to my talk on Mobile Dev with VS.NET last week at the Winnipeg .NET User Group! Below are links from the session content. First, I wanted to clarify something… The last ...

SSIS 2012: My Deployment fails with the message "query the operation_messages view"

The full error message reads as "Failed to deploy project. For more information, query the operation_messages view for the operation identifier '39212'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 27203)In a nutshell, ...

Codealike is a fun tool

I’m a fan of Codealike and run with their extension while I’m in Visual Studio. It tracks a surprising amount of data on which projects I’m working on, where in the code, time spent building, code languages ...

Building C#/ASP.NET Apps on a Mac With vNext

The Microsoft vNext team has been working like crazy to make .Net as open platform as possible, and today we're going to try it out. Up until now the only ASP/C# development I do on my Mac is under a Virtual ...

Get SSH public key fingerprint with powershell

I was working on a project with SSH keys. I needed to get the key fingerprint but don't have access to ssh-keygen. So with some poking around I was able to get the MD5 hash of the base64 keyfile.Here's ...

Integration User Group: Video available for ‘Microservices and the Cloud-Based Future of Integration’

I presented at Monday evening’s inaugural session of the Integration User Group. This new UG replaces the UK Connected Systems User Group (UKCSUG). The session was well attended with a good 50 minutes ...

Deployment Tools: DSC or not DSC?

Desired State Configuration -- rightfully so -- is getting a lot of press just now, and it is becoming synonymous with certain deployment solutions, like Chef and Puppet. What about the others -- for example, ...

Developing mobile website - testing

Although a lot of website are using a responsive design which just scales the content, when you browse them from a smaller resolution (like tablet or smartphone). Some still choose to have a special mobile ...

Databases in Continuous Delivery

I enjoyed listening to Databases in Continuous Delivery with Enrico Campidoglio on .Net Rocks and learning about tools to do CD with databases. I’ve looked at how to have the database schema in source ...

Accessing internet from Azure VM not working - Solution Below

I built an Azure Virtual network with one VM being a Domain Controller and few other VMs being SharePoint 2013 related Servers. When I logged in to any of my Virtual Machine Windows Servers running on ...

quickbooks w2 align print

The solution? get the latest qb payroll forms update, dated after jan 16th for sure.  Just saving some of you all from an unsolvable rubiks cube. (today is 1/21/15) (yes, we do qb).

CSS You can get excited about in 2015

Rachel Andrew has a good article about some of the emerging features in CSS. Most are already available in one or more of the modern browsers so you can test and play with them already. http://www.webdesignerdepot... ...

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Extensibility.Web' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Ran into this little gem today... to remedy it open inetmgr and go to your virtual directory.  

Apple Watch - DOES oData

This is cool! I just got an Apple Watch App. getting results live over the Internet from an oData database. All realtime, and working really quickly. Here’s how it works…. So using the following code in ...

Effective Step template design in Octopus Deploy

If you’re writing Step templates, here are some things you may want to consider. * Write a script you can run inside or outside of Octopus There are two reasons why you're unlikely to code substantial ...

UK Top 40 in JSON format

http://ben-major.co.uk/labs/uk-top-40/?format=json

A Case Study in Producing Unique Hash Values

As I was working on updates the The Krewe app, I found myself needing to re-implement the Geocoordinate. Before you ask, I'm making a PCL library, and the PCL doesn't have shared version of the object. ...

McDonalds India (Pune) throws out a poor street kid trying to buy a Fanta float with kind person's help.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ind... http://i.imgur.com/p94JQN1.png ...

How to fix Mysql Version Mismatch with Nuget when it’s make error when you share your code with others.

2 Year ago I write a post here to give my view on Mysql and it’s nuget packages http://geekswithblogs.net/a... Nuget package is ...

Looking for Rails tutorial, 3rd edition community.

A journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step. With that in mind, I'm getting started with the new Rails tutorial, 3rd edition and I'm hoping to find other people on the same journey.Accelerated ...

Webinar: Microservices and the Cloud-Based Future of Integration

I will be presenting at the UK Connected Systems User Group ‘Integration Monday’ webinar on Monday, 19th January at 7:30 pm, GMT: “The software integration market is heating up with dozens of new cloud-based ...

TFS Build vNext – A Preview

Currently, Microsoft is working hard on a complete rewrite of the TFS Build system. They announced this, among other things, at the Connect event back in November and did a short demo of it. It is not ...

Trigger Visual Studio Release Management vNext from TeamCity

The last couple of updates to Visual Studio has included a lot of new functionality for Visual Studio Release Management. The biggest one is the introduction of so called vNext releases, that leverages ...

Offline & Online, so easy with oData

So today, I had to bite the bullet and realise that certain modules in my app. will only work online. Online and connected, able to see a server.... This meant I had to move away from pulling oData good ...

My small contribution to ASP .NET 5

I saw that the readme files for ASP NET 5 Home and ASP NET Data Project still said vNext so I made a pull request on github to change it to the announced official name of ASP .NET 5. It turns out I needed ...

Setting a schema for the database in Azure Mobile Services

I’ve been working on a project using Xamarin.Forms and Azure Mobile Services for a while, and one issue I came across that wasn’t entirely clear is how do you work with an existing database, yet support ...

Using angularJs, nodejs, git, bower in corporate environments

I recently starting using these technologies on a new project and tried to use the tutorial from Google as a starting point https://docs.angularjs.org/... . Unfortunately nothing was working, I could ...

oData the best tonic

Following on from last nights post. I'm now up-to a 42 entity/pages/tables (call it what you like) in an iOS app, synchronising effortlessly to NAV using oData. Its amazing what a partnership between an ...

Cleanup your TestResults folder with a Scheduled Task

I run automated UI test with Selenium (unit testing will do this as well, though not as many files) from the Visual Studio Test Explorer a lot. This creates a new folder inside of my solution location ...

ctrl+p in Chrome Developer Tools to find and open a file

I was watching part of Using TypeScript for Large Angular JS Applications on TypeScript. In the SourceMaps and TypeScript section, Justin Schwarty mentions that ctrl+p in the Chrome Dev Tools will pull ...

Uninstalling MSI Files with Powershell and WMI

When you're deploying an application, you'll usually want to start by removing any previous installations of it. With MSI files, this is often less trivial than at first it appears. Typically you have ...

Dependency Injection, Angular and Node

My current pet project is a chess-type board game using Node, Angular and TypeScript. This is my first time working with Node or Angular and the differences in the way they approach Dependency Injection ...

How to fix Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core' or one of its dependencies. The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))

On error page you will see something like this On error page you will see something like this LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Windows/Microsof... ASP.NET ...

Anti Forgery Tokens with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API

Single Page Applications using AngularJS with ASP.NET will by default leave our web api methods open to forgery abuse. A few simple steps will allow you to add anti forgery protection.The first step will ...

oData NAV Swift and Me

So the adventure continues. I've been building an iPad app that consumes data from Dynamics NAV. I use NAV pages which I bring down into iOS via oData, these are then saved into a Core Data database. I ...

Installing ClearOS 6.5 with graphical UI on XenServer 6.2

XenServer provides several templates for different operation systems of its hosted virtual machines. Unfortunately there is no template for ClearOS and so I tried some of the in my opinion best fitting ...

Powershell: Ways to copy locked files and folders

One of the first Octopus scripts I wrote was one to copy files and folders -- a pretty basic deployment activity. But periodically I found that resources were getting locked. I noticed that this was happening ...

Activating RDP access for Windows 10

Today I’ve installed the Technology Preview of Windows 10 onto my Xen Server. With the XenCenter program under an existing Windows 8.1 installation it was an easy task. But this Win 8.1 runs virtualized ...

Installing Citrix XenServer from bootable USB stick

Installing XenServer 6.2 to my new Intel NUC was not so straight forward as thought. The downloaded ISO (XenServer-6.2.0-install-cd... I burned on my MacBook with Unetbootin onto a USB stick. Unfortunately ...

Migrating TFS Project Collection From One TFS Server to other

Migrating a TFS Project collection from one TFS environment to other needs to be planned before execution.As part of the planning, you should make sure the below points.1. Make sure the source TFS server ...

Naming Things is Hard: Keeping Context in Mind

Well, look at this naming stuff turning into a series Nothing that you name in coding exists in a vacuum. It will all be used and referenced in a certain way, and this should inform the names you choose. ...

Visa and smartphones….

Recently I ran into some problems when I wanted to buy something online and tried to pay for it by using my Visa card. Every time I reached the checkout section I was presented with a screen asking me ...

Getting VpnNetworkSetupFailure on Azure when setting up a Virtual Network from a Website Instance?

This is one of the most annoying errors I’ve come across purely as to find the information involved hunting through many layers. For those who want the quick ‘give me something to try please!’ solution, ...

Use Azure RemoteApp with Cloud Deployment Mode inside Crop. Network

My working in a company which was inside a Crop. network in China. As you may know, in China there are some websites we cannot connect such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. And the connectivity with Google ...

Octopus Deploy: A Step template parameter scoping bug

Over the past months I've been putting together a minimal library of Octopus Deploy Step templates and "Library" scripts to cover all our common deployment scenarios. one of these was a Step template to ...