Windows for IoT, First Impressions

(the Galileo board with an Arduino UNO and a VF50 module from Toradex) Last week, as many other MVPs and developers around the world, I received an Intel Galileo board preloaded with WindowsIoT version. ...

The perils of calculating an Average of Averages

I've seen questions around issues calculating averages come up a few times in various forums and it came up again last week and I feel that there is some benefit in walking through the details of this ...

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Move TFS 2013 Git Repo to a Different Team Project

1. Go to the target team project admin site 2. Create the new repo on the TFS server (with the same name as the source repo except under the target team project) 3. Go to the target team project site and ...

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Announcing codestyle.co

Code style and standards has been a passion of mine for a long time. I've helped a lot of different companies create and adopt code standards. One of the main problems with documenting code standards is ...

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As I’ve highlighted before, the Syncfusion ‘Succinctly’ e-books are excellent resources. They’re written by experts in their field, in an easy to read format. You need to register but they are free and ...

An Introduction to WAI-ARIA

SitePoint has a good introduction to ARIA, which we can all use to help raise the accessibility of sites ...

Updated UserStreamsParser for LinqToTwitter

azyobuzin has updated his UserStreamsParser for LinqToTwitter: https://userstreamex.codepl... @JoeMayo ...

WES: Batch Installing a Driver Using the INF File

I was installing a driver over and over, an thought that there must be a better way than going to the device manager. Well, it turns out that there is. The plug and play utility (pnputil.exe) is designed ...

Simple Soak Testing with Web API

If you want to do some long-running tests that you can control remotely, a simple Web API controller fits very nicely. We're currently evaluating an analytics platform using Kafka for messaging. Kafka ...

Nokia 220 A piece of crap from Microsoft :(

Last year I bought Nokia Lumia 520 and it’s not going too good. I have discussed it earlier on my blog . I end up gave my phone to someone else. Even 8.1 is out The cortana is not out here in India. I ...

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It’s OK not to use tools

A recent article with this title made the point that for small sites, using a CMS or even a CSS framework is often unnecessary overkill. I couldn’t agree more! Most of the time I deal with small sites, ...

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WES: Using Diskpart from a Batch File

I recently needed to create and format a disk partition from a batch file. To make this more fun, I needed to run the batch file from a USB disk which mounted as the D drive, but I needed the new partition ...

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WES: Changing System Sounds from the Command Line

This article will discuss how to disable the system sounds via the registry. I know that the title is change system sounds, but trust me if you can disable the sounds, you can also change them. For this ...

NServiceBus vs. MassTransit

I have got an interesting request to compare and choose the right integration technology for one of my customer. By the end of the day the technologies were limited by NServiceBus and MassTransit systems ...

How Do I Install an Eclipse Plugin from a *.zip File?

If you aren't able to install from the Help\Install New Software menu, it is probably because the zip file doesn't have the content.jar/artifacts.jar needed to do so. You will need to navigate to where ...

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WES: Rotate Display

As part of my continues set of articles about setting up WES, the following shows how to rotate the display from a batch file – don’t get too excited, first we will need to write an application to do it. ...

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Azure Table JSON vs. AtomPub

A few months ago Microsoft released an update to the Microsoft Azure platform allowing developers to access Azure Tables using JSON payloads. Until then, developers had no choice but to use the AtomPub ...

PowerShell – duplicated files in Windows Media Player library

Holiday! .. But why it's raining. Let's cleanup some duplicated MP3s. Maybe the rain will stop in the meantime. For sure this code is not optimized, and I am not recommending anyone to use it. If you uncomment ...

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ALM Lunch: Implementing the Scaled Agile Framework with TFS 2013

I’m excited to announce the latest ALM Lunch event from Polaris Solutions. As you can tell from my previous post, I’m a big fan of SAFe. So much so, that I led the development of a custom TFS 2013 process ...

JSON: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Over the past several years JSON has become the darling of service message standards. These days you are shunned if you offer a SOAP service. The more I use JSON service though the more I question if they ...

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Community Leader Spotlight: Tom Walker

For this month’s spotlight post, I interviewed Tom Walker, who is the User Group Leader of the London .NET User Group in London, Ontario. Tom also volunteers for many community groups and tech events across ...

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Full Calendar III SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Solution (Not SharePoint Online) Corporate Rollup Calendar

Wow! did, I have a comeuppance when, I tried to use this previous blog post with real data! Problem, No Recurring Events! SPSiteDataQuery does not return recurring events! Darn! So not to be denied, I ...

Windows 8 Microsoft VPN Error 850

Recently I attempted to connect to a Windows VPN with windows 8 and received an error “Error 850: The Extensible Authentication Protocol type required for authentication of the remote access connection ...

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Puppet ACLs–Mask Specific

Access Control Lists and permissions can get inherently complex. We didn’t want to sacrifice a sufficiently advanced administrator/developer/etc from being able to get to advanced scenarios with ACLs with ...

Use Selenium to Find Elements By Knockout’s Data-bind

I created a quick C# extension method for Selenium to find an element by its data-bind attribute. I wanted to find an element by the binding instead of having to add a class or id to the element. If you ...

Visual Studio "14" CTP2 Is Available

Yesterday, Visual Studio "14" CTP 2 become available. You can find more information about it here: Visual Studio Engineering Team Blog Visual Studio "14" CTP Release Notes Brian Harry's Blog To work with ...

Hybrid Connections Webcast

We have lined up a webcast for UKCSUG covering BizTalk Services Hybrid Connections on the 4th August with Santosh from the Azure Product TeamCome and join us!https://www.eventbrite.c... ...

TFS 2013 Build Process Template – Change the “AutomatedTest” Argument Default Value

It should be simple, but due to the length of the string, the syntax was not obvious. The out-of-the-box default is as follows. Note the backslash escape character and stick to the syntax: {New Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Bu... ...

Moving to malisancube.com

It has been really nice blogging here. Very exciting times and articles from brilliant people. I have now decided to consolidate my blogging efforts or one area - http://malisancube.com Thanks a lot to ...

Nuget Push to Klondike Requires Packages Appended to Source and SetApiKey URL

When we upgraded to NuGet 2.8 our PUSH command starting failing. The first fix was to appended “packages” to the source URL string like this: myFeed.com:8080/api/packages We use the SetApiKey command on ...

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Why use Service Bus Relay when I can use Hybrid Connections?

Im slowly in the process of moving over to a new website so ill be cross posting on both blogs for a while.Here is my new article talking about service bus relay and hybrid connectionshttp://microsoft... ...