Alt+Shift+Y to compile all Less files

Install the Web Essentials extension (Visual Studio 2012+, maybe 2010). Create some Less files, nested or otherwise. Press Alt+Shift+Y and all the less files will be compiled to css. Stackoverflow question ...

Access OLEDB Provider is not Registered

I ran into an error today involving connecting to a Microsoft Access database. I avoid Access like the plague. In this case, the program involves converting data in an Access database to a next generation ...

Video about REM units for font sizing in HTML

There is a 5 minute video from Sitepoint from Russ Weakley that is worth watching. Basically REM uses the size from the root, where EM uses the size from the parent. Em can have compounding of sizes. Note, ...

System.Web.UI.Control.get_ViewState() failed

Problem: MethodAccessException: Attempt by method 'DynamicClass.lambda_method... to access method 'System.Web.UI.Control.get_... failedPossible Solution: ...

Creating SSO Configuration Application

This post explains how to create a new configuration app and configure its values.

App-V 5.0 How to clean up Client cache

Another small and simple script Import-Module appVclient$packages = Get-AppvClientPackageforeach ( $package in $packages) { Remove-AppvClientPackage -PackageId $package.PackageId -VersionId $package.VersionId} ...

UK Connected Systems User Group Website

Hi AllJust a heads up that the new uk connected system user group website is now live and out there. http://ukcsug.co.ukAlso some info about the UK Hybrid Integration Event including Azure, BizTalk Services, ...

UK Connected Systems User Group Website

Hi AllJust a heads up that the new uk connected system user group website is now live and out there. http://ukcsug.co.ukAlso some info about the UK Hybrid Integration Event including Azure, BizTalk Services, ...

ENTSSO for Configuration

Using ENTSSO from dotnet and BizTalk

SQL SERVER - Creating A Stored Procedure for a Select statement with Optional Parameters

Meanwhile while I'm on bench (yep, mapabasketball man o sa trabaho suki ata ako dito hahaha.) I managed to entertain myself and do some self studying. I fancied having my own Class library for CRUD operations ...

APress Deal of the Day 29/Aug/2013 - Beginning T-SQL 2012

Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning T-SQL 2012 "Beginning T-SQL 2012 is the first step toward learning the T-SQL language that underlies Microsoft’s ...

Extending CLAP For Larger Applications

If you’ve been reading my recent posts you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been working a lot with the CLAP project lately. For anyone who is not familiar with that project, its name is an acronym that stands ...

Thoughts on Microsoft and the tech “press”

Disclaimer: This post is purely an opinion piece and is not intended as a news article. I am a Microsoft MVP, which means that my viewpoint may be slightly biased towards Microsoft but I try very hard ...

SQL Server Management Studio: Why do I get "Saving changes is not permitted" ?

This happens when you're in the SSMS gui making changes to the table that either affect the behavior of an index, cause existing data to be truncated/nulled, etc. This can also happen you try to change ...

Windows 8 App Spotlight: I Want My Mummy

I wanted to shine a spotlight on one of our local development studios this week and share some of their story. Pig Out Productions has released the first of their many games to the Windows 8 store. I Want ...

Windows Phone 8 Recipes–Publication Day!

The day has finally arrived. My good friend and colleague, Lori Lalonde and I have co-authored a book for Apress that is focused on developing applications for Windows Phone 8. It’s been quite the adventure ...

MSBuild Quick Start

Technorati Tags: Msbuild,TFS,Team Build What is MSBuild? MSBuild is a general-purpose build system created by Microsoft and is used to build most Microsoft Visual Studio projects. MSBuild is shipped with ...

Bus or Flow? - Messaging done one way or the other

Messaging is neutral to the way it´s done. There is nor right or wrong. You think of a message bus, when you hear about communication by messages in software? That´s fine. You think of “pipes and filters” ...

Windows Phone 8 Recipes - Publication Day!

My first book, Windows Phone 8 Recipes, which I co-authored with David Totzke, is officially being published today and I couldn’t be more excited! When I first mentioned to a few of my closest friends ...

O'Reilly Deal to Sep/10/2013 05:00 PT - 50% off all E-Books and Videos

At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering 50% off all E-books and Videos until Sep/10/2013 05:00 PT. Please note the discount code of B2S3 applicable until ...

APress Deal of the Day 28/Aug/2013 - Pro Office 365 Development

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Office 365 Development. "Pro Office 365 Development is a practical, hands-on guide to building cloud-based solutions ...

Feature Request - BizTalk360 - Control users accessing server directly

I was talking to Saravana over drinks about a feature I would like to see in BizTalk 360 and thought id share it to see what people think. Problem Statement The problem is that most customers of BTS360 ...

CSOM and Office 365 - A Broken Home

So in an effort to blog more and focus on life outside more I have deleted facebook and twitter from my phone & tablet iDevices. This will be the first of many blog posts on mosslover.com again related ...

Methods to verify, are DataTables or DataSets the same.

I wanted to verify, are DataTables in DataSets the same. I found a few similar implementations on StackOverflow, but the one that I've selected (http://stackoverflow.com/q... ...

APress Deal of the Day 27/Aug/2013 - ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API Building a REST Service from Start to Finish

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API Building a REST Service from Start to Finish. "Build cutting-edge REST services using ASP.NET ...

Want to play With Twitter bootstrap online use http://bootply.com/

http://bootply.com/ is a online editor which is specially designed for work with Twitter bootstrap. Tried it to run Bootstrap online. You don’t need any kind of setup. You can run it In browser ...

PowerShell Script to Workaround No Data in SharePoint 2013 Usage Reports

Over the past few months I’ve had 2 customers that have run into an scenario where the SharePoint 2013 web analytics usage reports have no data (all zeroes) in the reports. While working with some brilliant ...

How to restrict a Cloud Service to a set of IP Addresses

An interesting question today about securing Cloud Services in Windows Azure. Basically how do we restrict who has access to our service? The confusion comes from a couple types of endpoints available ...

Using Knockout to Assist in Responsive Design

I'm creating a responsive website from a mock we received. I'm using Bootstrap 3.0 RC and I really like the grid system and the ability to hide and show using their CSS classes (.hidden-xs, visible-sm, ...

PuppetConf 2013

I recently attended PuppetConf 2013 (the 3rd annual event) and all I can say coming away from that is wow. It was an amazing event with quite a few amazing speakers and sessions out there. There were over ...

Why can't I connect to SSIS through management studio?

The microsoft integration service is secure by default. The DBA has to grant access to the service in order for it to connect successfully through ssms. To grant access to the Integration Services service ...

I got too much spam mail from IBM dev. Don’t know how better I can stop it.

From last few month I goo too much spam mail from IBM. one day I check my spam and I have 42 mail from their IBM site. I thing there is fault in their system so that is how I got 42 mails. I have told ...

c# to vb.net Adding handlers with lambdas

I am converting some of the APIMASH projects from c# to vb.net and having to translate between the two. You can find the APIMASH projects at: https://github.com/apimash/... This is part of inheriting ...

Windows Backup failed Error code: 0x81000037

My weekly Windows Backup failed with Error code: 0x81000037, which is a bit odd.I googled the error and got to the Microsoft help page which explained:0x81000037: Windows Backup failed while trying to ...

APress Deal of the Day 24/Aug/2013 - Beginning jQuery

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning jQuery"Beginning jQuery is your step-by-step guide to learning the jQuery library, taking you from the basics ...

Installation Document How to: Install Team Foundation Server 2012

Installation Document How to: Install Team Foundation Server Using the Advanced Configuration If you want to change the default installation options for Team Foundation Server, use the advanced configuration, ...

Getting started with InRelease and TFS 2013 Preview

As you probably already know, Microsoft recently acquired InRelease, a release management product build by InCycle software that integrates tightly with Team Foundation Server. This acquisition fills a ...

Facebook Login Authentication Example

<html><head> <title>Facebook Login Authentication Example</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com... ...

Blogging On Into The Sunset

I’ve been with GeeksWithBlogs for a really long time and I love it here. However, I’ve finally been able to setup a basic blog on my website InsideGamer where I’d like to continue my postings. I am going ...

How to set the sharepoint site level correctly for tfs 2005 or 2008 sites after migrating to tfs 2010, tfs 2012 or tfs 2013

Most of the people who were using TFS 2008, won’t find the easy way to move SharePoint sites with new level of mappings.For ex TFS 2008 SharePoint team site would be http://teamserver:80/sites/... ...

From Console.WriteLine To ETW

When I start a new project for a small tool I sprinkle throughout my code some Console.WriteLine calls to see what is going on and to report errors. I am quite sure that 99% of all developers work this ...

How to migrate tfs collection from exiting server to another tfs server:

Starting with TFS 2010 there is new capabilities of Collection available. Big organization can have several businesses and each one can host their own TFS and then they might decide to centralize the TFS ...

Team foundation Server Power Tool Command line

TFPT Command Line-----------------------... CommandUse the createteamproject command to create a team project on a TFS server. **Note: this command requires Team Foundation Server ...

HTML Inspector - ensuring code quality

Front end developer Philip Walton has created a customizable HTML tool to verify code."HTML Inspector is a code quality tool to help you and your team write better markup. It's written in JavaScript and ...

When you reply to spam you actually send mail to someone else.

In this blog-post I will show you a common spam over internet. look at this spam. This is a spam. Now look clearly at it. if you click on reply you will reply to another mail which is not the sender mail. ...

Island Playground–Unity Updates

Spent a good portion of today working on creating the design document for my game. I use the design document created by Chris Taylor (just Google it if you want it). It’s a pretty good design template ...

How do I Install IBM Data Studio 4.1 ?

The download for this workbench is large--somewhere around 1.2 gb. Finding the install exe for linux or windows isn't clear. Basically this download appears to be from a 2 disk distributable set of *.ISO ...

Ninject property has to be public for Inject Attribute

This might be obvious, but it tripped me up for a bit. If you are using Ninject have a property (in my case a WebForms MasterPage code behind) and don't make it public, it will always be null.Here's a ...

App-V 5.0 – How to install App-V client

Today's post will be very short and simple APPV_CLIENT_SETUP_RDS.EXE /ACCEPTEULA=1 /CEIPOPTIN=0 /MUOPTIN=0 /PACKAGEINSTALLATIONROOT='D... Packages' /AUTOLOAD=1 /ENABLEPACKAGESCRIPTS=1 /S2PUBLISHINGSERVERNAME=app... ...