Microsoft Released Visual Studio 2015, .NET 4.6, C# 6.0, F# 4.0 today

Visual Studio Visual Studio 2015 Download Here is a list of new features in Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Download This update is the latest in a cumulative series of technology improvements ...

ایجاد بحران هویت در جامعە ایران و پرتگاه تجزیە تدریجی

نایشن ستایت در حقیقت بە دولت-ملتی گفتە میشود کە از یک ملت همگن از لحاظ زبانی، فرهنگی، تاریخی و اتنیکی در یک جغرافیای مشخصی تشکیل شدە و دارای حکومت مستقل میباشد گفتە میشود. بین واژەهای ناشنال-ستایت و ناشن-ستایت ...

A Complete List of Windows Development Tools

Scott Ge just shared a complete list of tools for Windows Development. (Over 100 popular dev tools!) These tools cover popular Visual Studio extensions, code editors, code compare, merge, clearnup tools, ...

Best .NET Decompiler Tools in the Market

Here is a list of the best .NET decompiler tools: http://scottge.net/2015/07/... .NET Reflector by RedGate ILSpy by SharpDevelop JustDecompile by Telerik dotPeek by JetBrains ...

CSS Gradients: A Syntax Crash Course

A useful and comprehensive article on Sitepoint by Baljeet Rathi. http://www.sitepoint.com/cs... ...

Got CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) recently

Happy to share the news that I have been awarded with Certified Scrum Professional recently. Feeling excited and continue to support Agile/Scrum with zeal ...

How many customers does Microsoft have?

http://scottge.net/2015/07/... As of Feb 2015 Windows One and a half billion people use Windows every day. There are over 1.7 million registered Windows Insiders. ...

How to know other apps’ Download number in iOS and Google Play stores

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F#, ArcGIS Runtime and error “Cannot create unknown type '{http://schemas.esri.com/arcgis/runtime/2013}MapView'”

By playing with F# and ArcGIS Runtime I tried to re-create a sample C# project to F#. For the WPF part I used the Visual Studio extension F# Empty Windows App (WPF) and F# Windows App (WPF, MVVM) the NuGet ...

Hey Azure, how's my Blob Storage doing?

This is the last one for the time being – how to get blob metrics for a Storage Account using the Azure Management Libraries, in the same way that I covered Cloud Services and Web Apps. Storage is different ...

Best Programming Learning Resources for Kids

In this post, I’d like to collect the best programming application for kids to learn how to code. These applications are widely used in schools in the United States. If you observe any other programs, ...

x86 ISR for WCE8

In Windows CE all hardware interrupts are handled by 1 Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) at the lowest level. Its main purpose is to identify the Interrupt Request (IRQ) source and handle some low level ...

Microsoft’s Clear Message for Canadian Partners

I attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in 2011 and 2012. Even 3-4 years ago we were hearing about the changing focus at Microsoft. While 2000-2008 was all about winning the platform war ...

The Changing Winnipeg Technology Consulting Landscape

I’ve been noticing a few things lately here in Winnipeg: - Less large custom application development projects - More adoption of packaged software - More adoption of Software as a Service platforms - Organizations ...

Why should I use Agile/Scrum for my project?

Our world is changing and so do the way of managing our projects. Companies are looking to be leaner and more productive. With so much going around ever wondered why I should adopt Agile/Scrum for my projects? ...

Who Did It Better – Comparing Rider and Bomber Pre-Game Festivals

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at the home opener for both the Riders and the Bombers this year. On Twitter I commented that the Bomber pre-game festival wasn’t as engaging as the Rider one which I got ...

Visual Studio – Getting compilation error “The type 'XAML' is not defined.”

During compilation of the F# Empty Windows App (WPF) I got that error (check the output pane carefully). To solve this issue you have to thrust of the XAML Type Provider of this project. This you can do ...

A Complete List of .NET Open Source Developer Projects

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Should Product Owner attend Daily Scrum meeting regularly?

The role of Product Owner (PO) is critical for the success of any Scrum team. PO is the voice of the customer and responsible for schedule, scope and cost. PO is a bridge between the business and the Dev ...

How can Office 365 help your organization?

In any organization, communication is the key for success. In most organizations it is happening on Email, on Lync / Skype, via Documents on SharePoint / OneDrive or on conversation in Yammer. Enterprises ...

New Book: C# Succinctly

My latest book, C# Succinctly, is now available. This is published by Syncfusion, as part of their Succinctly series. It’s an e-book and is free for you to download in multiple formats. The Succinctly ...

Use the CData ODBC Driver for NetSuite in SAS JMP

You can use the CData ODBC Driver to integrate NetSuite data into the statistical analysis tools available in SAS JMP. This article shows how to use NetSuite data in the Graph Builder and Query Builder.You ...

Publish Reports with Salesforce Data in Crystal Reports

Use the Report Wizard to design a report based on up-to-date Salesforce data.Crystal Reports provides built-in support for the JDBC standard. The CData JDBC Driver for Salesforce enables you to use the ...

Connect to Dynamics CRM Data in Jaspersoft Studio

Create reports based on live data in Jaspersoft Studio.This article shows how to use the CData JDBC Driver for Dynamics CRM to create a basic Jaspersoft Studio report that features Dynamics CRM data in ...

GWB used Stackify to improve performance

I asked GWB support about my missing categories/tags. They said they are working on it, though it has been a while and others are also missing categories, I was satisfied to get a response. They also sent ...

Hey Azure, how's my Web App doing?

This follows on from my last post, Hey Azure, how’s my Cloud Service doing? and it looks at getting similar metrics for Web Apps (née “Azure Websites”). Web Apps expose a lot of the same detail as Cloud ...

Clever reqruitment

I was surfing the web, when I saw a small box that caught my eye: "developer, solve this". In hind sight, I guess it was an ad. I thought it was real content, though, at first.So I clicked the link and ...

Machine Learning & AI Cloud Services in the Market

This blog post by Scott Ge lists the most popular machine learning and AI cloud services in the market Best Machine Learning & AI Cloud Services in the Market including Microsoft Azure Machine Learning ...

3 Steps to Create a Random URL Redirection Page (Free of Charge)

In this post, you will learn how to create a free webpage that randomly redirects to a list of URLs. For example, http://redirect.myhost.zone... redirects you to one of the following web pages: http://devassistant.codeple... ...

A complete list of Microsoft SDKs for developers

The downloads available differ by Visual Studio version. Pick your Visual Studio version by using the tabs below. The SDK downloads for Visual Studio 2015 will be available when Visual Studio 2015 RTM ...

Hey Azure, how's my Cloud Service doing?

The Azure Management APIs give you a lot of useful stats and you can easily use them to build a customised dashboard for an instant healthcheck of your Azure estate. Documentation is a little sketchy though, ...

Deep Learning Machine beats Human in IQ Test

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Test is a set of standardized questions designed to evaluate human intelligence. In June 2015, a Natural Language Processing team lead by University of Science and Technology ...

Web Developers’ SEO Cheat Sheet 3.0

Download the SEO Cheat Sheet Here are the details and SEO information covered in the SEO cheat sheet 3.0. Page 1 Important HTML Elements HTTP Status Codes Canonicalization URL Best Practices Webmaster ...

How to ask Bing and Google to Index your Website

Search engine is one of the main channels to drive traffic to your website. If Google/Bing cannot discover your website, you are losing lots of customer opportunities. In the following two posts, Scott ...

Three Untold Lessons from Hosting WordPress in Microsoft Azure

Scott Ge shared his experience and learnings from hosting a WordPress personal website on Microsoft Azure. http://scottge.net/2015/07/... Lesson 1: The cost ...

Running Your First Code Camp

Every now and then I get people asking me about how to run a conference. One thing I encourage is that people start small and build from there. I ran the Winnipeg Code Camp for a number of years before ...

Free Newsletter Email Template for Reporting Project Status

Please feel free to Download this free email template ...

Free Microsoft Azure account for Students

Good news for global students! If you are a student (current active student having a .edu email account), you can get a FREE Azure cloud computing account from Microsoft today! The free account includes: ...

Server 2016 – How to add or remove windows features (including GUI)

If you try to install Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2, you'll realize that Server Core is the default and recommended choice. Of course you can choose a server with GUI, but in many situation someone ...

Connect to Salesforce Data as a Linked Server

Use the TDS Remoting feature of the ODBC Driver to set up a linked server for Salesforce data.You can use the TDS Remoting feature to set up a linked server for Salesforce data. After you have started ...

What’s New in C# 6.0: Auto-Property Initializers

Today, Somasegar announced that Visual Studio 2015 will be released on July 20th, 2015. This release will also include C# 6.0. This is the first in a series of posts on the new features of C# 6.0 and I’ll ...

What's Wrong with GWB

I started to use Geekwithblogs (a.k.a. GWB) since 2010, based on one of my friend's recommendation. I've to say during the past 5+ years I was really enjoying blogging and had published 107 posts with ...

Hands-on Labs of Azure Machine Learning

Deploying a Model with Azure Machine Learning This lab explores unsupervised learning in Azure Machine Learning and how to deploy a predictive model as a web service. The lab will walk through copying ...

How to programmatically upload a new Azure Management Certificate

If you want to use the Azure Resource Management APIs, Service Management APIs or Management Libraries, you'll need a management certificate which authenticates your process with the Azure subscription ...

SSD upgrade in a MacBook Pro

I recently upgraded my wife’s MacBook Pro by replacing the original hard drive with an SSD. The performance improvements were just as good as when I did this same upgrade for Lenovo laptop in the family ...

Customize Authentication Header in SwaggerUI using Swashbuckle

Swagger has quickly established itself as an important tool for building Web API’s for any platform. Swagger enables interactive documentation and client SDK generation/discoverability. One of the most ...

Thank you Chrome for the Task Manager

I’ve been trying to see if I have memory leaks in my web application. Windows task explorer is helpful, but if you’re like me and have a lot of chrome extensions running, it is difficult to find the right ...

How to Access Data from a SharePoint List Based on a Custom View

The CData ADO.NET Providers for SharePoint you to integrate live SharePoint data with other applications. For example, Visual Studio provides built-in support for ADO.NET data sources. This article shows ...

Connect to Nonstandard OData Services

The CData ADO.NET Provider for OData enables you to expose Web services as a fully managed ADO.NET data source. It allows you to access almost any OData service from native ADO.NET tools. You can follow ...

Get a list of all columns that participate in Foreign Key relationships

The following query returns all the column information for columns in the specified table that participate in a FK relationship. You can modify the query to return PK information by changing the constriant_type ...