Moq – Return a Parameter

Moq provides an additional overload for the Returns method that takes a lambda expression with the same parameters as the method signature. When this overload is used, Moq will inject the parameters passed ...

.Single() vs. .SingleOrDefault()

The goal of both the Single and SingleOrDefault methods is the same: get one element in the collection that matches the provided predicate. The difference between the two lies in their behavior when no ...

.Any() vs. .Count() > 0

The Any method is an expression that will check the collection that was called on to see if there are “any” elements matching the given criteria. Criteria can be provided as a predicate (function/lambda ...

Test Initialize vs. Class Initialize

One common oversight we have encountered while working with developers is the mix up of the [TestInitialize] and [ClassInitialize] Attributes. When using these methods, be conscience of their differences. ...

SCCM2012 R2 – How to schedule collection refresh interval using PowerShell

There was an open subject after my first post about scripting ConfigMgr. In the meantime I've migrated from SCCM 2012 SP1 to R2, so I am really not sure whether this commandlet works for legacy versions. ...

JQuery Zone Tabs Web Part

I was looking at codeplex and saw some tabbed web parts and a zone tab web part. One was really good except it had display issues and the documentation was weak! The issue of course is that a zone tabs ...

Media Type Formatter Exception

Have you seen this error message when making a call to a Web API Service Endpoint? No MediaTypeFormatter is available to read an object of type ‘' from content with media type 'text/html'. Unfortunately ...

APress Deal of the Day 17/Nov/2013 - TypeScript Revealed

Today's $10 deal of the day offer from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is TypeScript Revealed TypeScript Revealed is a quick 100-page guide to Microsoft’s “JavaScript for application-scale ...

Win a Free Copy of Packt's HTML5 Web Application Development By Example written by J.M. Gustafson!!

We are pleased to announce that we are organizing a giveaway especially for you. All you need to do is just comment below the post and win a free copy of HTML5 Web Application Development By Example. Two ...

RabbitMQ for .net Developers Part 1

Ive just completed a training course with Pluralsight for RabbitMQ for .net developers.Part 1 of this course will be a gentlish introduction to rabbitmq from the perspective of a .net developer. It will ...

Stop Visual Studio Crashing when loading solution (sln) file

Microsoft Visual Studio sometimes crashes when the .sln solution file gets out of sync with the hidden .suo file. The .suo file stores information such as the active project and is automatically created ...

Using IDisposable to scope dangerous behaviour

Sometimes you need to switch on behaviour in your code for short period that you want to ensure gets switched back off again afterwards. I had this recently with an app we were performance tuning. We found ...

APress Deal of the Day 15/Nov/2013 - .Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 Databases

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Microsoft Press Free E-Book - Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Press are offering a free E-Book at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mic... - Introducing Windows Server ...

Microsoft Press Free E-book .NET Technology Guide for Business Applications

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De-Duping Files With Powershell

I often have to do little one-off tasks that could be manually, but almost always are better done with a small utility application or script. I don’t have a very strong scripting background, so I’ve been ...

Recently Used Files And The Windows Filesystem Cache

I constantly try out new and old tools to check out if they can be useful in my daily work. Did you ever wonder where Windows does put the file contents of your just read 200MB file in memory and why reading ...

Microsoft Press Free ebook: Introducing Windows 8.1 for IT Professionals

At http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mic... Microsoft Press are offering a free E-Book about Windows 8.1 - Enjoy ...

Automated Build & Azure Service Bus

Recently with a little advice from Paolo who created the Windows Azure Service Bus Explorer tool ive worked to create a few tasks which will help us to do a little automation around the use of Windows ...

LINQ to Twitter Runs Xamarin.Android

Yesterday, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2013 (VS2013), their newest version of their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Along with this launch was several announcements that included a partnership ...

Visual Studio 2013 Launch Thoughts

Every new version of Visual Studio adds new features that make it easier to build apps in a maintainable way with best practices. Yesterday we got to see the latest enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 during ...

No tracking data in the BizTalk Admin Console : no items to show in this view

After syspreping a new BizTalk 2013 Box, I got into a tracking issue: when querying for tracked service instances or tracked message events, I got the frustrating message: “There are no items to show in ...

APress Deal of the Day 14/Nov/2013 - Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C#

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How to install nuget package manually :)

When you install a nuget package in your project then Visual studio cached it for you for future purpose. If you live offline few time you can add the this cache directory as your nuget source. For see ...

Responsive Inline Elements with Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter Boostrap is a responsive css platform created by some dudes affiliated with Twitter and since supported and maintained by an open source following. I absolutely love the new version of this css ...

How to Get Vine App for Windows Phone in Canada

[UPDATE] – It looks like the Vine app is generally available in the Canadian app store so you won’t need to go through the steps below. However, this method may be valid for other applications not available ...

Remote Graphics Diagnostics with Windows RT 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013

This blog post is a brief follow up to my What’s New in Graphics and Game Development in Visual Studio 2013 post on the MVP Award blog. While writing that post I was testing out various features to try ...

SCCM2012 R2 – How to integrate MDT with SCCM

There are two maybe not competitive but parallel products: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and System Center Configuration manager. Few years ago I was wondering why they are separate, I why I cannot share ...

Google Maps keeps displaying in Spanish

In Chrome I use Google Maps as a search provider. That way I can just type maps for the URL address, hit a couple of tab keys, and enter the maps address and have the page rendered with my map. Now periodically ...

Update to Where’s My Graphic Equalizer in Windows Media Player – now covers Windows 8

Have you wondered where the graphics equaliser in the Windows 8 version of Windows Media Player has moved? It’s certainly not on the menu option you’d think it is …. well, I’ve updated my Windows 7 post ...

Html.ValidationSummary and Multiple Forms

The Html.ValidationSummary helper writes a div with a list of general errors added to the model state while a request is being serviced. There is generally one form per view or partial view, I think, so ...

Chester Devs Presentation and source code – ‘Event Store - an introduction to a DSD for event sourcing and notifications’

Thank you everyone at Chester Devs Thanks to Fran Hoey and all the people from Chester Devs. It was a hard drive up and back but the enthusiasm of the audience, with some great questions does make it worthwhile. ...

JavaScript JSON Error While Tabbing in ASP.NET MVC

I sometimes don’t care about validation for a specific control. The RememberMe control in the login form, for example, really doesn’t need validation, so I forget to include the Html.ValidationMessageFor ...

Styling ASP.NET MVC Error Messages

Off the cuff, it may look like you’re stuck with the presentation of your error messages (model errors) in ASP.NET MVC. That’s not the case, though. You actually have quite a number of options with regard ...

BizTalk – Routing failure on Delivery Notifications (BizTalk 2006 R2 to 2013)

This is a detailed explanation of a something I posted a few month ago on stackoverflow, concerning a weird behavior (a bug, in my opinion? I'd be happy to to read your opinions) of the delivery notifications ...

Why would you dual-run an app on Azure and AWS?

I had this question from a viewer of my Pluralsight course, Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS, and thought I’d publish the response. So why would you dual-run your cloud app by hosting ...

APress Deal of the Day 11/Nov/2013 - .Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development

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Access denied in Sublime text 3

In sublime text 3 if you are unable to save your file then try this trick. open Settings > user and paste "atomic_save": false Now tried to save the file. It will working from now ...

html5test.com Score in November 2013

Firefox 28 Night 64bit Chrome 33 Canary Windows 7 based IE11 64 RTM ...

C# via Java: Introduction

So, I've recently changed jobs. Rather than working in .NET land, I've migrated over to Java land. But never fear! I'll continue to peer under the covers of .NET, but my next series will use my new experience ...

More Stuff less Fluff

YAGNI – "You Aren't Going To Need It". This is an acronym commonly used in software development to remind developers to only write what they need. This acronym exists because software developers have gotten ...

MVC5 will be part of Visual studio 2012 update 4.

Update 4 for visual studio 2012 will bring Razor 3 and MVC 5 support within VS12.

How To: Spell Check InfoPath web form in SharePoint 2010

This is a sequel to my 2011 post about How To: Spell Check InfoPath Web Form in SharePoint. This time I will share how I managed to achieve Spell Checking in SharePoint 2010. This time round, we have changed ...

Cloud Adoption Challenges

While cloud computing makes sense for most organizations and countless projects, I have seen customers significantly struggle with cloud adoption challenges. This blog post is not an attempt to provide ...

APress Deal of the Day 7/Nov/2013 - Pro Team Foundation Service

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Team Foundation Service "Pro Team Foundation Service gives you a jump start into Microsoft’s cloud-based ALM platform, ...

Different Not Automatically Implies Better

Recently I was digging deeper why some WCF hosted workflow application did consume quite a lot of memory although it did basically only load a xaml workflow. The first tool of choice is Process Explorer ...

New .Net Authentication in 4.5.1

There has been a lot of traffic on my post about Simple Membership that came with the File new Project MVC 4 in 2012. I was reading the release notes for Visual Studio 2013 and .Net 4.5.1 and it mentioned ...

Free E-Book - Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012

At http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Microsoft Press are offering the free e-Book, Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012. "As more software projects adopt a continuous ...