APress Deal of the day for 23/Jan/2014 - Beginning CSS3

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning CSS3 "Beginning CSS3 shows how to create attractive and flexible web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)—the ...

Windows Azure Website Staging Feature and GitHub Integration

On 16th Jan, the "Gu" announced several features in Windows Azure in his blog, one of them is "Website Staging Support ". With this feature we can deploy our application to the staging slot of our Windows ...

Error: Unable to access jarfile d:\Databases\Neo4j

Cryptic. I’ve spent a large proportion of time on this, and straight off the bat – NO this is not the ‘windows-jarfile’ error of the old skool days. No, this is a pretty simple issue, my folder structure ...

APress Deal of the Day - 21/Jan/2014 - Pro Windows 8 Development with HTML5 and JavaScript

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Windows 8 Development with HTML5 and JavaScript. Adam Freeman is an excellent author whose books are filled with down-to-earth ...

Complex XML schemas. How to simplify?

[Sample code is here: HIPAA Schema Simplification for the BizTalk Server application]The XML Schemas are used for two main tasks: for processing XML documents (for the XML document validation and for the ...

Formatting Command Output on the TFS Build Report

The Team Foundation Server build can include command output in the report log or summary by using the stdOutput and errOutput variables in the WriteBuildMessage or WriteCustomSummaryInformation activities. ...

I thought “Print Screen” did just that

Just had an Adobe update install unwanted applications - Google Chrome and a browser toolbar. Irritating, I know, especially as it means I missed the sneakily hidden opt-out tick box. This just reinforces ...

MvcReportViewer v.0.3.0 is available!

Thank you everybody for useful feedback, suggestions, bug ad bug fixes. Today I have published the latest changes on NuGet. Added Method(FormMethod) method to Fluent interface to specify the way to send ...

Project Spark Beta Impressions

Many kids are addicted to Minecraft. It is a game that allows you to build the environment you play in and even create new content if you are willing to learn how to make mods. Project Spark is an offering ...

Troubleshooting "Access is denied" when trying to run Enable-PSRemoting

I recently had to trouble shoot why I was getting an "Access denied error" when trying to enable PSRemoting on hosted version of Windows 2008 R2.The error received looked something like:WinRM Quick Configuration ...

Active Directory – How to promote Server 2012 R2 to DC and even more using PowerShell magic

It will be quick post, I have limited access to the Internet. Today we are going to promote Windows 2012 to Domain controller and move some unique roles to it. It can be handy in DR scenario, or when we ...

Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio – Part 1

In the last blog post, we went through the steps to get registered for Windows Phone App Studio. Now we can move on, and talk about how to create an app without having to enter a single line of code! Login ...

An Introduction to SAFe and Why You Really Should Care

The Scaled Agile Framework, pronounced “SAFe”, is a framework for implementing lean and agile methods at scale. It was pioneered by Dean Leffingwell and fully described in his book Agile Software Requirements. ...

Awarded Best Interview on the RussCam Episode 100 – Best of Awards!!!!

Wow so honored! Awarded Best Interview on the Awarded Best Interview on the Best Florida MVP Interview: Nikita Polyakov, Max Trinidad, and Brandon Kelly – MVP Summit 2012Blog post and full video, featuring ...

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection aren't brand new, but they date back to the late 80s. Anyway, these concepts are quite popular right now due to the close relation which mantains with Frameworks ...

Goals for 2013 Retrospective

This is my fourth year of setting goals publicly on my blog (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) and going through a retrospective at the end of the year (2010, 2011, 2012). So without further ado here is my recap ...

Page Weight: 10 Quick and Easy Fixes

It should be obvious but we often forget the need to minimise page weight when working on responsive designs. Page weight has increased over the years to an unbelievable average of 1.7MB. This takes forever ...

Doing Data Science - Straight Talk from the Frontline by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt Book Review

It is the most difficult to digest and comprehend book to date out of what I have recently read. It is even fun though at the same time. I guess I need to blame myself because this book unexpectedly turned ...

Starting and stopping Application Pool using Powershell

Hi,Providing sample powershell script to start and stop Application Pool of an application hosted in IIS.* Save the below script in a file called as IISCmds.ps1#Start To Start Application Pool Function ...

Creating a Build Definition using the TFS 2013 API

Almost four years ago I wrote a post on how to create a build definition programmatically using the TFS 2010 API. The code is partyl still valid, but since a lot of the information in a build definition ...

Introduction To Rowversion

SQL Server has a built-in data type that automatically marks changes to rows. This data type is “rowversion”. Formerly this data type was named “timestamp”, and Microsoft recommends you start using the ...

Calling MAPs Dynamically

BizTalk's strength is in message transformation without hassle using maps. You dont have to bother about actual transformation done in xsl and can just start linking up elements from source and destinations ...

This option is not supported on this version of the operating system. Administrators should instead install/uninstall ASP.NET 4.5 with IIS8 using the "Turn Windows Features On/Off" dialog

I was trying yo setup MVC and VS 2012 on my Windows 8 PC.But when i ran a sample MVC page i keep getting a blank page.So I taught i haven't registered ASP.NET 4 in IIS so i wanted to to use the aspnet_regiis.exe ...

Why Does Agile Fail – Lack Of Agile Experience

In part 1 of this series we looked at Why Agile Fails due to lack of mature Technical Practices. The 2nd really common reason I see teams fail with Agile is due to a lack of experience with *successful* ...

Are Cryptocurrencies Ready?

Are Cryptocurrencies Ready For Mainstream Use? Are we? I'm a big fan of the major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and LiteCoin (LTC). I’m not really paying any attention to the dozens of derivative ...

Making Agile Work on Large, Complex Projects

Our TFS Austin User Group hosted this presentation last month given by Mike Haze, Director of Product Management for Volusion. It was one of the best meetings we’ve had. Here’s the abstract and a link ...

How CNET.com install spyware in my PC ?

This post will be fixed soon. CNET Is one of the worst service ever. Today when I installed the software through it because that software is not available anywhere. I installed it. After the installer ...

APress Deal of the day - 14/Jan/2014 - Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition "Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition takes you through the process ...

SharePoint Saturday - Year 6: Look How Far We've Come...

This is the time of year when I look back & reflect on all the people who have risen in the ranks through SharePoint Saturday. I believe the mission was fulfilled that Michael Lotter & Susan Lennon ...

On C++ Operator Patterns

By Terje Sandstrøm and Syver Enstad This article was originally written in 2003 and used internally within our company and for clients of our company. The text is as it was at that time, and – given the ...

Simulation of mouse and keyboard on third-party applications

Simulation of a key press or key combination, or even a mouse click in your own application is relatively easy: using SendKeys method is enough to our application to receive data from the keyboard, and ...

Links from the Maximum Web Performance presentation

Performance Web Sites http://httparchive.org/ http://stevesouders.com/ http://www.webperformanceto... http://calendar.perfplanet.... Can I Use web site (Navigation timing API example) http://caniuse.com/#feat=na... ...

APress Deal of the Day - 12/Jan/2014 - Pro ASP.NET MVC 4

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro ASP.NET MVC 4 "The ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides ...

SharePoint 2010 Announcements List Knockout MVVM full CRUD

I have been thinking this through since my last post on Knockout. I have always been in favor of using SharePoint for List CRUD operations instead of building CRUD into custom applications/web parts. What ...

SQL Server Compact; what gives!!

So I have many a customer using SQL Compact offline replication, you know like cool mobile apps. that just work offline (like they need to in real life). Last blog post on the Microsoft Embedded Technology ...

BizTalk: Complex decoding in data transformations

Sometimes we need to make complex decoding in the data transformations. It could happen especially in the big EDI documents as HIPAA.Let’s start with examples.In one example we need to decode a field. ...

Watch LINQ to Twitter On Glass

Glass is Google’s new wearable computer - no doubt you’ve heard about it in the news. What’s cool and new today is that you can now write Glass apps that use LINQ to Twitter. In this article, I’ll show ...

Web Crawling and Data Mining with Apache Nutch by Dr. Zakir Laliwala and Abdulbasit Shaikh, Packt Publishing Book Review

In our age of Data Explosion it becomes increasingly appealing, if not necessary, to scout the myriad of what it looks like though shrinking World Wide Web pages. If you even are not tasked with crawling ...

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools versioning problems

The Problem Our project was created in Visual Studio 2012 and now we have moved to 2013. The gated check in build kept giving me version errors, even though it built and ran fine locally and I had referenced ...

CMAP – DurandalJS Code Samples

Thanks to everyone for attending my presentation on DurandalJS. The code samples and PowerPoint from my presentation can be found here ...

APress Special Offer - Managing Risk and Information Security

At http://www.apress.com/97814... APress Open have made a free e-Book available on Managing Risk and Information Security "This ApressOpen book describes the changing risk environment and why a fresh ...

Pointer Event W3C Specification

Our team was using hammer.js for touch events, mainly the tap event, but found some limitations in how we are using it. A colleague investigated more and decided we should use the Pointer Event Specification ...

MCSD Web App Certification Changes Already Coming

Larry Kaye blogged about some upcoming changes to the MCSD Web App cert. You can read the full blog post here, but in a nutshell: Adding 70-483 Programming in C# as an option for the first exam towards ...

APress Deal of the Day - 9/Jan/2014 - ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes "ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes is a practical guide for developers creating modern web applications on the ...

Can’t Code? Build a Windows Phone 8 App Anyway!

Microsoft has provided a way for anyone - developers, hobbyists, non-techie folks, your next door neighbour - with the ability to build a Windows Phone 8 App without installing developer tools or even ...

Limiting Variables to Ease Learning

To date I’ve primarily been a “.NET developer”; which is to say that most of the code I’ve written for work or for fun has been C# or VB .NET running in a Windows environment. I’ve often wanted to work ...

SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach, Hartford SharePoint User Group, and Beyond...

Hey guys I will be at the following event and user group:SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach on Saturday, January 11th. I will be doing two sessions on Office 365. The first one at 9 am will discuss building ...

Windows SWS and WPAD Network Hangs

Many developers mainly know their application frameworks to rapidly deliver business driven applications. This is a good thing but still there are things like the OS, CPU, memory and the network which ...

MacOSX Theme (Firefox 4+) updated to 2.0.1

I write about Mac theme earlier Mac theme for Firefox on my blog. The problem is it is not updated from a long time. Today 2.0.1 version come. for people who want to try it can installed it from https://addons.mozilla.org/... ...

Using LINQ to Twitter with F#

I’m not an F# developer, but I’ve read Robert Pickering’s book, Foundations of F#/Apress, and have played around with the Try F# tutorial. It looks like a nice language and something that I might use one ...