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Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript 0 0 0 Persisting settings without using Options dialog in Visual Studio Utkarsh Shigihalli, November 2, 2013 Shell Visual Studio Extensibility VSX In one of my previous blog post we have seen persisting settings using Visual Studio's options dialog. Visual Studio options has many advantages in automatically persisting user options for you. However, ... Persisting settings without using Options dialog in Visual Studio 0 0 0 Shell Visual Studio Extensibility VSX Free SharePoint 2013 Ebooks Patrick.O. Ige, November 1, 2013 SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2013 I came across these very good free sharepoint 2013 ebooks.Enjoy Free SharePoint 2013 Ebooks 0 0 1 SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2013 Visual studio Real Dark mode (2010,2012,2013) Anirudha, November 2, 2013 When Visual studio 2010 released back in 3 year ago I soon show a demo to some people that how Dark mode of Visual studio will be great idea. 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How to fix an annoying ReSharper – NuGet error 0 0 0 Visual Studio Visual Studio 4th Edition Released! Ed Crookshanks, October 30, 2013 book IT Education practical software design patterns IT I've finally released the fourth edition of "Practical Software Development Techniques" for general purchase. It's available on Amazon under ISBN 978-1492334293, and directly from CreateSpace at https://www.createspace.com... ... 4th Edition Released! 0 0 0 book IT Education practical software design patterns IT WPF-MVVM-Real-Time-Trading-Application Vlad Lyandres, October 30, 2013 programming WPF MVVM trading real-time I just wish I'd seen this article 4 years ago when I started on my first WPF application. On the other hand .NET 4.0 was not available to me back then and half of the frameworks discussed there did not ... 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Point to Taken Care while Microsoft SQL Patching Testing in Production 1 0 0 BizTalk Testing How to fix a Silverlight download progress indicator that jumps from 0% to 100% JaydPage, October 29, 2013 silverlight progress bar splash screen After moving our silverlight application to a new server I came across an problem whereby the download progress indicator on the splash screen was stuck on 0% until the file had completely downloaded.After ... How to fix a Silverlight download progress indicator that jumps from 0% to 100% 0 0 0 silverlight progress bar splash screen Getting Requirements Right Tim Murphy, October 28, 2013 PSC Design I had a meeting with a stakeholder who stated “I bet you wish I wasn’t in these meetings”. She said this because she kept changing what we thought the end product should look like. My reply was that it ... Getting Requirements Right 0 0 1 PSC Design Learn to Take a Punch, Learn to Counter, Keep Moving Forward D'Arcy Lussier, October 28, 2013 During a boxing workout a few months ago our trainer had us do something called “breadbaskets”. That’s where you hold your arms up and a partner punches you in your midsection – your breadbasket. I put ... Learn to Take a Punch, Learn to Counter, Keep Moving Forward 0 0 1 MaxTotalSizeInBytes - Blind spots in Usage file and Web Analytics Reports Gino Abraham, October 28, 2013 Sharepoint 2010 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sha... In my previous post (Troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics), I referenced ... MaxTotalSizeInBytes - Blind spots in Usage file and Web Analytics Reports 0 0 0 Sharepoint 2010 Building Publishing Pages in Code David Jacobus, October 27, 2013 SharePoint One of the Mantras we developers try to follow: Ensure that the solution package we deliver to the client is complete. 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Indian government department have more unsecure website then others. 1 0 0 Good News Michael Stephenson, October 25, 2013 A while back i asked people to vote for charlie for that mountain warehouse charity thing and apparently he won it and will get £5000 towards helping him to learn to walkhttp://votecharlie.co.u... ... Good News 0 0 0 What Is A Software Architect’s Job Today? Tim Murphy, October 25, 2013 Architecture PSC It was 2001 when a project manager first put my job title as architect on a statement of work. A lot has changed over the last twelve years. The concepts around what an architect is has evolved. In the ... What Is A Software Architect’s Job Today? 0 0 0 Architecture PSC IE 11 Developer Tools - changing console target to a different frameset or iframe vladimirl, October 25, 2013 IE11 Developer Tools JavaScript Debugging To change current console iframe/frameset type this into console command line where "contentIFrame" in the iframe/frameset name (there should not be quotes around the iframe name):console.cd(contentIFr... ... IE 11 Developer Tools - changing console target to a different frameset or iframe 0 0 0 IE11 Developer Tools JavaScript Debugging What's new in Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013 Utkarsh Shigihalli, October 26, 2013 Visual Studio Extensibility VSX .NET Download: http://visualstudiogallery.... Date Version Changes 11 Jan 2014 v1.2.6 New Features: Trends – See what is hot topic in your chat stream, helps ... What's new in Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013 0 0 0 Visual Studio Extensibility VSX .NET If not now, then when? Chris Gardner, October 25, 2013 Site The time has been flying by this year. It seems like only yesterday that I mentioned the gorillagator, a simple construct of confusion to try to draw attention to my message. In reality, that message was ... If not now, then when? 0 0 0 Site Using the Data Form Web Part (SharePoint 2010) Site Agnostically! David Jacobus, October 24, 2013 As a Developer whom has worked closely with web designers (Power users) in a SharePoint environment, I have come across the issue of making the Data Form Web Part reusable across the site collection! In ... Using the Data Form Web Part (SharePoint 2010) Site Agnostically! 0 0 0 Why I switch from Asana.com Anirudha, October 24, 2013 I used Asana.com from 1-2 years. have nice experience to use it. it’s not so easy. When I started using it it’s make many confusion. Now I switch from it. When I first time see I really didn’t understand ... Why I switch from Asana.com 1 0 0 Resources for the “What’s New in VS 2013” Presentation John Alexander, October 24, 2013 Thanks for attending the “What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 (and TFS too) presentation. As promised, here are some links! Note: if you didn’t attend, its ok. This is for you, too. The bits themselves. This ... Resources for the “What’s New in VS 2013” Presentation 0 0 2 O'Reilly 50& off offer on CSS3 books to 05:00 PT on Oct/28 TATWORTH, October 21, 2013 At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering 50% off a number of e-books on mastering CSS3 ... O'Reilly 50& off offer on CSS3 books to 05:00 PT on Oct/28 0 0 0 Collection Optimizations Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net collections list arrays dictionary Array Vs. ListDevelopers use arrays when their collection has a fixed length, and lists when they do notIt is always more efficient to use arrays over lists whenever possible.Underneath the hood most collections ... Collection Optimizations 0 0 0 .net collections list arrays dictionary String Optimizations Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net performance string stringBuilder STRING ITERATIONC# allows the characters of a string to be iterated by using a “foreach” or a simple index access within a traditional “for”In this specific case, it is much more efficient to use a traditional ... String Optimizations 0 0 0 .net performance string stringBuilder Performance Gains Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net performance Using the “static” keyword Static classes can only contain static members and cannot be instantiated. So using the static keyword will make your code a bit faster since no object creation is involved.Static ... Performance Gains 0 0 0 .net performance Efficiency vs. Readability Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net programming Maintainable SolutionEfficient Solutionvoid swap(ref int x, ref int y) { int temp = x; x= y; y = temp;}void swap(ref int x, ref int y) { x = x ^ y; //Bit-wise XOR y = y ^ x; //Bit-wise XOR x = x ^ y; //Bit-wise ... Efficiency vs. Readability 0 0 0 .net programming Google notification is crap Anirudha, October 21, 2013 Today I activated Google notification and it’s start showing me post from Google plus. Now I disable it but it’s not worked. Disabling it from Google account doesn’t work Still show me a lot of notification. ... Google notification is crap 1 0 0 Unit Testing Abstract Class and Protected Methods Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net unit testing protected methods abstract class Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Unit Testing Protected Methods You are responsible for unit testing your Protected methods just like the Public ones. The suggested ... Unit Testing Abstract Class and Protected Methods 0 0 0 .net unit testing protected methods abstract class APress Deal of the Day 20/Oct/2013 - Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition TATWORTH, October 20, 2013 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 ... APress Deal of the Day 20/Oct/2013 - Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition 0 0 0 How to obtain Visual Studio 2013 for offline installation Waclaw Chrabaszcz, October 20, 2013 Sometimes you have to work in isolated environments, just to not affect production boxes by mistake. So, how can I install Visual Studio 2013 within IP island ? Download vs_ultimate.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/vi... ... How to obtain Visual Studio 2013 for offline installation 0 0 0 Upgrading Windows 8 boot to VHD to Windows 8.1–Step by step guide Liam Westley, October 19, 2013 Windows 8 General Rants Software Virtualisation UPDATE : I believe (I have not tested this scenario yet) you can use your existing Windows 8 partition to create a recovery USB drive that can be used to do the repair without the ISO, see http://howto.cnet.com/8301-... ... 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App-V 5.0 and Citrix Integration Overview Waclaw Chrabaszcz, November 4, 2013 XenDesktop XenApp http://download.microsoft.c... ... App-V 5.0 and Citrix Integration Overview 0 0 0 XenDesktop XenApp
Why I don’t recommanded Mysql.net connector anymore ? Anirudha, November 4, 2013 UPDATED 6 JANUARY 2014 If you are installing .net connector in your PC then it’s registered the assembly in machine.config. Now if you want to run a single asp.net website you need to have Mysql.Data dll ... Why I don’t recommanded Mysql.net connector anymore ? 1 0 2
How to Downgrade Razor 3 and fix the issue that CSHTML not work in VS10,12 ? Anirudha, November 4, 2013 Few days ago I migrate a project to MVC 4 and suddenly I have seen that MVC project’s cshtml file is no longer working. The problem happen because my project is now based on Razor 3 RC and VS12 doesn’t ... How to Downgrade Razor 3 and fix the issue that CSHTML not work in VS10,12 ? 1 0 0
Register the "OneCode & OneScript" session at MVP Global Summit November 2013 Jialiang, November 4, 2013 The yearly Microsoft MVP Global Summit will lift its curtain on Nov 17th in Bellevue, WA. This year, we have prepared three new apps and many new samples in response to MVPs’ feedbacks last year. If you ... Register the "OneCode & OneScript" session at MVP Global Summit November 2013 0 0 0
Sass interface in HTML6 for upload files. Anirudha, November 4, 2013 [This post is about experiment & imagination] From Windows XP (ever last OS I tried) I have seen a feature that is about send file to pen drive and make shortcut on Desktop. In XP, Win7 (Win8 have ... Sass interface in HTML6 for upload files. 1 0 0
Back in Town and Ready for New Beginnings MOSSLover, November 3, 2013 I just took a super long trip that lasted from September 27th until today. I flew into St. Louis and then rented a car and drove over 12,000 miles. I just dropped the rental off last night. I went to a ... Back in Town and Ready for New Beginnings 0 0 2
Where's My Windows Azure Subscriptions Shaun, November 3, 2013 Windows Azure Yesterday when I opened Windows Azure manage portal I found some resources were missed. I checked the website for those missed cloud service and they are still live. Then I checked my billing history but ... Where's My Windows Azure Subscriptions 0 0 0 Windows Azure
Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript TATWORTH, November 3, 2013 At http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mic... there is a free E-Book: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, ... Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript 0 0 0
Persisting settings without using Options dialog in Visual Studio Utkarsh Shigihalli, November 2, 2013 Shell Visual Studio Extensibility VSX In one of my previous blog post we have seen persisting settings using Visual Studio's options dialog. Visual Studio options has many advantages in automatically persisting user options for you. However, ... Persisting settings without using Options dialog in Visual Studio 0 0 0 Shell Visual Studio Extensibility VSX
Free SharePoint 2013 Ebooks Patrick.O. Ige, November 1, 2013 SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2013 I came across these very good free sharepoint 2013 ebooks.Enjoy Free SharePoint 2013 Ebooks 0 0 1 SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2013
Visual studio Real Dark mode (2010,2012,2013) Anirudha, November 2, 2013 When Visual studio 2010 released back in 3 year ago I soon show a demo to some people that how Dark mode of Visual studio will be great idea. Soon we got some theme plugin which make us able to modify ... Visual studio Real Dark mode (2010,2012,2013) 1 0 0
Remote Debug Windows Azure Cloud Service Shaun, November 2, 2013 Windows Azure On the 22nd of October Microsoft Announced the new Windows Azure SDK 2.2. It introduced a lot of cool features but one of it shocked most, which is the remote debug support for Windows Azure Cloud Service ... Remote Debug Windows Azure Cloud Service 0 0 0 Windows Azure
Extending Blend for Visual Studio 2013 Chris Skardon, November 1, 2013 .NET C# WPF So, I got a comment yesterday on my post about Extending Blend 4 and Blend for Visual Studio 2012 asking if I knew how to get it working for Blend for Visual Studio 2013.. My initial thoughts were, just ... Extending Blend for Visual Studio 2013 0 0 2 .NET C# WPF
Skip CodedUI Tests, use Selenium for Web Automation Aligned, October 31, 2013 UI Automated Testing Selenium I recently joined a team that was using Agile Methodologies to create a new product. They have a working beta product after 10 or so 2 week sprints and already had UI’s that had changed several times as ... Skip CodedUI Tests, use Selenium for Web Automation 0 0 1 UI Automated Testing Selenium
Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS Elton Stoneman, October 31, 2013 AWS Pluralsight Azure My latest Pluralsight course, Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS has just been published! I’d planned to do a course on dual-running a messaging-based solution in Azure and AWS for ... Implementing the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS 0 0 5 AWS Pluralsight Azure
Windows Azure Horror Story: The Phantom App that Ate my Data jasont, October 31, 2013 azure DevOps Application Monitoring I’ve posted in the past about how my company, Stackify, makes some great tools that enhance the Windows Azure experience. By just using the Azure Management Portal, you don’t get a lot of insight into ... Windows Azure Horror Story: The Phantom App that Ate my Data 0 0 0 azure DevOps Application Monitoring
jQuery 2.0 drops support for legacy IE (IE6, IE7, IE8) Renso, October 31, 2013 jQuery jQuery upgrades may not be as reverse compatible as you may think. Starting from version 2 of jQuery, IE6, IE7 and yes also IE8 will no longer be supported. These are now considered legacy browsers. You ... jQuery 2.0 drops support for legacy IE (IE6, IE7, IE8) 0 0 2 jQuery
Investing in Servers by Intel Koushal Deshpande, October 31, 2013 A nice article reference from Intel, refer here. Referees to cloud as well. Choose correctly what you need. 1 Do determine right server for your company. There is no use getting a server that has redundant ... Investing in Servers by Intel 0 0 0
How to get Firefox profile location in C# Anirudha, October 31, 2013 https://gist.github.com/anirugu/7243142 How to get Firefox profile location in C# 1 0 0
Simple Excel Export with EPPlus Jesse Taber, October 30, 2013 Anyone I’ve ever met who works with an application that sits in front of a lot of data loves it when they can get that data exported to an Excel file for them to mess around with offline. As both developer ... Simple Excel Export with EPPlus 0 0 1
How to fix an annoying ReSharper – NuGet error terje, October 30, 2013 Visual Studio Visual Studio Using NuGet in Visual Studio together with ReSharper may sometimes lead you into an annoying error where ReSharper indicates your code has an error, but the solution builds just fine. This may happen if ... How to fix an annoying ReSharper – NuGet error 0 0 0 Visual Studio Visual Studio
4th Edition Released! Ed Crookshanks, October 30, 2013 book IT Education practical software design patterns IT I've finally released the fourth edition of "Practical Software Development Techniques" for general purchase. It's available on Amazon under ISBN 978-1492334293, and directly from CreateSpace at https://www.createspace.com... ... 4th Edition Released! 0 0 0 book IT Education practical software design patterns IT
WPF-MVVM-Real-Time-Trading-Application Vlad Lyandres, October 30, 2013 programming WPF MVVM trading real-time I just wish I'd seen this article 4 years ago when I started on my first WPF application. On the other hand .NET 4.0 was not available to me back then and half of the frameworks discussed there did not ... WPF-MVVM-Real-Time-Trading-Application 0 0 0 programming WPF MVVM trading real-time
ImageResizer - AzureReader2 with Azure SDK 2.2 Chris Skardon, October 29, 2013 ImageResizer Azure C# .NET So Azure SDK 2.2 came out recently, which means I can open my azure projects in VS 2013 (yay), so I decided to do an upgrade of my MVC4 project to MVC5, I followed this link on how to do the upgrade, and ... ImageResizer - AzureReader2 with Azure SDK 2.2 0 0 0 ImageResizer Azure C# .NET
Point to Taken Care while Microsoft SQL Patching Testing in Production AbhishekLohani, October 29, 2013 BizTalk Testing Point to Taken Care while Microsoft SQL Patching Testing in Production It very critical testing like Paching testing 1. Build the Test Environment Parrel to Production Environment i.e Staging Environment2 ... Point to Taken Care while Microsoft SQL Patching Testing in Production 1 0 0 BizTalk Testing
How to fix a Silverlight download progress indicator that jumps from 0% to 100% JaydPage, October 29, 2013 silverlight progress bar splash screen After moving our silverlight application to a new server I came across an problem whereby the download progress indicator on the splash screen was stuck on 0% until the file had completely downloaded.After ... How to fix a Silverlight download progress indicator that jumps from 0% to 100% 0 0 0 silverlight progress bar splash screen
Getting Requirements Right Tim Murphy, October 28, 2013 PSC Design I had a meeting with a stakeholder who stated “I bet you wish I wasn’t in these meetings”. She said this because she kept changing what we thought the end product should look like. My reply was that it ... Getting Requirements Right 0 0 1 PSC Design
Learn to Take a Punch, Learn to Counter, Keep Moving Forward D'Arcy Lussier, October 28, 2013 During a boxing workout a few months ago our trainer had us do something called “breadbaskets”. That’s where you hold your arms up and a partner punches you in your midsection – your breadbasket. I put ... Learn to Take a Punch, Learn to Counter, Keep Moving Forward 0 0 1
MaxTotalSizeInBytes - Blind spots in Usage file and Web Analytics Reports Gino Abraham, October 28, 2013 Sharepoint 2010 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sha... In my previous post (Troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics), I referenced ... MaxTotalSizeInBytes - Blind spots in Usage file and Web Analytics Reports 0 0 0 Sharepoint 2010
Building Publishing Pages in Code David Jacobus, October 27, 2013 SharePoint One of the Mantras we developers try to follow: Ensure that the solution package we deliver to the client is complete. We build Web Parts, Master Pages, Images, CSS files and other artifacts that we push ... Building Publishing Pages in Code 0 0 0 SharePoint
Html Element search in Firebug 13 ! Anirudha, October 26, 2013 Firebug 13 are currently in development process. In firebug 13 you can search the element the way we do in CSS. This is much better and save time. Now just put your selector in search bar and now you are ... Html Element search in Firebug 13 ! 1 0 0
Indian government department have more unsecure website then others. Anirudha, October 26, 2013 One of my friend share his college experience with me. He is not related with computer science. One day he told me that Ankia Fadia come to their college. In front of many student he show how to hack BSNL ... Indian government department have more unsecure website then others. 1 0 0
Good News Michael Stephenson, October 25, 2013 A while back i asked people to vote for charlie for that mountain warehouse charity thing and apparently he won it and will get £5000 towards helping him to learn to walkhttp://votecharlie.co.u... ... Good News 0 0 0
What Is A Software Architect’s Job Today? Tim Murphy, October 25, 2013 Architecture PSC It was 2001 when a project manager first put my job title as architect on a statement of work. A lot has changed over the last twelve years. The concepts around what an architect is has evolved. In the ... What Is A Software Architect’s Job Today? 0 0 0 Architecture PSC
IE 11 Developer Tools - changing console target to a different frameset or iframe vladimirl, October 25, 2013 IE11 Developer Tools JavaScript Debugging To change current console iframe/frameset type this into console command line where "contentIFrame" in the iframe/frameset name (there should not be quotes around the iframe name):console.cd(contentIFr... ... IE 11 Developer Tools - changing console target to a different frameset or iframe 0 0 0 IE11 Developer Tools JavaScript Debugging
What's new in Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013 Utkarsh Shigihalli, October 26, 2013 Visual Studio Extensibility VSX .NET Download: http://visualstudiogallery.... Date Version Changes 11 Jan 2014 v1.2.6 New Features: Trends – See what is hot topic in your chat stream, helps ... What's new in Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013 0 0 0 Visual Studio Extensibility VSX .NET
If not now, then when? Chris Gardner, October 25, 2013 Site The time has been flying by this year. It seems like only yesterday that I mentioned the gorillagator, a simple construct of confusion to try to draw attention to my message. In reality, that message was ... If not now, then when? 0 0 0 Site
Using the Data Form Web Part (SharePoint 2010) Site Agnostically! David Jacobus, October 24, 2013 As a Developer whom has worked closely with web designers (Power users) in a SharePoint environment, I have come across the issue of making the Data Form Web Part reusable across the site collection! In ... Using the Data Form Web Part (SharePoint 2010) Site Agnostically! 0 0 0
Why I switch from Asana.com Anirudha, October 24, 2013 I used Asana.com from 1-2 years. have nice experience to use it. it’s not so easy. When I started using it it’s make many confusion. Now I switch from it. When I first time see I really didn’t understand ... Why I switch from Asana.com 1 0 0
Resources for the “What’s New in VS 2013” Presentation John Alexander, October 24, 2013 Thanks for attending the “What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 (and TFS too) presentation. As promised, here are some links! Note: if you didn’t attend, its ok. This is for you, too. The bits themselves. This ... Resources for the “What’s New in VS 2013” Presentation 0 0 2
O'Reilly 50& off offer on CSS3 books to 05:00 PT on Oct/28 TATWORTH, October 21, 2013 At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering 50% off a number of e-books on mastering CSS3 ... O'Reilly 50& off offer on CSS3 books to 05:00 PT on Oct/28 0 0 0
Collection Optimizations Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net collections list arrays dictionary Array Vs. ListDevelopers use arrays when their collection has a fixed length, and lists when they do notIt is always more efficient to use arrays over lists whenever possible.Underneath the hood most collections ... Collection Optimizations 0 0 0 .net collections list arrays dictionary
String Optimizations Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net performance string stringBuilder STRING ITERATIONC# allows the characters of a string to be iterated by using a “foreach” or a simple index access within a traditional “for”In this specific case, it is much more efficient to use a traditional ... String Optimizations 0 0 0 .net performance string stringBuilder
Performance Gains Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net performance Using the “static” keyword Static classes can only contain static members and cannot be instantiated. So using the static keyword will make your code a bit faster since no object creation is involved.Static ... Performance Gains 0 0 0 .net performance
Efficiency vs. Readability Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net programming Maintainable SolutionEfficient Solutionvoid swap(ref int x, ref int y) { int temp = x; x= y; y = temp;}void swap(ref int x, ref int y) { x = x ^ y; //Bit-wise XOR y = y ^ x; //Bit-wise XOR x = x ^ y; //Bit-wise ... Efficiency vs. Readability 0 0 0 .net programming
Google notification is crap Anirudha, October 21, 2013 Today I activated Google notification and it’s start showing me post from Google plus. Now I disable it but it’s not worked. Disabling it from Google account doesn’t work Still show me a lot of notification. ... Google notification is crap 1 0 0
Unit Testing Abstract Class and Protected Methods Abhishek Anand, October 21, 2013 .net unit testing protected methods abstract class Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Unit Testing Protected Methods You are responsible for unit testing your Protected methods just like the Public ones. The suggested ... Unit Testing Abstract Class and Protected Methods 0 0 0 .net unit testing protected methods abstract class
APress Deal of the Day 20/Oct/2013 - Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition TATWORTH, October 20, 2013 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 ... APress Deal of the Day 20/Oct/2013 - Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition 0 0 0
How to obtain Visual Studio 2013 for offline installation Waclaw Chrabaszcz, October 20, 2013 Sometimes you have to work in isolated environments, just to not affect production boxes by mistake. So, how can I install Visual Studio 2013 within IP island ? Download vs_ultimate.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/vi... ... How to obtain Visual Studio 2013 for offline installation 0 0 0
Upgrading Windows 8 boot to VHD to Windows 8.1–Step by step guide Liam Westley, October 19, 2013 Windows 8 General Rants Software Virtualisation UPDATE : I believe (I have not tested this scenario yet) you can use your existing Windows 8 partition to create a recovery USB drive that can be used to do the repair without the ISO, see http://howto.cnet.com/8301-... ... Upgrading Windows 8 boot to VHD to Windows 8.1–Step by step guide 0 0 16 Windows 8 General Rants Software Virtualisation