FEATURED BREAKING CHANGE on GeeksWithBlogs for Custom Domains - IP Address Change Staff of Geeks, May 7, 2013 UPDATE 05/08/2013 - IP address of 208.67.195.49 is also affected. Hi Bloggers, I’m posting this urgent message because we've decided to move the hosting of GeeksWithBlogs to Azure. This means that any custom domain names that are currently pointing to the old IP address of 208.67.195.100 or to 208.67.195.49 will break around June 1st when we do the switchover. If you have a custom domain that points to GeeksWithBlogs, please change the DNS "A record" to point to the new Azure IP address of 168.62.30.182 as soon as possible. The GWB site is already live at this new IP address so you should continue ... Read More Share BREAKING CHANGE on GeeksWithBlogs for Custom Domains - IP Address Change 0 0 0
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MOST RECENT Why you Should be Using SQL Prompt! Nick Harrison, February 1, 2013 Code Generation SQL Tricks Red Gate You have probably seen this ad floating around the Internet. Probably see it on this very blog. If you are already familiar with this wonderful tool, the ad makes perfect sense to you. SQL Prompt is to ... Why you Should be Using SQL Prompt! 0 0 2 Code Generation SQL Tricks Red Gate A Blog Feature Vincent Maverick Durano, February 1, 2013 Vishal Ranjan invited me to have a short interview about myself. The details of the interview was featured in his blog here: Interview with Vincent Maverick Durano Technorati Tags: Community,General,Asp.NET ... A Blog Feature 0 0 0 Windows Tip: Print PDF in Windows 8 Reader Tim Robinson, January 31, 2013 Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products Learn an amazingly useful tip about Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox, Visual Studio, and any other Microsoft products every 24 hours! Offered by Scott ... Windows Tip: Print PDF in Windows 8 Reader 0 0 0 Bing Tip: Set your Flavor of Bing Homepage Images Tim Robinson, January 31, 2013 http://www.scottge.com/bing... The Bing homepage images do differ in disparate markets. You can set the flavor of Bing you’d like to see onhttp://www.bing.com/accou... ... Bing Tip: Set your Flavor of Bing Homepage Images 0 0 0 How to Update to Windows Phone 7.8 Nikita Polyakov, January 31, 2013 If you want to find out how to check/update your Windows Phone 7.x to Windows Phone 7.8 check this out: Software Update for Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 7.8 http://www.nokia.com/global... ... How to Update to Windows Phone 7.8 0 0 0 Creating an XNA GameComponent in Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, January 31, 2013 .NET C# Interfaces XNA Win8 WinRT It was unofficially announced yesterday that XNA has officially hit the end of its life. Fortunately, as mentioned in the last post, I'm working on porting everything out of XNA. However, there is stall ... Creating an XNA GameComponent in Windows Store Apps 0 0 0 .NET C# Interfaces XNA Win8 WinRT Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base Michael B. McLaughlin, January 31, 2013 C++ directx I’ve been working on this on and off for over a year now (having essentially restarted entirely in the latter half of 2012). At last it is finished. I give you a Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base. ... Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base 0 0 4 C++ directx BlackBerry 10: 5 cool new features should know before you buy! KunaalKapoor, January 31, 2013 BlackBerry BB Z10 Q10 BB launched the new BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 and it's new OS 'BlackBerry 10'. The platform will be available on both its new phones Z10 & Q10.Z10 The Z10 model features a 4.2-inch touchscreen with 356ppi ... BlackBerry 10: 5 cool new features should know before you buy! 0 0 0 BlackBerry BB Z10 Q10 Why SQL TOP may slow down your query and how to fix it Martinez, January 30, 2013 ABSTRACT This article shows that adding a TOP clause to the SQL SELECT query may greatly increase its execution time. It also shows very effective solution to fix this problem. INTRODUCTION Lately I was ... Why SQL TOP may slow down your query and how to fix it 0 0 3 MVP Summit here we come! Randy Walker, January 30, 2013 It’s always my favorite time of the year! Looking forward to bringing my wife to the largest events for Microsoft MVP Award winners. Each year is a plethora of knowledge and getting to know who the best ... MVP Summit here we come! 0 0 0 I'm back and here what I've been doing! Jenson, January 31, 2013 Spring.NET VMWare Singapore Suntec Tower 4 .NET Hey guys, Sorry that I've not been updating my blog for quite some time now, as I've been rather busy a work in my ex company. 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Cloud: The hidden cost gotcha! 0 0 2 A Day In The Life… of a Software Development Manager / Exec jasont, January 29, 2013 I’ve realized as of late that I come home nearly every day (which, quite often is the next day) and do the following: - Say something along the lines of “what a day!” -Pour a big glass of a nice rye whiskey ... A Day In The Life… of a Software Development Manager / Exec 0 0 6 Configuring FTP Over TLS In IIS With User Isolation Adam Pooler, January 29, 2013 FTP IIS TLS SSL IIS 7 IIS 8 Since this has consumed rather more of my afternoon than I had anticipated, it seems worth sharing.There don't seem to be too many articles out there on configuring FTP in IIS 7/8 with user isolation, ... Configuring FTP Over TLS In IIS With User Isolation 0 0 0 FTP IIS TLS SSL IIS 7 IIS 8 Of Psychic adapters and other mythical beasts…. BizTalk Visionary, January 29, 2013 For a number of years at Solidsoft there has been the in house joke around the existence of the ‘Psychic Adapter’ for use in BizTalk projects and more recently Azure (Cloud) based application integration ... Of Psychic adapters and other mythical beasts…. 0 0 0 Edit multiple items as ribbon button Norgean, January 29, 2013 SharePoint 2010 Html We wanted to add a button to the ribbon which lets the user select two or more items, and do simultaneous edits to selected columns. Creating ribbon buttons is eeeeeasy. Cksdev even has a built-in template ... Edit multiple items as ribbon button 0 0 0 SharePoint 2010 Html APress Deal of the Day - 29/Jan/2013 - Illustrated C# 2012 TATWORTH, January 29, 2013 Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Illustrated C# 2012"The unique, visual format of Illustrated C# 5.0 utilizes clean, simple figures and diagrams, specially ... APress Deal of the Day - 29/Jan/2013 - Illustrated C# 2012 0 0 0 TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 29, 2013 Tfs2012 TFS API Problem Definition I am about to take ownership of a TFS 2005 repository that has projects for BizTalk, SharePoint, SSIS, SSAS, different flavors of .NET, to complicate things, the customer is using different ... TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions 0 0 0 Tfs2012 TFS API deploy Internet Radio Rodney Vinyard, January 28, 2013 Internet Radio AdvantagesInternet Radio is static free, high fidelityInternet Radio can be high bandwidth, rich stereo thru your current amplifier.Virtually every "traditional, over the air" radio station ... deploy Internet Radio 0 0 0 My first Windows 8 game - Roman Empire Jacek, January 29, 2013 Windows 8 Game Roman Empire Windows Store Mobile Services Hi,Today I wanted to share a link to my first Windows 8 application - Roman Empire. 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Latest GeeksWithBlogs Release Today: Related Posts, Improved Category Tagging 0 0 2 C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest JoshReuben, January 28, 2013 Unit testing is critical for quality code – they help you: find problems early facilitate change by avoiding breakage of other functionality simplify integration via a bottom up approach document the code ... C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest 0 0 0 Why Requirement Traceability Matrix is important for any Software Development/ Maintenance project? AbhishekLohani, January 27, 2013 TFS BizTalk Testing Testing Moss Requirement Traceability matrix tells as the test coverage of test case before Going to Next phase of testing or before GO live of the software .In Software Testing Life cycle · First of all Requirement ... Why Requirement Traceability Matrix is important for any Software Development/ Maintenance project? 0 0 3 TFS BizTalk Testing Testing Moss Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet Dylan Smith, January 27, 2013 For probably over a year now I’ve been hearing lots of hype around package managers and NuGet in particular. I’ve never really “got it” – that is until last week. So what, NuGet will download the nHibernate ... Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet 0 0 0 Beware Singletons that Raise Events Jesse Taber, January 27, 2013 .NET It’s pretty well documented that one of the most common ways in which a .NET application can “leak” memory stems failing to unsubscribe from events when the subscription is no longer needed. This answer ... Beware Singletons that Raise Events 0 0 2 .NET Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products Jialiang, January 28, 2013 Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products The blog posts an amazingly useful tip about Microsoft products every 24 hours, covering Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, ... Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products 0 0 0 Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products Tim Robinson, January 27, 2013 My friend Scott Ge started his “Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products” blog. http://www.scottge.com Scott posts an amazingly useful tip about Microsoft products every 24 hours, covering Windows, Office, ... Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products 0 0 0 Getting wired with Building a Stella Amp Mike Benkovich, January 27, 2013 Technorati Tags: Hardware,Woodworking,Maker Sometimes you need to do something different, crazy, out of the usual. A couple weeks ago while I was filming some courseware for AppDev my director John Wilson ... Getting wired with Building a Stella Amp 0 0 0 Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day) Laurent Bugnion, January 27, 2013 .NET .NET 4.5 Windows Phone 8 Work Technical stuff Windows 8 Phone When you share code between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, you can use async/await to code against asynchronous APIs, which is a nice step in the right direction. However there are Windows Phone APIs that ... Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day) 0 0 4 .NET .NET 4.5 Windows Phone 8 Work Technical stuff Windows 8 Phone Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 27, 2013 Tfs2012 In this blog post I’ll show you the fix for the TF51011 exception (refer to the screen shot below), Blocked Tasks TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist. The error is caused by «'Demo\Release ... Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist 0 0 0 Tfs2012 How portableapps.com save time of people ? Anirudha, January 27, 2013 Sometime people things to get back the settings of software they used last time on another computer. Sometime installing OS means lost the Settings made in Firefox and Chrome browser. portableapps.com ... How portableapps.com save time of people ? 0 0 0 A Windows 7 looking Terminal Server Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 27, 2013 PowerShell ActiveDirectory Server 2008 XenApp Last time I posted as an old-school admin. You know what is wrong with old-schoolers ? Not old-schooled but rather outdated way of thinking. Many of us are still living in 80-thies and trying to develop ... A Windows 7 looking Terminal Server 0 0 2 PowerShell ActiveDirectory Server 2008 XenApp Creating a Keyboard Buffer in Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, January 26, 2013 .NET C# Win8 WinRT NOTE: I created a better version of this control. There are some important facts in this post that you should read first. However, check out Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps for a much improved ... Creating a Keyboard Buffer in Windows Store Apps 0 0 3 .NET C# Win8 WinRT So, you miss the Start Button in Windows 8? Enrique Lima, January 26, 2013 Windows 8 Tools Let me ask the question again, do you miss the Start button orb or the functionality? One of the things I have found with us IT folk is that we always want to have the new shiny thing, but we don't like ... So, you miss the Start Button in Windows 8? 0 0 0 Windows 8 Tools MVC Forms Styling from Twitter Bootstrap Aligned, January 25, 2013 MVC 4 I was looking at Twitter’s Bootstrap awhile back and found that their CSS, plus some validation CSS from the MVC template, and approach to forms will work nicely for my MVC project. I didn’t want to use ... MVC Forms Styling from Twitter Bootstrap 0 0 0 MVC 4 Accessing a UI control’s method using MVVM Light Messenger JuansAndZeros, January 25, 2013 MVVM Light MVVM I have been beating my head against the desk the last day and a half trying to figure out how to access a UI controls method from an MVVM View Model. I am using the DevComponents AdvGrid control and the ... Accessing a UI control’s method using MVVM Light Messenger 0 0 0 MVVM Light MVVM how document.readyState work Anirudha, January 25, 2013 in javascript we can use document.readyState to know the state of page. Some state of page is “loading” :- when page is still loading and script is executed. “interactive” :- when page is finished parsing ... how document.readyState work 0 0 0 This is not the OnKeyDown you are looking for. Chris Gardner, January 24, 2013 .NET C# Win8 WinRT I've been working on porting my sample game code to WinRT. One of the immediate things I found is that there is no direct access to the keyboard buffer. I mean, sure. WinRT is meant to work with devices ... This is not the OnKeyDown you are looking for. 0 0 0 .NET C# Win8 WinRT Model Binding using Expression Trees Jon Canning, January 24, 2013 object Bind(object requestDto, NameValueCollection formData) { var propertyGroups = formData.AllKeys.Where(x => x.Contains('.')).GroupBy(x => x.Substring(0, x.IndexOf('.'))); foreach (var group in ... Model Binding using Expression Trees 0 0 0 Why Won’t my SharePoint Project Open? MOSSLover, January 24, 2013 So I kept getting this really weird “Unable to load Visual Studio Project” basically it was the I’m missing a template error message look in the output. I eventually realize there is a dependency for the ... Why Won’t my SharePoint Project Open? 0 0 0 Google map div id must be map_canvas Aligned, January 24, 2013 JavaScript The examples from Google use <div id=”map_canvas”></div... for their element. I changed it to something more specific to my project, and the zoom controls started looking funny. I reverted and ... Google map div id must be map_canvas 0 0 0 JavaScript Setting HTML.CheckBoxFor Values in MVC 4 View from Json return using jQuery Ajax Script Bob Hardister, January 24, 2013 I’m an MVC/jQuery noobie and this one really got my goat for while. The problem was handling the bit field in SQL Server which was treated as a checkbox field in MVC. Here’s how you can set a checkbox ... Setting HTML.CheckBoxFor Values in MVC 4 View from Json return using jQuery Ajax Script 0 0 0 Getting Ready for the Microsoft MVP Summit 2013. Vincent Maverick Durano, January 24, 2013 The idea behind the Summit is to bring technology experts together in Redmond(~ well i don't consider myself as one. Interested, yes. But expert, No!) to interact closely with the Microsoft Product teams ... 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Why you Should be Using SQL Prompt! Nick Harrison, February 1, 2013 Code Generation SQL Tricks Red Gate You have probably seen this ad floating around the Internet. Probably see it on this very blog. If you are already familiar with this wonderful tool, the ad makes perfect sense to you. SQL Prompt is to ... Why you Should be Using SQL Prompt! 0 0 2 Code Generation SQL Tricks Red Gate
A Blog Feature Vincent Maverick Durano, February 1, 2013 Vishal Ranjan invited me to have a short interview about myself. The details of the interview was featured in his blog here: Interview with Vincent Maverick Durano Technorati Tags: Community,General,Asp.NET ... A Blog Feature 0 0 0
Windows Tip: Print PDF in Windows 8 Reader Tim Robinson, January 31, 2013 Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products Learn an amazingly useful tip about Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox, Visual Studio, and any other Microsoft products every 24 hours! Offered by Scott ... Windows Tip: Print PDF in Windows 8 Reader 0 0 0
Bing Tip: Set your Flavor of Bing Homepage Images Tim Robinson, January 31, 2013 http://www.scottge.com/bing... The Bing homepage images do differ in disparate markets. You can set the flavor of Bing you’d like to see onhttp://www.bing.com/accou... ... Bing Tip: Set your Flavor of Bing Homepage Images 0 0 0
How to Update to Windows Phone 7.8 Nikita Polyakov, January 31, 2013 If you want to find out how to check/update your Windows Phone 7.x to Windows Phone 7.8 check this out: Software Update for Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 7.8 http://www.nokia.com/global... ... How to Update to Windows Phone 7.8 0 0 0
Creating an XNA GameComponent in Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, January 31, 2013 .NET C# Interfaces XNA Win8 WinRT It was unofficially announced yesterday that XNA has officially hit the end of its life. Fortunately, as mentioned in the last post, I'm working on porting everything out of XNA. However, there is stall ... Creating an XNA GameComponent in Windows Store Apps 0 0 0 .NET C# Interfaces XNA Win8 WinRT
Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base Michael B. McLaughlin, January 31, 2013 C++ directx I’ve been working on this on and off for over a year now (having essentially restarted entirely in the latter half of 2012). At last it is finished. I give you a Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base. ... Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base 0 0 4 C++ directx
BlackBerry 10: 5 cool new features should know before you buy! KunaalKapoor, January 31, 2013 BlackBerry BB Z10 Q10 BB launched the new BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 and it's new OS 'BlackBerry 10'. The platform will be available on both its new phones Z10 & Q10.Z10 The Z10 model features a 4.2-inch touchscreen with 356ppi ... BlackBerry 10: 5 cool new features should know before you buy! 0 0 0 BlackBerry BB Z10 Q10
Why SQL TOP may slow down your query and how to fix it Martinez, January 30, 2013 ABSTRACT This article shows that adding a TOP clause to the SQL SELECT query may greatly increase its execution time. It also shows very effective solution to fix this problem. INTRODUCTION Lately I was ... Why SQL TOP may slow down your query and how to fix it 0 0 3
MVP Summit here we come! Randy Walker, January 30, 2013 It’s always my favorite time of the year! Looking forward to bringing my wife to the largest events for Microsoft MVP Award winners. Each year is a plethora of knowledge and getting to know who the best ... MVP Summit here we come! 0 0 0
I'm back and here what I've been doing! Jenson, January 31, 2013 Spring.NET VMWare Singapore Suntec Tower 4 .NET Hey guys, Sorry that I've not been updating my blog for quite some time now, as I've been rather busy a work in my ex company. I didn't even have time for my family, not to mention about blogging!Phew! ... I'm back and here what I've been doing! 0 0 0 Spring.NET VMWare Singapore Suntec Tower 4 .NET
TFS2012 QU2 - New Feature - Work Item Tagging Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 31, 2013 Tfs2012 ALM Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP1 as part of the TFS 2012 QU2 release. In this blog post I’ll be talking about some practical uses of ‘Work Item ... TFS2012 QU2 - New Feature - Work Item Tagging 0 0 1 Tfs2012 ALM
FAIL VODAFONE (sorry Nokia) Charles Young, January 30, 2013 I can't say I follow things that closely in the Windows Phone world, but I am aware of the upgrade to Windows phone 7.8. I've been looking forward to this for a while. The improvements in the UI look nice, ... FAIL VODAFONE (sorry Nokia) 0 0 3
Introducing AppFx.ServiceBus Michael Stephenson, February 3, 2013 AppFx.ServiceBus is a new framework we have developed based on some real world experience on projects involving Windows Azure Service Bus queues and topics. The overall aims of the project are as follows: ... Introducing AppFx.ServiceBus 0 0 0
Html5 is like pajamas; and native app is like an Armani suit subodhnpushpak, January 30, 2013 Windows Phone 7 I was doing some introspection on the work I have been doing last year and realized that I have some really strong opinion on stuff which wasn’t there a year back. These opinion are mainly influenced by ... Html5 is like pajamas; and native app is like an Armani suit 0 0 7 Windows Phone 7
Change the Maxsize and Filegrowth of a datafile and a logfile remko, January 30, 2013 If you need to alter a database file and logfile to change their maxsize and filegrowth settings, here is a small script that might help you ---------------------------... ... Change the Maxsize and Filegrowth of a datafile and a logfile 0 0 0
Microsoft Embedded Conference, the week after Valter Minute, January 29, 2013 Ecco il resoconto della splendida giornata trascorsa in quel di Napoli a parlare di sistemi embedded: http://dotnetcampania.org/b... ... Microsoft Embedded Conference, the week after 0 0 0
Cloud: The hidden cost gotcha! BizTalk Visionary, January 29, 2013 Cloud: Financial Challenge In the new world of cloud computing operations mangers and CFO’s are waking up to a new set of challenges. Having committed to cloud computing and allowed innovation to flourish ... Cloud: The hidden cost gotcha! 0 0 2
A Day In The Life… of a Software Development Manager / Exec jasont, January 29, 2013 I’ve realized as of late that I come home nearly every day (which, quite often is the next day) and do the following: - Say something along the lines of “what a day!” -Pour a big glass of a nice rye whiskey ... A Day In The Life… of a Software Development Manager / Exec 0 0 6
Configuring FTP Over TLS In IIS With User Isolation Adam Pooler, January 29, 2013 FTP IIS TLS SSL IIS 7 IIS 8 Since this has consumed rather more of my afternoon than I had anticipated, it seems worth sharing.There don't seem to be too many articles out there on configuring FTP in IIS 7/8 with user isolation, ... Configuring FTP Over TLS In IIS With User Isolation 0 0 0 FTP IIS TLS SSL IIS 7 IIS 8
Of Psychic adapters and other mythical beasts…. BizTalk Visionary, January 29, 2013 For a number of years at Solidsoft there has been the in house joke around the existence of the ‘Psychic Adapter’ for use in BizTalk projects and more recently Azure (Cloud) based application integration ... Of Psychic adapters and other mythical beasts…. 0 0 0
Edit multiple items as ribbon button Norgean, January 29, 2013 SharePoint 2010 Html We wanted to add a button to the ribbon which lets the user select two or more items, and do simultaneous edits to selected columns. Creating ribbon buttons is eeeeeasy. Cksdev even has a built-in template ... Edit multiple items as ribbon button 0 0 0 SharePoint 2010 Html
APress Deal of the Day - 29/Jan/2013 - Illustrated C# 2012 TATWORTH, January 29, 2013 Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Illustrated C# 2012"The unique, visual format of Illustrated C# 5.0 utilizes clean, simple figures and diagrams, specially ... APress Deal of the Day - 29/Jan/2013 - Illustrated C# 2012 0 0 0
TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 29, 2013 Tfs2012 TFS API Problem Definition I am about to take ownership of a TFS 2005 repository that has projects for BizTalk, SharePoint, SSIS, SSAS, different flavors of .NET, to complicate things, the customer is using different ... TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions 0 0 0 Tfs2012 TFS API
deploy Internet Radio Rodney Vinyard, January 28, 2013 Internet Radio AdvantagesInternet Radio is static free, high fidelityInternet Radio can be high bandwidth, rich stereo thru your current amplifier.Virtually every "traditional, over the air" radio station ... deploy Internet Radio 0 0 0
My first Windows 8 game - Roman Empire Jacek, January 29, 2013 Windows 8 Game Roman Empire Windows Store Mobile Services Hi,Today I wanted to share a link to my first Windows 8 application - Roman Empire. Took me 6 months to create it but I am happy from the results and I hope you will also like it :)Link to Roman Empire: ... My first Windows 8 game - Roman Empire 0 0 0 Windows 8 Game Roman Empire Windows Store Mobile Services
TFS In the Cloud! ryanabr, January 28, 2013 Late last year Microsoft launched TFS in the cloud at https://tfs.visualstudio.com. It is free for 5 users and less. Microsoft hasn’t completely worked out the pricing yet for larger teams, but that will ... TFS In the Cloud! 0 0 0
Latest GeeksWithBlogs Release Today: Related Posts, Improved Category Tagging Staff of Geeks, January 28, 2013 We launched another release of GeeksWithBlogs this morning with the following changes: Added a new “Related Posts on GWB” area to the footer of posts of blogs using the new Minimal template. This allows ... Latest GeeksWithBlogs Release Today: Related Posts, Improved Category Tagging 0 0 2
C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest JoshReuben, January 28, 2013 Unit testing is critical for quality code – they help you: find problems early facilitate change by avoiding breakage of other functionality simplify integration via a bottom up approach document the code ... C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest 0 0 0
Why Requirement Traceability Matrix is important for any Software Development/ Maintenance project? AbhishekLohani, January 27, 2013 TFS BizTalk Testing Testing Moss Requirement Traceability matrix tells as the test coverage of test case before Going to Next phase of testing or before GO live of the software .In Software Testing Life cycle · First of all Requirement ... Why Requirement Traceability Matrix is important for any Software Development/ Maintenance project? 0 0 3 TFS BizTalk Testing Testing Moss
Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet Dylan Smith, January 27, 2013 For probably over a year now I’ve been hearing lots of hype around package managers and NuGet in particular. I’ve never really “got it” – that is until last week. So what, NuGet will download the nHibernate ... Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet 0 0 0
Beware Singletons that Raise Events Jesse Taber, January 27, 2013 .NET It’s pretty well documented that one of the most common ways in which a .NET application can “leak” memory stems failing to unsubscribe from events when the subscription is no longer needed. This answer ... Beware Singletons that Raise Events 0 0 2 .NET
Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products Jialiang, January 28, 2013 Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products The blog posts an amazingly useful tip about Microsoft products every 24 hours, covering Windows, Office, Windows Phone, Surface, Xbox, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, ... Tip of the Day for Microsoft Products 0 0 0
Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products Tim Robinson, January 27, 2013 My friend Scott Ge started his “Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products” blog. http://www.scottge.com Scott posts an amazingly useful tip about Microsoft products every 24 hours, covering Windows, Office, ... Tips of the Day for Microsoft Products 0 0 0
Getting wired with Building a Stella Amp Mike Benkovich, January 27, 2013 Technorati Tags: Hardware,Woodworking,Maker Sometimes you need to do something different, crazy, out of the usual. A couple weeks ago while I was filming some courseware for AppDev my director John Wilson ... Getting wired with Building a Stella Amp 0 0 0
Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day) Laurent Bugnion, January 27, 2013 .NET .NET 4.5 Windows Phone 8 Work Technical stuff Windows 8 Phone When you share code between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, you can use async/await to code against asynchronous APIs, which is a nice step in the right direction. However there are Windows Phone APIs that ... Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day) 0 0 4 .NET .NET 4.5 Windows Phone 8 Work Technical stuff Windows 8 Phone
Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 27, 2013 Tfs2012 In this blog post I’ll show you the fix for the TF51011 exception (refer to the screen shot below), Blocked Tasks TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist. The error is caused by «'Demo\Release ... Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist 0 0 0 Tfs2012
How portableapps.com save time of people ? Anirudha, January 27, 2013 Sometime people things to get back the settings of software they used last time on another computer. Sometime installing OS means lost the Settings made in Firefox and Chrome browser. portableapps.com ... How portableapps.com save time of people ? 0 0 0
A Windows 7 looking Terminal Server Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 27, 2013 PowerShell ActiveDirectory Server 2008 XenApp Last time I posted as an old-school admin. You know what is wrong with old-schoolers ? Not old-schooled but rather outdated way of thinking. Many of us are still living in 80-thies and trying to develop ... A Windows 7 looking Terminal Server 0 0 2 PowerShell ActiveDirectory Server 2008 XenApp
Creating a Keyboard Buffer in Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, January 26, 2013 .NET C# Win8 WinRT NOTE: I created a better version of this control. There are some important facts in this post that you should read first. However, check out Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps for a much improved ... Creating a Keyboard Buffer in Windows Store Apps 0 0 3 .NET C# Win8 WinRT
So, you miss the Start Button in Windows 8? Enrique Lima, January 26, 2013 Windows 8 Tools Let me ask the question again, do you miss the Start button orb or the functionality? One of the things I have found with us IT folk is that we always want to have the new shiny thing, but we don't like ... So, you miss the Start Button in Windows 8? 0 0 0 Windows 8 Tools
MVC Forms Styling from Twitter Bootstrap Aligned, January 25, 2013 MVC 4 I was looking at Twitter’s Bootstrap awhile back and found that their CSS, plus some validation CSS from the MVC template, and approach to forms will work nicely for my MVC project. I didn’t want to use ... MVC Forms Styling from Twitter Bootstrap 0 0 0 MVC 4
Accessing a UI control’s method using MVVM Light Messenger JuansAndZeros, January 25, 2013 MVVM Light MVVM I have been beating my head against the desk the last day and a half trying to figure out how to access a UI controls method from an MVVM View Model. I am using the DevComponents AdvGrid control and the ... Accessing a UI control’s method using MVVM Light Messenger 0 0 0 MVVM Light MVVM
how document.readyState work Anirudha, January 25, 2013 in javascript we can use document.readyState to know the state of page. Some state of page is “loading” :- when page is still loading and script is executed. “interactive” :- when page is finished parsing ... how document.readyState work 0 0 0
This is not the OnKeyDown you are looking for. Chris Gardner, January 24, 2013 .NET C# Win8 WinRT I've been working on porting my sample game code to WinRT. One of the immediate things I found is that there is no direct access to the keyboard buffer. I mean, sure. WinRT is meant to work with devices ... This is not the OnKeyDown you are looking for. 0 0 0 .NET C# Win8 WinRT
Model Binding using Expression Trees Jon Canning, January 24, 2013 object Bind(object requestDto, NameValueCollection formData) { var propertyGroups = formData.AllKeys.Where(x => x.Contains('.')).GroupBy(x => x.Substring(0, x.IndexOf('.'))); foreach (var group in ... Model Binding using Expression Trees 0 0 0
Why Won’t my SharePoint Project Open? MOSSLover, January 24, 2013 So I kept getting this really weird “Unable to load Visual Studio Project” basically it was the I’m missing a template error message look in the output. I eventually realize there is a dependency for the ... Why Won’t my SharePoint Project Open? 0 0 0
Google map div id must be map_canvas Aligned, January 24, 2013 JavaScript The examples from Google use <div id=”map_canvas”></div... for their element. I changed it to something more specific to my project, and the zoom controls started looking funny. I reverted and ... Google map div id must be map_canvas 0 0 0 JavaScript
Setting HTML.CheckBoxFor Values in MVC 4 View from Json return using jQuery Ajax Script Bob Hardister, January 24, 2013 I’m an MVC/jQuery noobie and this one really got my goat for while. The problem was handling the bit field in SQL Server which was treated as a checkbox field in MVC. Here’s how you can set a checkbox ... Setting HTML.CheckBoxFor Values in MVC 4 View from Json return using jQuery Ajax Script 0 0 0
Getting Ready for the Microsoft MVP Summit 2013. Vincent Maverick Durano, January 24, 2013 The idea behind the Summit is to bring technology experts together in Redmond(~ well i don't consider myself as one. Interested, yes. But expert, No!) to interact closely with the Microsoft Product teams ... Getting Ready for the Microsoft MVP Summit 2013. 0 0 0