Free ADSI Browser– Beaver Tail

The Beaver Tail ADSI browser is an Active Directory browser written in C#. Both a compiled version and source code are available at http://adsi.mvps.org/adsi/C... ...

O’Reilly Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day 23/June/2014 - Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services

Today’s half-price Microsoft E-book at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services. “Renowned SQL Server MVP Brian Knight ...

How to cut paste in Mac OS X

The cut and paste works little differently in mac when compared to windows.Usually we try to give the command Ctrl + X for cut instead of Ctrl + C while (copying or trying to cut from the source directory ...

Technical Whitepaper on Couchbase Server

There is a free PDF Technical Whitepaper on Couchbase Server available for download at http://www.couchbase.com/si... Also ...

Multi-Device Layouts - from Google Developers

The Google Developers site has very good article on the fundamentals of ‘multi-device’ design. If you are new to responsive design this is great place to start. Multi-Device Layouts ...

O’Reilly Deal of the Day 20/June/2014 - Active Directory Cookbook, 4th Edition

Today’s half-price E-Book deal of the Day from O’Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Active Directory Cookbook, 4th Edition. “Take the guesswork out of deploying, ...

Release Notes Are Hard

Over the years, from time to time, I have received criticism over the release notes I have written. That’s fair, I certainly have written some crappy release notes on occasion. However sometimes I get ...

Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns

Today’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns. “An update of Michael Bowers' Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns to include the new features ...

Big Data 7 V

Have you heard of the 7 V of Big Data. Everyone knows the 3 V, but it was kind of interesting to hear some additional ones by IBM consultants. Personally, I think the last 2 should be present in all BI/data ...

OLEDB going away? Microsoft claims to be deprecating it in favor of ODBC

In case you haven't heard. Microsoft claims to be deprecating OLEDB in favor of ODBC. Seems like they want to push as many people to the cloud as possible... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql... ...

Postscript to Style-copping the C5 Collections project

Further to my earlier post at http://geekswithblogs.net/T... SubMain have come back to me with a fix for the rules file for GhostDoc ...

O’Reilly Half-price Deal of the Day 19/June/2014 - Programming C# 5.0

O’Reilly today are offering 50% off the E-Book Programming C# 5.0 at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... “After a dozen years of incremental changes, C# has become one of the ...

Microsoft Virtual Academy - Free Training at your Fingertips

If you haven't heard of Microsoft Virtual Academy yet, now is the time. Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) provides you with access to countless hours of online training videos on the latest and greatest ...

BrowserStack Visual Studio 2013 Extension

So, if you download the extension from Visual Studio Gallery (here) you’ll find it won’t install into VS 2013, but it’s easy to fix. Open up your downloaded file using your preferred zip solution (7zip ...

APress Deal of the Day 19/June/2014 - Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012

Today’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012. “Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is written to help ASP.NET developers make the leap ...

Style-copping the C5 Collections project

The number of Style Cop issues in the C5 Collections solution as of C5Collection.1E (available at https://c5stylecopped.codep... is a grand total of 19! (The original total was ...

Free E-Book from APress - Computer Vision Metrics

APress are offering the free E-Book, Computer Vision Metrics at http://www.apress.com/97814... “Computer Vision Metrics: Survey, Taxonomy And Analysis provides a technical tour through computer vision, ...

APress Deal of the Day 18/Jun/2014 - Using Windows 8.1

Today’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Using Windows 8.1. “Using Windows 8.1 is the essential step by step guide to using a computer running Windows 8, providing ...

Microsoft Maniacs User Group – JS Patterns Code Samples

Thanks to everyone for attending my presentation last week on JavaScript Patterns at the new Microsoft Maniacs user group. The PowerPoint (which contains links to the code samples) can be found here ...

Packt Publishing Anniversary Deal to 05:00 PT June 25th 2014

O’Reilly are offering 50% off all Packt E-Books and 30% off all Packt Training at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... until 05:00 hrs PT 25/June/2014. “We're celebrating the one-year ...

Highcharts Export Tool Step by Step for IIS7 and .Net 2.0/4.0

1. Download Highcharts Export Module for ASP.Net From Tek4 https://github.com/imclem/H... Create New Website using IIS3. Copy the contents of Exporting_Demo_website to the ...

Neo4jClient with LinqPad

Quite often I want to just try out some code, usually useful when answering a question on StackOverflow, but typically these don’t require a full solution, and it’s a bit heavy handed to whip out Visual ...

O’Reilly 50% off Early Release E-books to 05:00 PT 20/June/2014

Until 05:00 Pacific Time, O’Reilly are offering 50% off their Early Release E-books at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... “With Early Release ebooks, ...

SQL Server 2014 Ontario Launch Party is this Saturday, June the 21st!

I am very excited to remind that the SQL Server 2014 Launch Party in Ontario is this Saturday with the registration closing on Friday. We will have tasty food, cool swag, and top notch speakers providing ...

APress Deal of the Day 16/Jun/2014 - SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns

Today’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns. “SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns shows how to ...

Are You a School Thinking of Using iPads/Tablets?

My daughter’s junior high school is wrapping up its first year with an iPad program. In this program, every junior high student in the division gets an iPad Mini. To collect feedback on the program they ...

Server 2012 GUI – to be or not to be …

That's the question J This quick post is inspired by one of feedbacks. To enter into PowerShell just type powershell in CMD To make Server 2012 core server: PowershellUninstall-Windows... Server-Gui-Shell, ...

Using CMS for App Configuration - Part 2, Publish Your Config

Following on from Part 1 – Deploying Umbraco, we have a nice new installation of Umbraco, hosted in an Azure Website and using SQL Azure for storage. In this post, we’re going to define some configuration ...

C# Replace Macros in Word Document .docx

One of my clients had users downloading a word document to edit and print out. Some of these fields in the Word Document can be pre-populated with data.There is a dll called DocX available here: http://docx.codeplex.com/Keep ...

Fixing up Visual Studio’s gitignore , using IFix

Download tool Updated 3.July 2014: Corrected pattern for NuGet, details in this blogpost. (IFix is in progress to be updated too, version 1.1 will have these fixes) Is there anything wrong with the built-in ...

What I've Gained from being a Presenter at Tech Events

I know I fail at blogging lately. As I've said before life happens and it gets in the way of best laid out plans. I thought about creating some type of watch with some app that basically dictates using ...

The Inkremental Architect´s Napkin - #4 - Make increments tangible

The driver of software development are increments, small increments, tiny increments. With an increment being a slice of the overall requirement scope thin enough to implement and get feedback from a product ...

How to Call a extension method from library in asp.net mvc project inside the razor view ?

If you want to call a extension method from a c# library when you are working on views then here in this post I am showing you how you can do it. just go to views and open the web.config file. (do all ...

DRY and SRP

Kent Beck’s XP Simplicity Rules (aka Four Rules of Simple Design) are a prioritized list of rules that when applied to your code generally yield a great design. As you’ll see from the above link the list ...

Converting projects to use Automatic NuGet restore, using IFix

Download tool In version 2.7 of NuGet automatic nuget restore was introduced, meaning you no longer need to distort your msbuild project files with nuget target information. Visual Studio and TFS 2013 ...

Simple solution now to a problem from 8 years ago. Use SQL windowing function

I remember having this problem 8 years ago. We had to find the top 5 donor per month and send out some awards. The SQL we came up with was clunky and had lots of limitation (can only do one year at a time), ...

O’Reilly Deal of the Day 10/June/2014 - AngularJS Directives

Today’s half-price E-Book offer from O’Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is AngularJS Directives. “AngularJS, propelled by Google, is quickly becoming one of the most popular JavaScript ...

Patch Tuesday Again!

The second Tuesday of the month is “Patch Tuesday” when Microsoft issues the security and other important fixes for the month. This month there are two critical and five important patches. So watch out ...

Host AngularJS (Html5Mode) in ASP.NET vNext

Microsoft had announced ASP.NET vNext in BUILD and TechED recently and as a developer, I found that we can add features into one ASP.NET vNext application such as MVC, WebAPI, SignalR, etc.. Also it's ...

Summer Calendar

Here is our summer schedule ...

Prof. Dr. Michio Kaku - The Next 20 Years: How Science Will Revolutionize Business, Finance, Trade, and our way of life

Check out this very interesting talk by Mishio Katu about how technology will revoluzionize our lifes. Here's the link. It's the third video ...

Tricky situation with EF and Include while projecting (Select / SelectMany)

Hello, the other day I stumbled on a problem I had a while back with EF and Include method calls and decided this was it and I was going to blog about it… This would sort of to pin it inside my head and ...

NDC Oslo Videos Are Online

Just when I was almost caught up on TechEd North America 2014 videos… The sessions from this week’s NDC Oslo conference can be viewed now on their Vimeo site: http://vimeo.com/ndcoslo/vi... ...

Slides and Scripts from SharePoint Cincy 2014

I was pleased to present at SharePoint Cincy again for the third year. Geoff and all the organizers do a great job. My presentation this year was “PowerShell for Your SharePoint Tool Belt”. Below are my ...

O’Reilly Deals to 9/June/2014 05:00 PT–50% off E-Books on Regular Expressions

Until 9/June/2014 05:00 PT, O’Reilly are offering 50% off E-Books on Regular Expressions at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... ...

SharePoint 2010 Single Page Apps without a Master Page

Well, maybe a stretch, but I am inclined to believe it is so. I have been using the JavaScript Client Object Model (JCSOM) for about 6 months now and I believe it can do about 80% of my job quickly without ...

CSS Play List

Front end developer Matt Smith has put together a CSS Play List on YouTube, with a variety of useful presentations, tutorials and demos. Well worth a visit ...

Single-Click Checkbox in RadGridView

The Telerik RadGridView for WPF is a flexible visual control for displaying and manipulating tables of data. It’s not without it’s quirks though. I ran into one of those quirks recently. The behavior of ...

8 ways any BizTalk customer can use Azure right now

just posted this on technet wikihttp://social.technet.m... ...

Copy TFS Build Definitions between Projects and Collections

The last couple of years it has become apparent that using multiple team projects in TFS is generally a bad idea. There are of course exceptions to this, but there are a lot ot things that becomes much ...