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Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window Steve Wilkes, January 4, 2013 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices UI Testing Patterns WatiN lets you attach to browser windows so you can verify their contents and close them as part of your tests, but the standard API doesn't detect windows with PDF documents in them. Adapted from this ... Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window 0 0 0 ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC C# Programming Practices UI Testing Patterns
Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 KeithMayer, January 4, 2013 In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back again for another episode in our System Center 2012 ConfigMgr SP1 series with Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and ... Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 0 0 0
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5 Years of SharePoint Saturday MOSSLover, January 4, 2013 Five years ago I drove down in an old Cadillac to Virginia Beach, VA from Raleigh, NC with Michael Lotter, a coworker named Nas, and Josh Carlisle. Now hundreds of events have occurred in places like Perth, ... 5 Years of SharePoint Saturday 0 0 0
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Chapter Review: The Utility Database (by Chris Shaw) and how it applies in Cloud Computing Herve Roggero, January 3, 2013 Sometimes you end up reading a great chapter and feel like writing a review about it… well here it is! Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw, http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com ) wrote a chapter in the PRO SQL Server 2012 ... Chapter Review: The Utility Database (by Chris Shaw) and how it applies in Cloud Computing 0 0 0
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Excel ODBC on OSX, Connect to SQL Server Richard Jones, January 3, 2013 Oh goodness. What a shocker. How hard can it be, to simply make Microsoft Office Mac (Excel) connect to Microsoft SQL Server. I've spent the last 2 hours being told to go spend $xx to go buy ODBC drivers ... Excel ODBC on OSX, Connect to SQL Server 0 0 0
Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 3, 2013 ALM MVPBuzz Tfs2012 Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ... Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 0 0 0 ALM MVPBuzz Tfs2012
Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks Marko Apfel, January 3, 2013 Tools Problem If you go in Explorer to the GAC folder (%windir%\Assembly) a shell extension gives you a special view of the content there: In this view you couldn’t copy the DLLs to somewhere else. Solution ... Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks 0 0 1 Tools
Bridged Adaptors in Windows 8 Chris Gardner, January 3, 2013 Win8 So, this just happened. I just took down an entire corporate network with bridged adaptors in Windows 8. Let's back up. Last night, I was preparing for my talks at CodeMash. When I give Xbox development ... Bridged Adaptors in Windows 8 0 0 0 Win8
Passing Certification For Enterprise Windows Phone 7.5 Apps Tim Murphy, January 3, 2013 Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone Your Enterprise Windows Phone 7.5 application has different requirements and restrictions than the majority of apps in the store. While we now have Windows Phone 8 with different distribution methods, ... Passing Certification For Enterprise Windows Phone 7.5 Apps 0 0 0 Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone
Task Scheduler Error Code 0x8007010B bconlon, January 3, 2013 I wasted a bit of time on this issue today, so I thought I’d add it to my blog.I just wanted to schedule a task in Windows 7 Task Scheduler to run every hour forever. I already had this working on an old ... Task Scheduler Error Code 0x8007010B 0 0 0
Chocolatey Automatic Packages Robz / Fervent Coder, January 3, 2013 chocolatey ApplicationsToysOther gems NuGet I updated three packages this morning. I didn’t even notice until the tweets came in from @chocolateynuget. How is this possible? It’s simple. I love automation. I built chocolatey to take advantage of ... Chocolatey Automatic Packages 0 0 0 chocolatey ApplicationsToysOther gems NuGet
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 2, 2013 I have been re-awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in Visual Studio ALM for 2nd year in a row. Thank you Microsoft for re-awarding me the MVP award, it’s a great feeling to start the ... Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM 0 0 7
MVC ModelState.IsValid Fails When Reserved Word Used for Table Name Bob Hardister, January 2, 2013 When a table name uses a reserved word: for example, “Action,” model validation will fail even though the model is valid. The error message from ModelState is: “The parameter conversion from type 'System.String' ... MVC ModelState.IsValid Fails When Reserved Word Used for Table Name 0 0 0
Attending SMUG Season II - Feb 6-8th–Key West Nikita Polyakov, January 2, 2013 It was a great honor and pleasure to attend and kick-off the first SMUG last year. We are back at it this year: Southern Most User Group 2013 Feb 6-8th Waterfront Marriott Courtyard in Key West Florida ... Attending SMUG Season II - Feb 6-8th–Key West 0 0 0
How to add a shortcut to notepad in the "Send to" menu on Windows 7 bconlon, January 2, 2013 As a techie it is often useful to quickly look at a file in notepad, so I always add it as a shortcut in the 'Send to' right click option of Windows explorer. Trouble is I always forget where to add the ... How to add a shortcut to notepad in the "Send to" menu on Windows 7 0 0 0
Microsoft Press Deal of the day 2/Jan/2013 - Architecting Applications for the Enterprise TATWORTH, January 2, 2013 Today's Microsoft Press deal of the day at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Architecting Applications for the Enterprise. Use the code MSDEAL at check-out for your discount."Make ... Microsoft Press Deal of the day 2/Jan/2013 - Architecting Applications for the Enterprise 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 2/Jan/2013 - Foundation Version Control for Web Developers TATWORTH, January 2, 2013 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Foundation Version Control for Web Developers"Foundation Version Control for Web Developers explains how version control ... APress Deal of the Day 2/Jan/2013 - Foundation Version Control for Web Developers 0 0 0
How to install PVS server Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 2, 2013 XenDesktop Is it good to have a streaming server …. Hmm … it is a good to know how it works. Let's install one: "D:\Server\PVS_Server_x64.exe" /S /v" /qn""D:\Console\PVS_Console... /S /v" /qn" And configure ... How to install PVS server 0 0 9 XenDesktop
Accessing Host Machine Files From Hyper-V Guest Virtual Machine Brian T. Jackett, January 1, 2013 Virtualization Hyper-V Similar to a previous post I wrote on How To Configure Remote Desktop to Hyper-V Guest Virtual Machine I commonly get questions for “how do I access Hyper-V host machine files from inside a guest virtual ... Accessing Host Machine Files From Hyper-V Guest Virtual Machine 0 0 0 Virtualization Hyper-V
Custom domain for Windows Azure in the new portal Nuri Halperin, December 31, 2012 The new Windows Azure Portal looks great, but has moved things around a bit. This post serves as note to self and others: How do I set a custom domain name for blob/ table/ queue? Go to the new portal ... Custom domain for Windows Azure in the new portal 0 0 0
YAGNI and Professional Code Jesse Taber, December 31, 2012 .NET devops I’ve heard (and used) YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) quite often in my software development career. It’s a battle cry for shipping a minimum viable product and letting the real-world usage dictate what ... YAGNI and Professional Code 0 0 0 .NET devops
The year 2012 in highlights! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], December 31, 2012 ALM Tfs2012 TFS API 2012 has been an overwhelming year, I had my share of up’s and down’s. The year started on a high note with Microsoft presenting me the MVP award for Visual Studio ALM. I changed my availability status ... The year 2012 in highlights! 0 0 2 ALM Tfs2012 TFS API
A Look Ahead to 2013 Anthony Trudeau, December 30, 2012 It’s been a busy holiday season with a couple of flights to visit family. I ended up getting a few interesting tech related gifts this year. First, I’m enjoying a nice new sound system from Cyber Acoustics ... A Look Ahead to 2013 0 0 5
Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-based authorization Stacy Vicknair, December 30, 2012 If you’re familiar with NetSqlAzMan or CanCan, you know that checking permissions based on a user’s activities is easier to manage and more flexible that working with the roles a user is in. Whatever method ... Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-based authorization 0 0 0
Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! Dylan Smith, December 30, 2012 One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful. It’s a diagramming tool that allows you to draw ... Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 30/Dec/2012 - Pro Expression Blend 4 TATWORTH, December 30, 2012 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Expression Blend 4"Pro Expression Blend 4 will take you well beyond the basics and provide you with a detailed examination ... APress Deal of the Day 30/Dec/2012 - Pro Expression Blend 4 0 0 0
Microsoft Embedded Conference Valter Minute, December 30, 2012 Il 26 Gennaio a Napoli si svolgerà la prima conferenza italiana completamente dedicata alle tematiche Embedded. Gli organizzatori di .NET Campania e in particolare il mitico Paolo Patierno stanno facendo ... Microsoft Embedded Conference 0 0 0
ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication lennykean, December 30, 2012 MVC Security If you use Gmail, you may be familiar with Google’s 2-step verification process. It’s an extra verification step using your cell phone. If you turn on the feature, once you enter your username and password, ... ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication 0 0 0 MVC Security
Using Dashes in URLs in MVC4 MightyZot, December 29, 2012 Web http://techo.luefher.com/co... I am rebuilding a site that was originally created on Django in MVC4. The original site ... Using Dashes in URLs in MVC4 0 0 0 Web
2012: Study Plan Year in Review JoshReuben, December 30, 2012 Over the past year I went into study overdrive: I learned A LOT about C++, Maths, Algorithms, Finance & JavaScript. It was a great year in terms of knowledge acquisition. pro amore scientiam ! C++ ... 2012: Study Plan Year in Review 0 0 0
Accessing your Xbox Cloud Storage save games when you can’t access Cloud Storage Michael B. McLaughlin, December 29, 2012 general So if cloud storage is down or your internet connection to your Xbox is down, in most cases you can still play games you saved to Cloud Storage. Note: This only applies to the Xbox that you last played ... Accessing your Xbox Cloud Storage save games when you can’t access Cloud Storage 0 0 0 general
Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views ihaynes, December 29, 2012 There are issues with displaying phone numbers on web pages. You may want them to display as clickable links on a mobile phone but not on the tablet or desktop view of the page.HTML5 gives us the href="tel:+44 ... Phone numbers on mobile and desktop page views 0 0 0
Synchronizing BlackBerry contacts to other phone (e.g. Android) Marko Apfel, December 29, 2012 Tools Install App “Kontacts” via BlackBerry App world Run Kontacts and Export to csv Start “BlackBerry Desktop Software” Choose File Press BlackBerry Icon in address line Choose Device > home > user > ... Synchronizing BlackBerry contacts to other phone (e.g. Android) 0 0 0 Tools
How to install XenDesktop Waclaw Chrabaszcz, December 29, 2012 XenDesktop Desktop Delivery Controller: "D:\x64\XenDesktop Setup\XenDesktopServerSetup... /noreboot /quiet /configure_firewall /components CONTROLLER,DESKTOPSTUDIO,DE... Virtual ... How to install XenDesktop 0 0 0 XenDesktop
Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation D'Arcy Lussier, December 29, 2012 So some guy named Brian Boyko posted a video on YouTube entitled “Windows 8: The Animated Evaluation”. Brian laments his attempt to use Windows 8 for 30 days on an Acer laptop, and begins to rant on all ... Thoughts on Brian’s Windows 8 Evaluation 0 0 3
How To Make Your System Slower With WMI Alois Kraus, December 28, 2012 With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler. Lets e.g. query for some system properties via WMI. static void Main(string[] ... How To Make Your System Slower With WMI 0 0 0
Quick Test for Entity Framework DBContext Aligned, December 28, 2012 Entity Framework A co-worker wrote this and we think it is useful. http://droedzone.blogspot.c... ... Quick Test for Entity Framework DBContext 0 0 0 Entity Framework
PRO SQL Database for Windows Azure Herve Roggero, December 28, 2012 After months of work, rework, revisions and reviews, the second edition of the APress book PRO SQL Database for Windows Azure is out! You can get it on Amazon (Paperback or Kindle) or through Barnes & ... PRO SQL Database for Windows Azure 0 0 0
Free e-books from Nasa on the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes TATWORTH, December 28, 2012 At http://hubblesite.org/ibooks/, NASA have made available e-books on the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes. These books are available both as PDF and for the iPad ... Free e-books from Nasa on the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes 0 0 0
Responsive Tables - a simple solution ihaynes, December 27, 2012 Many of the sites I work with have pages displaying tables of data; insurance claims, medical data, membership lists, sports results etc. When I started moving to responsive layouts to give cross-device ... Responsive Tables - a simple solution 0 0 0
Scalable Distributed Workload with Azure Queues Herve Roggero, December 27, 2012 If you develop an application for the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure, you may need to create a distributed workload. Distributing workload in the cloud is one of the fundamental aspects of scalability, ... Scalable Distributed Workload with Azure Queues 0 0 0
LINQ (C#) Many to Many Query using Entity Framework Bob Hardister, December 27, 2012 Using a MVC 4 Code First project I noticed that my intermediate table between a many to many relationship was missing. In other words, Table 1 has many Table 3, and Table 3 has many Table 1. In the database ... LINQ (C#) Many to Many Query using Entity Framework 0 0 0
Microsoft ends development of Expression Web ihaynes, December 27, 2012 On the 20th December 2012 Microsoft announced that development on the Expression Studio products was being stopped (In reality it had largely been stopped for many months). See http://expression.microsoft... ... Microsoft ends development of Expression Web 0 0 0
Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListView Control Om Talsania, December 27, 2012 Tutorials ASP.NET has a good number of default controls which usually satisfy your needs. Especially the ListView control, which is a template based fully customizable control which can be tweaked to suit your needs. ... Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListView Control 0 0 6 Tutorials
Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications Jesse Taber, December 27, 2012 This post is a collection of my findings from a recent effort to eliminate memory leaks in a .NET Compact Framework (CF .NET) application. All of the information in this post is available elsewhere on ... Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications 0 0 1
Simple MVC Imperative Validation Doug Lampe, December 26, 2012 MVC After looking at FluentValidation, I decided that most of what I needed was a way to do server-side validation of more complicated rules. While this is something FluentValidation does, it seemed like more ... Simple MVC Imperative Validation 0 0 0 MVC