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MOST RECENT 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 ... BREAKING CHANGE on GeeksWithBlogs for Custom Domains - IP Address Change 0 0 0 Webinar: Async Programming in C# Joe Mayo, May 7, 2013 Tomorrow, I’m doing a live webinar with Learn Now on Async Programming in C#. More details here: http://bit.ly/17JT792. @JoeMayo ... Webinar: Async Programming in C# 0 0 0 Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding Aligned, May 7, 2013 Knockout Js Our tester found a bug with my search box. The search box filters a grid using observables. IE 9 and 10, and Crome adds in a x clear option, this wasn’t changing the observable, so the filter wasn’t getting ... 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Azure VM - Endpoint Not found: There was no endpoint listening 0 0 0 .NET Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service Enrique Lima, May 4, 2013 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools Recently I made the switch from having a local TFS deployment to using the hosted Team Foundation Service. As I had been using it back when it was TFSPreview, there were projects that had been left over, ... Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service 0 0 0 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft D'Arcy Lussier, May 4, 2013 Go and read this. There is so much win in this blog post its obscene. One of the best commentaries on work/life balance I’ve read ever with loads of great suggestions and insight. http://blog.jongallant.com/... ... Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft 0 0 0 Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) Marko Apfel, May 4, 2013 F# Tools IDEs, Editors, .. Here are my favorites in descend order Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web yes! - it allows you free F# development, notably for libraries LINQPad again and again a wonderful tool! SharpDevelop ... Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) 0 0 0 F# Tools Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Testing/Debugging/Logging When creating a new data class, it’s a good idea to override ToString() method to output most of the data.It will help to see details in logs.The only exception if the class has a sensitive data like CreditCard ... Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. 0 0 0 Testing/Debugging/Logging Deploy PDB files into production to ease exception report investigation. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Deployment Testing/Debugging/Logging For a long time I believed that PDB as a part of debugging information should not be included in production deployment. 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C#/.NET Fundamentals: Three Tech.Pro Tutorials 0 0 0 .NET Security Part 1 simonc, May 2, 2013 Ever since the first version of .NET, it's been possible to strictly define the actions and resources a particular assembly can use, and, using Code Access Security, permissions to perform certain actions ... .NET Security Part 1 0 0 4 My story with Kinect Maher Jendoubi, May 2, 2013 Kinect During my spring holidays, I travelled to Sousse in Tunisia just for one day to attend a Microsoft day event. I was lucky to attend the session of Omar Mohamed Islam, Kinect Evangelist. We had a lot of ... My story with Kinect 0 0 0 Kinect Powershell Multi-Line Input Box Dialog, Open File Dialog, Folder Browser Dialog, Input Box, and Message Box deadlydog, May 1, 2013 I love PowerShell, and when prompting users for input I often prefer to use GUI controls rather than have them enter everything into the console; some things like browsing for files or folders or entering ... Powershell Multi-Line Input Box Dialog, Open File Dialog, Folder Browser Dialog, Input Box, and Message Box 0 0 0 The associated partition function MyPartitionScheme generates more partitions than there are file groups Leonard Mwangi, May 1, 2013 When creating your partition schemes you get the following error The associated partition function MyPartitionScheme generates more partitions than there are file groups mentioned in the scheme ' MyPartitionScheme'. ... The associated partition function MyPartitionScheme generates more partitions than there are file groups 0 0 0 Announcing Prairie Dev Con Community Night Featuring Mark Stafford (Microsoft) on OData! D'Arcy Lussier, May 1, 2013 The evening of Tuesday, May 7th is community night! Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg is hosting a free user-group-like event for the Winnipeg developer community! Mark Stafford, Product Manager at Microsoft, will ... Announcing Prairie Dev Con Community Night Featuring Mark Stafford (Microsoft) on OData! 0 0 2 Ensuring unique CIDs for MSDTC in BizTalk installations Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 BizTalk Situation By installing BizTalk in a distributed environment it is essential, that the MS DTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Controller) have an unique CID. Notably by cloning machines in a virtual ... Ensuring unique CIDs for MSDTC in BizTalk installations 0 0 0 BizTalk Sublime Text 2 – Package installation not possible, no package listed Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 Tools Problem I tried to add the Emmet (fka Zen Coding) package to Sublime Text 2. But by running this “Install Package” (CTRL + SHIFT + p) command no packages were displayed. Solution No glue why, but I had ... Sublime Text 2 – Package installation not possible, no package listed 0 0 0 Tools SharpDevelop, F#, missing “Send to F# Interactive” context menu Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 F# Tools Situation, Problem During playing a little bit with these WPF MVC F# projects inside SharpDevelop I stumbled over the situation, that I could not send F# snippets to the interactive window. The menu was ... SharpDevelop, F#, missing “Send to F# Interactive” context menu 0 0 0 F# Tools SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.” Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 Tools F# Situation My private machine has Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This Visual Studio edition doesn’t allow to develop with F#. So I installed additionally SharpDevelop. But it ... SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.” 0 0 0 Tools F# Book Review: Mastering UDK Game Development by John P. Doran Matthew Christian, May 1, 2013 Reviews Reviews Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Mastering UDK Game Development by John P. Doran, published in March 2013 by Packt Publishing, features eight chapters focusing on presenting intermediate ... Book Review: Mastering UDK Game Development by John P. Doran 0 0 0 Reviews Reviews Why the custom comparer is your friend DavidMadden, April 30, 2013 I have a ListView that is holding session dates for sessions someone may attend. I like to use a MonthCalendar control to allow the user to select several dates, allowing the control's DateSelected event ... Why the custom comparer is your friend 0 0 0 Testing BizTalk XLANGMessage with the Fakes Framework Michael Stephenson, April 29, 2013 BizTalk BizTalk BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing Ive been interested in exploring the opportunities around the Fakes Framework for testing BizTalk solutions for a while now, and until recently its been sitting as one of the many blog articles I have ... Testing BizTalk XLANGMessage with the Fakes Framework 1 0 1 BizTalk BizTalk BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing My Notepad++ Color Theme -- Obsidian PyCs Soe Tun, April 29, 2013 Tools My Color Theme for Notepad++ I really like the color theme from the Adobe Source Code Pro font announcement for HTML and XML as well as the beautiful Source Code Pro font for coding. Then, I read this ... My Notepad++ Color Theme -- Obsidian PyCs 1 0 0 Tools Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux run on Azure? Charles Young, April 29, 2013 Microsoft does not currently offer RHEL on subscription on the Windows Azure platform, and people have reported problems when trying to create and run their RHEL VMs. So, does RHEL run on Azure? Read on ... Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux run on Azure? 1 0 0 dotnetConf Code Samples Steve Michelotti, April 29, 2013 Thanks to everyone to attended my presentation on Web API at dotnetConf. It was a great virtual conference and I hope to participate in more of them in the future. Code samples and PowerPoint for my presentation ... dotnetConf Code Samples 1 0 2 Reminder to self - MSBUILD doesnt shutdown straightaway Michael Stephenson, April 29, 2013 Ive been bitten by this one a couple of times recently and want to remind myself for next time!MsBuild doesnt shutdown after its been ran by default (performance improvements I expect). For integration ... Reminder to self - MSBUILD doesnt shutdown straightaway 0 0 0 How to Copy Formula in Excel Aaron Li, April 28, 2013 I have a big Excel list with about 40,000 rows(list A), and another list with 3000 rows(list B). I need to find those in list B from list A and remove them. Both A and B have an ID column containg same ... How to Copy Formula in Excel 0 0 0 Configuration of Hyper-V and creation of VMs Enrique Lima, April 28, 2013 PowerShell Misc Tools SharePoint SQL Server Virtualization In continuing with the post that I started last week, this week I focus on how I used PowerShell to install Hyper-V on Windows 8 and then create all necessary items to continue the creation of the SharePoint ... Configuration of Hyper-V and creation of VMs 0 0 0 PowerShell Misc Tools SharePoint SQL Server Virtualization Lync 2013 RCC issue Mitel LBG Kay Sellenrode, April 28, 2013 Lync RCC Mitel LBG Lync2013 Lync 2013 Last week I was setting up Lync 2013 with Remote Call Control to a Mitel Live Business Gateway(LBG).I expected not much had changed from Lync 2010, and the lack for any 2013 procedures took us the 2010 ... Lync 2013 RCC issue Mitel LBG 0 0 1 Lync RCC Mitel LBG Lync2013 Lync 2013 Global Render Lab at the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp Alan Smith, April 28, 2013 Yesterday the attendees of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp took part in a Global Render Lab that was built on the Windows Azure platform. The lab was adapted from a simple demo I wrote in 2010, and then ... Global Render Lab at the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 0 0 0 Code PaLOUsa 2013! MikeParks, April 28, 2013 Over the weekend my team and I attended Code PaLOUsa here in Louisville, KY. It's an awesome event and it really brought together the IT community around the area. I'm pretty proud to say that my new employer ... Code PaLOUsa 2013! 0 0 0 Extending sp_WhoIsActive With context_info Jesse Taber, April 28, 2013 .NET sql server If you work with SQL Server you should be familiar with Adam Machanic’s fantastic sp_WhoIsActive stored procedure. This procedure provides high levels of detail about all commands that are currently being ... Extending sp_WhoIsActive With context_info 0 0 0 .NET sql server My First Netduino Go Project Anthony Trudeau, April 28, 2013 hardware NetDuino Earlier I wrote that I got a Netduino Go Starter kit for Christmas. I've worked with it from time to time. This is a little late posting, because I finished my first project in February. I thought I'd ... My First Netduino Go Project 0 0 0 hardware NetDuino CMD – how to install apps from UNC path Waclaw Chrabaszcz, April 28, 2013 Server 2008 XenApp There is a very old and useful command: pushd. Take a look how to use it. pushd \\fileserver\AppShare\Insta... user /install15186-AdbeRdr11000_... /sPB /rs"Firefox Setup 16.0.1.exe" ... CMD – how to install apps from UNC path 0 0 0 Server 2008 XenApp PluralSight MVC course error - No parameterless constructor defined Ken Hortsch, April 27, 2013 .NET The ASP.NET apps I develop/support at work have all been WebForms. So while taking a lovely course by Scott Allen on PluralSight, I decided to skip the IOC crap in my lab. Wrong! In order for the EF DBContext ... PluralSight MVC course error - No parameterless constructor defined 0 0 0 .NET VS2012 Error 1 The build stopped unexpectedly because of an internal failure. Ken Hortsch, April 27, 2013 Microsoft.Build.Exceptions.... Build was canceled. Failed to successfully launch or connect to a child MSBuild.exe process. Verify that the MSBuild.exe "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\F... ... VS2012 Error 1 The build stopped unexpectedly because of an internal failure. 0 0 0 I'm coming back: Woohoo rodelljr, April 26, 2013 Its been along time since I posted here last. I have been working with my other blog mixtio.wordpress.com off and on for a little while, and I have noticed something. Pretty much all of my posts were related ... I'm coming back: Woohoo 0 0 0 Analysing your Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement Billing Data Michael Stephenson, April 26, 2013 I work with a number of customers who use Windows Azure and are increasing their use of Windows Azure due to the significant success they are having. One of the things where I feel customers are yet to ... Analysing your Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement Billing Data 0 0 0 Page: 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20
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 ... BREAKING CHANGE on GeeksWithBlogs for Custom Domains - IP Address Change 0 0 0
Webinar: Async Programming in C# Joe Mayo, May 7, 2013 Tomorrow, I’m doing a live webinar with Learn Now on Async Programming in C#. More details here: http://bit.ly/17JT792. @JoeMayo ... Webinar: Async Programming in C# 0 0 0
Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding Aligned, May 7, 2013 Knockout Js Our tester found a bug with my search box. The search box filters a grid using observables. IE 9 and 10, and Crome adds in a x clear option, this wasn’t changing the observable, so the filter wasn’t getting ... Handling IE 9 & 10's and Chrome’s clear button with Knockout binding 0 0 0 Knockout Js
.NET Security Part 2 simonc, May 7, 2013 So, how do you create partial-trust appdomains? Where do you come across them? There are two main situations in which your assembly runs as partially-trusted using the Microsoft .NET stack: Creating a ... .NET Security Part 2 1 0 0
An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance Steve Michelotti, May 6, 2013 KnockoutJS JavaScript TypeScript A few months back, Ryan Niemeyer posted about a simple editor pattern for Knockout.js (anyone doing any significant Knockout development should be subscribing to his blog). Historically, I have used the ... An Editor Pattern for Knckout.js Using TypeScript Inheritance 0 0 2 KnockoutJS JavaScript TypeScript
Kansas City Developer Conference Muljadi Budiman, May 6, 2013 Android KCDC This past Thursday through Saturday, the Kansas City Developer Conference happened. It was an awesome event - attendees, speakers, and vendors all totalled over 800 people. Learning and fun was had by ... Kansas City Developer Conference 0 0 0 Android KCDC
I am now a VTS Leonard Mwangi, May 6, 2013 Its official, my Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist (VTSP) has been approved, another mile stone to helping clients and partners find value in Microsoft Products in particular SQL Server, Business ... I am now a VTS 0 0 0
How to change Windows Store App’s Start Page? Ilya Verbitskiy, May 6, 2013 Windows Store Finally I have had a chance to start developing Windows 8 applications. I have started with C#/XAML applications. The reason is obvious: I had done a lot of WPF development in the last three years. I have ... How to change Windows Store App’s Start Page? 0 0 0 Windows Store
Choosing Aggregate Boundaries – Invariants Spanning Aggregates Dylan Smith, May 5, 2013 In the last couple of posts I talked about how larger aggregates make enforcing invariants easier, but smaller aggregates reduce concurrency conflicts. You need to use domain knowledge to choose aggregate ... Choosing Aggregate Boundaries – Invariants Spanning Aggregates 0 0 0
BizTalk 2013 Map Unit Testing Gotcha Michael Stephenson, May 5, 2013 BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing Ive been trying to get the sample for the BizTalk Map unit testing scenario working. I kept getting the following error:"Transformation Failure" This was happening everytime I executed the test even though ... BizTalk 2013 Map Unit Testing Gotcha 0 0 1 BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing
Carolina Code Camp 2013: Introduction to SharePoint Development Kelly Jones, May 5, 2013 SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Server 2007 .NET Development I spoke this weekend at the Carolina Code Camp on the CPCC campus here in Charlotte and my topic was an Intro to SharePoint Development for .NET Developers (those that have no knowledge of SharePoint). ... Carolina Code Camp 2013: Introduction to SharePoint Development 0 0 2 SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Server 2007 .NET Development
Azure VM - Endpoint Not found: There was no endpoint listening Ken Hortsch, May 5, 2013 .NET The only solution was to delete the VM and recreate. There are ways to clone the VM from the VHD that was used, but the original VM must be deleted. Strangely enough I had a running VM, then added an SSL ... Azure VM - Endpoint Not found: There was no endpoint listening 0 0 0 .NET
Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service Enrique Lima, May 4, 2013 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools Recently I made the switch from having a local TFS deployment to using the hosted Team Foundation Service. As I had been using it back when it was TFSPreview, there were projects that had been left over, ... Deleting projects from Team Foundation Service 0 0 0 Application Lifecycle Management TFS Tools
Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft D'Arcy Lussier, May 4, 2013 Go and read this. There is so much win in this blog post its obscene. One of the best commentaries on work/life balance I’ve read ever with loads of great suggestions and insight. http://blog.jongallant.com/... ... Jon Gallant on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft 0 0 0
Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) Marko Apfel, May 4, 2013 F# Tools IDEs, Editors, .. Here are my favorites in descend order Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web yes! - it allows you free F# development, notably for libraries LINQPad again and again a wonderful tool! SharpDevelop ... Productive work environments for F# development (under windows) 0 0 0 F# Tools
Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Testing/Debugging/Logging When creating a new data class, it’s a good idea to override ToString() method to output most of the data.It will help to see details in logs.The only exception if the class has a sensitive data like CreditCard ... Override ToString() using Json serialization or something else. 0 0 0 Testing/Debugging/Logging
Deploy PDB files into production to ease exception report investigation. Michael Freidgeim, May 4, 2013 Deployment Testing/Debugging/Logging For a long time I believed that PDB as a part of debugging information should not be included in production deployment. Recently my colleague suggested to copy them to simplify exception investigations. ... Deploy PDB files into production to ease exception report investigation. 0 0 0 Deployment Testing/Debugging/Logging
New Release - DAX Studio 1.2 (with Excel 2013 support) Darren Gosbell, May 4, 2013 It’s been a long while coming, but the next release of DAX Studio is out. If you already have DAX Studio running in Excel 2010 you will not see anything new in this release, this release is all about getting ... New Release - DAX Studio 1.2 (with Excel 2013 support) 0 0 0
Iron Man 3 (I've seen it, you probably haven't...) Chris G. Williams, May 3, 2013 Here's the short, non-spoily version: It's fun popcorn movie, with lots of action. A little too much interpersonal touchy-feely crap for an Iron Man movie, and not enough "suit blowing shit up" time, imo, ... Iron Man 3 (I've seen it, you probably haven't...) 0 0 1
Things I'm doing lately Chris G. Williams, May 3, 2013 I've been messing around with RPG Maker VX Ace a bit ever since they put it on sale on Steam (and my parents just happened to give me Steam Points for my birthday.) So far, I like it. ViNull made the comment ... Things I'm doing lately 0 0 0
Office 365 support issues? marc dekeyser, May 3, 2013 Exchange General This article was written by Tony Redmond and outlines some of the problems he encountered with his office 365 upgrade to wave 15 (exchange 2013). Unfortunately he got a bad support experience on top of ... Office 365 support issues? 0 0 0 Exchange General
C#/.NET Fundamentals: Three Tech.Pro Tutorials James Michael Hare, May 2, 2013 I know I’ve been a bit quiet on my blog lately. I’ve still been adjusting to my new life in Seattle and learning different technologies for my new job. It’s been a lot of fun, but has left me with precious ... C#/.NET Fundamentals: Three Tech.Pro Tutorials 0 0 0
.NET Security Part 1 simonc, May 2, 2013 Ever since the first version of .NET, it's been possible to strictly define the actions and resources a particular assembly can use, and, using Code Access Security, permissions to perform certain actions ... .NET Security Part 1 0 0 4
My story with Kinect Maher Jendoubi, May 2, 2013 Kinect During my spring holidays, I travelled to Sousse in Tunisia just for one day to attend a Microsoft day event. I was lucky to attend the session of Omar Mohamed Islam, Kinect Evangelist. We had a lot of ... My story with Kinect 0 0 0 Kinect
Powershell Multi-Line Input Box Dialog, Open File Dialog, Folder Browser Dialog, Input Box, and Message Box deadlydog, May 1, 2013 I love PowerShell, and when prompting users for input I often prefer to use GUI controls rather than have them enter everything into the console; some things like browsing for files or folders or entering ... Powershell Multi-Line Input Box Dialog, Open File Dialog, Folder Browser Dialog, Input Box, and Message Box 0 0 0
The associated partition function MyPartitionScheme generates more partitions than there are file groups Leonard Mwangi, May 1, 2013 When creating your partition schemes you get the following error The associated partition function MyPartitionScheme generates more partitions than there are file groups mentioned in the scheme ' MyPartitionScheme'. ... The associated partition function MyPartitionScheme generates more partitions than there are file groups 0 0 0
Announcing Prairie Dev Con Community Night Featuring Mark Stafford (Microsoft) on OData! D'Arcy Lussier, May 1, 2013 The evening of Tuesday, May 7th is community night! Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg is hosting a free user-group-like event for the Winnipeg developer community! Mark Stafford, Product Manager at Microsoft, will ... Announcing Prairie Dev Con Community Night Featuring Mark Stafford (Microsoft) on OData! 0 0 2
Ensuring unique CIDs for MSDTC in BizTalk installations Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 BizTalk Situation By installing BizTalk in a distributed environment it is essential, that the MS DTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Controller) have an unique CID. Notably by cloning machines in a virtual ... Ensuring unique CIDs for MSDTC in BizTalk installations 0 0 0 BizTalk
Sublime Text 2 – Package installation not possible, no package listed Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 Tools Problem I tried to add the Emmet (fka Zen Coding) package to Sublime Text 2. But by running this “Install Package” (CTRL + SHIFT + p) command no packages were displayed. Solution No glue why, but I had ... Sublime Text 2 – Package installation not possible, no package listed 0 0 0 Tools
SharpDevelop, F#, missing “Send to F# Interactive” context menu Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 F# Tools Situation, Problem During playing a little bit with these WPF MVC F# projects inside SharpDevelop I stumbled over the situation, that I could not send F# snippets to the interactive window. The menu was ... SharpDevelop, F#, missing “Send to F# Interactive” context menu 0 0 0 F# Tools
SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.” Marko Apfel, May 1, 2013 Tools F# Situation My private machine has Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This Visual Studio edition doesn’t allow to develop with F#. So I installed additionally SharpDevelop. But it ... SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.” 0 0 0 Tools F#
Book Review: Mastering UDK Game Development by John P. Doran Matthew Christian, May 1, 2013 Reviews Reviews Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Mastering UDK Game Development by John P. Doran, published in March 2013 by Packt Publishing, features eight chapters focusing on presenting intermediate ... Book Review: Mastering UDK Game Development by John P. Doran 0 0 0 Reviews Reviews
Why the custom comparer is your friend DavidMadden, April 30, 2013 I have a ListView that is holding session dates for sessions someone may attend. I like to use a MonthCalendar control to allow the user to select several dates, allowing the control's DateSelected event ... Why the custom comparer is your friend 0 0 0
Testing BizTalk XLANGMessage with the Fakes Framework Michael Stephenson, April 29, 2013 BizTalk BizTalk BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing Ive been interested in exploring the opportunities around the Fakes Framework for testing BizTalk solutions for a while now, and until recently its been sitting as one of the many blog articles I have ... Testing BizTalk XLANGMessage with the Fakes Framework 1 0 1 BizTalk BizTalk BizTalk Testing BizTalk Testing
My Notepad++ Color Theme -- Obsidian PyCs Soe Tun, April 29, 2013 Tools My Color Theme for Notepad++ I really like the color theme from the Adobe Source Code Pro font announcement for HTML and XML as well as the beautiful Source Code Pro font for coding. Then, I read this ... My Notepad++ Color Theme -- Obsidian PyCs 1 0 0 Tools
Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux run on Azure? Charles Young, April 29, 2013 Microsoft does not currently offer RHEL on subscription on the Windows Azure platform, and people have reported problems when trying to create and run their RHEL VMs. So, does RHEL run on Azure? Read on ... Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux run on Azure? 1 0 0
dotnetConf Code Samples Steve Michelotti, April 29, 2013 Thanks to everyone to attended my presentation on Web API at dotnetConf. It was a great virtual conference and I hope to participate in more of them in the future. Code samples and PowerPoint for my presentation ... dotnetConf Code Samples 1 0 2
Reminder to self - MSBUILD doesnt shutdown straightaway Michael Stephenson, April 29, 2013 Ive been bitten by this one a couple of times recently and want to remind myself for next time!MsBuild doesnt shutdown after its been ran by default (performance improvements I expect). For integration ... Reminder to self - MSBUILD doesnt shutdown straightaway 0 0 0
How to Copy Formula in Excel Aaron Li, April 28, 2013 I have a big Excel list with about 40,000 rows(list A), and another list with 3000 rows(list B). I need to find those in list B from list A and remove them. Both A and B have an ID column containg same ... How to Copy Formula in Excel 0 0 0
Configuration of Hyper-V and creation of VMs Enrique Lima, April 28, 2013 PowerShell Misc Tools SharePoint SQL Server Virtualization In continuing with the post that I started last week, this week I focus on how I used PowerShell to install Hyper-V on Windows 8 and then create all necessary items to continue the creation of the SharePoint ... Configuration of Hyper-V and creation of VMs 0 0 0 PowerShell Misc Tools SharePoint SQL Server Virtualization
Lync 2013 RCC issue Mitel LBG Kay Sellenrode, April 28, 2013 Lync RCC Mitel LBG Lync2013 Lync 2013 Last week I was setting up Lync 2013 with Remote Call Control to a Mitel Live Business Gateway(LBG).I expected not much had changed from Lync 2010, and the lack for any 2013 procedures took us the 2010 ... Lync 2013 RCC issue Mitel LBG 0 0 1 Lync RCC Mitel LBG Lync2013 Lync 2013
Global Render Lab at the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp Alan Smith, April 28, 2013 Yesterday the attendees of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp took part in a Global Render Lab that was built on the Windows Azure platform. The lab was adapted from a simple demo I wrote in 2010, and then ... Global Render Lab at the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 0 0 0
Code PaLOUsa 2013! MikeParks, April 28, 2013 Over the weekend my team and I attended Code PaLOUsa here in Louisville, KY. It's an awesome event and it really brought together the IT community around the area. I'm pretty proud to say that my new employer ... Code PaLOUsa 2013! 0 0 0
Extending sp_WhoIsActive With context_info Jesse Taber, April 28, 2013 .NET sql server If you work with SQL Server you should be familiar with Adam Machanic’s fantastic sp_WhoIsActive stored procedure. This procedure provides high levels of detail about all commands that are currently being ... Extending sp_WhoIsActive With context_info 0 0 0 .NET sql server
My First Netduino Go Project Anthony Trudeau, April 28, 2013 hardware NetDuino Earlier I wrote that I got a Netduino Go Starter kit for Christmas. I've worked with it from time to time. This is a little late posting, because I finished my first project in February. I thought I'd ... My First Netduino Go Project 0 0 0 hardware NetDuino
CMD – how to install apps from UNC path Waclaw Chrabaszcz, April 28, 2013 Server 2008 XenApp There is a very old and useful command: pushd. Take a look how to use it. pushd \\fileserver\AppShare\Insta... user /install15186-AdbeRdr11000_... /sPB /rs"Firefox Setup 16.0.1.exe" ... CMD – how to install apps from UNC path 0 0 0 Server 2008 XenApp
PluralSight MVC course error - No parameterless constructor defined Ken Hortsch, April 27, 2013 .NET The ASP.NET apps I develop/support at work have all been WebForms. So while taking a lovely course by Scott Allen on PluralSight, I decided to skip the IOC crap in my lab. Wrong! In order for the EF DBContext ... PluralSight MVC course error - No parameterless constructor defined 0 0 0 .NET
VS2012 Error 1 The build stopped unexpectedly because of an internal failure. Ken Hortsch, April 27, 2013 Microsoft.Build.Exceptions.... Build was canceled. Failed to successfully launch or connect to a child MSBuild.exe process. Verify that the MSBuild.exe "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\F... ... VS2012 Error 1 The build stopped unexpectedly because of an internal failure. 0 0 0
I'm coming back: Woohoo rodelljr, April 26, 2013 Its been along time since I posted here last. I have been working with my other blog mixtio.wordpress.com off and on for a little while, and I have noticed something. Pretty much all of my posts were related ... I'm coming back: Woohoo 0 0 0
Analysing your Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement Billing Data Michael Stephenson, April 26, 2013 I work with a number of customers who use Windows Azure and are increasing their use of Windows Azure due to the significant success they are having. One of the things where I feel customers are yet to ... Analysing your Windows Azure Enterprise Agreement Billing Data 0 0 0