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C# on Android and iOS with Xamarin bconlon, March 13, 2013 I had always assumed Android was limited to Java and iOS (iPhone/iPad) was limited to Objective-C, but you can now use Mono for Android and MonoTouch for iOS to write your apps in C#.I didn't know this ... C# on Android and iOS with Xamarin 0 0 0
Step-by-Step: Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V KeithMayer, March 13, 2013 Windows Server 2012 and our completely FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 certainly have some really cost effective new storage options, with Storage Spaces and Hyper-V over SMB 3.0. However, many IT Pros have already ... Step-by-Step: Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 0 0 0
SQL Server 2012: How do I set "Edit top" rows to a different number? Paula DiTallo, March 12, 2013 SQL right click the results or your "Edit Top 999 Rows" query in SSMS. There's an option called: "Pane -> SQL" If you look at it, this show you the sql--you can edit that and narrow down the rows you are ... SQL Server 2012: How do I set "Edit top" rows to a different number? 0 0 0 SQL
Here’s why the Unit of Work is needed Aligned, March 12, 2013 Entity Framework Repository Pattern Unit of Work I didn’t understand why I would want to use the Unit of Work pattern before I ran into this. I had a ManagerBase class that had an IRepository. (The managers implement ManagerBase which have a private ... Here’s why the Unit of Work is needed 0 0 0 Entity Framework Repository Pattern Unit of Work
FakeItEasy - Sealed Methods can not be intercepted exception Aligned, March 12, 2013 Unit Testing Mocking I was trying to do a partial mock in FakeItEasy and kept getting "The current proxy generator can not intercept the specified method for the following reason: - Sealed methods can not be intercepted".The ... FakeItEasy - Sealed Methods can not be intercepted exception 0 0 0 Unit Testing Mocking
SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table Vipin, March 12, 2013 SQL Server 2000/2005 C# We could find the maximum and minimum value in a table by using the SQL inbuilt aggregate functions MAX() and MIN() respectively. But, many times there comes a scenario when we need to find the second ... SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table 0 0 0 SQL Server 2000/2005 C#
Entity Framework POCO and JSON serialization Jake Rutherford, March 12, 2013 An application I've been working utilizes the jQuery DataTables plugin and server side processing for pagination.My initial set up had my controller call a view model which in turn called my business layer ... Entity Framework POCO and JSON serialization 0 0 0
Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], March 11, 2013 Personal MVPBuzz ALM ALMRangers TechEd I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting ... Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track 0 0 0 Personal MVPBuzz ALM ALMRangers TechEd
Visual Studio 2012 thank you Anirudha, March 11, 2013 I was quite Excited to hear that I got a shipment come from Microsoft. I open it and this is the thing I got in my hand . It's a shiny glass cube with writing etched in the middle of it ... Visual Studio 2012 thank you 0 0 2
Retain and Set Posted Checkbox Value in the MVC 4 Controller Bob Hardister, March 11, 2013 I believe this is a bug where only the checkbox value is not retained when passing the model from the view to a post method. Model public bool CoreField { get; set; } View @model List<Model> @Html.CheckBoxFor(m ... Retain and Set Posted Checkbox Value in the MVC 4 Controller 0 0 0
Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], March 11, 2013 Tfs2012 Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 0 0 0 Tfs2012
Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly Nick Harrison, March 11, 2013 Book Reviews Over the weekend I sat down with another book in the Succinctly series. I have wanted to learn more about Knockout.js for a while now. I approached this book knowing very little about Knockout.js, but ... Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly 0 0 0 Book Reviews
Web Development on the JVM James Oloo Onyango, March 11, 2013 Java JVM Languages Since the advent of Java (and the JVM) in 1995, we have seen a plethora of Web Development techniques. The general trend start from the lean methodologies to the era of the Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) ... Web Development on the JVM 0 0 0 Java JVM Languages
Login problems after Sleep/StandBy mode on MacbookPro running SSD "OCZ Vertext 4" mrad, March 11, 2013 Was recently developing couple mobile apps using C# on iOS using Monotouch by Xamarin , purchased 17" MacbookPro i7 quad - upgraded memory to 16 GB and HD to 256GB SSD Installed VM and Windows 8 including ... Login problems after Sleep/StandBy mode on MacbookPro running SSD "OCZ Vertext 4" 0 0 0
Solving Performance Problems with nHibernate (or any ORM) Dylan Smith, March 10, 2013 I’ve spent a bunch of time lately with clients helping them understand why their applications are so slow and how to improve performance. This often comes down to their use (or misuse) of ORM frameworks ... Solving Performance Problems with nHibernate (or any ORM) 0 0 0
How to set exe to run on startup in Windows 8 Anirudha, March 11, 2013 Do you want to run something when you open your system. Here is a simple way to do this in Windows 8. press Win + R and type “%appData%” then press Enter You are now in Roaming folder. Follow this folder ... How to set exe to run on startup in Windows 8 0 0 0
Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio 2012 and Wix 3.7: Part 1 Alex Hildyard, March 10, 2013 MSI is one of those technologies that has stood the test of time, and WiX is an increasingly popular way of creating these installer databases. There’s a perception that WiX is convoluted, complex and ... Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio 2012 and Wix 3.7: Part 1 0 0 0
Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product Categories Doug Lampe, March 10, 2013 In Part III, we started creating a very basic MVC application to host our store. We also created a simple table to store products and methods to perform CRUD transactions and validate data. Now we we introduce ... Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product Categories 0 0 0
HTTP Succinctly Anthony Trudeau, March 10, 2013 reviews I was approached recently by Syncfusion. They pitched their Succinctly series and requested that I write about one of the e-books in the series. I chose HTTP Succinctly. My familiarity with the topic gave ... HTTP Succinctly 0 0 0 reviews
Session material from TechDays BE and NL Laurent Bugnion, March 10, 2013 .NET .NET 4.5 Expression Blend Design MVVM Phone Technical stuff UX Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 Work UPDATE: Added the videos Note: Like all material on this blog, this blog post and all the referenced material are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to reuse ... Session material from TechDays BE and NL 0 0 3 .NET .NET 4.5 Expression Blend Design MVVM Phone Technical stuff UX Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 Work
Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013 Randy Walker, March 10, 2013 Pictures - 2013 Microsoft Global MVP Summit VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Back in February, I had the honor to attend Microsoft’s annual Summit for MVP award winners. As an award winner we get invited to ... Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013 0 0 0
PLINQ–Not Just a Cool Sound ToString(theory);, March 9, 2013 C# Tips and Tricks One of my favorite features in .Net 4 is the addition of the PLINQ extensions off the IEnumerable<T> for parallel queries of type ParallelQuery<T>. Even after talking to bunches of developers, ... PLINQ–Not Just a Cool Sound 0 0 0 C# Tips and Tricks
Passing data between MSBuild and WiX Alex Hildyard, March 9, 2013 In MSBuild we define properties within a PropertyGroup and reference them with the $() notation. In WiX we have variables with a similar syntax, but which do not natively map to MSBuild properties. When ... Passing data between MSBuild and WiX 0 0 0
MonoTouch MKMapView Zoom Level Sazzad Hossain, March 9, 2013 MonoTouch iOS C# Code Snippet CodeProject [cross posted]I needed to implement a zoom level similar to Google Maps style for MonoTouch iOS and lucky me after doing little search on the web I found this article http://troybrant.net/blog/2... ... MonoTouch MKMapView Zoom Level 0 0 0 MonoTouch iOS C# Code Snippet CodeProject
App Builder – Keep the Cash Offer Michael Cummings, March 9, 2013 MonoGame VS2010 http://www.buildforwindows.... KEEP THE CASH. How does it work? · Publish your app to the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store between March 8, 2013 through June 30, 2013 · Submit up to ... App Builder – Keep the Cash Offer 0 0 0 MonoGame VS2010
The Power of dialling 112 from a mobile phone… BizTalk Visionary, March 8, 2013 Life If you are in trouble or come across trouble forget dialling 999 dial 112 not only does it give you the power of 999 but it allows your mobile to find and use any net work to make the connection. That’s ... The Power of dialling 112 from a mobile phone… 0 0 1 Life
Magenic Code Mastery 2013 - San Francisco, CA - Friday April 19th Daniel Hester, March 8, 2013 Magenic is sponsoring a FREE day of advanced education for senior technical people and technical decision makers on Friday April 19th, 2013 at the Microsoft Building (835 Market Street, Suite 700, San ... Magenic Code Mastery 2013 - San Francisco, CA - Friday April 19th 0 0 0
Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user – Now on NuGet! deadlydog, March 8, 2013 A while ago I blogged about a powershell script I made that would automatically update your ClickOnce project file’s Minimum Required Version to the latest version of your application so that users would ... Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user – Now on NuGet! 0 0 0
C#/.NET Little Wonders: Extension Methods Demystified James Michael Hare, March 8, 2013 C# .NET Fundamentals Little Wonders My Blog Software Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little ... C#/.NET Little Wonders: Extension Methods Demystified 0 0 7 C# .NET Fundamentals Little Wonders My Blog Software
syncfusion’s Succinctly series Anirudha, March 8, 2013 Few days ago I hear about Succinctly series that syncfusion made for us. You can check all these resources at http://www.syncfusion.com/r... The good thing about these books are they are ... syncfusion’s Succinctly series 0 0 0
List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], March 8, 2013 PowerShell TfsService Tfs2012 A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have ... List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build 0 0 0 PowerShell TfsService Tfs2012
Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services Clint Edmonson, March 7, 2013 I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our official Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services. Android developers now have easy access to structured data storage, authentication, push notifications ... Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services 0 0 0
Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Application Doug Lampe, March 6, 2013 To keep things simple, I am going to retain the default security framework created by Visual Studio when I created the application. However, I am going to change the database name to something more meaningful. ... Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Application 0 0 2
A Look at NDepend Aligned, March 6, 2013 Tools I was contacted by NDepend and asked if I wanted a free version of their professional license in exchange for writing a post about it. I agreed and have been running it for a few weeks. My first impression ... A Look at NDepend 0 0 0 Tools
Charting in Windows 8 Store Apps Harish Ranganathan, March 6, 2013 Windows 8 One of the queries I received from a partner was to have charting implemented in their Windows 8 Application. While by default there are no chart controls, there are a lot of third party controls such ... Charting in Windows 8 Store Apps 0 0 3 Windows 8
Streetlight Store - Part II: Black Boxing Products and Improved Architecture Doug Lampe, March 5, 2013 In Part I, I introduced the concept of the Streetlight Store and the architecture. In this segment, we will walk through the creation of a data contract for products, interfaces for managing transactions, ... Streetlight Store - Part II: Black Boxing Products and Improved Architecture 0 0 0
Pondering Azure PAAS vs IAAS Michael Stephenson, March 5, 2013 I was having a chat with one of the guys in the office today and was wondering about the considerations you would make when deciding between a web/worker role and a VM in Azure.To give an example we have ... Pondering Azure PAAS vs IAAS 0 0 0
A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC Nick Harrison, March 5, 2013 MVC In a recent blog, I wrote about Building A Custom View Engine to Create Excel Files in MVC. In this blog, I skipped over the grammar that we might use in the View definition. I have had a few people email ... A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC 0 0 0 MVC
JsonIgnore attribute in Json.Net to ignore properties Aligned, March 5, 2013 JavaScript We’re using Entity Framework to query a complex object graph using the .Include(“”) method to eager load the results, then sending it to the client with the WebApi. We’ve overridden the JavaScript Serializer ... JsonIgnore attribute in Json.Net to ignore properties 0 0 0 JavaScript
Reseed Identity column in SQL Server Vipin, March 5, 2013 Use the below SQL command to reset the seed on the identity column -DBCC CHECKIDENT('TABLE_NAME', RESEED, 'RESEED_VALUE')The following example forces the current identity value in the AddressTypeID column ... Reseed Identity column in SQL Server 0 0 2
Review: Using Pluralsight Video Training To Keep Up With Technology Tim Murphy, March 5, 2013 Reviews As a consultant I have long stretches where I may be heads down with a single technology. In the mean time the rest of the world can be passing you by. When I get off of that project there is a lot to ... Review: Using Pluralsight Video Training To Keep Up With Technology 0 0 0 Reviews
Using the DIR command in the TFS 2010/12 Team Build Invoke Process Activity Bob Hardister, March 5, 2013 I found that using a loop activity to build up a filtered list clutters up the build report with repetitions of activities inside the loop. I could write a custom activity to create the list. However, ... Using the DIR command in the TFS 2010/12 Team Build Invoke Process Activity 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 5/Mar/2013 - Applied WPF 4 in Context TATWORTH, March 5, 2013 Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at is Applied WPF 4 in Context"Applied WPF 4 in Context shows developers that applications don't exist by themselves—they sit in the real world, with its attendant ... APress Deal of the Day 5/Mar/2013 - Applied WPF 4 in Context 0 0 0
ASP.NET 4.5 - FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions Vincent Maverick Durano, March 5, 2013 ASP.NET MVC SignalR ASP.NET SignalR is pretty new and very exciting feature in ASP.NET. You might want to play around with it and may encounter some hiccups during your implementation. This post will cover some issues that ... ASP.NET 4.5 - FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions 0 0 0 ASP.NET MVC SignalR
Some Windows 8 observations. (aka "Just can't keep quiet anymore") Lorin Thwaits, March 4, 2013 Almost a year and a half ago when I installed the first beta, the Start Menu was still present. In the next iteration, it was disabled by default but could be brought back with a registry hack on a per-user ... Some Windows 8 observations. (aka "Just can't keep quiet anymore") 0 0 0
Slow Network Connection Josh Tenenbaum, March 4, 2013 Win8 Hyper-v Network I was copying a file from my Windows 8 machine to my desktop and the file was copying about 122K. I saw that my network connection was no longer using the hardware network, but instead a virtual network ... Slow Network Connection 0 0 0 Win8 Hyper-v Network
Programming Is Not for Everybody? Everyone needs to be Encouraged! Nick Harrison, March 4, 2013 I just read this blog Programming Is Not for Everybody. I have to admit to being taken aback by the premise. I believe that in their heart of hearts everyone wishes that they could program computers. No ... Programming Is Not for Everybody? Everyone needs to be Encouraged! 0 0 0
Dynamic Sorting with LINQ Nick Harrison, March 4, 2013 LINQ If you use LINQ to retrieve data and display this data in a grid, you may have come across the problem of allowing the user to control how the data is sorted. Users always want to be able to sort data ... Dynamic Sorting with LINQ 0 0 0 LINQ
Jedi Mind Meld Nick Harrison, March 4, 2013 I try to keep politics out of my technical blog, but I figured that as long as I keep the focus, narrowly defined, I guess we should be OK. We need to be careful reading too much into this slip of the ... Jedi Mind Meld 0 0 0
SQL Server - get last executed SQL statement Vipin, March 4, 2013 We all know the usage of sp_who2 command in SQL server, its life-saver when you need to know what's causing your query take longer time to execute or in other words who's blocking you r query.But, SQL ... SQL Server - get last executed SQL statement 0 0 2