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I've just opened a project on CodePlex - http://algonet.codeplex.com/ !!! This project will implement various algorithms related to artificial intelligence, numerical analysis, NLP, object recognition and quantitative finance. It will initially target C#, and eventually F#. First exercise - port Java AIMA 3 to C# from http://code.google.com/p/ai... AIMA3 so far I've ported the utils - helpers, data structures and basic linear algebra classes Matrix class - Implemented ICloneable, ISerializable.GetObjectData ...
When developing WCF services that interact with a custom Security Token Service (STS), you will need to create at least one X.509 certificate. If you have access to a trusted certificate authority – e.g. a Windows Active Directory domain – then this task is pretty simple. But if you don’t, or maybe you would just rather create a set of self-signed certificates, here is an approach that works well for me. This particular scenario utilizes three separate certificates. The first one is named “localhost” ...
Scott Guthrie of Microsoft has blogged about "HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series)" at http://weblogs.asp.net/scot... Well worth a read! Next version of Visual Studio looks to be keeping up the improvement in developer productivity ...
At http://csharperimage.jeremy... there is an interesting discussion on whether to use Prperties or to publicly expose fields. Whilst I will admit there be cases where every last CPU cycle must be conserved, I conclude that StyleCop's instruction to use Properties rather than publicly expose field must normally be followed. What do you think? Can't code withoutAdvanced XML support inMicrosoft Visual Studio XML editor ...
I received a surprise mail from Microsoft saying that I’ve been recognized as Microsoft Community Contributor for the year 2011. I am delighted that my contributions in TFS and ALM space have been recognised by Microsoft. Congratulations! We’re pleased to inform you that your contributions to Microsoft online technical communities have been recognized with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award. The Microsoft Community Contributor Award is reserved for participants who have made notable contributions ...
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I use JetBrains ReSharper tool for a long time – it’s a very useful thing, that can help me to be more efficiently. Some time ago James Kovac made a training course for Pluralsight about everyday usage of ReSharper. I learn it, and I strongly recommend it to any ReSharper user. It contains a set of tip about navigating, code generation, refactoring, etc. A good news, that this ReSharper training course available for free to any ReSharper user! If you want to get an access, contact sales@jetbrains.com ...
Today the release candidate of Microsoft’s Silverlight 5 was released to the public. If you want to know “What’s new in Silverlight 5” then check out this page on Silverlight.net and continue reading the article below. Getting Started First, we are going to need to download the required tools to install the Silverlight 5 RC. Before getting started, please note that you can install the Silverlight 5 RC on top of the final release of Silverlight 4. If you have the Silverlight 5 Beta installed, then ...
I have recently started to update a very successful SAP CRM integration I originally built 5 or 6 years ago. We have recently started the implementation of CRM 2011 so the business has decided to take the opportunity to change the data that they want to synchronize between the 2 systems. Luckily the integration is both modular and to a large degree dynamic. The core logic should remain relatively untouched and only the SAP and CRM connection dlls should need any real work. The changes to the SAP ...
Introduction By now, most of you have heard that Windows Phone 7 – Mango release will support Local Databases (SQL CE) using Linq to SQL. But what you probably haven’t heard much about is how to extract the .SDF that is created in isolated storage to your local computer and view the contents. I find this extremely important for debugging application and making sure my database is setup exactly like I want it. So, that is what we are going to do today. Getting Started with a sample application: For ...
In this Issue: Alex Golesh(-2-, -3-), Andrea Boschin, Peter Kuhn, Shawn Wildermuth, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Pete Vickers, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Chad Campbell, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, and David Kelley. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 : Low-Latency Sound Effects" Vikram Pendse WP7: "Windows Phone codenamed "Mango" Training Course" Alex Golesh Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's latest Desert Mountain Developers is up My friends at SilverlightShow posted their top 5 for ...
I found a blog post by Davy Brion (one of my favorite bloggers on the ‘net) that spoke about the .NET world’s current state. He mentioned that Microsoft’s products (such as WebMatrix and LightSwitch) are mainly geared toward what he calls “low-end” developers. At the same time, Microsoft is backing off on other products that more experienced and seasoned programmers like, such as IronRuby, IronPython, and the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime). I certainly agree with some of his points. Applications ...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 22 - 28, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Who says Silverlight can’t run on a tablet Papa's Perspective: Fundamental MVVM apps portal – a Silverlight based app store Tablet Development with Microsoft Silverlight Free SilverlightShow Webinar: WCF RIA POCO Domain Services Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ...
From Joe Healy’s Dev Fish Blog but worth repeating!! What’s a Windows Phone Camp? For those who went to our "Windows Phone Garage" series last year, its one of those. For those new to the scene, its a free, full day event chocked full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or just getting started with phone app development this full-day event is for you. Interested in profit? We’ll also lead discussions on how to monetize your applications ...
Today, I was testing a Web site for deployment and encountered the problem described in the subject of this post. However, the process leading up to realizing the true problem was far from clear. This post describes my initial experience, steps I took to isolate the true problem, and what I did to fix it. To put this in context, My project is an ASP.NET 4.0 Website. Bump! While testing, I encountered a System.Web.HttpException with the following message: File does not exist. with the following stack ...
To quote Microsoft: Businesses do not need to pay a premium for a world-class CRM solution. Today, you can get a great solution that meets your specific business needs – and save a tremendous amount of money in the process. Until March 31, 2012, Microsoft will send qualified organizations USD $150 for each Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Subscription license. Buy 50 seats, get USD $7,500. Buy 500 seats, get USD $75,000.1 This money could be used any way you like. For example, the money can be used ...
The Team Explorer is a wonderful view of the position of your version control in the team foundation server. However, there is no one window of such truth available for the workspace. I am a very active member of the msdn community and have come across questions on, How do I see a list of all files that are not mapped to TFS but are in my workspace? (Yes, you can use the TFS power tools tfpt.exe /scorch or /treeclean to achieve this) I would like to see all pending changes in just one folder and ...
Introduction Have you ever wondered how to update the Application Tile in your Windows Phone 7 Mango application? Me too. But before we dig in, let’s look at the properties of a Tile. Microsoft defines each one as listed below: Title. A string indicating the title of the application. The Title must fit on a single line of text and should not be wider than the actual Tile. Approximately 15 characters will fit in the title before being truncated. BackgroundImage. An image displayed on the front of ...
Recently I was at a client that was experiencing an odd issue: they couldn’t activate the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure site collection feature. In this post I’ll walkthrough some of the processes that we went through to diagnose the error. For those wanting the short version it turns out the web application policy for “Create Subsites” had been disabled. You can jump to the Solution section jump to the solution section below. Diagnose To start we checked the ULS logs to see what showed ...
Microsoft released downloadable training materials for BizTalk 2010 for both Administrators and Developers. Training for Developers: http://www.microsoft.com/do... Training for Administrators: http://www.microsoft.com/do... ...
I am a reformed former JavaScript hater. In the 90s and early 2000s I muddled through JavaScript compatibility issues, poor performance and a lack of development & debugging tools. When ASP.NET came out, promising to hide me from the complexity of browser incompatibilities, I fully embraced server-side web development. This approach may have worked in 2002, but it does not today. The world's expectations have been reset by Ajax, Google Maps, mobile web sites, high performance JavaScript engines, ...
This post is about using the AsyncOperationService with .NET Asynchronous Pattern. Warning: this is another article that is likely to give you a headache. Its designed to provide full details of how things work. If you don’t want the headache then, skim the article and copy’n’paste the code from the “FromAsyncPattern” box below (it assumes you already have AsyncOperationService code). Subsequent articles will outline more real world uses which may (and I say “may” very tentatively) not be so headache ...
Let’s define what this should mean and be about. How can I as an IT Pro be able to use TFS for the tasks and activities I normally do. Whether it is controlling a project or creating scripts and such. The vision while it goes into execution with TFS, will include a process with SharePoint somewhere in there too. Scenario #1: Change Control, Change Management or Specific no-code Project Control. As an IT Pro, what do I do? Change Control, Change Management, Project Management. The problem? Yes, we ...
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a GeeksWithBlogs.net Influencers review. This time, I had the opportunity to check out Red Gate’s SmartAssembly 6.1, which is a integrated collection of tools for modifying and manipulating assemblies. Now that phrase, while accurate, is quite a mouthful. So what all does it actually do? SmartAssembly has the ability to: Do strong name signing; Add automated error reporting; Add feature usage reporting; Merge dependencies (e.g. libraries) into the main assembly ...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I recently started working with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 and I came across one of the new language features, String.IsNullWithWhiteSpace. Basically, it's an enhanced version of the commonly used String.IsNullOrEmpty. This new enhanced version goes a step forward and checks for whitespaces such as tabs. String myString = “ “; //returns false Bool result = String.IsNullOrEmpty(myStri... //returns true Bool result = String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(m... ...
Apologies in advance for any problems caused as I move over to http://ericnelson.wordpress... over the next few days. I will blog again on here when the move is fully complete. I have had a superb time on http://geekswithblogs.net which I moved to back in January 2009 – but it doesn’t quite match what I am after in a blogging platform right now where as wordpress.com broadly does. This will be my second change of platform in 7 years – it was back in July 2004 I created my first technology blog over ...
In my previous post I have shown how we can use a C# function in the XSLT. Now I want to go one step further and use in the transformation the ASP.NET controls along with their events. Let's start from the sample xml data: <files> <file Id="F58C2962-AC0D-4C55-80A8... Name="file 1" Path="D:\Temp\" Extension="iso"/> <file Id="FDC1358E-D9C8-4A70-ABE0... Name="file 2" Path="D:\Temp\" Extension="jpg"/> </files> I want to create a table from it and for each ...
If your question is, what is this? or perhaps more around … what does this mean? Let me explain a bit about it. Microsoft has been providing this type of services through partners within a given competency to clients that are looking to deploy and implement Microsoft products like SharePoint, Exchange or the strategy behind Windows and Office deployments. The way it works, well you purchase your products and perhaps those products come with Software Assurance and they have training/service credits. ...
A couple of days ago, Microsoft release a Training Kit for TFS 2010. The training kit contains presentations, demos and labs to get to know the platform better and understand the purpose and capabilities of the product.
The download is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27152
There are plenty of posts and articles out there that provide retrospectives of, and pay homage to, Steve Jobs’ tenure as Apple CEO. I’m not an expert on Apple or Jobs, and this is not one of those posts. But Steve Jobs’ resignation from the CEO post does mark the end of a related era I know something about. It’s the era that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs defined together. And now that both of them have ended their CEO runs and receded to roles as Chairmen of the Board, it’s important to consider just ...
Introduction: One of the concerns that I keep hearing from customers is, “We can’t deploy Silverlight because it won’t run on a tablet.” I usually reply to that question stating, “What do you mean it can’t run on a tablet?” They usually looked puzzled and say, “You mean Silverlight *CAN* run on a tablet?” Yes, there are many devices that Silverlight can run on. Today we are going to take a look at the Motion CL900 Tablet. FYI: I have no affiliation with Motion Computing. Why this tablet? When I first ...
Here is the screenshot of final output. Here is what PoC is doing 1. There is Silverlight application hosted in CRM on custom area-subarea. This in-turn needs two web resources 2. There is Custom button added in Ribbon 3. Third web resource is hosting JavaScript function 4. On click of Custom Button on CRM Ribbon function in JavaScript web resource is called which in-turn calls the method in C# code of Silverlight application. String input is passed to this method 5. C# method is converting the input ...
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Here is the slide deck I used The following are the links I made a reference to in addition to those in the deck. MSDN LightSwitch Samples Printing from LightSwitch (Michael Washington) LightSwitch Help Site ...
Using Xslt along with XPath we can transform any xml document in the way we want and use it e.g. to create the html page. At this time, we have Xslt 2.0 and XPath 2, but unfortunatelly .Net Framework doesn't support them. We can only use Xslt 1. We have two ways to work with Xslt 2. One is to use a 3rd party library, e.g. XQSharp or Saxon. The second option is to manually implement the missed in Xslt 1 functions. How to do it I want to show in this post. First is the sample code. The goal is to create ...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 14 - 21, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: The Top 5 WPF and Silverlight Gotchas Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable? The LOB Chronicles - Exploring User Experience (UX) Slides for our upcoming 'Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE' webinar Mango Baby Steps: Unit Testing your WP7 app Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ...
Business operation framework is the investments Microsoft is making towards SOA and becoming Cloud ready. SysOperation framework is the future replacement for RunBase batch framework. The only reason Microsoft have not depreciated RunBase Batch is because there is still a lot of existing code base using Runbase. SysOperation framework follows the MVC pattern and it ensures that the server side code is executed by the .NET framework. That’s why it is necessary to generate incremental IL when you make ...
Our SharePoint team at work noticed that our SharePoint 2010 farm wasn’t returning search results based on the contents of OneNote files that were saved in document libraries. I did a little research and found a solution, by putting together steps from different posts. First, some details: we’re running SharePoint 2010 SP1 (with the June 2011 CU) on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. However, this issue was seen before we applied the service packs and cumulative updates, so I’m not sure what effect, if ...
I recently had the pleasure of creating a course for Pluralsight on MVC Scaffolding. For the next 24-hours the course will be completely free! Click here to view the course now. I’ve divided the course up into three modules. In the first module, I cover everything you need to know to be quickly productive with MVC Scaffolding. This includes mastering the command line, understanding one-to-many relationships, and scaffolding Actions and Unit Tests. In the second module, I do a deep dive on customizing ...
Resolve "Tools Install Dir in registry is missing" and Remote Tools issues on Windows 7 (64-bit) system after Platform Builder is installed by exporting [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR... Builder] from an 32-bit system, changing "Program files" entries to "Program Files (x86)" or create REG file with content listed below and import into the registry. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR... Builder] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR... ...
SQL Server “Denali” is at CTP3 – and would therefore very much welcome feedback. SQL Azure continues an aggressive cycle of release - and would therefore very much welcome feedback. Which is why we have https://connect.microsoft.c... A great place to give feedback and to to see what others care about. For SQL Azure (and the Windows Azure Platform in general) we also have http://www.mygreatwindowsaz... Thanks in advance… ...
This post on the Windows Azure blog caught my eye as a) it includes UK early adopter eTVMedia and b) its an interesting look at the wider picture of adopting Windows Azure – including coming up with the business strategy and transitioning a traditional company to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It touches on: organizational structure: Looking at the trend to create new entities to pursue SaaS packaging and pricing: A SaaS app does not necessarily mean a move away from upfront billing changing from ...
I was recently asked to review Studio for Wijmo MVC by Component One and, overall, I am impressed. There are 2 major components of this. The first is Wijmo Complete which is a collection of over 30 UI widgets (very similar to jQuery UI). The second is Wijmo Scaffolding for MVC which builds upon the scaffolding that was released as part of the MVC 3 Tools Update (note: is does *not* build on top of powershell-based MVC Scaffolding which Microsoft released earlier this year). Some of the Wijmo widgets ...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Beth Massi, Ryan Alford, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jeremy Likness, John Papa(-2-), Jeff Wilcox, Mike Ormond, Ollie Riches(-2-), and Mijail Cisneros. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight 5 Incompatibility: Play by the Rules" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Windows Phone Mango Custom application Theme Step by Step" WindowsPhoneGeek LightSwitch: "How to Allow Adding of Data to an Auto-Complete Drop-down Box in LightSwitch" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Mike Ormond posted about the next ...
I’ve learned, from conference sessions and user group meetings, that Agile is best learned in action – being part of a game or activity that explains Agile, having lively discussion with people, or (best yet) being part of an Agile project. We still get a large amount of learning from books though, and so while Agile books may do a good job explaining the methodologies and techniques, its never as good as having some context to stand it up against. Enter Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken ...
So, it took a bit of time to arrive, but 2 weeks ago I received my GWB Influencers shirt in the mail. Perfect timing for my talk at Dev4Devs at Microsoft ...
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Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun are offering a free on-line course on AI later this year in conjunction with Stanford University. The course is broadly based on Peter Norvig's book "Artificial Intelligence: A modern Approach" written jointly with Stuart Russell. Along with my colleagues on the Rules Fest committee, we have been following this with interest. In a few days, well over 100,000 people have signed up (112,774 at the time of writing, and still increasing fast). The course broadly overlaps ...
I had added some code behind to a SharePoint 2010 master page and it worked beautifully! I followed Andrew Connell’s blog and article on MSDN. I had actually created two more master pages with an identical code behind as they each needed the same bits. I had each inherit from the same code behind file. Everything worked great until we were having some problems with one of our developers opening a css file form the VPN. So I thought I would just change the master page in SPD temporarily to use a css ...