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At http://www.netmagazine.com/... there is a very interesting article on browser take-up rates. (And of course keep on eye on the IE6 Countdown site at http://www.ie6countdown.com - are you encouraging people to upgrade from IE6/7?) ...
In this Issue: Michael Crump, Kevin Dockx, Ollie Riches, Shawn Wildermuth, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, Colin Eberhardt, Tony Champion, David Catuhe, Igor, Jeremy Likness, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "SL5 PivotViewer Custom DetailPaneStyle" Tony Champion WP7: "Taking screenshots with Windows Phone 7 applications using a video feed" Joost van Schaik LightSwitch: "“I Command You!” - LightSwitch Screen Commands Tips & Tricks" Beth Massi Metro/WinRT/Windows8: ...
If any part of you has a sense of humor, January 1995 was a tragic time in your life as it marked the end of one of the greatest comics of all time The Far Side. No other comic has ever been so hilarious in its intelligence and randomness (although Calvin and Hobbes does come close). Gary Larson’s brilliant sense of humor will forever live on in desk calendars, books, and bazillions of internet references. So, what the heck does “The Far Side” have to do with SharePoint you may ask?? Well.. more ...
Been waiting to get some Apps in the Marketplace? Had that developer account sitting with no apps? Here is some motivation - are you ready to Mango? Your Apportunity to Win! 1 app = 1 entry to win a Samsung Series 7 Slate! For every Windows Phone Mango App you submit you'll be entered for a chance to win 1 of 5 Samsung Series 7 Slates. 5 apps = 1 entry to win Free advertising for 1 app of your choice! For every 5 apps you submit you’ll also be entered for a chance to win free advertising on the Windows ...
Everyone, Thursday, all day there is an MSDN webcast on building Windows Phone 7.5 apps. If you haven’t tried your hand at developing for the WP platform, I highly recommend watching this either live, or when they become available as individual streaming downloads. You may not own a Windows Phone, and that’s cool and all, but being a .NET developer puts you in a great spot to make applications or games that can reach millions. The great part is, if you don’t have a phone, YOU DON’T NEED ONE to write ...
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Below you will find my entire collection of Windows 8 Development Articles. I will focusing on XAML / C# Metro Applications in Windows 8, but may occasionally post on HTML / JS. Please bookmark this page as I plan on keeping this page updated with my latest Windows 8 articles. Windows RT XAML/C# Metro Applications Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8 *NEW* - Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. Windows RT HTML/JS Metro Applications Enabling Frame Rate ...
When using the storage client library to access Azure Storage, it is recommended that we make use of the Async calls to execute queries against the Azure Tables/Blobs. TableClient and BlobClient expose methods to execute queries asynchronously, for e.g. blobClient.BeginListContain... : which retrieves the list of Blob Containers in our storage. cloudTableClient.BeginListT... : which retrieves the list of tables in Azure strorage and many more Then there is CloudTableQuery class ...
If you are planning to deploy your application with SQL CE as your application backend then here are the steps you need to perform. If you’re planning to deploy your application with SQL Server, than please read this post, How to Deploy an ASP.NET MVC 3 App to Web Hosting with "\bin Deployment" I assume that you have your ASP.NET MVC 3 application ready to be deployed with SQL CE 4.0 and EF 4.1. But make sure you have add assembly and for SQL CE 4.0 using NuGet. I recommend you to use NuGet here ...
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Ollie Riches, Jesse Liberty, Peter Torr, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, WindowsPhoneGeek, Morten Nielsen, Michael Crump, Asim Sajjad, Andrej Tozon, Dhananjay Kumar, Laurent Bugnion, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Using Visual States to Set Focus on a Control" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Background Agents" Jesse Liberty Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications." Michael Crump Metro/WinRT/Windows8: "Using The Silverlight ...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 10 - 16, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Introduction to XAML Development on Windows 8 Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2011 CTP for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 Five things you'll love about Windows Phone 7.5 Mango WP7.5 Mango: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 5 ways to wring more revenue out of your mobile apps Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. ...
UPDATE The below sample just showcases the locality sample. The complete set of attributes exposed which include PostalCode, CountryRegion, Address etc., are available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... This is the third in the series of posts I am doing on HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers Geolocation is one of the popular features of HTML5 that’s being touted as a favorite for building location aware applications. It helps to a great extent not just for Web Applications that run ...
This would be the first in the series of posts I plan to do for HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers The first thing that everyone would have experienced is the HTML5 header tag. The regular header tag that Visual Studio creates for ASP.NET Webforms is <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml... This would be the header tag present in the Master Page or the actual ASPX Page when you don’t inherit from a Master Page. Till HTML5 specifications ...
I’ll be presenting a session on “Extending to the Cloud” at the Sweden Windows Azure User Group next week. Extending to the Cloud Extending to the cloud involves developing hybrid applications that leverage the capabilities of cloud based platforms. Many of the Windows Azure solutions developed today involve extending the capabilities of existing applications and infrastructure to leverage the capabilities of Azure. These hybrid applications allow developers to combine the best of both worlds. Existing ...
Today post will show you how to build an Ajax form with JQuery validate supporting (unobtrusive) client and server side validation using ASP.NET MVC 3. If you want to see an examples, you can visit this post about Ajax in ASP.NET MVC 3. To enable (unobtrusive) client side Ajax and validation support include the following JavaScript files (in Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml): javascript" src="@Url.Content("~/Script... <script type="text/javascript" src="@Url.Content("~/Script... ...
Last week, at the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Summit in Seattle, Microsoft held a coming out party, not only for SQL Server 2012 (formerly “Denali”), but also for the company’s “Big Data” initiative. Microsoft’s banner headline announcement: it is developing of a version of Apache Hadoop that will run on Windows Server and Windows Azure. Hadoop is the open source implementation of Google’s proprietary MapReduce parallel computation engine and environment, and it's used (quite widely ...
We’ve all been inundated with images from the various Occupy Wallstreet demonstrations that have been occurring throughout the United States. Hordes of people frustrated with how their country’s financial systems have imploded due to corporate greed. I’m not American, so really I can’t comment on the situation – its an internal family issue that’s really none of my business. After all, Canada’s economy weathered the global recession very well and we avoided the disaster that befell other countries. ...
There is no one best branching strategy, the branching strategy that best fits the requirements of your enterprise is the best strategy for you. The ALM rangers have comprehensive guidelines to help you decide what might work best with your enterprise. A couple of parameters you need to consider while thinking about the branching strategy are, What is the length of the Iteration your team will be delivering in. Agile – Weeks, Waterfall – Months. Would you have multiple versions of the applications ...
Síguenos en : Exacto Soluciones Hola a todos , quería compartir con vosotros la forma de capturar movimientos a través de un sensor como Kinect o Asus y llevarlos a un escenario, para esto usaremos el sensor Kinect + OpenNI + Nite + MMD (Programa de animación básica en 3D) , puede ser también 3DMax o Motion Builder , yo usare MMD o MikuMikuDance de origen japonés por que es pequeño , sus “Services Pack” son copiar archivos y obtener mejoras y sobre todo es FREEWARE , como mencione es básico pero ...
Hace algún tiempo me consultaban como comunicar un dispositivo móvil con un servicio WCF[Windows Communication Foundation] , sin embargo me escribieron indicándome que habían seguido los pasos de algunos post pero no tenían éxito al generar el proxy que permite al dispositivo comunicarse con el servicio WCF. Trate de revisar el caso ya que aparentemente revisando los pasos todo estaba correcto y efectivamente no se generaba el proxy y devuelve un error de : C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\Com... ...
Sorry for the tardiness of this post, but I was out of state on family business. If you are looking for Silverlight Developers, I am in contact with developers looking for work, so I can make the introductions for you. In this All-Submittal Issue: Oscar Agreda, Michael Washington(-2-), Gill Cleeren(-2-), goldytech, Michael Crump, Ollie Riches, Colin Eberhardt, and David Catuhe. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight Toolkit (September 2011) for Silverlight 5–What’s new?" David Catuhe WP7: "How ...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 03 - 09, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Silverlight Toolkit (September 2011) for Silverlight 5–What’s new? Installing Mango on Samsung Omnia 7 Get Ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 With Our Brand New Ebook! [Silverlight 5] Getting started with PivotViewer “Active” Federation with Silverlight, WCF, and WIF Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ...
On 13rd Oct, I had had a presentation on TechED 2011 Beijing. It was about how to build a multi-tenant application on top of Windows Azure platform. Thanks to the people attended my session, and special thanks to my friend Wang Tao, Robin Lo, Jason Lee, etc. I had uploaded the PPT and demo here please feel free to download (The PPT was in Chinese). Hope my session helps, and looking forward to see you all in TechED 2012. Shaun All documents and related graphics, codes are provided "AS IS" without ...
With TechEd Africa starting in two days time I thought I would briefly blog about two useful extensions I use for VS2010 when presenting. They are Presentation Zoom by Chris Granger ZoomEditorMargin by Benjamin Gopp The Presentation Zoom extension creates a global zoom level so that if you zoom a single window, all editor instances will be updated to that zoom level. Before I had this extension I had a few circumstances where I was not aware of the resolution restrictions of the projector until 5 ...
Yesterday, I just posted about How to Fix error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified Well, this is an error message that we can find too "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 28 - Server doesn't support requested protocol)" I struggle to find what is the problem. ...
Introduction I recently found out that I have been awarded with the Q3 Community Champion Award from INETA. It is a honor and a privilege to be part of this Elite group of community leaders. I cannot tell you how excited that I am to be acknowledged by my peers for the community work that I do. Below is what the email said: I would like to congratulate you on winning the INETA Champion Award for the third quarter of 2011. I want to personally thank you for your time and effort in supporting and helping ...
I'm a big fan of automated testing which actually proves something. Unit tests may prove all the components in a solution work independently, but that doesn't mean you have a working solution. Integration tests give you confidence in the whole solution, but the cost of having a test suite with a lot of external dependencies is the risk of false build failures and long-running test suites. To get something in between, we have acceptance tests written in SpecFlow which run tests at the highest layer ...
This is an error message that we can find when we connect to SQL Server: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) Hmm… We sometimes spend for hours to fix this issue and In this brief tutorial, I will ...
Hi Everyone, This is a place for .NET lovers like us can go and learn more about all Microsoft Cloud technologies. This website makes it more easy, simple and actually fun to know what the technologies are, how they work and what we can do for it in the perception of both business and personal entities. Here is what you have to do (to make it much easier, follow the steps) 1. Go to http://www.microsoftvirtual... this website 2. Login with your Windows Live ID (Create one if you ...
Hi Everyone, The only and main purpose of this blog is to educate all .NET pre-Beginners, who love to do .NET Programming but don't know where, what and how to do. Now you have a place to share and ask for that little thing that is holding you to move on your development. I was in your place 2 years ago, dont know anything about it, doesnt know where to start. I did googled(Bing'd) a lot, found so may articles, blogs about .NET and got very excited about it. Now I wanted to get all that information ...
Soon, the latest ASP.NET MVC will be launched. I cant wait to try as whole. This is the preview of this new product- Web Platform Installer – Installs the MVC4 Project Templates.- Nuget package – perfect for upgrading an existing MVC3 project- Stand Alone Installer- Installs the MVC4 Project Templates. This is the cool design with new features In addition to CSS design there is improved functionality in the new template. The template support technique called adaptive rendering to support theme on ...
This issue is related to permission on MachineKeys folder. I think this is right place where you should know what the determination of MachineKeys folder is. What is MachineKeys Folder? The MachineKeys folder stores certificate pair keys for both the computer and users. Both Certificate services and Internet Explorer use this folder. Possible reasons for getting this error message in your application are, may be your application using a certificate or your application trying to access a private key. ...
In the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of familiarising myself with various async patterns in C#. After going through the different approaches one gets a feel for how far we have come since the .Net 1 days. One particular pattern that I was not familiar with implementing but which has been available since the beginning of .Net is what I call the Async Begin / End Pattern. Since my interest is really making calls asynchronously so that I don’t block the UI thread - from what I can tell this ...
Ok, I think this is the coolest contest I have seen. Red-Gate is sending a DBA to Space! If you have mad SQL skills, you should definitely look into this contest. More Information: Red Gate, a U.K.-based software company, has launched a campaign that will reward a database administrator (DBA) with the ultimate getaway: a seat on a commercial flight into space, courtesy of Space Adventures, Ltd But first, DBAs must unravel a Gordian knot of a plot involving morphing Martians, pets in peril, alien ...
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Here are a bunch of links for BUILD material related to Game Dev. Go Nuts, Be Awesome. Downloads: Windows 8 Developer Preview Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview MSDN: Direct3D 11.1 DXGI 1.2 WDDM 1.2 Feature Level 11.1 DirectXMath Channel9: Direct3D PLAT-751T 3D Graphics for Metro Style Apps and Games PLAT-752T Tuning GPU usage for any form factor HW-218T: Understanding the Windows 8 graphics driver model TOOL-761T: A lap around DirectX game development tools XINPUT PLAT-754T: From touch to gamepads: ...
Introduction We are all familiar with the Application Bars in Windows Phone 7… It can be achieved with a few lines of code as shown below: <phone:PhoneApplicationP... <shell:ApplicationBar> <shell:ApplicationBarIco... IconUri="/icons/download.png" IsEnabled="True" /> <shell:ApplicationBarIco... IconUri="/icons/settings.png" IsEnabled="True" /> <shell:ApplicationBar.Me... <shell:ApplicationBarMen... x:Name="mnuReturnToHome" Text="return ...
Welcome back once again, in part 1 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a developers perspective, in part 2 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a Testers and Business Analysts perspective. In this blog post I’ll be discussing the new features available for Project Managers and TFS Administrators. One thing that project Managers loved about TFS 2010 was the linking of work items, see work structured by category i.e. testers having their own tasks, ...
Hello Everyone, I thought I’d take a minute to update everyone on my upcoming talks and events that I will be attending. I have talks ranging from Kinect, Silverlight, HTML5 to OData! Wow, that’s a wide range of technology and I’m very passionate about everyone of them. Let’s get started. DevReach - October 17th through the 18th in Sofia, Bulgaria. I will not be speaking at this event only attending. I am very excited because this will be my first time visiting Bulgaria. I am looking forward to meeting ...
Welcome back, in part 1 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a developers perspective. In this blog post I’ll be discussing the new features available for Business Analysts and Testers. While working on various ALM implementations the biggest challenge has been to strike the right balance between tools and processes, it is important to re-enforce that there is no substitute for communication. The delivery of a project on time and on budget are not the sole indicators of ...
OOook, those who know me, or have read my blog probably have a pretty good idea that I’m a silverlight, wpf, wcf, c#, xamly kinda guy. I’ve never really done anything webby, the closest I’ve gotten is doing a bit of backend stuff, well, times change, and quite frankly I wanted to do something new… soooo I’ve opted to go down the MVC route, for two main reasons – 1, I figured I may as well learn a good framework, 2, Matt Abbott told me that MVC lets you get dirty with HTML, and that’s one of the things ...
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I’m very excited to announce that we’ll be bringing the Prairie Developer Conference to Alberta in early 2012! I started Prairie Developer Conference in Regina in 2010 as an option to high cost remote conferences, and its become a huge success! With the announcement that Microsoft TechDays won’t be returning to Alberta this year, I think Prairie Dev Con can definitely fill that gap and provide Albertans with a fantastic professional development opportunity! Here are the details: When: March 13 – ...
I have dabbled in async programming in the past but never put any real effort into understanding how things worked. With the new async features in .Net 5 I thought I would give it a look. Here is a quick example of one of the features you can expect in the new framework and how it can make our life easier. The best way to illustrate this is to make a simple WPF application as follows… In the past If we had the following small WPF application with just one window / form… The XAML code for the window ...
On Saturday Oct 29th, 2011 I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Cincinnati. My presentation is “PowerShell for the SharePoint 2010 Developer” which covers an introduction to PowerShell while focusing on integration with SharePoint and the .Net framework. This presentation has a fair amount of demonstrations and sample code. I’m excited to be attending SPSCincinnati as it is a short drive from Columbus and I also know a number of the other speakers and organizers. It’s looking to be a great conference. ...
Microsoft officially released the preview of Vnext i.e. VS 2011, TFS 2011 and TFS Azure (also known as TFS Service) at the Build conference on 13th September 2011 @ California. It wasn’t too long ago I remember helping customers set up ALM processes using TFS 2010, so what are the compelling reasons these customers who have heavily invested in TFS 2010 should consider moving on to TFS 2011. In this blog post I’ll try and answer what exactly is new in TFS 2011, how TFS 2011 is different from TFS 2010. ...
First let me say that this is a “what I like” post and not a comparison of platforms. The Windows Phone is the first smart phone that I have owned (no, I’m not 100 or 15 years old). Now that I have done the full disclosure I did want to talk about the features of the Windows Phone that I really enjoy. I have had the Samsung Focus since shortly after it came out. I have found it extremely capable and enjoy the performance of the device. It is light, durable and bright. My wife has the LG Quantum that ...
I will be presenting ‘The Role of Workflow in Enterprise Software’ at the Calgary .NET User Group on October 26th. The presentation will cover workflow concepts, Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4), and will also touch on Entity Framework Code First.
More details and registration at www.dotnetcalgary.com
See you all there!
It looks like Silverlight 5's ComboBox is more restrictive. In Silverlight 4 I could change the ItemsSource of a ComboBox that had a SelectedItem != null, while in Silverlight 5 I have to set SelectedItem to null before I assign a new ItemsSource. Why even mention this? Isn't this obvious? Well, the Silverlight 4 ComboBox simply ignored the SelectedItem and did not complain about the new ItemsSource, so moving to Silverlight 5 may cause some (unexpected) pain. But the real reason for this post is ...
Full Disclosure: I was one of the technical reviewers on this book. I think my friend Tomislav did a great job on this book and it would make a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone that is working with MDX. I really enjoyed reading this and there were even a couple of interesting techniques that I have added to my toolkit. As far as I know there are not any other MDX books on the market quite like this one. It's more aimed at the intermediate level of MDX user and assumes that you have some ...