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The KB article is so short, I may as well paste it in. KB article 2021894 MSMQ ReceiveContext does not receive messages from the queue and no exception is thrown On a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or a later version, you experience the following symptoms: In Microsoft Message Queueing (MSMQ) 4.0, the ReceiveContext feature fails silently. Additionally, the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) application does not receive any messages from the queue. The ReceiveContext feature's Complete ...

After installing Linux, on my personal machine, I realized I don't use it very much, or at all. So, I wanted it gone. A few months ago I tried to just delete the partition and go on, but the bootloader flipped out and wouldn't let me even boot into Windows. So, I had to manually put in the CD and re-install Fedora to get everything to even load. Finally I just gave up on the task, until last night it really just pissed me off. So, today at work I decided I would give it another shot. I found this ...

DevProConnections and WindowsITPro are now accepting nominations for the 2011 Community Choice Awards. These awards allow you to nominate developer products and services for special recognition. We’d like you to consider nominating Visual WebGui and as a thank you, will be giving away a few licenses. All you have to is click the links below and in the “Add-In” category on the DevProConnections survey (category # 1) and “Best Cloud Computing Product or Service” category on the WindowsITPro survey ...

In this Issue: Morten Nielsen(-2-), Mike Gold, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, and Oscar Agreda. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight MVVM Code Smith Templates" Oscar Agreda WP7: "Working with a simple ViewModelLocator from MVVM-Light" Mike Gold From SilverlightCream.com: WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 4 - Animations Part 4 of Morten Nielsen's WPF and Silverlight comparison yeields this post on Animations... the launching thereof to be exact WPF vs. Silverlight - ...

In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Rajat Jaiswal, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, and Oscar Agreda. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "How to Close Browser Window from Silverlight Application?" Kunal Chowdhury WP7: "How to access blacklisted apps in the Windows Phone emulator ROM (with the locked BIN image)" Den Delimarsky LightSwitch: "Getting Started with the LightSwitch Starter Kits" Beth Massi Shoutouts: Michael Palermo's Desert ...

Occasionally I write a rant or two and this one has been boiling for ages. First off you need to read Mike Watson’s Blog Post on Silverlight Ambiguity in Office 365: http://jmikewatson.wordpres... So now let’s get started. First off this post has been boiling since I have heard the question in one of my sessions last year “What do you think will happen to Silverlight now that HTML 5 exists?”. I brushed it aside. I ignored it when ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 has a built in Scheduled Task that defragments your hard drive sometime over night. But, I was wondering if this is actually working, and on one server I have found it isn't. So, here is my PS script that I'm working on. This is also my first "real" PowerShell script I've written. It took me some time! foreach ($computerName in Get-Content "C:\Users\matt.ladd\Desktop... { Write-Host $computerName $drive = Get-WmiObject -computerName $computerName -Class Win32_Volume ...

I’m going to start with a simple code snippet which sorts an array of strings using LINQ. 1 IEnumerable<string> line = new[] {"Z","A","Ä"}; 2 var result = line.OrderBy(letter => letter); 3 Console.WriteLine("{0}", string.Join(" ", result)); The result might look like this: A Ä Z … or not. It depends on the thread culture the sorting is running in. The string order is culture aware (unlike char order which is culture invariant), so if we switch for instance on one of the Norwegian cultures ...

Recently, several enabled Remote call control (RCC) users reported that they were having issues making phone calls from Communicator. When they attempted to call a number, they got a “Cannot locate <user>” error message and when they clicked on Retry, they got another error message, “There may be an error in the address. Check the address and then try again.” After some troubleshooting, we found out our CSTA Gateway server was using an expired certificate. For communication to take place, the ...

The new version of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 i.e. the August 2011 release just got out. You can read and download it from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/win... My favorite pick is the ability to add MVC3 Web Roles. In the past we had to do certain work-around for running MVC3 Applications. Now, there is an ability to add MVC 3 Web Role There is now support for Universal ...

In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Ollie Riches, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Mike Taulty, Den Delimarsky, Derik Whittaker, Oscar Agreda, Austin Andrews, Manas Patnaik, and Jesse Liberty(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Conditional CellTemplete controls at Runtime in Silverlight DataGrid" Manas Patnaik WP7: "Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View Part Two" Colin Eberhardt Expression Design: "Tutorial: Creating an Icon" Austin Andrews Shoutouts: SilverlightShow has their top 5 from last week listed: ...

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for August 1 - 7, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Free Silverlight Show Webinar: Deep-DIVE in Silverlight FIVE Silverlight Menu4U 7 reasons to be a Windows Phone 7 Developer WCF RIA Services Toolkit (August 2011) - And Updated NuGet Packages KinectSDK + Windows Phone 7 Mango Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ...

The TFS 2010 Power Tools, August 11 release shortly on its way, read more about the teaser here at Brian Harrys blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bha... What feature would you have liked to be included? Share this post : ...

When working on Web Forms and Windows forms, it is useful to be able to measure height and width on the screen. I have used Iconico ruler before and it is a very useful gadget. Download it from http://www.arulerforwindows... Can't code withoutThe best C# & VB.NET refactoring plugin for Visual Studio ...

Its been a while since I played with Web forms, AJAX stuff. I was curious in checking out, particularly how the AJAX Control Toolkit which used to be my favorite in the past is evolving. There is a new release of AJAX Control Toolkit, just hot off the oven. You can download the binaries from http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.c... Now, while the regular way we have downloaded and used AJAX Control Toolkit is by visiting the above codeplex page and download the latest version, there is also a newer ...

In many projects we need to show data in a complex way. For example graphs, table or more. In the Lightswitch applications you can create custom controls in Silverlight and simply implement them. In this article I want to show a small example of how to implement Silverlight slider control during data entry. Create a new Lightswitch project. Create new table. Call the new table “ClassRoom” and insert the follow fields. Add a new screen with the follow options. Run the project and insert some example ...

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), Derik Whittaker, Peter Kuhn, Michael James, XamlNinja, Adam Kinney, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Alex Sorokoletov(-2-), and Den Delimarsky. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "WPF vs. Silverlight - Part 1 - Custom Controls Theme" Morten Nielsen WP7: "New Windows Phone “How Do I” Video Series" Adam Kinney LightSwitch: "The LightSwitch Control Extension Makers Dilemma" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael Palermo has his latest Desert Mountain Developers ...

Next Tuesday Microsoft will release patches to fix 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio. Be prepared to patch your PCs. Details are at: http://www.microsoft.com/te... http://www.computerworld.co... Passionate aboutInstant C# and VB.NET code generation in Microsoft Visual Studio ...

In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Mike Talbot, Michael Washington, Davide Zordan, Pontus Wittenmark(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Pete Brown, Dhananjay Kumar, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Peter Torr, Derik Whittaker, and MIchael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Creating a Silverlight 5 Helper for ASP.NET MVC3 Razor" Pete Brown WP7: "Page State–Step by Step" Jesse Liberty LightSwitch: "Using the Telerik Rich Text Editor In Visual Studio LightSwitch" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Laurent Bugnion ...

Just an update .... I'm currently working on the next presentation in the multi-part of a series on the Applied Design Patterns project called “AdventureWorksDesignPatterns” . It has been a busy summer both at work and home. Summer is "DIY" time at my house as I'm building a 16 by 20 foot raised deck. Work wise ..... Some of my team and I have been updating some of our "Demonstration" and "Proof Of Concept" applications to test out Microsoft's Windows Azure, SQL Azure and AppFabric. This is turning ...

For a very (too) long time, the installation procedure for MVVM Light sucked. It involved downloading and unzipping files in various locations. Unfortunately, creating an automated installer is not completely trivial because of the variety of files that are getting installed: Binaries, Code Snippets, Project and Item Templates, all require different locations, and all that for VS2008, VS2010, Blend 4 and Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4, WPF3.5 SP1, WPF4, WP7.0 and now WP7.1 “Mango”. Thankfully, MVVM ...

Hey everyone... I'm throwing a Windows Phone Garage event in conjunction with Jacksonville Code Camp!! If you're looking to learn about Making Games for Windows Phone 7 with XNA, this is the place you want to be. Here's the tentative schedule: 9am - 9:55am Intro to WP7 - includes info about the platform and very basic Silverlight & XNA content. 10am - 10:55am Getting familiar with XNA (covers differences in XNA programming model and what's in the framework) 11am - 12pm Using Phone Features w/ ...

If you plan to use Silverlight for Windows Embedded on an i.MX53 from Freescale, give a look at: http://www.adeneo-embedded.... Adeneo Embedded developed an OpenGL rendering plugin that will offload most of the rendering to the dedicate hardware and will provide a more responsive UI leaving plenty of CPU cycles for your own code. This will lead to a better user experience for the end-users of your devices ...

In this Issue: Oren Gal, Oscar Agreda(-2-), Michael Washington, Mike Gold, John Papa, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty(-2-), András Velvárt, and Derik Whittaker. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "here is a Complete Silverlight Business Application using MVVM" Oscar Agreda WP7: "SurfCube on Mango Part 2– The SystemTray" András Velvárt LightSwitch: "WCF RIA Service: Combining Two Tables" Michael Washington Shoutouts: Michael Crump's articles on OData at Silverlight show have been pulled into an eBook: My eBook ...

After a few months of work, I am very happy to announce that the Dallas TechFest Speaker line up and schedule is full and finalized. You can find it on the Dallas TechFest website or on Michael Perry’s Windows Phone 7 app in the marketplace. I am very excited to see some of the more popular speakers such as Denny Cherry, Miguel Castro, Matt Hienze, Chris Koenig, and Caleb Jenkins to name a few. I am also jazzed about some of the new faces like Calvin Carter and Kumar Unnikrishnan and their enthusiasm ...

Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for July 25 - 31, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: LightSwitch: We Now Have Our 'Killer App' Fujitsu Toshiba announces au IS12T, the world's first Mango phone (hands-on!) "The Validation Story in Silverlight" - new e-book by Gill Cleeren Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit Tower Defense Game Engine for Windows Phone 7 Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in ...

Introduction One of the things that I recently had someone show me was using the “Copy Xaml” feature in Expression Design to create HTML5 SVG Path Data. I later found out that this was demoed at MIX11 in a session called HTML5 for Silverlight Developers. So with that said, I don’t take credit for discovering this, just documenting it for others to use. If you want to see the final product then click here. Go ahead and right click on the page and you will see it’s just path data (no image – just straight ...

This is very cool Just found this fab, tool to generate all the insert statements you need from a SQL database. If you have SQL Server 2008 R2 Installed - Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Publishing\... This lets you select individual tables, views, stored procedures and script out both data and schema structures. Perfect for populating SQL Azure, when migrating from on-Premise databases ...

Recently I was working on a project where I needed to implement mapping functionality - I am not new to mapping technology, as a matter fact, a few years back I created my own Winform mapping control which interfaced with yahoo and ArcGIS maps which works great in some of my apps, however, I was looking for something more and didn’t want to re-invent the wheel – so to speak. I stumbled upon GMap.NET and as one user put it, “Absolutely fantastic piece of work”. The only thing lacking is proper documentation. ...

This morning I got the information that the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 - August 2011 Upgrade had been released. The version of this new upgrade is 1.4.40727.1601 with the Windows Azure SDK v1.4.20407.2049. This upgrade includes some awesome features that I was looking forward for a long time, which are: Profiling the application running in Windows Azure. New ASP.NET MVC 3 web role template. Multi-configuration files in one cloud project. More validation in the service package and ...

Recently, I have found myself using Visual Studio LightSwitch more and more. And needless to say, it got me thinking about a strategy for LightSwitch in a SharePoint environment. Yes, the product positions itself as a tool to develop LOB apps in a rather fast fashion. There will be those that will deem it as a prototype tool, many RAD tools end up being that. But, LightSwitch had this “je ne sais quoi” about it. Actually, I feel I know what it is. If you are still with me, step into this thought ...

Keeping things short and simple, here I am will demonstrate on how to setup synchronization between Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 using the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. Configuring Connector for MS Dynamics (Microsoft Dynamics CRM Adapter) Assuming that you had a smooth installation of the Connector, let’s start by configuring the CRM Adapter. For the CRM Online, make the following settings: Domain crm.dynamics.com User Name Windows Live ID for your CRM Online ...

So, this previous weekend was my first trip to New York City in over 15 years and I was not disappointed. I was honored to be accepted to speak at SharePoint Saturday NYC. This event was a blast and a well oiled machine executed by Becky Isserman (@mosslover) Greg Hurlman (@ghurlman) and Jason G (not gonna attempt it, sorry) (@PrincetonSUG) along with an incredible supporting cast of heroes making sure the entire event ran smoothly. You guys did an awesome job. We started off the event with a speaker ...

Download Source Code Challenge Just had the first chance to apply PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) to the real task. When I am playing around with some new technology everything works fine, the real understanding comes along with challenges in a real use case. Currently I am working on application which processes large amount of text data gathering statistics on word occurrences (see: Source Code Word Cloud). Here what the simplified core of my code is doing. Enumerate through all files with *.txt extension. ...

I am all set, have my presentation ready. Excited, can hardly wait!! Don’t miss the early bird special for SharePoint Saturday The Conference in DC! Ends Aug 7! http://bit.ly/nXVwgm ...

Ever since I started working with SharePoint, I have always felt the “standard” grouping most training organizations make for people are the same old three: Admins, Devs and Users. True it fits most molds, but not as effective as truly understanding the value of roles. Now, the title of the post is in fact Lync Training Plans. The Lync Team has put together some guidance in the form of (drumroll!) Training Plans based on roles that go beyond your “User” grouping. You can download it here It is an ...

I’ve been slowly creating a new WP7 game over these past few months. In the process, I began experimenting with Dxt compression. It’s a very nice feature, especially on the phone where high DPIs make Dxt’s artifacts less visible. One thing I didn’t like, though, was the way that XNA’s default Texture Processor handles resizing to power of two. When using Dxt compression with the Reach graphics profile, you need to use textures that are power of two sized (e.g. 32x64). Dxt itself requires that the ...

I have to update the windows service.exe and related dll by using console on remote computer. I tried net start <servicename> but it not allowed to query or issue command on the remote computer. then I tried sc & PsService from SysInternals. sc \\<ServerName> stop <ServiceName> PsService \\<ServerName> stop <ServiceName> the problem is both of them issue stop command and returned the control but I want to sure that service is stopped completely so that I can update ...

Initial situation Normally all of our installations are registered to the company name. But now we have the effect that some (developer) tool seems to overwrite this registry entries. That results in the following: License information from operation system in registry If you run winver.exe from a command line you will see this output: Copyright and vendor information from Assemblies And in new projects the information in the AssemblyInfo are: Origin of this problem We don’t know it. Maybe it is a ...

l will show you what I am doing lately with jquery. I started out using the suckerfish menu for a customer app. All went fine for awhile but suddenly the menu started acting weird with problems indenting and such. I finally figured it must be interacting with other css stuff. So, I thought how the heck do I fix this? What if I could just use jquery and keep all of the action in jquery and put the style in in the menu class and just spit it out. Most of the properties would get put into attributes ...

My last love is called Microsoft Visual Studio Lightswitch. After the official launch (26th of July) I installed the official release instantly. The setup is very easy but I want to share my installation tutorial because Lightswitch was created for develop application easily and quickly way. That’s why you can install it even though you are not a programmer. First of all, mount the iso image of installation and launch the setup. Accept the license. Click customize. Check if the path of Microsoft ...

In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), XAMLNinja, Jonathan Marbutt, Rob Eisenberg, Jeremy Likness, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Derik Whittaker. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Reflection, Lambda, and Expression Magic" Jeremy Likness WP7: "Working with Live Tiles in WP7 Mango–Creating, Updating and Deleting them" Derik Whittaker LightSwitch: "Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Released - Download the Final Version Now" Kunal Chowdhury Shoutouts: Beth Massi has a link post up for lots of good LightSwitch resources: ...

Let me state the obvious, for any application you develop you need to log information, errors, exceptions etc that can help you and others know what’s going on with your application When you create a new Windows Azure application using Visual Studio you will find the following snippet in your configuration file <system.diagnostics> <trace> <listeners> <addtype="Microsoft.Wind... Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diag... Version=1.0.0.0, ...

Its been quite some time since I last post on the subject of the AsyncOperationService (in fact quite some since I posted period). In real world use I found some common patterns emerge that has lead me to make a few small adjustments to eliminate some common duplication I was seeing in code consuming the service. Here is the new code file for my ever so slightly improved AsyncOperationService in its entirety. AsyncOperationService using System; using System.Windows; using System.Collections.Generic; ...

I have been working with power shell quite a bit lately, I thought I’d write about 3 tips that have helped me. Notice how it is titled, "Helpful"? not "Ground breaking". It includes helpful commands that I have been using and a nice little Script editor that has one feature enough to win me over. Other's have writen about the commands (most of the time I write so I remember what I've done and how I have resolved issues) but I have not seen others write about other script editors. If you have been ...

Using Visual NUnit I can't debug the code and set breakpoints. So I wanted to attach the VS to the NUnit process, because then I can set the breakpoints and watch, what in variables I have. But after attached to this process I couldn't look at the breakpoints, because I had no symbol loaded, so the brakepoints were disabled with info: "The brakepoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document". After some investigation, I found that, the tests and core projects must ...

In this Issue: Mike Talbot, Michael Crump, Kunal Chowdhury, Cheryl Simmons, Joost van Schaik(-2-), Shantimohan Elchuri, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Peter Torr, Pete Vickers, Derik Whittaker, and Den Delimarsky. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Wordle Like Tag Cloud for Silverlight" Mike Talbot WP7: "Speed and distance calculation extension methods for Windows Phone 7" Joost van Schaik Shoutouts: Check out Pete Brown's interview on .NET Rocks: My .NET Rocks Interview Koen Zwikstra announced a July update: Silverlight ...

I have several conferences coming up where I’ll be talking about jQuery and best practices around deployment, maintenance, and performance tuning in SharePoint and I find that I never have enough time to talk about everything I’d like. So I thought I’d write a few blogs about the subject from a complete beginners standpoint. After all, we were all beginners once and nothing frustrates me more than finding a solution to a problem, but then having no idea how to implement it. Also, in subsequent blogs ...

Introduction I’m proud to announce my first eBook and update to my article series on OData for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 is complete. I have worked very hard on this series and am pleased with the work. I may be a little biased, but I believe this is the best step-by-step guide ever created for OData and Silverlight/WP7 Mango. In the series, I walk you through every step with detailed screenshot and code snippets. From creating the OData data service to consuming it in an Silverlight application ...

In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Ollie Riches, Derik Whittaker, John Garland, WindowsPhoneGeek, Manas Patnaik, Xianzhong Zhu, John Papa, Dhananjay Kumar, Jesse Liberty, Peter Torr, Gill Cleeren, and Jonas Follesø. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Multiple MonthView DatePicker Control in Silverlight" Manas Patnaik WP7: "Silverlight TV 79: Data Binding Debugging" John Papa From SilverlightCream.com: Windows Phone (Mango) DB Engines Performance Testing Max Paulousky's latest post is on performance testing ...