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I was pleasantly surprised to find out this week that I am now part of the Geeks With Blogs Influencers program. It is hard to believe that it has been 5 1/2 years since I started blogging here. It has always been a great community and it is great to be able to show off how much I appreciate having this soapbox here to share ideas. I look forward to being here a lot longer. Finally, thanks to Jeff and the crew for keeping the lights on and continued improvements. del.icio.us Tags: GWB,Geeks With ...
Aims of Chapter 1 Explain the difference between good and poor interaction design Describe what interaction design is and how it relates to human-computer interaction and other fields Explain what is meant by the user experience and usability Summary Good and Poor Interaction Design The following examples were used to illustrate good and poor design. Voicemail system Remote control A key question for interaction design is how do you optimize the user’s interactions with a system, environment, or ...
One of the cool things about HTML5 is the ability to play audio/video files out of the box without the dependency on plugins. Earlier I had written about HTML5 Video and the fallback using Silverlight for non-supported scenarios Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has decent support for HTML5, in terms of intellisense, validation etc., But, one issue that is constantly faced when using the HTML5 Video tag in an ASP.NET Application (Web/MVC) built using Visual Studio is that, the videos doesn’t play when running ...
I often see that people want to disable IP v6 on their windows machine but instead of disabling it completly they uncheck the box on the network adaptor. Unfortunately that is not enough.... In general I would say "leave it enabled" but there are always specific cases where you want to disable it. The only products I would strongly advise against disabling it are the SBS products. For some reason disabling IP v6 on these boxes can cause massive issues in communications between the different applications ...
Today's Deal of the Day from O'Reilley at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... at $15.99 is Windows 7: The Missing Manual "In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well ...
Today's APress Deal of the day at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 "ASP.NET 4 is the principal standard for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform. Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 raises the bar for high-quality, practical advice on learning and deploying Microsoft's dynamic web solution. " ...
I don’t usually do a product profile unless I either really like the product and use it myself, or I’m genuinely curious about the product and what it can do for me. While I haven’t used InRule before, it does fit the latter of those criteria because of my interest in similar products I have used in the past. A Quick Intro to my Life in Rules… Flash back to my college years (when 5.25” floppies were king) and you’d see a young guy in an Artificial Intelligence class learning about a Knowledge Based ...
Once you have successfully signed in to your environment, you are at the welcome screen, from here we will need to go to Administration. Once there, if you have not done so already, add a Team Project to your Collection. Once there, provide a Name, give a description and select your Process Template, then Click on Create Project. It will run through the process of creating your team project Once it completes, you will see the following message and click on Close. The next post is about navigating ...
In this all-submittal post-"GoLive" 3 week marathon Issue: Vikas, Rene Schulte, Ollie Riches, Alex van Beek, Kevin Dockx, Michael Crump(-2-), Michael Washington, Antoni Dol, Colin Eberhardt(-2-, -3-), and Lazar Nikolov. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Paging Data from the Server with Silverlight" Colin Eberhardt WP7: "Tessellating shapes on top of Bing Maps in a WP7 app" Ollie Riches LightSwitch: "Creating a Minimal LightSwitch Shell" Michael Washington Metro/WinRT: "Photoshop in METRO style" Antoni ...
About a month ago, Microsoft announced the release of Lync for Mac. If you have access to TechNet or MSDN you likely have access to download this tool. Among the benefits of the tool, being able to connect to Office 365. Exciting news, yet for some odd reason it was a battle if you had upgraded to Lion (have not heard of anyone having issues that is running on Snow Leopard). Microsoft then released an update for Lync for Mac. Now, after the update, it was still no dice for me. Upon further research ...
Windows Phone 7.5 represents a new and credible challenge in the smartphone space for both consumers and businesses to adopt with confidence. With strong predictions from some of the leading think tank organizations saying that Windows Phone will be number two in global market share by 2015 (behind Android), there has never been a better time for developers to start learning how to build apps for Windows Phone and understand how to be successful on the platform. In this day-long workshop, we will ...
The Azure Table service, provides a semi-structured storage in the form of tables that contain a collection of entities, these entities have primary keys and set of properties. A property is a name, typed-value pair. Every entity in table storage has two key properties, Partition Key and the Row key which together uniquely identify each entity in the table. The Table Service API is compliant with REST API provided by WCF Data Services. In order to use the WCF Data Services Client Library to access ...
I have always been a fan of Google Reader. I have been using it since it first came out and have never tried another feed reader. Yesterday they decided to update the UI to fit their new G+ look and in my opinion, made the application almost impossible to use. I have three main machines I use on a daily basis. A Dell XPS desktop with dual 24 inch monitors, a Toshiba Protégé with a 13 inch display, and a 11 inch MacBook Air. When I am at my desk all day, the Dell is awesome for getting development ...
I wanted to have a VM that I could access remotely and thought why not take advantage of the VM role. So I just documented my steps, for those of you might be interested, but more importantly for myself, if I have to do this again. the server image that is used for the VM role in windows Azure consists of a base VHD and may or may not have differencing VHD. to create the base VHD you can use Hyper-V Manager. Creating the Base VM image In Hyper-V manager connect to your server , right-click the server ...
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for October 24 - 30, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Photoshop in METRO style Nokia giving away 25,000 Lumia 800 Windows Phones to developers Windows 8 Development Platform Clarified New Line of Business Features in Silverlight 5 – Using pInvoke Nokia’s First Two Windows Phones Are Here. And They’re Awesome Visit and bookmark SilverlightShow. Stay in the 'Light ...
Introduction I’m sure by now you have heard that the Kinect SDK has been released by Microsoft. I recently had a chance to Guest Blog for the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog on “Getting the Most out of the Kinect SDK”. Now before we get started learning about it, let’s look at what it is: *Kinect for Xbox 360, or simply Kinect (originally known by the code name Project Natal),[8] is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console. Based around a webcam-style add-on ...
When you download the samples for this sdk, they are going to be read only as they are coming from the web. Windows 7 is pretty smart about this and automatically marks them read only, then VS 2010 picks that up and warns you Then when you try to run the sample, if the sample tries to read the config files it will most likely throw an exception. The solution I found was to use Windows Explorer and mark all sample folders as read write. Make sure VS is closed when you do this. Then open VS and boom, ...
During the last months, I was (for some reasons that are not related to programming) working for a dev shop where software development was done the 'traditional' way: You just write your application's production code, do it as good as you can, and hopefully it will be good enough and no problems will occur in production (this is HDD: Hope-driven development). Anyway, after I had finished this contract, I felt the need to review some core aspects of what I think is Test-driven development. And while ...
Sometime ago, say around mid April, 2011 I posted about Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 by going in a different path than using the standalone installation. This post is about what happens after the installation and initial configuration of your Windows 7 “development farm” gets the bits, and goes through the Central Admin and management perspective to get you to the first screen that says “Hi, SharePoint here, would you like to play a game of chess” (yeah, it does not really say that, but ...
· For the last decade, the majority of my dev work has leveraged the .NET Framework for construction of information systems. However, my interest has lain in numerical computing. · Is it possible to have an increasingly higher level of abstraction and at the same time achieve underlying high performance computing? The prevailing winds say no: C# is aimed at productivity, and C++ is for performance. Garbage collection was great, but do we still need it with the availability of smart pointers? Would ...
We have gone through several iterations of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit in the past, and while it was not a complex process to get up and running for me, well that was not the story for many. I had the chance of participating in a Windows Azure Bootcamp, and while the attendees were aware of the requirements on the systems, well it was not as easy to get going. You can get the October refresh here: http://www.microsoft.com/do... I believe that is the reason for ...
Once the installer for the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database has finished, we then need to complete the process (not mandatory, but nice to do to play with the OLAP content). The first thing we need to do is make sure we note the location of the script files and samples. The path if you are working with SQL Server 2008 R2 is as follows: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Samples\Ad... 2008R2 Analysis Services Project\enterprise” I am working with the developer edition, ...
For a while now, if we have been around SQL Server we got used to the different sample databases that were provided. From Pubs to Northwind to AdventureWorks. In order to get the AdventureWorks samples we need to go to CodePlex and download the one that corresponds to the version of SQL Server we are working with. The link to the download site here : http://msftdbprodsamples.co... Now, on to the installation. Once you download the appropriate file, double click and launch ...
Level: Beginner In working with the Silverlight 4 DataGrid control, I found that documentation and online examples tend to focus on validation either at the cell level, or row level. However, there could be a case where validation is required after all rows have been entered, and comparisons between rows may need to be made. One example I can think of is the case where a list of products, including SKU information, is entered by the user. The SKU code is not derived automatically, but must be unique ...
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Carlos Chávez : Exacto Soluciones En este video veremos el proceso de desarrollo desde un alto nivel. Las herramientas y procesos para dar inicio a un proyecto. ¿Qué necesito para desarrollar un sistema embebido de Windows 7? Windows 7 (Ultimade u otra versión) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 WES Tools – descargar desde MSDN Instalar en un Hardware Real usando un USB Insertar un USB en blanco Abrir la ventana de comandos (CMD) y seguir la siguiente secuencia: diskpart list disk <Apuntar el número ...
Carlos Chávez: Exacto Soluciones HABLEMOS DE SISTEMAS EMBEBIDOS Los sistemas embebidos no son extensamente conocidos por el público, pero son usados a diario por las personas. Las PCs de uso general, laptops, servidores, Smart Phones son equipos sobre los cuales se corre y ejecutan una multitud de juegos, software, multimedia, etc. Y no necesariamente son sistemas embebidos, pero si se analiza el hardware, este si puede ser y frecuentemente se usa como base para crear un sistema embebido de uso dedicado. ...
Motivation During programming suddenly this error (“Failure has occurred while loading a type”) was thrown by accessing a artifact of a referenced library. In such cases I take the assembly fusion logger fuslogvw to search for problems of loading assemblies. Sometimes an old version from a not expected folder is binded. But all bindings were correct. Problem After several hour I got the right hint. Because the assembly is a COM+ one, there are some registration things in die background – and I don’t ...
Introduction In case you missed it, I have a 10-part series on Silverlight 5 on SilverlightShow.net. In this extensive guide to Silverlight 5, I give a step-by-step introduction to Silverlight 5, and dives into the features most important to a Silverlight developer. You can check out the first 3 parts now and I will be adding a new one each week. The Roadmap for this Series I’ve included the Roadmap for the series below as you may want to visit other sections as you learn Silverlight 5. I picked ...
The much ballyhooed release of Nokia’s first Windows Phone handsets finally took place Wednesday at the Nokia World event in London. There had been a lot of anticipation building up to this “reveal,” and it is genuinely a watershed moment for the Windows Phone platform. That’s because Nokia’s adoption of Windows Phone brings several firsts: For the first time, a major mobile phone player has standardized on Windows Phone as its exclusive smartphone platform. For the first time (apparently) an OEM ...
If you are active on Facebook, there is very less chance that you missed on the recent Facebook UI update “Social Graph” or more popularly referred as “Timeline” (a screenshot of how the Timeline profile UI looks, here below) This Timeline UI has been quite popular and is supported in most of the modern browsers including IE9, Chrome 14 & Firefox 6 and above. I am a power consumer of web and use IE9 as my primary browser. Timeline UI works excellent in IE9. I have also downloaded the IE10 Platform ...
I am playing more with the Windows Developer Preview and simply love the backward compatibility it has for applications that used to work in Windows 7. And one of the applications critical to my day-to-day life is Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 and ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools is my everyday requirement. Windows Developer Preview when installed from the MSDN Center has two flavors. One with the Developer Tools which I would assume, most of us developers would want and the other one, which is simply ...
If you, like me, have ever looked over the MSDN documentation and though how nice it would be to have that type of documentation for your codebase, SandCastle is the tool you’ve been looking for. SandCastle is a Codeplex project initiated by Microsoft in order to provide MSDN-esque documentation for .NET projects or asssemblies. The documentation can come in several formats such as CHM files or a website. GhostDoc and SandCastle Help File Builder To get started with SandCastle for documentation, ...
Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 "Indexed by feature so you can find answers easily and written in an accessible style, Beginning WF shows how Microsoft's Workflow Foundation (WF) technology can be used in a wide variety of applications." ...
Here are a few steps you can follow if you want to restrict access to Sitecore’s Interface on content delivery environments. 1) Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager 2) Expand your Content Delivery website 3) Click on the Sitecore folder 4) Double Click on Authentication in the middle content pane 5) In the Authentication Pane right click Anonymous Authentication and click Disable 6) Try visiting the Sitecore login page on the Content Delivery site and verify that you get an access denied ...
UPDATED Apr 11th 2013: Added Instant TFS 2012 and Project Server 2012 Integration How-to UPDATED Jan 12th 2013: Added Prof TFS Server 2012, TFS 2012 Starter, Pro ALM with VS 2012 and VS 2012 Cookbook UPDATED Dec 8th 2011: Added Kanban book by David Anderson “Send me a list of books to read” – that is what I am often asked. No more, as this list is an answer to those request! I have divided it into different subject areas, and each area hold a small number of the books I have found most appropriate ...
Coming from SPC a couple of weeks ago, during the keynote there was a demo on some great Visio Diagrams. It was created using the following: http://visiospfarmaddin.cod... Expect a post here in the next week or so on how to configure it. Another great tool I came across is targeted to those who are becoming familiar with PowerShell for SharePoint, and also if you want to use PowerShell with SharePoint Online. It is a Command Builder, you pick the verbs and nouns as you would regularly do with ...
DropkicK (DK) has been in development for over two years and has been used for production deployments for over a year. Dru Sellers originally posted about DK back in 2009. While DK isn’t yet as super easy to grok as some of the other ChuckNorrisFramework tools and offers little in the idea of conventions, it is still a stellar framework to use for deployments. DK works well in environments where you know all of the environments you will deploy to ahead of time (although not required due to the ability ...
74 Developers, 13 Charities helped, 0 slices of pizza served. GiveCamp is a national organization to help people organize development events for charity. Dallas GiveCamp is one of those events where Developers give back by building websites or solutions for charity. This years Dallas GiveCamp was held at CTRECH Hilton. With classrooms and whiteboards available to each charity group individually, we had the most hours worked on site that I have seen in past years. Many people where here all night ...
“Because everyone wants to kick their database, but sometimes kicking your database is a good thing!” Many would not argue that you should version your code, and few would argue against versioning your code in a way that can lead back to a specific point in source control history. However, most people don’t really think of doing the same thing with your database. That’s where RoundhousE (RH) comes in. I have been working on RH for over two years now and people always wander what it is, why and what ...
Recently I looked at a performance problem when transferring image data from a custom HttpListener to web browser clients. In the end it came down to one change I had done which was writing the image data to a memory stream first – this was required so I could add the right content-length header to the output based on the actual image size which some of my clients required. Before this change I had directly written the image to the output stream when it was generated but the modified code looked ...
NuGet is a topic that I have been hearing about for a while, especially from Clark Sell. I figured it was about time to take a dive into it and see what it was all about. The description of NuGet makes it seem like magic to add dependencies to your code projects. Of course there is always an explanation for how the trick works. In this case it is by using a package and a definition of how resources should be added to your project. One of the interesting aspects of using NuGet is the UI. The fact ...
In the closing keynote at TechEd Africa 2011, Clifford de Wit (Microsoft South Africa) made improvements on his previous years attempt to geekily give away a prize, but unfortunately still got it wrong… here’s why. At Teched 2010 Clifford gave away an amazing prize of a wheel barrow full of tech goodies – if my memory serves me right, it included a laptop, xbox, kinect as well as a whole bunch of other fun stuff – a geeks delight. Unfortunately he was given some flack on how he decided to pick the ...
I am really proud to be part of the SolidQ BI Center of Excellence and work with Carl and others on the team. Check out the press release on Carl and the COE. In the future there will lots more info I am blogging about that the COE uncovers. Expect to see lots of stuff continue here on MVC, SL, WPF and Windows Azure. Ken ...
You must have heard about it. Windows 8 will all about Metro. Sure, you can run ‘old-school’ applications on the platform, but most attention these days is about the new user interface. The UI is based on the design language Metro, a design philosophy we first saw in Windows Phone. Nowadays you see more and more of Metro. The Microsoft website is loosely based on it, the Zune mediaplayer uses it and so on. So it wasn’t a surprise to see that Windows 8 is all about Metro. In this screenshot you see ...
Today the Microsoft announced that the In-Place Upgrade feature had had some improvements. The major one would be, now the user could be able to change the VM Size by In-Place Upgrade, without redeploying the whole service. What We Did Before Before this improvement, since the VM Size was defined in the CSDEF file, we have to redeploy the service to change the VM Size property. This means we would remove the existing roles and VMs and then ask the Windows Azure to reallocate the new VMs with the ...
I have been developing an MVC3 application with the intention of deploying to the Cloud. It was configured to use Forms Authentication with SQL Membership on SQL Azure. Everything seemed to be working perfectly locally, but after I deployed the Membership.ValidateUser no longer seemed to work. I could use the Providers to get information from the database (e.g. Membership.GetUser would return an existing account) which meant the database connection was fine and user existed, just the validation failed. ...