We’re back! Scott Klein (http://www.scottlklein.com) and I are kicking off a new series of weekly Office Hours to help developers find answers to tough questions. Similar to what we did over the last couple years when I was at Microsoft we will have guests each week who can help us dive into a technology. The link to put in your questions and to register ......

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Sometimes you spend a lot of time searching online for an answer, but the truth is that it’s a lot easier just to open up the debugger, spend a few minutes, and find it yourself. In the context of today’s lesson I am working on a Windows 8 application that needs to display the product build number in the About page in the application settings. I was ......

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Technorati Tags: Hardware,Woodworking,Maker Sometimes you need to do something different, crazy, out of the usual. A couple weeks ago while I was filming some courseware for AppDev my director John Wilson told me about his site www.CrazyButAble.com and the Stella Amp. Basically it’s a circuit board, a bunch of resisters, transistors, LEDs and switches ......

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This week was my 2nd visit to CodeMash in Sandusky OH, where I spoke on Building with the Microsoft Data Stack. We covered a lot of ground and had a great conversation about the various choices a developer faces regarding which technologies and formats make sense, including LINQ, Entity Framework, OData, Web API’s and more. We built a session explorer ......

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Today I ran into an issue provisioning web sites on Azure, an issue I had with one of the subscriptions that I work with when I’m recording webcasts and training sessions. In the past I would send an email to one of my evangelist friends to see if they knew someone who maybe knew who to talk to in order to get results, but this time I figured I’d check ......

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I had a request yesterday to put together a slideshow on a website we’re working on. That reminded me that there is a great collection of controls and tools available (for free) on Codeplex in the http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.c... site. I had used it a few years ago to build a slideshow for a site for my parent’s class reunion and it worked well ......

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There is nothing so certain as Change, and this is the vNext of the BenkoBlog…Over the next few weeks and months I will be sharing my plans and hopes for the next chapter, but at the same time I want to make sure you can still get to the code and content that I’ve been building for the last several years. That’s where www.BenkoTips.com will continue ......

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