How to use ‘Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’ Art A... Michael Cummings, January 1, 0001 A large part of my current job is to work with developers to encourage and help them create apps and or games. Many developers do not have the necessary skills to create quality artwork for their app or ... How to use ‘Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’ Art A... 0 0 0
Add a "Flagged Email" folder in Favorites (of Navigation Pane) fo... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 I don't remember ever have to set this up before, but I don't see it in my Outlook 2010 at work. Here are the steps:In Navigation pane, right-click on "Search Folders", select "New Search Folder"In the ... Add a "Flagged Email" folder in Favorites (of Navigation Pane) fo... 0 0 21
Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 After my previous post on getting AzureReader2 up and running with ImageResizer – I ran into a problem – I had a page with a foreach on it, where I had a link to each fullsize image. It was all working ... Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer 0 0 0
Consume Third-Party Services at Windows Azure Store Shaun, January 1, 0001 It has been long time didn’t blog anything since last November. There are many exciting things happened during this period. I attend Microsoft TechED 2012 China and provided a session about Node.js and ... Consume Third-Party Services at Windows Azure Store 0 0 22
Beginning PHP On Windows 8 Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 It is always interesting to find out what technology I will have to work with next. One of the latest that I’ve had to learn is PHP and since I am running Windows 8 I had to get it working in that environment. ... Beginning PHP On Windows 8 0 0 2
Search charm Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 Now, I am confused. One the rules of Windows Store Apps is that you make extensive use of the available charms. This means you do not add a "Share to FaceBook" button to your app, you don't add a "Print" ... Search charm 0 0 4
Top 5 Most Recommended Apps for Developers in Windows Store Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Here are the top 5 most recommended apps designed for Developers in Windows Store. TOP 1. Code Writer Code Writer is a free text and code editor app with active syntax highlighting that updates as you ... Top 5 Most Recommended Apps for Developers in Windows Store 0 0 2
TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working with a lot of clients over the past couple years helping them adopt TFS Lab Management. One discussion that always comes up is how to architect the infrastructure required to run TFS ... TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling 0 0 1
Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part II Justin Jones, January 1, 0001 In my previous post I laid out my current pet project and began showing the framework I set up to isolate CSLA business objects from the data access code. I listed (sans code comments for brevity) the ... Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part II 0 0 6
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This is the second in a series of articles looking at using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (formally Windows Azure Access Control Service), to integrate the authentication services provided ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 1
EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user ... Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 Today I made a clean, brand new install of EPiServer 7 on a Windows 2012 server using VS2012. For googlers finding this post with any issue present in title, just look for the bold text to try my solutions ... EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user ... 0 0 0
Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part I Justin Jones, January 1, 0001 Ok, Let’s try this again. <ObligatoryIShouldBlogMo... Skip='DontCareJustShowMeThe... Way back when I decided to blog more often because, well, mainly someone told me I should. That didn’t ... Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part I 0 0 8
Exchange 2013: A new look… marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 The Exchange Server product line experienced a few changes with the introduction of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 brings with it a whole new set of services, technologies and features ... Exchange 2013: A new look… 0 0 0
SCOM 2012 SP1 – XenApp monitoring Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 If you have to manage many XenApp farm, or just one but really big - it will be worth to have good robust tool for it. As a Citrix guy I should prefer EdgeSight, hopefully I am Microsoft victim and I am ... SCOM 2012 SP1 – XenApp monitoring 0 0 45
Exchange 2013: The Client Access Server marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 We've been beaten to death with it at this point: "Exchange 2013 introduces fundamental changes in roles and architecture compared to earlier versions." But what does this mean? Today we are going to have ... Exchange 2013: The Client Access Server 0 0 5
Windows Azure IT Roadshow Lab I Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 This lab was created for the Windows Azure IT Roadshow in Florida (first session). It covers the basics of creating a Windows Server 2012 virtual machine, a SQL Server 2012 virtual machine and a SQL Database. ... Windows Azure IT Roadshow Lab I 0 0 0
Thanks Nokia Australia & Microsoft Max, January 1, 0001 Just recently I entered into a Windows Phone App Download and one of my app came in the top 10 app download to win a lovely new “Lumia 920”. These days I spend nearly all my leisure time in the Windows ... Thanks Nokia Australia & Microsoft 0 0 0
Hilarious idiosyncrasies in code. Strenium, January 1, 0001 This is a “must-watch”, I tell you : https://www.destroyallsoftw... ... Hilarious idiosyncrasies in code. 0 0 0
Converting PHP’s “openssl_seal” and “open... Strenium, January 1, 0001 I've been doing a bit of external API integration work lately. Sounds mundane (and it is for the most part) - but there was one notable "gem" I had to tackle. To make long story short, there's this external ... Converting PHP’s “openssl_seal” and “open... 0 0 0
4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Most web sites will have an input form somewhere even if it is nothing more than a contact form. Any web application will have lots of input forms. Regardless of why you have the input form or what it ... 4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better 0 0 0
Adding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 If you’re building a Windows Store app that plays audio you have the option of being able to play your app’s audio in the background (i.e. when the app is not running). Over the course of three posts I ... Adding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps 0 0 0
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This article is the first in a series of three articles looking at using the Windows Azure Access Control Service to implement web site authentication using social identity providers. It will show how ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 8
WCF Transactions are not supported by Azure. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We have a service operation, for which it is very important to ensure that a client receives the status, that was determined at the end of operation.If client does receive the response, the server status ... WCF Transactions are not supported by Azure. 0 0 0
Book review of PDF Succinctly Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 I saw a few book reviews of Syncfusion's Succinctly series by other GWB bloggers and have also received emails from Syncfusion asking if I wanted to write a review for them. Below is my review of the free ... Book review of PDF Succinctly 0 0 1
Microsoft Tool :Use Windows Live Writer for Blogs Writing AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 Use Windows Live Writer for writing blogs URL to download :http://windows.microsoft.c... Great tools for offline writing and publish in blog site with Photos ... Microsoft Tool :Use Windows Live Writer for Blogs Writing 0 0 0
Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio ... Alex Hildyard, January 1, 0001 In part 1 we looked at the structure of a WiX setup project, and created a simple installer. We looked at the staging paradigm which gave us complete flexibility in the way we harvested files and packaged ... Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio ... 0 0 0
Why Twitter Needs Third Party Apps Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Yesterday Twitter released their Windows 8 native application. This is just a short time after releasing an update for Windows Phone. It took my all of two minutes determine that these applications are ... Why Twitter Needs Third Party Apps 0 0 0
The Art and Science of Blogging Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Many of us with technical blogs started a blog as just a place to jot down stuff we figured out so that we could easily find it later. But if you have ever been thrilled to check the stats on your blog ... The Art and Science of Blogging 0 0 0
Disabling DirectAccess Functionality in Windows 8 Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Let me start by saying I love DirectAccess in Windows 8. It’s great for accessing resources on the Microsoft network when I’m not in the office (which is about 90% of the time). DirectAccess, is case you ... Disabling DirectAccess Functionality in Windows 8 0 0 0
Here’s why the Unit of Work is needed Aligned, January 1, 0001 I didn’t understand why I would want to use the Unit of Work pattern before I ran into this. I had a ManagerBase class that had an IRepository. (The managers implement ManagerBase which have a private ... Here’s why the Unit of Work is needed 0 0 4
Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting ... Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track 0 0 1
Visual Studio 2012 thank you Anirudha, January 1, 0001 I was quite Excited to hear that I got a shipment come from Microsoft. I open it and this is the thing I got in my hand . It's a shiny glass cube with writing etched in the middle of it ... Visual Studio 2012 thank you 0 0 2
Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 0 0 0
Solving Performance Problems with nHibernate (or any ORM) Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve spent a bunch of time lately with clients helping them understand why their applications are so slow and how to improve performance. This often comes down to their use (or misuse) of ORM frameworks ... Solving Performance Problems with nHibernate (or any ORM) 0 0 8
How to set exe to run on startup in Windows 8 Anirudha, January 1, 0001 Do you want to run something when you open your system. Here is a simple way to do this in Windows 8. press Win + R and type “%appData%” then press Enter You are now in Roaming folder. Follow this folder ... How to set exe to run on startup in Windows 8 0 0 5
Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio ... Alex Hildyard, January 1, 0001 MSI is one of those technologies that has stood the test of time, and WiX is an increasingly popular way of creating these installer databases. There’s a perception that WiX is convoluted, complex and ... Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio ... 0 0 2
Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product ... Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 In Part III, we started creating a very basic MVC application to host our store. We also created a simple table to store products and methods to perform CRUD transactions and validate data. Now we we introduce ... Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product ... 0 0 0
Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013 Randy Walker, January 1, 0001 Pictures - 2013 Microsoft Global MVP Summit VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Back in February, I had the honor to attend Microsoft’s annual Summit for MVP award winners. As an award winner we get invited to ... Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013 0 0 0
Magenic Code Mastery 2013 - San Francisco, CA - Friday April 19th Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 Magenic is sponsoring a FREE day of advanced education for senior technical people and technical decision makers on Friday April 19th, 2013 at the Microsoft Building (835 Market Street, Suite 700, San ... Magenic Code Mastery 2013 - San Francisco, CA - Friday April 19th 0 0 0
Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user –... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 A while ago I blogged about a powershell script I made that would automatically update your ClickOnce project file’s Minimum Required Version to the latest version of your application so that users would ... Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user –... 0 0 3
syncfusion’s Succinctly series Anirudha, January 1, 0001 Few days ago I hear about Succinctly series that syncfusion made for us. You can check all these resources at http://www.syncfusion.com/r... The good thing about these books are they are ... syncfusion’s Succinctly series 0 0 0
List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have ... List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build 0 0 0
Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our official Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services. Android developers now have easy access to structured data storage, authentication, push notifications ... Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services 0 0 0
Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Applicat... Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 To keep things simple, I am going to retain the default security framework created by Visual Studio when I created the application. However, I am going to change the database name to something more meaningful. ... Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Applicat... 0 0 4
A Look at NDepend Aligned, January 1, 0001 I was contacted by NDepend and asked if I wanted a free version of their professional license in exchange for writing a post about it. I agreed and have been running it for a few weeks. My first impression ... A Look at NDepend 0 0 0
Charting in Windows 8 Store Apps Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 One of the queries I received from a partner was to have charting implemented in their Windows 8 Application. While by default there are no chart controls, there are a lot of third party controls such ... Charting in Windows 8 Store Apps 0 0 9
Streetlight Store - Part II: Black Boxing Products and Improved A... Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 In Part I, I introduced the concept of the Streetlight Store and the architecture. In this segment, we will walk through the creation of a data contract for products, interfaces for managing transactions, ... Streetlight Store - Part II: Black Boxing Products and Improved A... 0 0 3
A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog, I wrote about Building A Custom View Engine to Create Excel Files in MVC. In this blog, I skipped over the grammar that we might use in the View definition. I have had a few people email ... A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC 0 0 0
Review: Using Pluralsight Video Training To Keep Up With Technolo... Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 As a consultant I have long stretches where I may be heads down with a single technology. In the mean time the rest of the world can be passing you by. When I get off of that project there is a lot to ... Review: Using Pluralsight Video Training To Keep Up With Technolo... 0 0 0
Using the DIR command in the TFS 2010/12 Team Build Invoke Proces... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I found that using a loop activity to build up a filtered list clutters up the build report with repetitions of activities inside the loop. I could write a custom activity to create the list. However, ... Using the DIR command in the TFS 2010/12 Team Build Invoke Proces... 0 0 0