Truth, Equality, and the Meaning of Null

There’s been some discussion recently about whether it’s proper for a language to support null values or not. My guess is that the people having these discussions are a whole lot smarter than myself, so ...

IOException on WebRequest.Create in .NET 4.5

I was testing .NET 4.5 compatibility in LINQ to Twitter when I encountered an IOException with the message: “The specified registry key does not exist.” This occurred during a call to System.Net.WebRequest.Creat... ...

Winnipeg Code Camp–Cancelled or Postponed, Your Call

Sadly, we’re going to have to cancel the Winnipeg Code Camp that was scheduled for late April. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we won’t have a code camp this year though – it’s really the community’s ...

Add a "Flagged Email" folder in Favorites (of Navigation Pane) for Outlook 2010

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 ...

SharePoint 2013 Administration and Developer Training in Kansas City in May

John Alexander and I are excited to start offering training in Kansas City and our first classes have been scheduled in May for SharePoint 2013. Here is the schedule: 5/13 – 5/17 | Professional SharePoint ...

Yelp has questionable business tactics

Yelp has strong arm business tactics, and there is no Yelp about Yelp itself within its business to complain about it. That is one of the reasons for the complaint.Yelp is well known, and because of that ...

Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer

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 ...

Consume Third-Party Services at Windows Azure Store

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 ...

Musings on Why I Switched Back to an iPhone from a WP8 Device

Last month I decided to switch to Verizon and in doing so switch to an HTC 8x after around 4 or 5 years with an Apple iPhone. I wanted to try something new and see what the other side was like and I wanted ...

A forgotten audience?

Earlier this week I had an appointment at the Dutch Microsoft office to talk about people with disabilities and Apps. (You'll have to forgive me: I am Dutch and we don't care that much about being politically ...

Making jQuery UI Droppable Testable

I’m using jQuery UI’s droppable for drag and drop capabilities. I wanted to be able to test it with Jasmine, but I couldn’t find a way to mock it. I found Jasmine jQuery, but wasn’t able to figure out ...

Beginning PHP On Windows 8

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. ...

Search charm

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" ...

Super stylin

Firstly most impressed that I can now blog from my ipad courtesy of Blogpress.comSelf promoting my ios bin collections app for scambs.https://itunes.apple... ...

WoodbaseChimpMailer in place...

So here it is... The first release of WoodbaseChimpMailer. A simple integration module for sending newsletters via MailChimp from the Umbraco CMS backend. (A backoffice extension in Umbraco terms)The current ...

Microsoft Refreshes Sample Browser with the support for 13 new Languages

Shortly after releasing Sample Browser last month, our team refreshes the app with an important feature for global developers: Localized sample search experience. Please visit http://bit.ly/ZxmISi to get ...

Top 5 Most Recommended Apps for Developers in Windows Store

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 ...

Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Windows 8

When you create a new Windows 8 application, the Common folder contains a file named StandardStyles.xaml. Amongst other styling resources, this file contains a trove of application bar buttons styles, ...

TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling

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 ...

Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part II

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 ...

Azure VM - The word or phrase you selected is not allowed

Just wanted to put a note out for anyone who gets caught out like I did on this one.I was trying to create an azure VM and kept getting the below error message and Azure wouldnt even create my VM."The ...

Getting Started with MongoDB presentation (C#, MVC4)

Another NoSQL presentation, this time on MongoDB. This was my first run at it….hopefully will present again at Carolina Codecamp, Codestock, and MADExpo…Inshallah! As with each attempt, hopefully the style ...

Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Part 2 – Integrating ACS with the Universal Profile Provider

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 ...

EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user on brand new alloy default site

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 ...

Windows 8 Must Have Utilities–ModernMix and StartIsBack

I really like Windows 8, and while many have bemoaned it I enjoy working in it both at home on my Dell XPS 12 and at work on my non-touch laptop. But I will definitely count myself in the number that do ...

Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part I

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 ...

Exception Handling for LINQ to Twitter Streams

Tonight, I checked-in changes to streaming in LINQ to Twitter. The primary refactoring was to remove the automatic error handling that had been in place since the beginning of stream support in LINQ to ...

Python IDE for Visual Studio

PTVS is a free plugin for Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 (professional version and above - not Express) from http://pytools.codeplex.com... ...

Greg Satell @ digitaltonto

Greg Satell has written insightful articles and analysis and every time he posts a new one, I dig in. Here are a few from his recent posting -The Usefulness of Useless Things : http://www.digitaltonto.com... ...

Exchange 2013: A new look…

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 ...

SCOM 2012 SP1 – XenApp monitoring

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 ...

Super-Fast Failover with VM Guest Clustering in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

My good friend and colleague, Matt Hester, recently wrote a great article on Hyper-V Host Clustering as part of our latest article series, Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days! In this article, I’ll ...

APress Deal of the Day 22/Mar/2013 - .NET Test Automation Recipes

Today's $10 Deal of the day offer from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is .NET Test Automation Recipes"This book presents practical techniques for writing lightweight software test automation ...

Use the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests

Thanks to Danyal Aytekin for his Stackoverflow answer. If you want to use the toThrow in Jasmin tests on actual functions, you can use the “Function.bind, which was introduced in JavaScript 1.8.5. This ...

Can Trim Packages Help Us Make Sense of OS Editions?

I was thinking about some of the confusion that springs up from time to time over how Microsoft names the editions of it Operating Systems. We can all agree that Windows RT is a particularly bad name. ...

Two Free Microsoft Workshops Saturday May 4th!

(Note: Cross-posted from the Prairie Dev Con Blog - http://prairiedevcon.blogsp... Microsoft, our Platinum Sponsor, is providing two *free* workshops ...

Exchange 2013: The Client Access Server

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 ...

Orlando Code Camp 2013 - KendoUI Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and ASP.NET MVC development

Link to my my KendoUI sessionHere are the slidesCode samples download (pls check back in couple of days)Kendo UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform ...

Orlando .NET Code Camp 2013 - total success..

www.orlandocodecamp.comSame location as last year - Seminole State College. This year I was approved for a session to talk about KendoUI, we've been using the toolset at work, so it's cool to share some ...

Febuary 26 - JaXArcSig - Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and ASP.NET MVC development

Practice run of my presentation for Orlando Code Camp 2013. UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform for HTML5/JavaScript development. Whether you ...

SQL Server: I need to get to a remote server and management studio is broken. How can I login without ssms?

Try using osql . It can be a life saver. Here's an example of the most common usage:osql -E -S myMSSQLServerName /* This uses windows authentication to connect to a server */osql -? /* lists all the switches ...

SQL Server: Is there a query I can use that generates similar output to Activity Monitor?

Yes! This query will return very similar information to what activity monitor returns--including the text of the query the process is running (when applicable). -- Query version of Activity Monitor SELECT ...

Windows Azure IT Roadshow Lab I

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. ...

Speaking next week at VS Live! on WebMatrix3

Couldn't talk about this until today, but I am presenting WebMatrix3 at Visual Studio Live! next week in Las Vegas. This is brand new (CTP made public today), and I get to present before even the product ...

APress Deal of the Day 20/Mar/2013 - A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0"A Programmer’s Guide to C# takes you deep into the C# language, showing you the details ...

PowerShell Script to Remove SharePoint 2010 or 2013 List Duplicates

<Updated 2013-05-11> Recently Derek, a fellow Premier Field Engineer (PFE), had a customer request on how to remove duplicates from a SharePoint 2010 list. I have written some PowerShell scripts ...

March 2013 Chicago IT Architects Group Wrap-up

The group got to know their neighbors a lot better this month with only half the normal room size and a pretty good turn out. Given that, I would really like to say thank you to everyone who came out on ...

Accelerating the Cloud with Windows Server 2012 BranchCache

Traditional file sharing protocols, such as Server Message Block ( SMB ) in Windows Server 2012, are primarily designed for low-latency, high-bandwidth scenarios commonly found in Local Area Networks ( ...

Thanks Nokia Australia & Microsoft

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 ...