Visual Studio status bar is one of the most important status reporting indicator for any developer working with Visual Studio. In this blog post we will…

Download from VS Gallery In my work I meet many developers, tester and project managers, all using Visual Studio. When I ask them if they have updated it…

The portable libraries are the response to the growing profile fragmentation in.NET frameworks. With help of portable libraries you can share code between…

This is a rant. I don’t have the answer to the question. So, the latest project I’m working on is a kiosk app in WPF that has to interact with hardware.…

All of us have experienced it but very few of us have gone into the details to really find the reasons for it. First of all why should I care? After the…

This article will cover basic implementations of the Splitter and Aggregator patterns using the Windows Azure Service Bus. The content will be included in…

Windows PowerShell (formerly known as “Monad”) is a Microsoft’s answer to the power and flexibility of the Unix command shells. It should finally complete…

Some of you may have come across this helpful blog post recently, discussing when the garbage collector (a/k/a the GC) runs on Windows Phone 7 devices.…

Here’s a trick: When you work a lot with XAML, you’ll be confronted to the dreaded XamlParseException sooner or later. This exception is thrown whenever…

Integrated authentication allows for SQL Server to leverage Windows NT authentication to validate SQL Server logon accounts. This allows the user to…

\[Check out other guest posts if you like this one. They are often better than mine!\] One thing I miss about being the Technical Editor of the UK MSDN…

This is the third part of a series of articles on ASP.NET AJAX and JSON. If you haven't read part 1 and part 2 of this series, you are strongly advised to…

Discovering U2 Thanks to J.D. I took a little trip down memory lane today. Although he a year ago, it's still good reading.

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If you aren't able to install from the Help\\Install New Software menu, it is probably because the zip file doesn't have the content.jar/artifacts.jar…