- Creating an XNA GameComponent in Windows Store AppsIt was unofficially announced yesterday that XNA has officially hit the end of its life. Fortunately, as mentioned in the last post, I'm working on…
- Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample BaseI’ve been working on this on and off for over a year now (having essentially restarted entirely in the latter half of 2012). At last it is finished. I…
- Why SQL TOP may slow down your query and how to fix itABSTRACT This article shows that adding a TOP clause to the SQL SELECT query may greatly increase its execution time. It also shows very effective…
- Change the Maxsize and Filegrowth of a datafile and a logfileIf you need to alter a database file and logfile to change their maxsize and filegrowth settings, here is a small script that might help you
- Beware Singletons that Raise EventsThis blog post has moved: http://gruffcode.com/2013/01/27/beware-singletons-that-raise-events/
- Model Binding using Expression Treesobject Bind(object requestDto, NameValueCollection formData) { var propertyGroups = formData.AllKeys.Where(x => x.Contains('.')).GroupBy(x =>…
- Poor, confused C# compilerThe C# compiler is a pretty good thing, but it has limitations. One limitation that has given me a headache this evening is its inability to guard against…
- TFS Build: Running Static Code Analysis for Specific ConfigurationMoved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2013/01/20/tfs-build-running-static-code-analysis-for-specific-configuration/
- Quartz.Net Windows Service on Server Important Configuration Steps To RememberAre you running Quartz.Net as a windows service on a remote server and trying to connect to it from a client to schedule jobs? Then I would highly…
- WinRtAuthorizer–A Better Way to do OAuth with LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8Last July, I blogged about how to do OAuth in Windows 8 with: https://geekswithblogs.net/WinAZ/archive/2012/07/02/using-linq-to-twitter-oauth-with-windows-…
- The Golden Rule of ProgrammingThere is one particular issue that seems to be the root of most bugs in software programs. I see it over and over and over. Like most programmers, it has…
- Simple way to bind an Enum to a DropDownList in MVCI have always been surprised that this was not already baked into the framework, but it turns out it is fairly easy to add. There are just a few steps.
- ASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modulesASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modules Original article by Nilesh Hirapra, February 29th, 2012 Updated and revised by Cory Koski, January 15th, 2013
- GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using Expression TreesThis blog now lives here.
- My Thoughts on the future of BizTalk - Post BizTalk Summit 2012I thought I’d brain dump a few thoughts after the recent BizTalk summit and how some of the information will help shape solutions with the customers whom…
- APress Deal of the Day 4/Jan/2013 - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C#Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at is Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with XAML and C# "The key features of developing for Microsoft’s…
- Chapter Review: The Utility Database (by Chris Shaw) and how it applies in Cloud ComputingSometimes you end up reading a great chapter and feel like writing a review about it… well here it is! Smile Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw,…
- Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, - Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. - It is the largest city in the south west of…
- Google Code Prettify for geekswithblogs.netThis blog post is based on the information I found from this blog post https://geekswithblogs.net/wesm/archive/2009/11/13/syntaxhighlighter-with-subtextgwb…
- YAGNI and Professional CodeThis blog post has moved: http://gruffcode.com/2012/12/31/yagni-and-professional-code/
