One of the biggest challenges for developers is getting access to production servers. In smaller dev teams of 5 or less people everyone usually has…

Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430231110 is Pro ASP.NET SharePoint 2010 Solutions. "Pro ASP.NET SharePoint 2010…

Twitter recently updated their API to v1.1 . Naturally, needed to be updated too. This blog post outlines the changes made to LINQ to Twitter during this…

In my previous post I demonstrated about how to develop and deploy a Node.js application on Windows Azure Web Site (a.k.a. WAWS). WAWS is a new feature in…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the.NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to…

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We're in the process of delivering an enabling project to expose on-premise WCF services securely to Internet consumers. The Azure Service Bus Relay is…

Just because something is a daft idea, doesn't mean it can't be done. We sometimes need to do some housekeeping - like delete old files or list items or……

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In the first post of this series I introduced on how to run Node.js application on Windows. In the second one I demonstrated about how to use SQL Server…

Windows Azure Web Sites has added a new pricing tier that will solve the #1 blocker for the web development community. The shared tier now supports custom…

Syncfusion is offering a free book "ASP.NET MVC 4" at http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/aspnetmvc4?utm\medium=BizDev-Innerworkings0912…

In my previous post I demonstrated how to install, configure and run Node.js application on Windows. In this post I will cover a specific and short topic,…

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include support for over 350 new group policy settings ...This brings the total number of manageable system policies via…

tl;dr - look in the Registry. Packages are registered in HKEY\CLASSES\ROOT\\Local Settings\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\AppModel\\Reposit…

I was recently working on a Windows 8 app, and the application was crashing occasionally. When resuming the application, the app would crash and close…

On my current project I found it useful to use both NUnit and MsTest for unit testing. When using ReSharper for running unit tests, it just simply works…

Over the past couple years I’ve been keeping track of common SQL Server script commands that I use so I don’t have to constantly Google them. Most of them…

Two weeks ago I had had a talk with Wang Tao, a C# MVP in China who is currently running his startup company and product named worktile. He asked me to…

Windows 8 Developer Camp - Raleigh September 25th Time is ticking away and the time to act is now! How's that for some motivation? :-)