Geeks with Blogs

A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Windows 7: Using the Farm Configuration Wizard Part 1 of 2
Sometime ago, say around mid April, 2011 I posted about Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 by going in a different path than using the standalone…
Enrique Lima · 2011-10-30
Post-Build C++ Skill Rebuild
· For the last decade, the majority of my dev work has leveraged the.NET Framework for construction of information systems. However, my interest has lain…
JoshReuben · 2011-10-29
How to Detect If You Are Connected To A Federation Root
If you develop applications in SQL Azure, you may end up in a situation where your code needs to know if it is operating in the root database or in a…
Herve Roggero · 2011-10-27
Removing / Restricting Access to Sitecores Interface on Content Delivery Environments
Here are a few steps you can follow if you want to restrict access to Sitecore’s Interface on content delivery environments.
Asif Maniar · 2011-10-24
List of recommended books on TFS, Visual Studio, C# and C++ coding, Design and Development Process
List of recommended books on TFS, Visual Studio, C# and C++ coding, Design and Development Process UPDATED Jul 3rd 2013: Added Art of Unit Testing Version…
terje · 2011-10-24
Some non-generic collections
Although the collections classes introduced in .NET 2, 3.5 and 4 cover most scenarios, there are still some .NET 1 collections that don't have generic…
simonc · 2011-10-21
Deadlettering in Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging
The following article will be included in the next release of “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric”, a free e-book on Azure AppFabric development. The…
Alan Smith · 2011-10-21
More on Metro
You must have heard about it. Windows 8 will all about Metro. Sure, you can run ‘old-school’ applications on the platform, but most attention these days…
Dennis Vroegop · 2011-10-20
Using HTML5 Geolocation API in ASP.NET Application
UPDATE The below sample just showcases the locality sample. The complete set of attributes exposed which include PostalCode, CountryRegion, Address etc.,…
Harish Ranganathan · 2011-10-17
HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers
HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers is my attempt to learn HTML5 myself being an ASP.NET Developer. I am planning to post a series of posts on how ASP.NET…
Harish Ranganathan · 2011-10-17
Compressing ViewState in ASP.NET.
Compressing ViewState in ASP.NET. ASP.NET view state, in a nutshell, is the technique used by an ASP.NET Web page to persist changes to the state of a Web…
Pavan Kumar Pabothu · 2011-10-16
QUnit - Client side unit testing with TDD
I've wrote this article a few months ago but in Portuguese: I've decided to translate it to engish. The sample project is hostead at GitHub but it's in…
Guilherme Cardoso · 2011-10-15
SilverlightShow for October 03 - 09, 2011
Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for October 03 - 09, 2011.
Dave Campbell · 2011-10-15
Silverlight Cream for October 15, 2011 -- #1157
<table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>Sorry for the tardiness of this post, but I was out of state on family…
Dave Campbell · 2011-10-15
Why isn't Visual Studio letting me debug JavaScript any longer?
In my particular case the problem was due to Silverlight. I have my ASP.NET MVC application which is incorporating a Silverlight application into it.
Jake Rutherford · 2011-10-14
Await a void (Async CTP)
I am really enjoying getting more and more into the new async ctp. Something that stumped me up to now, was how do I run a void method asynchronously.
MarkPearl · 2011-10-14
C#/.NET Little Wonders: Searching Strings With Contains(), StartsWith(), EndsWith(), and IndexOf()
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…
James Michael Hare · 2011-10-13
Async using the old Async Begin / End Pattern
In the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of familiarising myself with various async patterns in C#. After going through the different approaches one…
MarkPearl · 2011-10-12
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3
Welcome back once again, in part 1 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a developers perspective, in part 2 of what is new in VS…
Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP] · 2011-10-12
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Keyset does not exist or Access is denied issue.
This issue is related to permission on MachineKeys folder. I think this is right place where you should know what the determination of MachineKeys folder…
Saqib Ullah · 2011-10-12