APress Deal of the Day - 26/Jul/2012 - Pro jQuery TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro jQuery"jQuery is one of the most popular and powerful JavaScript libraries available today. In this book, learn how ... APress Deal of the Day - 26/Jul/2012 - Pro jQuery 0 0 0
An Introduction to WebGL JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 What is WebGL? low-level JavaScript API to access the GPU from within scripts on web pages Usage: performant real-time 3D graphics in the browser. It's a web standard doesn't need a plugin managed by Khronos ... An Introduction to WebGL 0 0 1
The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 I have written already some time ago how big a .NET object is. John Skeet as also made a very detailed post about object sizes in .NET. I wanted to know if we can deduce the object size not by experiments ... The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains 0 0 2
Disappearing Boundaries in the Post-PC/BYOD World Webgui, January 1, 0001 A lot has been written recently about how we live in the Post-PC world. But what does mean practically? Up until relatively recently, even as smartphones became more technology capable and increasingly ... Disappearing Boundaries in the Post-PC/BYOD World 0 0 0
A Heads-Up: response.js has been updated and now works with 'ems' ihaynes, January 1, 0001 The popular and excellent 'respond.js' shim by Scott Jehl that allows older versions of IE to work with CSS3 Media Queries now, version 1.2.0, works with breakpoints specified in 'ems' as well as pixels.What's ... A Heads-Up: response.js has been updated and now works with 'ems' 0 0 1
Add a custom SharePoint theme using PowerPoint 2010 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 One of the coolest and easy to use features SharePoint 2010 has is the ability to create a theme using Powerpoint 2010. This way you no longer have to be skilled in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). So how ... Add a custom SharePoint theme using PowerPoint 2010 0 0 0
Confirming communication with an XBee radio and FEZ Cerbuino Bee ParadigmShift, January 1, 0001 So I’ve decided to expand my horizons further into the world of Microcontrollers. As a .NET engineer with little hardware experience I found that the learning curve to enter the hardware world has drastically ... Confirming communication with an XBee radio and FEZ Cerbuino Bee 0 0 1
Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Progr... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 In this the next few lines, I will be providing a review of the last of Itzik Ben-Gan et al’s “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008” series. This last book continues the trend of the in-depth focused coverage ... Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Progr... 0 0 0
Visual Studio Tip Move Multiple Files using Move command Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 At some point in the project lifecycle, one has to perform certain housekeeping activities in the version control, it might be restructuring folders or simply moving files into directories… The move command ... Visual Studio Tip Move Multiple Files using Move command 0 0 0
Inside the DLR - Callsites simonc, January 1, 0001 The DLR was introduced in .NET 4 to allow dynamic languages, like Python or Ruby, to run on the CLR. The DLR is also used by C# 4, released at the same time, to implement dynamic binding via the dynamic ... Inside the DLR - Callsites 0 0 0
VS ALM Rangers July 2012 Announcements and New DotNedUG Podcast a... hassanfadili, January 1, 0001 I'm very happy to announce that a bench of Visual Studio Application Life Cycle Management Rangers Projects are shipped for RTM. As part of Rangers team, we are very proud to share this great news with ... VS ALM Rangers July 2012 Announcements and New DotNedUG Podcast a... 0 0 0
IASA South East Florida Chapter Meeting July 17, 2012 at Citrix Rainer Habermann, January 1, 0001 We started our July meeting with a short welcome note and an overview of the agenda, followed by a brief presentation about the "Five Pillars of Architecture" by Giles Marino. The interest in the excellent ... IASA South East Florida Chapter Meeting July 17, 2012 at Citrix 0 0 0
Why Social Metrics Are Only As Good As Their Input Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 As more and more social media sites come online people are looking to see what kind of influence you have on the community. Some employers are even checking your Klout or PeerIndex scores before they go ... Why Social Metrics Are Only As Good As Their Input 0 0 0
Quick SQL script to back up data in some tables. Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 Disclosure: I used cursor in this script. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /**************************... ***************************... ***************************... ... Quick SQL script to back up data in some tables. 0 0 0
Learning the hard way: Uninstalling .NET Framework 4.5RC Vincent Grondin, January 1, 0001 Uninstalling the .NET Framework 4.5RC can be a real mess, let me explain… I had a perfectly functional VM on which I tried to install the 4.5RC version of the .NET framework to test out some of the new ... Learning the hard way: Uninstalling .NET Framework 4.5RC 0 0 3
Free SharePoint 2013 Training for Developers KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 SharePoint 2013 Dev Training - http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... have added lots of videos aimed at developers. The following list provides an overivew of the new modules.Introduction ... Free SharePoint 2013 Training for Developers 0 0 1
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day 17/Jul/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd Edi... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's Deal of the Day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is CLR via C#, 3rd EditionThe deal expires probably 23:59 PT, today 17/July/2012. Remember to ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day 17/Jul/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd Edi... 0 0 0
APress deal of the day 17/Jul/2012 - Beginning C# Object-Oriented... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress is Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming"Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming brings you into the modern world of development, as you master the fundamentals ... APress deal of the day 17/Jul/2012 - Beginning C# Object-Oriented... 0 0 0
Export HTML Table to Excel with JS Wayne H Magnum, January 1, 0001 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/19... runat="server"> <script Language="javascript"> function TableToExcel() { var strCopy = document.getElementById("de... ... Export HTML Table to Excel with JS 0 0 3
8 New Platform Features Coming to Windows Phone 8 KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Did you miss the Windows Phone 8 Summit? The phone team announced a number of platform features that are coming to Windows Phone 8 when launched later this year that are based from a new Shared Windows ... 8 New Platform Features Coming to Windows Phone 8 0 0 1
A demo of C# Resource Acquisition Is Initialization ZZ TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://geekswithblogs.net/c... there is an interesting article on an excellent way of handling the disposal of unmanaged code items such as database ... A demo of C# Resource Acquisition Is Initialization ZZ 0 0 0
Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents... Abhijeet Patel, January 1, 0001 Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents & ManualResets oh my! Up until a few years ago, mainstream programming for the most part did not involve asynchrony and/or parallelism ... Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents... 0 0 6
Presenting to KolkataGeeks Harnessing the cloud for Performance T... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs I am presenting to the geekiest ... Presenting to KolkataGeeks Harnessing the cloud for Performance T... 0 0 0
Moving my blog Jamie Kurtz, January 1, 0001 I am moving my blog to another site – WordPress.com to be exact. If you care to follow, please visit www.jamiekurtz.com. Moving my blog 0 0 0
Developing BizTalk Maps with Specflow & BDD Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Following on from the BDD articles I will cover how we have been using BDD development techniques to develop BizTalk maps. A BizTalk map is a discreet component in BizTalk which is ideally suited to development ... Developing BizTalk Maps with Specflow & BDD 0 0 5
Developing BizTalk Rules the BDD way Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Recently we have been looking at changing the way we develop and test BizTalk Business Rules to use a BDD approach and our tool of choice to help with this is Specflow. I wanted to talk through how we ... Developing BizTalk Rules the BDD way 0 0 0
A demo of C# Resource Acquisition Is Initialization TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://geekswithblogs.net/c... there is an interesting article on an excellent way of handling the disposal of unmanaged code items such as database ... A demo of C# Resource Acquisition Is Initialization 0 0 0
Report Builder 2.0 - Requested value 'Integrated' was not found. BenAdler, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... Report Builder 2.0 - Requested value 'Integrated' was not found. 0 0 1
Lots of Exciting Announcements from WPC - Windows 8, Windows Serv... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 16,000 Microsoft Partners are attending our annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Toronto, and the atmosphere is absolutely buzzing with positive energy and excitement around many of the ... Lots of Exciting Announcements from WPC - Windows 8, Windows Serv... 0 0 0
Reflective Threads Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 I just stumbled on a cool trick that I had to share. I wanted to dynamically find and call initialization code. This led me to the use of attributes. Of course, once we find our method, we need to call ... Reflective Threads 0 0 0
Managing Hotfixes Centrally pattontech, January 1, 0001 Historically I've not paid much attention to hotfixes or patches, but lately I've decided that I need to change that aspect of my management. I used to create a folder on the server that had the problem, ... Managing Hotfixes Centrally 0 0 0
Free E-Book - Office 365 (Connect and Collaborate) KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 MS is offering this free e-book for Office 365 enthusiats - Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (ISBN 9780735656949), by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook also available ... Free E-Book - Office 365 (Connect and Collaborate) 0 0 0
How to Implement Single Sign-On between Websites hmloo, January 1, 0001 Introduction Single sign-on (SSO) is a way to control access to multiple related but independent systems, a user only needs to log in once and gains access to all other systems. a lot of commercial systems ... How to Implement Single Sign-On between Websites 0 0 4
Multiple instances of Intellitrace.exe process Vincent Grondin, January 1, 0001 Not so long ago I was confronted with a very bizarre problem… I was using visual studio 2010 and whenever I opened up the Test Impact view I would suddenly see my pc perf go down drastically… Investigating ... Multiple instances of Intellitrace.exe process 0 0 2
10 steps to enable ‘Anonymous Access’ for your ShareP... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 What’s Anonymous Access? Anonymous access to your SharePoint site enables all visitors to view your SharePoint site anonymously without having to log in. With this blog I’d like to go through an easy step ... 10 steps to enable ‘Anonymous Access’ for your ShareP... 0 0 0
Connect to QuickBooks Data from PowerBuilder using CData ADO.NET ... dataintegration, January 1, 0001 The CData ADO.NET providers are easy-to-use, standards-based controls that can be used from any platform or development technology that supports Microsoft .NET, including Sybase PowerBuilder. This article ... Connect to QuickBooks Data from PowerBuilder using CData ADO.NET ... 0 0 2
Twitter Bootstrap styling conflicts with plug-ins like jqGrid and... Renso, January 1, 0001 Issues:The concern with Twitter Bootstrap framework is that some of their css selectors are simply too generic and have incompatibility issues and conflicts with most third party plug-ins and css libraries, ... Twitter Bootstrap styling conflicts with plug-ins like jqGrid and... 0 0 3
Excel duration converts to date Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 I'm working on an Excel 2010 spreadsheet and I'm trying to put in durations for some tasks I want to schedule.The interesting thing is that up until a few minutes ago, I couldn't do it.I was entering in ... Excel duration converts to date 0 0 0
Book Review–Getting Started With OAuth 2.0 Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 Getting Started With OAuth 2.0, by Ryan Boyd, provides an introduction to the latest version of the OAuth protocol. The author starts off by exploring the origins of OAuth, along with its importance, and ... Book Review–Getting Started With OAuth 2.0 0 0 0
Microsoft WPC 12–Predictions D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Let me start by saying I have absolutely no inside knowledge, neither through the MVP program or any other means, that is fuelling what I’m about to write. This is entirely conjecture fuelled by speculation ... Microsoft WPC 12–Predictions 0 0 0
Windows 8 for productivity? Charles Young, January 1, 0001 At long last I’ve started using Windows 8. I boot from a VHD on which I have installed Office, Visio, Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc. For a week, now, I’ve been happily writing code and documents and using ... Windows 8 for productivity? 0 0 1
ResolveUrl() from WCF service Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to ResolveUrl() from WCF service and foundhttp://www.west-wind.c... .However the function assumes that the call is synchronous, in asynchronous ... ResolveUrl() from WCF service 0 0 0
DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We've used the following DataContractSerializeToXml method for a long time, but recently noticed, that it doesn't return full XML for a long object, but truncated it and returns XML string with the length ... DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... 0 0 1
Convert collections of enums to collection of strings and vic... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Recently I needed to convert collections of strings, that represent enum names, to collection of enums, and opposite, to convert collections of enums to collection of strings. I didn’t find standard LINQ ... Convert collections of enums to collection of strings and vic... 0 0 0
StyleCop 4.7.34.0 has been released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 StyleCop 4.7.34.0 was released, today, 6/July at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... with the Visual Studio 2012 RC (11.0.50522).Install order should be : VS2008VS2010VS2012 RCR#6.1.1 ... StyleCop 4.7.34.0 has been released 0 0 0
Free book from Microsoft on on Office 365 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mic... you can get a free book from Microsoft on Office 365 ... Free book from Microsoft on on Office 365 0 0 0
Where did I write that code ? Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Every been in that situation when you desperately need to find that code you checked into TFS a few days back but just can’t remember what team project, what branch, what solution or what file you checked ... Where did I write that code ? 0 0 2
Calling a web service through a reverse proxy Ken, January 1, 0001 I had a w/s that when I first read the WSDL in test, was http, but needed to be accessed from behind a reverse proxy with https. Here are the steps: Change the app.config, <httpTransport> to <httpsTransport> ... Calling a web service through a reverse proxy 0 0 3
Current Technologies Charles Cline, January 1, 0001 I currently work at the University of Kansas (KU) and before that Stanford University, to be particular the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Collaborating with various Higher Ed institutions ... Current Technologies 0 0 0
Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 In this blog post I’ll show you how you can play back the IIS Logs in Visual Studio to automatically generate the web performance tests. You can also download the sample solution I am demo-ing in the blog ... Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio 0 0 3