Closing the Diary andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 It is with some sadness that I write this post as my last for the Redmond Diary blog on the Redmond Developer News and Visual Studio Magazine Web sites. Eleven days ago, I started a new blog for ZDNet ... Closing the Diary 0 0 1
WinDBG: How to load specific version of mscordacwks.dll for debug... Rupreet Singh Gujral, January 1, 0001 If anyone of you has debugged managed crash dumps, I am sure you must have come across a situation when debugger keeps telling you it’s not able to load mscordacwks.dll. It usually happens when the dump ... WinDBG: How to load specific version of mscordacwks.dll for debug... 0 0 6
Import Bacpac into SQL Azure using Code executed from the cloud SeanBarlow, January 1, 0001 0 0 1 437 2494 Simple Toad 20 5 2926 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... Import Bacpac into SQL Azure using Code executed from the cloud 0 0 1
APress Deal of the day - 11/March/2012 - Pro LINQ Language Integr... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 book from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2010"Most books show the simplest examples of how to use a method, but they so rarely show ... APress Deal of the day - 11/March/2012 - Pro LINQ Language Integr... 0 0 0
SSIS 2012: How to Share Cache Among Multiple Packages Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Prior to SSIS 2012 it was not possible to re-use or share the same cache across packages. What that meant is if you created a cache you will be able to consume it only in the very package where the cache ... SSIS 2012: How to Share Cache Among Multiple Packages 0 0 2
Packaging custom checkin policies for Visual Studio using VSIX terje, January 1, 0001 Deployment of custom checkin policies can be done using either an MSI or VSIX. There are many reasons to prefer using the VSIX format. It is more lightweight, and thus more suitable for small components ... Packaging custom checkin policies for Visual Studio using VSIX 0 0 7
Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1 Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 The biggest complaint most remote workers have in regards to working on a team? Feeling disconnected. The biggest complaint an office has about remote workers? They forget the remote workers are there ... Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1 0 0 2
CodePlex downloads without strong name for an assembly Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to use http://cache.codeplex.com/ in my solution, but it caused compile errorAssembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly does not have a strong nameREASON: When you compile an assembly with ... CodePlex downloads without strong name for an assembly 0 0 0
Custom HTTP response header to identify server in a farm. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We wanted to follow recommendation from http://omaralzabir.com/best... to“add “From” header and set the server name. I do this on each webserver and specify different ... Custom HTTP response header to identify server in a farm. 0 0 2
Android Phone Locked Out - entering correct username password faizanahmad, January 1, 0001 So, this morning, my phone was locked out after many wrong lock pattern entries.Phone was asking for gmail username/pass. For some reason, it was not accepting the correct username/password. It was relief ... Android Phone Locked Out - entering correct username password 0 0 0
Gotcha: 403 and 401 errors in SharePoint using Anonymous access Steve Clements, January 1, 0001 Recently I came up against a problem where I was getting 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden errors in SharePoint on an extended anonymous only site. It worked perfectly when using windows authentication, ... Gotcha: 403 and 401 errors in SharePoint using Anonymous access 0 0 0
Organization & Architecture UNISA Studies - Chap 12 MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Learning Outcomes Describe the internal structure of the CPU in general Describe the register organization of the x86/Pentium Describe what an interrupt is and what happens when an interrupt occurs Describe ... Organization & Architecture UNISA Studies - Chap 12 0 0 0
Database Hardware CPU Licensing vs Performance and Fast Track Dat... Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 This is just one of those cool post which are not written as often as it should be. Hats off to Glenn Berry for stating it so clearly for all BI / database developers.http://sqlserver... ... Database Hardware CPU Licensing vs Performance and Fast Track Dat... 0 0 0
Drag & Drop Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 Leonard Mwangi, January 1, 0001 One of the things that I’ve heard people complain over the years after the release of SharePoint 2010 is the disappearance of Drag & Drop web parts capability. This feature was useful because it allowed ... Drag & Drop Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 0 0 0
Performance tips - GZIP compression AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 Ankit Normal Ankit 3 9 2012-03-08T14:34:00Z 2012-03-08T14:36:00Z 1 395 2255 18 5 2645 12.00 Clean Clean false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable ... Performance tips - GZIP compression 0 0 0
Five Leadership Lessons From Star Trek TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Many programmers were introduced to computing by playing one of the the Star Trek games.At http://www.forbes.com/sites... there is an excellent ... Five Leadership Lessons From Star Trek 0 0 0
Project Novus Update–now called Mixtio Reader rodelljr, January 1, 0001 Ok, so as the title suggests, I have decided to release the name of my upcoming Window Phone application. Mixtio Reader will take advantage of various cloud services to provide you with access to your ... Project Novus Update–now called Mixtio Reader 0 0 0
How to download files using a Generic Handler hmloo, January 1, 0001 Using a Generic Handler to download files from server has couple of advantages, I list some of them: 1. Download Statistics. 2. Download Tracking. 3. Download Protection. 4. Other business request. So ... How to download files using a Generic Handler 0 0 6
Using Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler to guide optimization Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 With as often as I write code that does not perform as well as I would like for it to, I can’t believe how hard it is to write slow code on purpose! My last post gave a mile-high overview of the new version ... Using Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler to guide optimization 0 0 1
Enable Publishing Approval workflow on all SP Web(s) in an Site c... Steve Clements, January 1, 0001 What you need / What you've got? Pretty obvious, when a user edits/changes a page, you need someone to check its all good before it goes live! Aka Publishing Approval You can use the "Publishing site with ... Enable Publishing Approval workflow on all SP Web(s) in an Site c... 0 0 0
The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguratio... Leonard Mwangi, January 1, 0001 Recently a colleague of mine encountered the error below and wanted to know how to get past itRecently a colleague of mine encountered the error below and wanted to know how to get past it. When configuring ... The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguratio... 0 0 0
NDepend Evaluation: Part 2 Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 NDepend is a Visual Studio add-in designed for intense code analysis with the goal of high code quality. NDepend uses a number of metrics and aggregates the data in pleasing static and active visual reports. ... NDepend Evaluation: Part 2 0 0 0
Top 10+ SSIS 2012 Improvements Compudicted, January 1, 0001 If you have not heard the latest technical news yet, the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch event is today March 8, 2012! Register to not to miss this opportunity to interact with technology experts and win ... Top 10+ SSIS 2012 Improvements 0 0 16
The gestures of Windows 8 (Consumer preview): part 1 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 This blog post started as a simple one, but grew to be quite large and time consuming. I am splitting it, because I really want to publish the first findings already. Stay tuned for more! I am sure that ... The gestures of Windows 8 (Consumer preview): part 1 0 0 0
Using LINQ to Twitter with Windows Phone Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 The most recent release of LINQ to Twitter included support for Windows Phone. It’s important to note that only 7.1 is supported – the rationale being that 7.1 (Mango) introduced support for IQueryable, ... Using LINQ to Twitter with Windows Phone 0 0 0
Building a RESTful API - A Followup to John Sheehan Sean Fao, January 1, 0001 For those of you that missed it, Rob Conery offered a challenge a couple nights ago to build an API for Tekpub. In response to this, a few different developers took the opportunity to propose their solution ... Building a RESTful API - A Followup to John Sheehan 0 0 2
Organization & Architecture UNISA Studies - Chap 11 MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Learning Outcomes Identify the addressing mode used in a given instruction Give examples of instructions in which specific Pentium addressing modes are used Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ... Organization & Architecture UNISA Studies - Chap 11 0 0 0
Get index of an enum via string Rodney Vinyard, January 1, 0001 Get index of an enum via string Thanks to by serkan sendur : http://www.daniweb.com/soft... I have a bunch of checkboxes on a Windows form and I put the exact checkbox names ... Get index of an enum via string 0 0 1
O'Reilly Deal of the Day - 2/Mar/2012 - Programming Microsoft® AS... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's O'Relley Deal of the day at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4by Dino Esposito. "Completely reengineered for ASP.NET 4—this definitive guide deftly ... O'Reilly Deal of the Day - 2/Mar/2012 - Programming Microsoft® AS... 0 0 0
APRESS -Applied WPF 4 in Context TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Applied WPF 4 in Context (http://www.apress.com/9781... starts with a simple introduction to WPF and then shows a complete WPF application from sketch to completed code. This APress web site states ... APRESS -Applied WPF 4 in Context 0 0 0
Are you ready to launch IPv6 securely? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Davey Winder of IT Pro at http://www.itpro.co.uk/6391... has raised the question "Are you ready to launch IPv6 securely?".The question is a good one - IPv6 has its ... Are you ready to launch IPv6 securely? 0 0 0
Visual Studio 11 Beta available for download TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Scott Hanselman has posted an excellent article at http://www.hanselman.com/bl... on Visual Studio 11 Beta which is now available for download ... Visual Studio 11 Beta available for download 0 0 0
Exchange 2010 UM and virtualization requirements Kay Sellenrode, January 1, 0001 A large portion of my work consists of designing Exchange 2010 environments for customers all around the world.Recently I was working on an assignment where we wanted to implement Exchange UM to replace ... Exchange 2010 UM and virtualization requirements 0 0 1
HTML5 - A quick introduction TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.codeproject.com/... there is an excellent article by Jennifer Marsman entitled "Learn HTML5 in 5 minutes". It does just what it says!The article also ... HTML5 - A quick introduction 0 0 0
Creating a Custom SSIS Data Flow Component - an Example With a Pu... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Last week I was asked to mask or obfuscate a large volume of data residing in a production database for our software quality assurance team to use in testing some functionality. The data resided in various ... Creating a Custom SSIS Data Flow Component - an Example With a Pu... 0 0 3
PDF and CHM versions of Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve just added PDF and CHM versions of “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide”, you can get them here. The HTML browsable version is here. I have the first delivery of my 2-day course “SOA, Connectivity ... PDF and CHM versions of Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 is out Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 It is about time to look at the new .NET Framework 4.5 release along with the brand new Visual Studio 11 Beta 1. Besides the new features I wanted to see if the massive performance complaints have been ... Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 is out 0 0 0
Religions, Casts and now Technology Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 This blog post is not to hurt any one, just a thought that I got in my mind when I was walking from an Apple Store to a Microsoft Store. I am not judging any one here but if you are from the DC area and ... Religions, Casts and now Technology 0 0 1
The Hidden Costs Of Offshoring Your IT Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 While I am not a fan of offshoring IT development, I do understand the attraction. From a rate perspective they look very attractive, but in my experience that is the smallest part of the story when it ... The Hidden Costs Of Offshoring Your IT 0 0 0
Leap Ahead With Free Pluralsight Training on Leap Day TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Pluralsight are celebrating Leap Day by offering free access to their course library"For 24 hours, starting Wednesday February 29, at 12:00AM EST ( 05:00 UTC) the Pluralsight library will be wide open. ... Leap Ahead With Free Pluralsight Training on Leap Day 0 0 0
Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve just published a web-browsalbe version of “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide”. “The Developers Guide to AppFabric” has been re-branded, and has a new title of “Windows Azure Service Bus Developer ... Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide 0 0 0
Oh no! My padding's invalid! simonc, January 1, 0001 Recently, I've been doing some work involving cryptography, and encountered the standard .NET CryptographicException: 'Padding is invalid and cannot be removed.' Searching on StackOverflow produces 57 ... Oh no! My padding's invalid! 0 0 2
The perils of being infected by DNSChanger TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.itpro.co.uk/6389... Davey Winder of ITPro has published a very disturbing article on the problems of being infected by DNSChanger. ... The perils of being infected by DNSChanger 0 0 0
Choosing A Windows Based Web Hosting Service Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Recently I have gone through the process of selecting a web hosting company for one of my clients. There are a lot of options out there and a number things you need to be cautious about. I will go over ... Choosing A Windows Based Web Hosting Service 0 0 0
IASA SE Florida Chapter Meeting Report 02/21/2012 Rainer Habermann, January 1, 0001 Nina Grantcharova gave an excellent presentation about Enterprise Architecture Patterns with details and examples in front of a large audience. Nina answered many questions and gave a complete overview ... IASA SE Florida Chapter Meeting Report 02/21/2012 0 0 0
Chocolatey - Guidance on Packaging Apps with Both an Install and ... Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool name, ... Chocolatey - Guidance on Packaging Apps with Both an Install and ... 0 0 0
A SharePoint session for you at BASIS SOFTEXPO 2012 MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 -Who is interested about SharePoint Web Development but looking for a guideline how to start? A SharePoint Technical session will be held on Tomorrow 12PM at BASIS SOFTEXPRO 2012. I hope you already registered ... A SharePoint session for you at BASIS SOFTEXPO 2012 0 0 2
Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 This post is in continuation with my earlier post, so you may want to read that first before continuing. Once I removed all the TasksController files and the TodoItem, I chose the Models folder, right ... Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... 0 0 43
TechEd for Novices, 2012 Edition Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 In 2007, Microsoft created a "Tips for the Newbie" page for TechEd (which is apparently no longer available) and I created a follow-on post called Tech·Ed for Novices. I created a similar post in 2008 ... TechEd for Novices, 2012 Edition 0 0 1
WinForms and MVP: Making a testable application lennykean, January 1, 0001 With modern frameworks available that were built with loose coupling and separation of concerns in mind, working in WinForms may seem like a testability wasteland. But there are times when the options ... WinForms and MVP: Making a testable application 0 0 6