MVVM Light Toolkit for Windows 8 (preview) #mvvmlight #win8 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I was very optimistic when I first saw Metro style apps coded in C# on Windows 8, because for the most part they are not much different than the well known XAML/C# pair on Silverlight or WPF. This led ... MVVM Light Toolkit for Windows 8 (preview) #mvvmlight #win8 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for October 03, 2011 -- #1155 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Andrea Boschin, Colin Eberhardt, Anoop Madhusudanan, Lee, Laurent Bugnion, Rudi Grobler, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, XAMLNinja, and Kunal Chowdhury. ... Silverlight Cream for October 03, 2011 -- #1155 0 0 0
Modelos de Despliegue en la Nube Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 El NIST define 4 modelos de despliegue dentro del entorno de Cloud ComputingNube Privada Una Nube privada es la implementación de servicios de la nube sobre los recursos que se dedican a su organización, ... Modelos de Despliegue en la Nube 0 0 0
Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 El Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología y su laboratorio de tecnología información, NIST por el acrónimo en idioma inglés, han definido Cloud Computing de la siguiente manera:“Cloud Computing ... Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing 0 0 0
SilverlightShow for Sept 26 - Oct 02, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for September 26 - October 02, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: The Top 10 Over-Engineering ... SilverlightShow for Sept 26 - Oct 02, 2011 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 Application development subodhnpushpak, January 1, 0001 A few days back I had the privilege to demonstrate the capabilities of WP7 at an event. I jointly presented the session with Bijoy Singhal, distinguished speaker with a knack of simplifying even the most ... Windows Phone 7 Application development 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 - 2 -- #1154 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Justin Angel, Kunal Chowdhury, Lazar Nikolov, Laurent Bugnion, Rudi Grobler, Asim Sajjad, Nikola, and Igor. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Simulating rain in Silverlight Part 4 - Adding sound ... Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 - 2 -- #1154 0 0 0
MTM Testing Scorecard using TFS API Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Download a working demo (below): No showing off, this has been developed in VS11 using MTM11 and version controlled in TFS Azure Working Demo = Download-Testing Scorecard In this blog post I’ll be showing ... MTM Testing Scorecard using TFS API 0 0 45
Scanning My Book Collection eddraper, January 1, 0001 I’ve been a bookworm for years and have amassed a significant volume of books of all kinds. Most of my collection is technology related, but volumes of Conan, manga, astronomy, philosophy, genetics, personal ... Scanning My Book Collection 0 0 1
15 Essential Open-Source Tools for Windows Admins TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.infoworld.com/d/... there are 15 Essential Open-Source Tools for Windows Admins ... 15 Essential Open-Source Tools for Windows Admins 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 -- #1153 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 First a big congratulations to all the new and renewed MVPs (October 1)! In this Issue: Rogier van der Hee, Laurent Bugnion, Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, Xianzhong Zhu, Derik Whittaker, ... Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2011 -- #1153 0 0 0
TFS SDK Get Groups Users Permissions using TFS API with Linqpad Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Download a working Demo: Working Demo Download In this blog post I'll show you how to use the TFS API to get the security groups, members, permissions and security settings of users in Team Projects in ... TFS SDK Get Groups Users Permissions using TFS API with Linqpad 0 0 10
Why NuGet for Visual Studio 2010 is so useful! Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Recently I delivered a session at Virtual TechDays on why NuGet is so useful. As a part of the demonstration, I was showcasing how it automatically allows us to update some of the external reference libraries. ... Why NuGet for Visual Studio 2010 is so useful! 0 0 6
My WP7 Mango Upgrade – Why uneventful is good and a new war... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 It has been several months since I originally got my Omnia 7 phone. You can read about my first impressions of the phone – after actually using the device for a few months I have begun to enjoy it, but ... My WP7 Mango Upgrade – Why uneventful is good and a new war... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 -- #1152 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, Dennis Doomen, Lazar Nikolov, András Velvárt, Rudi Grobler, Jeremy Likness, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, and ... Silverlight Cream for September 29, 2011 -- #1152 0 0 0
New version of Firefox (7!) TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Accordign to a post at http://www.macstories.net/n... Firefox 7 has been released. This may be be just a Mac version for now. I look forward to the Windows as it promises ... New version of Firefox (7!) 0 0 0
Enabling Frame Rate Counters for HTML Applications in Windows 8 mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction Just the other day I blogged about “Enabling Frame Rate Counter for XAML Applications in Windows 8”. At the very end of that post, I reminded everyone that that method does not work for HTML ... Enabling Frame Rate Counters for HTML Applications in Windows 8 0 0 0
How ADFS with Azure ACS works Saqib Ullah, January 1, 0001 Very Good introduction video on how Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) works together for claim base application in cloud ... How ADFS with Azure ACS works 0 0 2
Perl Perls ketrym, January 1, 0001 Fix obscure problems with line endings in UNIX files after transfers from Windows perl -i -pe's/\r$//;' <filename> Perl Perls 0 0 1
AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp #7 on October 1st 2011 Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Join me and Oleg Sych from AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp this weekend! Register for this FREE event online: TallyCodeCamp.org Design Language of Windows Phone & Windows "8" by Nikita Polyakov ... AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp #7 on October 1st 2011 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 -- #1151 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Pete Brown, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Ollie Riches, Kunal Chowdhury, Alexandra Rusina, Mohamed Mosallem, and Stephen Forte. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for September 27, 2011 -- #1151 0 0 0
October 2011 Chicago Information Technology Architecture Meeting Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 It is the last quarter of the year. So we are trying to get as much content to you as possible. This month Joe Hummel will be presenting on functional programming. While this is not a new concept I believe ... October 2011 Chicago Information Technology Architecture Meeting 0 0 0
Where is my Windows Phone 7.5 Update? Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 USA: http://mango.microsoft.com/... World: http://mango.microsoft.com/... ... Where is my Windows Phone 7.5 Update? 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7.5 is here! Bye-bye “Mango” Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 I am happy to help announce the release and roll-out of Windows Phone 7.5 Starting today, updates to will be rolled-out in a phased approach by carriers across the world. WHERE IS MY UPDATE? See here: ... Windows Phone 7.5 is here! Bye-bye “Mango” 0 0 0
Firefox 7 Released Anirudha, January 1, 0001 I found a article on ghacks.net about firefox's next release 7. if you trying to find out on the mozilla's officially site they still show you 6.0.2 that means they still not relased it officially but ... Firefox 7 Released 0 0 0
Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Applications on Windows 8 Developer Prev... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Well, as mentioned in my earlier posts, the ASP.NET MVC 4 has Developer Preview has been released. You might notice quite a bit of this term “Developer Preview” in 2-3 products specifically. One, Windows ... Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Applications on Windows 8 Developer Prev... 0 0 4
Free Microsoft Tools & Websitespark Follow Up! OceanWanderer, January 1, 0001 In response to a post from an anonymous individual on one of my posts (http://geekswithblogs.net/... regarding free Microsoft tools ... Free Microsoft Tools & Websitespark Follow Up! 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2011 -- #1150 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Nguyen Pham, Nigel Sampson, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Peter Kuhn, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Joost van Shaik, and Andrea Boschin. Above ... Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2011 -- #1150 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 - 2 -- #1149 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Scott Hanselman, David Anson, Kunal Chowdhury, Beth Massi, Rajat Jaiswal, MIke Ormond, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen, Sumit ... Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 - 2 -- #1149 0 0 0
Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in Win... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 In the developer preview of Windows 8, I just noticed a breaking change in the way that data bindings react to the PropertyChanged event. Read the rest of this entry » ... Breaking change: Raising PropertyChanged with string.Empty in Win... 0 0 0
Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Metro-style apps are very similar to Windows Phone apps. They have a similar application model (for example they can be suspended, and when suspended they can be killed by the operating system if memory ... Quick tip: Killing a Metro-style app in Windows 8 0 0 0
Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Microsoft loves MVVM and INotifyPropertyChanged so much that they included this very useful interface twice in the new WinRT framework. Unfortunately, only one of these is working correctly (and the other ... Quick tip: Select the correct INotifyPropertyChanged in Windows 8... 0 0 0
The //Build Report–Thoughts on the Event D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 So its been a few weeks since Microsoft’s Build conference, where they unveiled Windows 8 and shared what the developer story will be. I had blogged about Day 1 of the conference here, but I wanted to ... The //Build Report–Thoughts on the Event 0 0 1
Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 One of the very useful features of the MVVM Light toolkit is to help with the creation of design time data, in order to give something to see on the design surface (Expression Blend, Visual Studio designer). ... Detecting design mode in Windows 8/WinRT 0 0 0
Dealing with types in WinRT Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Another quick tip: Most of the interaction with the System.Type class in Windows 8 is now done through the TypeInfo class. An instance of TypeInfo for a give type is retrieved using an extension method ... Dealing with types in WinRT 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 -- #1148 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Xianzhong Zhu, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, and Dhananjay ... Silverlight Cream for September 25, 2011 -- #1148 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2011 -- #1147 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Ollie Riches, Oscar Agreda, Samidip Basu, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, Andy Beaulieu(-2-), ... Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2011 -- #1147 0 0 0
The WebMatrix v2 Beta Release Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 I had written earlier about the WebMatrix v2 Beta release that happened recently at the BUILD Conference As I had mentioned earlier, WebMatrix is a light weight tool for Web Development, Profiling, Database ... The WebMatrix v2 Beta Release 0 0 4
SQL Server Job Monitoring OceanWanderer, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; ... SQL Server Job Monitoring 0 0 0
Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 This is a quick tip, because it confused me at first. But thanks to the always excellent Tim Heuer and Peter Provost (from the Visual Studio team), here is the answer: Usual disclaimer: This is for XAML/C#. ... Running unit tests in Visual Studio 2011 and Windows 8 (WinRT) 0 0 0
Unintended Api Changes - .NET 4.0 Breaking Changes Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 The nice thing about unintended changes is that you never think it could happen until you get bitten by a nasty change. Microsoft did publish a complete list of breaking changes here which is complete ... Unintended Api Changes - .NET 4.0 Breaking Changes 0 0 0
Killer Build Interviews and XAML Sessions. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I have been watching the influencer interviews with Richard Campbell as well as the Build Sessions recently published on Channel 9. Like most of you, I am trying to learn as much as I can about this new ... Killer Build Interviews and XAML Sessions. 0 0 1
Dot Net is not Dead! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 I remember when Windows Framework Extensions (WinFX) came out there was ill-informed remarks that Microsoft had killed off the Dot Net Framework. The truth was that Microsoft had extended the framework. ... Dot Net is not Dead! 0 0 0
Two Great AppFabric Resources Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 If you want to get up to speed on Azure AppFabric brokered messaging there are a couple of resources you should check out. SB CTP Messaging User Guide This is a 30 page word document put together by the ... Two Great AppFabric Resources 0 0 1
How to Remove Quotes and Replace the Delimiter in a File using Po... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Recently I was tasked with a file cleansing exercise. The endeavor looked simple, but the solution was not, I needed to prepare a file for processing, but wanted to first proof concept my approach so I ... How to Remove Quotes and Replace the Delimiter in a File using Po... 0 0 0
Final OBS BBQ of the Season D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I work for a pretty awesome company, Online Business Systems. We’re 250+ technology and business consultants located in Winnipeg, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Portland, and Minneapolis. Throughout the summer ... Final OBS BBQ of the Season 0 0 1
Differences between WP7 and WP7.1 (Mango) Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 Looking for info on the differences between Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.1 (Mango), here ya go: http://www.differencebetwee... ... Differences between WP7 and WP7.1 (Mango) 0 0 0
Using Logging Application Block with Windows Azure Rohit Gupta, January 1, 0001 In Windows Azure, we have the DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener which can be used for writing diagnostics to Local resource (like a local storage in the Worker or Web Role) which can then be ultimately stored ... Using Logging Application Block with Windows Azure 0 0 0
Windows Azure Storage Session at Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Storage med Björn Eriksen. Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM Windows Azure Storage är en tjänst i Windows Azure som rör olika typer av lagring. Blobs, Queues, Tables och ... Windows Azure Storage Session at Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG... 0 0 0
Scripting with Mono raccoon_tim, January 1, 0001 C++ is a very powerful language. Well written native C++ code can perform much better than managed languages like C# and Java due to optimizations that the managed systems are not able to perform during ... Scripting with Mono 0 0 0