Tech Ed 2011 Blogger Hub Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 If you’re at Tech Ed, be sure to stop by the GeeksWithBlogs Tech Ed Blogger Hub and say hi. Jeff & John have done a phenomenal job of setting up a great place to chill and do some blogging. I’ll be ... Tech Ed 2011 Blogger Hub 0 0 1
Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon at TechEd 2011 Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 In case you missed it, the Windows Phone Hackathon was last night. TechEd attendees and community folks from around Atlanta showed up to get some free training on Windows Phone development (Silverlight, ... Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon at TechEd 2011 0 0 0
An extension method to Find Sibling Activity Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I’ve created an extension method to Find Sibling Activity by name Based on example from http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... public static TActivity FindSiblingActivity<TAct... ... An extension method to Find Sibling Activity 0 0 0
Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 Patrick Olurotimi Ige, January 1, 0001 Just surfed on this free book for Programming Windows Phone 7. Its all free including sample code and an emulator. Enjoy ... Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 0 0 0
Orchestration debugging–how to disable it (or enable it) Thomas Canter, January 1, 0001 Recently I was working in the Staging environment at my current client. A Debugging Opportunity occurred and I needed to trace into a Called Orchestration. “No symbolic information was found for this orchestration. ... Orchestration debugging–how to disable it (or enable it) 0 0 0
Use WCF Binary Encoding when Host in IIS6 Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to replace .Net Remoting calls with WCF. Article “From .NET Remoting to the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)” was very useful for me. It was misleading reference to Attribute ReturnUnknownExceptionsAsFa... ... Use WCF Binary Encoding when Host in IIS6 0 0 0
Tech Ed 2011: T-3 Days Till My Tech Ed Presentation Mickey Gousset, January 1, 0001 Wow, where does the time go? Here I am, sitting in the Memphis airport on Sunday evening, waiting for my flight to Atlanta for Tech Ed 2011 – North America. I love going to Tech Ed, as it is the conference ... Tech Ed 2011: T-3 Days Till My Tech Ed Presentation 0 0 0
pinify–The jQuery Site pinning Plugin Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 A jQuery Plugin for adding IE9 features (site pinning, site mode, etc.) to your websites. Several new features of Internet Explorer 9 are designed to enhance the browsing experience of consumers by enabling ... pinify–The jQuery Site pinning Plugin 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2011 -- #1089 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury, Mick Norman, Mike Hole, John Garland, Jeff Prosise, Jobi Joy, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Nigel Sampson, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Pete Brown. Above ... Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2011 -- #1089 0 0 0
First Look: The Tech-Ed 2011 Blogger Hub Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 John Alexander and I made it to Atlanta just in time today to get to the Georgia World Congress Center and see the Blogger Hub. Wow, this is a huge area we have to spread the news about Geekswithblogs.net ... First Look: The Tech-Ed 2011 Blogger Hub 0 0 0
Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silv... Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 If you're in Seattle or will be in Seattle, well ok ... actually Redmond, the 2nd week of June, and you've got some time and money to invest in your career, Alex Golesh announced a great opportunity. Alex ... Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silv... 0 0 0
Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2) mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction In the first part of the “Game-changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta,” I investigated how to debug XAML in Silverlight 5. Now, it is time to explore another feature called Multiple Window ... Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2) 0 0 0
XNA Notes 019 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 This has been a fantastic week of XNA activity and news. Standing ovation the the XNA Team for the interaction they’ve been having with the community as well as the new features they’ve been rolling out ... XNA Notes 019 0 0 12
Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2011 -- #1088 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Morten Nielsen, Kunal Chowdhury, John Papa, Jesse Liberty, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Pete Brown. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Custom Cursors in Silverlight" Morten Nielsen WP7: "Coming in Mango–Sql ... Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2011 -- #1088 0 0 0
HSLS syntax highlight in Visual Studio 2010 Vitus, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2010 is not support built-in syntax highlight for HLSL, and I found great soultion – NShader – HLSL\ GLSL \ CG - Shader Syntax Highlighter add-in for Visual Studio. And now editor window ... HSLS syntax highlight in Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
New version of the Inmeta Build Folder Extension terje, January 1, 0001 The 1.0.1 version of the Build Folder Extension is now out and can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Code Gallery at http://visualstudiogallery.... ... New version of the Inmeta Build Folder Extension 0 0 0
Anyone convinced a security team to go for Azure AppFabric Servic... Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 At the UK Connected Systems User Group meeting yesterday we had a good session from Imran on Azure AppFabric. We ran out of evening before the end of the session, so I didn't get to raise this question, ... Anyone convinced a security team to go for Azure AppFabric Servic... 0 0 7
Restore SQL Server Database from suspect Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Below are a few links, that can help, if you need Restore SQL Server Database from suspect MyITforum.com : How to recover user databases from a “Suspect” status( http://www.myitforum.com/ar... ... Restore SQL Server Database from suspect 0 0 0
ASP.NET AJAX:Localization Client Side kazim sardar mehdi, January 1, 0001 1. Set EnableScriptGlobalization=true on the script manager <asp:ScriptManager runat="server" EnableScriptGlobalization="... /> 2. Use the Sys.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture command either inside the ... ASP.NET AJAX:Localization Client Side 0 0 0
Using the MailDefinition class in .NET Framework 4 Console Applic... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 One of my colleagues pinged me to check, how to use the MailDefinition class for creating formatted mails from a .NET Console Application. She was referring to this article http://www.search-this.com/... ... Using the MailDefinition class in .NET Framework 4 Console Applic... 0 0 1
WP7 Update release by Telstra: 7.0.7392 russ61, January 1, 0001 Telstra finally got their act together and got an update out. Unfortunately it hasn’t done much to alleviate the woeful lack of responsiveness for my HTC Mozart so it will now have to go back to HTC for ... WP7 Update release by Telstra: 7.0.7392 0 0 0
Custom SharePoint Timer and ULS Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Over the last few months we have been developing custom SharePoint timer jobs. Since the jobs run under a Windows Service it makes it difficult to debug them. The saving grace we found is called ULS. It ... Custom SharePoint Timer and ULS 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2011 -- #1087 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Chris Rouw, Kevin Dockx(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Telerik Phone Team, Mike Taulty(-2-), Pete Brown, and András Velvárt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Locking ... Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2011 -- #1087 0 0 0
SilverlightShow for May 02-08, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for SilverlightShow Top 5 News for May 2-8, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: How to Create a To-Do App for Windows ... SilverlightShow for May 02-08, 2011 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon Monday, May 16, 2011 6:00p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Register: http://bit.ly/RegWP7Hackathon Don't miss this opportunity to get hands on help with your Windows Phone 7 app, from ... Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon 0 0 3
Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta&rdqu... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta” Demos I’ve decided that today I would release a set of Demos for the Silverlight 5 Beta to help the community get up to speed quickly with the new features. ... Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta&rdqu... 0 0 1
VS2010 SP1 - The file is under source control and is not checked ... Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 If you’ve recently upgraded to SP1 and tried to build a solution checked out from TFS you might have come across the following dialog. Not only does it not allow you to cancel the build process, but it ... VS2010 SP1 - The file is under source control and is not checked ... 0 0 0
Self Signed SAN Certificates renewieldraaijer, January 1, 0001 Every now and then I find that it is necessary to apply self signed SSL certificates when implementing Exchange servers. Self Signed Subject Alternative Name (SAN) Certificates that is, because Exchange ... Self Signed SAN Certificates 0 0 5
MousePath Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 A while ago, (and by that I mean over a year ago now) I was catching up on the blogs I read and came across this post: http://blog.iso50.com/14644... I thought – Awesomeness! I’ll ... MousePath 0 0 0
Exchange 2010 Troubleshooting – Another Distribution List I... BWCA, January 1, 0001 When we started our Exchange 2010 deployment, we ran into an issue with not being able to modify distribution lists. I documented how to fix this issue in a previous post. Not too long ago, we started ... Exchange 2010 Troubleshooting – Another Distribution List I... 0 0 1
How to Find The TechEd Blogger Hub When You Arrive Staff of Geeks, January 1, 0001 Next week is a huge week for us at @StaffOfGeeks. We will be at what we think is the best tech conference of the year, Microsoft TechEd. John and I have been going to this event for years and now we have ... How to Find The TechEd Blogger Hub When You Arrive 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2011 -- #1086 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this almost entirely submittals Issue: Andrea Boschin, Manas Patnaik, Alex van Beek, Michael Washington, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Michael Crump, Richard Waddell, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Alexandra ... Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2011 -- #1086 0 0 0
The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-58... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Let’s focus on Exam 70-583 this time. This exam is PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. This guide itself will be a different approach to preparing for the exam itself. Instead of ... The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-58... 0 0 0
Mimicking websites request for screen scraping… MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Introduction I don’t do web programming… I have been programming client applications for years and consider myself a WPF/Silverlight developer. The web thing always seemed a bit scary in its stateless ... Mimicking websites request for screen scraping… 0 0 0
Configure FluentNHiberante in a Project using NuGet Sharpoverride, January 1, 0001 I want to show a quick way of adding FluentNHibernate into your project. First make sure you have NuGet installed in VS 2010. You can find it in the Extension Manager. Now you can use the View->Other ... Configure FluentNHiberante in a Project using NuGet 0 0 0
Deal Groupie – Learning WP7 and ASP.NET MVC 3 David Paquette, January 1, 0001 Lately, I have been taking some time to learn some new technologies. For me, the best way to learn a new technology is to jump head first into a project: Daily deal websites such as GroupOn, LivingSocial, ... Deal Groupie – Learning WP7 and ASP.NET MVC 3 0 0 2
Site Column names with special characters: Errors in Calculated C... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 I ran into an interesting scenario when a colleague of mine was setting up a list in SharePoint 2010. He was creating a list, with a phone number column, a phone extension column, and a calculated column ... Site Column names with special characters: Errors in Calculated C... 0 0 1
APress Deal of the Day - 8/May/2011 - Introducing Windows Azure TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com is Introducing Windows Azure "Everything you need to get started with Microsoft Azure and apply it across a range of situations. Author ... APress Deal of the Day - 8/May/2011 - Introducing Windows Azure 0 0 0
Cool Resources: Windows Azure Edition Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 The very first thing that needs to happen is the need for a Windows Azure account. Try it free! http://www.microsoft.com/wi... The Learning Plan http://learning.microsoft.c... ... Cool Resources: Windows Azure Edition 0 0 0
XNA Custom Content Pipeline Extensions Sample Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 For the longest time, the Content Pipeline was a magic transmogrification device to me. I would add content to a content project and it would get mystically turned into stuff I would load in my game with ... XNA Custom Content Pipeline Extensions Sample 0 0 0
MVVM Light V3 on NuGet (now with WP7 support) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 There was already a version of MVVM Light on Nuget before. However the old version did not support Windows Phone 7. This is now corrected. Also the new version now adds a ViewModelLocator to your project ... MVVM Light V3 on NuGet (now with WP7 support) 0 0 0
The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-51... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Let’s focus on Exam 70-513 this time. This exam is TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Additional Resources: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... ... The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Exam 70-51... 0 0 0
Microsoft Security Essentials as antivirus solution for Windows 2... Manesh Karunakaran, January 1, 0001 One of the little known facts about MSE is that it can be used as an antivirus solution on Windows 2008 R2 Server. I use Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter as my workstation OS and I have been looking around for ... Microsoft Security Essentials as antivirus solution for Windows 2... 0 0 30
The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Part 1 of ... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 I have mentioned I will be speaking on a Cram 4 exam session at the upcoming TechEd North America 2011 in Atlanta. The topic is the prep for exam 70-583: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. ... The road to getting the MCPD:Windows Azure credential. Part 1 of ... 0 0 0
Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 1) mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction Now that the MIX 11 conference is over and we have heard the news of the Silverlight 5 Beta being released, it’s time to explore some of the new features. If you followed my previous tutorial, ... Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 1) 0 0 0
Authenticating Domain Users Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 One of my recent projects involved creating an authentication module compatible with both .Net 3.5 and 4.0 and supporting platforms as early as Windows 2000. In the next few lines, I will highlight our ... Authenticating Domain Users 0 0 0
Blog Reader QA: A simple example of INotifyPropertyChanged. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I had a blog reader ask me this question: I see the INotifyPropertyChanged in demos all of the time, most of the time it is in a huge MVVM project and I cannot wrap my head around why it is important and ... Blog Reader QA: A simple example of INotifyPropertyChanged. 0 0 2
Social Viewer Template for WP7 Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 You guys know I'm all about Windows Phone 7 these days, and being a self-proclaimed recovering social media addict, I found this to be a pretty interesting tool. Give it a download, try it out and let ... Social Viewer Template for WP7 0 0 1
My Swiss TechDays presentations sample code Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I published the sample code from my presentations about Windows Phone 7 at TechDays Switzerland. I also published the Powerpoint slides on Slideshare (Windows Phone 7 Overview / Windows Phone 7 Deep Dive). ... My Swiss TechDays presentations sample code 0 0 0
Iowa Code Camp Presentations Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Last weekend I went up to Iowa Code Camp in Cedar Rapids and had the opportunity to do two presentations, one on NuGet and one known as the Automation Tools Roundup. ICC is one of my favorite conferences ... Iowa Code Camp Presentations 0 0 0