it’s all about windows techdude, January 1, 0001 Hi there , the techdude adventures is starting today , this space will be dedicated entirely for windows & technology stuffs , including books which I’ll publish them later , tips , tricks , video ... it’s all about windows 0 0 0
Renewed as VS ALM MVP! Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I was happy to receive this email today: Thanks to the great folks at Imaginet and Notion Solutions for all your help and support over the last year. Also, thanks to the MS Product group for being such ... Renewed as VS ALM MVP! 0 0 0
Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Windows Phone 7 development is an exciting topic. I have been exploring WP7 development for a little while now and I figured I would post some of the basic concepts that might be helpful to beginners. ... Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development 0 0 0
Fancy some 1-2-1 time on Windows Phone 7? Three FREE workshops, n... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 My colleagues have put together a series of Saturday hands on workshops for Windows Phone 7 development in the UK. MVPs and Microsoft Evangelists will be helping you with such topics as Tombstoning, Databinding, ... Fancy some 1-2-1 time on Windows Phone 7? Three FREE workshops, n... 0 0 0
Building a Windows Phone 7 Application from Start to Finish Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 This documentation and accompanying sample application will get you started building a complete application for Windows Phone 7. You will learn about common developer issues in the context of a simple ... Building a Windows Phone 7 Application from Start to Finish 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2011 -- #1069 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: John Papa, Rudi Grobler, Michael Washington, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Xianzhong Zhu, Nigel Sampson, Martin Krüger, WindowsPhoneGeek, Vinit Yadav, András Velvárt, and Alex Sorokoletov. Above the ... Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2011 -- #1069 0 0 0
Misreporting of variable values when debugging x64 code with the ... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; ... Misreporting of variable values when debugging x64 code with the ... 0 0 2
Configuring dotNetInstaller 2.0 to install custom prerequisites a... JaydPage, January 1, 0001 Introduction I recently came across a handy tool that can be used as a setup bootstrapper for windows. Its called dotNetInstaller and can be found at http://dotnetinstaller.code... This tool allows ... Configuring dotNetInstaller 2.0 to install custom prerequisites a... 0 0 10
Store Procedure Debugging in VS2008 RoneeNoor, January 1, 0001 Debugging is cool. I mean what would have been happened to developers if they couldn’t debug their code!! Speaking of myself at some point I probably would’ve got pissed off and started to seek some other ... Store Procedure Debugging in VS2008 0 0 0
SCVMM Admin Console Giving Insufficient Privileges Error (Error I... Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’m trying to setup TFS Lab Management on a new server and I ran into a really weird issue trying to configure it that I figured I’d share the solution to in case anybody else encountered it. This was ... SCVMM Admin Console Giving Insufficient Privileges Error (Error I... 0 0 5
Stop writing ViewModels and start using T4 !!!! JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 If you hate being a mindless drone in some Illogical software sweatshop, switch to T4. Note that you cannot use reflection - you must use EnvDTE or your VS instance will lock. Use the T4Toolbox to access ... Stop writing ViewModels and start using T4 !!!! 0 0 1
Deploying an RDP enabled Azure Package outside of Visual Studio Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 This is a lesson that did not come easy but it sure was helpful to discover. When creating an Azure deployment package as a developer because you will hand-off to a deployment group within IT, pretty much ... Deploying an RDP enabled Azure Package outside of Visual Studio 0 0 0
HTML5: A New Gaming Platform? David Wesst, January 1, 0001 I’m a gamer. When I started out, I had the classic Nintendo and thought it was awesome. That eventually evolved into a Super Nintendo, and with that I would say I became a gamer. Back then, the web wasn’t ... HTML5: A New Gaming Platform? 0 0 1
Getting the Azure MMC to work on Windows 7 SP1 and SDK 1.4 Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 As I posted earlier on getting the Azure PowerShell CmdLts to install and such on Windows 7, working with the Azure MMC is also another item that requires a tad of a workaround to get it going. If you ... Getting the Azure MMC to work on Windows 7 SP1 and SDK 1.4 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2011 -- #1068 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Roy Dallal, Rudi Grobler, Jeff Prosise(-2-), Jesse Liberty, Morten Nielsen, Derik Whittaker, Peter Torr, Xianzhong Zhu, and Adam Kinney. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight: Adding ... Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2011 -- #1068 0 0 0
Get surfy and let IE take a breather russ61, January 1, 0001 Daniel Vaughan (not Daniel Vaughan or Daniel Vaughan) and Katka Vaughan have created Surfy, a free tabbed web browser for Windows Phone 7. It sports tabbed browsing, full screen view, orientation locking ... Get surfy and let IE take a breather 0 0 0
Unlocked Windows Phone 7 + Where's my phone update? Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Are you looking for Unlocked Windows Phone 7? Are you being nagged by someone who is looking for one? Wondering where your update to Windows Phone 7 is finally coming? You are in luck, read on! As many ... Unlocked Windows Phone 7 + Where's my phone update? 0 0 0
Geekwithblogs display skins russ61, January 1, 0001 Geekwithblogs display skins VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL ... Geekwithblogs display skins 0 0 0
WP7 Training & Information Resources 2 russ61, January 1, 0001 (these are lifted verbatim from Microsoft here, here and here and are presented below only because it’s convenient to have them lumped altogether…) Getting Started with Windows Phone Windows Phone development ... WP7 Training & Information Resources 2 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2011 -- #1067 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Michael Crump, Alex Knight, Benjamin Roux, Nigel Sampson, and Jeff Prosise(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "[Silverlight] How to watermark a WriteableBitmap with a ... Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2011 -- #1067 0 0 0
Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone ... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 This article is Part 2 of the series “Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application.” Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part ... Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone ... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 -- #1066 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, Benjamin Roux, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Jeff Prosise(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Useful Value Converters" ... Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 -- #1066 0 0 0
Mystery of the Uncooperative VS.NET 2010 Installation SOLVED! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Back in August I blogged about an issue I was having with VS.NET 2010. I had installed it on a clean pave of Windows 7 64-bit, but I was getting weird issues with the designer for ASP.NET and I couldn’t ... Mystery of the Uncooperative VS.NET 2010 Installation SOLVED! 0 0 1
Azure WCF Service Errors Jeff Certain, January 1, 0001 WCF services under Azure have a nasty habit of not really telling you what you need to know. Having fought through this – and having been challenged to find exactly what I needed in a Google search, I ... Azure WCF Service Errors 0 0 0
Drag and Drop in a Windows XNA Game Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 XNA Games in Windows are hosted within a Windows Forms Form. This allows you access to many special Windows-only features, such as drag and drop, provided that you know the right code to put in to get ... Drag and Drop in a Windows XNA Game 0 0 1
Writing Windows Shell Extension with .NET 4 - Part 4: Context Men... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 In "Writing Windows Shell Extension with .NET Framework 4 (C#, VB.NET) - Part 1: Context Menu Handler", we introduced how to write Windows shell context menu handler using .NET 4: Lots of developers have ... Writing Windows Shell Extension with .NET 4 - Part 4: Context Men... 0 0 7
Exchange 2010 Deployment Notes – ISA 2004 Server Connection... BWCA, January 1, 0001 We noticed some very odd, random behavior in our environment specifically with Exchange 2010 ActiveSync and Outlook Web App. Some of our mobile devices had trouble synchronizing email (problems with connecting, ... Exchange 2010 Deployment Notes – ISA 2004 Server Connection... 0 0 1
Be careful when upgrading Office 2010 John Breakwell, January 1, 0001 If you’ve installed and upgraded as many Microsoft products as I have over the years, you get a bit blasé and assume that if something bad could happen as a result of clicking “Next” then the installer ... Be careful when upgrading Office 2010 0 0 1
This is another delay test Zain Naboulsi, January 1, 0001 This should not show up… ... This is another delay test 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2011 -- #1065 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Pontus Wittenmark, Vikram Pendse, Paul Sheriff, Nokola, Peter Kuhn, Jesse Liberty, and WindowsPhoneGeek. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "That Time App" Pontus Wittenmark WP7: "New Fantasia ... Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2011 -- #1065 0 0 0
Musings on the Possible Future of Zune (Hardware) Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 For the past few weeks now there’s been a persistent “Zune is dead!” rumor. There was one a few months ago as well speculating about the name itself. The most recent one focuses on the hardware. It’s been ... Musings on the Possible Future of Zune (Hardware) 0 0 1
Powershell FTP Mike Koerner, January 1, 0001 I've been looking for a replacement for my powershell script used to ftp files. It currently uses the Windows ftp.exe application with a command file. Well the script has been causing problems and files ... Powershell FTP 0 0 0
XNA Notes 012 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 This week was a busy one for the XNA Community and one that had a series of ups and downs. You might have noticed by now (or maybe you haven’t and I shouldn’t be pointing this out..) that I tend to only ... XNA Notes 012 0 0 5
Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 -- #1064 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Roy Dallal, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Chris Koenig, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, Chris Rouw, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: ... Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 -- #1064 0 0 0
Exchange 2010 Troubleshooting – Out of Office reply issue BWCA, January 1, 0001 Several users reported that they could not turn on or off their Out of Office reply using either Microsoft Outlook 2007 or 2010. They did not have any problems turning on or off their OOF reply using Microsoft ... Exchange 2010 Troubleshooting – Out of Office reply issue 0 0 7
Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone ... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I have started a new series on SilverlightShow.net called Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. I decided that I wanted to create a very simple and easy to understand ... Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone ... 0 0 0
WP7–Where’s My Update?! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 “Where’s my update?!” If you’re one of the many WP7 owners who are asking that same question, good news: Microsoft has created a site that you can check the status for your country and your phone/carrier. ... WP7–Where’s My Update?! 0 0 0
Sprite Padding Using Guides in Gimp Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 Lately I’ve been doing a lot of drawing. A lot of it has been creating sprite animations for XNA projects. From many years of using it, I work primarily with Gimp. Some aspects of it frustrate me (mostly ... Sprite Padding Using Guides in Gimp 0 0 2
WP7 Training & Information Resources 1 russ61, January 1, 0001 MSDN WP7 Beginner Training WP7 Development for Absolute Beginners in 64 parts on channel9 Windows Phone Developer Quickstarts on the AppHub WP7 Offline Training Course WP7Comp - Red Gate Software competition ... WP7 Training & Information Resources 1 0 0 0
Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: Scott Hanselman has a NuGet package to automate many of these steps and you should check it out, http://www.hanselman.com/bl... ... Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... 0 0 7
Dynamically accessing deployed Assemblies and Types in C# - Part ... Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 Well, will you look at that - no sooner do I write my first blog about an extension method I've written for accessing deployed Assemblies and Types, than I discover today that it doesn't actually work ... Dynamically accessing deployed Assemblies and Types in C# - Part ... 0 0 0
Using the Emergency State for a Corrupt SQL Server Database Akshay Deep Lamba, January 1, 0001 Problem I noticed a new feature that was first introduced in SQL Server 2005, which is the Emergency state for a database. It looks that it may facilitate dealing with a suspect database. How can I use ... Using the Emergency State for a Corrupt SQL Server Database 0 0 0
Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: Scott Hanselman has a NuGet package to automate many of these steps and you should check it out, http://www.hanselman.com/bl... ... Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... 0 0 20
How I learned to stop worrying and love MFC C++ Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 The title of this blog post is a lie. I don't actually love MFC C++, in fact I think it's safe to say I hate it. Hate may actually not be a strong enough word... but it's the best I can do at the moment. ... How I learned to stop worrying and love MFC C++ 0 0 0
Windows 7 64Bit Microsoft Access 2007 Problem [Solved] "architect... Humprey Cogay, C|EH, January 1, 0001 I just installed my PC with Windows 7 64bit, Microsoft Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2010. I was trying something and I have decided to use Microsoft Access as my database, After a few minutes I found ... Windows 7 64Bit Microsoft Access 2007 Problem [Solved] "architect... 0 0 5
Introduction to Azure Storage Webcast Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Whilst enjoying my enforced 8-months Swedish paternity leave I have fund a bit of time to continue looking at Windows Azure and AppFabric (both Server and Azure), and have started another series of Azure ... Introduction to Azure Storage Webcast 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2011 -- #1063 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Colin Eberhardt, XamlNinja, Andrea Boschin, Michael Washington, Michael Crump, Alex Knight, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Damon Payne. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "7Metro: Silverlight ... Silverlight Cream for March 22, 2011 -- #1063 0 0 0
Q&A: LinkedIn questions on the Windows Azure Platform answere... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Over on the LinkedIn group I asked “What is the one question you would most like answering about "the cloud" and/or the Windows Azure Platform? Bit of fun - but also an important topic for any ISV thinking ... Q&A: LinkedIn questions on the Windows Azure Platform answere... 0 0 0
SilverlightShow for March 14-20, 2011 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 Check out the Top Five most popular news at SilverlightShow for March 14-20, 2011. Here are the top 5 news on SilverlightShow for last week: Microsoft's Response to the "Why I'm Close to Giving Up on WP7" ... SilverlightShow for March 14-20, 2011 0 0 0
Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solu... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I have always been interested in learning which features of my application users are using as well as if they are using it. I have done this with other applications by using my own “home-grown” version ... Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solu... 0 0 9