Preview ASP.NET MVC 4 ChrisD, January 1, 0001 Soon, the latest ASP.NET MVC will be launched. I cant wait to try as whole. This is the preview of this new product- Web Platform Installer – Installs the MVC4 Project Templates.- Nuget package – perfect ... Preview ASP.NET MVC 4 0 0 0
Game Dev links from BUILD and other sources. Chris G. Williams, January 1, 0001 Here are a bunch of links for BUILD material related to Game Dev. Go Nuts, Be Awesome. Downloads: Windows 8 Developer Preview Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview MSDN: Direct3D 11.1 DXGI 1.2 WDDM 1.2 Feature ... Game Dev links from BUILD and other sources. 0 0 1
Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction We are all familiar with the Application Bars in Windows Phone 7… It can be achieved with a few lines of code as shown below: <phone:PhoneApplicationP... <shell:ApplicationBar> ... Adding an Application Bar to your XAML Metro Applications. 0 0 1
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Welcome back once again, in part 1 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a developers perspective, in part 2 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a Testers ... What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 0 0 16
IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration Compatibility Issue Saqib Ullah, January 1, 0001 v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style ... IIS 6 Metabase and IIS 6 Configuration Compatibility Issue 0 0 7
ReSharper 6 - Another clever feature! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Recently I was copying a composite property which I will just have to refer to as Team. (This was on client's code so I have to change all the names) In class A, Team looked like: return this.Tom + "-" ... ReSharper 6 - Another clever feature! 0 0 0
Simplifying Asynchronous Programming in C# MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I have dabbled in async programming in the past but never put any real effort into understanding how things worked. With the new async features in .Net 5 I thought I would give it a look. Here is a quick ... Simplifying Asynchronous Programming in C# 0 0 5
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft officially released the preview of Vnext i.e. VS 2011, TFS 2011 and TFS Azure (also known as TFS Service) at the Build conference on 13th September 2011 @ California. It wasn’t too long ago I ... What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 0 0 1
Review of Redgate SQL Prompt TATWORTH, 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; ... Review of Redgate SQL Prompt 0 0 0
Accessing Authenticated WCF Services Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 When you make a service available external to your corporate network sometimes SSL isn’t secure enough. If you really want to limit the users who can access a service they need to tied to credentials. ... Accessing Authenticated WCF Services 0 0 0
Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 “If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine.” Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager ... Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows 0 0 0
Additional Mime Types in Visual Studio 2010 Development Web Serve... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 While the development server in Visual Studio 2010 is great for most work, it does have 1 shortcoming in that if you start adding content types that are not part of the base set of known Mime types built ... Additional Mime Types in Visual Studio 2010 Development Web Serve... 0 0 0
OpenXML SDK 2.0: Export a DataTable to Excel Rodney Vinyard, January 1, 0001 OpenXML SDK 2.0: Export a DataTable to Excel Very good article and download project http://lateral8.com/article... The DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll ... OpenXML SDK 2.0: Export a DataTable to Excel 0 0 1
Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? Alfredo Delsors, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure AppFabric ofrece servicios en dos areas distintas. La primera la forman servicios de middleware como Service Bus, Access Control, Caching e Integration. La segunda está formada por un servicio ... Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? 0 0 0
Welcome to my new Blog. All about Microsoft Technology and Commun... hassanfadili, January 1, 0001 Welcome to my new blog on this site. My current blog is still on: http://hassanfad001.blogspo... and will be moved soon to this site. Stay tuned for all information about: - Visual Studio (VS) - Team ... Welcome to my new Blog. All about Microsoft Technology and Commun... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 -- #1156 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Damian Schenkelman, Dave Campbell, Laurent Bugnion, Pete Brown, Asim Sajjad, Daniel Egan, Kunal Chowdhury, Joost van Shaik, Jeff Wilcox, Cristian Merighi, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: ... Silverlight Cream for October 04, 2011 -- #1156 0 0 0
Nuget for SharpBox Dirk Eisenberg, January 1, 0001 Nuget is an easy and fast way to get the latest updates of an open source project. All the time consuming integration work into your visual studio project is done nearly automatically. The upcoming service ... Nuget for SharpBox 0 0 0
The votes are in and winners chosen for a free Visual WebGui ProS... Webgui, January 1, 0001 First we would like to thank each and every one of you who have supported Visual WebGui in the nominations for DevProConnections and Windows IT Pro. We appreciate all of our customers and friends of Gizmox ... The votes are in and winners chosen for a free Visual WebGui ProS... 0 0 12
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 Released – ... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Today, we reached a new milestone of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework. It gives me great pleasure to announce our newest Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser - v4 available to the globe. ... Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 Released – ... 0 0 2
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
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
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
Visual Studio 11 ALM VM Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 A couple of weeks ago as the whirlwind of news was coming from the BUILD Conference, a number of announcements were coming regarding Visual Studio 11 and TFS 11. Brian Keller made links available for the ... Visual Studio 11 ALM VM 0 0 0
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
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscr... AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 Hi All, Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 having following features :- Use Microsoft Test Manager to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications. •Create coded UI tests for Silverlight ... Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscr... 0 0 12
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
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
Feedback on VS2010 and vNext is PerfWatson AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 Hi All The number one tool you can download TODAY to give feedback on VS2010 and vNext is PerfWatson Please follow the URL: Visual Studio Gallery here: http://visualstudiogallery.... ... Feedback on VS2010 and vNext is PerfWatson 0 0 6
Project Unveiling: Card Roulette Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 The time has come to begin the project. I am pleased to announce Card Roulette. All posts on the topic will include the tag "Card Roulette". The concept is fairly simple. One day, I was watching a biography ... Project Unveiling: Card Roulette 0 0 0
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
Lambdas and events in C++ raccoon_tim, January 1, 0001 The recently ratified C++11 language specification provides a range of cool new features. Many of which have been part of other programming languages for some time now. One such new feature that I value ... Lambdas and events in C++ 0 0 5
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
Exploratory Testing :Microsoft Test Manager 11 AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 In 1983, the term Exploratory Testing was introduced. Prior to that, it is called as ad-hoc testing. Exploratory testing is said to be a mindset, a way of thinking, freestyle testing that liberates the ... Exploratory Testing :Microsoft Test Manager 11 0 0 2
Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management and Hands-on-La... AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 Hi All, Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts URL :http://blogs.msdn.com/b/br... ... Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management and Hands-on-La... 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
Setting the path for the “Open Command Path” for VS20... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I have power commands installed for VS2010 and when I right click on a file I get the “Open Command Prompt” option, however I want to modify the path holder so that I can add additional paths. For instance ... Setting the path for the “Open Command Path” for VS20... 0 0 0
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
Microsoft Development Tools Are Free! OceanWanderer, January 1, 0001 I have posted about this on StackOverflow already but feel it is just too important not post about it here either. If like myself you love cutting code for fun and have found some restrictions with the ... Microsoft Development Tools Are Free! 0 0 2
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
Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed Charles Young, January 1, 0001 At last, I can announce that ‘BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed’ has been published and is available through major booksellers in both printed and electronic form. The book is not a new edition of the old ... Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed 0 0 9
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
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
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
SSRS Tables Magically Resizing! 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; ... SSRS Tables Magically Resizing! 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
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