My top 5 Azure sessions from PDC 09 Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Having skim watched many (but not all) the Azure sessions from PDC I thought I would call out my top 5 sessions I recommend you find some time to look at if you already know the basics. Tips and Tricks ... My top 5 Azure sessions from PDC 09 0 0 0
2010 Technology Predictions Bill Evjen, January 1, 0001 Well, another year, and heck …. even another decade and 2010 is going to be such an important year, or kick-off year for technology that I thought I would take a stab at making some technology predictions ... 2010 Technology Predictions 0 0 5
MIX 2010: Voting for sessions has begun (I got two) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 This year Microsoft decided to have an open call for sessions for the MIX 2010 in Las Vegas. This conference, in case you don’t know it yet, is a great 3 days about modern client technologies, such as ... MIX 2010: Voting for sessions has begun (I got two) 0 0 0
Drive Your Development with Visual Studio.NET 2010 – Midwes... Kevin Grossnicklaus, January 1, 0001 I wanted to share information on an upcoming development tour through the Midwest that I’m involved with. It’s called the Drive Your Development with Visual Studio.NET 2010 tour and you can find more information ... Drive Your Development with Visual Studio.NET 2010 – Midwes... 0 0 0
Designing my very first PCB using Fritzing Szymon Kobalczyk, January 1, 0001 Just after finishing my multicolor RGB controller shield for Arduino, I came across Fritzing, a program that lets you convert your breadboard prototypes into a physical PCB. Since I got one design working ... Designing my very first PCB using Fritzing 0 0 30
2010 Predictions, Hopefully with 20-20 Vision andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Tech bloggers like to have a predictions post at the beginning of each year (or the end of the previous one). I’ve never actually written one before, although I have made year-ahead predictions in panel ... 2010 Predictions, Hopefully with 20-20 Vision 0 0 0
Visual Studio Gallery has a spam problem Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 C’mon Visual Studio Gallery. Can’t you prevent stuff like this?: ... Visual Studio Gallery has a spam problem 0 0 1
Web Services Call including the XML and Linq namespaces Tom Hines, January 1, 0001 I like using ASMX Web Services (WS)in my code -- either creating them or just calling them. (Yes, I use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) also). One of the best features of the WS call is that the ... Web Services Call including the XML and Linq namespaces 0 0 0
VSTO in Visual Studio 2010 - Updates Pranav, January 1, 0001 I am just trying to put my hands into VSTO in VS 2010. This is just an overview of that based on Saurabh Bhatia`s PDC Presentation. Some important points are briefly discussed in this post. Have a look. ... VSTO in Visual Studio 2010 - Updates 0 0 0
Resources for “Dancing With Sharepoint” presentation ... John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Hello, Here are the companion resources for the “Dancing with SharePoint” presentation at SharePoint Saturday Kansas City! We talked about best practices to create a SharePoint virtual development environment, ... Resources for “Dancing With Sharepoint” presentation ... 0 0 11
This is NOT another goodbye 2009 or 2000’s blog post Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I’m really not one to reflect. I prefer to live in the present and consider the future. As such, rather than saying goodbye to 2009 I’m saying Hello to 2010. I’m looking forward to my first full year at ... This is NOT another goodbye 2009 or 2000’s blog post 0 0 0
.NET WCF services and Java Web Services Interoperability - Part 3... Michael Ballhaus, January 1, 0001 Part III - Create the Java Web Service consumed by a .NET client This article is the third in a three part series demonstrating the interoperability between .NET WCF services and Java Web Services. NOTE: ... .NET WCF services and Java Web Services Interoperability - Part 3... 0 0 10
LINQ to XML with Hierarchical XML, Optional Elements, and Namespa... Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 Recently I had an interesting task to consume a particular XML document and populate a C# object from it. The structure of the XML document looked roughly like this: 1: <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/20... ... LINQ to XML with Hierarchical XML, Optional Elements, and Namespa... 0 0 2
.NET WCF services and Java Web Services Interoperability - Part 1... Michael Ballhaus, January 1, 0001 Recently I was involved in a discussion around the concept of interoperability with WCF services. Half of our I.T. shop develops in the Java world and the other half in .NET, so as we were designing our ... .NET WCF services and Java Web Services Interoperability - Part 1... 0 0 6
From Mort to Master: Introduction Wayne Molina, January 1, 0001 Welcome to the introduction for what I hope will be the first of many blog posts in a series I’m calling “From Mort to Master”. My goal is to discuss some concepts and tools that I feel is important to ... From Mort to Master: Introduction 0 0 0
Sharepoint 2010: Creating a Visual WebPart Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Sharepoint 2010 comes with huge enhancements in the development experience, exists a feature that i am sure a lot of programmers were waiting, this is the capability to create Webparts using a visual interface, ... Sharepoint 2010: Creating a Visual WebPart 0 0 9
just in time for Christmas, part 2… John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio Team System 2008 vpcs with new expiration dates!!!! The last set of images was set to expire December 31, 2009. These images were updated with new expiration dates (January 31, 2011) and ... just in time for Christmas, part 2… 0 0 7
Just in time for Christmas, part 1… John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Team Foundation Server 2010 – Beta 2, WITH SAMPLE DATA This VM included everything you need to learn and demonstrate the ALM capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 (with ... Just in time for Christmas, part 1… 0 0 5
Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 -- #762 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Christmas Eve in Phoenix Issue: Richard Waddell, Kirupa, Douglas Starnes, Nigel Sampson, cherylws, Colin Blair, Yavor Georgiev, John Papa, Jeff Blankenburg, and Gill Cleeren. Shoutouts: For all ... Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 -- #762 0 0 0
Note to Self: Resharper’s action lists issue Ray Linder, January 1, 0001 Original post: Weird resharper issue with action lists that don't work. - Stack Overflow Export your current settings in Visual Studio. Tools > Import & Export Settings > Export settings Save ... Note to Self: Resharper’s action lists issue 0 0 0
Windows Azure benefits for MSDN Premium Subscribers can be used f... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 When we first announced that MSDN Premium subscribers and BizSpark members would be getting free Azure hours we also stated that they would be restricted to development and testing. The great news is we ... Windows Azure benefits for MSDN Premium Subscribers can be used f... 0 0 0
Integration Testing WCF services with Unity Michael Ballhaus, January 1, 0001 Previously I wrote an article regarding Unit Testing WCF with Unity. Unit testing allows you to test a single component of your application, completely independent of any other components or systems. Once ... Integration Testing WCF services with Unity 0 0 5
Creating Proxy Class zeeshanjan, January 1, 0001 I have a question to ask : When we add reference to a WCF Service in our web site in Visual Studio we are not able to view any Reference.cs proxy class file as we can see it , getting created in case of ... Creating Proxy Class 0 0 1
Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part II Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 In the previous post I had described the steps to secure your Windows Azure tokens and get the necessary Visual Studio templates as well as making your web application Azure ready by adding the cloud project ... Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part II 0 0 312
Repository Structure Carlos Santos, January 1, 0001 The below repository structure is taken from a couple of sources and personal experience. Part of it is from the TFS Guide. Now don't dismiss it just because it comes from the TFS guide. It has great advice ... Repository Structure 0 0 0
TFS 2010 Beta 2 and MS Project 2007 Integration (New Parent/Child... Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 Lately I have been diving deep into the world of TFS integration with MS Project 2007. What I mean by that is having a project plan that is created and then loaded into TFS as workitems. So the idea is ... TFS 2010 Beta 2 and MS Project 2007 Integration (New Parent/Child... 0 0 1
Reading RSS feeds in ASP.NET , January 1, 0001 I was trying to build a nice home page for my site and was googling around for web 2.0 sites. Suddenly, I landed on SEOMoz.org and then on pageflakes.com. I then thought of building a mashup start page.So, ... Reading RSS feeds in ASP.NET 0 0 6
Reading RSS feeds in ASP.NET , January 1, 0001 I was trying to build a nice home page for my site and was googling around for web 2.0 sites. Suddenly, I landed on SEOMoz.org and then on pageflakes.com. I then thought of building a mashup start page.So, ... Reading RSS feeds in ASP.NET 0 0 0
jQuery and Microsoft!! , January 1, 0001 A good news to all jQuery and ASP.NET lovers! Microsoft supports jQuery and announces to ship it with the coming versions of Visual Studio!! Plz check the blog of Scott Gu (Corporate Vice President in ... jQuery and Microsoft!! 0 0 4
jQuery and Microsoft!! , January 1, 0001 A good news to all jQuery and ASP.NET lovers! Microsoft supports jQuery and announces to ship it with the coming versions of Visual Studio!! Plz check the blog of Scott Gu (Corporate Vice President in ... jQuery and Microsoft!! 0 0 0
Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Earlier I had written 2 posts – Taking your Northwind Database to SQL Azure and binding it to an ASP.NET GridView Part I and Part II . I thought, I will complete the series with a post on moving your ASP.NET ... Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I 0 0 199
ASP.NET MVC 2 RC – you’ve been HAACKED jakubmal, January 1, 0001 Urlop ojcowski to nie tylko gry i zabawy. Wiekszosc tego wspanialego czasu spedza sie uspokajaniu bobasa oraz próbach poradzenia sobie z ciekawymi sytuacjami, jak np. wybuchowe kupki. Uwierzcie, ze okreslenie ... ASP.NET MVC 2 RC – you’ve been HAACKED 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 Beta period extension is good news Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Soma has announced that we will be extending the Beta period of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. We will be adding a Release Candidate with a broad “go live” license, which will be publicly available ... Visual Studio 2010 Beta period extension is good news 0 0 0
My most popular blog posts of 2009 Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Updated 23/12/2009: You might also want to check out my colleagues Mike and Mike who did the same] For fun I thought I would have a look at which of my posts in 2009 were my most popular. The results ... My most popular blog posts of 2009 0 0 0
Binding Entity Framework to your SQL Azure Database – Visua... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 If you have used the Entity Framework that shipped with Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you would really start appreciating the flexibility it offers for building schema driven data access layer and get it to ... Binding Entity Framework to your SQL Azure Database – Visua... 0 0 43
SQL Azure Connection Error: "Server name cannot be determined. I... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 While working on SQL Azure connectivity from Visual Studio 2010, I faced the above error. The full error text is as below:- “Server name cannot be determined. It must appear as the first segment of the ... SQL Azure Connection Error: "Server name cannot be determined. I... 0 0 1
Silverlight 4: Drag&drop with EventToCommand Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 One of the MVVM Light Toolkit’s user requested that I add the possibility to pass the EventArgs of an event to the ICommand that it is bound to through the EventToCommand trigger. At first I was a bit ... Silverlight 4: Drag&drop with EventToCommand 0 0 0
Installing Silverlight 4 Beta BelugaNeil, January 1, 0001 Install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 first before you do this. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; ... Installing Silverlight 4 Beta 0 0 0
Getting Ready For Silverlight BelugaNeil, January 1, 0001 I've not been using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 so the first thing I had to do was install this: Installing Visual Studio 2010 is really easy except for the fact that you have to reboot your machine at least ... Getting Ready For Silverlight 0 0 0
Creating a MojoPortal module strongeye, January 1, 0001 MojoPortal is an open-source content management platform that we have started using at StrongEye because it offers an extensive out of the box starting point for ASP.NET Web applications, and also because ... Creating a MojoPortal module 0 0 20
Virtual PC in Windows 7 – fonts look bad? Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 After installing Windows 7 and learning how to use the new Virtual PC, I noticed something odd with the way fonts were occasionally displayed in Visual Studio. It took some testing, but I figured out that ... Virtual PC in Windows 7 – fonts look bad? 0 0 0
Entity Framework 4.0 Resources gets a December 2009 Update Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I have just completed a first round of updates to my popular blog post from September Entity Framework 4.0 Resources – documentation links, best blog posts and more Pop a comment here or better still in ... Entity Framework 4.0 Resources gets a December 2009 Update 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2009 -- #756 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Corrado Cavalli, Davide Zordan, Braulio Diez, David Anson, Jeff Prosise, Jesse Liberty, Koen Zwikstra, Giorgetti Alessandro, John Bruin, Colin Blair, Radenko Zec, and Gill Cleeren(2). Shoutouts: ... Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2009 -- #756 0 0 0
Time based failure AndyScott, January 1, 0001 Well, my attempt to resolve the issues I was having installing VSTS brought me to gave up after about 3 hours of uninstalling hotfixes and patches. I broke down and re-installed the only version I had ... Time based failure 0 0 0
VS 2008 (VSTS) Install on Windows 7 64 Bit Fails AndyScott, January 1, 0001 Trying to work my way through successfully installing VS 2008 (Visual Studio Team System) on Windows 7 64 bit. So far, not much luck getting it to install correctly (either partial failures or complete ... VS 2008 (VSTS) Install on Windows 7 64 Bit Fails 0 0 0
Using WCF RIA Services without Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010 ... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 I have been playing with the WCF RIA Services (erstwhile .NET RIA Services) for sometime and found that most of the samples out there focus on Silverlight based applications. While the new WCF RIA Services ... Using WCF RIA Services without Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010 ... 0 0 265
Use UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged for immediate updates of ... Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 My XAML learning project is inspired by Leon Bambrick’s “World’s Simplest Code Generator” (http://secretgeek.net/wscg... It’s a 3-pane window where you type or paste data into the top pane, enter a ... Use UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged for immediate updates of ... 0 0 0
Play Sound in Silverlight Using MediaElement CatherineRussell, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: Silverlight If you want to play music or a short sound clip in Silverlight here is what you need to do: 1. Your sound file First, make sure you sound file is MP3 or WMA format as other ... Play Sound in Silverlight Using MediaElement 0 0 1
Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Vis... CatherineRussell, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: SharePoint There are a bunch of SharePoint features in Visual Studio 2010 Beta. They are going over Business Data Connectivity (BDC) designer, which is available in the project template ... Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Vis... 0 0 0
Great video on Parallel Computing Features CatherineRussell, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: Parallel Programming In Visual Studio 2010, the Parallel Computing team has delivered APIs and tools for developers wanting to build applications that take advantage of multiple cores. ... Great video on Parallel Computing Features 0 0 0