Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2011 -- #1162 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty, Derik Whittaker, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar, and Avi Pilosof. Above the Fold: ... Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2011 -- #1162 0 0 0
Permanent Move... DevJef, January 1, 0001 Because of several reasons, I decided to move my blogs to another host. So, from now on my blogs can be found on my new blog: http://DevJef.wordpress.com/. Hope to see you there, or you're always free ... Permanent Move... 0 0 0
A quicker way to work with Resx files in Silverlight Aligned, January 1, 0001 Hello, This is my first blog on http://www.geekswithblogs.net and I'm planning on occasionaly publishing things I've learned that I haven't found elsewhere in hopes of helping you out. I've been annoyed ... A quicker way to work with Resx files in Silverlight 0 0 0
Take your alignment seriously raccoon_tim, January 1, 0001 Just recently I bumped into a very nasty bug that I had been unfortunate enough to conjure. Alignment of memory has never been my primary concern when working on the PC. As a typical C++ programmer you ... Take your alignment seriously 0 0 2
PhillyNJ - Open XML SDK, Windows Service Design and Other Goodies RonGarlit, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US 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; ... PhillyNJ - Open XML SDK, Windows Service Design and Other Goodies 0 0 0
Reminder that this blog has moved and check out www.sixweeksofazu... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Just a gentle reminder that this blog has moved to http://ericnelson.wordpress... (as I still get folks contacting me via here) and a shout out for a great initiative (probably!) I’m pulling together ... Reminder that this blog has moved and check out www.sixweeksofazu... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2011 -- #1161 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Mark Monster, Antoni Dol, Chaitanya Venneti, Erik Arthur and Jeffrey Ferman, David Kelley, Jose Fajardo(-2-), Andy Beaulieu, Rudi Grobler, Chad Campbell, and Andrej Tozon. ... Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2011 -- #1161 0 0 0
Change Control Processes Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The evolution of an IT department is always something interesting to observe. The is especially the case when they move from small departmental IT groups to corporate level oversight. It is usually painful ... Change Control Processes 0 0 0
Block Application pages and Form Pages in Sharepoint 2010 Gino Abraham, January 1, 0001 By default Sharepoint doesn’t blocks user with limited access from visiting application pages (for ex _layouts/viewlsts.aspx). Someone who knows the URL, can go to this page. We can avoid this by change ... Block Application pages and Form Pages in Sharepoint 2010 0 0 0
How do I remove a named instance of sql server 2008 on the same m... Paula DiTallo, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US 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; ... How do I remove a named instance of sql server 2008 on the same m... 0 0 5
Using FluentValidation with FubuMvc Jon Canning, January 1, 0001 Create the validation behavior public class ValidationBehaviour<T> : BasicBehavior where T : class { private readonly IContinuationDirector continuationDirector; private readonly BehaviorGraph behaviorGraph; ... Using FluentValidation with FubuMvc 0 0 1
My first blog arif, January 1, 0001 Greeting to all. Just created an account with GeeksWithBlogs.net and configured Word 2010 as my blogging client of choice ... My first blog 0 0 2
Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 -- #1160 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this all-submittal post-"GoLive" 3 week marathon Issue: Vikas, Rene Schulte, Ollie Riches, Alex van Beek, Kevin Dockx, Michael Crump(-2-), Michael Washington, Antoni Dol, Colin Eberhardt(-2-, -3-), ... Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 -- #1160 0 0 0
Javascript memory leaks jkrebsbach, January 1, 0001 Last week I pushed a new application up to production, and started hearing complaints of a memory leak. After running some diagnostics I learned two exciting things: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ti... ... Javascript memory leaks 0 0 1
Getting Lync for Mac working with Office 365 Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 About a month ago, Microsoft announced the release of Lync for Mac. If you have access to TechNet or MSDN you likely have access to download this tool. Among the benefits of the tool, being able to connect ... Getting Lync for Mac working with Office 365 0 0 0
Using Windows Azure table storage Shervin Shakibi, January 1, 0001 The Azure Table service, provides a semi-structured storage in the form of tables that contain a collection of entities, these entities have primary keys and set of properties. A property is a name, typed-value ... Using Windows Azure table storage 0 0 19
New Google Reader Layout | Not a Fan Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 I have always been a fan of Google Reader. I have been using it since it first came out and have never tried another feed reader. Yesterday they decided to update the UI to fit their new G+ look and in ... New Google Reader Layout | Not a Fan 0 0 4
Creating a Windows Azure VM Role Shervin Shakibi, January 1, 0001 I wanted to have a VM that I could access remotely and thought why not take advantage of the VM role. So I just documented my steps, for those of you might be interested, but more importantly for myself, ... Creating a Windows Azure VM Role 0 0 17
O' Reilly Deal of the Day 1/Nov/2011 - save 50% on MOS 2010 Stud... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's deal of the Day from O'Reilly/Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... is 50% off the PDF's "Earn your MOS 2010 certification. For one day only, you can Save 50% ... O' Reilly Deal of the Day 1/Nov/2011 - save 50% on MOS 2010 Stud... 0 0 0
Custom assemblies for Reporting Services jkrebsbach, January 1, 0001 With SSRS we can quickly generate reports that can be exported to multiple formats. What happens when you want to extend your report with custom code? Friday November 11th 2011 (this Veteran's Day) I'll ... Custom assemblies for Reporting Services 0 0 1
My guest-blog post on Kinect for the MVP Award Program Blog mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction I’m sure by now you have heard that the Kinect SDK has been released by Microsoft. I recently had a chance to Guest Blog for the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog on “Getting the Most out of ... My guest-blog post on Kinect for the MVP Award Program Blog 0 0 0
How do I create and access another sql server db using linked ser... Paula DiTallo, January 1, 0001 For a full explanation and step-by-step guide to setup a linked server through Sql Management Studio (SMS), check out this reference: http://www.databasejournal.... ... How do I create and access another sql server db using linked ser... 0 0 0
Some myths of 'Textbook-TDD', and why they are wrong Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 During the last months, I was (for some reasons that are not related to programming) working for a dev shop where software development was done the 'traditional' way: You just write your application's ... Some myths of 'Textbook-TDD', and why they are wrong 0 0 17
MEF 101 - Part2 Abhijeet Patel, January 1, 0001 This is part 2 of a 2 part series exploring the MEF.We covered some of the basics in Part 1 In this part we'll cover the following: Catalogs Recomposition Export Providers Catalogs: Catalogs provide one ... MEF 101 - Part2 0 0 2
Sharing session state between Classic ASP and ASP.NET TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 On CodePlex there is a new project at http://nsession.codeplex.com for sharing session state between classic ASP and ASP.NET "The objective of this project is to allow ASP Classic to access ASP.NET out-of-process ... Sharing session state between Classic ASP and ASP.NET 0 0 0
A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Wi... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Sometime ago, say around mid April, 2011 I posted about Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 by going in a different path than using the standalone installation. This post is about what happens after ... A follow up to installing a Dev SharePoint 2010 environment on Wi... 0 0 0
Post-Build C++ Skill Rebuild JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 · For the last decade, the majority of my dev work has leveraged the .NET Framework for construction of information systems. However, my interest has lain in numerical computing. · Is it possible to have ... Post-Build C++ Skill Rebuild 0 0 1
Installing the AdventureWorks OLAP Sample Database Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Once the installer for the AdventureWorks Community Sample Database has finished, we then need to complete the process (not mandatory, but nice to do to play with the OLAP content). The first thing we ... Installing the AdventureWorks OLAP Sample Database 0 0 1
SharpBox 1.2 - The DropBox API upgrade release Dirk Eisenberg, January 1, 0001 DropBox changed some details in the API and upgrade to version 1.0 a couple days ago. Together with the DropBox team it was possible to be the first open source project which is compatible with the new ... SharpBox 1.2 - The DropBox API upgrade release 0 0 0
Silverlight 4 DataGrid - Bulk Validation Using INotifyDataErrorIn... Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 Level: Beginner In working with the Silverlight 4 DataGrid control, I found that documentation and online examples tend to focus on validation either at the cell level, or row level. However, there could ... Silverlight 4 DataGrid - Bulk Validation Using INotifyDataErrorIn... 0 0 1
"Failure has occurred while loading a type." Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Motivation During programming suddenly this error (“Failure has occurred while loading a type”) was thrown by accessing a artifact of a referenced library. In such cases I take the assembly fusion logger ... "Failure has occurred while loading a type." 0 0 0
O Reilly Deals - 2 of them on 28/Oct/2011! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today O'Reilly have two excellent deals! Data Science Starter Kit Fundamentals of Microsoft .NET Programming Grasp the basic concepts that drive all Microsoft® .NET-based languages—and prepare yourself ... O Reilly Deals - 2 of them on 28/Oct/2011! 0 0 0
My Silverlight Show Featured Article Series on Silverlight 5 mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction In case you missed it, I have a 10-part series on Silverlight 5 on SilverlightShow.net. In this extensive guide to Silverlight 5, I give a step-by-step introduction to Silverlight 5, and dives ... My Silverlight Show Featured Article Series on Silverlight 5 0 0 2
Nokia and Windows Phone: What Could Still Go Wrong andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 The much ballyhooed release of Nokia’s first Windows Phone handsets finally took place Wednesday at the Nokia World event in London. There had been a lot of anticipation building up to this “reveal,” and ... Nokia and Windows Phone: What Could Still Go Wrong 0 0 1
COM Interop Memory Leaks With Outlook 2007 VSTO Add-ins Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Memory leaks can cause strange and unexpected behaviors in your applications. Of course in this day of managed code we don’t see it as often as we used to and many of us are getting rusty in our skill ... COM Interop Memory Leaks With Outlook 2007 VSTO Add-ins 0 0 0
Enabling Facebook Timeline view on IE10 Developer Preview Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 If you are active on Facebook, there is very less chance that you missed on the recent Facebook UI update “Social Graph” or more popularly referred as “Timeline” (a screenshot of how the Timeline profile ... Enabling Facebook Timeline view on IE10 Developer Preview 0 0 38
APress Deal of the Day - 25/Oct/2011 - Beginning WF Windows Workf... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning WF Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 "Indexed by feature so you can find answers easily and written in an accessible ... APress Deal of the Day - 25/Oct/2011 - Beginning WF Windows Workf... 0 0 0
Removing / Restricting Access to Sitecores Interface on Content D... amaniar, January 1, 0001 Here are a few steps you can follow if you want to restrict access to Sitecore’s Interface on content delivery environments. 1) Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager 2) Expand your Content Delivery ... Removing / Restricting Access to Sitecores Interface on Content D... 0 0 0
Another free tool - Notepad++ with Hex Editor plugin TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 I have previously blogged about that excellent tool Notepad++. Recently during discussion with a colleague I discovered that Notepad++ can be extended by means of a plug-in to be a Hexadecimal editor. ... Another free tool - Notepad++ with Hex Editor plugin 0 0 0
Using HTML5 Canvas tag for Simple Video Animation Dittenhafer Solutions, January 1, 0001 This post has been moved to my new blog. The new URL is: http://dwdii.github.io/2011... Unfortunately, I am unable to redirect you automatically ... Using HTML5 Canvas tag for Simple Video Animation 0 0 0
Nice to have tools for the SharePoint IT Pro Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Coming from SPC a couple of weeks ago, during the keynote there was a demo on some great Visio Diagrams. It was created using the following: http://visiospfarmaddin.cod... Expect a post here in ... Nice to have tools for the SharePoint IT Pro 0 0 0
DropkicK–Deploy Fluently Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 DropkicK (DK) has been in development for over two years and has been used for production deployments for over a year. Dru Sellers originally posted about DK back in 2009. While DK isn’t yet as super easy ... DropkicK–Deploy Fluently 0 0 0
RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 “Because everyone wants to kick their database, but sometimes kicking your database is a good thing!” Many would not argue that you should version your code, and few would argue against versioning your ... RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning 0 0 2
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Just in line with the release of the Visual Developer Preview and the availability of the Visual Studio Developer Preview 11 ALM virtual machine, now we have access to the Developer Preview Training kit. ... Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit 0 0 0
Writing to an HttpListenerResponse output stream: Small Change - ... mknapp, January 1, 0001 Recently I looked at a performance problem when transferring image data from a custom HttpListener to web browser clients. In the end it came down to one change I had done which was writing the image data ... Writing to an HttpListenerResponse output stream: Small Change - ... 0 0 0
Resharper setting to show method usage expanded. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 During code analysis my favorite key is Shift-F12 to show usage of method/variable. And after this I needed to expand the list to show each line of usage. Recently my collegue showed me that the results ... Resharper setting to show method usage expanded. 0 0 0
Ajaxtoolkit HTMLEditor color picker position not visible off scre... BenAdler, January 1, 0001 I was working with the built in ajaxtooljit HTMLEditor and for some odd reason, the color picker was showing off the screen. I noticed that the "TextEditorDivContainer" class of the control had position ... Ajaxtoolkit HTMLEditor color picker position not visible off scre... 0 0 2
Some non-generic collections simonc, January 1, 0001 Although the collections classes introduced in .NET 2, 3.5 and 4 cover most scenarios, there are still some .NET 1 collections that don't have generic counterparts. In this post, I'll be examining what ... Some non-generic collections 0 0 0
TechEd 2011 - Why Clifford got it wrong… MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 In the closing keynote at TechEd Africa 2011, Clifford de Wit (Microsoft South Africa) made improvements on his previous years attempt to geekily give away a prize, but unfortunately still got it wrong… ... TechEd 2011 - Why Clifford got it wrong… 0 0 5
SolidQ BI Center of Excellence xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 I am really proud to be part of the SolidQ BI Center of Excellence and work with Carl and others on the team. Check out the press release on Carl and the COE. In the future there will lots more info I ... SolidQ BI Center of Excellence 0 0 1