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MOST RECENT Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production Stackify sponsor Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools! Turning over a new HR policy this year Shawn Jamison, January 5, 2015 I hope you had a wonderful and save New Year's eve celebration and are having a good new year so far!Please take a minute to read through this excellent article on LinkedIN by Liz Ryan.Horrible HR policiesI've ... Turning over a new HR policy this year 0 0 0 Mediation Models for iPaaS and EAI Charles Young, January 4, 2015 This is the third in a series of articles on the emerging world of microservices PaaS and its relevance to Enterprise Application Integration. The other articles are: 1) Integration and Microservices: ... Mediation Models for iPaaS and EAI 0 0 1 What I thing about 2014 and 2015. 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New Year, new home ... 0 0 0 Finding a Balance: Code 'Complexity' Steve Wilkes, January 1, 2015 Programming Practices Patterns Patterns Programming Practices "If you want to create a masterpiece - if you want to paint the Sistine Chapel - you can do that in your own time. Here, it's magnolia. All magnolia, in every room" These words of guidance were spoken ... Finding a Balance: Code 'Complexity' 0 0 1 Programming Practices Patterns Patterns Programming Practices Calamari and Octopus Deploy: Deploying Applications without a Tentacle Alex Hildyard, January 1, 2015 The past few weeks I've been playing with Octopus Deploy, evaluating it as a possible replacement for our existing WiX/Powershell deployment process. I wanted to share with you a problem that many users ... 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Awarded Microsoft MVP I was ... 2014 - My Year In Review 0 0 0 xamarin microsoft professional development Windows Azure Rocks Robert May, December 31, 2014 Azure Cloud The more I use Windows Azure, the more I like it. We’re developing a health care app, and HIPAA imposes quite a few requirements around the security of protected health information (PHI). Azure makes many, ... Windows Azure Rocks 0 0 4 Azure Cloud In need of more abstraction Ralf Westphal, December 31, 2014 Software modelling Thinking outside of the box The ultimate product of software development is this: CPU executable binary code. Decades ago we used to “write” this more or less directly into memory. But that was very tedious and error prone. Code ... In need of more abstraction 1 0 1 Software modelling Thinking outside of the box Naming Things is Hard: Method-Naming Patterns Steve Wilkes, December 31, 2014 Programming Practices Programming Practices Here's a few of the method-naming patterns I've come across / developed / adopted. Indicating the Result of a Failure If this method didn't find any customers, what would you expect it to return? public ... Naming Things is Hard: Method-Naming Patterns 0 0 6 Programming Practices Programming Practices December 2014 Links Aligned, December 30, 2014 Links Here are more links and resources that I found valuable and learned from this month. Merry Christmas and may you understand that “God came to earth to redeem his people (Emmanuel, Christ with us).” 2015 ... December 2014 Links 0 0 0 Links Naming Things is Hard: Dictionaries Steve Wilkes, December 30, 2014 Programming Practices Programming Practices Following on from my previous post on naming things, here's a few words about naming dictionaries. I've been working with a codebase recently which makes a lot of use of dictionaries, and myself often ... Naming Things is Hard: Dictionaries 0 0 2 Programming Practices Programming Practices Software Builds can be a pain in the Fanny! Shawn Jamison, December 29, 2014 Team Build I've been working on and off for a couple of weeks on combining two Team Builds into a single build.One "component" like build is to be combined into our Main All build definition. I've just worked out ... Software Builds can be a pain in the Fanny! 0 0 0 Team Build Some Common Xamarin.Forms XAML Control Properties Mike Benkovich, December 29, 2014 Xamarin.Forms is an attractive option when building cross platform apps, but for an old XAML developer like myself it can be a challenge to get the nuances of the grammar and syntax right. For Windows ... Some Common Xamarin.Forms XAML Control Properties 0 0 3 Makers and Professionals Valter Minute, December 29, 2014 personal During the last years I've seen many debates between "makers" and "professionals".Makers proclaim their contribution to innovation. They claim that "learning by doing" and not having a lot of formal education ... Makers and Professionals 0 0 0 personal Implementing RoleManager in ASP.NET MVC 5 MightyZot, December 28, 2014 ASP.NET MVC Web There is something great included in ASP.NET MVC 5 that seems underutilized except by the ASP.NET MVC team. The rest of us seem to be ignoring it, which is apparent when looking at the solutions on StackOverflow ... Implementing RoleManager in ASP.NET MVC 5 0 0 2 ASP.NET MVC Web Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction Steve Wilkes, December 28, 2014 Programming Practices Programming Practices It is said and experience has confirmed - in programming, naming things is hard. So hard in fact that it's common for programmers with years and years (and years) of experience to regularly name things ... Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction 0 0 0 Programming Practices Programming Practices Rear wiper blade replacement 2011 Chevy Equinox Ken Hortsch, December 26, 2014 Even YouTube let me down on this one. It is quite simple for this model year. Lift the plastic arm up away from the rear window (only allows for 3 inches or so) Pull the wiper blade out of the plastic ... Rear wiper blade replacement 2011 Chevy Equinox 0 0 1 HammerTips Revived 2014 Tom Kretzmer, December 23, 2014 Yammer SharePoint Today I decided to start publishing such tips as I can. I no longer work for DoD so it's not quite so important to obfuscate what I'm doing. :) Anyway, these days I'm working on building SharePoint solutions ... HammerTips Revived 2014 0 0 0 Yammer SharePoint Visual Studio Test Settings selection problems Aligned, December 22, 2014 Productivity I had a strange problem where I couldn’t correctly run MS tests (with Selenium for UI automation) from Visual Studio. In the Test menu, there is a test settings selection option. Here you can choose a ... Visual Studio Test Settings selection problems 0 0 0 Productivity A Single Line Performance Error Alois Kraus, December 21, 2014 We all make dumb mistakes which are not interesting to share. But sometimes people make interesting mistakes. Below is a simple helper class that makes combining several delegates in a logical and manner ... A Single Line Performance Error 0 0 2 Welcome under my tree Richard Jones, December 20, 2014 Welcome under my tree 0 0 0 oData comes of age Richard Jones, December 20, 2014 So, very pleased to report, that YES. It is possible to create an iOS app. that can sync and work offline (via all SWIFT) client with Dynamics NAV. More details to follow. But early testing looks very ... oData comes of age 0 0 0 EF 6.1 Code First Field Lengths – Reminder to self! Dave Noderer, December 20, 2014 Entity Framework 6 c# Windows Services SQL Express Recently I was using Entity Framework 6.1.1 to implement functionality for a windows service. I had used code first, that is creating a class in code then attaching to a db context and migrating it into ... EF 6.1 Code First Field Lengths – Reminder to self! 0 0 0 Entity Framework 6 c# Windows Services SQL Express How to use Google mail and Outlook better. Anirudha, December 20, 2014 Google mail and Outlook is two most used software for reading emails. From last few days I got a problem. The problem is the size of content is bigger than my screen. The problem can be fixed just by remove ... How to use Google mail and Outlook better. 1 0 0 Hexagonal Architecture–The Great Reconciler? Charles Young, December 20, 2014 This is the second in a series of articles on the emerging world of microservices PaaS and its relevance to Enterprise Application Integration. The other articles are: 1) Integration and Microservices: ... Hexagonal Architecture–The Great Reconciler? 0 0 5 A timeout dictionary in C# Rob Blackbourn, December 19, 2014 C# TimeoutDictionary Overview My use case was a authentication system which stored user details. Fetching this information was expensive, so it was decided to only do this if the record was older than 15 minutes. The following ... A timeout dictionary in C# 0 0 1 C# TimeoutDictionary TFS Build workflow angst Shawn Jamison, December 18, 2014 TFS 2012 TFS 2013 Team Build Build workflow Build Agents I have TFS build workflows that are causing me some headaches right now. They do what they are designed to very well and for non Microsoft technologies. They just were not designed to have new builds with ... TFS Build workflow angst 0 0 0 TFS 2012 TFS 2013 Team Build Build workflow Build Agents Microsoft Azure and Threat Modeling You Apps Herve Roggero, December 18, 2014 In this blog post I will introduce you to the Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool (TMT) and how it can be used specifically with the Microsoft Azure environment for application development and application deployment ... Microsoft Azure and Threat Modeling You Apps 0 0 0 Testing code with time dependency in C# Rob Blackbourn, December 18, 2014 C# DateTime Testing Introduction Testing code that is date or time dependent is clearly problematic! The first step is to create an interface which we will use instead of accessing the DateTime object itself. The interface ... Testing code with time dependency in C# 0 0 0 C# DateTime Testing Array pooling in C# Rob Blackbourn, December 18, 2014 C# array ArrayPool Introduction The following class reduces garbage collection by maintaining a pool of allocated arrays. DisposableValue I wanted a simple way to manage the lifetime of the arrays. To do this I have borrowed ... Array pooling in C# 0 0 1 C# array ArrayPool Headsup: a $5 eBook or Video from Packt Bonanza – Every title, every topic Compudicted, December 18, 2014 It is back by the popular demand! Best ROI! Any Packt ebook or video is just $5 USD, no restrictions! Beware, the offer ends on January 6, 2015. Happy Holidays! I am going to stuck up and learn ... Headsup: a $5 eBook or Video from Packt Bonanza – Every title, every topic 1 0 0 Ambiguous Classes in C# bconlon, December 18, 2014 C# .Net I recently had cause to reference two libraries which both contained the same class file. The Namespace : Class where therefore ambiguous within my application. Interestingly enough the .Net compiler simply ... Ambiguous Classes in C# 0 0 4 C# .Net Versioning in WebAPI using Route Constraints Elton Stoneman, December 18, 2014 REST WebAPI I had an interesting problem with API versioning. The API behaviour for a given resource was going to change between version 1.x and 1.y, but the controller logic was going to stay the same. Usually when ... Versioning in WebAPI using Route Constraints 0 0 3 REST WebAPI Working with Xamarin Forms and Navigation Mike Benkovich, December 17, 2014 I'm creating a Xamarin.Forms project, using XAML for markup that includes an authentication page when the app starts. I am using a TabbedPage (also tried CarouselPage) as the container of my main UI and ... Working with Xamarin Forms and Navigation 0 0 1 Are you sure? Shawn Jamison, December 17, 2014 Having a CM person edit source is not a good idea... Are you sure? 0 0 0 Not using JavaScript Promises? It is time to make the change. Aligned, December 16, 2014 JavaScript If you ignore the Angular part of this article, it applies to JavaScript in general. If you're still using callbacks with $.ajax(, please look into Promises. jQuery has an implementation (though I've heard ... Not using JavaScript Promises? It is time to make the change. 0 0 2 JavaScript CloudTip 15-Avoid a gotcha in naming projects with Mobile Services Mike Benkovich, December 15, 2014 Short Answer – Don’t use special characters in a Mobile Service’s project name when you create it, the local SQL won’t be able to open the database and you may spend a lot of time figuring out why chasing ... CloudTip 15-Avoid a gotcha in naming projects with Mobile Services 0 0 0 Internet Explorer Developer channel is discontinued for Win7. Anirudha, December 15, 2014 Less than six months ago I see a thing like Internet explorer 7 developer channel. It’s look like quite impressive for developer. Now Microsoft has killed it. Now here is the update from Microsoft “To ... Internet Explorer Developer channel is discontinued for Win7. 0 0 2 What Is The Difference Between FileFlags.Random (FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS) And FileFlags.SequentialScan (FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN)? Alois Kraus, December 14, 2014 When you want fast and efficient File IO in Windows you can specify a myriad of flags to CreateFile. But which of these many flags help in which scenarios? MSDN says that some read ahead buffering is enabled ... What Is The Difference Between FileFlags.Random (FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS) And FileFlags.SequentialScan (FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN)? 0 0 0 Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions Utkarsh Shigihalli, December 13, 2014 Extensions Visual Studio Visual Studio Integrate I had previously written on how to load custom assemblies in your extension using AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Ass... It required few lines of code to be written in your VS package class. Today I ... Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions 0 0 0 Extensions Visual Studio Visual Studio Integrate Event Data Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 Data that is associated with an event can be provided through an event data class. The .NET Framework provides many event data classes that you can use in your applications. For example, the SerialDataReceivedEventArgs ... Event Data 0 0 0 Event Handlers Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 To respond to an event, you define an event handler method in the event receiver. This method must match the signature of the delegate for the event you are handling. In the event handler, you perform ... Event Handlers 0 0 0 Delegate Description Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 A delegate is a type that holds a reference to a method. A delegate is declared with a signature that shows the return type and parameters for the methods it references, and can hold references only to ... Delegate Description 0 0 0 Event Description Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 Events in the .NET Framework are based on the delegate model. The delegate model follows the observer design pattern, which enables a subscriber to register with, and receive notifications from, a provider. ... Event Description 0 0 0 Page: 18|19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26|27|28|29|30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37
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Mediation Models for iPaaS and EAI Charles Young, January 4, 2015 This is the third in a series of articles on the emerging world of microservices PaaS and its relevance to Enterprise Application Integration. The other articles are: 1) Integration and Microservices: ... Mediation Models for iPaaS and EAI 0 0 1
What I thing about 2014 and 2015. Anirudha, January 3, 2015 As a ASP.NET Developer when a C# developer meet another kind of developer (Ruby, PHP and anything else) than first thing we hate is He can choose any kind of IDE. He can use PHP in Sublime text and sublime ... What I thing about 2014 and 2015. 1 0 0
Moving to VisualStudioGeeks.com Utkarsh Shigihalli, January 2, 2015 Personal I have decided to move my blog to our own website at www.visualstudiogeeks.com. The move gives me more flexibility and customization options. Also, with new website, I am able to blog via markdown which ... Moving to VisualStudioGeeks.com 0 0 0 Personal
Watch videos from NAS via iPad and AppleTV Marko Apfel, January 2, 2015 Usually I use OPlayer or VLC to watch videos on my iPad. Unfortunately some of them I cannot stream to the TV via AirPlay on the iPad over AppleTV – it loses the video. To be precise – the audio comes ... Watch videos from NAS via iPad and AppleTV 0 0 0
Windows desktop search doesn’t work for Office 2013 Ken Hortsch, January 2, 2015 Some stuff is just hard to do. In fact so hard, that they just stopped doing it. Which is total crap! http://technet.microsoft.co... ... Windows desktop search doesn’t work for Office 2013 0 0 0
2014–The Year of Being Personal D'Arcy Lussier, January 2, 2015 Another year is in the books, and in keeping with last year’s “Applied Life Lessons…” theme, here’s the 2014 edition. A guy with the same name as my dad, who had a similar career path too, passed away ... 2014–The Year of Being Personal 0 0 1
New Year, new home ... Enrique Lima, January 1, 2015 After a good 5 years posting and having my blog living under the Geekswithblogs umbrella, the time to move has arrived ...You will find me now at http://intentionalthinking.... rss feed on feedburner ... New Year, new home ... 0 0 0
Finding a Balance: Code 'Complexity' Steve Wilkes, January 1, 2015 Programming Practices Patterns Patterns Programming Practices "If you want to create a masterpiece - if you want to paint the Sistine Chapel - you can do that in your own time. Here, it's magnolia. All magnolia, in every room" These words of guidance were spoken ... Finding a Balance: Code 'Complexity' 0 0 1 Programming Practices Patterns Patterns Programming Practices
Calamari and Octopus Deploy: Deploying Applications without a Tentacle Alex Hildyard, January 1, 2015 The past few weeks I've been playing with Octopus Deploy, evaluating it as a possible replacement for our existing WiX/Powershell deployment process. I wanted to share with you a problem that many users ... Calamari and Octopus Deploy: Deploying Applications without a Tentacle 0 0 3
Server 2012 R2 – Storage Spaces – A Software Defined Storage by Microsoft Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 2015 Server 2012 PowerShell You know ... when I was young (bear in mountainsJ) the server was meaning a file server and Novell as well. In 2000 Microsoft released Server 2000, Active Directory and have changed the world once forever. ... Server 2012 R2 – Storage Spaces – A Software Defined Storage by Microsoft 0 0 2 Server 2012 PowerShell
2014 - My Year In Review Lori Lalonde, December 31, 2014 xamarin microsoft professional development Looking back on 2014, I realize so much has changed in such a short time, and appreciate all of the good things that have come my way. Here are my favourite moments of 2014. Awarded Microsoft MVP I was ... 2014 - My Year In Review 0 0 0 xamarin microsoft professional development
Windows Azure Rocks Robert May, December 31, 2014 Azure Cloud The more I use Windows Azure, the more I like it. We’re developing a health care app, and HIPAA imposes quite a few requirements around the security of protected health information (PHI). Azure makes many, ... Windows Azure Rocks 0 0 4 Azure Cloud
In need of more abstraction Ralf Westphal, December 31, 2014 Software modelling Thinking outside of the box The ultimate product of software development is this: CPU executable binary code. Decades ago we used to “write” this more or less directly into memory. But that was very tedious and error prone. Code ... In need of more abstraction 1 0 1 Software modelling Thinking outside of the box
Naming Things is Hard: Method-Naming Patterns Steve Wilkes, December 31, 2014 Programming Practices Programming Practices Here's a few of the method-naming patterns I've come across / developed / adopted. Indicating the Result of a Failure If this method didn't find any customers, what would you expect it to return? public ... Naming Things is Hard: Method-Naming Patterns 0 0 6 Programming Practices Programming Practices
December 2014 Links Aligned, December 30, 2014 Links Here are more links and resources that I found valuable and learned from this month. Merry Christmas and may you understand that “God came to earth to redeem his people (Emmanuel, Christ with us).” 2015 ... December 2014 Links 0 0 0 Links
Naming Things is Hard: Dictionaries Steve Wilkes, December 30, 2014 Programming Practices Programming Practices Following on from my previous post on naming things, here's a few words about naming dictionaries. I've been working with a codebase recently which makes a lot of use of dictionaries, and myself often ... Naming Things is Hard: Dictionaries 0 0 2 Programming Practices Programming Practices
Software Builds can be a pain in the Fanny! Shawn Jamison, December 29, 2014 Team Build I've been working on and off for a couple of weeks on combining two Team Builds into a single build.One "component" like build is to be combined into our Main All build definition. I've just worked out ... Software Builds can be a pain in the Fanny! 0 0 0 Team Build
Some Common Xamarin.Forms XAML Control Properties Mike Benkovich, December 29, 2014 Xamarin.Forms is an attractive option when building cross platform apps, but for an old XAML developer like myself it can be a challenge to get the nuances of the grammar and syntax right. For Windows ... Some Common Xamarin.Forms XAML Control Properties 0 0 3
Makers and Professionals Valter Minute, December 29, 2014 personal During the last years I've seen many debates between "makers" and "professionals".Makers proclaim their contribution to innovation. They claim that "learning by doing" and not having a lot of formal education ... Makers and Professionals 0 0 0 personal
Implementing RoleManager in ASP.NET MVC 5 MightyZot, December 28, 2014 ASP.NET MVC Web There is something great included in ASP.NET MVC 5 that seems underutilized except by the ASP.NET MVC team. The rest of us seem to be ignoring it, which is apparent when looking at the solutions on StackOverflow ... Implementing RoleManager in ASP.NET MVC 5 0 0 2 ASP.NET MVC Web
Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction Steve Wilkes, December 28, 2014 Programming Practices Programming Practices It is said and experience has confirmed - in programming, naming things is hard. So hard in fact that it's common for programmers with years and years (and years) of experience to regularly name things ... Naming Things is Hard: Finding the Right Level of Abstraction 0 0 0 Programming Practices Programming Practices
Rear wiper blade replacement 2011 Chevy Equinox Ken Hortsch, December 26, 2014 Even YouTube let me down on this one. It is quite simple for this model year. Lift the plastic arm up away from the rear window (only allows for 3 inches or so) Pull the wiper blade out of the plastic ... Rear wiper blade replacement 2011 Chevy Equinox 0 0 1
HammerTips Revived 2014 Tom Kretzmer, December 23, 2014 Yammer SharePoint Today I decided to start publishing such tips as I can. I no longer work for DoD so it's not quite so important to obfuscate what I'm doing. :) Anyway, these days I'm working on building SharePoint solutions ... HammerTips Revived 2014 0 0 0 Yammer SharePoint
Visual Studio Test Settings selection problems Aligned, December 22, 2014 Productivity I had a strange problem where I couldn’t correctly run MS tests (with Selenium for UI automation) from Visual Studio. In the Test menu, there is a test settings selection option. Here you can choose a ... Visual Studio Test Settings selection problems 0 0 0 Productivity
A Single Line Performance Error Alois Kraus, December 21, 2014 We all make dumb mistakes which are not interesting to share. But sometimes people make interesting mistakes. Below is a simple helper class that makes combining several delegates in a logical and manner ... A Single Line Performance Error 0 0 2
oData comes of age Richard Jones, December 20, 2014 So, very pleased to report, that YES. It is possible to create an iOS app. that can sync and work offline (via all SWIFT) client with Dynamics NAV. More details to follow. But early testing looks very ... oData comes of age 0 0 0
EF 6.1 Code First Field Lengths – Reminder to self! Dave Noderer, December 20, 2014 Entity Framework 6 c# Windows Services SQL Express Recently I was using Entity Framework 6.1.1 to implement functionality for a windows service. I had used code first, that is creating a class in code then attaching to a db context and migrating it into ... EF 6.1 Code First Field Lengths – Reminder to self! 0 0 0 Entity Framework 6 c# Windows Services SQL Express
How to use Google mail and Outlook better. Anirudha, December 20, 2014 Google mail and Outlook is two most used software for reading emails. From last few days I got a problem. The problem is the size of content is bigger than my screen. The problem can be fixed just by remove ... How to use Google mail and Outlook better. 1 0 0
Hexagonal Architecture–The Great Reconciler? Charles Young, December 20, 2014 This is the second in a series of articles on the emerging world of microservices PaaS and its relevance to Enterprise Application Integration. The other articles are: 1) Integration and Microservices: ... Hexagonal Architecture–The Great Reconciler? 0 0 5
A timeout dictionary in C# Rob Blackbourn, December 19, 2014 C# TimeoutDictionary Overview My use case was a authentication system which stored user details. Fetching this information was expensive, so it was decided to only do this if the record was older than 15 minutes. The following ... A timeout dictionary in C# 0 0 1 C# TimeoutDictionary
TFS Build workflow angst Shawn Jamison, December 18, 2014 TFS 2012 TFS 2013 Team Build Build workflow Build Agents I have TFS build workflows that are causing me some headaches right now. They do what they are designed to very well and for non Microsoft technologies. They just were not designed to have new builds with ... TFS Build workflow angst 0 0 0 TFS 2012 TFS 2013 Team Build Build workflow Build Agents
Microsoft Azure and Threat Modeling You Apps Herve Roggero, December 18, 2014 In this blog post I will introduce you to the Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool (TMT) and how it can be used specifically with the Microsoft Azure environment for application development and application deployment ... Microsoft Azure and Threat Modeling You Apps 0 0 0
Testing code with time dependency in C# Rob Blackbourn, December 18, 2014 C# DateTime Testing Introduction Testing code that is date or time dependent is clearly problematic! The first step is to create an interface which we will use instead of accessing the DateTime object itself. The interface ... Testing code with time dependency in C# 0 0 0 C# DateTime Testing
Array pooling in C# Rob Blackbourn, December 18, 2014 C# array ArrayPool Introduction The following class reduces garbage collection by maintaining a pool of allocated arrays. DisposableValue I wanted a simple way to manage the lifetime of the arrays. To do this I have borrowed ... Array pooling in C# 0 0 1 C# array ArrayPool
Headsup: a $5 eBook or Video from Packt Bonanza – Every title, every topic Compudicted, December 18, 2014 It is back by the popular demand! Best ROI! Any Packt ebook or video is just $5 USD, no restrictions! Beware, the offer ends on January 6, 2015. Happy Holidays! I am going to stuck up and learn ... Headsup: a $5 eBook or Video from Packt Bonanza – Every title, every topic 1 0 0
Ambiguous Classes in C# bconlon, December 18, 2014 C# .Net I recently had cause to reference two libraries which both contained the same class file. The Namespace : Class where therefore ambiguous within my application. Interestingly enough the .Net compiler simply ... Ambiguous Classes in C# 0 0 4 C# .Net
Versioning in WebAPI using Route Constraints Elton Stoneman, December 18, 2014 REST WebAPI I had an interesting problem with API versioning. The API behaviour for a given resource was going to change between version 1.x and 1.y, but the controller logic was going to stay the same. Usually when ... Versioning in WebAPI using Route Constraints 0 0 3 REST WebAPI
Working with Xamarin Forms and Navigation Mike Benkovich, December 17, 2014 I'm creating a Xamarin.Forms project, using XAML for markup that includes an authentication page when the app starts. I am using a TabbedPage (also tried CarouselPage) as the container of my main UI and ... Working with Xamarin Forms and Navigation 0 0 1
Are you sure? Shawn Jamison, December 17, 2014 Having a CM person edit source is not a good idea... Are you sure? 0 0 0
Not using JavaScript Promises? It is time to make the change. Aligned, December 16, 2014 JavaScript If you ignore the Angular part of this article, it applies to JavaScript in general. If you're still using callbacks with $.ajax(, please look into Promises. jQuery has an implementation (though I've heard ... Not using JavaScript Promises? It is time to make the change. 0 0 2 JavaScript
CloudTip 15-Avoid a gotcha in naming projects with Mobile Services Mike Benkovich, December 15, 2014 Short Answer – Don’t use special characters in a Mobile Service’s project name when you create it, the local SQL won’t be able to open the database and you may spend a lot of time figuring out why chasing ... CloudTip 15-Avoid a gotcha in naming projects with Mobile Services 0 0 0
Internet Explorer Developer channel is discontinued for Win7. Anirudha, December 15, 2014 Less than six months ago I see a thing like Internet explorer 7 developer channel. It’s look like quite impressive for developer. Now Microsoft has killed it. Now here is the update from Microsoft “To ... Internet Explorer Developer channel is discontinued for Win7. 0 0 2
What Is The Difference Between FileFlags.Random (FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS) And FileFlags.SequentialScan (FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN)? Alois Kraus, December 14, 2014 When you want fast and efficient File IO in Windows you can specify a myriad of flags to CreateFile. But which of these many flags help in which scenarios? MSDN says that some read ahead buffering is enabled ... What Is The Difference Between FileFlags.Random (FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS) And FileFlags.SequentialScan (FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN)? 0 0 0
Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions Utkarsh Shigihalli, December 13, 2014 Extensions Visual Studio Visual Studio Integrate I had previously written on how to load custom assemblies in your extension using AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Ass... It required few lines of code to be written in your VS package class. Today I ... Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions 0 0 0 Extensions Visual Studio Visual Studio Integrate
Event Data Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 Data that is associated with an event can be provided through an event data class. The .NET Framework provides many event data classes that you can use in your applications. For example, the SerialDataReceivedEventArgs ... Event Data 0 0 0
Event Handlers Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 To respond to an event, you define an event handler method in the event receiver. This method must match the signature of the delegate for the event you are handling. In the event handler, you perform ... Event Handlers 0 0 0
Delegate Description Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 A delegate is a type that holds a reference to a method. A delegate is declared with a signature that shows the return type and parameters for the methods it references, and can hold references only to ... Delegate Description 0 0 0
Event Description Deeksha Sharma, December 12, 2014 Events in the .NET Framework are based on the delegate model. The delegate model follows the observer design pattern, which enables a subscriber to register with, and receive notifications from, a provider. ... Event Description 0 0 0