Hosting and consuming WCF services without configuration files martinsj, January 1, 0001 In this post, I'll demonstrate how to configure both the host and the client in code without the need for configuring services i the <system.serviceModel> section of the config-file. In fact, you ... Hosting and consuming WCF services without configuration files 0 0 3
DDDNorth2 Bradford, 13th October 2012 - Async Patterns presentati... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 Many thanks to Andy Westgarth and his team for organising a fantastic conference at the rather elegant Bradford University School of Management. Also, a big congratulations to all the delegates who gave ... DDDNorth2 Bradford, 13th October 2012 - Async Patterns presentati... 0 0 0
Get your TFS 2012 task board demo ready in under 1 minute Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Release Notes – http://tfsdemosetup.codeple... | Download | Source Code | Report a Bug | Ideas In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use the ‘TfsDemoSetup’ application to configure and setup the TFS ... Get your TFS 2012 task board demo ready in under 1 minute 0 0 0
How-do-I Script Sample Videos Jialiang, January 1, 0001 http://blogs.technet.com/b/... All-In-One Script Framework is featured by customer-driven script samples. Each sample demonstrates how to automate ... How-do-I Script Sample Videos 0 0 0
Set up a TFS Server/Service demo environment in less than 1 minut... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Release Notes – http://tfsdemosetup.codeple... | Download | Source Code | Report a Bug | Ideas To Demonstrate the capabilities of TFS 2012 Server/Service Task board you would need to set up TFS with ... Set up a TFS Server/Service demo environment in less than 1 minut... 0 0 11
Using Apache FOP from .NET level Lukasz Kurylo, January 1, 0001 In one of my previous posts I was talking about FO.NET which I was using to generate a pdf documents from XSL-FO. FO.NET is one of the .NET ports of Apache FOP. Unfortunatelly it is no longer maintained. ... Using Apache FOP from .NET level 0 0 0
Sandcastle Help File Builder - October 2012 release TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://shfb.codeplex.com/re... the latest Sandcastle has been released. I am pleased to say that it incorporates the generic version of a fix, I originated that allows projects including ... Sandcastle Help File Builder - October 2012 release 0 0 3
Right-size IT Budgets with Windows Server 2012 "Storage Spaces" KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 What is the Largest Single Cost Category in Your IT Hardware Budget? If you're like most of the enterprise customer organizations that were surveyed when we were designing Windows Server 2012, your answer ... Right-size IT Budgets with Windows Server 2012 "Storage Spaces" 0 0 0
Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler Jon Canning, January 1, 0001 Seemingly forever I've been working on a business idea, it's a REST API delivering content to mobiles, and I've never really had much idea about its performance. Yes, I have a suite of unit tests and integration ... Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler 0 0 2
Free guide from Microsoft - Springboard Series Resource Guide for... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.microsoft.com/en... there is Springboard Series Resource Guide for Windows 8. This is an index to some 72 resources about Windows 8 ... Free guide from Microsoft - Springboard Series Resource Guide for... 0 0 0
Free book from Microsoft - Building Elastic and Resilient Cloud A... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.microsoft.com/en... Microsoft are are offering a free book - "Building Elastic and Resilient Cloud Applications - Developer's Guide to the Enterprise Library ... Free book from Microsoft - Building Elastic and Resilient Cloud A... 0 0 0
Free book from Microsoft: - Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.microsoft.com/en... Microsoft are providing a free book on Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing"This guide is focused on building highly scalable, highly available, ... Free book from Microsoft: - Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing 0 0 0
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day 11/Oct/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd Edi... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's Deal of the Day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is CLR via C#, 3rd EditionThe deal expires probably 23:59 PT, today 11/Oct/2012. Remember to ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day 11/Oct/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd Edi... 0 0 0
Stop YOUR emails from starting those company-wide Reply All email... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 You know you’ve seen it before; somebody sends out a company-wide email (or email to a large diverse audience), and a couple people or small group of people start replying-all back to the email with info/jokes ... Stop YOUR emails from starting those company-wide Reply All email... 0 0 1
Build & Deployment Guide for Service Bus Relay Project Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Ive recently published a sample guide based on a real-world project where we implemented an on-premise WCF routing solution to connect SAAS applications to our on premise line of business applications. ... Build & Deployment Guide for Service Bus Relay Project 0 0 0
A few unpleasant facts about Visual Studio 2012. Ilya Verbitskiy, January 1, 0001 I have been playing with Visual Studio 2012 for the last couple of days. New IDE is pretty good, but, unfortunately, I found a few unpleasant facts. First of all, new release is coming without Visual Studio ... A few unpleasant facts about Visual Studio 2012. 0 0 1
Geekswithblogs.net is Nine Years Old! Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Happy Birthday Geekswithblogs.net! Wow, 9 years since we launched. Thanks to all our bloggers and readers over the years who have made this site what it is ... Geekswithblogs.net is Nine Years Old! 0 0 1
“Using the MVVM pattern in Windows 8” in MSDN Magazin... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 These days I am swimming in Windows 8 code, and I must say it is a good feeling. This gives me the occasion to push MVVM Light and a few other components of mine to their limits, and to fix or improve ... “Using the MVVM pattern in Windows 8” in MSDN Magazin... 0 0 0
Fatal Scroll… farid, January 1, 0001 Hi. Actually I am a glad to writing with geekwithblogs service! but I decided to write a blog to improve my skills on different aspects. This post’s title is “Fatal Scroll”. Motivation for this post was ... Fatal Scroll… 0 0 0
HPC Server Dynamic Job Scheduling: when jobs spawn jobs JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 HPC Job Types HPC has 3 types of jobs http://technet.microsoft.co... · Task Flow – vanilla sequence · Parametric Sweep – concurrently run multiple instances of the same ... HPC Server Dynamic Job Scheduling: when jobs spawn jobs 0 0 2
Feature Updates to the Windows Azure Portal Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Lots of activity over at the Windows Azure portal this weekend, including some exciting new features and major improvements to existing features. Here are the highlights: Support for Managing Co-administrators ... Feature Updates to the Windows Azure Portal 0 0 0
Azure Task Scheduling Options charlie.mott, January 1, 0001 Currently, the Azure PaaS does not offer a distributed\resilient task scheduling service. If you do want to host a task scheduling product\solution off-premise (and ideally use Azure), what are your options?Update: ... Azure Task Scheduling Options 0 0 3
Step-by-Step: Implementing Hyper-V Network Virtualization with Wi... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 True network and virtual machine portability - that's the ultimate goal of Hyper-V Network Virtualization - allowing you, as an IT Pro, to align changing business needs with the best physical resource ... Step-by-Step: Implementing Hyper-V Network Virtualization with Wi... 0 0 1
Exam 70-480 Study Material: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript ... Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 Here’s a list of sources of information for the different elements that comprise the 70-480 exam: General ResourcesEDIT: http://www.microsoftvirtual... This ... Exam 70-480 Study Material: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript ... 0 0 21
Pizza and IntelliTrace at NextGenUG on 16 and 23 October 2012 Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Free Pizza and a session on diagnosing Production bugs using IntelliTrace. I’ll be presenting a session at the Next Gen User Group and you are more than welcome to join in, 16th October at Oxford – http://www.nxtgenug.net/Vie... ... Pizza and IntelliTrace at NextGenUG on 16 and 23 October 2012 0 0 0
Automatically create bug resolution task using the TFS 2010 API Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 My customer requires bug resolution to be approved and tracked. To minimize the overhead for developers I implemented a TFS 2010 server-side plug-in to automatically create a child resolution task for ... Automatically create bug resolution task using the TFS 2010 API 0 0 0
Nullable types and ?? operator C# [en-US] ruimachado, January 1, 0001 Nullable types vs Non-nullable types While developing our C# projects its frequent the null comparison operation to avoid null exceptions. This simple operation is mainly coded using the "var x = null" ... Nullable types and ?? operator C# [en-US] 0 0 1
[XSL-FO] Characters from other than English languages Lukasz Kurylo, January 1, 0001 My client have departments in Europe Central and East, so there is highly possibility that in the generated pdfs there will be at least in the people names and/or surnames some specific characters for ... [XSL-FO] Characters from other than English languages 0 0 0
VS2012 Launch Event – Combating Bugs And Poor Performance I... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 I presented a session “A techies guide to combating bugs & poor performance in production” at the Microsoft IT Visual Studio Launch event. The key message was to demonstrate what common production ... VS2012 Launch Event – Combating Bugs And Poor Performance I... 0 0 0
Setting XSL-FO XML Schema in Visual Studio Lukasz Kurylo, January 1, 0001 I'm playing lately with an XSL-FO for generating a pdf documents. XSL-FO has a long list of available tags and attributes, which for a new guy who want to create a simple document is a nightmare to find ... Setting XSL-FO XML Schema in Visual Studio 0 0 2
Introducing Code Map for Visual Studio 2012 September CTP krislankford, January 1, 0001 As part of the Visual Studio 2012 CTP for September, Visual Studio got a little sexier at helping you discover and visualize your code. The introduction of the Code Map feature helps compliment the variety ... Introducing Code Map for Visual Studio 2012 September CTP 0 0 19
Visual Studio 2012 Coded UI technology matrix updated! krislankford, January 1, 0001 The Visual Studio 2012 support matrix for Automated UI Testing (Coded UI) has been released by Microsoft and the full post can be found here. Thank you Shubhra! There are a couple of items on the list ... Visual Studio 2012 Coded UI technology matrix updated! 0 0 3
Resources for Service Bus Projects Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Having recently been involves in the Windows Server Service Bus TAP and also working on a project using Azure Service Bus I thought it would be useful to bring together some of the excellent community ... Resources for Service Bus Projects 0 0 2
Challenges and Lessons Learnt from our Windows Azure Service Bus ... Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Recently one of the clients I work with completed a project which put live a solution using Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online using the Windows Azure Service Bus to do a hybrid integration solution to integrate ... Challenges and Lessons Learnt from our Windows Azure Service Bus ... 0 0 4
Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3: Anonym... Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 This is the third in the IPASBR series, see also: Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 1: Exposing the on-premise service Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 2: Anonymous ... Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3: Anonym... 0 0 32
AJI Report Podcast with Adobe’s Terry Ryan discussing Devel... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 John and I sat down with one of the Adobe Evangelist, Terry Ryan, to talk about the shift of products from Adobe, developers, and designers. Adobe is one of those unique companies having quality products ... AJI Report Podcast with Adobe’s Terry Ryan discussing Devel... 0 0 1
Building a Repository Pattern against an EF 5 EDMX Model - Part 1 JuansAndZeros, January 1, 0001 I am part of a year long plus project that is re-writing an existing application for a client. We have decided to develop the project using Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5. The project will be using a ... Building a Repository Pattern against an EF 5 EDMX Model - Part 1 0 0 6
Get the Windows 7 Start Menu Back in Windows 8 with Classic Shell deadlydog, January 1, 0001 I just thought I’d give readers a heads up that you can use Classic Shell to get the old Windows 7 style of start menu back instead of using the new crappy Windows 8 metro start screen; plus it’s free ... Get the Windows 7 Start Menu Back in Windows 8 with Classic Shell 0 0 0
TypeScript Resources csmith18119, January 1, 0001 TypeScript looks like a great start to evolving javascript. I am going to start playing with it seeing what it is like. This is the post I will update will all the resources I've found. Welcome to TypeScript ... TypeScript Resources 0 0 0
Kalculate = Fun + Math Game, Holding Charity Drive on October 27t... Devin A. Rychetnik, January 1, 0001 Kalculate Charity DriveWhen: Saturday October 27, 2012 midnight to midnight PDTRules: The creators of Kalculate will donate a dollar to charity for every registered user that plays a full online game--up ... Kalculate = Fun + Math Game, Holding Charity Drive on October 27t... 0 0 0
Mozilla Persona to the login rescue? Matt Watson, January 1, 0001 A lot of websites now allow us to login or create accounts via OAuth or OpenID. We can use our Facebook, Twitter, Google, Windows Live account and others. The problem with a lot of these is we have to ... Mozilla Persona to the login rescue? 0 0 2
Terrible App Review of the Week–October 2nd David Paquette, January 1, 0001 As some people know, I have a few apps in the Windows Phone Store. One of these apps was intended to be a gimmicky app that did NOT really do anything useful. It was just a funny little app that you probably ... Terrible App Review of the Week–October 2nd 0 0 1
Free book from Microsoft - Introduction-to-Visual-Studio-Technolo... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.facebook.com/vis... Microsoft are offering a free e-book - Introduction-to-Visual-Stud... chapter titles are:Introducing Visual StudioGetting ... Free book from Microsoft - Introduction-to-Visual-Studio-Technolo... 0 0 13
Windows W8, L8 and now H8 raccoon_tim, January 1, 0001 Windows 8 is having to endure with a lot of headwind at the moment. The weather forecast doesn’t appear to improve in the near future either with prominent game developers and publishers taking to the ... Windows W8, L8 and now H8 0 0 0
Strings in .NET are Enumerable Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 It seems like there is always some confusion concerning strings in .NET. This is both from developers who are new to the Framework and those that have been working with it for quite some time. Strings ... Strings in .NET are Enumerable 0 0 2
Give Full control Access to IIS anirudha, January 1, 0001 Do you got the error when you install “Wordpress” something like “Sorry, but I can't write the wp-config.php file ” For this issue you need to give access to IIS to be able to access the directory where ... Give Full control Access to IIS 0 0 0
The cost of Programmer Team Clustering MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I recently was involved in a conversation about the productivity of programmers and the seemingly wide range in abilities that different programmers have in this industry. Some of the comments made were ... The cost of Programmer Team Clustering 0 0 1
Nokia vs. The World Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 I’m looking forward to the launch of the Nokia Lumia 920. Why? Well, it stacks up better than the competition for one thing. Then there’s also that security problem that certain other phones have. Mostly, ... Nokia vs. The World 0 0 0
Removing a File Association Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 I found a rather simple way to remove a file association (default program) tonight that I thought others might find useful. I found it after discovering that Windows 7 doesn't provide a straight-forward ... Removing a File Association 0 0 1
First Impressions of a MacBook (from a PC guy) dgreen, January 1, 0001 Disclaimer: I've been a PC guy my entire working career. I'd probably characterize myself as a power user. Never afraid to bust out the console line. But working with a Mac is totally foreign to me. So ... First Impressions of a MacBook (from a PC guy) 0 0 1