Wire Framing WP7 Apps With Cacoo Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 While looking for a free alternative to Sketchflow I landed on the Cacoo web site. Any developer who decides to use the free Visual Studio tools may find themselves doing the same search. The base functionality ... Wire Framing WP7 Apps With Cacoo 0 0 0
Dell XPS + Apple Mini-Display Adaptor + Projector = KABOOM D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Remember how I blogged about rolling with the punches? So today my buddy and Prairie Dev Con speaker James Chambers went to present on Microsoft MVC. He brought his fancy new Dell XPS laptop, which he ... Dell XPS + Apple Mini-Display Adaptor + Projector = KABOOM 0 0 8
Priority Manager–Part 1- Laying out the plan Patrick Liekhus, January 1, 0001 Now that we have shown the EDMX with XPO/XAF and how use SpecFlow and BDD to run EasyTest scripts, let’s put it all together and show the evolution of a project using all the tools combined. I have a simple ... Priority Manager–Part 1- Laying out the plan 0 0 0
The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string Entity... Justin Oehlmann, January 1, 0001 Moved from Home to work and went to fire up my project and after long pause "The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string" or even More Abscure ProviderIncompatable Exception Now after 20 ... The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string Entity... 0 0 0
Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an ex... Justin Oehlmann, January 1, 0001 Have got a new kickn server as new DEV machine It has got two 3ware 9650 Cached Controllers with 8 x 300gig Velociraptor Drives First Problem was the 9.5.1.1 drivers Had to press F8 as soon as the Win ... Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an ex... 0 0 2
Multicasting and VMWare John Breakwell, January 1, 0001 Cracked a Multicasting problem this evening for one of my Canadian Tweeple. They wanted to mulitcast some MSMQ messages to another machine but nothing was arriving in the listening queue. A local queue ... Multicasting and VMWare 0 0 0
VS2010: “The project type is not supported by this installation.” Justin Oehlmann, January 1, 0001 Was working @ home and then arrived nice and early on Monday armed with all this good stuff I did on the weekend. Login,Headphones On, Check Mail and make cup of tea. Goto load up Solution I was working ... VS2010: “The project type is not supported by this installation.” 0 0 0
ADDS: 1 - Introducing and designing marc dekeyser, 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; ... ADDS: 1 - Introducing and designing 0 0 1
Part 1 - Load Testing In The Cloud Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs Azure is fascinating, but even ... Part 1 - Load Testing In The Cloud 0 0 0
GIMP - A Free Image manipulation program TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 GIMP is a highly effective image manipulation program that has the features of commercial image manipulation programs costing in the hundreds of pounds. Get Details of it from http://www.gimp.org/features/ ... GIMP - A Free Image manipulation program 0 0 0
Azure Florida Association Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 Herve Roggero, SQL Azure MVP, has created a virtual community to focus on Azure. Here is the outline from Herve: User Group Name: Azure Florida Association Purpose: Start a virtual Florida user group that ... Azure Florida Association 0 0 1
Azure Florida Association: New user group announcement Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 I am proud to announce the creation of a new virtual user group: the Azure Florida Association. The missiong of this group is to bring national and internaional speakers to the forefront of the Florida ... Azure Florida Association: New user group announcement 0 0 1
Fixing a broken toolbox (In Visual Studio 2010 SP1) mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I was recently running into a situation where every time I opened Visual Studio 2010 SP1, the following message would appear for about 60 seconds or so: "Loading toolbox content from package Microsoft.VisualStudio.IDE.... ... Fixing a broken toolbox (In Visual Studio 2010 SP1) 0 0 6
Speed up your Silverlight Debugging for large projects Aligned, January 1, 0001 I'm working on a 5+ year old ASP.NET project that has 74+ projects and we've been adding new Silverlight applications to run in the ASP.NET page islands. My machine at work isn't the most powerful, so ... Speed up your Silverlight Debugging for large projects 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server TFS 2010 Server Name Change PearlFactory, January 1, 0001 So I thought I would change the name of my machine so that the other devs can find the TFS server easily. TFS 2005 would use the cool cmd line util tfsadminutil.....alas he is now gone HERE Are the steps ... Team Foundation Server TFS 2010 Server Name Change 0 0 0
Sysprep a BizTalk Server VHD AbhishekLohani, January 1, 0001 Hi All, Sysprep creates a snapshot of a virtual machine with BizTalk Server 2010 installed for quick deployment on other virtual machines Prerequisites Before using Sysprep, you should have some knowledge ... Sysprep a BizTalk Server VHD 0 0 2
TFS API-Process Template currently applied to the Team Project Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Download Demo Solution - here In this blog post I’ll show you how to use the TFS API to get the name of the Process Template that is currently applied to the Team Project. You can also download the demo ... TFS API-Process Template currently applied to the Team Project 0 0 2
Calculated Fields - Idiosyncracies PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 © 2011 By: Dov Trietsch. All rights reserved Calculated Fields and some of their Idiosyncrasies Did you try to write a calculate field formula directly into the screen? Good Luck – You’ll need it! Calculated ... Calculated Fields - Idiosyncracies 0 0 1
Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cle... terje, January 1, 0001 UPDATED March 24th 2016: Test Data Retention is now added to TFS 2015 Update 1, see this post for more information.UPDATED Apr 15th 2013: Corrected to VS2012 Update 2 UPDATED Mar 23rd 2012: Added information ... Guide to reduce TFS database growth using the Test Attachment Cle... 0 0 10
XPath & XML EDI B2B PearlFactory, January 1, 0001 GoodToGo :) Best XML Editor is Altova XMLSpy 2011 http://www.torrenthound.com... ... XPath & XML EDI B2B 0 0 0
How to Troubleshoot TFS Build Server Failure? Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Ever found your self in this helpless situation where you think you have tried every possible suggestion on the internet to bring the build server back but it just won’t work. Well some times before hunting ... How to Troubleshoot TFS Build Server Failure? 0 0 0
Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 201... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Welcome back once again, in Part 1 of Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio 2010 I talked about why Performance Testing the application is important, the test tools available in Visual Studio ... Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 201... 0 0 1
Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 201... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Welcome back, in part 1 of Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio 2010 I talked about why Performance Testing the application is important, the test tools available in Visual Studio Ultimate ... Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 201... 0 0 2
Setup and Use SpecFlow BDD with DevExpress XAF Patrick Liekhus, January 1, 0001 Let’s get started with using the SpecFlow BDD syntax for writing tests with the DevExpress XAF EasyTest scripting syntax. In order for this to work you will need to download and install the prerequisites ... Setup and Use SpecFlow BDD with DevExpress XAF 0 0 2
Debugging .NET code called from X++ code in AX 2012 ssmantha, January 1, 0001 A very intriguing issue came to me to debug .Net code called from X++ code in AX 2012. This was indeed a challenge to be nailed down. Luckily the tools and some concepts helped me to achieve this task. ... Debugging .NET code called from X++ code in AX 2012 0 0 5
SharePoint Thoughts Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I was listening to .NET Rocks episode #713 and it got me thinking about a number of SharePoint related topics. I have been working with SharePoint since the 2001 product came out and have watched it evolve ... SharePoint Thoughts 0 0 0
Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Problem Normally I try to have my continuous integration as most a possible toolset free to ensure that no local stuff could have an impact to my build. My Silverlight app references a special compile ... Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects 0 0 0
Windows Phone Camp Hands On Accelerator Lab in Dallas Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Microsoft is hosting another Windows Phone Accelerator lab this December 13-15 in Dallas: Do you have the next million dollar idea that you just can’t find the time to finish? Do you already have an app ... Windows Phone Camp Hands On Accelerator Lab in Dallas 0 0 0
Build Dependencies and Silverlight 4 Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 At my current position, I’ve been doing quite a bit of Silverlight development and have also been working with TFS2010 build services to enable continuous integration. One of the critical pieces of a successful ... Build Dependencies and Silverlight 4 0 0 2
Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 3: NDbUnit Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 This is the third of a three part series that deals with the issue of faking test data in the context of a legacy app that was built with Microsoft's Entity Framework (EF) on top of an MS SQL Server database ... Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 3: NDbUnit 0 0 2
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and DevExpress XAF Patrick Liekhus, January 1, 0001 So in my previous posts I showed you how I used EDMX to quickly build my business objects within XPO and XAF. But how do you test whether your business objects are actually doing what you want and verify ... Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and DevExpress XAF 0 0 4
SQL Server-Determine which query is taking a long time to complet... Neil Smith, January 1, 0001 Cool little trick to determine which sql query which is taking a long time to execute, first while offending query is running from another machine do EXEC sp_who2 Locate the SPID responsible via Login, ... SQL Server-Determine which query is taking a long time to complet... 0 0 0
What if “Microsoft” were in our shoes? About Windows ... Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 This is what I think about Microsoft Windows Phone. If Microsoft were in our shoes looking at various phones available their configurations, memory, front facing cameras etc. Microsoft disappointed the ... What if “Microsoft” were in our shoes? About Windows ... 0 0 0
xcopy file, suppress “Does xxx specify a file name…&... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Today we had an interesting problem with file copying. We wanted to use xcopy to copy a file from one location to another and rename the copied file but do this impersonating another user. Getting the ... xcopy file, suppress “Does xxx specify a file name…&... 0 0 0
All in a Day's Work: Unblocking Multiple Downloaded Files with a ... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Files downloaded using Internet Explorer retain Internet Zone permission level and hence are “Blocked” by default on Windows 7 machines. Honestly, while an added overhead for developers; I really appreciate ... All in a Day's Work: Unblocking Multiple Downloaded Files with a ... 0 0 1
Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 201... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Performance testing is almost always conducted to address one or more risks related to expense, opportunity costs, continuity, and/or corporate reputation. But not everyone thinks their application requires ... Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 201... 0 0 3
Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 2: Typemock Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 This is the second of a three part series that deals with the issue of faking test data in the context of a legacy app that was built with Microsoft's Entity Framework (EF) on top of an MS SQL Server database ... Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 2: Typemock 0 0 9
OReilly Deal of the day 7/Nov/2011 - vi and Vim vs. Emacs Shootou... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's deal of the day from O'Reilly at is a shootout between Vi/Vim and Emacs "The realization that Vim just turned 20 reminded us of the passion developers have for their editor of choice. We've published ... OReilly Deal of the day 7/Nov/2011 - vi and Vim vs. Emacs Shootou... 0 0 0
Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 1 Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 For good or bad, Microsoft’s Entity Framework (EF) has become one of the most widely used ORM tools out there. While some may state that it's not among the better ones (or that it's not even a real ORM), ... Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 1 0 0 2
INF3720 – Interaction Design Chapter 15 Summary MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Aims of this chapter Describe the important concepts associated with inspection methods Show how heuristic evaluation can be adapted to evaluate different types of interactive products Explain what is ... INF3720 – Interaction Design Chapter 15 Summary 0 0 2
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
INF3720 – Interaction Design Chapter 10 Summary MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Aims of this chapter Describe different kinds of requirements Enable you to identify examples of different kinds of requirements from a simple description Explain how different data gathering techniques ... INF3720 – Interaction Design Chapter 10 Summary 0 0 0
Making HTML5 Video work with IIS Express Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 One of the cool things about HTML5 is the ability to play audio/video files out of the box without the dependency on plugins. Earlier I had written about HTML5 Video and the fallback using Silverlight ... Making HTML5 Video work with IIS Express 0 0 9
Disabling IPv6 marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 I often see that people want to disable IP v6 on their windows machine but instead of disabling it completly they uncheck the box on the network adaptor. Unfortunately that is not enough.... In general ... Disabling IPv6 0 0 0
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
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
MVC 3.0: Ipad access–Button Value Attribute xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 Another issue I found was the use of the Value attribute on Submit buttons. This is handy because you can change the Value attribute depending on the action and then pick up the button with its Name attribute ... MVC 3.0: Ipad access–Button Value Attribute 0 0 0
MVC 3.0: Ipad access–ID vs Name xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 I have been working for months on converting an ASP classic app to MVC 3. This new version needs to run on FF and Ipad Safari. one of the things we found was the user of just the Name attribute for controls ... MVC 3.0: Ipad access–ID vs Name 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