Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 -- #1066 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Wolf, Colin Eberhardt, Kunal Chowdhury, Benjamin Roux, Nigel Sampson(-2-), Jeff Prosise(-2-), Jeremy Likness, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Useful Value Converters" ... Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 -- #1066 0 0 0
Visual .NET Development Power finally meets Web 2.0 Webgui, January 1, 0001 I’d like to invite you to a set of 2 webinars targeted for Visual WebGui newbies and beginners as part of the new completely free evaluation program for the Visual WebGui Experience. Visual WebGui (VWG) ... Visual .NET Development Power finally meets Web 2.0 0 0 1
Encrpyt and decrypt a Stored Procedure Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 When we don't want to others have access to our Stored Procedures, Triggers or Views code, created on a database, you can create and encrypt easily, just by adding a "WITH ENCRYPTION". Here’s an example ... Encrpyt and decrypt a Stored Procedure 0 0 1
HTML5 development with Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 At TechEd India 2011 I presented on HTML5 Development with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. I wanted to cover the aspects that were discussed in my session. HTML5 1. HTML5 is the emerging but promising trend in ... HTML5 development with Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 0 0 7
Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2011 -- #1065 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Pontus Wittenmark, Vikram Pendse, Paul Sheriff, Nokola, Peter Kuhn, Jesse Liberty, and WindowsPhoneGeek. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "That Time App" Pontus Wittenmark WP7: "New Fantasia ... Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2011 -- #1065 0 0 0
ASP.NET Export n GridViews to Excel Rodney Vinyard, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET Export n GridViews to Excel Thanks to awesome article by Matt Berseth http://mattberseth.com/blog... http://forums.asp.net/t/152... //Web Page Call ... ASP.NET Export n GridViews to Excel 0 0 2
Key to Strongly-Typed HtmlHelper Extensions in ASP.Net MVC2 Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 While you can do most common tasks by simply passing expressions through to existing HtmlHelper extension methods, you may stumble on something where you want to evaluate the lambda expression on your ... Key to Strongly-Typed HtmlHelper Extensions in ASP.Net MVC2 0 0 0
XNA Notes 012 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 This week was a busy one for the XNA Community and one that had a series of ups and downs. You might have noticed by now (or maybe you haven’t and I shouldn’t be pointing this out..) that I tend to only ... XNA Notes 012 0 0 5
Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 -- #1064 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Roy Dallal, Mike Snow, Jesse Liberty, Chris Koenig, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, Chris Rouw, and Beth Massi. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: ... Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 -- #1064 0 0 0
My MVVM talk’s material is online (#uktechdays) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Quick announcement: I just had the extreme pleasure to talk at the UK TechDays online conference (organized over LiveMeeting) and had about 100 persons in the session, thanks to all for allowing me to ... My MVVM talk’s material is online (#uktechdays) 0 0 0
WP7 Training & Information Resources 1 russ61, January 1, 0001 MSDN WP7 Beginner Training WP7 Development for Absolute Beginners in 64 parts on channel9 Windows Phone Developer Quickstarts on the AppHub WP7 Offline Training Course WP7Comp - Red Gate Software competition ... WP7 Training & Information Resources 1 0 0 0
Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: Scott Hanselman has a NuGet package to automate many of these steps and you should check it out, http://www.hanselman.com/bl... ... Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... 0 0 7
Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: Scott Hanselman has a NuGet package to automate many of these steps and you should check it out, http://www.hanselman.com/bl... ... Adding MVC 3 features to an existing ASP.NET Web Forms applicatio... 0 0 20
Support Japanese Disaster Relief - the O'Reilly deal of the day TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://oreilly.com/store/dd... there is a 50% off sale of e-books " *Free to Choose* Ebook & Video Deal of the Day – Save 50%" " Enter code DDJPN in the O'Reilly cart. $135,000 for disaster ... Support Japanese Disaster Relief - the O'Reilly deal of the day 0 0 0
Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solu... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 I have always been interested in learning which features of my application users are using as well as if they are using it. I have done this with other applications by using my own “home-grown” version ... Adding Analytics to your Windows Phone 7 App with Preemptive Solu... 0 0 9
New SVN utilities TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 There are two new SVN packages for Windows: Ankh SVN 1.2.10129 - http://ankhsvn.open.collab.... Tortoise SVN 1.6.14 http://tortoisesvn.net/down... If you are using SVN for source ... New SVN utilities 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 20, 2011 -- #1062 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Damon Payne(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Shawn Wildermuth, John Papa, Beth Massi, Michael Crump, Mike Taulty(-2-), Jorge Peraza, and Peter Kuhn(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for March 20, 2011 -- #1062 0 0 0
Published Applications AKA _PublishedApplications Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Less maintenance. Less work to package during your automated builds. Too easy. Remember Our Old Friend _PublishedWebsites? You’ve probably seen the _PublishedWebsites folder when building websites in automated ... Published Applications AKA _PublishedApplications 0 0 0
Another good free utility - HTTRACK TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html there is an excellent free utility from downloading any web site for viewing offline. Another good free utility - HTTRACK 0 0 0
Building MVVM Light from Codeplex Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I just published an article describing how to get the source code from Codeplex, build it, unit test it, get all the DLLs and install them to replace a previously installed version. It’s not very complicated, ... Building MVVM Light from Codeplex 0 0 0
MVVM Light V4 preview 2 (BL0015) #mvvmlight Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Over the past few weeks, I have worked hard on a few new features for MVVM Light V4. Here is a second early preview (consider this pre-alpha if you wish). The features are unit-tested, but I am now looking ... MVVM Light V4 preview 2 (BL0015) #mvvmlight 0 0 0
Many Different Things Rolled into a Ball MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 Yeah I know I don’t blog much anymore, because life has taken me places that don’t involve the interwebs unfortunately. I am in the midst of planning two events, starting a non for profit, creating more ... Many Different Things Rolled into a Ball 0 0 0
iPad2 - Yet Another Fundamental Defect in an Apple product Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 First it was antenna defect in iPhone4 now it has been reported that some iPad 2 have display issues, Apple really needs to look at their manufacturing process. It doesn't help that workers are working ... iPad2 - Yet Another Fundamental Defect in an Apple product 0 0 24
XNA Notes 011 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 Even with a lot of the XNA community working on Dream Build Play entries ( I swear I’m going to finish mine this year!) people are still finding time to do side projects and be amazingly active in the ... XNA Notes 011 0 0 1
Another good free utility - Campwood Software Source Monitor TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 The Campwoood Source Monitor at http://www.campwoodsw.com/s... says in its introduction "The freeware program SourceMonitor lets you see inside your software source code to find out how much ... Another good free utility - Campwood Software Source Monitor 0 0 1
Creating Custom HTML Helpers in ASP.NET MVC Shravan Kumar, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET MVC provides many built-in HTML Helpers. With help of HTML Helpers we can reduce the amount of typing of HTML tags for creating a HTML page. For example we use Html.TextBox() helper method it generates ... Creating Custom HTML Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 0 0 0
String comparison: StartsWith() slower than Contains() Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 How can that be? We're in the realm of micro-micro-optimisation here, but I'm working on a log4net appender which writes to Event Tracing for Windows. The setup gives you the runtime configuration of ETW ... String comparison: StartsWith() slower than Contains() 0 0 18
LINQ und ArcObjects Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 LINQ und ArcObjects Motivation LINQ1 (language integrated query) ist eine Komponente des Microsoft .NET Frameworks seit der Version 3.5. Es erlaubt eine SQL-ähnliche Abfrage zu verschiedenen Datenquellen ... LINQ und ArcObjects 0 0 0
IE9 xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 Hot dog. IE 9 just hit the download sites this week. I have been running it for a few days and its really sweet. It seems much faster than IE 8 and many other browsers and its got lots of cool features. ... IE9 0 0 0
Get your picture on the screen at MIX11: Help me create a reposit... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Update: I have received a great response from the community, and have now enough data to create my demos. Thanks to everyone!! Read the rest of this entry » ... Get your picture on the screen at MIX11: Help me create a reposit... 0 0 0
5 Ways to Celebrate the Release of Internet Explorer 9 David Wesst, January 1, 0001 The day has finally come: Microsoft has released a web browser that is awesome. On Monday night, Microsoft officially introduced the world to the latest edition to its product family: Internet Explorer ... 5 Ways to Celebrate the Release of Internet Explorer 9 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2011 -- #1061 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Peter Kuhn, Emil Stoychev, Viktor Larsson(-2-), Kevin Hoffman, Rudi Grobler, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty(-2-), and Martin Krüger. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Image comparison using ... Silverlight Cream for March 15, 2011 -- #1061 0 0 0
IE9, LightSwitch Beta 2 and Zune HD: A Study in Risk Management? andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Photo by parl, 'Risk.’ Under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-N... License This has been a busy week for Microsoft, and for me as well. On Monday, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 at ... IE9, LightSwitch Beta 2 and Zune HD: A Study in Risk Management? 0 0 2
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, now available for download Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for general download for almost a week now. The Beta of SP1 came couple of months back and it did a lot of performance enhancements, added support ... Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, now available for download 0 0 2
A quick tip for those working with the Windows Phone 7 AD SDK. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 One thing that I’ve noticed in several apps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace is the ad chopping off on the right hand side. I decided that my next Windows Phone 7 app will be ad supported so why not ... A quick tip for those working with the Windows Phone 7 AD SDK. 0 0 1
With WPF and Silverlight against cancer Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 MVPs are well known for their good heart (like the GeekGive initiative shows) and Client App Dev MVP Gregor Biswanger is no exception. At the latest MVP summit (beginning of March 2011), he took over a ... With WPF and Silverlight against cancer 0 0 0
Download Internet Explorer 9 RTM Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 The much anticipated RTM release of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) happened today. IE9 preview release was first showcased at MIX 2010 and post that there were 7-8 Platform Preview releases. Also, IE9 Beta ... Download Internet Explorer 9 RTM 0 0 3
Silverlight Cream for March 14, 2011 -- #1060 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Lazar Nikolov, Rudi Grobler, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jesse Liberty, Pete Brown, Jessica Foster, Chris Rouw, Andy Beaulieu, and Colin Eberhardt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A Silverlight Resizable ... Silverlight Cream for March 14, 2011 -- #1060 0 0 1
IE9 Released - Download Now kennedysteve, January 1, 0001 The final release of IE9 "hit the stores" (just download it free from here - http://http://www.beautyoft... Enjoy new features like pinning, jump lists, and aero-snap. Of course, IE9 is also ... IE9 Released - Download Now 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2011 -- #1059 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: András Velvárt, WIndowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Victor Gaudioso, Kunal Chowdhury, Jeremy Likness, Michael Crump, and Dhananjay Kumar. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Application ... Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2011 -- #1059 0 0 0
New release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available f... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 A new release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available on March 8th. Download address: http://1code.codeplex.com/r... You can download individual code samples ... New release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available f... 0 0 3
Replace your SKY+ HD Hard drive BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 As there are a number of different unit types there are a number of links provided here: If you wish to upgrade the Amstrad HD Box, please use this guide. How to upgrade the Hard Drive of your Amstrad ... Replace your SKY+ HD Hard drive 0 0 0
Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents - Oh My! kennedysteve, January 1, 0001 Good references when looking to see if someone really legally owns a name, copyright, etc. Copyrights = http://cocatalog.loc.gov/ Trademarks = http://tess2.uspto.gov Patents = http://patft.uspto.gov/ Website ... Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents - Oh My! 0 0 1
XHTML fix solution republished TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 As a post VS2010 SP1 installation activity, I am recompiling all my open source projects. The first is XHTMLFIX at http://xhtmlfix.codeplex.com/ This LGPL project has simple fixes to ASP.NET 2.0/4.0 to ... XHTML fix solution republished 0 0 0
VS2010 SP1 Installed NAD! (and another useful utility) TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 I have installed VS2010 SP1 on my home development PC and No Abnormalities were detected. I downloaded the ISO image of the service pack and mounted it using Virtual Clone Drive - download page at http://www.slysoft.com/en/v... ... VS2010 SP1 Installed NAD! (and another useful utility) 0 0 0
IE9 and the Mystery of the Broken Video Tag David Wesst, January 1, 0001 I was very excited when Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate. As far as I was concerned, this was another nail in the coffin for IE6 and step in the right direction for us .NET ... IE9 and the Mystery of the Broken Video Tag 0 0 21
CODE PROJECT VIRTUAL TECH SUMMIT ON MOBILE DEVELOPMENT – ON... Tiago Salgado, January 1, 0001 Who has not seen the Code Project's Tech Virtual Summit on Mobile Development, you can now see all the sessions on demand. The sessions are: The Mobile Development Landscape Android Push Notifications ... CODE PROJECT VIRTUAL TECH SUMMIT ON MOBILE DEVELOPMENT – ON... 0 0 1
The tale of how the PowerShell CmdLets got installed with Azure S... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 I installed the Azure SDK 1.4 while rebuilding my laptop and ran the installation for the Windows Azure Service Management PowerShell CmdLets. Kicked off the installation script for the WASM PowerShell ... The tale of how the PowerShell CmdLets got installed with Azure S... 0 0 2
Finding an alert in the middle of your javascript Ariel Popovsky, January 1, 0001 I was debugging a script injection issue the other day using some sample code with an alert in it. The alert was popping out meaning the code got executed leaving open the possibility for a hacker to put ... Finding an alert in the middle of your javascript 0 0 0
Taking advantage of Windows Azure CDN and Dynamic Pages in ASP.NE... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 With the updates to Windows Azure CDN announced this week [1] I wanted to help illustrate the capability with a working sample that will serve up dynamic content from an ASP.NET site hosted in a WebRole. ... Taking advantage of Windows Azure CDN and Dynamic Pages in ASP.NE... 0 0 0