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
XNA Notes 010 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 With GDC 2011 wrapping up there were a LOT of great interviews and posts with and about XNA and XBLIG and some of our more notorious developers. Definitely worth spending many, many hours watching, listening ... XNA Notes 010 0 0 3
Profiling Silverlight Applications after installing Visual Studio... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction Now that the dust has settled and everyone has downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, its time to talk about a new feature included that will help Silverlight Developers ... Profiling Silverlight Applications after installing Visual Studio... 0 0 3
Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 -- #1058 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), Martin Krüger, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Karl Shifflett, and Colin Eberhardt. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Silverlight ... Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 -- #1058 0 0 0
Incrementing Assembly Version in TFS Builds and its affect over O... ssmantha, January 1, 0001 A very common scenario while performing TFS builds is to increment version number of the assemblies. There are quite a few approaches of which I would like to share two links: Ewald Hofman’s Approach: ... Incrementing Assembly Version in TFS Builds and its affect over O... 0 0 3
Installing the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio March 2011 a... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Coming from the joys and new features the SDK 1.3 version gave us back in November/December, we are now again at the doors of another update, Version 1.4 To get it, go to the Windows Azure website, the ... Installing the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio March 2011 a... 0 0 0
MVC 3: ActionLink VB.Net xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 Theres not a ton of good samples out there on using MVC with VB, so I am going to post some things that I am doing on a project. Lets look at links. I am converting a asp classic app to mvc. One page has ... MVC 3: ActionLink VB.Net 0 0 3
TFS Hosting: discountasp.net TFS Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 In the last month or so I have been able to test and experience first hand the offering from discountasp.net for hosted TFS 2010. This first part is a description of the setup process for the account itself ... TFS Hosting: discountasp.net TFS 0 0 2
Silverlight Cream for March 09, 2011 -- #1057 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Dennis Doomen, Peter Kuhn, Michael Crump, Joe McBride, Martin Krüger, Jeremy Likness, Manas Patnaik, Jesse Liberty(-2-), WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-). Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A highlighting ... Silverlight Cream for March 09, 2011 -- #1057 0 0 0
IE 9:Release xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 Yippie: IE 9s coming out March 14!: http://windowsteamblog.com/... For you guys that love other browsers that’s ok. Personally I ... IE 9:Release 0 0 0
A tale of two useful utilities TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 This time I want to introduce you to two utilities that both have a tail! The first is the BeaverTail ADSI browser at http://adsi.mvps.org/adsi/C... This is a useful utility for doing ... A tale of two useful utilities 0 0 0
wcf http 504: Working on a mystery James Fleming, January 1, 0001 Ok, So you're here because you've been trying to solve the mystery of why you're getting a 504 error. If you've made it to this lonely corner of the Internet, then the advice you're getting from other ... wcf http 504: Working on a mystery 0 0 11
New versions of Firefox, Fiddler and SVN TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 There are new versions of Fiddler and Tortoise SVN at: http://www.fiddlertool.com/... http://tortoisesvn.net/down... Fiddler is an excellent tool for montoring web service traffic. ... New versions of Firefox, Fiddler and SVN 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 -- #1056 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Joost van Schaik, Manas Patnaik, Kevin Hoffman, Jesse Liberty, Deborah Kurata, Dhananjay Kumar, Dennis Delimarsky, Samuel Jack, Peter Kuhn, WindowsPhoneGeek, and Jfo. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 -- #1056 0 0 1
Getting a virus is *very* annoying bconlon, January 1, 0001 I spent most of yesterday removing an annoying virus from my PC. I feel slightly foolish for getting one in the first place, but after so many years I guess I was always going to eventually succumb. I ... Getting a virus is *very* annoying 0 0 0
Wessty: Live with HTML 5 (2011 Speaker Tour) David Wesst, January 1, 0001 That’s right: Wessty is on tour. Okay, the banner and the tour is a little over the top, but I am really excited about my upcoming speaking engagements to spread the word about HTML 5! I have already kicked ... Wessty: Live with HTML 5 (2011 Speaker Tour) 0 0 1
Asus Slate–I gotta get one. Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 This thing rocks… ... Asus Slate–I gotta get one. 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2011 -- #1054 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Back from the Summit Issue, I am overloaded with posts to choose from. Submittals go first, but I'll eventually catch up... hopefully by MIX :) : Ollie Riches(-2-), Colin Eberhardt, John Papa, ... Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2011 -- #1054 0 0 0
jQuery Datatable in MVC … extended. Steve Clements, January 1, 0001 There are a million plugins for jQuery and when a web forms developer like myself works in MVC making use of them is par-for-the-course! MVC is the way now, web forms are but a memory!! Grids / tables ... jQuery Datatable in MVC … extended. 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2011 -- #1053 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this all-sumbittal (while I was at MVP11) Issue: Michael Washington(-2-), goldytech, JFo, Andrea Boschin, Jonathan Marbutt, Gregor Biswanger, Michael Wolf, and Peter Kuhn. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2011 -- #1053 0 0 0
Secure Coding Practices in .NET SoftwareSecurity, January 1, 0001 Thanks to everyone who helped pack the room at the Fox Valley Day of .NET. This presentation was designed to help developers understand why secure coding is important, what areas to focus on and additional ... Secure Coding Practices in .NET 0 0 2
Changing the Default Windows Phone 7 Deployment Target In Visual ... mbcrump, January 1, 0001 After you download and install the January 2011 Windows Phone update, you will notice one annoying thing. The default deployment target for Windows Phone Projects in Visual Studio changes to Windows Phone ... Changing the Default Windows Phone 7 Deployment Target In Visual ... 0 0 2
AD FS 2.0: Troubleshooting Event 364 and ThrowExceptionForHRInter... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Ran into a situation today where after AD FS federation server was installed, configured and up & running, “all of a sudden” it stopped working. Turned out that another installer that affected the ... AD FS 2.0: Troubleshooting Event 364 and ThrowExceptionForHRInter... 0 0 0
Checking for DBNull Jim Lahman, January 1, 0001 Using a table adapter to a SQL Server database table that returns a NULL record. We determine the fields are NULL by comparing against System.DBNull Looking the NULL records in SQL Management studio Using ... Checking for DBNull 0 0 0
XNA Notes 009 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 This past week the MVPs (myself included) were on Microsoft campus for the MVP summit. So I apologize in advance if you did something cool or heard of something cool happening with XNA and XBLIGs and it’s ... XNA Notes 009 0 0 2
Running Jetty under Windows Azure Using RoleEntryPoint in a Worke... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 This post is built upon the work of Mario Kosmiskas and David C. Chou’s prior postings – from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mar... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dac... ... Running Jetty under Windows Azure Using RoleEntryPoint in a Worke... 0 0 0
Converting raw data type to enumerated type Jim Lahman, January 1, 0001 There are times when an enumerated type is preferred over using the raw data type. An example of using a scheme is when we need to check the health of x-ray gauges in use on a production line. Rather than ... Converting raw data type to enumerated type 0 0 0
Using Radio Button in GridView with Validation Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 A developer is asking how to select one radio button at a time if the radio button is inside the GridView. As you may know setting the group name attribute of radio button will not work if the radio button ... Using Radio Button in GridView with Validation 0 0 7
Centralizing a resource file among multiple projects in one solut... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 One of the challenges one faces when doing multi language support in WPF is when one has several projects in one solution (i.e. a business layer & ui layer) and you want multi language support. Typically ... Centralizing a resource file among multiple projects in one solut... 0 0 7
[EF + Oracle] Intro JTorrecilla, January 1, 0001 Prologue I have a busy personal and working time, and at this moment that I start to get more free time, I decided to start a Serie about Entity Framework with Oracle. A few time ago, I got my first experience ... [EF + Oracle] Intro 0 0 6
How to enable and connect to RDP on a Windows Azure Web Role Inst... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 We all know there have been some updates to Windows Azure, and one of the biggest I would say is the capability of being able to remote into the “OS level” of the image running a role. And I am not talking ... How to enable and connect to RDP on a Windows Azure Web Role Inst... 0 0 0
Craig Mundie's video GGBlogger, January 1, 0001 Timothy recently posted “Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8” on Slashdot. I took such grave exception to his post that I found it necessary to my senses to write this blog. ... Craig Mundie's video 0 0 1
Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 -- #1052 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Mark Monster, Gill Cleeren, Pencho Popadiyn, Kevin Dockx, Joost van Schaik, Jesse Liberty, John Papa, Jeremy Likness, Arik Poznanski(-2-), Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata, Mike Snow, Alfred ... Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 -- #1052 0 0 0
XNA Notes 008 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 This week has been a rough one. I’ve been sick and then in some kind of slump for my afternoon coding sessions. It could be from the cold, could be I’m still tired from writing that Windows Phone 7 game ... XNA Notes 008 0 0 1
MS Tech Ed 2011 Coming Soon sonam, January 1, 0001 Microsoft Tech ed 2010 was a great success. Infact Most of such conferences always provide a great place to meet other technology enthusiasts and ofcourse,whats in the pipeline for future products of a ... MS Tech Ed 2011 Coming Soon 0 0 0
Gmail Doesn't Like My Cron Robery Stackhouse, January 1, 0001 You might wonder what *nix administration has to do with maker culture. Plenty, if *nix is your automation platform of choice. I am using Ubuntu, Exim, and Ruby as the supporting cast of characters for ... Gmail Doesn't Like My Cron 0 0 0
How to configure SoapUI with client certificate authentication gvdmaaden, January 1, 0001 SoapUI is one of the best free tools around to test web services. Some time ago I was trying to send a soap message towards a SSL web service that was set up for client certificate authentication. I pretty ... How to configure SoapUI with client certificate authentication 0 0 55
It’s ok to throw System.Exception… Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 No. No it’s not. It’s not just me saying that, it’s the Microsoft guidelines: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Do not throw System.Exception or System.SystemException. Also – as important: ... It’s ok to throw System.Exception… 0 0 2
Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2011 -- #1051 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Ian T. Lackey, Kevin Hoffman, Kunal Chowdhury, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Page Brooks, Deborah Kurata(-2-), and Paul Sheriff. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Building a Radar Control in Silverlight–Part ... Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2011 -- #1051 0 0 0
Community Branching Dane Morgridge, January 1, 0001 As some may have noticed, I have taken a liking to Ruby (and Rails in particular) quite a bit recently. This last weekend I spoke at the NYC Code Camp on a comparison of ASP.NET and Rails as well as an ... Community Branching 0 0 0
Future Trends and Challenges for Aircraft Cabins Bill Evjen, January 1, 0001 Ingo Wuggetzer The aircraft cabin changes from the 60s till now has worsened. First class is actually premium / economy is still moving down in quality The challenge is to do efficiency and comfort Graying ... Future Trends and Challenges for Aircraft Cabins 0 0 0
Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 One of the biggest problems that I’ve seen with people creating WP7 applications is how do you bind the application bar to a Relay Command. If your using MVVM then this is particular important. Let’s examine ... Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar. 0 0 5
Playing HTML5 Video with fall back for IE8/IE7 and earlier versio... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 One of the popular HTML5 tags is the video tag. The ability to play videos without depending on a plugin is something that excites web developers to a great extent and no wonder you end up seeing video ... Playing HTML5 Video with fall back for IE8/IE7 and earlier versio... 0 0 19
Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2011 -- #1049 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Rob Eisenberg(-2-), Gill Cleeren, Colin Eberhardt, Alex van Beek, Ishai Hachlili, Ollie Riches, Kevin Dockx, WindowsPhoneGeek(-2-), Jesse Liberty(-2-), and John Papa. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2011 -- #1049 0 0 0
An introductory presentation about testing with MSTest, Visual St... Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 While it was very quiet here on my blog during the last months, this was not at all true for the rest of my professional life. The simple story is that I was too busy to find the time for authoring blog ... An introductory presentation about testing with MSTest, Visual St... 0 0 6
XNA Notes 007 George Clingerman, January 1, 0001 Every week I keep wondering if there’s going to be enough activity in the community to keep doing these notes on a weekly basis and every week I’m reminded of just how awesome and active the XNA community ... XNA Notes 007 0 0 2
Share USB devices between 32 bit and 64 bit systems Sreejith S, January 1, 0001 The latest version of USBDeviceShare, the USB over IP software, supports sharing USB devices between 32 bit and 64 bit editions of Windows. A USB device plugged in to a 64 bit PC running 64 bit version ... Share USB devices between 32 bit and 64 bit systems 0 0 3
Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2011 -- #1048 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Oren Gal, Andrea Boschin(-2-), Kevin Hoffman, Rudi Grobler(-2-, -3-), Michael Crump, Yochay Kiriaty, Peter Kuhn, Loek van den Ouweland, Jeremy Likness, Jesse Liberty, and WindowsPhoneGeek. ... Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2011 -- #1048 0 0 0
Menu widget - no jQuery nor Javascript required - pure CSS Renso, January 1, 0001 Goal: Create a menu widget that does not require any javascript, extremely lightweight, very fast, soley based on CSS, compatible with FireFox and Chrome. Issues: May have some rendering issues in some ... Menu widget - no jQuery nor Javascript required - pure CSS 0 0 1
Farmyard Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 Moooooooo For a while now we’ve been using Apple’s enterprise device app distribution mechanism. This allows you to have a user, click on a URL on their iOS device and it pulls down a new version of an ... Farmyard 0 0 0