Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 It’s a Friday evening and you have just checked in that last bit of code, you are waiting for the build to go all green so that you could call it a day. Just then the build summary page comes back red ... Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API 0 0 0
SQL Server 2008 R2 setup fails on a Windows Virtual PC (VPC) with... Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 (Developer, Standard, or Enterprise) within a Virtual PC you may suffer the following problem: “The following error has occurred: The installer has encountered an unexpected ... SQL Server 2008 R2 setup fails on a Windows Virtual PC (VPC) with... 0 0 0
Mobile responsive site design in Expression Web ihaynes, January 1, 0001 Although it doesn’t have any specific tools to help responsive or mobile site design this is still possible in Expression Web and I’ve created a number of snippets to help the process. HTML5 and CSS3 are ... Mobile responsive site design in Expression Web 0 0 2
Let’s MEET Windows Azure Shaun, January 1, 0001 Microsoft had just released a new website http://www.meetwindowsazure... which announced an outstanding event named “MEET Windows Azure”. There will be some awesome new features and releases being published ... Let’s MEET Windows Azure 0 0 0
Old SQL, Top and a Variable Bunch, January 1, 0001 I came across this the other day. Using SQL 2000 I could not get a Top statement to work with a variable. I had forgotten that only with SQL 2005 and higher could you do this trick. I found a good way ... Old SQL, Top and a Variable 0 0 0
Set Lab Management (LM) Permissions for Team Projects Created bef... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 What a long title! Anyway, I didn't add LM until sometime after I had setup my Team Foundation Server 2010 instance. There are 2 important realities to face when you do this: The LM permissions in the ... Set Lab Management (LM) Permissions for Team Projects Created bef... 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The reality is that project managers need work status in real-time. The TFS Excel reports and web parts are great, but because they are sourced from the TFS SSAS cube the information can be up to 2 hours ... Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts 0 0 1
TFS 2010 Web Part for Data Warehouse Views Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server 2010 includes support for Data Warehouse and Analysis Cube Views. The company, Amrein Engineering, sells a web part that uses SQL statements to source data. You can implement this ... TFS 2010 Web Part for Data Warehouse Views 0 0 0
Accessing VSTS 2010 Offline/Local Process Guidance Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 You can use local or offline VS/TFS Process Guidance. However, then none of the convenient links from the Team Explorer and the Team Project SharePoint site work. Here's how you can fix that. Starting ... Accessing VSTS 2010 Offline/Local Process Guidance 0 0 0
How I Customized Report Parameters for Team Foundation Server 201... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 My goal was to have the burndown chart on the team project portal main page display the current iteration. The default report displays the tasks for the entire team project starting 5 days before the current ... How I Customized Report Parameters for Team Foundation Server 201... 0 0 0
2012 Transit of Venus - First Web Camera located. TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Since the 2012 Transit of Venus is the last transit of Venus across the face of the Sun as viewed from Earth, for many years, being able to locate a web cam feed that will be in clear daylight for the ... 2012 Transit of Venus - First Web Camera located. 0 0 0
Who is Expression Web aimed at and at what market? ihaynes, January 1, 0001 In answering this question it helps to look at the overall creation of a website and the processes involved.The term 'web design' still in common use, is something of a misnomer. 'Web creation' seems to ... Who is Expression Web aimed at and at what market? 0 0 2
C# Tutorial for log4net huwyss, January 1, 0001 Here's a short tutorial on how to use log4net in C#1. Get log4net from the apache website.2. Open your project with visual studio.3. Add the reference to your project: You find the reference in the zip ... C# Tutorial for log4net 0 0 17
Free E-book from O'Reilly - 11/May/2012 - What is Dart? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today, O'Reilly are offering a free e-book "What is Dart?" at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... ready to build modern web apps. This concise book covers the Dart language, libraries, ... Free E-book from O'Reilly - 11/May/2012 - What is Dart? 0 0 0
What should we do with our Windows CE/Windows Mobile apps? Webgui, January 1, 0001 I would like to share a post from the Visual WebGui Blog on ASP.NET. The post "The link between Windows CE/Windows Mobile applications, ASP.NET and HTML5" discusses the developer's alternatives when facing ... What should we do with our Windows CE/Windows Mobile apps? 0 0 0
List of resources for database continuous integration David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 Because there is so little information on database continuous integration in the wild, I’ve taken it upon myself to aggregate as much as possible and post the links to this blog. Because it’s my area of ... List of resources for database continuous integration 0 0 0
Is Expression Web Moribund? - A response ihaynes, January 1, 0001 A post on the Expression Forum asked the question, 'Is Expression Web moribund?'. It was prompted by this article written by add-in developer Dennis DeRobertis. It gave rise to some interesting replies. ... Is Expression Web Moribund? - A response 0 0 0
Transit of Venus - 5/6 June 2012 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Next month there will be a transit of Venus. These occur as pairs a few years apart. I remember the last which was in 2004. I was able to watch the start of it using some welder's glass to protect my eyes. ... Transit of Venus - 5/6 June 2012 0 0 0
Weekly Cloud Newsround 2012-18 Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Filtering the informative, insightful and quirky from the fire hose of cloud-based hype. Mike Pearl from PWC Looks At Cloud Strategy Through The Lens Of Value in a guest post for Forbes, Michelle Boisvert ... Weekly Cloud Newsround 2012-18 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool terje, January 1, 0001 Download from VS Gallery In my work I meet many developers, tester and project managers, all using Visual Studio. When I ask them if they have updated it to the latest version, there are many who simply ... Visual Studio 2010: Version and update information tool 0 0 19
GIMP - A Free Image manipulation program - 2.8 RC TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.Version 2.8 RC of GIMP is available from http://gimp-win.sourceforge... 2.8 has been announced as:"We are happy to announce immediate availability ... GIMP - A Free Image manipulation program - 2.8 RC 0 0 0
Web Fashion: Tight and Tidy is Out of Style! jkauffman, January 1, 0001 Most New Landing Pages Look the Same I’ve been hitting the web more than usual the past few months as part of R&D for various needs. I’ve come to realize that the winds of web fashion have taken a ... Web Fashion: Tight and Tidy is Out of Style! 0 0 3
Four Recommendations to Improve Internet Explorer Market Share Steve Albers, January 1, 0001 Whether you believe the StatCounter hype from last month or not, everyone can agree that Internet Explorer market share is down from previous years. Chrome usage is creeping up, and changes in the market ... Four Recommendations to Improve Internet Explorer Market Share 0 0 3
Free book from APress - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps w... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Until 24:00 1st May, APress at http://www.apress.com/event... are offering "Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and JavaScript" for free ... Free book from APress - Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps w... 0 0 1
Planets large and small TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A large number of planets have been discovered outside our solar system. Here is diagram explaining some of the types. Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration ... Planets large and small 0 0 0
Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP Microsoft’s own explanation of the CEWP in:http://office.microsoft.... includes the following caveat: ... Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP 0 0 0
Celebration! 120’000 downloads for #mvvmlight, 2 copies of ... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 That is a symbolic milestone: Last week, MVVM Light reached the bar of 120’000 downloads on http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com, the site that has been hosting source and installers since the beginning of the ... Celebration! 120’000 downloads for #mvvmlight, 2 copies of ... 0 0 0
A possible sucessor to the space shuttle TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 With the retirement of the remaining space shuttles to the museums of America, a sucessor is needed. One possible candidate is the Dream Chaser. Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space ... A possible sucessor to the space shuttle 0 0 0
Metro design inspiration Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 [This is the English version of an article I wrote for the Netzwoche publication in Switzerland. This is part 2 of a 3-parts article about Metro. The original article in German can be found online on the ... Metro design inspiration 0 0 0
Apply a DateTime Format in an Asp.Net MVC TextBoxFor 80n, January 1, 0001 I use MVC4 with razor. I ran into the problem of formating correctly a DateTime property of my model that I render in the view using a TextBoxFor MVC helper. The default formatting displays the full date ... Apply a DateTime Format in an Asp.Net MVC TextBoxFor 0 0 25
Redis on Windows Shaun, January 1, 0001 This morning I received an email from the Microsoft said that, a meaningful company, Microsoft Open Technologies Inc., had just release their first pre-production, the Redis on Windows. Redis If you had ... Redis on Windows 0 0 13
Weekly Cloud Newsround 2012-17 Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Filtering the informative, insightful and quirky from the fire hose of cloud-based hype. Google’s “Google Drive” has been leading the news this week, and has sparked off some debate about the data storage ... Weekly Cloud Newsround 2012-17 0 0 1
Prevent copying images from web page - read-only images Renso, January 1, 0001 Problem:You have images on your web site that you want to protect from being copied and used. In essence you want to make them "read-only" so to speak.Solution:Add the HTML code by wrapping your image ... Prevent copying images from web page - read-only images 0 0 1
Hooking into Google Apps With CData Google Data Provider dataintegration, January 1, 0001 By Mike Gold, November 30, 2010 This article was originally written and hosted on c-sharp cornerIntroductionThe world is full of information and there are all kinds of ways to access it. The Microsoft ... Hooking into Google Apps With CData Google Data Provider 0 0 0
Accessing website data using ADO.NET dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Accessing Website Data Using ADO.NETBy i-programmer, January 24, 2011 This article was originally written and hosted on i-programmerIntroductionInt... with websites via the wide range of APIs that ... Accessing website data using ADO.NET 0 0 0
Calgary Windows 8 Camp–May 12 David Paquette, January 1, 0001 Be part of the Windows 8 Camp in Calgary, a full-day event with technical sessions that dive into the platform for building Windows 8 Metro Style apps. You'll learn from experts in a low-key, interactive ... Calgary Windows 8 Camp–May 12 0 0 0
Handy javascript debugging tip HanSolo, January 1, 0001 In the project that I am working on, we have many forms that are loaded asynchronously via ajax. Some of these forms contain embedded javacript within the html. Sometimes it can be difficult to debug these ... Handy javascript debugging tip 0 0 1
Create and Use a Custom Application Configuration File pankajsharma, January 1, 0001 The title and scope of the article may force you to argue as web.config files are already there to fulfill the purpose of keeping application specific configuration if any. But i encountered a case where ... Create and Use a Custom Application Configuration File 0 0 0
Adding Robots.txt to your ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 One of the things I always forgot to add to my web applications is the Robots.txt file that Search Engines use to see what they should index. This file and site maps help make your site easier to navigate ... Adding Robots.txt to your ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications 0 0 6
Log JavaScript errors to the server. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Some time ago I found debugging - Automatic feedback on JavaScript error - Stack Overflow. and the discussion has links to Logging JavaScript Errors To ASP.NET(Unfortunately the link to download in the ... Log JavaScript errors to the server. 0 0 3
ICommand issue in Windows 8: Correction! Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Well I'll be… I stand corrected! I recently published a blog post stating that you need to declare a command as ICommand (instead of RelayCommand) if you want it to work in Windows 8. I even went as far ... ICommand issue in Windows 8: Correction! 0 0 0
Database continuous integration step by step David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 This post will describe how to set up basic database continuous integration using TeamCity to initiate the build process, SQL Source Control to put your database under source control, and the SQL Compare ... Database continuous integration step by step 0 0 0
Space Probes to Jupiter TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Space.Com have published an interesting info-graphic on space probes to Jupiter. Whilst mainly about the new probe, Juno, now on route to Jupiter, it does list all the space probes that have flown by or ... Space Probes to Jupiter 0 0 0
CSS Hassle for different browsers H@Ni, January 1, 0001 Even been into the hassle of an HTML table displaying differently on different browsers ? of course every UI developer have been into it. I've found a very interesting solution to this problem. Suppose ... CSS Hassle for different browsers 0 0 0
Set DispatchRuntime.AutomaticInputSessionShutdown to false "WCF E... H@Ni, January 1, 0001 Hello everyone, Been a while since my last post. I've had a weird exception that causes the WCF service proxy not to respond after a certain time (10 mins I guess), so thanks to this post I figured out ... Set DispatchRuntime.AutomaticInputSessionShutdown to false "WCF E... 0 0 1
Trends in HTML5 open web and mobile development Webgui, January 1, 0001 Hi,I'd like to point out an opportunity to view a live session with a world leading expert in open web and client architecture, next-generation mobile and software development productivity. Jeffrey Hammond, ... Trends in HTML5 open web and mobile development 0 0 8
KnockoutJS Value Converter to Deal with JSON Dates Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 A few weeks ago, Scott Hanselman blogged about the challenges with working with JSON dates and the ASP.NET Web API. In the post he described how the current version of the Web API sends back dates in Epoch ... KnockoutJS Value Converter to Deal with JSON Dates 0 0 0
Fixing issues with PhoneGap for WebOS on 64-bit Windows yuriylsh, January 1, 0001 Problem Recently I was told that in near future I might start working on a project using PhoneGap to create a pilot application for iOS and possibly later use it for other mobile platforms. I have been ... Fixing issues with PhoneGap for WebOS on 64-bit Windows 0 0 0
#mvvmlight V4RC available on #nuget Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I just published the MVVM Light V4 RC packages to Nuget. Note that this is still technically a preview, so the main package is still V3. The V4 packages are available here: Read the rest of this entry ... #mvvmlight V4RC available on #nuget 0 0 0
Two Best SharePoint Utility Methods Ever Written Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 SharePoint is very handy as a repository for data. There are things (particularly in the intranet world) which really don't need a dedicated database or application and SharePoint is a great enabler. However, ... Two Best SharePoint Utility Methods Ever Written 0 0 4