TechEd 2012 Closing Party at Universal’s Island of Adventur... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Awesome news! The TechEd 2012 Closing Party is at Universal’s Island of Adventure theme park this year. The party is on Thursday, which give you a reason not to leave the conference early and actually ... TechEd 2012 Closing Party at Universal’s Island of Adventur... 0 0 0
Think before you animate David Paquette, January 1, 0001 Animations are becoming more and more common in our applications. With technologies like WPF, Silverlight and jQuery, animations are becoming easier for developers to use (and abuse). When used properly, ... Think before you animate 0 0 0
SSIS Debugging Tip: Using Data Viewers Jim Giercyk, January 1, 0001 When you have an SSIS package error, it is often very helpful to see the data records that are causing the problem. After all, if your input has 50,000 records and 1 of them has corrupt data, it can be ... SSIS Debugging Tip: Using Data Viewers 0 0 5
Stuxnet - how it infects Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Except from the CNET article.http://news.cnet.co... Stuxnet worm propagates ... Stuxnet - how it infects 0 0 2
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 13/April/2012 - Building Enterp... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's deal of the day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Building Enterprise Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and the MVVM Pattern"Simplify ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 13/April/2012 - Building Enterp... 0 0 0
Old School Wizardry Tip: Batch File Comments jkauffman, January 1, 0001 Johnny, the Endangered Keyboard-Driven Windows User Some of my proudest, obscure Windows tricks are losing their relevance. I know I’m not alone. Keyboard shortcuts are going the way of the dodo. I used ... Old School Wizardry Tip: Batch File Comments 0 0 17
Using a SQL Prompt snippet with template parameters David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 As part of my product management role I regularly attend trade shows and man the Red Gate booth in the vendor exhibition hall. Amongst other things this involves giving product demos to customers. Our ... Using a SQL Prompt snippet with template parameters 0 0 0
Turning off the Visual Studio “Attach to process” sec... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 When you’re urnning under x64 you have to affect 1 addition spot in the registry to disable this warning – which clearly should only be done by folks that know what they’re doing. NOTE: affecting the registry ... Turning off the Visual Studio “Attach to process” sec... 0 0 0
TFS API The All New Team Project Picker – Beautiful! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 The Team Project Picker in TFS 2011 looks gorgeous. I specially like the status bar on the working state, at least let’s you know that the project picker is still working on getting the details and of ... TFS API The All New Team Project Picker – Beautiful! 0 0 0
Programming doesn’t have to be Magic Wes McClure, January 1, 0001 In the show LOST, the Swan Station had a button that “had to be pushed” every 100 minutes to avoid disaster. Several characters in the show took it upon themselves to have faith and religiously push the ... Programming doesn’t have to be Magic 0 0 2
Powershell progress dialogs Norgean, January 1, 0001 Creating nested progress dialogs in Powershell is easy. Let the code speak for itself: for ($i = 1; $i -le 2; $i++) { Write-Progress -ID 1 -Activity "Outer loop" -Status "Tick $i" -percentComplete ($i ... Powershell progress dialogs 0 0 0
How to Create SharePoint List and Insert List Item programmatical... Michael M. Bangoy, January 1, 0001 In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to create SharePoint List and also Insert Items on the List from a Windows Forms Application. 1. Open Visual Studio and create a new project. On the project template ... How to Create SharePoint List and Insert List Item programmatical... 0 0 2
How to display Sharepoint Data in a Windows Forms Application Michael M. Bangoy, January 1, 0001 In this post I'm going to demonstrate how to retrieve Sharepoint data and display it on a Windows Forms Application. 1. Open Visual Studio 2010 and create a new Project. 2. In the project template select ... How to display Sharepoint Data in a Windows Forms Application 0 0 7
Walkthrough: Scheduling jobs using Quartz.net – Part 1: Wha... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 Quartz.NET is a full-featured, open source enterprise job scheduling system written in .NET platform that can be used from smallest apps to large scale enterprise systems. Suggested Further Reading Walkthrough ... Walkthrough: Scheduling jobs using Quartz.net – Part 1: Wha... 0 0 2
Controlling soft errors and false alarms in SSIS Jim Giercyk, January 1, 0001 If you are like me, you dread the 3AM wake-up call. I would say that the majority of the pages I get are false alarms. The alerts that require action often require me to open an SSIS package, see where ... Controlling soft errors and false alarms in SSIS 0 0 3
Windows Azure Service Bus Splitter and Aggregator Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This article will cover basic implementations of the Splitter and Aggregator patterns using the Windows Azure Service Bus. The content will be included in the next release of the “Windows Azure Service ... Windows Azure Service Bus Splitter and Aggregator 0 0 0
NDepend Evaluation: Part 3 Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 NDepend is a Visual Studio add-in designed for intense code analysis with the goal of high code quality. NDepend uses a number of metrics and aggregates the data in pleasing static and active visual reports. ... NDepend Evaluation: Part 3 0 0 0
Enabling Google Webmaster Tools With Your GWB Blog ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 I’ll be honest and save you some time, if you don’t have your own domain for your GWB blog, this won’t help, you may just want to move on… I don’t want to waste your time……… Still here? Good. How great ... Enabling Google Webmaster Tools With Your GWB Blog 0 0 0
Adding a DLL to the GAC in Windows 7 Jim Giercyk, January 1, 0001 I recently created a DLL and I wanted to reference it from a project I was developing in Visual Studio. In previous versions of Windows, doing so was simply a matter of dropping the DLL file in the C:\Windows\assembly ... Adding a DLL to the GAC in Windows 7 0 0 8
More NASM with GVim MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 Today I am bashing around with nasm again… some useful things I found… Set the current working directory of gvim to the current file path I have found setting the current working directory of gvim to the ... More NASM with GVim 0 0 0
Robotic Arm – Hardware Szymon Kobalczyk, January 1, 0001 This is first in series of articles about project I've been building in my spare time since last Summer. Actually it all began when I was researching a topic of modeling human motion kinematics in order ... Robotic Arm – Hardware 0 0 22
What is the R Language? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 I encountered the R Language recently with O'Reilly books and while from the context I knew it was a language for dealing with statistics, doing a web search for the support web site was futile. However ... What is the R Language? 0 0 0
first install for windows eight.....da beta raysmithequip, January 1, 0001 The W8 preview is now installed and I am enjoying it. I remember the learning curve of my first unix machine back in the eighties, this ain't that.It is normal for me to do the first os install with a ... first install for windows eight.....da beta 0 0 0
WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2010: Tips for delaying the Visual Upgrade Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 My most recent project has been to migrate a bunch of sites from WSS 3.0 (SharePoint 2007) to SharePoint Server 2010. The users are currently working with WSS 3.0 and Office 2003, so the new ribbon based ... WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2010: Tips for delaying the Visual Upgrade 0 0 0
WP7 Developers at Washington University Scott Spradlin, January 1, 0001 This is Easter weekend, and the end of the school year is looming closer! Our developer sessions at WashU end today. Students will turn their spare time focus to finals and getting home for the summer. ... WP7 Developers at Washington University 0 0 1
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 10 – In Depth TCP/IP Network... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 After reading this section you should be able to Understand methods of network design unique to TCP/IP networks, including subnetting, CIDR, and address translation Explain the differences between public ... Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 10 – In Depth TCP/IP Network... 0 0 0
Getting Started with Kinect for Windows. Vishal, January 1, 0001 Hello folks, Recently I got involved in a project for building a demo application for one of our customers with Kinect for Windows. Yes, something similar what Tom Cruise did in the movie Minority Report. ... Getting Started with Kinect for Windows. 0 0 0
April 2012 Patch Tuesday TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Next Tuesday, Microsoft will issue a number of critical patches. I urge you to apply the patches to your desktop PCs A.S.A.P. , then deploy to your test servers, test, get signoff and deploy to production.More ... April 2012 Patch Tuesday 0 0 0
Biztalk :Tagidentifier for optional records Mchandak, January 1, 0001 I am sure many of us must have faced this issue. Problem:My flat file schema has an optional record and marked with a tagidentifier. we would think that the input message without that optional record will ... Biztalk :Tagidentifier for optional records 0 0 0
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 15 – Network Management MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 After reading this section you should be able to Understand network management and the importance of documentation, baseline measurements, policies, and regulations to assess and maintain a network’s health. ... Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 15 – Network Management 0 0 0
Fixing the #mvvmlight code snippets in Visual Studio 11 Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 If you installed the latest MVVM Light version for Windows 8, you may encounter an issue where code snippets are not displayed correctly in the Intellisense popup. I am working on a fix, but for now here ... Fixing the #mvvmlight code snippets in Visual Studio 11 0 0 0
How to work around a possible XNA Game Studio or Windows Phone SD... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I am not sure if you guys know Aaron Stebner. Aaron works at Microsoft, and has pulled thorns from my side many many times already. Read the rest of this entry » ... How to work around a possible XNA Game Studio or Windows Phone SD... 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 6/April/2010 - Beginning Windows Phone 7... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development"Starting with the basics, you'll master everything you need to produce well-designed ... APress Deal of the Day - 6/April/2010 - Beginning Windows Phone 7... 0 0 0
Kinect Hacking at Microsoft Developer Days 2012 Bulgaria Szymon Kobalczyk, January 1, 0001 Last week I had a pleasure to speak at the Microsoft’s Developer Days 2012 in Sophia, Bulgaria. It was a great conference and I met lots of cool people there. I did a session about Kinect Hacking. My goal ... Kinect Hacking at Microsoft Developer Days 2012 Bulgaria 0 0 0
Kansas City will be getting a Microsoft Store Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 I have to admit, I am pretty excited about this. I am not sure about the dates, but the Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, KS will be getting a Microsoft Store very soon based on this article. I am guessing ... Kansas City will be getting a Microsoft Store 0 0 0
New DataCenter Options for Windows Azure ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 Effective immediately, new compute and storage resource options are now available when selecting data center options in the Windows Azure Portal. "West US" and "East US" options are now available, for ... New DataCenter Options for Windows Azure 0 0 0
Configuration Data in a Custom Timer job in SharePoint 2010 : The... Gino Abraham, January 1, 0001 I was planning for a custom timer job for which i wanted to store some configuration data. Was looking for some best practices, found a useful links on The Hierarchical Object store Store http://www.chaholl.com/arch... ... Configuration Data in a Custom Timer job in SharePoint 2010 : The... 0 0 1
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 5/April/2012 - Windows® Interna... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's Deal of the day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is Windows® Internals, Part 1, Sixth Edition."Delve inside Windows architecture and internals—guided by ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 5/April/2012 - Windows® Interna... 0 0 0
Customizing the Test Status on the TFS 2010 SSRS Stories Overview... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 This post shows how to customize the SQL query used by the Team Foundation Server 2010 SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Stories Overview Report. The objective is to show test status for the current ... Customizing the Test Status on the TFS 2010 SSRS Stories Overview... 0 0 0
Getting App.config to be configuration specific in VS2010 MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I recently wanted to have a console application that had configuration specific settings. For instance, if I had two configurations “Debug” and “Release”, depending on the currently selected configuration ... Getting App.config to be configuration specific in VS2010 0 0 5
Awarded BizTalk MVP, 2012 Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 I'm very pleased to have been awarded a Microsoft MVP for the third year in a row.With new versions of SQL, VS and Windows shipping in 2012, and a bunch of very interesting things happening in Azure, it's ... Awarded BizTalk MVP, 2012 0 0 3
Using Node.js as an accelerator for WCF REST services Elton Stoneman, January 1, 0001 Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform "for easily building fast, scalable network applications". It's built on Google's V8 JavaScript engine and uses an (almost) entirely async event-driven processing ... Using Node.js as an accelerator for WCF REST services 0 0 5
Working with packed dates in SSIS Jim Giercyk, January 1, 0001 One of the challenges recently thrown my way was to read an EBCDIC flat file, decode packed dates, and insert the dates into a SQL table. For those unfamiliar with packed data, it is a way to store data ... Working with packed dates in SSIS 0 0 5
One Week on New Servers and Everything is Great Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 It has been a week since we moved our Geekswithblogs.net System to a new set of load balanced servers and everything has been going great. I am so amazed at the performance of the new hardware. On average, ... One Week on New Servers and Everything is Great 0 0 0
West Palm Beach Developer Group March 2012 Meeting Recap Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Our West Palm Beach Developer Group March 2012 meeting featured Herve Roggero, Azure MVP and co-founder of Pyn Logic. Herve covered multiple case studies on migrating existing application to SQL Azure. ... West Palm Beach Developer Group March 2012 Meeting Recap 0 0 0
Transactional Messaging in the Windows Azure Service Bus Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Introduction I’m currently working on broadening the content in the Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide. One of the features I have been looking at over the past week is the support for transactional ... Transactional Messaging in the Windows Azure Service Bus 0 0 2
Application Migration: Windows/VB6 Apps to ASP.NET HTML5 Webgui, January 1, 0001 I would like to invite you to a fascinating webinar on extending applications to HTML5 and Mobile that we are doing in collaboration with Jeffrey S. Hammond, Principal Analyst serving Application Development ... Application Migration: Windows/VB6 Apps to ASP.NET HTML5 0 0 5
ALMing in Hinglish 2–Windows 8-Manual Testing Metro Style A... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 What is ALMing in Hinglish => Introduction दूसरे वीडियो में शुभ्रा माजी, आदित्य अग्रवाल और सृष्टि श्रीधर से चर्चा करेंगे विंडोज 8 मेट्रो स्टाइल ऍप्लिकेशन्स की मैनुअल टैस्टिंग के बारे में. टीम हमें माइक्रोसॉफ्ट ... ALMing in Hinglish 2–Windows 8-Manual Testing Metro Style A... 0 0 0
The Joy Of Hex Jim Giercyk, January 1, 0001 While working on a mainframe integration project, it occurred to me that some basic computer concepts are slipping into obscurity. For example, just about anyone can tell you that a 64-bit processor is ... The Joy Of Hex 0 0 0
MVVM Light V4b1 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (with installer) Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 I just pushed the following to Codeplex: Read the rest of this entry » ... MVVM Light V4b1 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (with installer) 0 0 0