C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 In my last post I discussed the approach we used at my job to convert an ASP .NET web forms application written in VB .NET to C#. In that post I alluded to some of the issues that we encountered during ... C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues 0 0 0
Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 A colleague of mine asked me how he can find out why his laptop does consume 30% CPU in the SYSTEM process after it did wake up from hibernate. That is easy I replied: Open Process Explorer select the ... Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way 0 0 1
The Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge is Back! Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I’m excited to announce that we have re-launched the Rock, Paper, Azure challenge! For the next 6 weeks Developers will compete in an online game based on rock, paper, scissors, with the opportunity to ... The Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge is Back! 0 0 0
AppFabric Private Caching: What to Watch Out For jasont, January 1, 0001 The ability to have a private AppFabric cache deployed as a cluster of worker roles, or piggy-backing your existing roles, is great. But there are some things to watch out for, which can cost you a lot ... AppFabric Private Caching: What to Watch Out For 0 0 1
Retrieving a list of eBay categories in a .Net 4.5 Windows Store ... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Previously I wrote a post on how to get the eBay category list using their .Net SDK. I wanted to try doing the same thing in a Windows Store App for Windows 8 using Visual Studio 2012, but quickly ran ... Retrieving a list of eBay categories in a .Net 4.5 Windows Store ... 0 0 1
HTML5 Definition Complete: Be Ready for New Standards and Demands Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 Although I don't think I ever mentioned it here, I was selected by Microsoft Learning to be a MCT Regional Lead for the Eastern US. Basically, it allows me to be a conduit between people and Microsoft ... HTML5 Definition Complete: Be Ready for New Standards and Demands 0 0 0
Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 This morning, Microsoft Channel 9 interviewed Mei Liang - Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - to introduce the newest Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio 2012 &2010. This ... Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... 0 0 1
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 2 o... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 This article is Part 2 in a two-part series on building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster to support highly available virtual machines as a foundation to a Private Cloud solution. If you missed it, be ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 2 o... 0 0 0
TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working on a hobby project for the past little while, and I wanted to blog my way through it as I go. My intent is to use a lot of new technologies, agile best practices, and some trendy architecture ... TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro 0 0 0
Introducing this.Log Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 One of my favorite creations over the past year has been this.Log(). It works everywhere including static methods and in razor views. Everything about how to create it and set it up is in this gist. How ... Introducing this.Log 0 0 2
WebAPI Dependency Injection Aligned, January 1, 0001 If you try to dependency injection into a constructor with WebAPI, you’ll get an exception that says you need a parameter less constructor. The same is true for MVC controllers, but that is a different ... WebAPI Dependency Injection 0 0 0
Super D to the B to the A – AKA Script for reducing the siz... Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 The following is a script that I used to help me clean up a database and reduce the size of it from 95MB down to 3MB so we could use it for a development backup. I will note that we also removed some of ... Super D to the B to the A – AKA Script for reducing the siz... 0 0 1
Sharing DataAnnotations between the UI and the business logic Martin S. Johansen, January 1, 0001 Along with with .Net version 4.0 came DataAnnotations which is a library for validating properties in classes. The library consists of validation-attributes, core classes and interfaces for validating ... Sharing DataAnnotations between the UI and the business logic 0 0 1
Creating an automated OS deployment marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 To create a deployment environment we are going to use ADDS, DHCP, WDS, WSUS, MDT2012 and good old fashioned hard work! Note that a number of prerequisites need to be met to install certain services. I ... Creating an automated OS deployment 0 0 0
Easy Testing of REST Services with WcfStorm.Rest Erik Araojo, January 1, 0001 Introduction REST services has been steadily gaining popularity over the past years. While SOAP web services are still being used, (and will not go away), it is no longer the preferred method of providing ... Easy Testing of REST Services with WcfStorm.Rest 0 0 0
Book Review - C# 5.0 in a Nutshell, 5th Edition The Definitive R... Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 C# 5.0 in a Nutshell, by Joseph Albahari and Ben Albahari, is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about the C# programming language. It serves as a one-stop reference to learning the fundamentals ... Book Review - C# 5.0 in a Nutshell, 5th Edition The Definitive R... 0 0 0
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster for Highly... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Overhead at one of my recent IT Pro events: “The FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 sounds AWESOME! With the same features and scalability as the Hyper-V role in the full Windows Server 2012 OS, I could really use ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster for Highly... 0 0 22
Converting VB .NET to C#: A Post Mortem Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/2012/12/13/converting-vb-net-to-c-a-post-mortem/ Converting VB .NET to C#: A Post Mortem 0 0 0
Free Exam Voucher for 70-480 with Training Available Aligned, January 1, 0001 Go to http://www.microsoft.com/le... get the voucher before March 2013 and before they run out.EDIT: ** I just heard from a co-worker and a comment from a reader that they HTMLJMP ... Free Exam Voucher for 70-480 with Training Available 0 0 7
Installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 VM running on W... Ismail Durgut, January 1, 0001 I will explain the process of installing SharePoint 2013 on a Windows 8 Hyper V in a disconnected scenario. This matters for the prerequisites which by default downloads the prerequisites if run from the ... Installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 VM running on W... 0 0 0
Mocking or Faking DbSet Aligned, January 1, 0001 I needed to Fake the DbSet of a DBContext in EF 5 so that I could test my caching implementation. I searched for awhile and found this link on creating an in memory DbSet. I first copied the code in and ... Mocking or Faking DbSet 0 0 1
SQL 2008 Express silent installation Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Wow! Today we have 12.12.12. How many times you needed "quick SQL" for your tests … Let's make it quick. Command line: Setup.exe /ConfigurationFile=SQLExpre... /Q However we need an answer file. One ... SQL 2008 Express silent installation 0 0 10
Working with the Ajax Control Toolkit Slideshow Mike Benkovich, January 1, 0001 I had a request yesterday to put together a slideshow on a website we’re working on. That reminded me that there is a great collection of controls and tools available (for free) on Codeplex in the http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.c... ... Working with the Ajax Control Toolkit Slideshow 0 0 7
1s Estimates Patrice Calve, January 1, 0001 Estimation is easy: put any random number, just kidding. Instead, always answer 1. But, change the meaning of that 1. Express your estimates in hours, days, weeks, months, seasons or quarters, years, decades, ... 1s Estimates 0 0 1
How to install Windows Server 2008/2012 roles/features using Powe... Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Let's make it faster … A simple PowerShell script Import-Module Servermanager Add-WindowsFeature Application-Server,Hyper-V,WAS -norestart And of course shutdown –r at the end List of roles and features: ... How to install Windows Server 2008/2012 roles/features using Powe... 0 0 55
HowTo: Use .NET Code on a Network Share From Windows Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 If you use VMWare/VirtualPC and you want to offload your source code repositories to your host OS and code from it inside the VM, you need to do a few things to fully trust the share. I’ve found that I ... HowTo: Use .NET Code on a Network Share From Windows 0 0 0
Working with a CFGrid in ColdFusion csmith18119, January 1, 0001 So I just started learning about ColdFusion and one of the first thing I had to do was bind some data to a grid or table. So being an ASP.net developer I looked for the ColdFusion equivalent to an ASP ... Working with a CFGrid in ColdFusion 0 0 0
How to build Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj) with TFS 2010... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Out of the box, Team Foundation Server 2010 Build does not support building of setup projects (.vdproj). Although, you can modify the DefaultTemplate.xaml or create your own in order to achieve this. I ... How to build Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj) with TFS 2010... 0 0 4
My Upcoming Talk at South Florida’s ITPalooza 2012 - NuGet ... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 I am very excited to be speaking at IT Palooza next week. As this event’s audience will span professionals working in different facets of Information Technology, I chose to speak on NuGet, an essential ... My Upcoming Talk at South Florida’s ITPalooza 2012 - NuGet ... 0 0 0
Eager Loading more than 1 table in LinqtoSql Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 When I've tried in Linq2Sql to load table with 2 child tables, I've noticed, that multiple SQLs are generated. I've found that it isa known issue, if you try to specify more than one to pre-load it just ... Eager Loading more than 1 table in LinqtoSql 0 0 0
A Taxonomy of Numerical Methods v1 JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Numerical Analysis – When, What, (but not how) Once you understand the Math & know C++, Numerical Methods are basically blocks of iterative & conditional math code. I found the real trick was seeing ... A Taxonomy of Numerical Methods v1 0 0 1
Intellitrace bug causes “Operation could destabilize the ru... Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 We cant use it when we use simplemembership to handle external authorizations. Server Error in '/' Application. Operation could destabilize the runtime. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during ... Intellitrace bug causes “Operation could destabilize the ru... 0 0 0
BizTalk: Internals: the Partner Direct Ports and the Orchestratio... Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 Partner Direct Port is one of the BizTalk hidden gems. It opens simple ways to the several messaging patterns. This article based on the Kevin Lam’s blog article. The article is pretty detailed but it ... BizTalk: Internals: the Partner Direct Ports and the Orchestratio... 0 0 0
Troubleshooting Blocked Transaction in SQL Server ChrisD, January 1, 0001 While troubleshooting a blocked transaction issue recently, I found this code online. My apologies in not citing its source, but its lost in my browse history some where. While the transaction is executing ... Troubleshooting Blocked Transaction in SQL Server 0 0 0
Implementing Search for BlogReader Windows 8 Sample Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 The BlogReader sample is an excellent place to start speeding up your Windows 8 development skills. The tutorial is available here and the complete source code is available here Create a project called ... Implementing Search for BlogReader Windows 8 Sample 0 0 184
Powershell: Connect to Exchange server powershell marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 Connecting to Exchange powershell is, for normal operations, as simple as opening the shortcut on you start menu :).However, if you have the need to have some scripts perform actions against your Exchange ... Powershell: Connect to Exchange server powershell 0 0 0
Call Webservices…Maybe!? MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So I have been doing preliminary work for my iOS talk for a while, but did not get into the meat of the project until recently. One day I envision my talk uploading pictures from a camera on an iPhone ... Call Webservices…Maybe!? 0 0 1
Center an Html page with CSS csmith18119, January 1, 0001 I always have to google this whenever I need it. So instead of searching every time I am putting it here. I originally got this from Reign Water Designs. Check the link here: http://www.reignwaterdesign... ... Center an Html page with CSS 0 0 0
Calgary .NET User Group – Entity Framework Code First - De... David Paquette, January 1, 0001 I will be presenting at the Calgary .NET User Group on December 11th. We will start from scratch in this intro to Entity Framework Code First. We will build a simple application using ASP.NET MVC and Entity ... Calgary .NET User Group – Entity Framework Code First - De... 0 0 0
Connect to running web role on Azure using Remote Desktop Connect... Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 We want to be able to collect IntelliTrace information from our running app and also use remote desktop to connect to the IIS and look around(probably debugging). 1. Create certificate 1.1 Right-click ... Connect to running web role on Azure using Remote Desktop Connect... 0 0 1
My collection of favourite TFS utilities Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 So, you’re in charge of your company or team’s Team Foundation Server. Wish it was easier to manage, administer, extend? Well, here are a few utilities that I highly recommend looking at. I’ve recently ... My collection of favourite TFS utilities 0 0 3
Profiling Startup Of VS2012 – JustTrace Profiler Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 JustTrace is made by Telerik which is mainly known for its collection of UI controls. The current version (2012.3.1127.0) does include a performance and memory profiler which does cost 614€ and is currently ... Profiling Startup Of VS2012 – JustTrace Profiler 0 0 1
Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 3 of 3–Clrizr) ToString(theory);, January 1, 0001 Welcome back! In the first two posts in this series, I covered some of the awesome features in CSS precompilers such as SASS and LESS, as well as how to get an initial project setup up and running in ASP.Net ... Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 3 of 3–Clrizr) 0 0 0
ASP.Net MVC 4 Razor Engine For Beginners Part 1 Humprey Cogay, C|EH, E|CSA, January 1, 0001 I. What is MVC? a. http://www.asp.net/mvc/tuto... II. Software Requirements for this tutorial a. Visual Studio 2010/2012. You can get your free copy here ... ASP.Net MVC 4 Razor Engine For Beginners Part 1 0 0 24
Performance Optimization – It Is Faster When You Can Measur... Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Performance optimization in bigger systems is hard because the measured numbers can vary greatly depending on the measurement method of your choice. To measure execution timing of specific methods in your ... Performance Optimization – It Is Faster When You Can Measur... 0 0 0
Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published terje, January 1, 0001 During the summer and fall this year, me and my colleague Jakob Ehn has worked together on a book project that has now finally hit the stores! The title of the book is Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter ... Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published 0 0 5
ASP.Net Fails to Detect IE10 without .Net Hotfix Ben Barreth, January 1, 0001 --------- UPDATE 12/06/2012--------- Note: this issue should now be fully resolved on Geeks with Blogs as of this morning (12/06/2012).Some interesting background: After installing the hotfix, IE10 would ... ASP.Net Fails to Detect IE10 without .Net Hotfix 0 0 5
Using Definition of Done to Drive Agile Maturity Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been an Agile Coach at a lot of different clients over the years, and I want to share an approach I use to help them adopt and mature over time. It’s important to realize that “Agile” is not a black/white ... Using Definition of Done to Drive Agile Maturity 0 0 1
Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 2 of 3–Setup) ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 Welcome to part two in my series covering the LESS CSS language. In the first post, I covered the two major CSS precompiled languages - LESS and SASS to a small extent, iterating over some of the features ... Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 2 of 3–Setup) 0 0 0
Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... jasont, January 1, 0001 The folks over on the TFS / Visual Studio team have been working hard at releasing a steady stream of new features for their new hosted Team Foundation Service in the cloud. One of the most significant ... Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... 0 0 4