Weekly Cloud Newsround 2012-16 Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Filtering the informative, insightful and quirky from the fire hose of cloud-based hype. The announcement of the Windows Azure hosted media platform has been leading the Azure news stories this week with ... Weekly Cloud Newsround 2012-16 0 0 0
Single Page Application and why is it becoming more and more popu... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 One of the key trends becoming more and more popular is the Single Page Application Framework and building applications that behave as native applications running on the machine. SPA’s have been tried ... Single Page Application and why is it becoming more and more popu... 0 0 42
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 19/Apr/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd E... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's Microsoft Deal of the Day at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is CLR via C# price $23.99 I have read CLR via C# ISBN 978-0-7356-2704-8. Whilst it is quite correctly described by ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 19/Apr/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd E... 0 0 0
25 New Features of SharePoint 2010 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 1. New Claims-Based Authentication ModelSharePoint Foundation 2010 incorporates a new authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory Domain Services, LDAP-based ... 25 New Features of SharePoint 2010 0 0 1
"The Cloud" brings radical changes to our programming approach Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 Have you heard about this new Cloud stuff? It's a new programming model that is introduced with Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon's EC2, and other large data center providers and it's going to radically ... "The Cloud" brings radical changes to our programming approach 0 0 1
Case-insensitive Contains extension for list of strings Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to have case-insensitive Contains method for list of strings.Overload Enumerable.Contains<TSou... Method (IEnumerable<TSource>, TSource, IEqualityComparer<TSourc... expects ... Case-insensitive Contains extension for list of strings 0 0 1
How can you tell if your SharePoint server is a Farm or Standalon... John Workman, January 1, 0001 How can you tell if your SharePoint server is a Farm or Standalone? Check the registry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR... Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS" There will be an entry for "ServerRole" ... How can you tell if your SharePoint server is a Farm or Standalon... 0 0 0
Installing NAnt to drive database continuous integration David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 Before we start thinking about database continuous integration, described in an earlier blog post, we need to pick a build tool in which we define the commands for our build process. NAnt is a .NET version ... Installing NAnt to drive database continuous integration 0 0 1
Select tool to minimize JavaScript and CSS size Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 There are multiple ways and techniques how to combine and minify JS and CSS files.The good number of links can be found in http://stackoverflow.com/qu... and ... Select tool to minimize JavaScript and CSS size 0 0 0
ReplaceBetweenTags function with delegate to describe transformat... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I've created a function that allow to replace content between XML tags with data, that depend on original content within tag, in particular to MAsk credit card number.The function uses MidBetween extension ... ReplaceBetweenTags function with delegate to describe transformat... 0 0 0
Code style Tip: Case insensitive string comparison Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Goodif (String.Compare(myString, ALL_TEXT, StringComparison.OrdinalIgn... == 0) { return true; }OK(not obvious what true means) if (String.Compare(myString, ALL_TEXT, true) == 0) { return true; }BAD: ... Code style Tip: Case insensitive string comparison 0 0 0
Dump an arbitrary object To Html String Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 For debugging purposes me and my collegue wanted to dump details of the arbitrary object, and created function that uses LINQPad Dump functionality (thanks to http://stackoverflow.com/a/... and ... Dump an arbitrary object To Html String 0 0 1
Disable messages from SQL Server “Login failed for user” in Event... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I’ve noticed multiple messages from SQL Server in EventLog on my machineLogin failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure ... Disable messages from SQL Server “Login failed for user” in Event... 0 0 0
Specify Linq To SQL ConnectionString explicitly Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 When modifying Linq to Sql data model in Visual Studio 2010, it re-assigns ConnectionString that is available on developer’s machine. Because the name can be different on different machines, Designer often ... Specify Linq To SQL ConnectionString explicitly 0 0 0
Membership Provider Parte 1 Jason Ulloa, January 1, 0001 Asp.net ha sido una de las tecnologías creadas por Microsoft de mas rápido crecimiento por la facilidad para los desarrolladores de crear sitios web. Una de las partes de mayor importancia que tiene asp.net ... Membership Provider Parte 1 0 0 0
Do not expose enum in WCF response Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We had a backward compatibility problem in WCF client, when in Service application a new value was added to one of enums. We discussed different ways to avoid this backward compatibility issues, and I ... Do not expose enum in WCF response 0 0 0
Visual Studio 10 crashed when tried to open one of solutions Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 10 crashed when I tried to open one of my solutions. Closing Visual Studio and rebooting the machine didn’t help.The error message that was logged(see below), didn’t give any useful ideas.Finally ... Visual Studio 10 crashed when tried to open one of solutions 0 0 2
Translate jQuery UI Datepicker format to .Net Date format Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I needed to use the same date format in client jQuery UI Datepicker and server ASP.NET code. The actual format can be different for different localization cultures.I decided to translate Datepicker format ... Translate jQuery UI Datepicker format to .Net Date format 0 0 0
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
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
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
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
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
The Return Of __FILE__ And __LINE__ In .NET 4.5 Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Good things are hard to kill. One of the most useful predefined compiler macros in C/C++ were __FILE__ and __LINE__ which do expand to the compilation units file name and line number where this value is ... The Return Of __FILE__ And __LINE__ In .NET 4.5 0 0 2
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
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
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 8 – Wireless Networking MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 After reading this section you should be able to Explain how nodes exchange wireless signals Identify potential obstacles to successful transmission and their repercussions, such as interference and reflection ... Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 8 – Wireless Networking 0 0 0
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 14 – Insuring Integrity &... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 After reading this section you should be able to Identify the characteristics of a network that keep data safe from loss or damage Protect an enterprise-wide network from viruses Explain network and system ... Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 14 – Insuring Integrity &... 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
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 4/April/2012 - Accessing Data w... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 The Microsoft Press half price deal of the day at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is the training material for the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516) "Accessing Data with Microsoft® ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day - 4/April/2012 - Accessing Data w... 0 0 0
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
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
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
Dallas First Robotics Competition (FRC) 2012 T, January 1, 0001 Wow! That is all I have to say after three fun filled days in a world that fed the geek, sparked the competitor, inspired the humanitarian, encouraged the inventor, and continuously warmed the heart in ... Dallas First Robotics Competition (FRC) 2012 0 0 0
MVVM and Animations in Silverlight Aligned, January 1, 0001 I wanted to spin an icon to show progress to my user while some content was downloading. I'm using MVVM (aren't you) and made a satisfactory Storyboard to spin the icon. However, it took longer than expected ... MVVM and Animations in Silverlight 0 0 3
I Clobbered a Leopard with a Window Last Night D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I’ve had my 15” Mac Book Pro for a little over a year now, and its hands-down the best laptop I’ve ever owned…hardware wise. And I tried, I really really tried, to like OSX. I even bought Parallels so ... I Clobbered a Leopard with a Window Last Night 0 0 3
Parallel MSBuild FTW - Build faster in parallel deadlydog, January 1, 0001 Hey everyone, I just discovered this great post yesterday that shows how to have msbuild build projects in parallel Basically all you need to do is… Read more at http://blog.danskingdom.com... ... Parallel MSBuild FTW - Build faster in parallel 0 0 4
How to get distinct values from the List<T> with LINQ Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Recently I was working with data from a generic List<T> and one of my objectives is to get the distinct values that is found in the List. Consider that we have this simple class that holds the following ... How to get distinct values from the List<T> with LINQ 0 0 6
Finding Buried Controls Bunch, January 1, 0001 This post is pretty specific to an issue I had but still has some ideas that could be applied in other scenarios. The problem I had was updating a few buttons so their Text values could be set in the code ... Finding Buried Controls 0 0 0
MapRedux - PowerShell and Big Data Dittenhafer Solutions, January 1, 0001 MapRedux – #PowerShell and #Big Data Have you been hearing about “big data”, “map reduce” and other large scale computing terms over the past couple of years and been curious to dig into more detail? Have ... MapRedux - PowerShell and Big Data 0 0 0
Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... Shaun, January 1, 0001 We are almost done everything about the WCF transport extension over the message bus, which makes our services can be scaled out by introducing more instances over machines and servers. We had finished ... Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... 0 0 1
The slowest PC I have used... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Having been in IT for 32+ years, I have worked on a variety of hardware. I suppose the slowest computer I used was an IBM 360/25 (total RAM 15K), however the slowest PC to run Visual Studio was at a particular ... The slowest PC I have used... 0 0 2
Moving Servers Today Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Well I like to look at pretty pictures on deployment days to keep my mind on the good side of software. Well I guess it is not that bad, but today we moved Geekswithblogs.net to a new server pool to update ... Moving Servers Today 0 0 0
Low-Latency High-Performant Financial App Infrastructures JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Financial Apps feel the need for speed – this can come via parallelization, and via infrastructure - fast messaging and non-blocking distributed memory management. This blogpost gives an overview + examples ... Low-Latency High-Performant Financial App Infrastructures 0 0 3
Windows Azure Service Bus Resequencer Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Introduction I’ll be presenting a session at Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) on Monday, as well as presenting on the Windows Azure Service Bus at various other events. I thought it would be fun to look ... Windows Azure Service Bus Resequencer 0 0 1
Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... Shaun, January 1, 0001 In the previous posts we talked about the transport extension that scaling-out our WCF services over a message bus transportation. What we have done is to use request reply MEP as a example, and implement ... Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... 0 0 0
Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... Shaun, January 1, 0001 In the previous post I demonstrated how to implement a very basic transport extension over an in memory message bus that supports request reply MEP. At the end of that post I created a console application ... Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... 0 0 0
Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... Shaun, January 1, 0001 In my previous post I introduced the architecture of message bus based system, the dispatcher mode and the pulling mode. I also explained a bit about the channel mode and transport extensibility of WCF. ... Scaling-out Your Services by Message Bus based WCF Transport Exte... 0 0 0