Code review recommendations and Code Smells Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Some time ago Twitter told that I am similar to Boris Lipschitz . Indeed he is also .Net programmer from Russia living in Australia. I‘ve read his list of Code Review points and found them quite comprehensive. ... Code review recommendations and Code Smells 0 0 1
Getting FxCop 10 to run under cruise control dot net Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 I don't know who Mikhail is, but his 4 year old entry on FxCop and CCnet was perfect.The only thing I needed to do was to change the references to from FxCop 1.35 to FxCop 10.I was prepared to use Basharat's ... Getting FxCop 10 to run under cruise control dot net 0 0 3
NDepend v4 has just been released! Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Few months ago I blogged about the release of NDepend v3 Continuous Integration and Reporting Capabilities here. Recently, the NDepend team has released v4 which comes with code rules based on C# LINQ ... NDepend v4 has just been released! 0 0 0
Windows Azure Evolution – Welcome to VS2012 Shaun, January 1, 0001 When the Microsoft released the first preview version of Windows 8 and Visual Studio, many people in the community were asking if the windows azure tool is available to it. The answer was “NO”. Microsoft ... Windows Azure Evolution – Welcome to VS2012 0 0 0
Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal Shaun, January 1, 0001 With the MEET Windows Azure event on 7th June, there are many new features and updates in windows azure platform. In the coming several posts I will try to cover some of them. And in the first post here ... Windows Azure Evolution – Preview Developer Portal 0 0 0
Liquid XML 2012 Service Pack 1 available bconlon, January 1, 0001 Liquid XML Editor is one of my favourite tools, but I was slightly concerned with the original 2012 release as the new XML Data Mapper tool was a bit buggy. So I was pleased to see SP1 is now available ... Liquid XML 2012 Service Pack 1 available 0 0 0
KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation tom, January 1, 0001 This summer I went to a the Kansas City Developers Conference (April 27 and 28th, 2012). It was fun and I learned a lot. I have been 3 times before and this is my first time blogging on it so here goes. ... KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation 0 0 0
Excel to SQL import error shehan, January 1, 0001 Running the import wizard on my Windows 7 (64 bit) machine, to create a table by importing an Excel file, gave me the following error: the 'microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered on the local ... Excel to SQL import error 0 0 1
Business Case for investing time developing Stubs and BizUnit Tes... charlie.mott, January 1, 0001 I was recently in a position where I had to justify why effort should be spent developing Stubbed Integration Tests for BizTalk solutions. These tests are usually developed using the BizUnit framework. ... Business Case for investing time developing Stubs and BizUnit Tes... 0 0 1
Scenarios for Throwing Exceptions Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 I recently came across a situation where someone had an opinion that differed from mine of when an exception should be thrown. This particular case was an issue opened on LINQ to Twitter for an Exception ... Scenarios for Throwing Exceptions 0 0 0
Raspberry Pi + Azure + Mobile App Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 Ongoing project idea. So this is of long running personal interest to build a Mobile App that shows you a push notification/pop up alert, when anyone calls your house phone. So I've taken delivery of a ... Raspberry Pi + Azure + Mobile App 0 0 0
Say goodbye to System.Reflection.Emit (any dynamic proxy generati... mbrit, January 1, 0001 tl;dr - Forget any form of dynamic code emitting in Metro-style. It's not going to happen.Over the past week or so I've been trying to get Moq (the popular open source TDD mocking framework) to work on ... Say goodbye to System.Reflection.Emit (any dynamic proxy generati... 0 0 0
Why are so many DBCC commands undocumented? DBA, January 1, 0001 Paul Randal of SQLskills.com does a great job of answering the question of why there are so many undocumented DBCC commands in his post Why are so many DBCC commands undocumented? I would like to go on ... Why are so many DBCC commands undocumented? 0 0 0
Own a book Rajesh Pillai, January 1, 0001 Its a pleasure to introduce my first initiative, http://ownabook.org/, which is live now and is in beta. Go get in the queue to grab your hardcopy of your favorite book or audio as applicable and when ... Own a book 0 0 0
Windows 8 Location Services ryanabr, January 1, 0001 I spent the afternoon with the Geolocator object in the WinRT and Widows 8 platform. I have also been working with doing Windows Phone 7 development, and first had to wrap my head around the fact that ... Windows 8 Location Services 0 0 0
Buy ReSharper 6 - Get Version 7 Free!? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A tip that has just been passed to me by my good friends at Jet Brains.JetBrains ReSharper is approaching its new major release later this summer. We're delighted to announce a limited 2-in-1 offer: all ... Buy ReSharper 6 - Get Version 7 Free!? 0 0 0
Speaker Notes... wulfers, January 1, 0001 At a .Net User Group meeting this week, I experienced two poorly prepared speakers floundering through presentations…. As a Lead Technologist at the company I work for, I have experience training technical ... Speaker Notes... 0 0 0
Review–Build Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio with Nom... Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Nomad is a Visual Studio extension that allows you build apps for both Android and iOS platforms in Visual Studio using HTML5. There is no need to switch between .Net, Java and Objective-C to target different ... Review–Build Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio with Nom... 0 0 1
Events and Presentations Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 There is a number of things going on this coming weekend, so this maybe pushing it … yet good to put it out there. June 2nd (tomorrow), presenting at SharePoint Saturday St. Louis. The topic is SQL Server ... Events and Presentations 0 0 0
Defining a service layer: the text-based adventure Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 Applications these days have more options than ever for a user interface, and it’s only going to grow. A successful product might require native applications for mobile devices, a regular web implementation, ... Defining a service layer: the text-based adventure 0 0 0
Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24... Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 I am extremely proud to announce that book I helped author is now out and available nationwide and online! Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours It’s been a a great journey ... Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24... 0 0 0
PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL simonc, January 1, 0001 Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a relatively new programming paradigm. Originating at Xerox PARC in 1994, the paradigm was first made available for general-purpose development as an extension to Java ... PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL 0 0 2
Workflow 4.5 is Awesome, cant wait for 5.0! JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 About 2 years ago I wrote a blog post describing what I would like to see in Workflow vnext: http://geekswithblogs.net/J... At the time WF 4.0 ... Workflow 4.5 is Awesome, cant wait for 5.0! 0 0 2
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks–Part 1: Ext... ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 I don’t know about you, but when it comes to development, I prefer my environment to be as free of clutter as possible. It may surprise you to know that I have tried ReSharper, and did not like it, for ... Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Tips and Tricks–Part 1: Ext... 0 0 0
A BYOD World in Mobile Enterprise Brings the Need to Adapt Webgui, January 1, 0001 Yesterday brought a lot of news coverage that Cisco has stopped funding and planning its Cius enterprise-grade tablet. Citing “market transitions” in which an increasing number of people bring their own ... A BYOD World in Mobile Enterprise Brings the Need to Adapt 0 0 0
Sync custom AD properties to SharePoint Profile KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Here are some step-by-step instructions regarding configuring SharePoint to sync with custom AD attributes:Add the custom attribute in Active DirectoryThis part will have to be your doing; here is some ... Sync custom AD properties to SharePoint Profile 0 0 0
My Tech Ed North America Preview - Content Edition Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 As I promised in my last post, I feel the need to give you a rundown on all the technical content I am looking forward to checking out at Tech Ed this year. We shall start with the content I know I'll ... My Tech Ed North America Preview - Content Edition 0 0 0
SSMS Slow To Save Bunch, January 1, 0001 When using SSMS 2008 I found it to be really slow when trying to save a file, even a small one with just some simple SELECT statements on it. The symptoms were the flashing save disk icons in the lower ... SSMS Slow To Save 0 0 0
.NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! simonc, January 1, 0001 So, although you will be able to use your existing .NET skills to develop Metro apps, it turns out Microsoft are limiting Visual Studio 2011 Express to Metro-only. From the Express website: Visual Studio ... .NET vs Windows 8: Rematch! 0 0 0
Using a Predicate as a key to a Dictionary Tom Hines, January 1, 0001 I really love Linq and Lambda Expressions in C#. I also love certain community forums and programming websites like DaniWeb. A user on DaniWeb posted a question about comparing the results of a game that ... Using a Predicate as a key to a Dictionary 0 0 2
NDepend 4.0 Released Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 Last week version 4.0 of NDepend was released. NDepend is a Visual Studio add-in designed for intense code analysis with the goal of high quality code. A month ago I wrapped up my evaluation of the previous ... NDepend 4.0 Released 0 0 3
Atlanta Code Camp 2012 SURESH GIRIRAJAN, January 1, 0001 It was really exciting weekend at Atlanta code camp 2012. This was my first code camp, I presented on “Windows Kinect for Enterprise”. Walked through couple of demos, how we can integrate Kinect with WPF ... Atlanta Code Camp 2012 0 0 1
Controlling access to site folders if you cannot use Roles DavidMadden, January 1, 0001 I find myself on an assignment where I could not use System.Web.Security.Roles. That meant that I could not use Visual Studio's Website | ASP.NET Configuration. I had to go about things another way. The ... Controlling access to site folders if you cannot use Roles 0 0 0
New Window Via JavaScript Clears Parent Bunch, January 1, 0001 This is not a new item at all but I came across it recently. For an app I had been using some JavaScript like: javascript:window.open(some... here) to open a new window via a button. That bit of code ... New Window Via JavaScript Clears Parent 0 0 0
AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Our team at AJI Software has been hard at work over the past year on certifications and projects that has allowed us to reach Gold Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. We have focused on providing ... AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... 0 0 0
NDepend v4 is out Andrew Siemer - www.andrewsiemer.com, January 1, 0001 In the next few days I will be taking a look at NDepends latest greatness! You should too. http://www.ndepend.com/NDep... A big feature for me that is quite interesting is LINQ to CQL. Very exciting. ... NDepend v4 is out 0 0 0
West Palm Beach Dev Group May 2012 Meeting Recap Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Rich Dudley from ComponentOne was our May 2012 speaker at the West Palm Beach Dev Group. Rich shared with us his excellent presentation from VSLive on jQuery and HTML5. This event was a great success and ... West Palm Beach Dev Group May 2012 Meeting Recap 0 0 0
New Detailed Documentation for latest Visual WebGui versions/feat... Webgui, January 1, 0001 Hi,I know it is a bit late, but better late than... you know how it goes. So here is the detailed documentation of the latest WINWEB version 6.4.0 Release d / .NETHTML5 Beta3. The document is documenting ... New Detailed Documentation for latest Visual WebGui versions/feat... 0 0 0
Warning - content coming soon ssoolsma, January 1, 0001 The content will be coming soon. What to expect:My idea's and examples about .net (web)development and stuff related.I'm talking about:MVCEntity frameworkSilverlightjQueryT... apiFacebook apietc.First ... Warning - content coming soon 0 0 0
The extinction of hard drives iamjames, January 1, 0001 A recent article announced the possibility of 60TB hard drives by 2016.That's only 4 years from now, about as long as this blog has been around (2008-2012), and after seeing that article all I could think ... The extinction of hard drives 0 0 0
BoundField Formatting Bunch, January 1, 0001 If you have a GridView that uses BoundFields but does not display line breaks or a lot of spaces quite right here is a way to get around that. This example uses a GridView with one BoundField that uses ... BoundField Formatting 0 0 0
WANTED: SQL Saturday and Tech Day Speakers on Windows Phone and W... PaulJohnson, January 1, 0001 If you are a Windows Phone enthusiast, or really into the Windows 8 platform that is coming soon, then I ask you to consider sunny Baton Rouge, Louisiana as your vacation spot this coming August 4 for ... WANTED: SQL Saturday and Tech Day Speakers on Windows Phone and W... 0 0 0
Using a class as a datasource for asp.net listview control DavidMadden, January 1, 0001 I found many websites that showed either misinformation, incorrect code, or denial of the ability to use a class as a datasource for an asp.net listview control. It is actually very simple.First you need ... Using a class as a datasource for asp.net listview control 0 0 0
Kinect for Windows SDK V1.5 SURESH GIRIRAJAN, January 1, 0001 It’s really exciting news that new SDK V1.5 Kinect for Windows was released on May 21st 2012. There are lot of new features and enhancement made as part of this release. Let me highlight few here and I ... Kinect for Windows SDK V1.5 0 0 1
IdentityMine is hiring in Seattle! Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Are you willing to work for a dynamic firm, on the latest platforms, with super modern and enthusing technologies (XAML, C#, Kinect, VUI, NUI, and much more)? Read the rest of this entry » ... IdentityMine is hiring in Seattle! 0 0 0
Agile Programming Practices 101 with the Nimble Pros Calendars Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 For the last two years, I’ve ordered the Nimble Pros Software Craftsmanship calendars, which use ‘motivational poster’ style pictures to depict various software practices and principles worth keeping in ... Agile Programming Practices 101 with the Nimble Pros Calendars 0 0 0
Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users 0 0 1
Useful .NET Delegate Internals Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Delegates in .NET are a very handy addition to the language. With the introduction of LINQ they did become mainstream and everyone is using them or is at least finding them cool. But what the CLR is really ... Useful .NET Delegate Internals 0 0 3
TFS API Find out who deleted your build? Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I am sure you have been in the situation where you start following a change through the list of builds and suddenly realize a lot of the builds have been deleted by some one! The good news is, when the ... TFS API Find out who deleted your build? 0 0 1
Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 Since I have been interested in cross-platform mobile application development, but reluctant to leave behind the IDE goodness that is Visual Studio, I was invited to participate in a private early beta ... Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad 0 0 2