BizTalk Message Archiving Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Recently at the BizTalk Summit in London I was asked a question about Message Archiving from BizTalk and one of the most common solutions to this is the Message Archiving Pipeline Component which was written ... BizTalk Message Archiving 0 0 260
Windows Azure Media Services Now Generally Available Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I’m pleased to announce that Windows Azure Media Encoding, Encoding Reserved Unit, and On-Demand Streaming Reserved Unit are now generally available with the support of service level agreements. Media ... Windows Azure Media Services Now Generally Available 0 0 0
50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Red Gate has published a new eBook 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues.You can download it for free. They created their list by asking developers to contribute some of their favorite ... 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues 0 0 0
Extending DateTime adding the good stuff Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 The DateTime struct in DotNet is well thought out, but they missed a few critical things that I find myself often needing. Fortunately with extension methods, we can easily fill in the gaps . When doing ... Extending DateTime adding the good stuff 0 0 0
Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 For those who have been waiting to update their Windows Phone 7.x applications to take advantage of what Windows Phone 7.8 has to offer (New Live Tiles), the SDK including the new Emulators is now available. ... Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 0 0 0
WPF: How to Find Control Location. Ilya Verbitskiy, January 1, 0001 Hello everyone! Unfortunately I do not have enough time for blogging this winter. I hope the situation will change pretty soon, and I will find the time to write something here. Anyway. You know that WPF ... WPF: How to Find Control Location. 0 0 0
How to always return XML using an ASP.NET Web API project Cory Koski, January 1, 0001 I came across the need to test whether or not ASP.NET Web API would work with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 recently. ASP.NET Web API can push XML, and if you write clever enough reports, you ... How to always return XML using an ASP.NET Web API project 0 0 0
Quartz.Net scheduler exposed via a Web Service Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I had been given a business requirement to provide a self service Website for job scheduling. Having worked with Quartz.Net, it seemed the perfect backend engine to schedule and process jobs. I decided ... Quartz.Net scheduler exposed via a Web Service 0 0 0
2012 Year in Review and Goals for 2013 Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a blog entry. I seem to start every year with a goal of writing X number of blog entries per month or week or something, so let’s see if I do any better this ... 2012 Year in Review and Goals for 2013 0 0 0
Building a Repository Pattern against an EF 5 EDMX Model - Part 2 JuansAndZeros, January 1, 0001 I know it has been a couple months since I first wrote part 1 of building a repository pattern with an EF model, but here we are. I am finally getting around to writing part 2. If you remember, in part ... Building a Repository Pattern against an EF 5 EDMX Model - Part 2 0 0 0
WinRtAuthorizer–A Better Way to do OAuth with LINQ to Twitt... Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 Last July, I blogged about how to do OAuth in Windows 8 with LINQ to Twitter: http://geekswithblogs.net/W... A the time, that worked ... WinRtAuthorizer–A Better Way to do OAuth with LINQ to Twitt... 0 0 7
Quartz.Net Windows Service on Server Important Configuration Step... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Are you running Quartz.Net as a windows service on a remote server and trying to connect to it from a client to schedule jobs? Then I would highly recommend reading the below listed configuration steps ... Quartz.Net Windows Service on Server Important Configuration Step... 0 0 0
Using WPT For Batch Script Profiling Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 In the process of digging deeper into WPT I did find many new ways to explore my system. The Windows Performance Toolkit for Windows 8 is NOT only for Windows 8 but it does run on Windows Vista and later. ... Using WPT For Batch Script Profiling 0 0 0
Using Json.Net JObject with WebApi Aligned, January 1, 0001 I needed to pass some data from JavaScript to my WebAi Controller and came across Rick Strahl's passing multiple POST parameters to Web API article, his use of the JObject from Json.Net and dynamics works ... Using Json.Net JObject with WebApi 0 0 2
A Recipe for Integrating the XNA GS Content Pipeline projects int... Michael Cummings, January 1, 0001 Overview There are several series from fellow Microsoft Evangelists on using MonoGame for your Windows 8 Store apps. I don’t want to duplicate what they have already done, so instead I’ll refer you to ... A Recipe for Integrating the XNA GS Content Pipeline projects int... 0 0 4
iOS and WP7/WP8 in SharePoint 2013 MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 As you guys know I have decided to start delving into mobile development. I bought a Macbook Air a few months back and I am now getting an HTC 8x. Here are some things that I have learned in my attempts ... iOS and WP7/WP8 in SharePoint 2013 0 0 0
Solving the ALM puzzle using Microsoft Suite of tools Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I presented a talk at the #vBug user group run by David Ringsell at Bristol. David in his day job runs his own venture known by the name of “Talk-IT” which provides training for developers. You can check ... Solving the ALM puzzle using Microsoft Suite of tools 0 0 0
Grouped Failover, a 2008R2 version of Availability groups remko, January 1, 0001 One of the new cool features in SQL 2012 is the SQL Server Availability groups. In other words being able to failover a group of databases which are logically connected. i.e. SharePoint databases. Well ... Grouped Failover, a 2008R2 version of Availability groups 0 0 0
ITA Big Data Event Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The ITA/TechNexus host the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group meeting as well as many user groups and events. There is an upcoming event on Big Data that you may be interested in if you are ... ITA Big Data Event 0 0 0
Force shrink of transaction log after a full backup remko, January 1, 0001 After installing vCenter and connecting it to a SQL Server 2008R2 database server and making it high available with the help of database mirroring, somthing anoying started to take place. After a full ... Force shrink of transaction log after a full backup 0 0 0
ASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modules Cory Koski, January 1, 0001 Original article by Nilesh Hirapra, February 29th, 2012 Updated and revised by Cory Koski, January 15th, 2013 History This article is an updated version of the “ASP.NET MVC - Pluggable application modules/components/area/fea... ... ASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modules 0 0 56
Analog Clock with jqGauges - HTML5 jQuery Gauges jqChart, January 1, 0001 Official Site | Samples | Download | Documentation | Forum | Twitter Here is an example of creating analog clock with jqGauges - Analog Clock Example. Official Site | Samples | Download | Documentation ... Analog Clock with jqGauges - HTML5 jQuery Gauges 0 0 0
Setting a var property in the JavaScript Revealing Module Pattern... Aligned, January 1, 0001 See John Papa's article for more information on the revealing pattern.See http://www.addyosmani.com/r... for a great reference as well. ... Setting a var property in the JavaScript Revealing Module Pattern... 0 0 6
Step-by-Step: Build Linux VMs in the Cloud for FREE with Windows ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 The Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering supports running Windows virtual machines and Linux virtual machines in the Cloud. In this article, I provide step-by-step guidance for running ... Step-by-Step: Build Linux VMs in the Cloud for FREE with Windows ... 0 0 0
UI Automation: Automating key strokes using .NET and Win32 API Om Talsania, January 1, 0001 Win32 API offers a lot of functionality for Windows platform, which the .NET Framework doesn’t have for good reason – One of them being ‘managed’. However, that doesn’t stop us from doing some unsafe things! ... UI Automation: Automating key strokes using .NET and Win32 API 0 0 13
GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using E... Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 In my most recent project we had to support classes with fairly deep object graphs where any of the nodes could validly be null. We didn't want to have lots of 'if not null' checks everywhere, so I wrote ... GetValueOrDefault() For An Expression of Arbitrary Length Using E... 0 0 2
Windows Azure Mobile Services Update Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including: ... Windows Azure Mobile Services Update 0 0 0
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 My good friend and colleague, Tommy Patterson, recently blogged about leveraging the Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) preview offering to build a FREE lab environment in the Cloud. You ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... 0 0 7
2012 in review Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 It seems it was only yesterday that I was writing about starting my 4th year at IdentityMine, and here we are now, more than a year later. The year 2012 has been particularly interesting for all of us ... 2012 in review 0 0 0
Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 In today's TechNet Radio show, I'm back again for another episode in our System Center 2012 ConfigMgr SP1 series with Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and ... Managing App-V 5 Virtual Applications with System Center 2012 Con... 0 0 0
Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ... Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 0 0 0
Google Code Prettify for geekswithblogs.net Soe Tun, January 1, 0001 This blog post is based on the information I found from this blog post http://geekswithblogs.net/w... I find it very difficult and tedious to ... Google Code Prettify for geekswithblogs.net 0 0 1
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I have been re-awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in Visual Studio ALM for 2nd year in a row. Thank you Microsoft for re-awarding me the MVP award, it’s a great feeling to start the ... Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for 2013–MVP-ALM 0 0 7
YAGNI and Professional Code Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/2012/12/31/yagni-and-professional-code/ YAGNI and Professional Code 0 0 0
The year 2012 in highlights! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 2012 has been an overwhelming year, I had my share of up’s and down’s. The year started on a high note with Microsoft presenting me the MVP award for Visual Studio ALM. I changed my availability status ... The year 2012 in highlights! 0 0 2
Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-bas... Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 If you’re familiar with NetSqlAzMan or CanCan, you know that checking permissions based on a user’s activities is easier to manage and more flexible that working with the roles a user is in. Whatever method ... Extending the behavior of MVC AuthorizeAttribute for activity-bas... 0 0 2
ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication lennykean, January 1, 0001 If you use Gmail, you may be familiar with Google’s 2-step verification process. It’s an extra verification step using your cell phone. If you turn on the feature, once you enter your username and password, ... ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication 0 0 0
2012: Study Plan Year in Review JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Over the past year I went into study overdrive: I learned A LOT about C++, Maths, Algorithms, Finance & JavaScript. It was a great year in terms of knowledge acquisition. pro amore scientiam ! C++ ... 2012: Study Plan Year in Review 0 0 2
How To Make Your System Slower With WMI Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler. Lets e.g. query for some system properties via WMI. static void Main(string[] ... How To Make Your System Slower With WMI 0 0 0
Scalable Distributed Workload with Azure Queues Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 If you develop an application for the cloud, such as Microsoft Azure, you may need to create a distributed workload. Distributing workload in the cloud is one of the fundamental aspects of scalability, ... Scalable Distributed Workload with Azure Queues 0 0 0
Microsoft ends development of Expression Web ihaynes, January 1, 0001 On the 20th December 2012 Microsoft announced that development on the Expression Studio products was being stopped (In reality it had largely been stopped for many months). See http://expression.microsoft... ... Microsoft ends development of Expression Web 0 0 0
Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... Om Talsania, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET has a good number of default controls which usually satisfy your needs. Especially the ListView control, which is a template based fully customizable control which can be tweaked to suit your needs. ... Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... 0 0 29
Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue Vitus, January 1, 0001 I just found an interesting behaviour of Windows Phone 7 TextBox default template. When TextBox is disabled, inner text is rendered with margin: To reproduce it, create new Silverlight WP application and ... Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue 0 0 0
BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 A source code could be downloaded from here.Global artifacts are usually tentative things. Languages and tools have different methods to limit the artifact visibility. Think about public and private variables, ... BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule 0 0 1
Overuse of “as” keyword Jakub Niemyjski, January 1, 0001 Recently I realized that I am overusing "as" keyword. It is probably because its syntax is more fluent for me than ordinary cast. I see this overuse even in Microsoft examples. Let the following code show ... Overuse of “as” keyword 0 0 2
APress Deal of the Day 21/Dec/2012 - Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5"Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5 provides a practical guide to building extremely fast and scalable web sites ... APress Deal of the Day 21/Dec/2012 - Ultra-Fast ASP.NET 4.5 0 0 0
ASP.NET MVC 4 - My FAQs Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Here are some FAQs on things that were not so obvious. I’ll continue to add to this list over time. 1. Passing HtmlAttributes using @Html.ActionLink @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create", null, new { ... ASP.NET MVC 4 - My FAQs 0 0 0
ASP.NET is adding new pants to its wardrobe Cory Koski, January 1, 0001 This isn’t “new” news, but it’s new to me. The ASP.NET team has come up with a way to make web applications behave like Windows applications with the love of some technologies: HTML5 + JavaScript Knockout ... ASP.NET is adding new pants to its wardrobe 0 0 0
this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Recently I mentioned this.Log. Given the amount of folks that were interested in this.Log, I decided to pull this source out and make a NuGet package (well, several packages). Source The source is now ... this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance 0 0 0