Quantcast
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 50 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services

I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our official Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services. Android developers now have easy access to structured data storage, authentication, push...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build

A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have...

View Article


Force your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user – Now on NuGet!

A while ago I blogged about a powershell script I made that would automatically update your ClickOnce project file’s Minimum Required Version to the latest version of your application so that users...

View Article

PLINQ–Not Just a Cool Sound

One of my favorite features in .Net 4 is the addition of the PLINQ extensions off the IEnumerable<T> for parallel queries of type ParallelQuery<T>.  Even after talking to bunches of...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013

Pictures - 2013 Microsoft Global MVP SummitVIEW SLIDE SHOWDOWNLOAD ALL Back in February, I had the honor to attend Microsoft’s annual Summit for MVP award winners.  As an award winner we get invited to...

View Article


Session material from TechDays BE and NL

UPDATE: Added the videosNote: Like all material on this blog, this blog post and all the referenced material are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product Categories

In Part III, we started creating a very basic MVC application to host our store.  We also created a simple table to store products and methods to perform CRUD transactions and validate data.  Now we we...

View Article

Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly

Over the weekend I sat down with another book in the Succinctly series.   I have wanted to learn more about Knockout.js for a while now. I approached this book knowing very little about Knockout.js,...

View Article


Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track

I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting...

View Article

Entity Framework POCO and JSON serialization

An application I've been working utilizes the jQuery DataTables plugin and server side processing for pagination.My initial set up had my controller call a view model which in turn called my business...

View Article

SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table

We could find the maximum and minimum value in a table by using the SQL inbuilt aggregate functions MAX() and MIN() respectively. But, many times there comes a scenario when we need to find the second...

View Article

Here’s why the Unit of Work is needed

I didn’t understand why I would want to use the Unit of Work pattern before I ran into this. I had a ManagerBase class that had an IRepository. (The managers implement ManagerBase which have a private...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Step-by-Step: Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Windows Server 2012 and our completely FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 certainly have some really cost effective new storage options, with Storage Spaces and Hyper-V over SMB 3.0.  However, many IT Pros have...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Book Review: Knockout.js Succinctly

First of all I'd like to thank the Syncfusion team for choosing me to do this book review, I appreciate the opportunity.Syncfusion provides a one stop for various .NET components. They offer...

View Article


Creating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio 2012 and Wix...

In part 1 we looked at the structure of a WiX setup project, and created a simple installer. We looked at the staging paradigm which gave us complete flexibility in the way we harvested files and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The trilogy of Sample Browser – Search samples in Visual Studio, in...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onecode/p/samplebrowser.aspx Sample Browser has reached its third milestone with the new Windows Store app since we released the desktop version and the Visual Studio version in...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Microsoft Tool :Use Windows Live Writer for Blogs Writing

Use Windows Live Writer for writing blogs URL to download :http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials-other-programsGreat tools for offline writing and publish in blog site with Photos...

View Article

Specification Test for the Authorized Attribute in MVC

I wanted to Unit Test (in BDD I’d call it a specification) that the controller had the authorize attribute so I found this approach in a GoodSearch a while back and forgotten who to give credit for it,...

View Article

Exposing your API via Windows Azure Service Bus Queues and Topics

Recently I wrote an article for UK MSDN Flash about using Windows Azure Service Bus Queues & TopicsIve had some great feedback on this article from friends!  Check it out...

View Article

WCF Transactions are not supported by Azure.

We have a service operation, for which it is very important to ensure that a client receives the status, that was determined at the end of operation.If client does receive the response, the server...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Part 1

This article is the first in a series of three articles looking at using the Windows Azure Access Control Service to implement web site authentication using social identity providers. It will show how...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Review: Feed Me for Windows Phone

Prior to the announcement that Google will be shutting down Google Reader I was using Feed Reader to keep up with a number of blogs.  The announcement of course sent me scrambling like everyone else....

View Article

Tried making a striped volume out of my old hard drives

Brought in 2 perfectly working 400GB SATA drives and needed to set up a spare drive at work to keep the SQL files.  Was on my merry way to create a striped volume, and bang, bang, bang, bang.  Just...

View Article

Be careful setting up disc for SQL Server

Been going through different setup for SQL server setup.  One problem I ran into was that I ran into this error "{FileName}.mdf is Compressed But Does not Reside in a Read-only Database or Filegroup....

View Article


Visual Studio 2012.2 Hanging When Editing Razor Pages

Since I installed the v2 update, Visual Studio has been hanging on occasion. The CPU for the process jumps to 25% and stays there and Visual Studio stops responding. I found a Microsoft Connect...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better

Most web sites will have an input form somewhere even if it is nothing more than a contact form.   Any web application will have lots of input forms.Regardless of why you have the input form or what it...

View Article

Presenting Windows Azure Sessions

A couple of weeks ago I was on the road, presenting at SDC in Gothenburg, TechDays in Finland and TechDays in The Netherlands. I delivered five sessions, the “Grid Computing with 256 Windows Azure...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Accelerating the Cloud with Windows Server 2012 BranchCache

Traditional file sharing protocols, such as Server Message Block ( SMB ) in Windows Server 2012, are primarily designed for low-latency, high-bandwidth scenarios commonly found in Local Area Networks (...

View Article



March 2013 Chicago IT Architects Group Wrap-up

The group got to know their neighbors a lot better this month with only half the normal room size and a pretty good turn out.  Given that, I would really like to say thank you to everyone who came out...

View Article

PowerShell Script to Remove SharePoint 2010 or 2013 List Duplicates

<Updated 2013-05-11>   Recently Derek, a fellow Premier Field Engineer (PFE), had a customer request on how to remove duplicates from a SharePoint 2010 list.  I have written some PowerShell...

View Article

SQL Server: I need to get to a remote server and management studio is broken....

Try using osql .  It can be a life saver.  Here's an example of the most common usage:osql -E -S myMSSQLServerName        /* This uses windows authentication to connect to a server */osql -?...

View Article

Febuary 26 - JaXArcSig - Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and ASP.NET MVC...

Practice run of my presentation for Orlando Code Camp 2013. UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform for HTML5/JavaScript development.Whether you...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Orlando Code Camp 2013 - KendoUI Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and...

Link to my my KendoUI sessionHere are the slidesCode samples download (pls check back in couple of days)Kendo UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI -...

View Article

Exchange 2013: The Client Access Server

We've been beaten to death with it at this point: "Exchange 2013 introduces fundamental changes in roles and architecture compared to earlier versions." But what does this mean? Today we are going to...

View Article

Can Trim Packages Help Us Make Sense of OS Editions?

I was thinking about some of the confusion that springs up from time to time over how Microsoft names the editions of it Operating Systems.We can all agree that Windows RT is a particularly bad...

View Article


Use the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests

Thanks to Danyal Aytekin for his Stackoverflow answer. If you want to use the toThrow in Jasmin tests on actual functions, you can use the “Function.bind, which was introduced in JavaScript 1.8.5. This...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Super-Fast Failover with VM Guest Clustering in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

My good friend and colleague, Matt Hester, recently wrote a great article on Hyper-V Host Clustering as part of our latest article series, Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days!  In this article,...

View Article

Exchange 2013: A new look…

The Exchange Server product line experienced a few changes with the introduction of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 brings with it a whole new set of services, technologies and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user on brand new...

Today I made a clean, brand new install of EPiServer 7 on a Windows 2012 server using VS2012. For googlers finding this post with any issue present in title, just look for the bold text to try my...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Part 2 –...

This is the second in a series of articles looking at using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (formally Windows Azure Access Control Service), to integrate the authentication services...

View Article


Getting Started with MongoDB presentation (C#, MVC4)

Another NoSQL presentation, this time on MongoDB. This was my first run at it….hopefully will present again at Carolina Codecamp, Codestock, and MADExpo…Inshallah! As with each attempt, hopefully the...

View Article

Variations on a Repository Pattern: Part II

In my previous post I laid out my current pet project and began showing the framework I set up to isolate CSLA business objects from the data access code. I listed (sans code comments for brevity) the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling

I’ve been working with a lot of clients over the past couple years helping them adopt TFS Lab Management.  One discussion that always comes up is how to architect the infrastructure required to run TFS...

View Article

Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Windows 8

When you create a new Windows 8 application, the Common folder contains a file named StandardStyles.xaml. Amongst other styling resources, this file contains a trove of application bar buttons styles,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Microsoft Refreshes Sample Browser with the support for 13 new Languages

Shortly after releasing Sample Browser last month, our team refreshes the app with an important feature for global developers:  Localized sample search experience.Please visit http://bit.ly/ZxmISi to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Beginning PHP On Windows 8

It is always interesting to find out what technology I will have to work with next.  One of the latest that I’ve had to learn is PHP and since I am running Windows 8 I had to get it working in that...

View Article

Making jQuery UI Droppable Testable

I’m using jQuery UI’sdroppable for drag and drop capabilities. I wanted to be able to test it with Jasmine, but I couldn’t find a way to mock it. I found Jasmine jQuery, but wasn’t able to figure out...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Consume Third-Party Services at Windows Azure Store

It has been long time didn’t blog anything since last November. There are many exciting things happened during this period. I attend Microsoft TechED 2012 China and provided a session about Node.js and...

View Article


Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer

After my previous post on getting AzureReader2 up and running with ImageResizer– I ran into a problem – I had a page with a foreach on it, where I had a link to each fullsize image. It was all working...

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 50 View Live