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Having played around with the GKE and MiniKube "one stop" clusters, I wanted to build a multi-node K8 cluster from a bunch of CentOS VMs. The experience was pleasantly straightforward, following th…

TensorFlow https://www.tensorflow.org/ is an open source software library for Machine Learning across a range of tasks, developed by Google. It is currently used for both research and production at…

I’ve had a few folks ask me for a good “Getting Started” tutorial for MonoGame over the last year and I’ve done a few talks on the subject, but hadn’t really had an opportunity to put anything toge…

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The next version of DAX Studio has just been released. You can download this release and read the release notes here

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Today, at Build 2016, Microsoft revealed a new AI tool for developers called the Bot Framework. The Bot Framework allows developers to write software bots that interact with people (and other bots)…

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Envisage almost any data-driven user interface, and sooner or later you will probably come across a requirement like:

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I've created a helper method for ASP.Net web forms to move position to particular control

I wanted to implement rich text editor in ASP.Net Web Form. I found that Tiny MCE editor is very popular and selected it.

If you do a search for PackBits and C#, you don’t find much. I found an Objective C implementation, a C implementation, the Apple Guidelines from 1996, etc. but no solid examples in C#. For my impl…

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Ward Cunningham coined the “technical debt” metaphor. It sounds plausible, it might resonate with management. But it’s far from reality.

Today, Somasegar announced that Visual Studio 2015 will be released on July 20th, 2015. This release will also include C# 6.0. This is the first in a series of posts on the new features of C# 6.0 a…

I'll be doing a Free Webinar on 6/24/2015 with LearnNowOnline.com on What's New in C# 6.0:

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Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

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The common architectural patterns are all pretty much the same. Layered architecture, MVC, Hexagonal architecture, Onion Architecture, Clean architecture… they all do two things:

A few days ago the BIDS Helper team released of v1.7.0 which you can download from here: https://bidshelper.codeplex.com/releases

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

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Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

Have you ever tried to reuse code by adding existing files to a project? In Visual Studio this usually works, with the file getting put into the right location, associating the editor based on the …

Here's a few of the method-naming patterns I've come across / developed / adopted.

This is the second in a series of articles on the emerging world of microservices PaaS and its relevance to Enterprise Application Integration. The other articles are:

First off, please see my internet PSA at the bottom of this post on the difference between “yea”, “yeah”, and “yay”. Now that that is out of the way, I want to talk about settings. Almost every set…

The Visual Studio Gallery is the best place to find tools, controls, and templates to help make your life as a developer easier and more productive. Every so often, I publish my personal list of fa…

I’d recently put Windows 8 on a test machine at work and started installing what software I needed. Pretty quickly I found I needed to install .Net Framework 3.5 which is now a ‘Feature’ instead of…

What is it that the customer wants when she orders a software? Behavior. I define behavior as the relationship between input, output, and side effects.

Microsoft Azure is now offering a third storage option for developers: DocumentDB. DocumentDB is a no-sql storage service that stores JSON documents natively and provides indexing capabilities alon…

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Most of the times we end up using either $(‘#myform’).serialize() along with default contentType in ajax POST request, OR we use the JSON representation of the form using jquery helper methods, the…

Converting projects to use Automatic NuGet restore, using IFix

Currently I'm working on a single page application project which is built on AngularJS and ASP.NET WebAPI. When I need to implement some features that needs real-time communication and push notific…

Today Microsoft announced the new service tiers in Azure SQL Database in the blog in preview phase. Currently SQL Database offers two type of service: web and business with the database size limita…

Hey everyone, I'm working on an open source library involving Bitcoin and I was wondering how many (if any) of you are currently working with cryptocurrencies in your apps & games?

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How to exclude code from Code Coverage in Visual Studio unit testing using runsettings

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Recently a few people have asked me about the differences between the BizTalk Health Check and the BizTalk Maturity Assessment so I thought I'd put a few thoughts out here.

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With every new release of Windows CE (Windows Embedded CE, Windows Embedded Compact Edition) version 4.x, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 2013 (aka 8.0), people ask what version of Visual Studio they should use for…

I was sad to find out the "codingwithoutcomments" site was taken down. For the sake of a specific post from there, I went to waybackmachine.com and got that post, and I'm pasting it here.

Steve Bate just has written two very hones and straightforward blog articles \1,[2\] on how he approaches programming. I very much agree with him. For some four year´s I´ve explored programming alo…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

The traditional way to create named anchors (bookmarks) on a page was to use

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I wanted to set the default termset node of a taxonomy field in a content type in a list.

As a follow up to the post I made in preparation of the 70-480 exam, I’d like to continue the series now with a look at the 70-486. Just like last time, we’ll look at a list of resources based on t…

In this computer era, security of data is very important. The source that helps in protecting data is the usage of encryption. Like you are using SQL server in your organization and have created la…

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I’ve spent a bunch of time lately with clients helping them understand why their applications are so slow and how to improve performance. This often comes down to their use (or misuse) of ORM frame…

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Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

In this blog post, I will compare what it would take to perform the same project on a virtualized environment (on your own hardware) and hosted in a collocation environment (private hosting). As wi…

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So what does DevOps mean exactly? What is the Ops in DevOps? Operations can mean a lot of things and even different things to different people. DevOps is becoming more and more popular but I also t…

ASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modules

Sometimes you end up reading a great chapter and feel like writing a review about it… well here it is! Smile Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw, http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com ) wrote a chapter in the PRO SQL Se…

One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful.

Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way

Profiling Startup Of VS2012 – SpeedTrace Profiler

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I set out to find a way to dynamically call package in SSIS 2012. The following are 2 excellent blogs I found; I used them heavily. The code below has some addition to parameter types and message t…

So, I finally gave up on all my previous the Microsoft Mobile/Phone OS devices and made my switch to Android this year. I am using my Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 with CyanogenMod 9.1.0 (http://get…

After installing Windows Server 2012, one of the first things you likely need to do is enable RDP. Thanks to the Metro UI, things are a little different...

Yes, I was one of the lucky few who made it to Build. Build, formerly known as the Professional Developers Conference (or PDC) is the place to be if you are a developer on the Microsoft platform. S…

Here’s a list of sources of information for the different elements that comprise the 70-480 exam:

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2012/09/05/get-started-using-build-deploy-test-workflow-with-tfs-2012/

> The two most asked questions in the Microsoft technology communities around the Microsoft MVP program are, > > 1\. How do I become a Microsoft MVP? > > 2\. What benefits do I get as an MVP? > > T…

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Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

So, we've looked at how a dynamic call is represented in a compiled assembly, and how the dynamic lookup is performed at runtime. The last piece of the puzzle is how the resolved method gets invoke…

It should not be a secret that sooner or later in the BI developer’s career one would face the necessity to perform a complex input parameter validations.

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

Part 3–PassBook Server

I’m a huge fan of the St. Louis .NET User Group and a regular attendee of their meetings, but always wished there was a local group that discussed more advanced .NET topics. (That’s not a criticism…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

tl;dr - Forget any form of dynamic code emitting in Metro-style. It's not going to happen.

As I wasn’t voted in with my nominated sessions I presented a 20/20 talk on the new async functionality coming with the .Net Framework. This was based on the PechaKucha presentation format, where y…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

This morning I received an email from the Microsoft said that, a meaningful company, Microsoft Open Technologies Inc., had just release their first pre-production, the Redis on Windows.

It is frequently useful to create / delete web applications in a development environment.

This is first in series of articles about project I've been building in my spare time since last Summer. Actually it all began when I was researching a topic of modeling human motion kinematics in …

So, day 1 of DevWeek. Lots and lots of Windows 8 and WinRT, as you would expect. The keynote had some actual content in it, fleshed out some of the details of how your apps linked into the Metro in…

I’ve decided to create a sub-series of my Little Wonders posts to focus on C++. Just like their C# counterparts, these posts will focus on those features of the C++ language that can help improve c…

Single Page Application Frameworks are gaining popularity in the ever evolving web community with lot of libraries such as JavaScriptMVC, Backbonejs and many other libraries. ASP.NET MVC 4 introduc…

Working though the white paper Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012: Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 to exchange documents with Microsoft Dynamics AX I came across an issue with incorrect information in…

Having written an extension method extension method (opens in a new window)") to create an instance from a Type and been a bit underwhelmed") by its performance, I looked into exactly what was happ…

Tim goes through quite a bit, I just want to cover the very bare minimum for getting log4net to work in a console application.

Issue:

The SQL Azure Federation had been publically launched several weeks ago and this is one of the most existing features I’m looking forward. This might be the first post of SQL Azure Federation, and …

Ok, so I needed to convert .docx files to .pdf files on the fly, but none of the free php libraries that were available let me do it on my server (a webservice was not good enough).

Build Explorer version 1.1 for Visual Studio Team Explorer is released

Performance testing is almost always conducted to address one or more risks related to expense, opportunity costs, continuity, and/or corporate reputation. But not everyone thinks their application…

Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

Create the validation behavior

Although the collections classes introduced in .NET 2, 3.5 and 4 cover most scenarios, there are still some .NET 1 collections that don't have generic counterparts. In this post, I'll be examining …

You must have heard about it. Windows 8 will all about Metro. Sure, you can run ‘old-school’ applications on the platform, but most attention these days is about the new user interface. The UI is b…

When you are going to join any computer from domain controller the following error will be appeared on your computer screen. Full Error Message

Yes, all unhandled exceptions will kill the IIS worker process, but in WCF you can tag an IErrorHandler onto your service behavior and all unhandled exceptions will be neatly taken care of. Unless …

Here is the interesting problem of the week... finally figured it out!

Last week, Microsoft held their long awaited Build Windows (or simply "Build") conference in Anaheim CA. About 5000 people packed the convention center to discover the latest version of the Windows…

Excited to come speak at JaxCodeCamp this coming weekend, there are many amazing session and speakers!

Since exchange versions from 2007 and up put more emphasis on the webservices for use in the distribution of the offline address book, out of office, the scheduling assistant and autodiscover (a.k.…

For a period of time, I have access to both an MSDN and a TechNet subscription. Both offer Microsoft software for download. I wondered what the similarities and differences were between the two sub…

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Recently moved from TFS 2010 server to another TFS 2010 server and trying to configure a backup plan using the Backup plan wizard that comes along with the TFS Power Tools. The tool allows you to s…

Okay, so the title may have been a little misleading. I'm not going to show you how to avoid warning CA0060, but how to avoid your build failing because of this warning.

Doing CodeKatas is all the rage lately. That´s great since widely accepted exercises are important to further the art. They provide a means of communication across platforms and allow to compare re…

The .NET Base Class Library (BCL) has a wide array of collection classes at your disposal which make it easy to manage collections of objects. While it's great to have so many classes available, it…

Just ran across an issue where the miniport devices were accidently removed from a system. Not having these installed caused the system to have network driver installation and connectivity issues.

Detecting browser 'Refresh' from Code behind in C#

Documenting Link Relations with Web API

Resolve 404 in IIS Express for PUT and DELETE Verbs

This blog is the first one of a series of blogs addressing programming practices and lessons learned related to cloud computing. While most developers will be familiar at least conceptually with th…

The published SQL Azure documentation indicates that authentication may require the suffix "@servername" attached to your username (where servername is your SQL Azure server name), but there is lit…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can really help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain.

Ever wanted to re-order your Thunderbird accounts?

I found a very good Azure Storage utilites list and I want share it with you guys.

I am very excited to help share this news with you today! I feel as excited today as I was when Windows Phone 7 developer story was revealed at MIX10 last year. I see so many more application scena…

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At TechEd India 2011 I presented on HTML5 Development with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. I wanted to cover the aspects that were discussed in my session.

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can really help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain.

In my previous post I summarized the notation for Flow-Design (FD) diagrams. Now is the time to show you how to translate those diagrams into code. Hopefully you feel how different this is from UML…

You want to avoid the pitfalls of object oriented design? Then this is the right place to start. Use Flow-Oriented Analysis (FOA) and –Design (FOD or just FD for Flow-Design) to understand a proble…

Not too long ago, Microsoft released, NuGet, an automated package manager for Visual Studio. NuGet makes it easy to download and install assemblies, and their references, into a Visual Studio proje…

Recently I wrote about JavaScript class patterns, and in particular, my favourite class pattern that uses closure to provide encapsulation. A class to represent a person, with a name and an age, lo…

The much anticipated RTM release of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) happened today. IE9 preview release was first showcased at MIX 2010 and post that there were 7-8 Platform Preview releases. Also, IE9 B…

Here are the latest update from the Windows Phone 7 Developer Worlds that went live this month.

I had written a pair of posts before about creating a debug-able and self-installing windows service template in C#. This is a template I began creating to ease creating windows services and to tak…

SoapUI is one of the best free tools around to test web services. Some time ago I was trying to send a soap message towards a SSL web service that was set up for client certificate authentication. …

Once again we consider some of the lesser known classes and keywords of C#. In this series of posts, we will discuss how the concurrent collections have been developed to help alleviate these multi…

I really think no explanation is needed. Hope this makes you smile.. Thanks again for being an awesome SharePoint community!

Once again we consider some of the lesser known classes and keywords of C#. In the next few weeks, we will discuss the concurrent collections and how they have changed the face of concurrent progra…

To write object-oriented programs we need objects, and likely lots of them.

 Or until my arm falls off at least….

> ### Managing Users and Client Access (20 percent) > > #### Objective > > #### Materials > > Configure user accounts http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg182543.aspx Deploy and maintain cl…

Google now has a feature where the search updates as you type in the search box. You can implement the same feature in your MVC site with a little jQuery and MVC Ajax. Here's how:

I was having a hell of a time tonight with my IIS on my development laptop. I don’t remember doing anything to change the IIS settings. I don’t use IIS that much on my dev machine. Usually Cassini …

The Windows Azure Team had just published their new development portal this week and the SDK 1.3. Within this new release there are a lot of cool feature available. The one I’m looking forward to i…

Today (well, yesterday now) was Thanksgiving here in the U.S. In addition to doing my traditional family things (making and eating a large, Turkey-centered dinner), I found some time to pop on to t…

Whilst reading through Design Driven Testing (ISBN 978-1-4302, I came across a very telling statement concerning the expansion of use cases. This was in the context of sunny days (default course th…

I wanted to repost the index of all the Little Wonders and Little Pitfalls posts and presentations so that they would be readily visible for anyone new to these series.

This is the last post in a series of articles detailing the process of building/deploying a WP7 application. I’ve walked you through setting up the tools, to playing with the hardware to deploying …

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There's a lot of buzz about Silverlight (SL) and its future.

Latest update (and hopefully last update): Microsoft has published a few posts to clarify the debate. Please consider the following:

If you are one of the numerous PDC10 attendees moving your iPhone SIM to your free LG-E900 Windows Phone 7, and you're on AT&T, you may have noticed the minute you lost WiFi coverage your data stop…

The Little Wonders series received so much positive response I decided to make it a recurring theme in my blog as new ones popped in my head.

This is the second part.

Making Static Code Analysis and Code Contracts work together, or the CA1062 problem

Update: I have now placed the zip containing the source for the end result of part 1 and 2 of this service template here.

So I’ve been hearing a lot of folks (myself included) having issue with debugging there web application with VS 2010, Cassini (the VS web server) and IE9. It looks like this

Update: I have now placed the zip containing the source for the end result of part 1 and 2 of this service template here.

This week is my final entry in my Little Wonders series (posts one and two are here and here). These are those little tips and tricks in .NET (and in particular C#) that may not seem like much, but…

.NET Micro Framework includes reach graphics capabilities with WPF-like libraries, and quite a few high end development boards (Tahoe II, ChipworkX, or FEZ Cobra to name a few) include fancy graphi…

So last week I began my series with a post (here)) on those little wonders in .NET/C# -- those small tips and tricks that make code either more concise, maintainable, or performant.

Installing Windows CE 6.0 tools on a Windows7 64bit PC (Updated again)

We all have those little wonders in our .NET code, those small tips and tricks that make code just that much more concise, maintainable, or performant. Many of you probably already know of some of …

RESTful WCF Services with No svc file and No config

 This month I had the opportunity to help Corey Haines host a code retreat h…

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Yesterday (22nd July 2010) was mvcConf – “the Virtual ASP.NET MVC Conference”. This was an ambitious undertaking by the community to deliver a three track, 20+ session conference for FREE using Liv…

Two posts ago, I talked about the C# enum and some of its pitfalls (here)). This post continues with a discussion of the fundamentals of enums by continuing with using enums and bit-flags.

I love Dropbox, it allows me to seamlessly take my show on the road. No more need to keep track of that one flash drive that I kept my life on (and kept losing.)

The following example group an list by year, month. It counts how much records the groups has and sums some values from the group (in this case is money).

About a month and a half ago I had a good friend visiting us for almost a month. Being also a photograph enthusiast, and one with a nervous finger, he took just over 4 thousand photos with his Niko…

For Issue 900, I wanted to do another "best of" and it's a little tricky. I can't do best of from 800 to 900 because it will be heavily weighted to the early posts. So what I did was best of for 20…

How To Break The CLR For A Cool Feature

Once again we delve into the world of C# Fundamentals. Those hints and gotchas that tend to bite folks newer to the language. Today I take another look about the differences between const and reado…

OK, Lots of confusion around this pattern. I am also trying to wrap my head around this pattern and wanted to present what I have learned so far as well as my favorite links on the subject. I’m als…

\UPDATE 26th July: A Japanese version of the book is now [available on slideshare\]

I have recently been having discussions with some of the guys from our Ops Team about the GAC and BizTalk. One of the things they had observed was that when we upgraded some of our BizTalk applicat…

1…Works like a charm:

When Microsoft rolled out Visual Studio 2010 with C# 4, I was very excited to learn how I could apply all the new features and enhancements to help make me and my team more productive developers.

I tried writing a post for this blog last night, while at the this year’s Microsoft Tech Ed and Business Intelligence conferences, in New Orleans. But I literally fell asleep while writing it. That…

Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2010/06/08/tfs-2010-build-dealing-with-the-api-restriction-error/

When you work with the ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7, you notice very fast that it is not quite a component like the others. For example, the ApplicationBarIconButton element is not a dependenc…

Multiline Replacement With Visual Studio

In Chapter 10 of the book on SQL Azure (http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430229612) I am co-authoring, I am digging deeper in what it takes to write a Shard. It's actually a pretty cool exercise…

Being a development team lead, the task of interviewing new candidates was part of my job. Like any typical interview, we started with some easy questions to get them warmed up and help calm their …

For those who are familiar with the VirtualPC, vmWare and VirtualBox environments will be quite irritated to find out, in Hyper-V, there is no direct way to share files from the Host machine to the…

> An upgraded article and solution had been posted here. I migrated the project to ASP.NET MVC 4 with some features added. > > \- Upgraded to ASP.NET MVC 4, Visual Studio 2012. > \- Moved the solut…

We've all heard of the old Decorator Design Pattern (here) or used it at one time or another either directly or indirectly. A decorator is a class that wraps a given abstract class or interface and…

In the spirit of hobbyist adventures, I made a static blog generator in C# with the help of MarkdownSharp (from the StackOverflow Guys, I think). Inspired from static blog generators like Jekyll, i…

When converting your projects to VS2010 you get the question to migrate them to .net4. But even if you do not do that VS set the ASP.NET version to 4 for setup projects.

If you've ever worked with XSLT, you'd know that it's pretty limited when it comes to its programming capabilities. Try writing a for loop in XSLT and you'd know what I mean. XSLT is not designed t…

Unfortunately, in the current version of the Windows Phone 7 Silverlight framework, it is not possible to attach any command on the ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton controls. These t…

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In this Issue: Alan Mendelevich, Siyamand Ayubi, Rudi Grobler(\-2-), Josh Smith, VinitYadav, and Dave Campbell. Shoutouts: Jordan Knight has a demo up of a project he did for DigiGirlz: DigiGirlz, …

Recently a Python developer friend with whom I was pair programming with suggested that I show him how to write a little Ruby. I responded by telling him to check out Ruby Koans as a starting point.

Frameworks such as EF4 and MOQ do what most developers consider "dark magic". For instance in EF4, when you use a POCO for an entity you can opt-in to get behaviors such as "lazy-loading" and "chan…

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Hassan, David Anson, Jeff Wilcox, UK Application Development Consulting, Davide Zordan, Victor Gaudioso, Anoop Madhusudanan, Phil Middlemiss, and Laurent Bugnion.…

Recently, I started working on a new ASP.NET MVC 2 project and I wanted to reuse the data access (LINQ to SQL) and business logic methods (WCF RIA Services) that had been developed for a previous p…

In this Issue: René Schulte, Jeremy Likness, Hassan, Victor Gaudioso, SilverLaw, Mike Taulty, Phani Raj, Tim Heuer, Christian Schormann, Brad Abrams, David Anson, Diptimaya Patra, and Daniel Vaugha…

Unless you've been living in the caves of Lascaux for the past couple of days, you probably know what's happening in the world of Windows Phone. Microsoft unveiled the developer tools required to d…

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Yesterday I picked up a nice package from TinyCLR.com. Yes, it is yet another robot (third in fact), but this time it runs .NET! How freaking cool is that!

I needed to create a web page that let the user assign one item of a grid to a target by dragging the item and dropping it on a row on a different grid. I immediately thought about using JQuery UI …

I've been meaning to post this for a little while, and a recent post on the SSAS forum at ssas-info.com prompted me to finally get around to it.

Yes.. there’s lots of CAML blogs out there… lots of tutorials… lots of references… So, why add to the noise?? Well… two good reasons:

KissyPooBox A short while ago I became a REAL game developer with the release of an XBLIG I helped create called “Kissy Poo”. Overall this game has been a huge success. It has far exceeded my origi…

I normally use an int with an identity as the primary key for most tables in Sql Server and I think that is probably the normal habit of most developers, but on occasion, you will need to use a uni…

MVC 2 Editor Template with DateTime

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, David Burela(2), Paulio, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, and Brett Balmer. Shoutout: Jeremy Alles has a Minor update to the Silverlight MVVM frameworks exp…

In my project, there is a WebBrowser Control in a form. It opens a webpage dynamically which in-turn opens an IE popup using Window.Open() during OnLoad and this window closes after opening the popup.

In my previous post, I went through creating the KeyedCollectionEx class which allows easier consumption of the KeyedCollection class (no need to derive anymore, just provide a delegate.aspx)). One…

C# 4.0 introduces the notion of Covariance and Contravariance of generic type parameters for interfaces and delegate types. Eric Lippert has put together a bunch of posts that goes into details of …

Implementing a Delete Link with MVC 2 and HttpMethodOverride

A little over 2 years ago, I saw my peer’s code that uses the KeyedCollection<TKey, TItem> class. I never seen it before, and it is actually a pretty nice class. It is essentially a dictionary clas…

UPDATE 10 May 2010 : I finally discovered where the Remote Desktop team documented this process last December and thought it might be useful; blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2010/03/08/remoteapp-for-hyp…

Scrum Tool is the plainly-titled tool written by the creatively named Zsolt Debre. Even the product homepage is straightforward: http://scrum-tool.com/. As you might expect from a tool whose homepa…

UPDATE: 5th January 2012

T'his blog post has moved:

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, CLR Team Blog, Deborah Kurata, Tim Heuer, Ning Zhang, Jeff Prosise, Fredrik Normén, Antoni Dol, Adam Kinney, Jordan Knight, Andy Beaulieu, Kevin Dockx, and Al Pascual…

With .NET 4.0 right around the corner, I thought it would be cool to download Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and start playing around with the next release of Entity Framework.

Differences between using the ‘Convert’ class vs. casting (Part 1 of 2)

MVP Pattern in action

In this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Andrej Tozon, Lee, Adam Kinney, Karl Shifflett, Andy Beaulieu, and Rob Houweling.

It is Friday 13th Nov 2009 - which means it is the last day of TechEd Europe in Berlin. Overall I have had a good week – high quality sessions, lots of time with customers and colleagues and a very…

No? Nor me. (If you are wondering what Mocking is, check out my previous post on Mocking, Stubs and Test Doubles.)

From time to time (and when there's room for it, of course), I'm doing a so-called Code Kata, a small to mid-size programming exercise that usually originates from some seminar or meeting. (Kata co…

Update (11/14/2009): I updated EventToCommand with a new feature: You can now pass the EventArgs of the fired event to the invoked command. See this post for more explanations.

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Dr. Gopal Gupta from the University of Texas in Dallas spoke first on “Programming Rules Using a Constraints-Embedded Spreadsheet Interface”. Non-experts should be able to program rules. Dr Gupta d…

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ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns

Wow… so, I just got back from the SharePoint Conference and my first look at 2010 and all I can say is wow…

Setting the windows command path in Windows 7.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out and has a slick new UI. Also, this Beta has most of the features that would ship with the final version compared to the earlier Beta. Note that while new features m…

I have been working on database synchronization for a couple of weeks, and seems it at the final testing stage, I am using Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0, the DB server is SQL server 2008 Standard, a…

Unfortunately, after spending way too many hours trying to make this work, I just learned that you can not setup Windows 7 to boot from a VHD with Windows 7 professional, only Ultimate and Enterpri…

For a long time I’ve been wondering how to create a smoke effect like used in the Silverlight Logo for example. There are some techniques to render smoke by using 3D modeling software. But creating…

Quite simple really :)

Silverlight bundles its executables into a single file with a XAP extension. This is really just a zip file. You can open the XAP and modify the contents just as you would any ZIP file. By default …

In this Issue: Mark Monster, Gavin Wignall, Fernando Cerqueira, Silverlight Tips, Mark Tucker, Mike Taulty, Robbe Morris, Brad Abrams, Christopher Bennage, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: The Silve…

In this Issue: Gavin Wignall, Manish Dalal, Jeff Wilcox, Terence Tsang, and Mark Tucker . Shoutouts: Rishi, the author of nRoute had to move his site. Last night I transitioned all his links in the…

Silverlight for Windows Embedded tutorial

Subversion (SVN) is a popular tool used by many development teams as their primary way of versioning their code. Here are some of the basics to SVN.

Recently, I read some posts about Duct Tape programming from Joel Spolsky, Michael C. Neel, Jak Charlton, “Uncle” Bob Martin and Jeffrey Palermo. I have followed these posts closely. While the inte…

Security questions are a part of the internet, right up there with logins and passwords. No one thought much about them until Sara Palin's Yahoo account was hacked because her security question was…

I was browsing through some code when I came across a line of code which said: CloseHandle( CreateThread(NULL, 0, PeculiarThreadProc, NULL, 0, NULL) ); And I thought, wait a minute, is he closing t…

I’ve been very “heads down” working on my upcoming book from Sams Publishing, Teach Yourself C# 2010 in 24 Hours, so I haven’t been blogging as much as I usually do. In doing some research for the …

The Gang of Four (GoF)(from Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vliss…

One of the big complaints with the version of Windows Workflow Foundation that shipped in .NET 3 and .NET 3.5 (WF3) was that it was very difficult to unit test workflows. Unit testing workflows was…

Team Foundation Server allows you to see who has what file checked out at any time. If you would like to see a list of files that any TFS User has checked out, follow the steps below:

The users wanted an AutoComplete Combo box in a SilverLight application- a combo box that would allow them to scroll the entire list, as well as filter the list as the user typed in the box. The pr…

For those of us who waded through VB5/6, tracing the execution of our applications and apis was time consuming and somewhat frustrating. Writing to the event log was different than writing to a log…

We already talked often about providing design time data to your designers in Windows Presentation Foundation and in Silverlight, thus enabling them to work visually in design editors such as Expre…

It is a known fact that IE attempts to sniff out the mime type of files as they are downloaded. That is, IE checks the extension of the file, the content type, etc to try to determine if there is a…

In most of the DBs in the server will have more space, when the backup is used to store it in the development environment or testing environment, it might not have much data, but it will occupy mor…

Hi, this is part 5 of our series on IoC containers in .NET. I’m only using them on a simple console application that provides autocompletion for the functions that the application exposes.

Thanks to Alex and Matt for organising another top DevEvening user group in Woking and for everyone who attended my talk on Hyper-V for Developers. Apologies for over running and hope it didn't sto…

As a part of our main customer-facing site, we send out a ton of e-mails - daily status reports, invoices, etc. and we needed a simple mechanism to allow for easy editing of our HTML emails, while …

I have been recently dealing with a somewhat tangled set of components where over time, developers have added references as needed to get things done quickly, creating circular and upstream referen…

I’m one of those people who ‘cross-dresses’ when it comes to computers. I have Apples and I put Windows on them as well as Leopard. Now this is out of design and necessity. I work very much in the …

I have recently completed work on a WPF application which required a reasonable amount of interaction with Microsoft Outlook. Specifically, we needed to implement two operations: firstly, we needed…

In my previous two examples, we have learned on how to Upload and Save the Image to a Folder and path to database and how to Save the Image to the Database. The two previous examples only tackle th…

In my previous example, we have learned on how to save the actual image to a folder and image path to the database. In this example, I’m going to show on how to display those images in a GridView a…

Its been quite a bit of struggle for me to find an accurate way of finding the netbios name of a domain from AD using System.DirectoryServices.

In this Issue: Mark Monster, Charlie Robbins, Julien Frelat, Lee, Jonathan van de Veen, Faisal, Karim, Brad Abrams, David Anson, and Hanu Kommalapati. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth has a post up that …

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In this Issue: Jacek Ciereszko, Unni, Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi, Bea Stolnitz, John Papa, Expression Blend and Design Blog, Andrej Tozon, Christian Schormann, and Jeff Blankenburg(2).

I just gave a short presentation at ColArc;/1247570297759/) earlier on User Interface patterns. I got someone to film it, but unfortunately there is no audio. I just wasn't loud enough.

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Below is a list of downloads for Silverlight 3. It includes all necessary downloads together. The majority are new updates and releases since the Silverlight 3 release. A few are older releases but…

I wanted to create a custom alert on the SQL Database when number of records with some values(considered as invalid) exceeds the expected limit.

In this Issue: Erik Mork(2), Michael Washington, Faisal(2), Andrej Tozon(2), and Jose Fajardo.

Yes, this is possibly the simplest app ever written and was cooked up as a lunch bet between myself (@sundriedcoder) and David Justice (@davidjustice) while waiting on our TFS server to be rebuilt.…

Logging is not Tracing

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I needed lightbox 2 functionality for a project I'm working on, but didn't want the overhead of having to include prototype, scriptaculous, et al that comes with it since we are already using JQuer…

The Joel test is intended to gauge the quality of a software development organization. Ten years later, it is in need of an update. Below is a possible “New Joel Test”, updated for 2010.

More Adventures in MVVM

1. Error Message : Only parameterless constructors and initializers are supported in LINQ to Entities:

I have moved the tagging features for my media player application from MediaInfo to taglib-sharp. because taglib-sharp provides writing of tags back to audio files too.. As a matter of fact, Everyt…

In this Issue: Mark Monster, Patrick Cauldwell(2), Kirupa Chinnathambi, and Nigel Sampson. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer has some great advice up for anyone trying to get ready for the SL2/SL3 switch: Check…

This review is based on Emulator Image. Not a real phone experience.

If you can find the control panel for DEP, you will find there is not an option to turn it off. This is not a terrible thing unless you are trying to troubleshoot a problem. Then you want to elimin…

So you're ready to kick off your first Scrum project and you ask the inevitable question - Where do I begin?

How To Read .NET Performance Counters Correctly

A couple of notes about my environment that I didn’t state before. The laptop I’m use is a typical laptop 4Gb of memory standard dual-core, with 64-bit Vista Ultimate as the OS. There don’t appear …

I’ve refactored part of the project and removed the generic methods, and added in a few new public methods to illustrate building a real sandwich.

After cleaning up the “Not Implemented Exception” throws in the concrete class implementations of IBusiness Manager, Pex delivered a set of PUTs for each layer.

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Pex has had two updates, one since I first used it, and one after I finished using it. Here’s the release notes for the latest build that dropped on 5/1/2009. Fresh install, and rewinding back thro…



I was integrating a JQuery plugin for file uploads, uploadify, in my app when I saw a very strange behavior. The plugin reported an error transmitting the file to the server and debugging the contr…

Dynamic query building is most often used in the enterprise world for search screens and other operations. I remember writing code very tediously night and day for a very big search screen. Those d…

I wrote this demo because I observed that lots of people in the forum (forums.asp.net) always ask questions on how to display Image that was stored in the database to GridView control.

This example demonstrates how to upload image using the FileUpload control and store the uploaded file in the database in binary format.

When we started WCFing in my current project, the first challenge that we had was to get the WCF Services to impersonate the callers, I had burned a lot of mid night oil trying to figure out the ri…

At MIX 2009, the Expression Blend team cam up with a new concept called Behaviors. In fact, the only thing new is the way that the Behaviors are packed. WPF developers have been doing what we calle…

While chatting with Tim Ewald last week at Devweek we got onto the topic of “ways to improve the MSDN experience” (Tim sits in that team). Part of that discussion was the “Low Bandwith” option for …

This example demonstrates how to show the Header and Footer of GridView when no data returned from the DataSet or DataTable.

1) XNA - great free tool for game developers

Short while after I wrote about resources for multi-touch on Windows …

This post will explain how to do fading (fade out a layer) in Gimp.

I was working on a SSIS Data Flow Task by passing Package Variables into a Stored Procedure. I will be using [AdventureWorks] sample database included with the SQL Server installation. Below is the…

One of the biggest problems with using a WCF service in Silverlight is resolving the service itself in the correct place at all times. When moving code from your dev machine to staging and to produ…

This is part 2 of 3.

This is part 2 of a two posts series about the property IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem. In the previous post, we saw what it does in Windows Presentation Foundation. In this post, we will see that t…

In January we created a survey to understand how folks were using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET in the UK. This survey was sent out to individuals we “suspected” had Visual Basic 6.0 herit…

Yesterday I was doing an upgrade to a product and I needed to install it into the path where the old version used to be. I only needed to figure out what install option I need.

This is part 3 of 3

imageI wanted an eReader of some kind. I knew that. This is a cool technology. First off, no matter if you get an Amazon Kindle or a Sony eReader, then you are in for a definite treat. This is one …

I heard someone say, "backwards-engineer a solution" on a conference call today. I think he meant, "reverse-engineer," but it got me thinking about when we pass "backwards-engieneering" off as "for…

The journey started seven months ago when I was asked by Wrox if I was interested or if I knew someone that was interested in writing the new DotNetNuke5 book. At that time, I put together an all F…

Different Run Commands useful for time saving while using your computer. To invoke the Run box, hold down the Windows key and hit R (or from the Start Menu, choose "Run.") From there type any one o…

In my last post I talked about migrating from NUnit to MSTest and mentioned that there were some Assert methods that NUnit provided which did not have corresponding methods in MSTest. For reference…

This week I was tasked with styling a data table so that all the rows would scroll vertically, but the header row would stay in place. For the project in question, the scrolling must work in both F…

I don't have any post relating to how I get to know computers in general and why I choose a career in software development, in fact I needed to do that, since I need to continue a meme that a frien…

C# 4.0 Named Parameters for better code quality

Running Windows Vista 64 bit, Sql Server 2008 on a remote server. Using ASP.Net and the Report Viewer control on an asp.net page for a local report. Was also using IIS to host the web site instead …

I got fed up with this kind of code for a long time:

Things have been busy and it's been a while since my last post, so I decided to write up a post today related to something I have been working on recently where in I needed a way to associate an at…

Update: Since then I found a much better tool to geocode pictures and edit other information encoded directly within the picture: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools. I wrote a new blog post about this tool.

Today we’ll speak about migration from community server 2007 to another blog engine, when you have no access to CS and/or other database.

I have created a tool that a lot of ISA/TMG users will like. It is a Simple tool to edit the Forms Based Authentication page and make it different than what's default. During my work as a consultan…

Talk about a guy who needs no introduction… if you’re in the technology industry, or \gasp\ a software developer in the Microsoft space, but haven’t heard of Scott Hanselman before now, then crawl …

With Vista and Windows Server 2008 comes and new amazing feature: the possibility to include file system operations into a transaction. The functionnality is implemented as the Kernel Transaction M…

Recently I started diving into WiX (Windows Installer XML) as a toolset for a setup project I needed to create. And it didn't take much time to discover that WiX provides some nice out of the box d…

In one of static class in our application, I found local static members that were used to pass data between calls of static methods. It’s wrong and can cause errors that are intermittent and very h…

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The CLR is the core set of APIs that make up the .NET Framework.

So I'm sitting in the speaker room at DevConnections ... watching the big named folks work their way through picking up the speaker goodies. I'm not supposed to drop names, but I've seen several IN…

Get email addressees of all users from all mails in Outlook Folder

If anyone is familiar with the Microsoft Research (MSR) project Spec# you will be familiar with the idea of contract based programming. CLR 4.0 takes the idea of contract based programming (and mor…

Moved here

Programmers need to debug, which sometimes requires identification of points in your program where a programmer would like to insert code that would help him/her to debug his/her code efficiently. …

In this issue: Jeff Handley, David Anson, Jafar Husain, Justin Angel, Beatriz Stollnitz, Scott Barnes, Chris Anderson, Dave Burke, Bart Czernicki, Terence Tsang, Ben Waggoner, The Silverlight SDK, …

Using “Update to a local variable” to calculate running totals in SQL.

This is my second lot of Gradients they are few more but that is for some other day, here are about 14 new gradients for you, I need some patience and inspiration to make few so I might come back w…

There is a well-known issue with WPF RadioButton controls with data binding: when a radio button is unchecked the data binding is not undone. For example, suppose you have the following two radio b…

The last couple of weeks have seen a significant increase in terms of announcements and information from Microsoft ahead of the Professional Developer’s Conference next week. It is a key time for M…

Could it really be this simple?

The Windows Cloud OS called Windows Azure that had been under the code name Red dog project for a long time has been officially announced in the keynote by Ray Ozzie on the first day of the PDC in …

The following table summarizes the differences between different Server OS's capable of Hyper-V.

The post based on How to enable WCF tracing article Open WCF Service Configuration Editor under VS 2008 Tools menu or directly from installation folder (typically C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\…

While working with Visual Studio 2008, I would constantly get exceptions thrown at me while working with any ASP.NET AJAX page. I also had no Intellisense when working with JavaScript which was a p…

One of my favorite utilities is Notepad2. I had a script to replace the original Notepad with Notepad2 on Windows, but as of Windows XP Service Pack 3, that no longer works.

I was writing some WPF testing code today. It was extremely simple code which just programmatically creates a Rectangle and adds it to a canvas. The code this something like this:

Everyone knows the benefits of using enums in code. However, when you use NHibernate to store those enums to a database, all you get are the numeric values those enums represent. I wanted a way to …

Sometime in the past, a friend asked me how to update a control to show status while his code is doing a loop of stuff. Essentially changing the text of a label (or sophisticatedly we can say a tex…

Hello everyone,

Invoking web methods from client scripts is fun. But before you roll out your cool applications into the production, please don't forget to reconfigure the max JSON string length, represented by ei…

Lately I've been doing some interesting work that I've alluded to elsewhere dealing with the binary communications protocol hosted Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net game service. It's kind of wha…

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OK, here is a nice chunk of code for a web part that will display the accounts within a Forms Based Authentication database. The code is complete all the bells and whistles including a context menu…

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is one of widely accepted way to do financial transaction between financial institutions. It has over 8,300 banking organizations…

If you're a 3D kinda guy, which I'm not (well, I'm getting there, but it's a slow journey) then you might be interested in this. Apparently, Caligari is giving away their trueSpace 7.6 product for …

I have an existing C# file, generated a long time ago from XSD definition.

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Technical Software Project Management is Dead

If you count the number of pages linking to a Wikipedia page, there may be none but it still appears on the first page of the search results. Google seems to rank pages from Wikipedia higher up in …

MVC JSON - JsonResult and jQuery

Currently I'm working on a data synchronization tool in which I have finally had the need to use reflection. I'll admit that I'm not an expert when it comes to reflection, but it isn't that hard to…

One of my first Windows applications was an Access 2.0 database. Man has Access changed since then! Recently one of my customers needed to be able to source control some of their Access 2003 databa…

When browsing around the net today, I realized that I had never claimed this blog as my own on Technorati. I claimed the old Vitamin CH, but never this one. When I went to do it, I saw that the pro…

Oracle Update with Join

I wondered a while ago where the "Iron" names came from.

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 and Authenticated SMTP - A Travesty

Code debugging is one of the most important parts of any development life cycle because it gives you the technique to find the problem and how to resolve it. When we talk about the visual debugging…

We came across an odd little issue where our message schema requires a DateTime value. Using System.DateTime.Now does not come out in the proper format as BizTalk requires the UTC format. UTC forma…

Announced today were the new features for the next OS version release for the Mac OS X – 10.6 – code named Snow Leopard. Each of the previous seven released over the last eight years since OS X was…

So you have installed SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) and you have been happily using it for a while now. Everyone in the office has been taking part in creating some really cool content or loading their …

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I tried to use SlickEdit 2008 this morning for formatting my SilverlightCream post, and had problems.

Quote:

Moq is yet another .NET mocking library, similar to Rhino mocks, NMock, TypeMock etc. It is a nice library but the documentation is lacking. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate a simple way …


What tech books are you currently reading? The rules: 1) Don't count books you're being compensated to read. (paid reviews) 2) Don't count books that haven't come out yet (i.e. tech editing, or wri…

A new preview of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data Web Site was made available on April 23, 2008. Some new nice features for Dynamic Data Wizard and routed URLs were included in this release. The Visual Bas…

I ran across a client that was looking to move the SQL Server data files and logs from their SharePoint 2007 installation to another drive. The reason was to free up some space on the drive that SQ…

The last post showed an itinerary for sending a one-way message, to be transformed and stored using a FILE adapter. For two-way messaging, the process is very similar. The "Routing" service step ne…

Object reference not set to an instance - Webpart Sharepoint

I recently profiled a sproc that makes heavy use of the TSQL SUBSTRING function (hundreds of thousands of times) to see how it performs on a SQL 2005 database compared to a SQL 2000 database. Much …

Suppose you have a tblRoom and tblUserInfo. Now, you need to select all the rooms regardless of whether the room has user information or not. This calls for a LEFT JOIN which will select everything…

Here's a sample template that lets you have the String.Replace() functionality in XSLT 1.0. The template "string-replace-all" takes 3 parameters and recursively processes the input text string.

I was listening to the BBC Radio 4 social science documentary strand Thinking Allowed earlier in the week (from my backlog of DAB radio recordings) and they were discussing a new book 'The Craftsma…

One of the good things about LINQ to SQL is that it gives the developer flexibility to choose the specified columns of a table from a database. Let's say I have table Forums and Posts and I need to…

Red, Green, Refactor

I am twitterpated with twitter. Ok so that is a bit strong but for some reason I am addicted to twitter. What is twitter? Well think of MSN messenger and AOL messenger mashed up with your favorite …

The RootFolder attribute on the Batch element controls the folder of the item. This can be used to access a sub-folder. The structure is Lists/list/folder where folder is optional.

I've finally moved my main development environment on my desktop to Vista, and had the issue that I still do quite a bit of work for one client in Visual Studio 2003 which is not supported. No prob…

Update: Fixed code changed from CTP and More in the series:

While I'm waiting to find out if I'll be able to go to Tech·Ed again this year I am still keeping an eye on what's going on with the conference. For last year's Tech·Ed, Microsoft created a "Tips f…

Drag and drop support in a web application always get some attention. I used drag and drop support in one of my applications and I have to admit that it involved a lot of JavaScript code. You can c…

All of us have probably written code like this:

The post Creating different CSS style selector definitions for different browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and IE 6.0) with subsequent comments describes that

Problem 1 :

So as I'm going to be attempting this in the next few weeks it is interesting to note that this would appear to still be an issue with the RTM of 2008 as the Hyper-V is still in beta.

For those of us that implement INotifyPropertyChanged on our state objects, the new Automatic Properties feature of Visual Studio 2008 hasn't been very useful. In fact, the snippet prop that used t…

So someone was bound to do it sooner or later... might as well be me ;-).

One of the most common questions I get about FTP has to do with error 425, "Can't open data connection." This is indeed a protocol level error that is defined in the RFC. Its meaning is obvious: th…

Does transferring a terabyte of data via sneakernet make sense? First, consider the bandwidth capabilities and monthly cost of a few common Internet connections.

I was pondering late last night how can I get along with the new Zune software. No more name calling and bashing the moderators at Zune.net forums. I needed to be a responsible Zunian(no I am not a…

Update: Added new Hanselminutes show on F# and other links With the new year comes new challenges. Recently I've been looking to take my background in statistics and get back into graduate school. …

The Problem : What is the first term in the Fibonacci sequence to contain 1000 digits?

3 Ways to update the Application Tile Content in Mango

Well, we had another great DC ALT.NET meeting last night. I want to send a special thank you to CMAP, Randy Hayes and Chris Steen for allowing us to crash the architecture special interest group. I…

While playing around with WPF, I tried to do some multithreading where I have a worker thread updating my ObservableCollection, while having a ListCollectionView of that ObservableCollection being …

Toronto Code Camp 2008

Thanks to Virtual PC's inability to utilize USB (insert the 'Old Bit' siren sound) and my need for USB support in my virtual machines, I'm in the process of moving some VPC images to VMWare Worksta…

I've been reading lately about what people are interested in with the next version of C#. It's amazing to think how far the language has come from the early days. Many of the newer features of the …

I've encountered a problem trying fix the WCF / WPF Visual Studio 2005 Integration components after I've installed Visual Studio 2008.

Update: Adding Visual Studio Integration discussion Update: Stay tuned for additional posts in this series as things permit Well, this is my last post in the series to wrap things up. This will be …

The PUT method not as widely used as the POST method is the more efficient way of uploading files to a server. This is because in a POST upload the files need to be combined together into a multipa…

I've been running Vista on my work laptop since the first quarter of this year and on my development system at home since August. So far, I haven't had too many problems with it. Actually, on my ho…

I just saw this challenge to find real life examples of agile development by Tom Perry. He was hanging Christmas lights and found a way to incorporate test driven development (TDD) and continuous i…

USB + Drivers + Vista + x64 + "New Hardware Found" Install + KB941600 = Total USB Destruction... To completely screw up your USB ports/drivers in Vista x64, simply INSTALL this update through Windo…

Doug Butscher and I were outside at the EOB today and we saw the coolest contrail (new word for me) from a jet I have seen. It steadily progressed to get more squiggly as we watched it. Check it out!

Validating user input is a very common task that we perform during web page development, and in the ASP.NET world we have a handful amount of choices to perform validation.

While trying out the /n software IP\Works! 3-D Secure MPI C++ Edition (for implementing Verified By Visa, MasterCard SecureCode, or JCB J/Secure) I needed to figure out how to run a CGI application…

After installing VS2008, I quickly noticed the absence of some of my favorite IDE helpers.

UPDATE (12/17/2007): My blog has moved. This post is now located at: http://jason.whitehorn.ws/2007/12/10/Using-ASPNET-MVC-From-Visual-Web-Developer-Express-2008.aspx Today marked the released of t…

A few days ago I wrote about issues I was having with Mage and click once. Basically, I was always getting the following when I'd try to install the click once application:

I had to spent more time than I wished I would spend last weekend trying to find a RegEx that would validate US and Canadian postal codes for me. So here for the record, are the regular expression …

I am testing the Mozy backup service that was praised by many lately. It's not bad so far, but I am a bit disappointed that it doesn't work when I am either in the office, or connected to the VPN. …

I've been involved in a lengthy discussion recently at work involving the IDisposable implementation in WCF clients.

The BIDS Helper team are please to announce the release of v1.2.

John McGovern and Robert Mcilree have fired off the latest salvo in one of EA's biggest and most maddening debates. In short the debate is about whether Enterprise Architecture is a process or prac…

You are all undoubtedly aware of LINQ to SQL, its fair to say its had a large amount of publicity and coverage in the .net circle. VS 2008 makes getting going with LINQ to SQL very easy but that is…

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Microsoft has a couple of articles on how to set up HTTP connectivity for SSAS, one for Win XP http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/httpssas.mspx and another for Win2003 server htt…

Thank you Microsoft, for once again bypassing my Windows update policies. I can now go explain to my managers why 500 workstations and 12 servers have ended up with Microsoft Desktop Search, withou…

Demo unit on display this week at CEATEC Japan Commercial unit to be sold in December

So, Microsoft has launched Silverlight. I'm a development manager and my team produces web sites, so it’s time to check it out. This isn't a particularly unusual activity for me. Microsoft brings o…

I just came across a very interesting post from James Kovacs that describes how C# and .NET evolved. I had blogged about this almost a year ago, but James' post adds some additional background.

No Left Navigation when new web part pages are created in sharepoint

A lot of you probably already know my feelings on certifications, particularly the Microsoft certifications. Even though I am an MCPD, I took what appears to be the "non traditional" approach and a…

Last week I've been looking for a better RSS Reader (err... Aggregator). You see after certain number of feeds MS Outlook no longer works for me and I needed a better alternative. In my search I ca…

Have you offset your carbon usage today?

Kanban (pronounced kahn-bahn) is a Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing technique that minimizes inventory and increases throughput. This is done by signaling. A production station has a bin or loading…

\[UPDATE: The link to the VS2008 project was broken. Sorry for that\]

Suppose that you have the need to switch drive letters of two of yours volumes. Lets say you have one partition with assigned drive letter D and other drive with assigned drive letter E. To change …

Not only am I an Automation Engineer, I'm also one of the Quality Center admins at my current job.

My First experiment with Asp.net ListView control was awesome. I downloaded few templates from CSS Table Gallery and able to apply it only in few minutes. Checkout the result of Northwind Customer …

I ran into a crazy issue while working on my ASP.Net 2.0 application in Firefox this week and thought I'd share...

Google has several products available to educators that you might find of interest to use yourself or with your students.

I thought this is worth noting. This is the way to generate 1 million records within 1 second in SQL Server 2005. I'll have the code pasted here so that I can have a reference the next time I need …

Try this for size? and they are also extending the fuctionality of this to include off-line use as well based on the Google Gears project - more info on this development on their blog at http://blo…

Exception handling seems to be a common problem for .NET developers, particularly younger developers. We pretty much all know that you should wrap operations that have the potential for failing in …

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C# 3.0 Lambda Expressions replacing Anonymous Methods

Greenfield design - should you use Terminal Server/Citrix or VMware's VDI?

If you ever try to do more than one simultaneous partial update with Asp.net Ajax Update Panel, I guess you already found that Asp.net Ajax Framework cancel the current update request and starts th…

If you visit Asp.net Ajax Forum, you will find hundreds of request on File Upload Control that it does not give Ajax version of the page when it is placed in an UpdatePanel. Certainly, it is not po…

NetCmdlets doesn't have a long list of Active Directory cmdlets for PowerShell. Instead, it has 2. And they aren't AD specific - they just implement the LDAP protocol itself so they can work with a…

You might receive the error 'Sys' is undefined when running ASP.NET AJAX Web pages or trying to AJAX enable your exisitng Web Applicaitons.

A word of advice: Don't ever leave your cell phone in a theme park.

At the Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Conference today, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner announced that Windows Server® 2008, Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 will lau…

When a free download of Refactor!™ for ASP.NET 2.2 was announced in May by Developer Express, I bookmarked it for future reference because I wasn't working on an ASP project at the time.

On the anniversary of our nation's independence I call upon my U.S. citizens to throw off the shackles of our British oppressors and pronounce the word "agile" like true Americans:

While visiting Asp.net forum, I found an interesting request, A forum member is trying to implement some validator controls where the member wants to call a Web Service method, since the nature of …

I was listening to Scott Hansleman's 70th podcast the other day and it brought back a memory from the MVP summit. It was at one of the Microsoft parties and towards the end of the night (did I ment…

Microsoft published a white paper detailing the TCO on Windows Mobile 6 devices vs. RIM's Blackberry. Surprisingly they find a 28% savings in the Wm6 devices over Blackberries. And when studying th…

Over the last year or so I have noticed a disturbing trend brought about by the idea of "brining programming to the masses". Last April, according to Microsoft, there was a "growing community of 18…

In response to my post on Generating a PDF from Reporting Services, someone asked how I would join two PDFs. The problem is that I can't just take two PDF byte streams and run them together because…

Earlier this week one of my good friends, Jason let me know that he just started a new blog. The thing that's different about this blog is that it doesn't focus on the technical side of things, but…

To complement the previous tutorials I've posted about how to add credit cards to your website or desktop applications, I will be posting a howto for how to add support for PayPal payments, and I'l…

Okay, this may be old hat to some of you, but it took me some time to figure it out and I didn't find much useful when searching.

I'm posting this blog mostly to remind myself how to fix this if ever I run into it again, but if anyone else benefits from it, then awesome.

Running WSS 2.0, IE 7, Office 2003 AND Groove 2007 - recently IE 7 crashes everytime I try to open an Office document. PDF documents open just fine. The error was:

You know that BAM is used to gather statistics from your BizTalk application. What you probably don’t know is that:

Randy Charles Morin doesn't know why anyone would want to use RSS to transmit OFX data. I find his confusion odd:

Cream, as in 'Pick of the Litter' is always subjective, but this is my list for today as I view my Morning Paper, and will add on as I come across others

I recently got checked out in Evektor SportStar. It's a two seat Czech built light sport airplane that becoming increasingly popular with the new sport pilot rules. I've been wanting to try it out …

Being the good programmers that you are you like to write your code so that it is as readable as possible, so you do things like qualifying your private instance variables with Me (this in C#) even…

I found it hard to find a definitive list on the internet for what ports needed opening for Active Directory to replication between Firewalls. Here are my findings and all is working so, hope this …

Here is something interesting that came up a newsgroup thread a little while ago, that I though merited some more explanation.

This is used to "use list as a table", i.e. take a list of comma-separated values, and run queries on it.

For almost two years now, I've been intending to write an article about the mysterious 'side effects' flag used in Microsoft Business Rule Engine policies. Microsoft documents this feature (see htt…

First of all, I'm using IE 6.0.2900.2180, Haven't test on other browsers.

I was looking for something simple to get the file name for the selected file of an OpenFileDialog in C# today. Of course you can parse the string looking for backslash, etc. It annoyed me that the…

I was trying to create and page with Asp.NET 2.0 and Ajax 1.0.

It has been a few months since I installed Windows Live OneCare and results are mixed. For the most part it runs quietly in the background providing, at least I think, real-time protection. The pro…

In ASP.NET 2.0 there is a simple new property in the System.Web.UI.Page object called 'MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback'.

I am very impressed with everything about the MVP summit. Never in my life have I been in attendance at an event with so much diversity. I've met people from Honduras, Peru, Germany, Lithouania, Ru…

SUMMARY: Never use fields in the GROUP BY that aren't part of the grouping. Read on...

I have spent TWO(2) DAYS on this stupid error: An exception of type System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException was thrown. Additional exception information: Some or all identity reference…

I wanted to give my take on developer metrics. I’ve read some posts by a few people out there (here, here, here, and here) that suggest that developer specific metrics do more harm than good. The f…

Developing Vista Sidebar Gadgets

I don't know about you, but I have always felt that Microsoft did a huge injustice to the development community by leaving the Static Code Analysis capability out of Visual Studio 2005 Professional…

I thought I understand ViewState, until I came cross this exception:

You cannot use get-credential without some type of prompt (although you can do it without the pop-up dialog), however you can save your securestring password to a file, reload it for later, and man…

I had someone ask today how to format a date in xslt 1.0. I thought it was worth posting the answer I gave. I hope you find it useful. It's amazing how many lines of code it takes for this, but it'…

For sometime now I have been working on a few papers on the subject of SOA. This is the first, my definitive definition of what is SOA Governance.

My post is a little late in coming, but I wanted to note that MS AJAX was recently released. Thanks to Scott Guthrie and the entire ASP.Net team for getting this out. I am certain I will be writing…

I was asked to be one of the folks answering questions at the big Phoenix "Ready for a New Day" launch event. Definitely a fun experience, and pretty well attended. A common question that came up i…

Asp.net 2.0 has been released, but Asp.net still does not have any built-in support for passing querystring in encrypted text. The following class will give you the support to pass querystring in e…

Some zero cost resources for asp.net develpers. source: http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0411041&page=1

Recently I was trying to set an iframe height which is hosted in another domain. But could not able to get its height from its hosting window - It always throws security exception. I searched Googl…

If you’re on the plane or bus and somebody won’t leave you alone:

Well... I'm betting some of you know some of them, but chances are none of you knew all of them until now.

I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the project management / tracking / estimation methods I use. Over time the processes and tools I use have changed quite a bit, but the way I've been do…

You may see this error - more than once - when working with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 deployment. This animal / error generally shows itself after you have applied an upgr…

One morning when restoring my pc from hibernate - I got this error:

By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don't have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an adm…

The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error 2149648394 (0x8021080A).

Recently I got a chance to play around with the Data Protection Application Programming Interface (DPAPI). With .NET 2.0 installed, you can encrypt your Web.config just by using aspnet\regiis.exe o…

I recently bought a bigger 80 gig hard drive for my laptop, and wanted to copy the contents of my existing 30 gig disk with an XP install over to it. I didn't want to go buy any drive copying tools…

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

I have recently installed vs 2005 beta 1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8d702463-674b-4978-9e22-c989130f6553&displaylang=en and just opened up a very small solution and wi…

Updated 12/18/2006 - fixed issue with not listening for Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.SessionEnded event - can't logoff/shutdown issue

There have been complaints about Internet Explorer 7 not respecting the system setting for font smoothing. I have noticed that the 2007 Office System ignores this setting as well. With other words …

Windows PowerShell Scripting Sweepstakes.

Database and web server on the same machine

Somehow this topic seems so common place and yet no where have I been able to find it spelled out clearly and simply. This reminds me of the joke about a helicopter pilot who's lost in the fog near…

If you're a modder, and maybe even if you aren't, you could be in danger of turning your 360 into a brick, courtesy of Microsoft's latest firmware update on the 360. Tread with caution and read the…

Cooperative Application Shutdown with the CLR

Tiers are physically separation of tiers means in different projects, dll or exe. When we talk about Layers means logical separation of tiers.

aspnet\wp.exe and w3wp.exe

Recently, I was trying to delete a windows service. Normally it should not be necessary to manually delete a service. Uninstalling an application should remove its associated service (if any).

The struct type is suitable for representing lightweight objects such as Point, Rectangle, and Color. Although it is possible to represent a point as a class, a struct is more efficient in some sce…

Here are some pointers on how to use Windows Explorer, in Microsoft Windows XP Professional from the Command Line.

I am sure everyone else has already figured this out but thought I'd jot it down here.

In this article, I have assumed that the reader is aware of the basic functionality of Subversion. This article has been written to make the usage of Subversion more efficient and more effective, a…

I have had trouble in the past when installing the Exchange System Manager (ESM) on my laptop so I can modify email information about a user in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). I get co…

Have you ever wondered why instance methods in java are virtual by default and in C# not? In C# to make a method virtual you have to explicitly do it right? Why is that?

Lazy Vs Eager Init Singletons / Double-Check Lock Pattern

Well yesterday afternoon was full of fun sessions and I hosted a discussion group on how we could positively encourage more women to come along to events such as BarCamp. The turn out hasn't been t…

I started getting the following error in one of the site that I am recently installing ( win 2000, .Net 1.1) Access to performance data was denied to ASPNET as attempted from C:\\WINNT\\Microsoft.N…

<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="WIDTH: 100%; mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes">…

There's been an interesting discussion going on in the TDD mailing list, discussing the benefits (or lack of) of using mock objects and mocking frameworks. The discussion focuses on doing top-down …

Wanting to create an Money object in my application, I first read Fowler's description in his PoEAA book and then looked at JP Boodhoo's implementation here. This post requires at least a look at h…

SQL Server 2005 has lots of new tricks up its sleeve. During our user group meeting this past Wednesday night there was a question about how to use one such enhancement: the PIVOT statement. You ca…

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I was playing around this morning with scanning images and put together an adapter class that uses the Windows automation library (WIAAUT.DLL) which is part of the WIA automation SDK -- WIA means W…

I came across an error today in SQL Server 2005.

Recently I have been designing an Application Framework in .NET/ASP.NET 2.0.

For the past year or so, Martin Fowler has included the pattern Model-View-Presenter, or MVP, in his upcoming addendum to Patterns of Enterprise Application Development. Due to apparent confusions …

I was getting the following error when trying to start IIS from my XP machine:

Sam Ruby points to this demonstration of "situational mashups" using IBM's DB2 v9. DB2 v9, aka "Viper", supports XPath and XQuery, and even Atom syndication.

The London Girl Geek Dinner short film has just been released. Here is an exclusive first look at it prior to it going on FourDocs. It was filmed about a month ago by Angela Saini of ITN who was ju…

A few months ago I wrote a simple Javascript beautifier, which suited my needs at the time. But since then while dissecting longer AJAX-centric scripts in various websites, I found some things that…

I’ve been looking into a new notebook lately and while “some” of the hardware configurations should make it Aero Glass compatible and potentially pass the Vista Upgrade Advisor muster, there’s just…

Updated: June 12, 2006 - I had some debug code in there, basically a sleep for a second statement - doh! - I've removed it and Zip file updated

I have been a fan of Egypt since I was a kid. I taught myself (some) hieroglypics, went on excavations in the backyard, and even had plans to be mummified. So when I saw King Tut was back in the st…

I presented a session on WPF at the Arizona .NET User's Group last night, and today have been getting email and calls from several people who wished they could have been in attendance, and wanted t…

Introduction:

If you are having problems viewing CHM files (like the new WCF documentation CHM files), you might be seeing a blank IE screen when you click on any of the subject headings contained ni the file. I…

Playing around with incorporating Data Transfer Objects into my project, I figure I can use a touch of reflection to manage most assembler cases which are called from my service layer. May be a tad…

I/O Completion Port Improvement

This tool only give full trust as requvirment.

In my last post I talked about a great little UMPC I bought while on vacation in Japan, Sony's VGN-UX50. Once back in the states and having caught up with work again I installed XP Pro English with…

While in Japan a week and a half ago I picked up Sony's new teeny ultramobile (UMPC), the Vaio VGN-UX50. Strongly reminiscent of the OQO, its sliding screen reveals an integrated keyboard. And alth…

Source: http://koti.mbnet.fi/niclasw/MutexSemaphore.html

Now, I'm a geek at heart (obviously, since I'm here) and this is just cool...

Moleskine Pocket Notebook

Following my prior post:

A few weeks ago, I linked to a list of What Great .NET Developers Should Know. I then came up with the idea of adding more of my own through my own experiences. I found this list to be helpful and …

Visual Studio has a nifty feature called Pre-Build and Post-Build events. These are used to include extra DOS commands before or after the build.

Functional Programming with C#/F#

If you've been using the SQL Server Management Studio that comes with SQL Server 2005 for a while, you might noticed this nice message box that shows all exception messages. Not only it shows the e…

It's feels a little Awkward to be writing something as simple as this but then again, maybe this is why no one has written it and Google couldn't help me find an answer :)

NOTE : There have been some comments getting out of hand. I am deleting any rude or personally insulting comments in this thread. Keep it clean.

The postulation of Douglas Engelbart back in 1965 that the complexity of computers would double every 24 months has held true ever since he said it. Although it was originally Engelbart's theory, i…

As you probably know shared assemblies are stored in the global assembly cache (GAC) which is located at c:\\windows\\assembly.If you navigate to this folder you might be surprised to see that is l…

Today I recieved this mail from friends(Peeyush & Rajeev), although I don't prefer to post this kind of stuff, but it's simply hilarious, and represents the Indianess(desi) in these pics ;)

Recently I had posted some reasons about why I use Repository as opposed to Active Record. This post was originally spawned by some comments by Sam Gentile in regard to peole refactorring from repo…

This is pretty cool technology. I got an email this morning from Frank Taylor and he said that the Google Earth integration we have on Where's Tim is cool, but not even close to what we could be do…

In previous versions, ASP.NET considered the web.config file to be untouchable. What you, the developer, wrote into the file may as well have been engraved like the Ten Commandments into stone tabl…

If you haven't read this post about dissecting the HD-A1, you should start there.

Upon hearing rumors that Toshiba put a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 CPU and a gig of PC2700 DDR RAM in their new $500 high definition set-top DVD player, I was intrigued. When I heard that they also put in a …

Searched out on the internet and didn't really find anything that was horribly succinct, so I wrote this class for fun. I had help from http://www.codeproject.com/cs/webservices/translation.asp. I …

I have the following scenario:


Customizing - DotNetNuke Search Input - The Problem

One of the most annoying things in developing web pages is handling the "Enter key" for form submission. Enter key has been the favourite way users like to submit forms. Though we provide Buttons t…

There was a question recently on the Analysis Services newsgroup asking how to process an Analysis Services 2005 cube using XMLA from the command line. Below is a script based on Chris Harrington's…

We all know what a SSL cert is, right? Well then why are most certs so poorly implemented? I think the problem lies with most system administrators getting the cert at the last minute (when users r…

Soon after installing Analysis Services 2005 I upgraded the Foodmart 2000 sample database from Analysis Services 2000. Foodmart is kind of the equivalent of the pubs database in the SQL Server worl…

Well it looks like I will be on the speakers panel at Mobile Monday this coming Monday (April 3rd 2006). There will be a series of discussions going on about the Mobile Web 2.0 stuff... So what I a…

Last post I promised that I would post the final code that I was working on, in regards to Generics and DynamicMethods. The basic idea of the code is a class that generates DynamicMethod delegates …

In my years of doing Web development, I've written this function several times over; however, I can NEVER find the code when I need it! Thus, here is a simple Javascript function to dump the conten…

Overview of SFTP, FTPS, SCP and FTP:

1. Open your image. 2. Select the area you want to make transparent. 1. Select the appropriate selection tool from the Tool window or the Tools - Selection Tools menu on the Layer window. I usually…

Are you still using Framework 1 or 1.1? Are you using DNN 3? Did you know there is a function to convert a data reader object into a dataset built into DNN 3? Neither did I, so I wrote one. And the…

I implemented mixed Authentication for DotNetNuke ( Use Windows Integrated Authentication for seamless logon intranet logon and use Forms authentication for users unable to use Windows Integrated a…

Here are the WinDbg / SOS commands I talked about at Code Camp NY. These are the basic commands to get you going with WinDbg / SOS.

OK. I'll revise what I said in an earlier post about this tool. You shouldn't change your vocabulary to Secure Development Lifecycle--but you definitely need to add it to your development practices…

Some customers of our application have ISA Server that requires Proxy Authentication.

Thanks for link.

If you are running DotNetNuke as a file-system Web site in Visual Studio 2005 using ASP.NET Development Server (aka Cassini), you must specify a Port.

SAN Islands to have or not to have?

The ListView control has a flicker issue. The problem appears to be that the control's Update overload is improperly implemented such that it acts like a Refresh. An Update should cause the control…

You may receive the error "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Access Denied." when trying to access a Webservice from your ASP.NET Application. This normally indicates that Anonymous access h…

No, this is apparently not a joke.

4/28/06 Update: The NHibernate codeproject.com article wins ASP.NET article of the month. Woohoo!

Well, it's finally happened. Borland will no longer be making any IDEs. I remember learning C++ using Borland's IDE. I think the box is still in my basement.

I had a working DotNetNuke project 4.0.2 with .Net 2.0 that I wanted to publish to Windows Server 2003.

\[ Comment: This code was originally written for .NET 1.1 and ported as is. As such, it should not refer to .NET 2.0 at all. Please refer to the comments of Stefan Els below for a 'real' and more e…

While building a new Exchange 2003 server I was installing Service Pack 2 and came across an interesting issue:

Here are the items I must have, they are the things I install whenever I get a new machine

Windows Desktop Search has been released in an “Enterprise” version that allows for increased management, deployment, configuration and customization in a large environment.

Here's a project for those of you who ~dislike functionality~ love iPods, but are cursed with PocketPC ownership. You can convert your Pocket PC into an iPod in just a few simple steps. I am going …

I've created an SQL to add australian regions and australian currency to DNN Lists table. The task is discussed on DNN Forum.

Visual Studio 2005 ! - Wait !! this might definitely be the tenth time you read this term across today !!!. It, no doubt, has created a wave. A Technology wave which defines new standards for creat…

Dependencies

TryParse for Nullable Types

XmlLogger for MSBuild

Download XmlLogger files from MSDN Code Galery

Well I've seen so many 10 reasons to date a geek that I thought I would go with the opposite, having dated a few in the past! Share the knowledge so to speak! Bear in mind that I am also a geek so …

I have a solution with Start ASP.NET project and several VB and C# library projects. When I stopped in Visual Studio 2005 debugger in the library class code, the file is shown with small “lock”. It…

Read/Write App.config with .NET 2.0/Enterprise Library

I often complain, berate, and otherwise just trash technology companies for the never ending line of glitchy products they produce and I buy. It dawned on me today that I don't give enough props wh…

When companies such as BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Siebel Systems, IONA and Sybase comes together it is for an important reason.

Recently needed to work on a friend's 12 year old minivan that for some reason still runs. It's ugly, gets crappy mileage, and has 180,000 miles on it, but still went from point A to point B. That …

If you build services the way I do, you create the XSD and then generate the classes using xsd.exe (instead of the other way around). I like this approach because the service's consumers will need …

The Boston Globe website has an article entitled In computer science, a growing gender gap Women shunning a field once seen as welcoming. As a computer science educator and father of two daughters …

"Uuencode is a set of algorithms for converting files into a series of 7-bit ASCII characters that can be transmitted over the Internet. Originally, uuencode stood for Unix-to-Unix encode, but it h…

The forthcoming release of Visual Studio Foundation Server will include two methodology templates for the next version of MSF (the Microsoft Solution Framework). These are MSF for Agile Software De…

Recently in my project we migrated from VS2003 to VS2005. The application I am working on is a smart client application so it has lot many Win Forms. After migration, when the solution was opened u…

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Ever had the annoying problem of IIS not wanting to start, coughing up the message "Unexpected Error 0x8ffe2740 Occurred."? The reason is that some other application has grabbed port 80. The most c…

Ever since I first saw shelving in the new version of Visual Source Safe, I've been somewhat enthralled by it. The first thing I did was figure out how I could do that with Subversion. I started ty…

Update 8/11/2009:

Occasionally when working with an array is may be useful to make a copy of that array. What might not be apparent is that by making a copy of an an array there are implications that can cause unint…

Where I work there's a firewall application required in some parts of the network that doesn't play nicely with XP SP2. So we're still on SP1 while the vendor sorts out the problem. Meanwhile I sti…

Mark Pearce describes how to debug a .Net Windows service from Visual Studio:

If you simply open the web config file and add the following, you will be able to access the test form outside of the localhost:

After having this problem several times and continually forgetting the fix, I figured I'd go ahead and make a post about it. Hopefully, it'll save someone time in the future. Let me know if you hav…

A core concept of the Infragistics NetAdvantage Windows Forms control is the idea of UIElements. UIElements are the individual elements of a control, that when drawn together give you the familiar …

NOTE: This is not in reference to Web Templates. In VS2005 Web Projects are created through a different menu item. If you here because you cannot find the web project templates make sure you select…

Update: There is an existing .Net Framework method Page.GetPostBackEventReference that emits client-side script that initiates postback and also provides a reference to the control that initiated t…

There are some scenarios where need to check programmatically if the given file is a .NET assembly or not. How do we do that? One way is to use reflection and try to load that file (assembly). If t…

This seems to be quite a common error for many people installing PhpMyAdmin for the first time.

This is Microsoft’s new electronic paper format, an alternative to the PDF format. Office 2007 supports 'Save As' to both of these formats via Add-ins, download 'Save As PDF or XPS' here.

- Wow, looking at my editors site, there he is holding one of my latest books. Wow! Nice to see it on paper ... can't wait to get my copy!!!! :) I have worked on three books in the last year and a …

\[South African Specific\]

A new oddity seems to have cropped up after moving our projects from asp v2.0 b2 to asp v2.0 rc1...

I understand keeping the employment rate low in America is important. But does everyone really need a job? Let's use two in-duh-viduals at Yahoo customer service as an example.

Check out the post here.. Can you create a folder named "con", "prn", "nul" in windows

I got this error when I try to create an eventlog source and when I try to write to the new event log (after resorting to manually creating the event log source) with my ASP.NET application.

VB's mojo is back!

This script will backup and Analysis Services 2000 database and timestamp the .cab file with the date of the backup.

Contents

Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) has a great feature, Shelving.

Highlights from Today's C# Language Enhancements Chat

As you may know, the web project file (.webproj) for a ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application is gone.

Ruby/Rake and Python Decorators

Man, oh, man! Setting this thing up was a pain in the arse. It took up most of my day! Anyway, hopefully, I can save someone else the heardache.

If you take the security settings in a GPO, and look closer to the audit policy. You will see 2 logon events. Audit account logon event and audit logon event.

You may receive the error "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server." while trying to consume a Web Service from your ASP.NET Web Application. However, the same …

Natively the GridView doesn't support the insertion of records. However you can manipulate the footerrow in such a way that you can use it as an insertion row. These are the steps :

My past experiences with Mono left me unimpressed because of it's speed issues, in some cases the .NET Framework runing six times faster. But because a lot of people claim that Mono gets faster wit…

If you use Virtual PC 2004 frequently, you are going to notice that the virtual hard disks (.VHD) files growth a lot, as files are saved within the VPC environment, because dynamic VHDs will expand…

System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.

Upon clicking on the SQL Server Enterprise Manager shortcut the following error occurs:

In my initial post on Installing Vista Beta 1 on VMware v5 build 13124 - Initial Observations I was able to get all the VM hardware to work except the sound card. The native VMtools provided sound …

Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:12 AM

Last month I mentioned winsock error 10053, "Software caused connection abort" (basically, the error means that something on the localhost caused the connection to be closed), and how it is so ofte…

Yes! Its that time of the yeah again! Mark 29th of July in your calanders

Posted on Saturday, July 16, 2005 10:26 PM

I had this error in beta2 CTP June. I was trying to create an ObjectDataSource using XSD with predefined stored procedures.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Download source code from ProjectDistributor.net

Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2005 3:37 PM

While working on a Data Form in an ASP.Net application you might want to get a value from the user that corresponds to the Enum you created in your Business Layer. Since Enum types are not strings …

Recently I had a requirement where the stakeholder for a WSS Site wanted what I call 'Visual Security' i.e. basically where the interface does not render what the user does not have rights to. The …

I'll blog today's stuff later, but I wanted to dump out what I got from the BOF session on Avalon and XAML.

The Google Print Beta is available here. Publishers and libraries seem to hate it. I wonder how much more effective/different it is from CiteSeer.

Have you built a mobile solution for you company from scratch?

Beta 1 allowed to sign your ClickOnce manifests simply by using a string name key file (.snk). Beta 2 no longer support this, and you are required to provide a publisher certificate. This was bit c…

In this implementation you pass in a Guid as an 'out' parameter along with the string you want to test - it then fills in the Guid and returns true / false depending on whether the Guid was valid...

CodeSmith 3.0: Are you a CodeSmith fan? When you move up to version 3 Release Candidate 1, be aware that Eric “cleaned up” the GetCamelCaseName function name by changing it to CodeSmith.BaseTemplat…

You may receive the error "BC30138: Unable to create temp file in path 'C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\:' Access is denied" while trying to debug or browse your ASP.NET Applications. This may occur if the ASPN…

In Progress

We have released DateBox .NET Control. This is the first of many controls we plan to release to the community. We have all these controls that we use during the development of our transportation so…

rsAccessDenied was all that stood between me and high fives from the customer. The message from SQL Server Reporting Service (SRS) even displayed the clients log on name – so SRS KNEW who it was de…

If you need to connect to a Virtual Private Network at windows startup, and you don't want to have the user push connect or enter the password do the following: 1) On the VPN Connect screen, check …

You may get this error when trying to browse an asp.net application. The debug information shows that "This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.…

You may receive the following error when browsing an asp.net application. Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'WebApplication1.Global'. Source Error: Line 1: <%@ Application Codebehind="Globa…

Dave Donaldson is stewing over an article on Contractor vs. Consultant. My take—the original author doesn’t have the reputation to make it as a contractor. Case in point—and I quote: “you're never …

I’d recently searched around for some good-quality JavaScript snippets to determine the cursor position within an HTML TextArea, but haven’t had any luck. So, like any fellow geek would do, I came …

Dana Epp posted interesting article about using Image File Execution options in the Windows registry to redirecting a process loading:

Ok, this is pretty crazy stuff. I admit, I didn’t come anywhere near watching the whole thing, but it was pretty cool to see someone took the time to do something pretty creative like this…

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2005 5:27 PM

HOWTO: Print to a USB Printer from DOS in Windows XP

Developers Petition Microsoft To Continue Support For VB6

IBF… Are We Seeing the Future of Microsoft SOA Client Architecture?

Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:14 PM

Books on My Shelf: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

I have to admit, I was under-whelmed in my first pass over the documentation for the new Enterprise Library. After all the hype, I expected to see more dramatic differences in functionality. My fir…

Testable Designs (Answering Earl's Questions)

My Response to Scott Dockendorf's Response to Me in Response to his Article

Confused about TDD Article in DNDJ

Actually, it was an implementation of technology that just got me extremely irate. I was so upset that I just left my purchases there and went over to the nearby Lowe's ... but I am getting ahead o…

For Whom the Bell Tolls...

UPDATE: You can read my responses to some of your comments, or continue commenting here.

nu.nl/internet | Na Heineken stapt ook BNN in podcasting

At last; a hack that I really appreciate.

First off, I want to start this post with an 'Arrrggggggg!!!!!!'. Much better. I have an Inspiron 8600 from Dell. The machine is awesome, I have never had a laptop that ran so fast. It is the perfe…

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This topic comes up so often in so many places that I thought I’d compile a list of reasons why someone might run Windows Server 2003 on a workstation. If you have anything to add, please comment.

Source: http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/12/02/273833.aspx

Update: I have started a series of posts which will build towards implementing as full-featured design surface as I can manage. The series begins here.

Here's my review of known Subversion web-based access tools. If you notice any discrepancies, please let me know. Thanks!

What? How? When? Why? Useless? You have no clue what I am talking about?

Subversion

The Professional Life of a Game Developer?

Posted on Friday, November 05, 2004 11:36 AM

Podcasts and my Pocket PC

Note: The GeeksWithBlogs editor seems to keep really messing with the formatting / XML of this post. If you spot any errors, please hit the Contact Me link above and I'll try to wrestle it into sub…

Some Finnish folks pointed this out to me and I thought it was rather funny. They entered in a request for the driving directions to get from Vaasa to Tampere (a rather short road trip in reality),…

There are mainly 2 types of Win32 applications, console application and window application. They have different way in handling application exit. To force Window application to exit, you need to se…

I have read another AOP article on code project today which uses context bound objects as a mechanism to implement the interception of method calls. The article does a fairly good job on describing…

You can convert local datetime values to UTC datetime values, and vice-versa, using the built-in GETUTCDATE() function:

Google IM

After much searching, this is the best RegEx I can find for splitting a line of text from a CSV file: (?:^|,)(\\"(?:\[^\\"\]+|\\"\\")\\\"|\[^,\]\)

Log4Net is Crap4Crap

Article moved here.

After spending some time with Reporting Services over the past couple weeks, I have noticed a few issues that I find rather odd, at least in my opinion.

Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE)

Purpose:

Someone at work asked this question so I spent five minutes and banged out this code. If it helps one person, it probably will help many so here it is....

It’s finally available at GotDotNet. This took much longer than I expected, and all I can think about right now are the things that still aren’t implemented in it. J Someday I’d like to add a coupl…

In my spare time (is there ever any?) of the past couple of days I have been manipulating both the ASP.NET Starter Kits and the source code from DotNetNuke . Both frameworks seem to have their adva…

Pretty interesting article about the failure of PKIs at Trust Cannot be Outsourced (via Financial Cryptography).

While refining my unhandled exception handler code, I wandered into this question. What is the real difference between the following three statements:

Looks like less than a month. Rob Conery has listed some details on features to expect. The biggest ones are a command line executable, builders that will generate the site for you, a brand new sta…

I am struck by the consequences of the experience Craig relates in this post:

Here’s the comment I posted to Scoble’s blog about the RSS vs. Atom debate that’s been sparked by the W3C’s invitation to the Atom developers to work toward standardization.

I read about Masala Chocolate a Swiss Chocolate on an Indian Blog and also read the reviews here, have'nt seen them in Australia yet, but will yummingly wait for them.

Introduction

BizTalk 2004 supports long-running and atomic transactions within Orchestrations. The model has changed a bit from earlier versions, and atomic transactions are no longer based on DTC transactions …

Ever seen this error when debugging a web app in the VS.NET IDE:

There are few of us who at one time or another have not been admonished to "mind our P's and Q's," or in other words, to behave our best. Oddly enough, "mind your P's and Q's" had nautical beginnin…

Perspective’s prospect: Glass is Half full or Glass is Half Empty

I don't know how this one escaped my attention. In Whidbey, there is a new window that you can dock in your IDE. It is called “System Window” and you can find it under View -> Other Windows -> Comm…

“ Buy stamps to send e-mail “ says Bill Gates, to decrease and put hold on spammers now a new idea arises where we might have to pay to send out email messages!! Well can see some benefits i.e. it …

Table Data Gateway vs. Data Access Object

The One With The Game Loop

- Resume & Personal Stuff

I ran across a nice little Com Interop “gotcha” when I was working with Excel automation from C# today. I'm sure that a lot of you with more COM Interop experience than me already know about this b…

Implementing the Front Controller Pattern (1.0)

Does anyone know of any good open source UML tools? I've only used 4 UML tools: IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational XDE, Microsoft Visio, and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. I despise Visio, XDE is…

After some testing (thanks DonXML), I feel the syndication compression for .Text is ready. However, if you have any issues, please email me at jjulian2@mac.com. I have included the source, binaries…

Weird. Tonight I went to the store to buy the requisite 6 pounds of M&Ms (it's a Microsoft tradition to treat your team to a pound per year on your anniversary\) and all they had was black and whit…

Disposable email, for a single usage

Summary:Automated test tools are powerful aids to improving the return on the testing investment when used wisely. Some tests inherently require an automated approach to be effective, but others mu…

In a review , a work product is examined for defects by individuals other than the person who produced it. A Work Product is any important deliverable created during the requirements, design, codin…

Learn how to write a Regular Expression: \--------------------------------------------------------------- What Regular Expression? A regular expression is a pattern that can match various text stri…

For a while now I've been toying with the idea of writing a C# editor (almost an IDE, but with only the features that I need). Clearly the hardest part of this task would be getting some form of ed…

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Since MVC has been released I have observed much confusion about how best to construct view models. Sometimes this confusion is not without good reason since there does not seem to be a ton of info…

The .NET Base Class Library (BCL) has a wide array of collection classes at your disposal which make it easy to manage collections of objects. While it’s great to have so many classes available, it…

At the recent Calgary Tech Days event I did a presentation on building composite applications with WPF and Silverlight. One question that I get asked frequently when I get to the part of explaining…

I have been looking for a good first layer of validating an url to see if it is valid.

Once again we consider some of the lesser known classes and keywords of C#. Today we will be looking at two set implementations in the System.Collections.Generic namespace: HashSet<T> and SortedSet…

Making ASP.NET AJAX calls to web services has become increasingly popular these days. This approach not only provides a good separation of concerns but also makes it possible to create a truly ajax…

In the web application I work on we sometimes need to create PDF documents based on some user input. In most cases, these documents are fairly simple and quick to create, allowing us to create the …

This handy MSDN blog post already details 8 (yes EIGHT) different ways to backup your SQL Azure Database. But the easiest technique of all, by scheduling a job using Windows Azure Mobile Services, …

I was sad to find out the “codingwithoutcomments” site was taken down. For the sake of a specific post from there, I went to waybackmachine.com and got that post, and I’m pasting it here.

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Here is another early release of the MVVM Light Toolkit V3 (Alpha 2). I decided to release gradually and early as soon as a new part of this new version is ready, to allow advanced users to install…

IIS Express is a new web server that replaces the old Visual Studio web server (aka Cassini). IIS Express provides a number of benefits which you can read about here and they key aspect is that it …

The SQL Azure Federation had been publically launched several weeks ago and this is one of the most existing features I’m looking forward. This might be the first post of SQL Azure Federation, and …

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C# is a wonderful language for modern programming. While everything in C# has a reason and a place, occasionally there are things that can be confusing for a developer who isn’t aware of what is ha…

If you’re debugging Web service calls, you may want to capture incoming requests so you can see exactly what’s reaching the service. If BizTalk’s hosting the Web service, it’s a simple process of a…

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Scott Hanselman has a post on his weblog about getting a shared network printer to work in DOS. That’s not really all that tough and actually got me thinking about a similar experience I had recently.

When creating my unit tests, I’ve been a big believer in the Object Mother pattern for creating state for my immutable value objects. Basically, I need to put the objects in a valid state in the co…

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There is a well-known issue with WPF RadioButton controls with data binding: when a radio button is unchecked the data binding is not undone. For example, suppose you have the following two radio b…

By default, when a stand-alone instance of Microsoft SQL Server exists in a cluster environment, the SQL Server-based instance is set to start automatically. If the host node is rebooted, you may r…

I’d recently searched around for some good-quality JavaScript snippets to determine the cursor position within an HTML TextArea, but haven’t had any luck. So, like any fellow geek would do, I came …

The hosts file of Windows, by default located in %SystemRoot%\\System32\\drivers\\etc, can be a bitch to edit, so it seems.

Technorati Tags: ClickOnce,MAGE,Microsoft,.net 3.5

One of the good things about LINQ to SQL is that it gives the developer flexibility to choose the specified columns of a table from a database. Let’s say I have table Forums and Posts and I need to…

A customer recently contacted me because after installing an SDK it didn’t show up in Visual Studio 2008.

.NET Reflection can be quite handy to transform one object to another, and specially when the target data structure varies a lot. Lets say, a “source party” has a stable Source data structure. But …

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Localization is a common issue when we develop a world wide web application. The key point of making your application localizable is to separate the page content from your logic implementation. Tha…

In contrary to what I initially stated in this post, Moles is not only available as part of the Pex framework, but also stand-alone on Visual Studio Gallery, and this is completely free (no MSDN su…

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If you can find the control panel for DEP, you will find there is not an option to turn it off. This is not a terrible thing unless you are trying to troubleshoot a problem. Then you want to elimin…

This week is my final entry in my Little Wonders series (posts one and two are here and here). These are those little tips and tricks in .NET (and in particular C#) that may not seem like much, but…

We all have those little wonders in our .NET code, those small tips and tricks that make code just that much more concise, maintainable, or performant. Many of you probably already know of some of …

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

Ok, so I needed to convert .docx files to .pdf files on the fly, but none of the free php libraries that were available let me do it on my server (a webservice was not good enough).

If you visit Asp.net Ajax Forum, you will find hundreds of request on File Upload Control that it does not give Ajax version of the page when it is placed in an UpdatePanel. Certainly, it is not po…

Here’s a list of sources of information for the different elements that comprise the 70-480 exam:

One of the common queries I get across my sessions is that, the File Upload control doesnt work inside an Update panel. All of us would like to implement a Gmail File Upload kind of interface and w…

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The Joel test is intended to gauge the quality of a software development organization. Ten years later, it is in need of an update. Below is a possible “New Joel Test”, updated for 2010.

I’m in the process of evaluating how my team will upgrade our product from .NET 3.5 SP1 to .NET 4. I expected the upgrade to be pretty smooth with very few, if any, upgrade issues. To my delight, t…

Yes, this is possibly the simplest app ever written and was cooked up as a lunch bet between myself (@sundriedcoder) and David Justice (@davidjustice) while waiting on our TFS server to be rebuilt.…

By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don’t have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an adm…

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The IODA Architecture to me is fundamental. But as many fundamental notions it might be a bit abstract. That’s why I want to provide an example of how to design and implement software based on it. …

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The forthcoming release of Visual Studio Foundation Server will include two methodology templates for the next version of MSF (the Microsoft Solution Framework). These are MSF for Agile Software De…

I recently profiled a sproc that makes heavy use of the TSQL SUBSTRING function (hundreds of thousands of times) to see how it performs on a SQL 2005 database compared to a SQL 2000 database. Much …

While Microsoft continues to add features to WCF with each version, they are also adding features that simplify working with WCF services as well. Historically WCF has been somewhat intimidating to…

In C#, Visual Basic .NET, C++/CLI, J# – the list goes on – we’re freed from having to worry about our memory management. Objects take care of themselves, and when the CLR garbage collector detects …

I’m posting this blog mostly to remind myself how to fix this if ever I run into it again, but if anyone else benefits from it, then awesome.

Technorati Tags: TFS 2010,TFS Power Tools,UnShelve

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For sometime now I have been working on a few papers on the subject of SOA. This is the first, my definitive definition of what is SOA Governance.

Man, oh, man! Setting this thing up was a pain in the arse. It took up most of my day! Anyway, hopefully, I can save someone else the heardache.

I had someone ask today how to format a date in xslt 1.0. I thought it was worth posting the answer I gave. I hope you find it useful. It’s amazing how many lines of code it takes for this, but it’…

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Our free extension to Visual Studio , the folder based Build Explorer Version 1.1 has now been released, and uploaded to the Visual Studio Gallery and Codeplex. We have collected up a few changes a…

Recently, I was trying to delete a windows service. Normally it should not be necessary to manually delete a service. Uninstalling an application should remove its associated service (if any).

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<table><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/archive/2009/11/22/136473.aspx">Automatic Null Checks</a><a href="https://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/Default.aspx">Alois Kraus</a>&…

Today (well, yesterday now) was Thanksgiving here in the U.S. In addition to doing my traditional family things (making and eating a large, Turkey-centered dinner), I found some time to pop on to t…

Overview of SFTP, FTPS, SCP and FTP:

Over the last year or so I have noticed a disturbing trend brought about by the idea of “brining programming to the masses”. Last April, according to Microsoft, there was a “growing community of 18…

Just ran across an issue where the miniport devices were accidently removed from a system. Not having these installed caused the system to have network driver installation and connectivity issues.

This time I would like to show you the most important changes in the System.Configuration namespace with .NET 2.0. I have looked at my blog referrer statistics and saw about 20 hits/day by Google. …

Credits due: look at the second post on http://searchvb.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid8\gci932171,00.html

Drag and drop support in a web application always get some attention. I used drag and drop support in one of my applications and I have to admit that it involved a lot of JavaScript code. You can c…

The other day, I posted about a feature request submitted to Microsoft Connect. Well, it ended up getting 21 votes before Microsoft closed it as “Closed (Won’t Fix)”. The comment they left was

Today, Somasegar announced that Visual Studio 2015 will be released on July 20th, 2015. This release will also include C# 6.0. This is the first in a series of posts on the new features of C# 6.0 a…

I seem to be spending a lot of time lately trying to convince clients that a single Team Project for the entire Enterprise is the way to go. To most people this seems counter-intuitive. They tend t…

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You may get this error when trying to browse an asp.net application.

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So, I am working on a Proof of Concept that integrates TFS 2008, Project Server 2007 and MOSS. After I create a site based upon a custom site template I then create a project using the PWA web serv…

I will explain how to develop a simple application in ASP.NET using a three-tier architecture.

I found it hard to find a definitive list on the internet for what ports needed opening for Active Directory to replication between Firewalls. Here are my findings and all is working so, hope this …

Update: There is an existing .Net Framework method Page.GetPostBackEventReference that emits client-side script that initiates postback and also provides a reference to the control that initiated t…

I like Code Metrics. They give a certain “objective” evaluation of a piece of code. You can use it for yourself just to make it pinpoint potential trouble areas, or just some code where you were a …

I was thinking about the level of programming abilities lately, as we are starting to interview for an open position. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if programmers came in version numbers like sof…

Finding handle leaks in all processes at once for all handle types without a debugger is no longer impossible. Since Windows 8.1 (0?) each handle creation and close call is instrumented with an ETW…

A while back, I blogged about using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block (VAB) with ASP.NET MVC. As MVC has matured as a framework, this scenario has becoming simpler. In early relea…

In this blog post, I will provide an introduction to DocumentDB by showing you how to create a collection (a collection is a container that stores your data), and how to connect to your collection …

For a while now I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a C# editor (almost an IDE, but with only the features that I need). Clearly the hardest part of this task would be getting some form of ed…

Currently I’m working on a data synchronization tool in which I have finally had the need to use reflection. I’ll admit that I’m not an expert when it comes to reflection, but it isn’t that hard to…

After reading Tim Anderson’s blog article (here) on his installation of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 I glibly added a comment that R2 now includes PowerShell 2.0 for local management of virtual machines …

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The ListView control has a flicker issue. The problem appears to be that the control’s Update overload is improperly implemented such that it acts like a Refresh. An Update should cause the control…

The reluctance of seamen to sail on a Friday reached such epic proportions, that in the 1800s the British Government decided to take strong measures to prove the fallacy of the superstition. They l…

All of us have probably written code like this:

Friday, August 07, 2009 11:56 AM

For the last newsletter I wrote a brief article describing what design patterns were and the educational benefits that they can have as they are generalized knowledge. I hope atleast a few of the m…

Ever needed to reinstall your PC and could not recover your product key from that ‘safe storage’ you were supposed to use? It is no secret that if your system is still running you can recover the k…

For Issue 900, I wanted to do another “best of” and it’s a little tricky. I can’t do best of from 800 to 900 because it will be heavily weighted to the early posts.

In my last post I stated that the only guideline for writing good software is to make it simple. There are a number of very specific code analyses that can be applied during a code review that help…

Get ready for a cool event on June 7th. Register to watch live (starting at 1PM PDT): here – The event will be presented by Scott Guthrie. To keep updated on this event follow the twitter conversat…

Here is something interesting that came up a newsgroup thread a little while ago, that I though merited some more explanation.

You can reach this page anytime at http://tools.michaelcrump.net

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 mess…

A reader Shawn asks :

The Simple Little Registry Editor can be downloaded from:

Some of you may have come across this helpful blog post recently, discussing when the garbage collector (a/k/a the GC) runs on Windows Phone 7 devices. Anyone who has programmed in XNA for the Xbox…

Well I’ve seen so many 10 reasons to date a geek that I thought I would go with the opposite, having dated a few in the past! Share the knowledge so to speak! Bear in mind that I am also a geek so …

After taking a lot of time with C# fundamentals, I decided to go down a different road this week and talk about some of the differences in C# that can be troublesome to people who are used to C++ d…

This was one of the most uncomfortable articles that I read this year:

Due to an upgrade from .Net 2, 3.0 or 3.5 to .Net 4.0 or you are starting a new .Net 4.0 project, you may run into this message:

Well, I’m posting this because during the last week three different people in three completly different environments asked me why is Bluetooth called “Bluetooth”. Why not Goldentooth? 🙂 Why not Bl…

Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

When working with your new version of Windows Vista, after you install your Cisco VPN Client software – which I did – you might get the error:

The post Creating different CSS style selector definitions for different browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and IE 6.0) with subsequent comments desribes that

It seems that there are a few developers out there that are trying to petition Microsoft to keep VB6 alive.

When you are calling DirectorySearcher.FindAll() and there is a chance to have more than 1000 records back, you must set PageSize to non-zero value, preferably 1000. Otherwise only the first 1000 r…

Things have been busy and it’s been a while since my last post, so I decided to write up a post today related to something I have been working on recently where in I needed a way to associate an at…

Chris Webb and Matt Mason have both blogged about formulas for generating a date table using PowerQuery, but both of these posts focus on the standard year-month-day calendar. I’ve been doing a lit…

Possible Cause:- When you install IIS AFTER .NET 2.0 framework, the rights of the ASPNET user had not been set correctly.

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For those of you working with LINUX/UNIX and you’ve typed:

While working on a Data Form in an ASP.Net application you might want to get a value from the user that corresponds to the Enum you created in your Business Layer. Since Enum types are not strings …

This post gives a little info about how to repair an LCD projector that has a washed-out and yellowing image, which results from the blue LCD panel weakening over time. I would have to guess that a…

One of the first things you will want to do after installing visual studio is to set it up to automatically pull down the correct symbols for system components when debugging. You do this by config…

I recently bought a bigger 80 gig hard drive for my laptop, and wanted to copy the contents of my existing 30 gig disk with an XP install over to it. I didn’t want to go buy any drive copying tools…

SQL Server has a built-in data type that automatically marks changes to rows. This data type is “rowversion”. Formerly this data type was named “timestamp”, and Microsoft recommends you start using…

To write object-oriented programs we need objects, and likely lots of them.

Kanban (pronounced kahn-bahn) is a Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing technique that minimizes inventory and increases throughput. This is done by signaling. A production station has a bin or loading…

If you are looking for a great introductory article on Log4Net, I would recommend reading the Log4Net tutorial by Tim Corey.

In the previous post I had described the steps to secure your Windows Azure tokens and get the necessary Visual Studio templates as well as making your web application Azure ready by adding the clo…

I wanted to use String.Format with parameters that can be null. Firstly i decided to put some conditional code like if(arg1!=null) but then desided to check, if it is handled automatically. And fro…

Over the past few months I’ve had 2 customers that have run into an scenario where the SharePoint 2013 web analytics usage reports have no data (all zeroes) in the reports. While working with some …

Updated: June 12, 2006 – I had some debug code in there, basically a sleep for a second statement – doh! – I’ve removed it and Zip file updated

For those who are familiar with the VirtualPC, vmWare and VirtualBox environments will be quite irritated to find out, in Hyper-V, there is no direct way to share files from the Host machine to the…

Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 has been released yesterday, you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bc247d88-ddb6-4d4a-a595-8eee3556fe46 O…

You may see this error – more than once – when working with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 deployment. This animal / error generally shows itself after you have applied an upgr…

Recruit Officer: Have you given any thought to your future, son? Forrest Gump: “Thought”?

I was thinking a little ‘tongue in cheek’ when I came up with the title for this one. To add to the growing number of “Seven Habits” resources, I’ll add one on BizTalk. I wouldn’t say I was a “High…

Media Type Formatters in the WCF Web API provide a way for the consumer of your service to not only specify the format they want for their response, but also specify the format they are using on th…

So on a lark, I threw my hat into the ring for Portland Code Camp 2.0, I didn’t expect to get accepted, there were already a few sessions on unit testing and nunit but I figured, what the heck, let…

If you work with any kind of healthcare data, then odds are you’ll deal with NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers. The NPI is a 10-digit number consisting of 9 digits (with the first digit be…

IntroductionI’ve been asked a few times how the performance of WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) Rules compares with that of the Microsoft Business Rules Engine (MS BRE). Having done no testing, I c…

Some applications are just bent on seeing what appears to be the pristine original Default Web Site that is created when IIS is first installed. For instance, when setting up Microsoft’s own Report…

One of the features that has been available since the Vista days and is also contained in the Windows 7 release is Microsoft’s Desktop Gadgets. Gadgets have become quite the popular set of little t…

\[Original Post Date: 9th October 2005\]I just finished implementing WIVisualizer, a WindowsIdentity debugger visualizer for Visual Studio 2005. It displays important details like:

One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool na…

Hi All, just wanted to point out a teensy weensy but maybe very useful tip. It might be outdated information if you are using SharePoint 2010, but if you are using SharePoint 2007 then you might fi…

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