ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication lennykean, January 1, 0001 If you use Gmail, you may be familiar with Google’s 2-step verification process. It’s an extra verification step using your cell phone. If you turn on the feature, once you enter your username and password, ... ASP.Net MVC 2-Step Authentication 0 0 0
2012: Study Plan Year in Review JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Over the past year I went into study overdrive: I learned A LOT about C++, Maths, Algorithms, Finance & JavaScript. It was a great year in terms of knowledge acquisition. pro amore scientiam ! C++ ... 2012: Study Plan Year in Review 0 0 2
Accessing your Xbox Cloud Storage save games when you can’t... Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 So if cloud storage is down or your internet connection to your Xbox is down, in most cases you can still play games you saved to Cloud Storage. Note: This only applies to the Xbox that you last played ... Accessing your Xbox Cloud Storage save games when you can’t... 0 0 0
How to install XenDesktop Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Desktop Delivery Controller: "D:\x64\XenDesktop Setup\XenDesktopServerSetup... /noreboot /quiet /configure_firewall /components CONTROLLER,DESKTOPSTUDIO,DE... Virtual ... How to install XenDesktop 0 0 7
How To Make Your System Slower With WMI Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 With the new Windows Performance Toolkit you can now identify bottlenecks in your system which did not show up in any profiler. Lets e.g. query for some system properties via WMI. static void Main(string[] ... How To Make Your System Slower With WMI 0 0 0
LINQ (C#) Many to Many Query using Entity Framework Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Using a MVC 4 Code First project I noticed that my intermediate table between a many to many relationship was missing. In other words, Table 1 has many Table 3, and Table 3 has many Table 1. In the database ... LINQ (C#) Many to Many Query using Entity Framework 0 0 0
Microsoft ends development of Expression Web ihaynes, January 1, 0001 On the 20th December 2012 Microsoft announced that development on the Expression Studio products was being stopped (In reality it had largely been stopped for many months). See http://expression.microsoft... ... Microsoft ends development of Expression Web 0 0 0
Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... Om Talsania, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET has a good number of default controls which usually satisfy your needs. Especially the ListView control, which is a template based fully customizable control which can be tweaked to suit your needs. ... Creating an Image Grid (Photo Gallery) with ASP.NET using ListVie... 0 0 29
Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Finding Memory Leaks in .NET Compact Framework Applications 0 0 0
Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue Vitus, January 1, 0001 I just found an interesting behaviour of Windows Phone 7 TextBox default template. When TextBox is disabled, inner text is rendered with margin: To reproduce it, create new Silverlight WP application and ... Windows Phone 7 TextBox style margin issue 0 0 0
BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 A source code could be downloaded from here.Global artifacts are usually tentative things. Languages and tools have different methods to limit the artifact visibility. Think about public and private variables, ... BizTalk: Internals: Schema Uniqueness Rule 0 0 1
Overuse of “as” keyword Jakub Niemyjski, January 1, 0001 Recently I realized that I am overusing "as" keyword. It is probably because its syntax is more fluent for me than ordinary cast. I see this overuse even in Microsoft examples. Let the following code show ... Overuse of “as” keyword 0 0 2
ASP.NET MVC 4 - My FAQs Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Here are some FAQs on things that were not so obvious. I’ll continue to add to this list over time. 1. Passing HtmlAttributes using @Html.ActionLink @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create", null, new { ... ASP.NET MVC 4 - My FAQs 0 0 0
Integrate Apps with Gmail (.NET or Java). dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Use the CData Google ADO.NET Provider or JDBC Driver to read and search email messages on your Gmail accounts.The CData Google Data Provider for ADO.NET allows you to use the search capabilities in IMAP ... Integrate Apps with Gmail (.NET or Java). 0 0 0
C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 In my last post I discussed the approach we used at my job to convert an ASP .NET web forms application written in VB .NET to C#. In that post I alluded to some of the issues that we encountered during ... C# to VB .NET Conversion Issues 0 0 0
Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 A colleague of mine asked me how he can find out why his laptop does consume 30% CPU in the SYSTEM process after it did wake up from hibernate. That is easy I replied: Open Process Explorer select the ... Profiling Code – The Microsoft Way 0 0 1
Comparing WFE servers PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 Comparing WFE servers One of the SharePoint farms I am involved with has a load balanced pair of WFE. One of the web parts had acted sporadically – at times working well, at others not at all and I suspected ... Comparing WFE servers 0 0 0
AppFabric Private Caching: What to Watch Out For jasont, January 1, 0001 The ability to have a private AppFabric cache deployed as a cluster of worker roles, or piggy-backing your existing roles, is great. But there are some things to watch out for, which can cost you a lot ... AppFabric Private Caching: What to Watch Out For 0 0 1
SSAS: Executing MDX Scope statements using SSMS Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 So usually when I want to test an MDX expression in SSMS I'll write a query with a "WITH MEMBER…" clause to create a query scope calculated measure. But sometimes you may want to test a scoped assignment ... SSAS: Executing MDX Scope statements using SSMS 0 0 5
How to promote pure Server 2008 to Domain Controller Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I found something nice, but not obvious for me. You don't need to install and prepare anything just run: netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.1.100 255.255.255.0 ... How to promote pure Server 2008 to Domain Controller 0 0 3
New Windows 8 Code Sample Demo Video on Channel 9 Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Since we launched Windows 8 How-do-I code sample videos last month, the first Windows 8 video has been watched for over 15,000 times! We heard your voice that you want more videos to demonstrate some typical ... New Windows 8 Code Sample Demo Video on Channel 9 0 0 3
Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 This morning, Microsoft Channel 9 interviewed Mei Liang - Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - to introduce the newest Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio 2012 &2010. This ... Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... 0 0 1
How a Mature HR Framework Can Transform Your Organization D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 My buddy Steve Rogalsky blogged about “A Systems Thinking Alternative to Performance Reviews”. This led to this Twitter convo: So instead of replying to Steve via 140 characters, I figured I’d do a blog ... How a Mature HR Framework Can Transform Your Organization 0 0 4
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 2 o... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 This article is Part 2 in a two-part series on building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster to support highly available virtual machines as a foundation to a Private Cloud solution. If you missed it, be ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 2 o... 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 17/Dec/2012 - PowerPivot for Business Inte... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://www.apress.com/97814... APress are offering "PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint" for $10."PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint takes ... APress Deal of the Day 17/Dec/2012 - PowerPivot for Business Inte... 0 0 0
TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working on a hobby project for the past little while, and I wanted to blog my way through it as I go. My intent is to use a lot of new technologies, agile best practices, and some trendy architecture ... TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro 0 0 0
SSAS with a slowly changing dimension jkrebsbach, January 1, 0001 At a client, they are interested in trying out some data cubes, so I spun up an instance of SSAS and gave them a demo of some of the awesome opportunities that cubes unlock – but found an interesting puzzle ... SSAS with a slowly changing dimension 0 0 0
Mental Illness–The Strawman Sacrificed at the Altar of Fear D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 “Monsters, aliens, phantoms, none of them are real. The thought that an actual person could do this is too awful so our imaginations create a way that’s easier to take. But even the strongest of imaginations ... Mental Illness–The Strawman Sacrificed at the Altar of Fear 0 0 1
I stopped to use GoogleDrive in favor to EverNote. Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 For a long time I've used Google Docs to write different notes, collect links for search and drafts of my posts.Later on IPad I've started to use EverNote. The main advantage for me was that EverNote allows ... I stopped to use GoogleDrive in favor to EverNote. 0 0 0
How to install SCSM 2012 Management server Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Don't forget about prerequisites: SCSMrun and SCSMworkflow accounts with efficient rights – for testing purposes you can add them into local admins SQL Server – SCSMrun must be sysadmin Management server: ... How to install SCSM 2012 Management server 0 0 5
New Yahoo Mail App For Windows 8 - Review Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I had heard that Yahoo was bringing out a new web interface, but I was surprised to find a Windows 8 app show up in the store as a featured app. Given this is my mainstay for mail no matter what company ... New Yahoo Mail App For Windows 8 - Review 0 0 1
Sharing DataAnnotations between the UI and the business logic Martin S. Johansen, January 1, 0001 Along with with .Net version 4.0 came DataAnnotations which is a library for validating properties in classes. The library consists of validation-attributes, core classes and interfaces for validating ... Sharing DataAnnotations between the UI and the business logic 0 0 1
Installing and configuring Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 Deploying images is one thing but actually having to run the update gauntlet on every deploy is terrifying to me. It often results in no updates being installed (cause I just could not be bothered) and ... Installing and configuring Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 0 0 7
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster for Highly... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Overhead at one of my recent IT Pro events: “The FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 sounds AWESOME! With the same features and scalability as the Hyper-V role in the full Windows Server 2012 OS, I could really use ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster for Highly... 0 0 22
Creating data types in C# Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 I ran into an annoying problem while wrapping a native library in managed code. The original library was VERY native. The included header files included hundreds of typedefs and more than a few structures ... Creating data types in C# 0 0 4
Converting VB .NET to C#: A Post Mortem Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/2012/12/13/converting-vb-net-to-c-a-post-mortem/ Converting VB .NET to C#: A Post Mortem 0 0 0
How to install System Center 2012 Orchestrator Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Let's make a shortcut … as usual. {Orch_install_media}\setup\... /Silent /ServiceUserName:%computern... /ServicePassword:Password1 /Components:All /DbServer:%computername%\SQ... ... How to install System Center 2012 Orchestrator 0 0 0
How to install Windows Server 2008/2012 roles/features using Powe... Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Let's make it faster … A simple PowerShell script Import-Module Servermanager Add-WindowsFeature Application-Server,Hyper-V,WAS -norestart And of course shutdown –r at the end List of roles and features: ... How to install Windows Server 2008/2012 roles/features using Powe... 0 0 55
Working with a CFGrid in ColdFusion csmith18119, January 1, 0001 So I just started learning about ColdFusion and one of the first thing I had to do was bind some data to a grid or table. So being an ASP.net developer I looked for the ColdFusion equivalent to an ASP ... Working with a CFGrid in ColdFusion 0 0 0
How to build Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj) with TFS 2010... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Out of the box, Team Foundation Server 2010 Build does not support building of setup projects (.vdproj). Although, you can modify the DefaultTemplate.xaml or create your own in order to achieve this. I ... How to build Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj) with TFS 2010... 0 0 4
How to install .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 Waclaw Chrabaszcz, January 1, 0001 Install it with DISM (run cmd.exe as admin), if the setup fails when you try to enable it under "add, remove features" dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:d:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess ... How to install .NET 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 0 0 4
Enterprise Instrumentation: The 'sessionName' parameter of value... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We are still using Enterprise Instrumentation(that was created during .Net 1.1 time)In new Server 2008 environment and IIS 7 we have the following errors:The 'sessionName' parameter of value 'TraceSession' ... Enterprise Instrumentation: The 'sessionName' parameter of value... 0 0 0
Eager Loading more than 1 table in LinqtoSql Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 When I've tried in Linq2Sql to load table with 2 child tables, I've noticed, that multiple SQLs are generated. I've found that it isa known issue, if you try to specify more than one to pre-load it just ... Eager Loading more than 1 table in LinqtoSql 0 0 0
A Taxonomy of Numerical Methods v1 JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Numerical Analysis – When, What, (but not how) Once you understand the Math & know C++, Numerical Methods are basically blocks of iterative & conditional math code. I found the real trick was seeing ... A Taxonomy of Numerical Methods v1 0 0 1
Do NOT Change "Copy Local” project references to false, unless un... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 To optimize performance of visual studio build I've found multiple recommendations to change CopyLocal property for dependent dlls to false,e.g. From http://stackoverflow.com/qu... ... Do NOT Change "Copy Local” project references to false, unless un... 0 0 6
Implementing Search for BlogReader Windows 8 Sample Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 The BlogReader sample is an excellent place to start speeding up your Windows 8 development skills. The tutorial is available here and the complete source code is available here Create a project called ... Implementing Search for BlogReader Windows 8 Sample 0 0 184
Open Source MariaDB, the MySQL fork to replace MySQL? Jenson, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Frankly speaking, I’ve been out of touch with the Open source world for quite some time. Until recently, after I’ve joined the ... Open Source MariaDB, the MySQL fork to replace MySQL? 0 0 0
Making document storage in Sharepoint a breeze (leave the Web UI ... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 Hey everyone, I know many of us regularly use Sharepoint for document storage in order to make documents available to several people, have it version controlled, etc. Doing this through the Web UI can ... Making document storage in Sharepoint a breeze (leave the Web UI ... 0 0 7
Powershell: If statements dependent on installed exchange role marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 Something I need to keep for usage in the future:$hostname=hostnameIf (get-exchangeserver $hostname | where {$_.isClientAccessServer -eq $true}) { } else { } If (get-exchangeserver $hostname | where {$_.isHubTransportServer ... Powershell: If statements dependent on installed exchange role 0 0 0