WinForms
Undo Feature for Adding/Removing Rows in Spread for Silverlight
Published. June 20, 2013Spread for Silverlight provides the functionality where users can undo their last operation using Ctrl+Z. However, one of the Spread users suggested that spread should also offer the option to… Read the rest...
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
The SharePoint Team Blog has moved
Published. February 25, 2013Body: ?Earlier today, the SharePoint team blog moved to a new home on the Microsoft Office Blogs site:http://blogs.office.com/b/sharepoint/ Going forward, all new SharePoint posts will be published at this location, please make sure to update your RSS readers to the new site. We’re in the process of moving existing posts to our new home, but you can still access older content here in the meantime. Thanks for reading, and we look forward to seeing you on the new blog.The SharePoint Team Published:...
Silverlight and WPF
Undo Feature for Adding/Removing Rows in Spread for Silverlight
Published. June 20, 2013Spread for Silverlight provides the functionality where users can undo their last operation using Ctrl+Z. However, one of the Spread users suggested that spread should also offer the option to… Read the rest...
DevExpress.com Blogs
iOS 7 Mobile App Style - Coming Soon
Published. June 19, 2013As most of you know by now, iOS will undergo a significant UI overhaul once v7 is released. I wanted to give you an early preview of our newest mobile app style optimized for iOS 7. For those who have yet to try DXTREME Mobile - our JavaScript app development framework - we automatically detect the platform your app is running on and apply the appropriate style for a native look and experience across all supported devices (Android, iOS and Windows Phone). To learn...
bharry's WebLog
Enterprise grade Git
Published. June 19, 2013In my Visual Studio 2013 post from TechEd a couple of weeks ago, I made a very innocuous comment about including Git support in our TFS 2013 preview that will ship next week (at the Build conference). I wanted to take a few minutes to expand upon it. We first introduced Git support as a VS 2012 VSIX for Visual Studio and server side support in Team Foundation Service in Feb 2013. Since then, we’ve been updating both regularly – every 3-6 weeks. At the announcement, I also said that...
SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land
Announcement: Learn How to Quickstart Your SharePoint 2013 Migration
Published. June 19, 2013This is a paid community blast for SharePointJoel.com by Metalogix. Register for this free webinar on Tuesday, June 25 Are you looking to deploy SharePoint 2013 on-premises or in Office 365? Whether you are upgrading from previous versions of SharePoint or consolidating content from different sources such as file shares, there are many variables involved in ensuring a smooth transition. Join Metalogix and Attunix, a specialist in SharePoint and Office 365 solutions, to discover the fastest...
Scott Hanselman
They WILL take your photos and they WILL use them and you WILL like it.
Published. June 19, 2013This is hardly a tragic story and it's not even a good photo, but it's interesting because it happens a few times a year. Perhaps it's happened to you! (Share in the comments) A buddy noticed a story in Business Insider Australia that was picked up off Reuters called "Microsoft says they've disrupted a global cybercrime ring responsible for $500 Million Theft." It was syndicated to OZ by Business Insider US who pulled it from Reuters, and it seems they each pick their own illustrative picture. And...
C#er : IMage
MVVM and Accessing the UI Thread in Windows Store Apps
Published. June 19, 2013Any developer who has worked with MVVM in WPF, Silverlight, or Windows Store apps has likely run into the issue of executing an action on the UI thread. This most often happens when work has to be done on another thread. It is a common mistake to perform the work and then attempt to set a property on the view model. The view model exposes properties for data-binding, and data-binding must happen on the UI thread. Therefore, triggering a property change notification on the wrong thread can lead to...
You've Been Haacked
SemVer 2.0 Released
Published. June 18, 2013One of the side projects I’ve been working on lately is helping to shepherd the Semantic Versioning specification (SemVer) along to its 2.0.0 release. I want to thank everyone who sent pull requests and engaged in thoughtful, critical, spirited feedback about the spec. Your involvement has made it better! I also want to thank Tom for creating SemVer in the first place and trusting me to help move it along. I’ve mentioned SemVer in the past as it relates to NuGet. The 2.0.0 release of SemVer...
Somasegar's blog
TypeScript 0.9 Preview Release
Published. June 18, 2013Over the past few years, we’ve seen JavaScript applications for the web, on the server, and on Windows become much more substantial in size. To address this trend, last October we released the initial version of TypeScript, which enables application-scale JavaScript, providing high-fidelity interaction with existing JavaScript libraries, and giving developers the direct power and flexibility of JavaScript from a language that supports advanced tooling and error detection. Today, I am happy...
Pete Brown's Blog
Get an AGENT Smart watch and help them get to 1MM
Published. June 15, 2013If you're a Windows Phone (or iOS or Android) user and want a smart watch which you can program using .NET, then get into the AGENT watch kickstarter before it ends in just 4 days. You may know Secret Labs from their most popular NETMF product, the Netduino. I've always been a huge fan of their stuff. Community Secret labs has always made community a core part of their products. In this case, they've already helped people figure out how to create watch faces using straight NETMF, even before...
ScottGu's Blog
Windows Azure: Major Updates for Mobile Backend Development
Published. June 14, 2013This week we released some great updates to Windows Azure that make it significantly easier to develop mobile applications that use the cloud. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: Custom API support Mobile Services: Git Source Control support Mobile Services: Node.js NPM Module support Mobile Services: A .NET API via NuGet Mobile Services and Web Sites: Free 20MB SQL Database Option for Mobile Services and Web Sites Mobile Notification Hubs: Android Broadcast Push...
Approaching Windows Embedded Intelligently
Windows Embedded Compact 2013: a developer’s perspective
Published. June 13, 2013Posted By Colin MurphyTechnical Program Manager, Microsoft’s Windows Embedded What is Windows Embedded Compact 2013? It is just the latest, and of course greatest, version of Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Compact componentized OS, formerly known as Windows CE. Did you know that Microsoft has been in the embedded space with this operating system for over 15 years? In that time, this little OS has evolved from one target category--small handheld devices--to a general-purpose embedded...
Beth Massi
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– May 2013 (+more)
Published. June 11, 2013Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can check them all out here: LightSwitch Community & Content Rollups. WOW! Am I late on this rollup or what? Sorry folks but I have been travelling and speaking at conferences for the last three weeks. It’s great to be home and get back into my groove. Since we’re more than a third of the way into June I’ll...
South Colorado .NET User Group
Meeting Notice - Tuesday June 11, 2003
Published. June 10, 2013"Single Page Applications using ASP.Net MVC & HTML5" by William Wegerson Introduction to building Single Page Applications (SPA) which allow for rich client side interactions using JavaScript and HTML 5. On the client one can target many different platforms, mobile, desktop and tablet using rich libraries such as Durandal, jQuery-Mobile and Knockout.Js in the .NET world.Become familiar with the templates available as well as an overview and installation of the components which make up SPAs and how...
Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC
June 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit
Published. June 9, 2013I’m happy to announce the June 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit. For this release, we enhanced the AjaxFileUpload control to support uploading files directly to Windows Azure. We also improved the SlideShow control by adding support for CSS3 animations. You can get the latest release of the Ajax Control Toolkit by visiting the [...]...
JohnPapa.net
TechEd NA 2013 Sessions
Published. June 8, 2013Here are the KnockoutJS and SPA presentations I gave at Tech Ed NA 2013 conference in New Orleans in June. Thank you to all who attended … I had a great time and really enjoyed the questions after the session. The deck, abstract and samples are in this post. Knockout Watch the KnockoutJS and MVVM: Tips for Building HTML and JavaScript Web Apps here. Do you write a lot of HTML and JavaScript code to push and pull data? In this session, learn popular techniques to use data binding to bind your data...
Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded
Does Altera Have “Big Data” Communications on the Brain?
Published. June 5, 2013In wireless, wireline and financial “big data” applications, moving all those packets needs prodigious FPGA resources, not all of which Altera had before their recent series of acquisitions, partnerships, and otherwise wheeling-and-dealing. I caught up with an old friend at … Continue reading →...
Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded
Does Altera Have “Big Data” Communications on the Brain?
Published. June 5, 2013In wireless, wireline and financial “big data” applications, moving all those packets needs prodigious FPGA resources, not all of which Altera had before their recent series of acquisitions, partnerships, and otherwise wheeling-and-dealing. I caught up with an old friend at … Continue reading →...
.NET Ramblings - Brian Noyes' Blog
TechEd Talks Done!
Published. June 5, 2013I’ve completed my talks for TechEd US, which I will also be repeating at TechEd EU in Madrid in a couple of weeks. Turn out was pretty good, but overall interest in building WinRT / Windows Store apps is still slow. The slides and video for my talk yesterday on Building Windows Store Line of Business apps (with Prism for Windows Runtime) has already posted, the ones for my talk today on Navigation in Window Store Apps should post at end of today. All the demos in my Prism talk were done from...
Adnan on Technology, Research & Development
Study Notes for 70-487 - Developing Windows Azure and Web Services
Published. May 29, 2013After taking 70-486 - Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications couple of weeks ago, I decided to take the final exam 70-487 - Developing Windows Azure and Web Services last week to finish my MCSD certification. Following are the set of notes I used along with MCT material which may help those preparing for the exam. The topic-by-topic breakdown [...]...
Northern Nevada Software Developers Group
Million Monkeys Interview on The Creators Project
Published. May 23, 2013I did another interview on The Million Monkeys Project for The Creators Project. The piece talks about other creative uses of Shakespeare’s works....
Ben H Blog - Keep it Simple, Then Refactor
C# Developer’s Anonymous (Defending C# in a JavaScript World)
Published. May 16, 2013Hi, My name is Ben and I am a C# developer. It’s been 1 minute since I wrote a line of C# code. Am I the only one that has noticed some negativity towards C# and .NET these days? All this buzz and talk about HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript has C# devs on the defensive. Lately, I feel like I need to apologize for using C#, ASP.NET, XAML andor Visual Studio. Everyone wants to use JavaScript for everything. It looks like this post by Jeff is 100% accurate. In the article,...
Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer
Priorities, passion and employment
Published. May 3, 2013Those of us who work for corporations/companies/whatever (read: not self-employed) usually get an allotment of vacation (or ‘PTO’ – personal time off) each year. Most companies have policies that put a cap on the amount of PTO you can carry over year after year. Anything you don’t use, you lose. You’d be an idiot to lose PTO (which is effectively paid days of work). I was an idiot last year. At the end of the year I got the email from HR indicating that I was going to forfeit...
Scot Hiller
Migrating SharePoint 2010 Solutions to SharePoint 2013 Apps
Published. May 2, 2013As more organizations make plans to adopt SharePoint 2013, planning for the migration of 2010 solutions to the 2013 app model is becoming increasingly important. While many SharePoint 2010 solutions will run just fine in 2013, developers really should take the opportunity to rework solutions dur ... (More)...
3 Degrees of SharePoint Development
SharePoint Web Servers, NLB, Multicast, and VLANs – Small Farm Architecture
Published. April 8, 2013Recently I ran into a scenario building out a SharePoint 2013 farm that to me intuitively looked like something that would be very, very common. Yet, when researching for answers and guidance on the topic, I couldn’t find very much. Many blogs, forum Q&A, and product documentation pages touch on parts of the solution, yet I thought this was common enough that having all the pieces together in one place would certainly help me. If that’s true then it might also help others. ...
Jamie Rodriguez
Building Windows Games with the Unity game engine
Published. March 7, 2013This is not déjà vu(or a joke) -- we are finally executing on the training event we postponed last November If you want to know why now, today Unity released their public beta of Unity 4.2, with support for Windows Store apps. The event is on; below, you will find the highest level details. For hour by hour agenda, check the registration site. It is a 2 day event at Microsoft’s campus in Mountain View, CA. April 9 and 10. The event is optimized for existing Unity...
GIS in XML
Borders and Big Data
Published. February 27, 2013I was reflecting on borders recently, possibly because of reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy. Borders come up fairly often in mapping: Geography – national political borders, administrative borders Cartography – border line styles, areal demarcation Web Maps – pixel … Continue reading →...
Dave Noderer's Blog
Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2
Published. February 26, 2013Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dnoderer/archive/2013/02/26/problems-getting-lightswitch-html-client-preview-2.aspxI finally downloaded the html client preview 2 to give it a run, had not had a chance to look at Lightswitch since last summer… http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch/archive/2012/11/12/announcing-lightswitch-html-client-preview-2.aspx I ran into a few problems… When trying to create a Silverlight html/c# client I got a dialog box: Before installing this version...
Scott Golightly's Blog
Going to Visual Studio Live in Redmond
Published. June 27, 2012I will again be speaking at Visual Studio Live in Redmond this year. I am excited to be speaking again and with the chances of another Build/PDC conference seemingly going down each day I have started to tell people that they can only go to one conference...(read more)...
Windows Embedded Blog
Windows Embedded Keynote at SMART TECHnology World
Published. March 26, 2012On Friday 23rd March 2012 Kevin Dallas, General Manager of the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft delivered a keynote presentation at SMART TECHnology World, during the keynote Kevin is joined by Michael Allison, IT Administrator of Hillcrest Medical Center, Tom Romano, CIO of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Jim Buczkowski, a Technical Fellow at Ford to discuss the emergence and value of Intelligent Systems Here’s a link to the keynote video - Mike...
Doug Seven
My Final Day at Microsoft
Published. July 15, 2011Today is my final day at Microsoft. Over the years I have had the pleasure of pranking someone who works for me. It started when he was a college intern and I would lower his desk one inch a day until he looked like he was sitting at a pre-school desk. Ah the good times we had. On my way out I simply couldn’t resist one more job. Two things to know for context. He just spent a month setting up his office. Tweaking it. Adjusting it. Getting everything just right. Additionally, a week ago he came...
Lisa Feigenbaum
Async Articles in MSDN Magazine
Published. October 4, 2011The October issue of MSDN Magazine just came out, and featured a focus on the Async language features coming in C# 5 and VB 11. Michael Desmond interviewed Mads Torgersen and me for the Editor’s note, which you can find here: http://msdn.microsoft...(read more)...
Tyler Jensen's Blog
The .NET Framework 4.0 and the 4.5 In-Place Replacement
Published. April 4, 2012I read with interest Scott Hanselman’s post yesterday entitled .NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting – .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0 which was a cogent and very helpful clarification or perhaps even rebuttal to Rick Strahl’s post on March...(read more)...
Tales from the Doghouse
Links from my Boise Code Camp 2011 talks
Published. March 2, 2011Sorry for the delay. I just got a chance to put together a blog post with the materials and links from last weekend at the Boise Code Camp. Scrum Workshop (with Adam Cogan) Official Scrum Guide Mike Cohn’s articles on User Stories | Planning Poker Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 template Professional Scrum Developer program Also, check out the photos from ‘camp on Flickr. In the meantime, you can enjoy Adam and his blue screen right before our talk....
The Journey of a Softwear Craftsman
Adapting Method Signatures…Functional Style
Published. March 26, 2010Over the last year or so, I’ve become increasingly interested in functional programming. There is just something elegant and sexy about the ways in which it can be applied. In an effort to find more opportunities to apply a functional approach, I’ve started using delegates a lot more in my code. I am gradually starting to see patterns emerge where the delegates offer a cleaner solution. Perhaps, it would be more accurate to say combining delegates. I recently had...
Zach's Fiasco
eWallet 2 KeePass
Published. March 2, 2011If you use eWallet® from Ilium and want to switch to KeePass, I have a new project up on codeplex to help you. http://ewallet2keepass.codeplex.com/ I’ve used eWallet for a long time, and really liked it. But, I recently switched to a Windows Phone 7 and eWallet’s app for Windows Phone 7 doesn’t support synchronizing with the desktop version or editing (as of this writing 2 Mar 2011). So I switched to KeePass and now I use 7Pass on my phone which will synchronize. It doesn’t allow editing,...
Adam Kinney
First personal #Win8 app published – toJSON, converting XML to JSON
Published. February 1, 2013Although its pretty small, I am happy to have my first app published in the Windows 8 store. I’ve been lucky enough to be working on Windows 8 projects almost exclusively since Build 2011, but I finally carved out some … Continue reading →...
Shervin Shakibi's Blog
Using Windows Azure table storage
Published. November 1, 2011Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/shervin/archive/2011/11/01/147518.aspxThe Azure Table service, provides a semi-structured storage in the form of tables that contain a collection of entities, these entities have primary keys and set of properties. A property is a name, typed-value pair. Every entity in table storage has two key properties, Partition Key and the Row key which together uniquely identify each entity in the table. The Table Service API is compliant with REST API provided...
Vishal Shukla
When it comes to performance issues most of the time it’s the code
Published. July 18, 2010Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/Vishal/archive/2010/07/18/when-it-comes-to-performance-issues-most-of-the-time.aspxFor the past 4 weeks I have been assigned on a project with lot of performance issues. It’s an asp .net 3.5 project based on DNN 4.9 framework. The project is quite complex and the team has already put in almost 50 man years in the project and as usual most of the efforts were towards getting functional part working as per requirements. At first I tried to verify the...
Contagious Curiosity
Leaving Microsoft
Published. October 12, 2011This will be last blog post to this blog, as I am leaving Microsoft effective Monday, October 17. Post-Microsoft I’ll be contracting (data projects, both production and education) and spending more time growing ‘Teaching Kids Programming’ around the world. Two years ago someone dear to me gave me the book below, little did I know then how true it would prove… Tomorrow I go to Africa, to speak at TechEd Africa on my last day of work for Microsoft. Wish me luck. ...
Get The Point
Announcing a new blog site for SharePoint IWs
Published. October 22, 2012Abstract: This Get the Point blog site is being retired and we'll henceforth be posting SharePoint IW and end-user content to the O365 Community Technical blog. Category: SharePoint 2013; SharePoint Online; Office 365 Published: 11/29/2012 8:38 AM # Comments:...
MrDave's Blog!
Moving Azure Mobile Services from Account A to B
Published. February 5, 2013We just got done publishing an application to the Windows store using Azure Mobile Services (more on the app later) and had to change Windows Store accounts mid stream. Don’t take this as an official how-to but just in case you end up in this situation just know it is possible and not that much of a pain. We started building the application under Account A, but for business reasons decided to publish it under Account B. We had already setup to the application in the store, configured...
ASP.NET
One More Week!
Published. February 6, 2013A little more then 10 months ago was the last time I published an article on this blog. That has also been about the period I've been busy by bringing an idea to live and turn it into reality. People have been asking what I've been up to and why I wasn't as visible as usually. Well I've been busy! One more week and I'm ready to share with you and the rest of the world. Just be patient, I still have some last things to do. I always had many ideas, I shared them, I discussed them with others and...
Jason Zander's Weblog
New Team, New Challenges
Published. September 20, 2012Last week we officially launched VS2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in launch activities in London, Seattle, Atlanta, and New York, sharing details on the new versions and doing whatever I can to help people get going on the new release. I can honestly say this is the best release I’ve worked on (and I’ve worked on basically all of them). We have been able to use half the milestones and land with higher quality this release thanks...
Jeff Wilcox
Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries–compatible with the Mango phone tools beta
Published. June 9, 2011I took a few minutes today to build and share this updated set of assemblies that are Mango beta-compatible for phone developers. These can also be used with the RTM of phone, SL3, etc. There were some XAML syntax errors in code that was previously not exercised, oops. [ZIP, 518K] Silverlight Unit Test Framework Assemblies [...]...
Electric Beach
New Single: Paint a Flower in the Sky
Published. February 9, 2012One day I asked my daughter Mara what she was drawing: “Oh, I’m just painting flowers in the sky” she answered. Another day, after a very sick night, she said to me in the morning: “Don’t worry about it Dad – when I am sick at night, my angel comes and takes me for a ride”. And [...]...
Mike Tauly's Blog: Silverlight
Silverlight 5 Released
Published. December 10, 2011Silverlight 5 has been released today – you can find the official announcement over on the Silverlight site along with a link to the download and a list of the improvements in Silverlight 5 up on MSDN including features like; platform invocation integration...(read more)...
Peter Torr's Blog
Trying something new: the Windows Phone Developer Blog
Published. January 4, 2013This year, the Windows Phone team is trying out something new for our blogging activity: instead of having individual team members post content on their personal blogs, we’re centralizing the content in the Windows Phone Developer Blog to make it easier for you to discover and keep up with what’s going on. Some of you may have already subscribed, but if not now’s the time since I just posted my first article on there about Kid’s Corner :-). I’ll still be posting on my personal blog (this...
ux musings
Enforce Design Guidelines With Styles And Behaviors
Published. May 1, 2010Often times, the design for an interface calls for guidelines that cannot be sufficiently controlled with styles in a Silverlight resource dictionary alone. Take for instance, the Windows Phone interface shown below, and imagine that the design guidelines specify that the application/page name (the red arrow is pointing to this element) is supposed to be in all caps. How do you enforce this in the interface in a painless manner? One way, is to define a style for the inteface element...
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