Compiler Warnings -- What is the trick about them? lavanyadeepak, January 1, 0001 Be it a C# Compiler or a PHP page we all have seen errors and warnings. What is the difference between them? Error: A failing condition which prevents the compiler from proceeding further. Warning: A condition ... Compiler Warnings -- What is the trick about them? 0 0 0
Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction You might have noticed that the Silverlight 5 (Release Candidate) is out. One of the new features included in the RC is the ability to call P/Invoke. In this short demo, we will write a Silverlight ... Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC) 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 08, 2011 -- #1144 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Ollie Riches, Tony Champion, Kunal Chowdhury, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty, Jesse Liberty, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Justin Angel, and Shawn Wildermuth(-2-). Above the Fold: ... Silverlight Cream for September 08, 2011 -- #1144 0 0 0
Awesome Visual Studio Videos deadlydog, January 1, 0001 I watched an awesome Channel 9 Visual Studio Tips And Tricks video, so I thought I'd share. Some great VS gems in there. Even a few Windows 7 ones, like using Alt+D to jump to the address bar in Windows ... Awesome Visual Studio Videos 0 0 1
Leveraging MSBuild for Ruthless Productivity Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 (Warning: This is semi-advanced stuff. It’s not hard, per se, but it involves editing important project files manually, which, if done wrong, can render them useless making it so that your code won’t compile ... Leveraging MSBuild for Ruthless Productivity 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2011 -- #1143 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tony Champion, Ollie Riches, Gill Cleeren, Koen Zwikstra(-2-), Peter Kuhn, Xianzhong Zhu, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Sumit Dutta(-2-), Asim Sajjad, Dhananjay Kumar(-2-), ... Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2011 -- #1143 0 0 0
99 Bottles of Beer! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://99-bottles-of-beer.n... an old drinking song that printed out by an award-winning piece of code obfuscation cited in a Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... inspired ... 99 Bottles of Beer! 0 0 1
Visual Studio vNext Details - HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event H... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Scott Guthrie of Microsoft has blogged about "HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series)" at http://weblogs.asp.net/scot... ... Visual Studio vNext Details - HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event H... 0 0 0
Python Tools for Visual Studio TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Python Tools for Visual Studio has now been released at http://pytools.codeplex.com... (You will also need Iron Python from http://ironpython.codeplex.... ... Python Tools for Visual Studio 0 0 0
properties-or-public-fields TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://csharperimage.jeremy... there is an interesting discussion on whether to use Prperties or to publicly expose fields. Whilst I will admit there be cases ... properties-or-public-fields 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2011 -- #1142 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Lee, Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, XamlNinja, Ollie Riches, WindowsPhoneGeek, Jeremy Likness, Pete Brown(-2-, -3-), Dhananjay Kumar, Sumit Dutta, and Asim Sajjad. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2011 -- #1142 0 0 0
More Cheat-Sheets (and some for SQL Injection Attack!) TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://devcheatsheet.com/ there is a comprehensive list of cheat sheets. Of particular note are: http://devcheatsheet.com/ta... SQL Injection! http://devcheatsheet.com/ta... ReSharper ... More Cheat-Sheets (and some for SQL Injection Attack!) 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2011 -- #1141 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Tony Champion, Kevin Hoffman, Pete Brown(-2-), Mike Gold, Jeremy Likness, Xpert360, Den Delimarsky, Sumit Dutta, Asim Sajjad, Vikram Pendse, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight: ... Silverlight Cream for September 03, 2011 -- #1141 0 0 0
ASP.NET vNext Series - New Features Patrick Olurotimi Ige, January 1, 0001 As you know Visual Studio 2011 has got some great features but it seems ScottGu has got some other stuff to show See the new vNext cool features here Enjoy the videso too. Cheers ... ASP.NET vNext Series - New Features 0 0 0
Red Gate Ants Memory Profiler 7.1 – Initial thoughts and ge... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I was really excited when I heard Red Gate wanted a review of their memory profiler done. I have been a fan of Red Gate products for years… being first exposed to their products via reflector a few years ... Red Gate Ants Memory Profiler 7.1 – Initial thoughts and ge... 0 0 0
30% saving on Learn Visual Studio subscription TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Learn .NET, C#, VB, ASP NET and more! Click the link below to get started today on your path to learning .NET! Save 30% at LearnVisualStudio.NET Today http://www.learnvisualstudi... ... 30% saving on Learn Visual Studio subscription 0 0 0
Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 RC mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Today the release candidate of Microsoft’s Silverlight 5 was released to the public. If you want to know “What’s new in Silverlight 5” then check out this page on Silverlight.net and continue reading the ... Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 RC 0 0 1
MVVM light V3 installer for non-English systems Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 After I released the MVVM Light installer, I got a note saying that parts of the installation failed on non-English systems (in that case a German installation of Expression Blend and Visual Studio). Specifically, ... MVVM light V3 installer for non-English systems 0 0 0
Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. mbcrump, January 1, 0001 Introduction By now, most of you have heard that Windows Phone 7 – Mango release will support Local Databases (SQL CE) using Linq to SQL. But what you probably haven’t heard much about is how to extract ... Extracting a SQL CE DB from Isolated Storage in WP7 Mango. 0 0 1
VS2010 Find In Solution Explorer Hotkey/Toolbar Button Lance Robinson, January 1, 0001 First I found this blog post – which worked but only after some tinkering. There is a comment there that describes a better (simpler) solution, IMO. Step 1: Create the following macro, which simply toggles ... VS2010 Find In Solution Explorer Hotkey/Toolbar Button 0 0 2
WCF Deployment To IIS Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 If you are developing you WCF service for web service deployment under IIS and coding with the Visual Studio web server you are in for a rude awakening when it comes time to deploy your solution. Ok, so ... WCF Deployment To IIS 0 0 0
Tips for IT Security in RIAs Webgui, January 1, 0001 Rich internet applications are growing fast in the business and enterprise application landscape as more and more software managers and corporate decision makers are electing to place rich internet applications ... Tips for IT Security in RIAs 0 0 6
New Project Unveiling Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 The time has come to unveil the new project for the blog. I know, I know. I can hear the excitement. I try to go everywhere I can to preach the gospel of XNA. As I do, the #1 question I get is, "Have you ... New Project Unveiling 0 0 1
What can TFS do for me, as an IT Pro? An Overview. Part 1 of 3. Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Let’s define what this should mean and be about. How can I as an IT Pro be able to use TFS for the tasks and activities I normally do. Whether it is controlling a project or creating scripts and such. ... What can TFS do for me, as an IT Pro? An Overview. Part 1 of 3. 0 0 1
SmartAssembly 6.1 Review Michael B. McLaughlin, January 1, 0001 It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a GeeksWithBlogs.net Influencers review. This time, I had the opportunity to check out Red Gate’s SmartAssembly 6.1, which is a integrated collection of tools for ... SmartAssembly 6.1 Review 0 0 0
String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace gerardosblog, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I recently started working with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 and I came across one of the new language features, String.IsNullWithWhiteSpace. ... String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace 0 0 2
This blog is moving to ericnelson.wordpress.com Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Apologies in advance for any problems caused as I move over to http://ericnelson.wordpress... over the next few days. I will blog again on here when the move is fully complete. I have had a superb time ... This blog is moving to ericnelson.wordpress.com 0 0 0
Microsoft releases Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 If your question is, what is this? or perhaps more around … what does this mean? Let me explain a bit about it. Microsoft has been providing this type of services through partners within a given competency ... Microsoft releases Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services 0 0 0
Getting Started with jqChart for ASP.NET MVC jqChart, January 1, 0001 Official Site | Samples | Download | Documentation | Forum | Twitter Introduction jqChart takes advantages of HTML5 Canvas to deliver high performance client-side charts and graphs across browsers (IE ... Getting Started with jqChart for ASP.NET MVC 0 0 0
Product Review - ComponentOne Studio for MVC Wijmo Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Wijmo is an awesome tool from ComponentOne. The goal of this tool is to help us web developers rapidly develop MVC applications with interfaces richer than WebForms. Main Features: 1.Over 30 UI Widgets ... Product Review - ComponentOne Studio for MVC Wijmo 0 0 2
Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 -- #1133 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Dhananjay Kumar, Erno de Weerd, Jesse Liberty(-2-), Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, John Papa, Morten Nielsen(-2-), Andrej Tozon(-2-), and Michael Washington. Above the Fold: ... Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 -- #1133 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2011 -- #1132 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this All Submittal Issue: Michael Washington, SilverlightShow(-2-), Mark Monster(-2-), Oren Gal, Andrea Boschin, Sigurd Snørteland, Peter Kuhn, Mijail Cisneros, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-), Gill Cleeren Above ... Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2011 -- #1132 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 20/Aug/2011 - Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB ... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the day from Apress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 "The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you'll find on any shelf, ... APress Deal of the Day - 20/Aug/2011 - Beginning ASP.NET 4 in VB ... 0 0 0
MSDN vs. TechNet Mark Treadwell, January 1, 0001 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 subscriptions. ... MSDN vs. TechNet 0 0 6
FREE Online Windows Phone Mango training August 23rd and 24th Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! Microsoft Learning hosted a Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (plus an update course) last year and it was an absolute smash. Now that "Mango" has made such a huge splash, ... FREE Online Windows Phone Mango training August 23rd and 24th 0 0 0
WCF Service Development Basics Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Part of the fun of being a consultant is that the technology you use changes from day to day. Recently it is WCF which, while knowing the concepts of since it came out I haven’t used up until now. The ... WCF Service Development Basics 0 0 0
The protocol 'net.msmq' is not supported sathya, January 1, 0001 The protocol 'net.msmq' is not supported If you get this error you need to do the following steps :- You can just do the following if everything is right in place for you :- 1. Open IIS -> Your Website ... The protocol 'net.msmq' is not supported 0 0 2
Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2011 -- #1131 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Washington, Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Michael Crump, Nigel Sampson, Ben Gracewood, Jeremy Likness, Den Delimarsky, Austin Andrews, Morten Nielsen(-2-), and Alex Sorokoletov. ... Silverlight Cream for August 14, 2011 -- #1131 0 0 0
A compendium of Cheat Sheets TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://john-sheehan.com/blo... is an excellant compendium of cheat sheets. Proud user ofInstant C# and VB.NET code generation in Microsoft Visual Studio ... A compendium of Cheat Sheets 0 0 0
A free tool for Computer Forensics TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://computer-forensics.s... there is a free specialised tool for imaging suspect PCs and exmining the image running under VMWare. Proud user ofAdvanced XML support inMicrosoft ... A free tool for Computer Forensics 0 0 0
SQL Injection Attack on a PHP system! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 There is a misunderstanding about SQL Injection attack in that some people think that that is is restricted to Microsoft. Here is a case where it happened on a PHP system. see http://www.securityfocus.co... ... SQL Injection Attack on a PHP system! 0 0 0
The Database Party TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 The origin of the following is now lost in the mists of time but it bears repeating. A big party is being held to honor relational database systems & their impact on the modern society. Outside the ... The Database Party 0 0 0
Turning on the LightSwitch, in Five Movements andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 I’ve written about Visual Studio LightSwitch several times in this blog and in my Redmond Review column, including this month’s piece, “LightSwitch: The Answer to the Right Question.” All throughout, I’ve ... Turning on the LightSwitch, in Five Movements 0 0 0
Entity Framework 4.1 Code-First Made Easy Sean Terry, January 1, 0001 No matter which ORM or data access technology you use, at some point you just need to do some CRUD, and you need to do it fast. In this post, I’m going to show you how to get your CRUD on with the latest ... Entity Framework 4.1 Code-First Made Easy 0 0 0
MVC 3 and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010–August... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 The new version of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 i.e. the August 2011 release just got out. You can read and download it from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/win... ... MVC 3 and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010–August... 0 0 5
Another free tool - A Ruler for Windows TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 When working on Web Forms and Windows forms, it is useful to be able to measure height and width on the screen. I have used Iconico ruler before and it is a very useful gadget. Download it from http://www.arulerforwindows... ... Another free tool - A Ruler for Windows 0 0 0
AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new H... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Its been a while since I played with Web forms, AJAX stuff. I was curious in checking out, particularly how the AJAX Control Toolkit which used to be my favorite in the past is evolving. There is a new ... AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new H... 0 0 6
Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released terje, January 1, 0001 Update: These have been superseded and included in later Cumulative Updates. See http://wblo.gs/cu8v for checking what you got and updates, or download the tool. Also see info about the updates and extensions ... Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released 0 0 2
Mercury Smiles and Dawn sees Vesta! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A recent picture taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around Mercury, shows a smile! The "smiling crater" can be seen at http://messenger.jhuapl.edu... ... Mercury Smiles and Dawn sees Vesta! 0 0 0
Patch Tuesday 9th August TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Next Tuesday Microsoft will release patches to fix 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio. Be prepared to patch your PCs. Details are at: http://www.microsoft.com/te... ... Patch Tuesday 9th August 0 0 0