Safely Cloning Virtualized Domain Controllers with Windows Server... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 When virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers in the past, we've needed to be very careful that we don't invoke any steps, such as applying an old snapshot, that could possibly cause USN rollback ... Safely Cloning Virtualized Domain Controllers with Windows Server... 0 0 0
Awaiting Windows Phone 8 Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 I don’t know if you are, but I am very eager to get my hands on Windows Phone 8 this coming season! If you have not heard, check out this article with video - Announcing Windows Phone 8 Here are some of ... Awaiting Windows Phone 8 0 0 0
St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 Wrap-Up Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 Thanks to all of the organizers and volunteers and sponsors who made this fifth annual event another huge success. Thanks to all of the speakers, many of whom paid for their own travel and lodging in exchange ... St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 Wrap-Up 0 0 0
What went right with Metro going away rickpetersen, January 1, 0001 There was a long post here; like Betamax, it just did not make it. Metro was not my favorite name though I do get what it was about and wish it would not have gone away so close to Windows 8 dropping (this ... What went right with Metro going away 0 0 0
A "snark-free" post on the Metro naming debacle* (Caution: May co... mbrit, January 1, 0001 In a parallel universe I'm writing a much less kind version of this post, but with GA of Windows 8 being measured in a short number of months, I'm going to try and be helpful. Am I happy about the naming ... A "snark-free" post on the Metro naming debacle* (Caution: May co... 0 0 0
My journey to the dark side dgreen, January 1, 0001 After some deep soul searching, I’ve decided to venture into the world of Objective-C and the wonderful world of iOS development. Mind you, its not some whimsical fancy. As a .NET developer by trade it ... My journey to the dark side 0 0 2
Weather station with .NET - Part 1 Zak McKracken, January 1, 0001 I’ve always been a fan of those little ARM-boards that can be programmed with C#. So far, I was playing around with a Netduino-board in my office. I use it for automatic testing my software where I need ... Weather station with .NET - Part 1 0 0 1
Potential Shaw Security Snafu Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’m sitting here at Moxies in downtown Calgary, and when I fired up my laptop looking for WiFi I spotted an Unsecured network called ShawOpen at full-strength: When I connected I got prompted with a web ... Potential Shaw Security Snafu 0 0 0
TFS 2012–Work Disconnected Jonathan Mills, January 1, 0001 One of the greatest frustrations of TFS up till now has been the complete inability to edit files while disconnected from the TFS server. The other is the inability to edit files outside of visual studio ... TFS 2012–Work Disconnected 0 0 0
TFS In The Cloud – Source Control Jonathan Mills, January 1, 0001 In my last post I showed you how to get started using TFS in the cloud. By itself, this is very cool, but setting it up for source control makes it even better. In this post, we will work through the process ... TFS In The Cloud – Source Control 0 0 2
How long before I have to pay? ryanabr, January 1, 0001 I have some concerns where I see Microsoft going in terms of making developers pay to use tools that they already own. For example, to test out Windows Phone development I had to pay the $99 fee to allow ... How long before I have to pay? 0 0 2
Part 3–PassBook Server Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So far we have covered some basic principals, a simple database schema to store pass-jobs. Next step is to go about actually tie all this together and generate some passes. I’m being careful to avoid talking ... Part 3–PassBook Server 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 30/Jul/2012 - Pro WCF 4 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro WCF 4"Pro WCF 4 is a complete guide to Windows Communication Foundation from the service-oriented architecture perspective, ... APress Deal of the Day - 30/Jul/2012 - Pro WCF 4 0 0 0
Dear OO Purists: Yes, the Data Model is Important D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 My buddy Terry sent this tweet out: I thought I’d write one. In my head, I imagine Terry has had some interesting discussions with some developers, strong OO types sitting with their checkered shirts and ... Dear OO Purists: Yes, the Data Model is Important 0 0 3
Things seem the same, but different. foxjazz, January 1, 0001 I remember I had joined the Air Force and spent my first paycheck or 2 on a 286 pack bell. The decision came in 1991 when I went to the software shelves and looked at the software available. At the time ... Things seem the same, but different. 0 0 4
SharePoint 2013 - 5 things to look out for! KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 1. Search Engine Optimization & Analytics is in Search – Search is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server ... SharePoint 2013 - 5 things to look out for! 0 0 0
SharePoint 2013 - First Look! KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 5 things that caught my attention for at the first site of SharePoint 2013.The new GUI — SharePoint 2013 adopts the Windows 8 Metro interface.Live Doc Preview — By default, there is now a live document ... SharePoint 2013 - First Look! 0 0 0
SharePoint 2013 - Favorite 5! KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 5 things that caught my attention for at the first site of SharePoint 2013.The new GUI — SharePoint 2013 adopts the Windows 8 Metro interface.Live Doc Preview — By default, there is now a live document ... SharePoint 2013 - Favorite 5! 0 0 0
Getting Neo4j to install as a service on Windows 8 Release Previe... Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 So, I’ve been working out how to get Neo4j installed on my Windows 8 machine. The j in neo4j does indeed stand for Java, and so I installed the JDK and JRE for my system (x64), and then I extracted neo4j ... Getting Neo4j to install as a service on Windows 8 Release Previe... 0 0 2
Joint West Palm Beach and Gold Coast Users’ Groups July 201... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Our July 2012 joint user group meeting featured Joe Homnick, Microsoft Regional Director. Mr. and Mrs. Homnick braved a tough storm and roads plagued with electrical problems to make it to our group location ... Joint West Palm Beach and Gold Coast Users’ Groups July 201... 0 0 0
TFS In The Cloud Jonathan Mills, January 1, 0001 One of the greatest barriers to entry for many developers getting into TFS is the setup and install of the system. Fortunately, Microsoft has made it possible for anyone to stand up an their own private ... TFS In The Cloud 0 0 0
Paste without formatting using a single hotkey Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 Have you ever tried to copy text from one place and when you try to paste it, it ended up with all the formatting from where you copied from?Word, Excel, and even GMail suffer from this.Normally what you ... Paste without formatting using a single hotkey 0 0 1
Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Intro Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) In Excel 2010 PowerPivot DAX: Excel data analysis functions to construct dynamic analysis custom pivots on front end – instead of SSAS MDX. PowerPivot - building blocks ... Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) 0 0 2
An Introduction to WebGL JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 What is WebGL? low-level JavaScript API to access the GPU from within scripts on web pages Usage: performant real-time 3D graphics in the browser. It's a web standard doesn't need a plugin managed by Khronos ... An Introduction to WebGL 0 0 1
The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 I have written already some time ago how big a .NET object is. John Skeet as also made a very detailed post about object sizes in .NET. I wanted to know if we can deduce the object size not by experiments ... The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains 0 0 2
Part 2–PassBook Server Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So now that we’ve established we are going to-do a glorified mail merge to build up our individual passes. The next step is to construct a database that is going to drive the entire process. I’ve built ... Part 2–PassBook Server 0 0 0
Confirming communication with an XBee radio and FEZ Cerbuino Bee ParadigmShift, January 1, 0001 So I’ve decided to expand my horizons further into the world of Microcontrollers. As a .NET engineer with little hardware experience I found that the learning curve to enter the hardware world has drastically ... Confirming communication with an XBee radio and FEZ Cerbuino Bee 0 0 1
Reading QR Codes In Your Windows Phone App Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I have recently been working on an application for a client that needs to read QR codes. This has lead to some interesting findings. There are a couple of approaches you can use. One is to take a picture ... Reading QR Codes In Your Windows Phone App 0 0 5
Plug and Play Database Continuous Integration with TeamCity David Atkinson, January 1, 0001 In a previous blog I describe in twenty one easy steps how to set up continuous integration using a combination of TeamCity and Red Gate tools. Okay, it’s easy only in a relative sense, giving that until ... Plug and Play Database Continuous Integration with TeamCity 0 0 2
Get Certified on MCSE Private Cloud with this FREE Step-by-Step S... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 This month, I spent a fair amount of time preparing for the new Microsoft Private Cloud Certification Exam 70-246, Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 and I saved links to ... Get Certified on MCSE Private Cloud with this FREE Step-by-Step S... 0 0 1
Apple…Why I bought a MB Air… MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 I haven’t touched an Apple Machine since high school really. I never really wanted to buy one until recently. I have two Apple devices and I wanted to know how to build a mobile application. I have a strong ... Apple…Why I bought a MB Air… 0 0 0
Visual Studio Tip Move Multiple Files using Move command Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 At some point in the project lifecycle, one has to perform certain housekeeping activities in the version control, it might be restructuring folders or simply moving files into directories… The move command ... Visual Studio Tip Move Multiple Files using Move command 0 0 0
Microsoft Certified Master Erwin van Hunen, January 1, 0001 You might have noticed the extreme radio silence on this blog. The reason: I was attending the Microsoft Certified Master training for SharePoint 2010. But now I am happy to announce that I passed all ... Microsoft Certified Master 0 0 2
OneNote: Change location of Unfiled Notes Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 There are some links in google to do this. But no hint works for me. So I tried some own ideas. And indeed – I found a simple solution without registry editing and so on. Get the actual location of “Unfiled ... OneNote: Change location of Unfiled Notes 0 0 6
IASA South East Florida Chapter Meeting July 17, 2012 at Citrix Rainer Habermann, January 1, 0001 We started our July meeting with a short welcome note and an overview of the agenda, followed by a brief presentation about the "Five Pillars of Architecture" by Giles Marino. The interest in the excellent ... IASA South East Florida Chapter Meeting July 17, 2012 at Citrix 0 0 0
All Three Beta Exams now available for MCSA: Windows Server 2012 ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 All three Beta exams for the MCSA on Windows Server 2012 are available for scheduling in the US as of today. Get the details here along with recommended study materials to help you prep! All Three Beta Exams now available for MCSA: Windows Server 2012 ... 0 0 0
Microsoft Press Deal of the Day 17/Jul/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd Edi... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's Deal of the Day from Microsoft Press at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... is CLR via C#, 3rd EditionThe deal expires probably 23:59 PT, today 17/July/2012. Remember to ... Microsoft Press Deal of the Day 17/Jul/2012 - CLR via C#, 3rd Edi... 0 0 0
8 New Platform Features Coming to Windows Phone 8 KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Did you miss the Windows Phone 8 Summit? The phone team announced a number of platform features that are coming to Windows Phone 8 when launched later this year that are based from a new Shared Windows ... 8 New Platform Features Coming to Windows Phone 8 0 0 1
Review: TypeMock Isolator 7 Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I was recently given an opportunity to review the TypeMock Isolator v7 framework. This is a very feature rich add-in for Visual Studio which simplifies unit testing by putting all the features you need ... Review: TypeMock Isolator 7 0 0 1
CTTDNUG–Windows 8 Camp Wrap-Up and Year in Review Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 Over the weekend, CTTDNUG hosted a full day Windows 8 Dev Camp, sponsored by Microsoft (thanks Microsoft!). We were lucky enough to have not one, but two experts - Andrei Marukovich and Atley Hunter - ... CTTDNUG–Windows 8 Camp Wrap-Up and Year in Review 0 0 0
Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents... Abhijeet Patel, January 1, 0001 Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents & ManualResets oh my! Up until a few years ago, mainstream programming for the most part did not involve asynchrony and/or parallelism ... Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents... 0 0 6
Azure Virtual Machine disappeared on me jkrebsbach, January 1, 0001 I had been putting together a solution for a client over the past few weeks using Microsoft Azure, and had been really enjoying their new Virtual Machine functionality. The other morning I logged in to ... Azure Virtual Machine disappeared on me 0 0 2
TFS Build: Dependency Replication using Community TFS Build Exten... Jakob Ehn, January 1, 0001 Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2012/07/... ... TFS Build: Dependency Replication using Community TFS Build Exten... 0 0 7
Information Worker VM Rant MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 I try to avoid Hyper-V at all costs when working on my laptop. I am a developer usually all I need is VMWare and my own virtual machine that I built very bare bones server that can run search and profiles ... Information Worker VM Rant 0 0 1
Presenting to KolkataGeeks Harnessing the cloud for Performance T... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs I am presenting to the geekiest ... Presenting to KolkataGeeks Harnessing the cloud for Performance T... 0 0 0
Organizing the Solution and Project folders on a Microsoft Visual... Oscar Ribbeck, January 1, 0001 Hello :)This week I changed the way I structure the project files related to my website solutions and wanted to write a bit about the way I accomplished the change because I think it can get to be confusing.I ... Organizing the Solution and Project folders on a Microsoft Visual... 0 0 0
Features I’d Like To See In Windows Phone 8 Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 With Windows Phone 8 around the corner I figured I would get the wish list out. I am encouraged by what we have seen so far. This is a short list of the things that have bugged me over the last two years ... Features I’d Like To See In Windows Phone 8 0 0 0
Report Builder 2.0 - Requested value 'Integrated' was not found. BenAdler, January 1, 0001 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... Report Builder 2.0 - Requested value 'Integrated' was not found. 0 0 1
Lots of Exciting Announcements from WPC - Windows 8, Windows Serv... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 16,000 Microsoft Partners are attending our annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Toronto, and the atmosphere is absolutely buzzing with positive energy and excitement around many of the ... Lots of Exciting Announcements from WPC - Windows 8, Windows Serv... 0 0 0
SQL Saturday #150–Louisiana Region ToStringTheory, January 1, 0001 If you are in the region of Baton Rouge, LA on August 4th and are looking for some great fun, be sure to stop by SQL Saturday #150. We had more than 400 people attend last years event, and this it will ... SQL Saturday #150–Louisiana Region 0 0 0