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Some of my favourite Visual Studio 2012 things–Teams
Getting the balance right for when and how many team projects to create has always been a bit of a balance. On large initiatives, there are often teams who work toward a common system. These teams...
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ANTS CLR and Memory Profiler In Depth Review (Part 2 of 2 – Memory...
One of the things that people might not know about me, is my obsession to make my code as efficient as possible. Many people might not realize how much of a task or undertaking that this might be, but...
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WmiPrvSE.exe consuming 25% of CPU on Win7
On my HP laptop the WMI Provider Host was consuming 25% of my CPU. This just started one day. The offending process ended up being the HP Wireless Assistant Service, which is not needed as Win7...
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Simple Little Registry Editor - New Release
I have posted a new release of the Simple Little Registry Editor found in Windows CE: Simple Little Registry Editor. This release fixes a problem with writing DWORD values when the most significant bit...
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Creating a Yes/No MessageBox in a NuGet install/uninstall script
Sometimes getting a little feedback during the install/uninstall process of a NuGet package could be really useful. Instead of accounting for all possible ways to install your NuGet package for every...
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Windows 8, the biggest struggle….
As always, it’s hard to be original. It’s easy to copy great stuff others have done but to think of something nice that others might have done is not trivial.The number of applications in the Windows 8...
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Key Windows Phone Development Concepts
As I am doing more development in and out of the enterprise arena for Windows Phone I decide I would study for the 70-599 test. I generally take certification tests as a way to force me to dig deeper...
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A Change of Seasons...
As some of you already know, today is my last day at Scottrade. It has been a great place to work and I'll miss all the relationships I've formed over the last 5 years immensely!Starting Monday, I will...
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A story of Murphy–my technical issues at TechDays Switzerland #chtd
I had two sessions at the recent Swiss TechDays. While the first one (Advanced Development for Windows Phone 8) went extremely well (I think), I had a very annoying technical issue in the beginning of...
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Migrating My GWB Blog Over To WordPress
Geeks With Blogs has been good to me, but there are too many tempting things about Word Press for me to stay with GWB. Particularly their statistics features, and also I like that I can apply specific...
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Interview with me on technet wiki
Incase who ever it is who reads my blog happens to want to know a little more about me, Steef-Jan prepared an interview with me in relation to technet wiki last week.Its on the following...
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The death of Kodak digital
Months ago Kodak announced that it was discontinuing its digital video to focus on “significant opportunities for profitable growth”. Three years ago I picked up the little Kodak Zi6 (pronounced Zix)...
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Strangling the life out of Software Testing
I recently did a course at the local university on Software Engineering. At the beginning of the course I looked over the outline of the subject and there seemed to be some really good content. It...
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November 2012 Chicago IT Architects Group Meeting Recap
So the year is coming to an end. A hearty few came out two days before Thanksgiving to discuss adopting agile in the enterprise. While Norm Murrin claimed to be nervous about talking in front of a...
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Microsoft Forcing Dev/Partners Hands on Win 8 Through Certification
I remember 2.5 years ago when Microsoft dropped a bomb on the Microsoft Partner community: all Gold competencies would require .NET 4 based premiere certifications (MCPD). Problem was, this gave a...
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Simpler Times
Does anyone else out there long for the simpler days where you needed to move a jumper in the jumper block to set your modem card to use IRQ7 so it would not conflict with the interrupts used by other...
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Using stored procedure to call multiple packages at the same time from SSIS...
Refer to my previous post (http://geekswithblogs.net/LifeLongTechie/archive/2012/11/14/time-to-stop-using-ldquoexecute-package-taskrdquondash-a-way-to.aspx) about dynamic package calling and multiple...
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SSIS 2012 project.param Add Parameters to Configurations
Always was able to do it in a .NET application and a reporting project. This took me a while to realize. In SSIS 2012 project, once you create project.params, you can add them to your configuration...
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SSIS 2012 formating quirks
There are so many funny quirks in SSIS 2012 that I have to list them, to save other people from the misery.If you want to move items to one direction, make sure you "grab" the opposite side. For...
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Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3.5: Node.js relay
This is an extension to Part 3 in the IPASBR series, see also:Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 1: Exposing the on-premise serviceIntegration Patterns with Azure Service Bus...
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