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I'm Baaaaaaaa-aaacccckkkkk
Well, hello there. I have returned after 5 months of radio silence. Those of you that follow me on Twitter or G+ know that my wife and I welcomed a new child in mid-December, which explains most of my...
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Red Gate Releases The Next Version of Their Performance Profiling Tool
Red Gate launched the Ants Performance Profiler 7.0 product today. This application is simply amazing! SharePoint 2010 support! Decompilation without PDB using Reflector’s engine! Azure and EC2...
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BizTalk 2010 EDI Batching Tutorial
In two previous posts I talked about party configuration and routing of EDI messages: Basic Party Resolution in BizTalk 2010 EDI Party Resolution (& trading partners) in BizTalk 2010 In this post...
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C#/.NET Little Wonders: The SequenceEqual() Method
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past...
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The Enemy of My Friend Writes Bad MVC Controller Actions (Microsoft)
Recommendation: Don't use the same action names for get and (Ajax) post.I am always amazed at how bad Microsoft's code examples are. Code generated using the default templates in Visual Studio is not...
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Book Review - .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide
Few days ago I have received an invitation from Packt Publishing to review this book. I myself is a big fun of Generics and is very interested about it, so i've decided to give it a go. Thank you...
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APress Deal of the Day - 17/Feb/2012 - Excel 2010 Made Simple
Today's$10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430235453 is Excel 2010 Made Simple."Over 500 screen visuals and clear-cut instructions guide you through the features of Excel 2010,...
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Unit Test Assembly Copying Oddity in Team Foundation Build
The key charactersYou may very well run into the same issue I did if you are using the following technologies:Team Foundation Server (TFS) with Team Foundation Build (TFB) - in my case, 2010Visual...
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Launch of Geekswithblogs.net Short URLs | wblo.gs
Today we launched a new feature on Geekswithblogs.net to make it easier to share your posts with short URLs. The domain we are using is wblo.gs and you can share individual post or you can share you...
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Announcing Prairie Dev Con Regina, Oct 1–2 2012!
We’re coming home! In October of 2012 Prairie Dev Con returns to where it all began: Regina, Saskatchewan! And while we’re over seven months away, we’re already starting to plan for the event – and we...
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MVP Spotlight
Each week, the different MVP Leads send out an email communication to their MVPs letting us know about upcoming events and other things relevant to us. As part of that newsletter, an individual MVP is...
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Tweaks to Card Roulette
I made some tweaks to Card Roulette. I added some quick interface code so I could make sure the Decks and Cards were working as expected. This lead to the addition of the ability of to add a card to a...
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$4.99 E-Book upgrades from O'Reilly
If you have an existing O'Reilly or Microsoft Press book, you can get $4.99 E-book upgrade.The details are at https://members.oreilly.com/account/benefits but you do need to to create a free logon to...
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Another O'Reilly Deal to Feb/22 - Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
At http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596528126.do, O'Reilly are offering 50% off the ebook, Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition."If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in...
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app_offline.htm doesn't work as expected during deployment
Let me start off by stating that I am in no way an expert on MSBuild, writing build scripts, MSDeploy, Web Deploy, etc. I learned a lot in this process about those things which helped me find a...
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We have statistics (that don't prove anything.)
I had a few minutes of free time at the Windows Phone Garage. During that time, I created the Statistics object for Card Roulette. Of course, all it does is count the types of cards in a deck. With...
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New Version of Videolan - 2.0.0
There is a new version of Videolan available at http://www.videolan.org/"With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and...
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The Failing of Technical Education–Too Much Tech
Our Universities and Colleges haven’t gotten it yet, and its producing a disservice to the technical industry and trickling down to every other industry that relies on technical people (read: All of...
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Design Patterns for Model
What is Model? A model can be considered as a container that facilitates presentation view, behavior and/or persisting data to/from data source (i.e. database etc). Besides the data container...
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Solving the ObservableCollection bug on Windows 8
If you tried to build applications for Windows 8 with XAML/C#, you may have noticed an annoying issue: If you have a list controls (for example a GridView) and you bind the ItemsSource property to a...
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