Sweden Windows Azure Group Meeting - Migrating Applications to Windows Azure...
Wednesday, May 23, 6:00 PM, Stockholm Migrating Applications to Windows Azure – Shay Friedman Windows Azure is the next big thing for server-side applications and one of its major use cases is hosting...
View ArticleToday's Eclipse
At http://bcove.me/chw1v99g is a time lapse video of today's annular eclipse. This was shot using as Hydrogen Alpha filter.More details at...
View ArticleFixing the certifications issues for the Windows 8 App Store and #mvvmlight
If you used the latest MVVM Light version for Windows 8, you may have noticed that a couple of issues cause your app to fail the Windows App Certification Kit. It is really quite simple: By mistake, I...
View ArticleThe emergence of Atlassian’s Bamboo (and a free SQL Source Control...
The rise in demand for database continuous integration has forced me to skill-up in various new tools and technologies, particularly build servers. We have been using JetBrain’s TeamCity here at Red...
View ArticleKeep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users
Much has been written about the technical ins and outs of localizing .NET applications with ResX files, but I think that most treatments of the topic understate the difficulty involved in localizing a...
View ArticleAPress deal of the day 22/May/2012 - Pro HTML5 Programming
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430238645 is Pro HTML5 Programming"HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications have acquired power, ease, scalability, and...
View ArticleCopying Files into a TFS Workspace: Which Files Changed?
Team Foundation Server 2010 is a “server-side” version control system. Developers used to Subversion and other “client-side” systems are often frustrated in certain situations where they want to see...
View ArticleWindows Embedded for Application Developers
If you are an application developer and you’re tempted by “the dark side” (Embedded devices), don’t miss this series of webcasts organized by Arrow and Adeneo Embedded:...
View ArticleAgile Programming Practices 101 with the Nimble Pros Calendars
For the last two years, I’ve ordered the Nimble Pros Software Craftsmanship calendars, which use ‘motivational poster’ style pictures to depict various software practices and principles worth keeping...
View ArticleIdentityMine is hiring in Seattle!
Are you willing to work for a dynamic firm, on the latest platforms, with super modern and enthusing technologies (XAML, C#, Kinect, VUI, NUI, and much more)? Then maybe you should consider this: We...
View ArticleKinect for Windows SDK V1.5
It’s really exciting news that new SDK V1.5 Kinect for Windows was released on May 21st 2012. There are lot of new features and enhancement made as part of this release. Let me highlight few here and I...
View ArticleUsing a class as a datasource for asp.net listview control
I found many websites that showed either misinformation, incorrect code, or denial of the ability to use a class as a datasource for an asp.net listview control. It is actually very simple.First you...
View ArticlePluralsight
I would highly suggest subscribing to PluralSight if you are wanting to learn different technologies and frameworks. I am a Visual Learner and find that it is very easy to throw on the headphones and...
View ArticleBoundField Formatting
If you have a GridView that uses BoundFields but does not display line breaks or a lot of spaces quite right here is a way to get around that. This example uses a GridView with one BoundField that uses...
View ArticleWANTED: SQL Saturday and Tech Day Speakers on Windows Phone and Windows 8
If you are a Windows Phone enthusiast, or really into the Windows 8 platform that is coming soon, then I ask you to consider sunny Baton Rouge, Louisiana as your vacation spot this coming August 4 for...
View ArticleThe extinction of hard drives
A recent article announced the possibility of 60TB hard drives by 2016.That's only 4 years from now, about as long as this blog has been around (2008-2012), and after seeing that article all I could...
View ArticleEncryption and Decryption in the .NET Framework
What Is Symmetric Encryption? Symmetric encryption uses the same key for both encryption and decryption. Symmetric Algorithm in the .NET Framework What Is Asymmetric Encryption? Asymmetric...
View ArticleStylecop 4.7.25.0 has been released
Stylecop 4.7.25.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.com/releases/view/79972Release NotesNew rules SA1126: PrefixCallsCorrectly Validates a call to a member is not prefixed with the 'this.',...
View ArticleWest Palm Beach Dev Group May 2012 Meeting Recap
Rich Dudley from ComponentOne was our May 2012 speaker at the West Palm Beach Dev Group. Rich shared with us his excellent presentation from VSLive on jQuery and HTML5. This event was a great success...
View ArticleNew Detailed Documentation for latest Visual WebGui versions/features
Hi,I know it is a bit late, but better late than... you know how it goes. So here is the detailed documentation of the latest WINWEB version 6.4.0 Release d / .NETHTML5 Beta3. The document is...
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