Sometimes you have to brag on your employer
A lot of you know me as an Application Lifecycle Management MVP, and a huge proponent of ALM, TFS, and Visual Studio. For my day job, however, I work for Infront Consulting Group, a System Center...
View ArticleCommunity TFS Build Manager available for Visual Studio 2012 RC
I finally got around to push out a version of the Community TFS Build Manager that is compatible with Visual Studio 2012 RC. Unfortunately I had to do this as a separate extension, it references...
View ArticleThis Task Is Currently Locked by a Running Workflow and Cannot Be Edited
Problem: In SharePoint Workflow, "This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited" is the common exception, that we face. Solution: Generally this exception occurs 1. when the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Data Retrival Techinques
In SharePoint, we have two options to perform CRUD operation.1. using server side code2. using client side codeusing server side code, we have 1. CAML2. LINQusing client side code, we have 1. Client...
View ArticleFinding Near-Earth Asteroids
One of the puzzling aspects of hunting for Near Earth Asteroids is that more has been spent on Hollywood films about potential disasters should one hit the Earth than on finding them in the first...
View ArticleConfiguring Claims and Forms Based Authentication in Sharepoint 2010
Found this link very useful for setting Form Based authentication for a Sharepoint web application....
View ArticleO' Reilly Deal of the Day 3/Jul/2012 - Best of Ebook Deal of the Day
Today's Deal of the day to July 3, 2012 at 23:59 PT from O'Reilly is 50% off of a selection of 25 of their best-selling E-Books at http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/best-of-oreilly-dotd.doHere is...
View ArticleFree Document/Content Management System Using SharePoint 2010
That’s right, it’s true. You can use the free version of SharePoint 2010 to meet your document and content management needs and even run your public facing website or an internal knowledge bank....
View ArticleWelcome
Welcome to the place where I expect to put my technology ramblings. You might notice a bent towards technology in the higher education space, where I have done much of my work the last 7 or so years.
View ArticleAzure WNS to Win8 - Push Notifications for Metro Apps
Background The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 allows you to build a Windows Azure Cloud Service that can send Push Notifications to registered Metro apps via Windows Notification Service (WNS)....
View ArticleCreating Item Templates as Visual Studio 2010 Extensions
Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 Extension,T4 Template,VSIX,Item Template Wizard This blog post briefly introduces creation of an item template as a Visual studio 2010 extension. Problem...
View ArticleSourceMonitor Beta Test Version 3.3.2.261 now available
Source Monitor is a useful independent utility for producing code metrics. Beta Test Version 3.3.2.261 has been released.Download and test Source Monitor beta (Version 3.3.2.261 - 2.30 MBytes) via...
View ArticleIE6 usage continues to decline
I have just seen the latest IE6 usage figures at http://www.ie6countdown.com/The following countries have just gone below 1%BelgiumCanadaColumbiaGermanyNetherlands (Holland)New...
View ArticleMathematica Programming Language–An Introduction
The Mathematica http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/ programming model consists of a kernel computation engine (or grid of such engines) and a front-end of notebook instances that communicate with the...
View ArticleFileOpenPicker/FileSavePicker doesn't allow *.* wildcard file associations
On Twitter, Matthias Jauernig commented that the FileOpenPicker and FileSavePicker doesn't allow *.* wildcard file associations. I was relaxed about this and wrote back that it was related to...
View ArticleError occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The field with Id...
Hi all, In SharePoint 2010, This is rare error, I got when I deploy and activate Feature using VS2010. Deployment works file but in activation process it get stuct and throws error. Error occurred in...
View ArticleIndependence Day for Software Components – Loosening Coupling by...
Today is Independence Day in the USA, which got me thinking about loosely-coupled “independent” software components. I was reminded of a video I bookmarked quite a while ago of Jim Weirich’s “Grand...
View ArticleUsing IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio
In this blog post I’ll show you how you can play back the IIS Logs in Visual Studio to automatically generate the web performance tests. You can also download the sample solution I am demo-ing in the...
View ArticleCurrent Technologies
I currently work at the University of Kansas (KU) and before that Stanford University, to be particular the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Collaborating with various Higher Ed institutions...
View ArticleReduce weight in healthy way
This post is my daily summary of activities that I am going to take to reduce my overall weight by 15 lbs. I am not an overweight person as per my height of 5.11 I have decent weight of 178.4 and good...
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