SQL Server Table Polling by Multiple Subscribers
Background Designing Stored Procedures that are safe for multiple subscribers (to call simultaneously) can be challenging. For example let’s say that you want multiple worker processes to poll a...
View ArticleAPress Deal of the Day - 6/Sep/2012 - Pro Access 2010 Development
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430235781 is Pro Access 2010 Development"Pro Access 2010 Development is a fundamental resource for developing business applications...
View ArticleIntroducing the Metro User Interface on Windows 2012
Although I am a big fan of using PowerShell to do many of my server operations, that aspect is well covered by those far more knowledgeable than I, and there is vast information around the web already...
View Articlech ch ch changes...
After a mostly great 6 years and 3 months, I'm leaving Magenic. My last day is officially 9/14/12. I'm going to be taking a much needed break from consulting, to focus on parts of my life that have...
View ArticleLocal LINQtoSQL Database For Your Windows Phone 7 Application
There aren’t many applications that are of value without having some for of data store. In Windows Phone development we have a few options. You can store text directly to isolated storage. You can...
View ArticleSolved: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object
We use public static methods decorated with [WebMethod] to support our Ajax Postbacks. Recently, I received an error from a UI developing stating he was receiving the following error when attempting...
View ArticleRegister For The Sept 2012 Chicago IT Architects Group
We are getting rolling again. This month I will be discussing Building Smart Phone Applications For The Enterprise. This is an area that I have been working with in my normal day-to-day work and...
View ArticleWeb Matrix 2 now available
Web Matrix 2 - a free and lightweight tool from Microsoft for creating web sites is available now at http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/"Create websites using our ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js, or HTML5...
View ArticleWest Palm Beach Dev Group August 2012 Meeting Recap
As the saying goes, it’s better late than never. Such is the case with my overdue West Palm Beach Dev Group August 2012 meeting report. Our August meeting was full of both knowledge and adventure. It...
View ArticleC#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked CompareExchange()
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...
View ArticleThe challenge of giving a positive No
I find it ironic that the more I am involved in the software industry, the more apparent it becomes that soft skills are just as if not more important than the technical abilities of a developer. One...
View ArticleFAQ–Highlight GridView Row on Click and Retain Selected Row on Postback
A couple of months ago I’ve written a simple demo about “Highlighting GridView Row on MouseOver”. I’ve noticed many members in the forums (http://forums.asp.net) are asking how to highlight row in...
View ArticleGet to Know a Candidate (2 of 25): Merlin Miller–American Third...
DISCLAIMER: This is not a post about “Romney” or “Obama”. This is not a post for whom I am voting. Information sourced for Wikipedia. Meet Merlin Miller of American Third Position Party In addition to...
View ArticleVS2012 launches Sept 12 09:30 PDT 17:30 GMT
Next Wednesday (12th Sept 2012), Visual Studio 2012 will be officially launched at 09:30 PDT 17:30 GMT Details at http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com/vs2012vle/Home
View ArticleSpeaking at SW FL Code Camp Sept 8th 2012
It’s always a great time when it’s a Code Camp! I will be presenting “Windows [Phone] Live Tiles & Push Notifications“ at this year’s South West Florida Code Camp 2012 on September 8th. As with...
View ArticleEntity Framework - Single EMDX Mapping Multiple Database
Because of my recent craze on Entity Framework thanks to Sir Humprey, I have continuously searched the Internet for tutorials on how to apply it to our current system. So I've come to learn that with...
View ArticleI am Back Again....
It has been a long time since i posted my last post in this blog. Now i want to start again. I am targeting for atleast one post for every week. Lets hope for the best
View ArticleGet to Know a Candidate (3 of 25): Virgil Goode–Constitution Party
DISCLAIMER: This is not a post about “Romney” or “Obama”. This is not a post for whom I am voting. Information sourced for Wikipedia. Meet Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party Goode was served as a...
View ArticleDefaulting the HLSL Vertex and Pixel Shader Levels to Feature Level 9_1 in VS...
I love Visual Studio 2012. But this is not a post about that. This is a post about tweaking one particular parameter that I’ve found a bit annoying. Disclaimer: You will be modifying important MSBuild...
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