Converting Hyper-V to VMWare Robert May, January 1, 0001 Our company is standardizing on VMWare for a number of reasons. I won’t list them here, but wanted to write about a problem that I had using VMWare Standalone Converter version 5.0 to convert Hyper-V virtual ... Converting Hyper-V to VMWare 0 0 3
Setting the background in a Blackberry Playbook AIR app midoBB, January 1, 0001 Many mobile apps define a texture as a background.Especially those on tablets like the iPad. So to make your app more appealing you can add a Background Texture to your app.Fortunately Blackberry provided ... Setting the background in a Blackberry Playbook AIR app 0 0 0
Launching "Sample of the Day" - Learn an amazing code sample ever... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something new. Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework offers "Sample of the Day". "Sample of the Day" introduces one amazing code sample every 24 ... Launching "Sample of the Day" - Learn an amazing code sample ever... 0 0 1
CKS tools to Package Columns\Content Types\Lists Templates and Li... juanlarios, January 1, 0001 I have some basic rules when it comes to checked in code to TFS. The one at the top of the list of rules is that, any developer should get the latest code from TFS, deploy and have a working web part, ... CKS tools to Package Columns\Content Types\Lists Templates and Li... 0 0 0
Cloudstore BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Cloudstore – A marketplace for Government Microsoft Marketplace and the Everything Apple's App Store have revolutionised how we all buy and use software. It's now the best way to 'buy bits'. So why shouldn't ... Cloudstore 0 0 1
Design Patterns for Model Mohammad Ashraful Alam, January 1, 0001 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 elements, ... Design Patterns for Model 0 0 0
The Failing of Technical Education–Too Much Tech D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 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 them). ... The Failing of Technical Education–Too Much Tech 0 0 1
New Version of Videolan - 2.0.0 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 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 ... New Version of Videolan - 2.0.0 0 0 0
app_offline.htm doesn't work as expected during deployment pvanhouten, January 1, 0001 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 workable ... app_offline.htm doesn't work as expected during deployment 0 0 0
Unit Test Assembly Copying Oddity in Team Foundation Build jkauffman, January 1, 0001 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 Studio ... Unit Test Assembly Copying Oddity in Team Foundation Build 0 0 1
APress Deal of the Day - 17/Feb/2012 - Excel 2010 Made Simple TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's$10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Excel 2010 Made Simple."Over 500 screen visuals and clear-cut instructions guide you through the features of Excel 2010, ... APress Deal of the Day - 17/Feb/2012 - Excel 2010 Made Simple 0 0 0
Book Review - .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Few days ago I have received an invitation from Packt Publishing to review this book. I myself is a big fan of Generics and is very interested about it, so I've decided to give it a go. Thank you for letting ... Book Review - .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide 0 0 1
I'm Baaaaaaaa-aaacccckkkkk Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 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 ... I'm Baaaaaaaa-aaacccckkkkk 0 0 1
NDepend Evaluation: Part 1 Anthony Trudeau, January 1, 0001 NDepend is a Visual Studio add-in designed for intense code analysis with the goal of high code quality. NDepend uses a number of metrics and aggregates the data in pleasing static and active visual reports. ... NDepend Evaluation: Part 1 0 0 2
Unit Testing an MVVMLight Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) application 80n, January 1, 0001 If you're like me and are using MVVMLight to build Windows Phone apps, you probably want to unit test your ViewModels as well. One of the benefits of the MVVM pattern is the separation of concerns between ... Unit Testing an MVVMLight Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) application 0 0 1
Windows application to a cross-platform web-based solution withou... Webgui, January 1, 0001 A Windows healthcare application for clinics and physicians needed a cost-effective way to accommodate all operating systems without reducing the existing functionality and security. Since users use a ... Windows application to a cross-platform web-based solution withou... 0 0 2
Updated release for XPMore TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 There is an updated release of XPMore at http://xpmore.codeplex.com/... is an excellent free utility for managing Windows 7 Virtual Machines (XP Mode and any other). I used to run ... Updated release for XPMore 0 0 0
SharePoint administration pages Norgean, January 1, 0001 A quick note - possibly "note to self" - about how you can add administration pages to central administration ("CA"). Start with an empty SharePoint project.Add a mapped folder - to Template/admin.Add ... SharePoint administration pages 0 0 2
TweetDeck : part 1 Conception midoBB, January 1, 0001 If you don’t know TweetDeck , it’s a very popular app to check Twitter. It is created with Adobe Air for the Desktop versions(Windows,Mac) and native for mobile. TweetDeck was integrated to twitter.Inc ... TweetDeck : part 1 Conception 0 0 1
Speaking about Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS in Stockholm on t... Erwin van Hunen, January 1, 0001 On Tuesday, February the 14th, I'm speaking about Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS development for the Rich Application Development Interest Group (TRADIG) in Stockholm.This is what I will talk about:OS, ... Speaking about Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS in Stockholm on t... 0 0 0
Linq Challenge in C++ Tom Hines, January 1, 0001 I really love the LINQ language extension in dot net programming and I’m really glad it was added to a language I love (C#). My background, however, has a lot of C++ in it and I still do some coding in ... Linq Challenge in C++ 0 0 1
WOA, Dude andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 This was a big week for Windows 8 news (given the relative secrecy around the whole project). At the beginning of the week we learned that the Consumer Preview (fka the "Beta") of Windows 8 will be released ... WOA, Dude 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 10/Feb/2012 - Pro SQL Azure TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro SQL Azure."Pro SQL Azure introduces you to Microsoft's cloud-based delivery of its enterprise-caliber, SQL Server database ... APress Deal of the Day - 10/Feb/2012 - Pro SQL Azure 0 0 0
BizTalk and RabbitMQ Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 The same article in the TechNet. If you are working with queues in BizTalk Server, the most possible it is the MSMQ (in my experience). MSMQ is an old man of the Microsoft technology stack. It was created ... BizTalk and RabbitMQ 0 0 14
Look out for large LQS files John Breakwell, January 1, 0001 It’s good to see my ex-colleague Guatam putting out some MSMQ content after a 10 month hiatus. MSMQ Performance degrades over time & MSMQ LQS folder is 100s of MB. The files in the %windir%\system32\msmq\stor... ... Look out for large LQS files 0 0 0
Windows Phone Marketplace Requests Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 The Windows Phone Marketplace is ever growing (at the time of this post, there were around 60,000 apps), but sometimes the application you’re looking for is only available for Android or iOS. Sometimes ... Windows Phone Marketplace Requests 0 0 4
TFS 2010 Grant Backup Plan Permissions Error Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The Problem After setting up a new instance of TFS I attempting to use the TFS 2010 Power Tools (Dec ‘11) Team Foundation Backups wizard. However, during the Backup Plan Wizard Readiness Checks, the “Grant ... TFS 2010 Grant Backup Plan Permissions Error 0 0 0
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 2012 January Sample Updates Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Translate this pageArabicBulgarianCatalanC... SimplifiedChinese TraditionalCzechDanishDutch... CreoleHebrewHindiHungarianI... ... Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework 2012 January Sample Updates 0 0 0
Ways To Load Data In SQL Azure Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 This blog provides links to a presentation and a sample application that shows how to load data in SQL Azure using different techniques and tools. The presentation compares the following techniques: INSERT, ... Ways To Load Data In SQL Azure 0 0 0
Transition to Exchange 2007 from exchange 2003 marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 In the lifespan of an organisation it’s messaging environment be transitioned to a newer version several times. Whilst this is not a complicated thing to do it does require some level of planning and thought. ... Transition to Exchange 2007 from exchange 2003 0 0 2
Mac type grid view control for asp.net/java web applications AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 Mac type grid view control for asp.net/java web applications For one of my project, I made a very dynamic grid which is totally HTML based and very fast while rendering data from server. Features: 1. No ... Mac type grid view control for asp.net/java web applications 0 0 1
Uniqueness of SessionId and GUID AnkitAgrawal, January 1, 0001 Random and unique are two different words with very different meaning. To generate random number, there are many algorithms but none to guarantee unique number. This causes a problem of non-unique GUID ... Uniqueness of SessionId and GUID 0 0 0
Accessing QuickBooks Data for Use in LightSwitch GGBlogger, January 1, 0001 Intuit Partner Platform and Data Access I’m going to make some assumptions that will cover a lot of folks developing applications to work with QuickBooks. 1. You are running a copy of QuickBooks on your ... Accessing QuickBooks Data for Use in LightSwitch 0 0 0
Former Apple iPhone engineer Bob Borchers Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Bob Borchers revealed that the reason a lot of iPhone adverts show the time as 9:42 am on the iPhone was because the iPhone was originally launched at that time.For one of the commercial for the original ... Former Apple iPhone engineer Bob Borchers 0 0 17
Make sure computer names are 15 characters or less for MSMQ messa... John Breakwell, January 1, 0001 Thanks to Seif Attar for highlighting this problem. It seems MSMQ doesn’t like sending to computers with names longer than 15 characters (which some may remember is the NetBIOS limitation). To try it out, ... Make sure computer names are 15 characters or less for MSMQ messa... 0 0 0
What will you be if computers weren't in existence? Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Yeah it's a tough question especially since most of us across the globe, both young and old heavily rely on computers and the internet . Today, life would be virtually impossible without it. When I was ... What will you be if computers weren't in existence? 0 0 7
Why I cancelled my Spotify Premium subscription - the tale of an ... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 Disclaimer Firstly, I must come clean, I work for a digital music company which is involved in digital music streaming and downloads. In no way are the views expressed are the views of the company for ... Why I cancelled my Spotify Premium subscription - the tale of an ... 0 0 1
SchemaSpy - An incredible free tool to use for peeking at various... TomStickel, January 1, 0001 Back in 2009 I was tasked with automating database dictionaries and schemas outputs for the CI (Continuous Integration) Server called Hudson ( which is probably now owned by Oracle and will become a name ... SchemaSpy - An incredible free tool to use for peeking at various... 0 0 1
Book Review–HTML5 Cookbook Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 HTML5 Cookbook, by Christopher Schmitt and Kyle Simpson, provides an overview of HTML5 along with problem/solution scenarios which will allow developers to hit the ground running using HTML5. It also includes ... Book Review–HTML5 Cookbook 0 0 1
Troubleshooting for Microsoft Exchange marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 Exchange is a complex and large product which can have one thousand and one possible issues, one more obscure as the next. The purpose of this guide is to shed some light, where possible, to how things ... Troubleshooting for Microsoft Exchange 0 0 0
The information store service is stopped and will not start marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 Troubleshooting the information store service can be straightforward yet immensely complicated if you don’t know what is going on. For this reason I think it is important to know that there are 3 likely ... The information store service is stopped and will not start 0 0 4
PSC Group Releases Project Risk Profiler Windows Phone Applicatio... Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 PSC Group is proud to announce that the Windows Phone version of its Project Risk Profiler application is now available in the Marketplace. This application allows project managers and stakeholders to ... PSC Group Releases Project Risk Profiler Windows Phone Applicatio... 0 0 0
Stratified controls, Rule and Meta-rule or Logix and MetaLogix. PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Chris malavarca who is an account executive for Matalogix. The name Metalogix immediately brought me to think about language and meta-language, rule and meta-rule, ... Stratified controls, Rule and Meta-rule or Logix and MetaLogix. 0 0 0
Determine the Security Account that IIS Uses to Run My Web Site ChrisD, January 1, 0001 It's important to understand the account that IIS is running under when you need to make changes to the security settings. If, for example, your Web application writes to files or to a database, you'll ... Determine the Security Account that IIS Uses to Run My Web Site 0 0 0
Software Release Management - Why You Can’t And Shouldn&rsq... Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 As software creators we don't get to decide what version of our tools / libraries that people use. If we try to force them, our users will go somewhere else. Update: What Type of Software This Applies ... Software Release Management - Why You Can’t And Shouldn&rsq... 0 0 2
APress Deal of the Day - 25/Jan/2012 - Pro Silverlight 4 in C# TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Silverlight 4 in C#"Full-color graphics and screenshots throughout make Pro Silverlight 4 in C# an invaluable reference ... APress Deal of the Day - 25/Jan/2012 - Pro Silverlight 4 in C# 0 0 0
Installing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Se... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Step 9: Completing the Database Setup: This step is a very critical step and should performed with very much attention. Below mentioned steps are the ones which I thought were required for the environment ... Installing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Se... 0 0 20
Installing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Se... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Environment what we are building consists of: Operating System: Windows Server 2008 SP2. Database Server: SQL Server 2008 with SP2. PeopleSoft Application: PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management ... Installing PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0 on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Se... 0 0 5
Review - ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework Brian Muirhead, January 1, 0001 Four or five years ago I was “introduced” to ComponentOne’s Winform controls while working on a fairly large, data-intensive application. I remember being very surprised at how easy their controls were ... Review - ComponentOne Studio for Entity Framework 0 0 1
Copy a Team Foundation Server 2010 Collection to a Different Netw... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The Objective Three of the 6 development teams using TFS are moving to a different network and domain. There is no on-line connection between the old (source) and new (target) networks. The objective was ... Copy a Team Foundation Server 2010 Collection to a Different Netw... 0 0 2