Packaging custom checkin policies for Visual Studio using VSIX terje, January 1, 0001 Deployment of custom checkin policies can be done using either an MSI or VSIX. There are many reasons to prefer using the VSIX format. It is more lightweight, and thus more suitable for small components ... Packaging custom checkin policies for Visual Studio using VSIX 0 0 7
CodePlex downloads without strong name for an assembly Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to use http://cache.codeplex.com/ in my solution, but it caused compile errorAssembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly does not have a strong nameREASON: When you compile an assembly with ... CodePlex downloads without strong name for an assembly 0 0 0
Using Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler to guide optimization Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 With as often as I write code that does not perform as well as I would like for it to, I can’t believe how hard it is to write slow code on purpose! My last post gave a mile-high overview of the new version ... Using Redgate ANTS Performance Profiler to guide optimization 0 0 1
VS 2012 Consumer Preview now available ! Ravi, January 1, 0001 As announced earlier, Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2012 Consumer Preview. This is the VS Ultimate SKU Beta available for download. You can get it from the link below. http://www.microsoft.com/vi... ... VS 2012 Consumer Preview now available ! 0 0 0
My Impressions of Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 I decided to download and install the Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 previews. I figured I had an Acer Inspire One netbook that BARELY met min specs that was holding down paper (as on does with an Acer ... My Impressions of Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 0 0 1
NDepend Evaluation: Part 2 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 2 0 0 0
Top 10+ SSIS 2012 Improvements Compudicted, January 1, 0001 If you have not heard the latest technical news yet, the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch event is today March 8, 2012! Register to not to miss this opportunity to interact with technology experts and win ... Top 10+ SSIS 2012 Improvements 0 0 16
ALMing in Hinglish 1-Exploratory Testing in VS11 with Nivedita Ba... Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 What is ALMing in Hinglish => Introduction ???? ?????? ??? ???????? ???? ?? ????? ?????? ???????? ??????? ?? ???? ???. ???????? ???? ??????? ???????? ??????? ???? ?? ?? ???? ???, ?? ???????? ??????? ... ALMing in Hinglish 1-Exploratory Testing in VS11 with Nivedita Ba... 0 0 1
Introduction to ALMing in Hinglish Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 ????? ??? ??????? ??? ???? ?????? ???????? 11 ????? ?? ??????????? ???? ?? ?? 1000 ?? ???? ??? ??????? ???? ??? ??. ?? ?? ???? ??????? ???? ?? ??? ??? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??? ??? ???? ?? ???. ??? ???????? ??? ... Introduction to ALMing in Hinglish 0 0 0
Installing Visual Studio 11 Beta - 3 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 So far Visual Studio is fine. The only things missing are:StyleCop does not recognise the current Resharper 7 EAP buildNeed the updated GhostDoc ProI have migrated one of my VS2010 projects to VS 11 Beta ... Installing Visual Studio 11 Beta - 3 0 0 0
Resharper 7 EAP (Early Adopter Program) TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Those hard-working developers at Jetbrains are making Resharper 7 for Visual Studio 11 Beta available by what they refer to as the Early Adopter Program (EAP).Build 7 EAP is just for Visual Studio 11 Beta ... Resharper 7 EAP (Early Adopter Program) 0 0 0
Visual Studio 11 Beta Go-Live licence TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 It is highly significant that a Go-Live licence is now available for Visual Studio 11 beta. The key sentence is "Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta meet our high standards for pre-release ... Visual Studio 11 Beta Go-Live licence 0 0 0
Visual Studio 11 Beta available for download TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Scott Hanselman has posted an excellent article at http://www.hanselman.com/bl... on Visual Studio 11 Beta which is now available for download ... Visual Studio 11 Beta available for download 0 0 0
Creating a Custom SSIS Data Flow Component - an Example With a Pu... Compudicted, January 1, 0001 Last week I was asked to mask or obfuscate a large volume of data residing in a production database for our software quality assurance team to use in testing some functionality. The data resided in various ... Creating a Custom SSIS Data Flow Component - an Example With a Pu... 0 0 3
Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 is out Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 It is about time to look at the new .NET Framework 4.5 release along with the brand new Visual Studio 11 Beta 1. Besides the new features I wanted to see if the massive performance complaints have been ... Visual Studio 11 Beta 1 is out 0 0 0
NOW AVAILABLE: Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine and Hand... John Alexander, January 1, 0001 From Brian Keller: “I’m very pleased to announce the availability of the Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine along with 6 hands-on-labs / demo scripts. This marks an exciting milestone in our journey ... NOW AVAILABLE: Visual Studio 11 Beta ALM Virtual Machine and Hand... 0 0 5
Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 BizTalk Adapter doesn’t w... Daniel Hester, January 1, 0001 Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 has a 32-bit BizTalk Adapter which is not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows or BizTalk. Under Windows Server 2003, the AX 4.0 Adapter would not even install on the 64-bit ... Why the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 BizTalk Adapter doesn’t w... 0 0 0
Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Single Page Application Frameworks are gaining popularity in the ever evolving web community with lot of libraries such as JavaScriptMVC, Backbonejs and many other libraries. ASP.NET MVC 4 introduces experimental ... Building a Northwind Single Page Application using ASP.NET MVC 4 ... 0 0 35
Considering the behaviour of your dependencies and not just the i... Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 I have been wanting to talk for a while about the approach we take to analysis of an application we are about to integrate with. In the past I have seen a lot of cases where analysis is undertaken by looking ... Considering the behaviour of your dependencies and not just the i... 0 0 3
BizTalk Server 2010: Problems casting XML documents to BizTalk Me... Charles Young, January 1, 0001 While coding a very simple orchestration in BizTalk Server 2010, I ran into the dreaded "cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Xml.XmlDocument' to '<message type>'" issue. I've seen this happen ... BizTalk Server 2010: Problems casting XML documents to BizTalk Me... 0 0 1
Developing BizTalk Server 2010 solution for integrating with Peop... Vishal, January 1, 0001 In this post we will see few of the initial steps for developing BizTalk Solutions for integrating with PeopleSoft Enterprise Systems using PeopleSoft Adapter. In order to proceed further, you must have ... Developing BizTalk Server 2010 solution for integrating with Peop... 0 0 2
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
'To Sign or not to Sign' that is the question! juanlarios, January 1, 0001 A while back I was helping a client upgrade SharePoint 2007 code to SharePoint 2010 and I came across this interesting problem. I was working web parts that were created in Visual Studio 2008 using WSPBuilder ... 'To Sign or not to Sign' that is the question! 0 0 0
Impressions, slides and code from TechDays Belgium and Netherland... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Update: Posted the video of “MVVM Applied” below. This week I was “on tour” in Belgium and Netherlands and presented 3 times: Read the rest of this entry » ... Impressions, slides and code from TechDays Belgium and Netherland... 0 0 0
A Super-Fast C# Extension Method using Expression Trees to Create... Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 Having written an extension method to create an instance from a Type and been a bit underwhelmed by its performance, I looked into exactly what was happening and have now got it working much, much faster.To ... A Super-Fast C# Extension Method using Expression Trees to Create... 0 0 13
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
The Enemy of My Friend Writes Bad MVC Controller Actions (Microso... Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 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 much ... The Enemy of My Friend Writes Bad MVC Controller Actions (Microso... 0 0 6
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
2012 Exciting Year in Microsoft Space D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 We’re only in February, but the rest of the 10 months left in 2012 look to be very interesting in the Microsoft space with products that Developers and IT Pros will find intriguing. Redmond Channel Partner ... 2012 Exciting Year in Microsoft Space 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
Microsoft LightSwitch and SQL 2012 GGBlogger, January 1, 0001 A couple of days ago I decided to reinstall the latest Microsoft Developer Training Kits. One of those kits was the Windows Azure Training Kit. It turned out to be a web matrix install that seemed to take ... Microsoft LightSwitch and SQL 2012 0 0 1
C# Performance: new vs Func vs Activator.CreateInstance() Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 Edit: As a result of these tests, I've written a better-performing set of extension methods.I recently wrote an extension method which uses an Expression Tree to create a Func which creates an instance ... C# Performance: new vs Func vs Activator.CreateInstance() 0 0 3
Automatic connection to the following team project failed: Aman Garg, January 1, 0001 You get an error message with Microsoft Test Manager 2010: Automatic connection to the following team project failed: <project_name> on server <tfs server>. Click refresh to display all currently ... Automatic connection to the following team project failed: 0 0 1
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
Creating a Site Collection from your own WebTemplate on Office 36... Erwin van Hunen, January 1, 0001 The problem As you might know, Site Definitions are not supported on Office365. This is not a restriction of Office365 as such, but more a Sandboxing restriction. In a SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed environment ... Creating a Site Collection from your own WebTemplate on Office 36... 0 0 2
Classes starting soon Aman Garg, January 1, 0001 Classes starting soon...First topics to start with will be Visual Studio and .NET 4. After that there are sessions on SharePoint 2010 - Admin, Dev & General Usage Inviting all the people who wish to ... Classes starting soon 0 0 3
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
Path Too Long for Team Foundation Database Project Build deadlydog, January 1, 0001 Arrggghhhh TFS and builds! Such a love-hate relationship! So we have our TFS builds setup to both compile our C# projects as well as compile and deploy our Team Foundation (TF) Database (DB) projects. ... Path Too Long for Team Foundation Database Project Build 0 0 4
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
Implementing Team Foundation Server 2010 In A Mixed Development E... Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Most of us spend our time in Visual Studio writing .NET code within a Visual Studio solution. Given this situation we find it very easy to integrate with Team Foundation Server for our source control and ... Implementing Team Foundation Server 2010 In A Mixed Development E... 0 0 0
StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Stylecop 4.7.7.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... release announcement reads:"Updated release "4.7" for project stylecop This is now compatible with the Visual Studio ... StyleCop 4.7.7.0 released 0 0 0
Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 In my previous post, Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps, I cheated a little (some might say a lot) on my UI architecture by using code-behind. In this post, I’ll make it all better by showing ... Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM 0 0 0
Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Unable to ... Kit Ong, January 1, 0001 Workflow deployment can be a real pain, here's an error I came across the other day.Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Unable to locate the workflow's association data. To restore the ... Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Unable to ... 0 0 4
Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 When you place a Visual Studio solution into TFS or pull it down for the first time a default working path is set in the workspace mappings. There are times when you need to point source code to a new ... Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings 0 0 0
Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 While the title of this post suggests focus on LINQ to Twitter, it also indicates that I’ll be discussing how to build a Windows 8 Metro application. The application itself will display a list of tweets ... Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps 0 0 4
Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part I Bill Osuch, January 1, 0001 Recently at work we had a need to be able to manipulate the XML version of a HIPAA EDI file before it hit any of our BizTalk orchestrations, so I decided to do this with a custom pipeline component. There ... Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part I 0 0 0
How to Improve Your ASP.NET Performance ChrisD, January 1, 0001 In this article, I will show you some tips to improve your ASP.NET performance. 1. Disable the Debug Mode or Set Debug =”false”How it affect performance: By default this attribute is "true" when you create ... How to Improve Your ASP.NET Performance 0 0 0
Review - Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo Brian Muirhead, January 1, 0001 I’ve been testing\evaluating ComponentOne’s Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo suite for an MVC 3 project and I’m quickly becoming a fan! This product has so many things going for it that I’m not sure where to start. ... Review - Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo 0 0 0