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MIX11 Registration is open – the place to hear the latest on Silverlight, HTML5, IE and more

- by Eric Nelson

Every year a few lucky colleagues get to attend MIX – and they come back with nothing but praise for the event, the speakers, the content – and the buzz! If you build “web application” and want the latest from the experts then you should consider attending. You will get to see the latest tools and technologies and draw inspiration from a professional community of your peers and experts. Technologies covered include Silverlight, Internet Explorer, Windows Phone, ASP.NET, HTML5 and CSS3. It takes place April 12th to 14th in Las Vegas Early birds save big! Register by February 11 and save $500 on your conference pass and get one free hotel night. Register Now.

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Apress "Introducing Visual C# 2010" - ISBN 978-1-4302-3171-4 - Conclusion

- by TATWORTH

After having spent several weeks reading this book (1230 pages before the index!), I can thoroughly recommend this book as a practical introduction to Visual C# 2010 both to people learning C# and to experianced C# users. It introduces C# through practical examples then gives a good introduction to the Dot Net framework. After dealing with Data Access, it gives a brief introduction to variousUI technologies. The final section deals with advanced topics including a thoroughly practical intruction to windows services. There are copious coding examples and useful tips. Many chapters begin with a quick problem solver solution reference. In short "Introducing Visual C# 2010" in the words of the sub title, is an excellent start to your C# journey with an expert by your side leading by example.

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API Management Video

- by Michael Stephenson

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2014/08/03/157900.aspxJust wanted to put the word out that the API Management video from the recent user group meeting is available. The page on the below link has resources from that meeting:http://ukcsug.co.uk/past-events/2014-07-07/ Also we have out next two meetings available for registration at the following links:Hybrid Connectionshttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/azure-biztalk-services-hybrid-connections-tickets-12216617231?aff=eorg Hybrid Integration with Dynamics CRMhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hybrid-integration-with-microsoft-dynamics-crm-tickets-12398067955?aff=eorg

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F# Application Entry Point

- by MarkPearl

Up to now I have been looking at F# for modular solutions, but have never considered writing an end to end application. Today I was wondering how one would even start to write an end to end application and realized that I didn’t even know where the entry point is for an F# application. After browsing MSDN a bit I got a basic example of a F# application with an entry point [<EntryPoint>] let main args = printfn "Arguments passed to function : %A" args // Return 0. This indicates success. 0 Pretty simple stuff… but what happens when you have a few modules in a program – so I created a F# project with two modules and a main module as illustrated in the image below… When I try to compile my program I get a build error… A function labeled with the 'EntryPointAttribute' attribute must be the last declaration in the last file in the compilation sequence, and can only be used when compiling to a .exe… What does this mean? After some more reading I discovered that the Program.fs needs to be the last file in the F# application – the order of the files in a F# solution are important. How do I move a source file up or down? I tried dragging the Program.fs file below ModuleB.fs but it wouldn’t allow me to. Then I thought to right click on a source file and got the following menu. Wala… to move the source file to the bottom of the solution you can select the “Move Up” or “Move Down” option. Now that I got this right I decided to put some code in ModuleA & ModuleB and I have the start of a basic application structure. ModuleA Code namespace MyApp module ModuleA = let PrintModuleA = printf "hello a \n" () ModuleB Code namespace MyApp module ModuleB = let PrintModuleB = printf "hello b \n" () Program Code // Learn more about F# at http://fsharp.net #light namespace MyApp module Main = open System [<EntryPoint>] let main args = ModuleA.PrintModuleA let endofapp = Console.ReadKey() 0

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BUILD 2013 Session–Alive With Activity

- by Tim Murphy

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/tmurphy/archive/2013/06/27/build-2013-sessionndashalive-with-activity.aspx Live tiles are what really add a ton of value to both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. As a developer it is important that you leverage this capability in order to make your apps more informative and give your users a reason to keep opening the app to find out details hinted at by tile updates. In this session Kraig Brockschmidt cover a wide array of dos and don’ts for implementing live tiles. I was actually worried whether I would get much out of this session when Kraig started it off with the fact that his background is in HTML5 based apps which I have little interest in, but the subject almost didn’t come up during his talk. It focused on things like making sure you have all the right size graphics and implementing all of the tile event handlers. The session went on to discuss the message format for push notification and implementing lock screen notification and badges. As with the other day 1 sessions it was like drinking from a fire hose, but it was good stuff. Check it out when they post it on Channel 9. del.icio.us Tags: BUILD 2013,Live Tiles,Windows 8.1

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Microsoft is Top Pick for ALM

- by Arkham

Investigating the market for a new software product can be a daunting task. Sometimes it’s difficult to even uncover all of the players. There’s no shortage of rhetoric on each vendor’s web site, but how can today’s CTO get objective information about how a software package ranks against it’s peers in a given space? Every year, Gartner releases what they call a Magic Quadrant report evaluating various products in a given space. This past week, Gartner released their analysis of products in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) arena. It is very exciting to see us in the top spot as a thought leader and for our ability to execute. If you are interested in ALM, you can read through an entire reprint of the report here. There’s plenty of new competitors listed and some of the existing competitors have shifted quite a bit. And this comes prior to the release of Team Foundation Server 2012! I suppose with all of the new features in 2012, they could just add another square to the upper-right. It’s beyond awesome! It’s be-awesome!

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Events and Presentations

- by Enrique Lima

There is a number of things going on this coming weekend, so this maybe pushing it … yet good to put it out there. June 2nd (tomorrow), presenting at SharePoint Saturday St. Louis. The topic is SQL Server Health in a SharePoint environment. http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/stlouis/default.aspx I will be presenting the same topic at a joint session of the PASS group and SharePoint User Group in Evansville on July 17, 2012. http://evansville.sqlpass.org/ http://evansville.sharepointspace.com/default.aspx And then, July 28th I will be presenting at SharePoint Saturday New York City. The topic is Letting the Cards Speak: Agile Planning for SharePoint. http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny/default.aspx

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c# vocabulary

- by foxjazz

I have probably seen and used the word Encapsulation 4 times in my 20 years of programming.I now know what it is again, after an interview for a c# job. Even though I have used the public, private, and protected key words in classes for as long as c# was invented. I can sill remember coming across the string.IndexOf function and thinking, why didn't they call it IndexAt.Now with all the new items like Lambda and Rx, Linq, map and pmap etc, etc. I think the more choices there is to do 1 or 2 things 10 or 15 differing ways, the more programmers think to stay with what works and try and leverage the new stuff only when it really becomes beneficial.For many, the new stuff is harder to read, because programmers aren't use to seeing declarative notation.I mean I have probably used yield break, twice in my project where it may have been possible to use it many more times. Or the using statement ( not the declaration of namespace references) but inline using. I never really saw a big advantage to this, other than confusion. It is another form of local encapsulation (oh there 5 times used in my programming career) but who's counting? THE COMPUTERS ARE COUNTING!In business logic most programming is about displaying lists, selecting items in a list, and sending those choices to some other system or database to keep track of those selections. What makes this difficult is how these items relate to one, each other, and two externally listed items.Well I probably need to go back to school and learn c# certification so I can say I am an expert in c#. Apparently using all aspects of c# (even unsafe code) in my programming life, doesn't make me certified, just certifiable.This is a good time to sign off:Fox-jazzy

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AppleTV - itunes store is temporarily unavailable - please check back later

- by Ken

When attempting to rent a movie on ATV, my wife received the error message above. Alternately “server unavailable”. When your wife is sick, the amount of IT support she needs goes up exponentially. One piece of the puzzle was that she had changed her Apple ID password. On her PC I ran iTunes and under account, there was only 1 device listed (not the ATV). Even when signed out/back-in on the ATV under Settings>iTunes it still gave same error message. What I suspect is it thinks she is trying to authorize the device to another Apple ID. Some new 90 day rule limits when a device can be associated with another Apple ID. Your iTunes store/account will show devices, and how long before they can be associated with a different Apple ID from the Account Information page in iTunes on your computer. Apple must have no freaking idea why someone would want to know which ID is associated to the ATV (i.e. the vice versa), because it can’t be done. Solution: Try ATV settings>reset I swapped out ATV 1 for ATV 2 (used for music streaming downstairs). I know it’s a cop-out solution, but remember I had a sick wife breathing down my neck.

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(Not) Making a Splash with Visual Studio

- by StuartBrierley

This post is just a quicky to remind me of a Visual Studio switch that I found interesting/useful. If you are interested in such things, there are a number of command line switches that can be used with Visual Studio. One that does not appear on the list linked to above is the "nosplash" switch. This switch disables the splash screen when starting Visual Studio, taking you directly into the IDE. Close Visual Studio and then add /nosplash after ...devenv.exe in the target of whichever shortcut you use to start Visual Studio. Starting Visual Studio now should now be quicker, possibly saving precious seconds that you could put to use elsewhere!

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Laptop Regret

- by Richard Jones

Just a casual observation. To base line this. I've discussed this one terrible horror in the past, 'hot bag syndrome'. This is when you realise that you've just travelled home with your laptop enclosed in its carry case without it properly powering down. So new one today, 'Laptop Regret' You pull out your laptop and power it up connected to (boss in room) projector demo to reveal your previous nights Spotify dance music party mix / stroke / eclectic mix of website surfing (make what you will) collection. Its a social phenomena, it happens (not to me obviously), but I'd just like to benchmark my findings. (OK, it did happen to me)

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Property overwrite behaviour

- by jeremyj

I thought it worth sharing about property overwrite behaviour because i found it confusing at first in the hope of preventing some learning pain for the uninitiated with MSBuild :-)The confusion for me came because of the redundancy of using a Condition statement in a _project_ level property to test that a property has not been previously set. What i mean is that the following two statements are always identical in behaviour, regardless if the property has been supplied on the command line - <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup>has the same behaviour regardless of command line override as - <PropertyGroup> <PropA>PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup> i.e. the two above property declarations have the same result whether the property is overridden on the command line or not.To prove this experiment with the following .proj file -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Project ToolsVersion="4.0" > <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Target Name="Target1"> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target> <Target Name="Target2"> <PropertyGroup> <PropA>PropA set in Target2</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target> <Target Name="Target3"> <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set in Target3</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target> <Target Name="Target4"> <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' != '' ">PropA set in Target4</PropA> </PropertyGroup> <Message Text="PropA: $(PropA)"/> </Target></Project>Try invoking it using both of the following invocations and observe its output -1)>msbuild blog.proj /t:Target1;Target2;Target3;Target42)>msbuild blog.proj /t:Target1;Target2;Target3;Target4 "/p:PropA=PropA set on command line"Then try those two invocations with the following three variations of specifying PropA at the project level -1) <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' == '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup> 2) <PropertyGroup> <PropA>PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup>3) <PropertyGroup> <PropA Condition=" '$(PropA)' != '' ">PropA set at project level</PropA> </PropertyGroup>

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Free Pluralsight Videos for this week

- by TATWORTH

Pluralsight have issued two free videoshttp://blog.pluralsight.com/2012/09/05/video-end-the-global-pollution-crisis-in-javascript/http://blog.pluralsight.com/2012/08/31/video-fake-it-until-you-make-it-with-fakeiteasy/Their exact words were: Free Videos this Week End the Global Pollution Crisis... In Javascript Too many globally scoped variables and functions can make Javascript code difficult to work with, particularly on large projects. See how to simulate the concept of namespaces using objects. Fake it Until You Make It with FakeItEasy FakeItEasy is a .NET framework for easily creating mock objects in tests. See how easy it is to FakeItEasy with complex nested hierarchies.

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Automatically Reset Theme To Default, SharePoint 2010

- by KunaalKapoor

Manually/Through UIOn the top link bar, click Site Settings.On the Site Management page, in the Customization section, click Apply theme to site.On the Apply Theme to Web Site page, select No Theme(Default) from the list.Click Apply.Through Scriptfunction Apply-SPDefaultTheme([string]$SiteUrl, [string]$webName){$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($SiteUrl)$web = $site.OpenWeb($webName)$theme = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.ThmxTheme]::RemoveThemeFromWeb($web,$false)$web.Update()$web.Dispose()$site.Dispose()}After looking in the SPTHEMES.XML file found in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033 folder, you do see there is a theme with a theme name of "none". Since there is no "default" theme in 2010. So make sure if you wanna reset it to default you know that there is no default, you need to select 'none' :)

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APress Deal of the Day 19/May/2014 - Pro WF 4.5

- by TATWORTH

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/TATWORTH/archive/2014/05/19/apress-deal-of-the-day-19may2014---pro-wf-4.5.aspxToday’s $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430243830 is Pro WF 4.5. “In Pro WF 4.5, you'll find the insight and direction for understanding how to build workflows using WF 4.5 and host them as long-running services using Microsoft’s Windows Server, for on-premises work, and Azure AppFabric, for hosting workflows in the cloud. ”

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Winnipeg SQL Server UG January Event

- by D'Arcy Lussier

January Event - Highlights From PASS Summit January 19th, 2011 5:30 - 8:00 17th Floor Conference Room, Richardson Building One Lombard Place, Winnipeg Pizza and Drinks Provided! Presenter: Michael DeFehr This past November I attended the PASS summit in Seattle and SQL Connections in Las Vegas. In this session, I’ll go over the highlights of what I learned in these two weeks. SQL Server “Denali” (the next version of SQL server) was a big theme of both conferences, but I attended sessions on grouping sets, virtualizing SQL server, extended events, latches and I attended keynotes where such new an upcoming features and products as “Microsoft Atlanta”, Crescent and Filetable were introduced. Also: is “undo” coming in SSIS? Come and find out! Please register for this event here

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Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 3)

- by mbcrump

Introduction In the second part of my “Game-changing Features” series, I investigated how to create multiple windows in a trusted Silverlight 5 application. Now, it is time to explore another set of features: SoundEffect Class for Low-Latency, Supporting Double- and Triple-Mouse Clicks and Linked Text Containers. If you followed my previous tutorial, then you should be ready to get started. The full source code for all three of the projects will be available as a separate download with this article. The full article is hosted on SSWUG and you can access it by clicking here. Don’t forget to rate it and leave comments if you have any problems. Other Resources by Me: My webinar on “Getting started with the Silverlight 5 Beta”. Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta! Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 1) Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2) Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 3) Subscribe to my feed

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Getting the total number of processors a computer has (c#)

- by mbcrump

Here is a code snippet for getting the total number of processors a computer has without using Environment.ProcessorCount. I found out that Environment.ProcessorCount is not necessary returning the correct value on some Intel based CPU’s. using System; usingSystem.Collections.Generic; usingSystem.Linq; usingSystem.Text; usingSystem.Globalization; usingSystem.Runtime.InteropServices; namespaceConsoleApplication4 { classProgram { static voidMain(string[] args) { int c = ProcessorCount; Console.WriteLine("The computer has {0} processors", c); Console.ReadLine(); } private static classNativeMethods { [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)] internal struct SYSTEM_INFO { public ushort wProcessorArchitecture; public ushort wReserved; public uint dwPageSize; publicIntPtr lpMinimumApplicationAddress; publicIntPtr lpMaximumApplicationAddress; publicUIntPtr dwActiveProcessorMask; public uint dwNumberOfProcessors; public uint dwProcessorType; public uint dwAllocationGranularity; public ushort wProcessorLevel; public ushort wProcessorRevision; } [DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, ExactSpelling = true)] internal static extern voidGetNativeSystemInfo(refSYSTEM_INFOlpSystemInfo); } public static int ProcessorCount { get { NativeMethods.SYSTEM_INFOlpSystemInfo = newNativeMethods.SYSTEM_INFO(); NativeMethods.GetNativeSystemInfo(reflpSystemInfo); return(int)lpSystemInfo.dwNumberOfProcessors; } } } }

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Starting in GeeksWithBlog

- by JTorrecilla

It’s a great pleasure for me to start writing in a big Community like GeeksWithBlog. Firstly, I want to present myself: My name is Javier Torrecilla and I am a .NET 4x4 Developer. Currently I write also in Spanish in my Spanish Blog. Well, What kind of topics are you going to read here? All kind related to .NET Technologies: C#, VB, ASP.NET, MVC, EF, …, Databases: Oracle, SQL Server… Hope my post will be useful for all. Best Regards!

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Silverlight Binding with multiple collections

- by George Evjen

We're designing some sport specific applications. In one of our views we have a gridview that is bound to an observable collection of Teams. This is pretty straight forward in terms of getting Teams bound to the GridView. <telerik:RadGridView Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" x:Name="UsersGrid" ItemsSource="{Binding TeamResults}" SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedTeam, Mode=TwoWay}"> <telerik:RadGridView.Columns> <telerik:GridViewDataColumn Header="Name/Group" DataMemberBinding="{Binding TeamName}" MinWidth="150"></telerik:GridViewDataColumn> </telerik:RadGridView.Columns> </telerik:RadGridView> We use the observable collection of teams as our items source and then bind the property of TeamName to the first column. You can set the binding to mode=TwoWay, we use a dialog where we edit the selected item, so our binding here is not set to two way. The issue comes when we want to bind to a property that has another collection in it. To continue on our code from above, we have an observable collection of teams, within that collection we have a collection of KeyPeople. We get this collection using RIA Serivces with the code below. return _TeamsRepository.All().Include("KeyPerson"); Here we are getting all the teams and also including the KeyPerson entity. So when we are done with our Load we will end up with an observable collection of Teams with a navigation property / entity of KeyPerson. Within this KeyPerson entity is a list of people associated with that particular team. We want to display the head coach from this list of KeyPersons. This list currently has a list of ten or more people that are bound to this team, but we just want to display the Head Coach in the column next to team name. The issue becomes how do we bind to this included entity? I have found about three different ways to solve this issue. The way that seemed to fit us best is to utilize the features within RIA Services. We can create client side properties that will do the work for us. We will create in the client side library a partial class of Team. We will end up in our library a file that is Team.shared.cs. The code below is what we will put into our partial team class. public KeyPerson Coach { get { if (this.KeyPerson != null && this.KeyPerson.Any()) { return this.KeyPerson.Where(x => x.RelationshipType == “HeadCoach”).FirstOrDefault(); } return null; } } We will return just the person that is the Head Coach and then be able to bind that and any other additional properties that we need. <telerik:GridViewDataColumn Header="Coach" DataMemberBinding="{Binding Coach.Name}" MinWidth="150"></telerik:GridViewDataColumn> There are other ways that we could have solved this issue but we felt that creating a partial class through RIA Services best suited our needs.

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Tales from the Coal Face - Reporting errors

- by TATWORTH

One of the questions that comes up frequently, is "Is it worthwhile to report errors?".Last weekend, after installing the latest StyleCop I loaded up my copy of Power Collections. I found that StyleCop was now correctly picking up a lot of missing "this." statements, however there were now a number of false positives. Anticipating the need to submit sample code, I cleaned the solution and zipped it up.I reported this at http://stylecop.codeplex.com/discussions/357319. The stylecop administrator promoted this report to a work item (see http://stylecop.codeplex.com/workitem/7285) and I uploaded the previously prepared Zip file. The StyleCop team was able to locate the problem and it is "Fixed in upcoming 4.7.27".The conclusion:Report errors! Prepare sample code illustrating the error.

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Project Euler Problem 14

- by MarkPearl

The Problem The following iterative sequence is defined for the set of positive integers: n n/2 (n is even) n 3n + 1 (n is odd) Using the rule above and starting with 13, we generate the following sequence: 13 40 20 10 5 16 8 4 2 1 It can be seen that this sequence (starting at 13 and finishing at 1) contains 10 terms. Although it has not been proved yet (Collatz Problem), it is thought that all starting numbers finish at 1. Which starting number, under one million, produces the longest chain? NOTE: Once the chain starts the terms are allowed to go above one million. The Solution public static long NextResultOdd(long n) { return (3 * n) + 1; } public static long NextResultEven(long n) { return n / 2; } public static long TraverseSequence(long n) { long x = n; long count = 1; while (x > 1) { if (x % 2 == 0) x = NextResultEven(x); else x = NextResultOdd(x); count++; } return count; } static void Main(string[] args) { long largest = 0; long pos = 0; for (long i = 1000000; i > 1; i--) { long temp = TraverseSequence(i); if (temp > largest) { largest = temp; pos = i; } } Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1}", pos, largest); Console.ReadLine(); }

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3rd Annual South Florida SQL Saturday - August 13th!

- by ScottKlein

The 3rd annual South Florida SQL Saturday event will be help August 13th, 2011 at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, FL. This is a change in venue from last year as DeVry is in the middle of a major remodling project. We has almost 450 last year, and we expect to have over 500 this year with great speakers such as Andy Warren, Herve Roggero, and more! As always, we our goal is to feed you well, so we are shooting for some hot lunch food this year. We are working on that now and will update you as soon as we firm it up. One of the things we will be trying this year is 90-100 minute sessions on a couple of tracks. We strongly feel that several topics are just getting warmed up in 45 minutes, so we are going to experiment with 90-100 minute sessions on some of the BI topics. We would love to see you there!

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TFS Backup Plan Wizard Tool

- by Enrique Lima

With the release of the “September – 2010” TFS 2010 Power Tools, came an addition to the Team Foundation Server Administration Console. This addition is the Team Foundation Backups Tree item. The tool is used to create backup plans and to work with it you run through a wizard, just like you would in configuring TFS or any of the extensions it has. The areas covered through the tool include: Backup to a Network Backup Path, retention configuration. Under Advanced Options, the extension to be used for the Full and Transactional backups. The capability to include external databases, meaning, include the reporting databases and SharePoint databases as part of the plan. There are further options as you can see, that includes being able to define a task scheduler account, be able to set alerts for notifications on execution of the plans, and last the option to configure the schedule for the plan execution. All in all a very good tool and great way to safeguard the investment you’ve made.

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How to obtain Visual Studio 2013 for offline installation

- by Waclaw Chrabaszcz

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/Wchrabaszcz/archive/2013/10/20/how-to-obtain-visual-studio-2013-for-offline-installation.aspxSometimes you have to work in isolated environments, just to not affect production boxes by mistake. So, how can I install Visual Studio 2013 within IP island ? Download vs_ultimate.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads and execute it from CMD with parameter: vs_ultimate.exe /layout C:\Install\VisualStudio

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