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• Few New Features Added to Geekswithblogs.net

  - by Staff of Geeks

  After reviewing some of the feedback from our bloggers we added a couple new features to Geekswithblogs.net and there are still more to come.  Here is a list of the features we added.   Fixed the Twitter parser to better support URLs and Hash Tags Added some hooks behind the scenes to tags posts with common keywords automatically Added Facebook likes and Tweets to the bottom of every post Cleaned up a few skins Images on the main page for bloggers who use Gravatar or Twitter integration Random bug fixes based on Log   We are definitely working to make Geekswithblogs.net faster and better.  If you have any suggestions, please feel free to share them with the team.  On a side note, if that suggestion is move to WordPress, I will reply to you with stop writing ASP.NET for your day job and move to PHP.  That request is the equivalent in my eyes.  If we have enough bloggers leave the Microsoft .NET Platform for their main source of income, we might consider it.   Technorati Tags: Geekswithblogs.net,Features,Version 4.0

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• South African MVPs deserve their title.

  - by MarkPearl

  Recently I read a post by someone who felt the Microsoft MVP program had failed. My local experience with the MVP program would tend for me to disagree. On Saturday I attended a free Windows Phone 7 event organized by Robert MacLean and Rudi Grobler both of whom are local MVP’s. First of all, kudos to them for organizing the event which included a free lunch and flash stick and had some great content for a free event. Secondly, this is not the first time that either of these two MVP’s have organized events. They are active in the community, present at the majority of local events and are always approachable and give an “honest” opinion. For me, that is what an MVP stands for and at least in my region I feel that the MVP program is a real success.

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• Silverlight Rough Cut Editor Real Time Highlights

  The NAB Show is an annual trade show produced by the National Association of Broadcasters. It is taking place in Las Vegas this week and you can check out Microsoft at the NAB Show 2010. It is interesting to watch the broadcast and web industry collide converge head on. With the launch of Silverlight 4 this morning one could say this week is a perfect storm. The media press releases from Microsoft are coming thick and fast. REDMOND, Wash. April 8, 2010 Microsoft Corp. today announced that...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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• "From the Coal Face" - 1 - What ILDASM can reveal!

  - by TATWORTH

  In a place far, far away, there was a project where the Architect decided on using embedded TSQL in a Dot Net application, rather than use stored procedures. I located ILDASM.EXE (my Framework 3.5 version lives at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin on my home development PC) and created a shortcut to it in the SendTo folder. Now I could set about doing a simple demonstration to the Architect by taking one of the Dot Net EXE's with the embedded TSQL and sending it to ILDASM.  Since I had written most of the embedded TSQL, it was a matter of seconds before I located the embedded TSQL within the Exe. The TSQL that was supposed to be safely hidden within the EXE was easily located and and copied. (It should also be noted that we could have encrypted the stored procedures on loading them to the database.)

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• How do I pitch ASP.NET over PHP to a potential client?

  - by roman m

  I work at a Microsoft shop doing mainly web development. We had a client who asked us to review (improve) the data model for his web app, but said that he wants to develop his app in PHP (he knows "a guy" who can do it). When I asked him why he wants to go with PHP, he gave me the standard set of arguments from the 90's: Microsoft is evil, and PHP is free Writing an ASP.NET app is more expensive (software-wise) Why would Facebook use PHP if it was a bad idea? [classic] He had a few more comments about the costs associated with going .NET. The truth is that "Microsoft is expensive" does not hold water any longer, with their "Express" suite, you can develop an ASP.NET app without paying anything for software. When it comes to hosting, you can save a few bucks with PHP over .NET, but that's a small fraction of the projected development costs (we quoted 10-15k). Going back to my question, what arguments would I give to a client in favor of ASP.NET over PHP? [please provide sources for quantitative claims]

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• InvalidProgramException Running Unit Test

  - by Anthony Trudeau

  There is a bug in the unit testing framework in Visual Studio 2010 with unit testing.  The bug appears in a very special circumstance involving an internal generic type. The bug causes the following exception to be thrown: System.InvalidProgramException: JIT Compiler encountered an internal limitation. This occurs under the following circumstances: Type being tested is internal or private Method being tested is generic  Method being tested has an out parameter Type accessor functionality used to access the internal type The exception is not thrown if the InternalsVisibleToAttribute is assigned to the source assembly and the accessor type is not used; nor is it thrown if the method is not a generic method. Bug #635093 has been added through Microsoft Connect

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• Imagine Cup 2012 : la compétition s'enrichit de deux nouveaux défis sur Windows Phone et Windows Azure

  Imagine Cup 2012 : la compétition s'enrichit de deux nouveaux défis Windows Phone et Windows Azure Imagine Cup, la compétition annuelle de l'innovation numérique ouverte aux étudiants organisée par Microsoft a été lancée récemment pour la 10ème édition. Pour cette année, les compétiteurs auront l'occasion de s'affronter dans deux défis supplémentaires qui viennent d'être annoncés récemment par Microsoft. Les nouvelles rubriques concernent principalement la plateforme Cloud de Microsoft Windows Azure et le système d'exploitation mobiles Windows Phone. Les chalenges Windows Azure et Windows Phone contrairement aux autres catégories se feront en ligne (soumission, évaluation et choix des vainqueurs). Les...

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• Tales from the Coal Face - Speeding up a C# compilation

  - by TATWORTH

  At one place, I was faced with a C# solution which when XML documentation was turned on, the compilation time increased from 45 seconds to over 8 minutes. This slowdown was unacceptable, however some digging revealed an excellent suggestion by Eric Woodruff at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/devdocs/thread/9bbad4cc-e229-49da-a6f7-3cdf470ac53a/ where he suggested "just suppress the warning by entering it's number (1591 for C#) in the Suppress Warnings field on the Build tab of the project properties". I followed Eric's suggestion and the compilation time went back down to 45 seconds. Now that CS1591 is suppressed how was missing documentation to be found? All that was necessary was to run StyleCop!

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• Ensure Future Browser Compatibility - SharePoint Branding

  - by KunaalKapoor

  HTML and Future Internet Explorer Compatibility with SharePointAs new versions of Internet Explorer are released, the way HTML is rendered by the browser could change over time. To address the possibility of changes, Microsoft uses the X-UA-Compatible META tag that targets HTML markup to a specific version of Internet Explorer. The default SharePoint 2010 master pages are set to force current and future versions of Internet Explorer to render HTML in Internet Explorer 8 mode like the following markup:<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatibile" content="IE=IE8" />The Adventure Works Travel HTML includes the META tag to help ensure future Internet Explorer versions will display the SharePoint HTML properly.For more information about the Internet Explorer Standards Mode, see META Tags and Locking in Future Compatibility.

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• Clean SOAP Calls from iOS - SudzC

  - by Richard Jones

  This is worth another mention. If you need to call SOAP web-services from iOS or Javascript, and lets face who doesn't. http://SudzC.com really delivers. You give it the URL to you're WSDL file (or upload a file) and it just spits out a ready to go Xcode project. I would point out that to get it to work 100% I changed line 204, in Soap.m (commented out line is old version, mine is below) //if([child respondsToSelector:@selector(name)] && [[child name] isEqual: name]) { if([child respondsToSelector:@selector(name)] && [[child name] hasSuffix: name]) { I consumed a Microsoft Dynamics NAV set of web-service pages no problem (and they tend to be fairly complex WSDL definitions).

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• Good use of the Charms Bar in Windows 8 Metro.

  - by Shawn Cicoria

  If you’re using Win8 yet, no doubt you’ve run into the charms bar.  There’s a feature to extend via Share, links to your application. Details on the HOW are here: Adding share (Metro style apps using JavaScript and HTML) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh758314.aspx Do, Digital Folio has taken their shopping tool to Win8 and enabled some really cool ways to take advantage.  I was fortunate enough to help out the folks there a while back on some other things, but their app is a nice shoppers aid. Digital Folio for Windows 8 | Instant Price Comparisons from Major Retailers on the Products You Want

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• Autostarting a VirtualBox VM headless in Windows

  - by vdiozguy

  Do you have a VM that you want to start when your Windows box boots? Easy... Add a .bat file  to your Startup programs atC:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Containing the following call:"C:\Program Files\HSTART\hstart64.exe" /NOCONSOLE /SILENT "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\vboxheadless.exe --startvm MYVM" If that VM has Secure Global Desktop and it has a published app that points to your PC, well... ;)

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• My first Windows Phone 7 application is live &ndash; from zero to submitted in 5 hours

  - by Eric Nelson

  Tuesday evening I found myself minus family. I decided to use the time to “have a crack at this Silverlight Phone 7 stuff”. From zero (no experience, no tools installed, no membership on the AppHub) to submitted for approval took me from 8pm to 1am – with the last hour messing around with png files in Paint to complete the submission process! Two days later on Thursday it was approved and is now in the marketplace for you to install - or not :-) The application is very simple but it works and looks “finished” – and importantly I learnt a lot about what is involved and the power of our tooling to make this pretty easy to get going. Go on, give it a go by popping over to the App Hub. You do need to pay $99 to join the App Hub to publish but you can start by downloading the free tools and just work with the included emulator. Related Links https://create.msdn.com/ App Hub http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ff402535.aspx MSDN Documentation for Phone 7 Development

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• Communications Suite: New Patches Available

  - by joesciallo

  Two new patches for the following Unified Communications Suite component products are now available: Calendar Server 6.3 patch 53 Connector for Outlook 7.3 Update 1 patch 17 Download details: Connector for Microsoft Outlook 7.3: 139162-17 Calendar Server 6.3: 121657-53 (Oracle Solaris SPARC) 121658-53 (Oracle Solaris x86 ) 121659-53 (Linux) Reminder: As a workaround to learning about new Communications Suite patches, you can use the Confluence watch feature to monitor the Communications Suite Component Patches page. When new patches are available, this page is updated with that information. You then receive an email message that this page has been updated. The watch feature is available under the Tools menu when you are logged in to wikis.oracle.com.

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• Testing what is happening inside your BizTalk solution

  - by Michael Stephenson

  As BizTalk developers we all know that one of the common challenges is how to test your BizTalk solution once it is deployed to BizTalk. Hopefully most of us are using the BizUnit framework for testing, but we still have the limitation that it's a very Black Box test. I have put together a sample and video to show a technique where I'm using the Logging Framework from the BizTalk CAT Team at Microsoft and where by BizUnit test is able to make assertions against the instrumentation going through the framework. This means that I can test for things happening such as the fact a component was executed or which branch of an orchestration was executed by simply using my normal instrumented code. I've put the sample and video for this on the following codeplex site: http://btsloggingeventsinbi.codeplex.com/ The video should also be on cloud casts fairly soon too.

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• Configuring SQL Server Express Edition for remote access

  - by rohancragg

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/rohancragg/archive/2013/07/24/configuring-sql-server-express-edition-for-remote-access.aspxI wanted to access SQL Express on my local machine from within a Client Hyper=V virtual machine on the same Domain. This article got me most of the way there: http://akawn.com/blog/2012/01/configuring-sql-server-2008-r2-express-edition-for-remote-access/ But it was a bit out of date. My steps were: Enable TCP/IP Protocol in SNAC Restart SQL Server Configure (Windows 8) Firewall to allow all Inbound for sqlservr.exe Footnote: I thought this might be relevant (nice to be able to script it): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968872/en-us But the problem is that this is for fixed ports and not compatible with the (default) Dynamic Ports settings above.

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• WF4 &ndash; It has suddenly got interesting

  - by MarkPearl

  I was at Teched two years ago when one of the Microsoft leads said there were three new area’s that we needed to pay attention to for development, namely: WPF WCF WF At the time I was just getting back into development work and had a look at WPF and immediately was sold on the approach. While I haven’t been to involved with WCF directly, I know that some of the guys in my dev team have been and that it too was a success. So what happened to WF? It seemed clunky, and all the demo’s that I saw of it left me scratching my head wondering how if it was going to be useful. Fast forward two years later and while I have had a brief look at WF4, I can immediately see areas where we can use the technology. Does that mean that I think WF4 is the bees knees? I don’t know enough about it yet to really have a solid opinion, but I do think that it is finally going in the right direction. A good introduction to WF4 can be found here.

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• Tampa Code Camp - October 13, 2012

  - by Nikita Polyakov

  I am pleased to announce Tampa Code Camp 2012 is being co-hosted with Bar Camp Tampa Bay this year in Tampa, FL on October 13th 2012 at USF Main Campus beautiful Business buildings.“CodeCamp is a FREE one-day meeting forum that allows software developers to share their knowledge and experience with Microsoft products and services. It’s similar to Tech-Ed, but community-driven by a group of dedicated volunteers and speakers while financially supported through generous sponsors and local businesses.”As one of the organizers, I will not be speaking, but instead helping MC the Component Vendor ShowDown - a special track dedicated to battling out the best components organized by focus application rather then firm. Check out the ShowDown track in the Agenda.WHEN: Saturday, October 13, 2012, 730AM – 545 PMWHERE: USF - Tampa Campus, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620REGISTRATION: http://www.tampacodecamp.comCOST: FREE

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• First 100 Registrations to Prairie Dev Con Get a Free 1 Month Subscription to TekPub!

  - by D'Arcy Lussier

  Thanks to our generous friends at TekPub, the first 100 registrants to the Prairie Developer Conference will receive a complimentary 1 month subscription to TekPub’s content! We’ll also be giving away 2 year long subscriptions at the conference as well! TekPub is the creation of Rob Conery and James Avery. They offer web-based learning videos covering a wide variety of topics that span Microsoft, Ruby, Open Source, Linux, Best Practices, and more…there’s literally an embarrassment of technology learning riches available through their site at very affordable costs! So check out TekPub today, and make sure to register for Prairie Developer Conference early to take advantage of the 1-month subscription offer!

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• Build & Deployment Guide for Service Bus Relay Project

  - by Michael Stephenson

  Ive recently published a sample guide based on a real-world project where we implemented an on-premise WCF routing solution to connect SAAS applications to our on premise line of business applications. The guide will discuss: How we configured and setup the infrastructure How we setup the on-premise server to listen to the service bus What software we used How we configured Windows Azure This contains some useful contextual information around the reference scenario and hopefull this will be very useful to others undertaking similar projects. Ive also included this on the technet wiki page for Windows Azure Service Bus resources: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13825.windows-azure-service-bus-resources.aspx

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• Switching my legacy desktop back to Windows XP from Windows 7

  - by Kevin Shyr

  I was happy with Windows 7 at the beginning, until I started to add in the peripherals.  Windows 7 was never able to recognize any of my PCI video card (I know, I know, we should be in the DVI age). Anyway, I went through another 4 days of trouble setting my computer up with dual monitor in XP (also did a bunch of other things like getting rid of my sound card and taking the computer off RAID. Kind of feel stupid to put the computer on RAID in the first place because now I can have 2 drives: double the page files program seems to run faster Microsoft Sync toy 2.1 takes care of my backup needs (Thank god they solved the network drive issue) As of last night, the system is running beautifully.  I still have a laptop with Windows 7, but even that is in dual boot mode.

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• Help file formats - MSHA files v CHM files

  - by TATWORTH

  Recently I was tasked with producing a help file from a C#/WPF/Crystal Reports application using Sandcastle. I have previously blogged about the problems in doing that and the change that is going into the next version of Sandcastle that allows the vagaries of Crystal (this missing BusinessObjects.Licensing.KeycodeDecoder) to be handled. At http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/devdocs/thread/0b110502-f5bb-4c56-96a5-4347a2a7a68a/, I describe how I tried each of the formats. Two of the formats could not be built and the error messages were not exactly helpful as to the cause. These two formats turned out to be obsolete. The MSHA format worked but was not suitable for a standalone application, so that left me with the older CHM format. I therefore asked on that thread "will the HTML Help 1 (CHM) format continue to be supported for the foreseeable future?".Rob Chandler, MVP in help systems, gave a very helpful answer, to the effect that there is not yet a replacement for the CHM format.

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• Publishing Websites From VS.NET 2013 to Azure

  - by D'Arcy Lussier

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2013/10/24/154459.aspxScott Gu recently announced the release of the Azure SDK 2.2. This includes a tonne of new features for accessing Azure resources from within Visual Studio 2013. You can read Scott’s blog post here. One feature is integrated Windows Azure sign in from within Visual Studio. I put a short video together showing how easy it is to publish a web application to Azure Websites. You can check it out here: http://youtu.be/eiuhJbwhZsQ (I couldn’t get it to display properly by embedding, definitely needs the wide-screen 720p view for best viewing) And yes, you can access James Chambers Karaoke Fansite live on Azure! Resources: Azure SDK 2.2 https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/ VS.NET 2013 Express http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2013-express

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• Visual Studio 2010 - Faster Startup with /nosplash

  - by MikeParks

  I read a blog the other day about the /nosplash switch in Visual Studio. Apparently, it's been around a while and I'm a little late on finding out about it. I figured I'd share it for those of you that come across this and didn't know about it as well. Basically all it does is turn off the Visual Studio splash screen which speeds up initial startup time. It's not a big difference but every little bit helps. I choose speed over looks. You can set the switch by right clicking on Visual Studio, selecting Properties, and adding "/nosplash" on the target Property, so it will look like this: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /nosplash. Feel free to try it out and see if you like it. You can always change it back by just removing the /nosplash switch when you're done testing. There are plenty more Visual Studio switches out there but this is the main one that came in handy for me.   - Mike

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• Windows 8 débutera timidement pour décoller en 2014, selon Forrester, qui met en évidence l'hétérogénéité du marché global des OS

  Windows 8 débutera timidement pour décoller en 2014 selon Forrester, qui met en évidence l'hétérogénéité du marché global des OS À quelques jours de la sortie grand public de Windows 8, le cabinet d'analyse Forrester livre sa vision du futur de l'OS de Microsoft. Selon l'analyste Frank Gillett, vice-président du cabinet Forrester Research, le système d'exploitation va démarrer de façon timide en 2013 sur les PC, puis les ventes vont décoller en 2014. Par contre, Microsoft se positionnera simplement comme un concurrent sur le marché des tablettes et comme un troisième acteur dans le secteur de mobile, loin derrière Android et l'iPhone. Pour Franck Gillett, Microsoft...

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