How to use ‘Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’ Art A... Michael Cummings, January 1, 0001 A large part of my current job is to work with developers to encourage and help them create apps and or games. Many developers do not have the necessary skills to create quality artwork for their app or ... How to use ‘Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’ Art A... 0 0 0
Truth, Equality, and the Meaning of Null Joe Mayo, January 1, 0001 There’s been some discussion recently about whether it’s proper for a language to support null values or not. My guess is that the people having these discussions are a whole lot smarter than myself, so ... Truth, Equality, and the Meaning of Null 0 0 0
Winnipeg Code Camp–Cancelled or Postponed, Your Call D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 Sadly, we’re going to have to cancel the Winnipeg Code Camp that was scheduled for late April. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we won’t have a code camp this year though – it’s really the community’s ... Winnipeg Code Camp–Cancelled or Postponed, Your Call 0 0 4
Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 After my previous post on getting AzureReader2 up and running with ImageResizer – I ran into a problem – I had a page with a foreach on it, where I had a link to each fullsize image. It was all working ... Gotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer 0 0 0
Making jQuery UI Droppable Testable Aligned, January 1, 0001 I’m using jQuery UI’s droppable for drag and drop capabilities. I wanted to be able to test it with Jasmine, but I couldn’t find a way to mock it. I found Jasmine jQuery, but wasn’t able to figure out ... Making jQuery UI Droppable Testable 0 0 0
Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Win... Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 When you create a new Windows 8 application, the Common folder contains a file named StandardStyles.xaml. Amongst other styling resources, this file contains a trove of application bar buttons styles, ... Using the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Win... 0 0 0
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This is the second in a series of articles looking at using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (formally Windows Azure Access Control Service), to integrate the authentication services provided ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 1
Exchange 2013: A new look… marc dekeyser, January 1, 0001 The Exchange Server product line experienced a few changes with the introduction of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 brings with it a whole new set of services, technologies and features ... Exchange 2013: A new look… 0 0 0
Windows Azure Mobile Services now with HTML Client Support Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 In case you missed, last week the Windows Azure Mobile Services shipped support for HTML clients. Here’s a recap. The HTML client provides a JavaScript library that developers can use when building both ... Windows Azure Mobile Services now with HTML Client Support 0 0 0
Use the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests Aligned, January 1, 0001 Thanks to Danyal Aytekin for his Stackoverflow answer. If you want to use the toThrow in Jasmin tests on actual functions, you can use the “Function.bind, which was introduced in JavaScript 1.8.5. This ... Use the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests 0 0 1
Windows 8 for HTML and JavaScript Developers Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Earlier today I presented a session at Mobile March on Windows 8 for HTML and JavaScript developers. Rather than give you my slides, I thought I’d give you links to resources on the various features I ... Windows 8 for HTML and JavaScript Developers 0 0 0
Two Free Microsoft Workshops Saturday May 4th! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 (Note: Cross-posted from the Prairie Dev Con Blog - http://prairiedevcon.blogsp... Microsoft, our Platinum Sponsor, is providing two *free* workshops ... Two Free Microsoft Workshops Saturday May 4th! 0 0 24
Orlando Code Camp 2013 - KendoUI Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mo... mrad, January 1, 0001 Link to my my KendoUI sessionHere are the slidesCode samples download (pls check back in couple of days)Kendo UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform ... Orlando Code Camp 2013 - KendoUI Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mo... 0 0 0
Febuary 26 - JaXArcSig - Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and... mrad, January 1, 0001 Practice run of my presentation for Orlando Code Camp 2013. UI widgets for web and mobile + ASP.NET MVC server wrappers. Introduction to Kendo UI - platform for HTML5/JavaScript development. Whether you ... Febuary 26 - JaXArcSig - Toolset for HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile and... 0 0 0
Converting PHP’s “openssl_seal” and “open... Strenium, January 1, 0001 I've been doing a bit of external API integration work lately. Sounds mundane (and it is for the most part) - but there was one notable "gem" I had to tackle. To make long story short, there's this external ... Converting PHP’s “openssl_seal” and “open... 0 0 0
4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Most web sites will have an input form somewhere even if it is nothing more than a contact form. Any web application will have lots of input forms. Regardless of why you have the input form or what it ... 4 Simple CSS Tricks to Make Web Input Fields Look Better 0 0 0
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This article is the first in a series of three articles looking at using the Windows Azure Access Control Service to implement web site authentication using social identity providers. It will show how ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 8
Specification Test for the Authorized Attribute in MVC Aligned, January 1, 0001 I wanted to Unit Test (in BDD I’d call it a specification) that the controller had the authorize attribute so I found this approach in a GoodSearch a while back and forgotten who to give credit for it, ... Specification Test for the Authorized Attribute in MVC 0 0 0
ASP.NET MVC Helper Method for Enums... supports override of text ... Scott Wojan, January 1, 0001 public static MvcHtmlString DropDownListFromEnumFor<... TProperty>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> helper, Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression, object htmlAttribute = null) ... ASP.NET MVC Helper Method for Enums... supports override of text ... 0 0 6
Disabling DirectAccess Functionality in Windows 8 Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Let me start by saying I love DirectAccess in Windows 8. It’s great for accessing resources on the Microsoft network when I’m not in the office (which is about 90% of the time). DirectAccess, is case you ... Disabling DirectAccess Functionality in Windows 8 0 0 1
Book Review: Knockout.js Succinctly Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 First of all I'd like to thank the Syncfusion team for choosing me to do this book review, I appreciate the opportunity.Syncfusion provides a one stop for various .NET components. They offer high-performance ... Book Review: Knockout.js Succinctly 0 0 0
SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table Vipin, January 1, 0001 We could find the maximum and minimum value in a table by using the SQL inbuilt aggregate functions MAX() and MIN() respectively. But, many times there comes a scenario when we need to find the second ... SQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table 0 0 2
Android to Windows 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Store Pr... Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Store Pr... 0 0 0
Retain and Set Posted Checkbox Value in the MVC 4 Controller Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I believe this is a bug where only the checkbox value is not retained when passing the model from the view to a post method. Model public bool CoreField { get; set; } View @model List<Model> @Html.CheckBoxFor(m ... Retain and Set Posted Checkbox Value in the MVC 4 Controller 0 0 1
Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Over the weekend I sat down with another book in the Succinctly series. I have wanted to learn more about Knockout.js for a while now. I approached this book knowing very little about Knockout.js, but ... Reviewing Knockout.js Succinctly 0 0 0
Session material from TechDays BE and NL Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: Added the videos Note: Like all material on this blog, this blog post and all the referenced material are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to reuse ... Session material from TechDays BE and NL 0 0 0
List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have ... List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build 0 0 0
Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Applicat... Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 To keep things simple, I am going to retain the default security framework created by Visual Studio when I created the application. However, I am going to change the database name to something more meaningful. ... Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Applicat... 0 0 4
A Look at NDepend Aligned, January 1, 0001 I was contacted by NDepend and asked if I wanted a free version of their professional license in exchange for writing a post about it. I agreed and have been running it for a few weeks. My first impression ... A Look at NDepend 0 0 0
A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog, I wrote about Building A Custom View Engine to Create Excel Files in MVC. In this blog, I skipped over the grammar that we might use in the View definition. I have had a few people email ... A Simple Grammar for Excel Views in MVC 0 0 0
JsonIgnore attribute in Json.Net to ignore properties Aligned, January 1, 0001 We’re using Entity Framework to query a complex object graph using the .Include(“”) method to eager load the results, then sending it to the client with the WebApi. We’ve overridden the JavaScript Serializer ... JsonIgnore attribute in Json.Net to ignore properties 0 0 0
ASP.NET 4.5 - FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 ASP.NET SignalR is pretty new and very exciting feature in ASP.NET. You might want to play around with it and may encounter some hiccups during your implementation. This post will cover some issues that ... ASP.NET 4.5 - FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions 0 0 0
Dynamic Sorting with LINQ Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 If you use LINQ to retrieve data and display this data in a grid, you may have come across the problem of allowing the user to control how the data is sorted. Users always want to be able to sort data ... Dynamic Sorting with LINQ 0 0 0
Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I promised my friend Chuck that I would post the Power Shell script to get the list of most discussed topics and the tops writers in an email distribution list. Generally there are loads of emails that ... Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends 0 0 0
SharePoint Saturday Philly Slides JKenderdine, January 1, 0001 List of IE bugs on SharePoint Experience blog Responsive Master Pages http://kyleschaeffer.com/ http://blog.sharepointexper... HTML5 http://w3schools.com/html/h... CSS3 http://www.w3schools.com/cs... ... SharePoint Saturday Philly Slides 0 0 0
How to write CSS only for Internet Explorer 10 ? Anirudha, January 1, 0001 Recently I hear about IE 10 launch for windows 7. It’s sound pretty good to me. I have check if this have something good for me as a designer’s prospective. I start checking the code that is break in Ie9 ... How to write CSS only for Internet Explorer 10 ? 0 0 22
TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. This feature has officially ... TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... 0 0 0
Why Automated Tests Are So Great Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 I've recently done work at a company where there are no automated tests, and tests aren't part of the culture. I've been writing tests for so long now that it's jarring to consider working without them, ... Why Automated Tests Are So Great 0 0 0
GridView–Implementing Cascading DropDownList on Edit Mode Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 Introduction: This question has been asked many times at the forums (http://forums.asp.net) and definitely there are already bunch of different solutions provided. Most of the examples from the web are ... GridView–Implementing Cascading DropDownList on Edit Mode 0 0 0
Open SharePoint Alerts Page Using JavaScript Jacob L. Adams, January 1, 0001 The page to set up alerts for a SharePoint list requires the list ID to be passed in as a query string. The follow code will get the ID for the list with a specific title. It will then open the alerts ... Open SharePoint Alerts Page Using JavaScript 0 0 0
Exporting XML Comments to Your Application Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Recently I blogged about adding SQL Doc Documentation to you Application. This makes it easy to keep your documentation visible and more likely current. I wanted to do the same thing with my code documentation. ... Exporting XML Comments to Your Application 0 0 0
Adding SQL Doc Documentation to your Project Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 In a recent blog post, we talked about using SQL Doc to stream line documenting your database. This tool makes it a lot easier to put the documentation close to the source so that it is more likely to ... Adding SQL Doc Documentation to your Project 0 0 0
High Schools Get Failing Grade in Computer Science D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 “Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer…because it teaches you how to think.” – Steve Jobs That’s the starting frame of a fantastic short vid introducing the code.org website. ... High Schools Get Failing Grade in Computer Science 0 0 91
Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2 Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 I finally downloaded the html client preview 2 to give it a run, had not had a chance to look at Lightswitch since last summer… http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lig... ... Problems getting Lightswitch HTML Client Preview 2 0 0 1
ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 So, as part of my on-going project I’ve recently made the decision to shift all my images (uploaded by ME and my USERS) to Azure Blob Storage, instead of the quite frankly ridiculous ‘unique folder system’ ... ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) 0 0 6
ReadOnly TextBox value in AJAX Calendar Extender on postback ASP.... Nouman Zakir, January 1, 0001 Read only controls are not posted back to the server. So, when you do a postback you will lose the value in a read only control. You will need to not make the control read only. Instead, you can set the ... ReadOnly TextBox value in AJAX Calendar Extender on postback ASP.... 0 0 14
SQL Server Identity Quirks Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... SQL Server Identity Quirks 0 0 0
Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 The nice folks at Syncfusion reached out to me last week to tell me a little bit about their Succinctly series of books. As they describe the concept, their goal is take 500+ pages of content and distill ... Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly 0 0 0
MVP Summit 2013 Recap Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 Just sitting in the Seattle airport finally returning home from my first MVP Summit (well in truth I’m flying directly to my next client, no home till next weekend). As I said this was my first time attending ... MVP Summit 2013 Recap 0 0 2
MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) deepakpuri, January 1, 0001 IT Professionals working in Web Applications Dot Net can gain their MCSD: Web Applications certification by following this post. I passed these 3 exams in Feb 2013.I) Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 ... MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) 0 0 4