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The Moth, February 9, 2012
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A little pet peeve of mine is when people incorrectly refer to the Developer Preview (or the upcoming Beta) as Visual Studio 2011 instead of the correct Visual Studio 11. The "11" refers t...
youve been HAACKED, February 8, 2012
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Ive seen a few recent tweets asking about whats going on with NuGet since I left Microsoft. The fact is that the NuGet team has been hard at work on the release and have been discussing it in various ...
The Code Project Latest Articles, February 4, 2012
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Learn how to extend Visual Studio 2010 by creating custom code snippets....
Somasegars WebLog, February 3, 2012
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As an industry trend, advancement in heterogeneous hardware has progressed at a rapid pace. This in turn has fueled developer desire to target such hardware for accelerated computation, necessit...
C# Frequently Asked Questions, January 23, 2012
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The new Async feature in Visual Studio makes it easy to code asynchronous method calls. To make synchronous code asynchronous, you can simply call an asynchronous method instead of a synchronous metho...
JohnPapa.net, January 21, 2012
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A lot changed in 2011 in fact you could say it was the beginning of what I think is a massive shift in technology on multiple levels. This week in Visual Studio Magazine I open a mini series of some ...
ASP.NET Announcements, January 20, 2012
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Gaiaware has announced their 3.0 "Glory" release of their popular Ajax framework.
Some of the news are:
4 New Widgets: Extended Button, Extended Panel, Calendar and Slider
8 Widgets Completely Re...
Somasegars WebLog, January 20, 2012
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Happy new year.
Over the last several months since //BUILD/, I’ve published multiple blog posts outlining advancements made in Visual Studio 11, from languages to the .NET Framework to IDE produ...
Steven Smith, January 19, 2012
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There remains a fair bit of confusion about what constitutes which kind of test. Many developers are fairly new to testing, and tend to call any tests of their code unit tests even when theyre d...
Steven Smith, January 19, 2012
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If youre at all serious about testing, at some point youre going to have a rather large suite of tests that need to run, and youll find that your builds are taking longer than you would like because o...
Steven Smith, January 19, 2012
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If youre at all serious about testing, at some point youre going to have a rather large suite of tests that need to run, and youll find that your builds are taking longer than you would like because o...
Steven Smith, January 19, 2012
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There remains a fair bit of confusion about what constitutes which kind of test. Many developers are fairly new to testing, and tend to call any tests of their code unit tests even when theyre d...
MSDN: Coding4Fun, January 18, 2012
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A quick special edition post, the Channel 9 team has been working on brining a little fun to our everyday development and today it's being released to beta. I mean who doesn't like Achievements?!Yep A...
MSDN: Coding4Fun, January 16, 2012
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Today's Mobile Monday project is one that I've been watching for while and one that I think can lead to some very cool applications.You have your Windows app. You have your Windows Phone 7. Wouldn't i...
peterkellner.net, January 15, 2012
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This one had me a little stumped, and as usual, there are not enough examples in the Microsoft documentation to be very helpful. Im using EntityFramework CodeFirst with Visual Studio 2011....
MSDN: Coding4Fun, January 9, 2012
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Today's Mobile Monday post (I don't know if we're actually going to be doing "Mobile Monday" posts as a regular feature, like we do "Hardware Friday" posts, but it rhymed... is on an updated Wind...
peterkellner.net, January 3, 2012
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One of the standard things we programmers do is to read static files from our project directory. That is, say you put a json file such as /data/peter.json at the root of your Visual Studio 2011 ...
youve been HAACKED, January 2, 2012
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In the past, Ive tried various schemes to structure my unit tests but never fell into a consistent approach. Pretty much the only rule I had (which I broke all the time) was to write a test class for ...
Somasegars WebLog, December 16, 2011
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Through my last several blog posts, I’ve highlighted some of the new features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released in September. All of these posts have concentrated on various a...
JonGalloway.ToString(), December 15, 2011
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I just posted about an update to my NuGet package downloader script which included a few fixes, including a fix to handle paging. That sounds boring, but wait until you hear about the trampolines. Re...
JonGalloway.ToString(), December 14, 2011
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I previously posted a NuGet PowerShell downloader script, which is handy for downloading a local NuGet repository. There are several common uses: It's used in corporate environments where network ...
ISerializable, December 14, 2011
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I've been using VsVim in my latest TDD course. It's a simulator of Vim keybindings for visual studio. I've been using vim since january 2011, so almost a year now, and i've come to really like the pow...
Method ~ of ~ failed, December 8, 2011
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It seems like a daily question Ive been answering lately when working on internal email discussion groups and folks report an issue, my initial response is: what build combination are you working on? ...
More Whidbey stuff, December 7, 2011
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Damn, Rob saw right through the PR lies of Phil Haack about the new NuGet gallery and figured it all out. Kidding, kidding. For your enjoyment and context, here is Robs post: http://wekeroad.com/20...
youve been HAACKED, December 6, 2011
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So my last day at Microsoft ended up being a very long one as the NuGet team worked late into the evening to deployan updated version of NuGet.org. Im very happy to be a part of this as my last act as...
youve been HAACKED, December 6, 2011
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Well, as I wrote before, today is my last day at Microsoft. Last night we had our office Holiday party in the observation deck and lounge of the Space Needle. The party was just fantastic and we were ...
ScottGus Blog, December 2, 2011
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This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities. With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll ...
Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), November 28, 2011
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We have been working a lot lately with PowerShell as part of our star product at Tellago Studios, Moesion. One of the main features we provide in Moesion is the ability to execute PowerShell commands ...
Somasegars WebLog, November 17, 2011
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Over my last few posts, I’ve blogged about some of the advances we’ve made for the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - improvements to programming languages that enable developers to bett...
JonGalloway.ToString(), November 14, 2011
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Here are 15 pragmatic JavaScript tips for ASP.NET developers from my recent presentation at DevConnections 2011 (Las Vegas). The goal here is pragmatic tips - things you can use right away. Three or...
ISerializable, November 11, 2011
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In the past several months I’ve been taking background recordings of my classes with screen recorders on. I’ve heard from a good number of people that they can’t attend my TDD classe...
MSDN: Coding4Fun, November 11, 2011
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While I don't usually highlight Arduino related projects, since there's often little Microsoft relation, I saw this and knew I had to post on it... I mean how much more Microsoft can you get! A comple...
The Code Project Latest Articles, November 7, 2011
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A non-nonsense guide to setting up boost threads in Visual Studio environments...
Mehfuzs WebLog, November 5, 2011
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Just when we have dependencies for a controller, we need to wrap around our heads to write a bootstrapper that will dynamically inject dependencies for a controller in runtime and once we we want to d...
ASP.NET Announcements, November 1, 2011
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We’re pleased to announce that ClientUI for Visual Studio LightSwitch is now immediately available for download. The release is set together along with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 launch even...
youve been HAACKED, October 28, 2011
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We made a recent change to make it easy to update the NuGet documentation. In this post, Ill cover what the change was, why we made it, and how it makes it easier to contribute to our documentation. ...
ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, October 25, 2011
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This article will show you how to install and get started quickly using WebMatrix 2....
youve been HAACKED, October 25, 2011
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Recently, a group of covert ninjas within my organization started to investigate what it would take to change our internal build and continuous integration systems (CI) to take advantage of NuGet for ...
Keyvan Nayyeri, October 20, 2011
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These days Im doing several presentations on different topics and theyre a good candidate to be published on Keyvan.TV as new episodes. Today I published one of these presentations on Code Bubbles as ...
The Code Project Latest Articles, October 16, 2011
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Learn how to greatly improve your productivity and save yourself some frustration by using RapidDesign add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio...
ASP.NET Announcements, October 9, 2011
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In the past years there were many times I was thinking: "What can I do for the community?". At the end of 2010 I had a great idea. A code snippet microblog platform with a focus on .NET. The go...
Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, October 8, 2011
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SharePoint 2010 Training: more information
This tip will make it easy for ...
Fervent Coder, October 7, 2011
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If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine. Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager ...
Fervent Coder, October 7, 2011
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If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine. Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager ...
ISerializable, October 6, 2011
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Hi all. Two things to announce:
TDD Master Class: If you’re in or near Copenhagen this month, and are interested in joining my 5 day TDD master class in .NET, you can learn more about it here....
Steven Smith, October 3, 2011
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Entity Framework 4 has Lazy Loading built-in and enabled by default. Heres a quick bit of code to show you how to work with this feature. To get started with this, simply create a new Cons...
Steven Smith, October 2, 2011
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Entity Framework 4 has Lazy Loading built-in and enabled by default. Heres a quick bit of code to show you how to work with this feature. To get started with this, simply create a new Cons...
Somasegars WebLog, September 30, 2011
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At the BUILD conference in September, we unveiled developer previews of Visual Studio 11, Expression Blend 5, Team Foundation Server 11, and the .NET Framework 4.5.
We’ve been working on th...
Simple Talk, September 29, 2011
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Team Foundation Service, the hosted TFS service on Azure, together with Visual Studio 11, has now provided much of the functionality that was missing from the previous incarnation of TFS. Bahadir give...
EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, September 17, 2011
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Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview is out, and it includes SQL Server Denali EXPRESSS, the .NET Framework 4.5, and many new features. This will install on Windows 7, but you'll need to use Windows 8 f...