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Penny Pinching Video: Moving an Azure Website between data centers
I talked about Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud last week when I added jQuery lazy loading to my podcast's Website. I wanted to avoid paying any unnecessary bandwidth costs. The result was...
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System Center and IntelliTrace
Over the past little while, the System Center Operations Management team and the Visual Studio IntelliTrace team have been working together to create an increasingly rich debugging experience for...
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Inside Windows Phone – code samples
What Windows Phone code samples are available to you, and how do you get them? We publish a large number of code samples that cover a solid range of Windows Phone developer scenarios. In this video, we...
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Setting up Two-Factor Authentication for your Google account AND Microsoft...
I use Two-Factor Authentication for my Google Apps account and I use the Google Authenticator application on my iPhone to generate the second factor.Microsoft Accounts (formerly Live Accounts) just...
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Finding the Visual Studio Command Prompts in Visual Studio 2012
If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8, you may be looking for the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcuts. These shortcuts are installed by Visual Studio to run scripts that configure the...
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Penny Pinching Video: Moving my Website's Images to the Azure CDN (and using...
I talked about Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud last week when I added jQuery lazy loading to my podcast's Website. Next, I moved my website to the same data center as my SQL Database (in...
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Learn IntelliTrace
There’s a lot of good content on IntelliTrace and we’ve grabbed a few links here to have in one place. If you’ve got some time and want to get to know more about IntelliTrace in Visual Studio these are...
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Exposed: A Blog Comment Spammer's Source Template
I've been getting a LOT of Blog Comment Spam lately, just in the at two weeks. I run all my comments through the Akismet Service, and I pay for it. However, this particular flavor of spam has been...
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XDT (XML Document Transform) released on codeplex.com
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a simple and straight forward method of transforming web.config during publishing/packaging. This support is called XML Document Transform, aka XDT. It allows you to...
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F# and QuantLib: An Introduction
A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi (alex.radi@gmail.com)F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its functional-first methodology, succinctness, strong...
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Free Microsoft Exam jump start for: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual...
There has been a ton of excitement around the new ALM course and exams. Responding to this two of the ALM MVPs Anthony Borton and Steven Borg are offering a FREE jump start for Exam 70-498: Delivering...
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Getting attachments in a mail app
Mail apps can now use a new set of properties and methods in the JavaScript API for Office and Exchange Web Services callback tokens to get the attachments of a message or appointment in an Exchange...
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Adding a Signature Control to the LightSwitch HTML Client
LightSwitch is all about building business solutions quickly -- defining your data models & business rules and visually creating screens with a set of built-in controls. It does all the boring...
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How to profile a JavaScript Windows Store App for performance problems
If you are developing a JavaScript Windows Store App, you will want to measure the performance characteristics of your app. The Visual Studio 2012 JavaScript profiler can help you to identify...
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Social Engineering
When people in our industry use the term “social engineering” they are usually referring to security attacks. Politicians and lobbyists would mean something entirely different too. But that’s not what...
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Social Engineering
Are you wondering what my team does for team building?You can find out on our .NET wide blog.
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Using the Windows Phone 8.0 SDK to localize Windows Phone OS 7.1 projects
This blog post was authored by Dan Zucker, a program manager on the Windows Phone team.- AdamHere are the quick steps you need to take to set up a Windows Phone OS 7.1 Visual Studio project to use the...
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Project-less scripted C# with ScriptCS and Roslyn
Glenn Block is working on something interesting that combines C#, NuGet, Roslyn (the new "compiler as a service") and his love of text editors and scripts. Now, with help from Justin Rusbatch...
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Release Notes 4/24/2013
In this week’s deployment, the CodePlex team made the following improvements:Added twitter cards! Now, when a link to CodePlex is tweeted, these tweets will have a Twitter card with more information...
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Dashboard Reports with LightSwitch, WebAPI and ServerApplicationContext– Part...
OverviewWith a little homage to Hot Shots Part Deux we’ll drill in a bit deeper utilizing the ServerApplicationContext for creating Dashboard reports. Part 1 is here: Create Dashboard Reports with...
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