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Deep Dive into Orchard Extensibility for CMS Developers

Nuno Godinho — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:11:25 GMT

Nuno Godinho writes, "...What is Orchard? Free, open source, community-based projected aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on ASP.NET Built in ASP{.NET MVC 2.0 Licensed under the BSD license Included in the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the CodePlex Foundation..." more

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:11:25 GMT

Solution to PowerShell Rename Files Problem

Richard Siddaway — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:29:35 GMT

Richard Siddaway writes, "...Read the file list with Get-ChildItem. Create the new name by splitting...did try using the –split operator instead of split() but didn’t have any success..." more

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:29:35 GMT

Solution to VS ASP.NET ReportViewer Obtaining Parameters

Teo Lachev — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:02:34 GMT

Teo Lachev writes, "...You use the Visual Studio ASP.NET ReportViewer and you can't figure out how to get the parameter values when the page posts back...Solution: Depending on your scenario, you can choose one the following three approaches..." more

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:02:34 GMT

How to Set up PowerGUI Pro Script Editor 2.0 to Work with VSTFS

Dmitry Sotnikov — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:27:20 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...if this is a fresh machine and there already exists a TFS project which you want to join and from which you want to download all existing files, you may do so using the Visual Studio or Visual Studio Team Explorer. All you need to do is..." more

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:27:20 GMT

Fix to Allow Providing Outgoing Supporting Tokens

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:27:11 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...Previously there was no way for the message sender to directly control the supporting tokens. After installing this fix there is a new OutgoingSupportingTokens property on SecurityMessageProperty. The OutgoingSupportingTokens property provides..." more

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:27:11 GMT

Samples of jQuery and Templating

Stephen Walther — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:51:40 GMT

Stephen Walther writes, "Our plan is to focus on jQuery as the primary technology for building client-side Ajax applications moving forward. We want to adapt Microsoft technologies to work great with jQuery and we want to contribute features to jQuery that will..." more

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:51:40 GMT

List of Changes in Silverlight 4 RC

Tim Heuer — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:05 GMT

Tim Heuer writes, "...here’s my brain dump [list] of some key areas of what you’ll be seeing in the Silverlight 4 RC. This is not all-inclusive, but I think a list of some that most will want to know about..." more

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:05 GMT

Try Out Blend 4 For Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone

Christian Schormann — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:28 GMT

Christian Schormann writes, "...Blend 4 now supports Silverlight 4 and WPF 4...it works great together with VS 2010...In the SketchFlow player you can now pan and resize the screens at runtime..The path-based layout technique lets you not just create static layouts, but the path elements and all layout properties can also be animated..." more

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:28 GMT

Microsoft Readies Open-Source Analytics Framework for Silverlight

Mary Jo Foley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:31:41 GMT

Mary Jo Foley writes, "...The framework is designed to allow developers to integrate Web analytics into Silverlight applications. It will be able to track out-of-browser and offline applications, as well as support multiple analytics services from various third-party vendors..." more

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:31:41 GMT

Syntax to Capture a Memory Dump Using Adplus 'hang' Dump

Steve Schofield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:13 GMT

Steve Schofield writes, "...Here is the syntax to capture a memory dump using adplus (part of the debugging tools)...I've used this since IIS DebugDiag doesn't work on 64 bit of windows server 2008..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:13 GMT

Code Copying Properties Between 2 Different Types

Shawn Cicoria — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:56:08 GMT

Shawn Cicoria writes, "...Here’s a little method that copies all the R/W properties (public) between 2 distinct class definitions: It’s called as follows..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:56:08 GMT

ASP.NET Website on the Move Again

Scott Hanselman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:47 GMT

Scott Hanselman writes, "...This is the first of a series of updates to the site we'll be making this year...[here}" more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:47 GMT

Test Drive Development TDD Constructive Criticisms

Brian Harry — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:13:34 GMT

Brian Harry writes, "...I’m not saying that it isn’t possible to build a good architecture following TDD. I’m saying that lots of people are already inclined toward piecemeal architecture and I believe literal TDD enables these natural tendencies too much...I like many of the goals of TDD but I don’t like some of the mechanism to get there..." more

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:13:34 GMT

VS 2010 Load Tests and a Powerful Solution for Performance Analysis of Java Applications

Ed Glas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:33 GMT

Ed Glas writes, "...The integration is now even deeper with VS 2010. With VS 2010, you can drill straight from a specific slow Web page in a load test to the dynaTrace truePath for that page. The truePath shows the performance breakdown for the page, detailing which tiers of the application were slow for that page. This enables you to jump..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:33 GMT

Code to Determine Whether a String is Contained Within a String Array

Scott Mitchell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:29:20 GMT

Scott Mitchell writes, "...I need to write a bit of code that does one thing if a particular string is found within an array of strings and something else if it is not ignoring differences in case...here it is:..." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:29:20 GMT

FluentPath: a Fluent Wrapper Around System.IO

Bertrand Le Roy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:53:08 GMT

Bertrand Le Roy writes, "...Knowing all that, every time I need to use the stuff in System.IO, I cringe. So I thought I’d just build a more modern wrapper around it...here’s an example of what you can do with the new API...I’m using a Media Center extension that wants all video files to be in their own folder...Here’s the code for it:.." more

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:53:08 GMT

Visual Studio Color Settings

Keith Elder — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:55 GMT

Keith Elder writes, "Here’s what my environment looks like. I use a dark theme...If you’d like to try this theme out then download the file below. Within Visual Studio go to Tools->Import and Export Settings to import. The changes will be immediate." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:55 GMT

PowerPack for Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI

Dmitry Sotnikov — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:17:55 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...a PowerPack which lets you browse file system of a remote computer and download files from it...This is based on PowerShell 2.0 remoting...Download the Remote File Explorer PowerPack or read more..." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:17:55 GMT

Code to Verify Installation of a Custom Device Using C#

Asaf Shelly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:15:09 GMT

Asaf Shelly writes, "...Using my WinUSB C# component, I also needed to automatically install the driver if it is not already installed. The INF file defines a new device class by its GUID. This means that the class does not exist on the machine if the device is not installed. Here is the code:..." more

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:15:09 GMT

VS 2008 Add-in Debugs for XNA Game Studio Content Pipeline Extensions

Aaron Stebner — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:53 GMT

Aaron Stebner writes, "...a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that allows you to debug an XNA Game Studio content pipeline extension from within Visual Studio 2008 as you are developing it...Here are links with some additional information..." more

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:53 GMT