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Imagine Cup Deadline December 31

Mark Johnston — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:28:13 GMT

Mark Johnston writes, "The Imagine Cup 2009 is in full swing. And there is no better year to compete - there has been so much going on in the world of Microsoft technology recently...You have until 31st December to get your idea in," more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:28:13 GMT

Scary MSBuild Log

Samuel Jack — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:26:27 GMT

Samuel Jack writes, "Unfortunately, I had miss-typed ...so MSBuild was defaulting to the empty string. Thus the LogFile Item was being populated with a list of all the files in my C:\ drive, and the Delete task was obediently purging them....make sure you've at least got a cloned Virtual machine from which to copy any files which might get trashed...." more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:26:27 GMT

Shortcuts Allow You to Quickly Search for VS Objects Within Your Solution

Sara Ford — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:10 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "Another good keyboard shortcut many don’t know about. I only say that because I forgot all about this one until now…There is a command called View.ClassViewGoToSearchCombo" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:10 GMT

Code Showing IronPython and WPF Background Processing

Harry Pierson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:08:49 GMT

Harry Pierson writes, "SyncContext is an abstraction for concurrency management. It lets you write code that is ignorant of specific synchronization mechanisms in concurrency-aware managed frameworks like WinForms and WPF...here’s the new version of BGThread and UIThread. Slightly more complex, but still pretty simple clocking in at just under 30 lines..." more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:08:49 GMT

Expression Blend 2 Tip For Demos

John Papa — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:40:21 GMT

John Papa writes, "...there is a toggle button (F4) in Blend that simply make the sidebar windows collapse or expand. This is very cool when you are doing a presentation and the screen resolution is so tiny that the audience cannot see what you are doing...For example, the following Blend screenshot shows the Interaction and Properties windows cluttering up the screen" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:40:21 GMT

Powershell Tip Parsing the Operations Manager Event Log

System Center Forum — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:45:15 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "...What if I could easily parse my Operations Manager Event Log and get an hourly count of these events? I’ve posted the script syntax below. However, if you run the script with no parameters, syntax will be echoed to the screen..." more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:45:15 GMT

Installing the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as a Prerequisite

VB Team — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:22:04 GMT

VB Team writes, "...The steps to download the full .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and modify the product.xml file are detailed in How to Include .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 with Your Installer. While the blog entry was written initially to answer questions from an Office developer, these steps apply to everyone deploying applications developed with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:22:04 GMT

Deploying a Silverlight App on Windows Azure in 30 Minutes

Nicklas Andersson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:20:14 GMT

Nicklas Andersson writes, "... the steps I went through to deploy an existing application to Azure, and talk a bit about how Azure compares to EC2.Oh, and I’m pretty sure this was the first real...Windows Azure deployment from Finland..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:20:14 GMT

Silverlight Sample WPF Control Extends an ItemsControl

Rob Zelt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:44:03 GMT

Rob Zelt writes, "The control extends an ItemsControl to use a custom container that provides a text label and layout for input controls....The result is a custom control that allows me to add input controls such as TextBoxes and CheckBoxes and get labels..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:44:03 GMT

8 Steps Creating a Silverlight Mesh Enabled Web Application

Katrien DeGraeve — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:36:37 GMT

Katrien DeGraeve writes, "...I’m talking about the developer Live Framework CTP which at this stage in on limited access...In order to create your first Mesh-enabled project you need to install the Live Framework Tools CTP. You will be able to download this once you get your token...I started by creating a new project of type..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:36:37 GMT

How to Open a File in an Existing Visual Studio Instance

Sara Ford — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:27 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "...Visual Studio has a command line argument you can specify to open a file in an existing instance of VS...You could also create a VSEdit command if you find yourself using this feature a lot. Just create a file called "VSEdit.cmd"..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:27 GMT

Adding Toolkit Items to Toolbox Amid Problems

Dave Campbell — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:23 GMT

Dave Campbell writes, "After the Silverlight Toolkit was released, there was a post about adding the tools to the Toolbox. I re-blogged it in case anyone needed it, but I figured I didn't ... I mean I've been around Visual Studio since it was "Visual C++" Beta, so what's the big deal? Well, until it IS a big deal..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:23 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 CTP Sequence Diagram Examined

Willy-Peter Schaub — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:45:34 GMT

Willy-Peter Schaub writes, "I cannot wait for the go-live-license for Visual Studio 2010. These visualisation tools and modellers have been long overdue...We are still working with a community technology preview (CTP) release and therefore some challenges and hiccups were expected. BUT, the diagram is far more comprehensive and usable than the diagrams generated by CTP1..." more

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:45:34 GMT

PowerTools for Open XML cmdlets Description Checklist

Eric White — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:38:17 GMT

Eric White writes, "...detailed description of each of the PowerTools for Open XML cmdlets. For an overview and screen cast of PowerTools for Open XML, see Automated Processing of Open XML Documents using PowerShell." more

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:38:17 GMT

Code Showing Rownumber in Silverlight Datagrid or Listbox

Hannes Preishuber — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:55:38 GMT

Hannes Preishuber writes, "My next sample uses a converter to show a line number within a datalist...the concept is quite interesting and it works. First we need a TextBlock to display the row number. The content is controlled by databinding. Unique data (here [daten]) is needed as parameter for later converting..." more

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:55:38 GMT

How to Use NUnit with native C++

Matthieu Terrier — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:33:44 GMT

Matthieu Terrier writes, "NUnit was designed to be used with managed apps. So what? All you need to do is create a C++/CLI project to host the test files. To link the test project to the native C++ project, simply add a configuration to the solution and call it ReleaseUnitTests for instance. This configuration will build the native C++..." more

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:33:44 GMT

How to Find the Windows dpi setting in .NET

Andrew Coates — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:30:19 GMT

Andrew Coates writes, "All objects that inherit from System.Windows.Forms.Control inherit the CreateGraphics method which returns a System.Drawing.Graphics object for the control. The Graphics object has DpiX and DpiY properties..." more

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:30:19 GMT

The Truth About Routed Commands Routing

Brian Noyes — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:55:39 GMT

Brian Noyes writes, "...Always put your command bindings on the root element...and your command binding will always be consulted...Trying to rationalize that in your development process to put command bindings anywhere except on the root element is the path to command routing hell." more

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:55:39 GMT

How to Specify Where to Install a Snippet in the VS Content Installer

Sara Ford — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:58:29 GMT

Sara Ford writes, "whenever you install a code snippet, the content installer will present you with a page (per snippet language) asking you where do you want to install the code snippet." more

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:58:29 GMT

How to Encrypt your AJAX Ttraffic Using Silverlight and Ajax.NET Pro

Michael Schwarz — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:48:31 GMT

Michael Schwarz writes, "It is possible to put an AJAX token or to simple encrypt the data that gets over the lines...I have created a very simple demo that is showing how to implement cryptography in Ajax.NET Professional. First we have to create the encryption methods and implement an AjaxSecurityProvider..." more

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:48:31 GMT