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XBox Kodu Makes Game Programming Friendly

Chris Bowen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:06:46 GMT

Chris Bowen writes, "As of yesterday, Kodu is now available on XBOX Live Marketplace as a free trial or purchase for 400 points (about $5) and lets you create games using only the XBOX controller..." more

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:06:46 GMT

Code Sample Retrieves XML From a List Available to Anonymous User

Liam Cleary — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:18:13 GMT

Liam Cleary writes, "This of course is very straight forward but the complication here was that it needed to be available to an anonymous user who would consume the XML stream. After a little thought I decided that we could use the "owssvr.dll" method. For those that have not used this before it is very simple. You make a call to the following URL:" more

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:18:13 GMT

Workaround for Kerberos Configuration Issue is Reboot

PSS SQL Engineers — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:15:19 GMT

PSS SQL Engineers writes, "The situation was an 8 node cluster with multiple instances across the nodes. These were running Windows 2008 with SQL 2008. One node in particular was having an issue when they were issuing a Linked Server Query from a remote client...When trying to hit the linked server from within Management Studio on the client machine, we received the following message: Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Line 1 Login failed..." more

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:15:19 GMT

Code for Scrolling Large Images on Windows Mobile Devices

Maarten Struys — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:06:27 GMT

Maarten Struys writes, "...I needed a simple solution to scroll a large picture inside a managed application....This is the complete code for this simple example" more

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:06:27 GMT

How to Remove Disabled Virtual Network Adapters From the Parent Partition

John Howard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:59 GMT

John Howard writes, "To date, I haven’t come across a script which removes disabled virtual NICs in the parent partition. So here is one such example...Obviously with any script which does destructive things, I urge caution and that you make careful note of your configuration..." more

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:59 GMT

Approaches to Uploading Files to SharePoint 2007 from ASP.NET Web Apps

Erika Ehrli — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:01:18 GMT

Erika Ehrli writes, "...there are multiple possible ways to accomplish this task in SharePoint 2007. Here are some popular approaches I’ve learned about and some great possibilities and drawbacks for each:" more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:01:18 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 Authentication Services Code Sample

Al Pascual — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:48:57 GMT

Al Pascual writes, "Message based authentication managed by Silverlight not the browser. Silverlight can use the browsers cookies and send them to the hosts. When you authenticate with ASP.NET the authentication cookie stored to your computer will be used by Silverlight if you create a Silverlight Authentication Service..." more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:48:57 GMT

Windows 7 How to Register New File Associations

Guy Burstein — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:08 GMT

Guy Burstein writes, "Lets say I have a standard Windows Forms application that works with .guy file types...This application can be launched from the command line with a file name as an argument:..Since this application is the only application that knows how to work with .guy files, we would like to associate this file type with my application. In order to do that..." more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:08 GMT

Code Sample of Binary Http Binding

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:32:35 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "...all you need is a custom binding because we don’t include a standard binding with that configuration out of the box. Here’s a quick example of putting binary and HTTP together with either code or configuration:.." more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:32:35 GMT

SQL Auto-Shrink Should Be Off

Buck Woody — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:21:06 GMT

Buck Woody writes, "...shrinking a database can cause your Indexes to be fragmented, especially if it happens a lot. I never shrink my databases unless I have a huge deletion of data, and I know that the data won't come back. That's a pretty rare event, and when it does happen..." more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:21:06 GMT

Licensing Transition Details SMSE Moving to SMSD

Emma Healey — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:19:25 GMT

Emma Healey writes, "Full details on the transition and migration path for existing customers on SMSE and new customers moving to SMSD..." more

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:19:25 GMT

Code for Maintaining State in Reporting Services 2008

Teo Lachev — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:10:38 GMT

Teo Lachev writes, "Since Reporting Services is not Excel, you cannot reference arbitrary fields on a report. So, I had to cache the values from the detail section in a hashtable using custom code so the summary section could obtain these values when needed. The following embedded code gets the job done:" more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:10:38 GMT

Designing View Models With MVC

Joe Ocampo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:07:02 GMT

Joe Ocampo writes, "For our application, the ViewModel is a central aspect of our MVC architecture. One of the first dilemmas facing MVC developers is to decide what the “M” in MVC means in ASP.NET MVC. In Rails, this is fairly clear, the M is ActiveRecord (by default). But in ASP.NET MVC, the “M” is silent! Its out-of-the-box architecture offers no guidelines nor advice..." more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:07:02 GMT

Fix for Project 2007 Delivering Mixed Up Views

Brian Smith — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:03:01 GMT

Brian Smith writes, "...we have a fix in the pipeline which should see the light of day in the August CU, but to help just in case others come across this we thought it worth getting this information out there (Thanks Rob). First some details, and then the suggested workaround. The problem and fix is for Project Professional 2007, but only in an Enterprise environment..." more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:03:01 GMT

How to Check for a 4.0 Framework Install

Nicholas Allen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:58:08 GMT

Nicholas Allen writes, "Checking for the presence of the installation registry value is still a straightforward way of doing this reliably. A slight complication is that in 4.0 there has been a split into the full and client framework profiles...The registry keys for the client and full profiles are:" more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:58:08 GMT

References on SharePoint with SQL DB Mirroring and Failover

Simon Seagrave — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:56:14 GMT

Simon Seagrave writes, "Here’s a collection of good SharePoint SQL database mirroring links and articles I have found to be useful specifically around the area of failing over MOSS..." more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:56:14 GMT

Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts List

Windows Team — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:43:43 GMT

Windows Team writes, "...Here are some of my favorite Windows 7 shortcuts that you may not be familiar with that are great time savers. For a complete list of all shortcuts, check out this page here..." more

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:43:43 GMT

Simple IE8 Accelerator Code Sample

Guy Burstein — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:33:47 GMT

Guy Burstein writes, "From a technical perspective, Accelerators define 2 actions: Preview and Execute. When the user selects some text and hover over an accelerator, the Preview action is being performed - the selected text is sent to a defined url, that returns a 320x240 web page with a preview of the data...To build IE8 Accelerators, we have several steps to do:" more

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:33:47 GMT

Azure Worker Role Development Tips

Jamie Thomson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:28:18 GMT

Jamie Thomson writes, "I’ve been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure the main focus of which has been exploring Azure storage (tables, queues, blobs) and how those things can be manipulated from Azure worker roles...Since then I’ve found some blog resources that would have been useful during development had I found them earlier so I’m linking to them from here..." more

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:28:18 GMT

CIO Priorities for 2009

Mike Walker — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:19 GMT

Mike Walker writes, "This is what over 220 IT executives have indicated as their top priorities. We analyse some of the trends for the year and provide some commentary and context...Below is a table of the data presented..." more

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:19 GMT