Android to Windows 8 Part 5: Building a Simple User Interface
Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an...
View ArticleAndroid to Windows 8 Part 4: Running the Windows Store Application
Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an...
View ArticleAdding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps
If you’re building a Windows Store app that plays audio you have the option of being able to play your app’s audio in the background (i.e. when the app is not running). Over the course of three posts I...
View ArticleAndroid to Windows 8 Part 3: Exploring the Windows Store Project
Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an...
View ArticleAndroid to Windows 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Store Project
Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an...
View ArticleAndroid to Windows 8 Part 1: Setting up the Development Environment
Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an...
View ArticleGotcha Got with AzureReader2 and ImageResizer
After my previous post on getting AzureReader2 up and running with ImageResizer– I ran into a problem – I had a page with a foreach on it, where I had a link to each fullsize image. It was all working...
View ArticleConsume Third-Party Services at Windows Azure Store
It has been long time didn’t blog anything since last November. There are many exciting things happened during this period. I attend Microsoft TechED 2012 China and provided a session about Node.js and...
View ArticleMaking jQuery UI Droppable Testable
I’m using jQuery UI’sdroppable for drag and drop capabilities. I wanted to be able to test it with Jasmine, but I couldn’t find a way to mock it. I found Jasmine jQuery, but wasn’t able to figure out...
View ArticleBeginning PHP On Windows 8
It is always interesting to find out what technology I will have to work with next. One of the latest that I’ve had to learn is PHP and since I am running Windows 8 I had to get it working in that...
View ArticleMicrosoft Refreshes Sample Browser with the support for 13 new Languages
Shortly after releasing Sample Browser last month, our team refreshes the app with an important feature for global developers: Localized sample search experience.Please visit http://bit.ly/ZxmISi to...
View ArticleUsing the predefined buttons styles for the ApplicationBar in Windows 8
When you create a new Windows 8 application, the Common folder contains a file named StandardStyles.xaml. Amongst other styling resources, this file contains a trove of application bar buttons styles,...
View ArticleTFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling
I’ve been working with a lot of clients over the past couple years helping them adopt TFS Lab Management. One discussion that always comes up is how to architect the infrastructure required to run TFS...
View ArticleVariations on a Repository Pattern: Part II
In my previous post I laid out my current pet project and began showing the framework I set up to isolate CSLA business objects from the data access code. I listed (sans code comments for brevity) the...
View ArticleGetting Started with MongoDB presentation (C#, MVC4)
Another NoSQL presentation, this time on MongoDB. This was my first run at it….hopefully will present again at Carolina Codecamp, Codestock, and MADExpo…Inshallah! As with each attempt, hopefully the...
View ArticleWebsite Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Part 2 –...
This is the second in a series of articles looking at using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (formally Windows Azure Access Control Service), to integrate the authentication services...
View ArticleEPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user on brand new...
Today I made a clean, brand new install of EPiServer 7 on a Windows 2012 server using VS2012. For googlers finding this post with any issue present in title, just look for the bold text to try my...
View ArticleExchange 2013: A new look…
The Exchange Server product line experienced a few changes with the introduction of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. Exchange Server 2013 brings with it a whole new set of services, technologies and...
View ArticleSuper-Fast Failover with VM Guest Clustering in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
My good friend and colleague, Matt Hester, recently wrote a great article on Hyper-V Host Clustering as part of our latest article series, Become a Virtualization Expert in 20 Days! In this article,...
View ArticleUse the bind method for Jasmine toThrow Tests
Thanks to Danyal Aytekin for his Stackoverflow answer. If you want to use the toThrow in Jasmin tests on actual functions, you can use the “Function.bind, which was introduced in JavaScript 1.8.5. This...
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