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List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build
A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have...
View ArticleC#/.NET Little Wonders: Extension Methods Demystified
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past...
View ArticleForce your ClickOnce app to update without prompting user – Now on NuGet!
A while ago I blogged about a powershell script I made that would automatically update your ClickOnce project file’s Minimum Required Version to the latest version of your application so that users...
View ArticlePLINQ–Not Just a Cool Sound
One of my favorite features in .Net 4 is the addition of the PLINQ extensions off the IEnumerable<T> for parallel queries of type ParallelQuery<T>. Even after talking to bunches of...
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Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2013
Pictures - 2013 Microsoft Global MVP SummitVIEW SLIDE SHOWDOWNLOAD ALL Back in February, I had the honor to attend Microsoft’s annual Summit for MVP award winners. As an award winner we get invited to...
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Session material from TechDays BE and NL
UPDATE: Added the videosNote: Like all material on this blog, this blog post and all the referenced material are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to...
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Streetlight Store–Part IV: Relational Entities and Product Categories
In Part III, we started creating a very basic MVC application to host our store. We also created a simple table to store products and methods to perform CRUD transactions and validate data. Now we we...
View ArticleReviewing Knockout.js Succinctly
Over the weekend I sat down with another book in the Succinctly series. I have wanted to learn more about Knockout.js for a while now. I approached this book knowing very little about Knockout.js,...
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Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track
I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting...
View ArticleEntity Framework POCO and JSON serialization
An application I've been working utilizes the jQuery DataTables plugin and server side processing for pagination.My initial set up had my controller call a view model which in turn called my business...
View ArticleSQL Server–Find Nth Largest/smallest entry in a table
We could find the maximum and minimum value in a table by using the SQL inbuilt aggregate functions MAX() and MIN() respectively. But, many times there comes a scenario when we need to find the second...
View ArticleHere’s why the Unit of Work is needed
I didn’t understand why I would want to use the Unit of Work pattern before I ran into this. I had a ManagerBase class that had an IRepository. (The managers implement ManagerBase which have a private...
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Step-by-Step: Speaking iSCSI with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
Windows Server 2012 and our completely FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 certainly have some really cost effective new storage options, with Storage Spaces and Hyper-V over SMB 3.0. However, many IT Pros have...
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Book Review: Knockout.js Succinctly
First of all I'd like to thank the Syncfusion team for choosing me to do this book review, I appreciate the opportunity.Syncfusion provides a one stop for various .NET components. We offer...
View ArticleCreating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio 2012 and Wix...
In part 1 we looked at the structure of a WiX setup project, and created a simple installer. We looked at the staging paradigm which gave us complete flexibility in the way we harvested files and...
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The trilogy of Sample Browser – Search samples in Visual Studio, in...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onecode/p/samplebrowser.aspx Sample Browser has reached its third milestone with the new Windows Store app since we released the desktop version and the Visual Studio version in...
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Microsoft Tool :Use Windows Live Writer for Blogs Writing
Use Windows Live Writer for writing blogs URL to download :http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials-other-programsGreat tools for offline writing and publish in blog site with Photos...
View ArticleSpecification Test for the Authorized Attribute in MVC
I wanted to Unit Test (in BDD I’d call it a specification) that the controller had the authorize attribute so I found this approach in a GoodSearch a while back and forgotten who to give credit for it,...
View ArticleExposing your API via Windows Azure Service Bus Queues and Topics
Recently I wrote an article for UK MSDN Flash about using Windows Azure Service Bus Queues & TopicsIve had some great feedback on this article from friends! Check it out...
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