Streetlight Store - Part II: Black Boxing Products and Improved Architecture
In Part I, I introduced the concept of the Streetlight Store and the architecture. In this segment, we will walk through the creation of a data contract for products, interfaces for managing...
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Streetlight Store - Part III: Implementation in an MVC 4 Application
To keep things simple, I am going to retain the default security framework created by Visual Studio when I created the application. However, I am going to change the database name to something more...
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Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services
I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our official Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services. Android developers now have easy access to structured data storage, authentication, push...
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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 ArticleMonoTouch MKMapView Zoom Level
[cross posted]I needed to implement a zoom level similar to Google Maps style for MonoTouch iOS and lucky me after doing little search on the web I found this article...
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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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 ArticleCreating Multi-Environment Windows Installers with Visual Studio 2012 and Wix...
MSI is one of those technologies that has stood the test of time, and WiX is an increasingly popular way of creating these installer databases. There’s a perception that WiX is convoluted, complex and...
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Solving Performance Problems with nHibernate (or any ORM)
I’ve spent a bunch of time lately with clients helping them understand why their applications are so slow and how to improve performance. This often comes down to their use (or misuse) of ORM...
View ArticleShared resources and stopped services
A hypervisor is like a bank. It is offering inexistent CPU cycles and HDD I/Os up to 150% of real capacity. In normal situation VMs consumes about 20% of declared (maximum) RAM, CPU and disk IO, and...
View ArticleTips : Quality Centre :Copy and Paste Test suite from one Project to Another
1.Open the QC link in two separate browser windows2 Select the Test suit 2.1Edit – Copy from first browser3 Edit -Paste as second browser.4 select the option Paste Test SetsfTest Set Folders to Target...
View ArticleVisual Studio Test Professional 2012 90-day trial
Hi All,Visual Studio Test Professional 2012 is ideal for testers, business analysts, product managers, and other stakeholders who need team collaboration tools, but not a full development IDE. After...
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...
View ArticleReleased LINQ to Twitter v2.1.04
Today, I released the latest version of LINQ to Twitter, v2.1.04. Many of the modifications include new parameters for commands and queries, or new Entity properties. A few items were deprecated, so...
View Article2010 version of TF (TFS command tool) unable to determine the workspace that...
We upgraded to VS 2012 and TFS 2012 a month ago.I have a backupShelve.cmd that used to work before upgrade, but when I run it yesterday caused the errorUnable to determine the workspace. You may be...
View ArticleWCF Transactions are not supported by Azure.
We have a service operation, for which it is very important to ensure that a client receives the status, that was determined at the end of operation.If client does receive the response, the server...
View ArticleDefault Enum initialisation by MS Create Unit Tests wizard.
VS 2012 doesn't show Create Unit Tests wizard. However it can be used - see Where is the “Create Unit Tests” selection? andhttp://dl.my/2013/create-unit-tests-function-not-available-or-disabled/I've...
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