IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warnin... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I’ve used the following extension method in many places. public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this Object[] myArr) { return (myArr == null || myArr.Length == 0); }Recently I’ve noticed that Resharper shows ... IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warnin... 0 0 0
DDDSouthWest 4.0 26th May 2012 - Async 20/20 presentation Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 As I wasn’t voted in with my nominated sessions I presented a 20/20 talk on the new async functionality coming with the .Net Framework. This was based on the PechaKucha presentation format, where you have ... DDDSouthWest 4.0 26th May 2012 - Async 20/20 presentation 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 28/May/2012 - Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services"Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services will show you how to pull data together and ... APress Deal of the Day 28/May/2012 - Pro SQL Server 2008 Analysis... 0 0 0
More information on the transit of Venus TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Besides the web com at http://www.transitofvenus.c... that I have already blogged about, some more have come to light courtesy of an excellent Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ... More information on the transit of Venus 0 0 0
Setting up your project ssoolsma, January 1, 0001 Before any coding we first make sure that the project is setup correctly. (Please note, that this blog is all about how I do it, and incase i forget, i can return here and read how i used to do it. Maybe ... Setting up your project 0 0 0
What is Stackify? Matt Watson, January 1, 0001 You have developers, applications, and servers. Stackify makes sure that they are all working efficiently. Our mission is to give developers the integrated tools they need to better troubleshoot and monitor ... What is Stackify? 0 0 1
Microsoft Press Weekend Deal 26/May/2012 - Microsoft® Manual of S... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... Microsoft Press are offering the Microsoft® Manual of Style, 4th Edition as a PDF for 50% off using the MSDEAL code."Maximize the impact ... Microsoft Press Weekend Deal 26/May/2012 - Microsoft® Manual of S... 0 0 0
Size doesn't matter ssoolsma, January 1, 0001 Whenever I start a new project I *always* break up my code in different projects. Also known as n-tier solution. The scale of the project doesn't matter, but make sure that each project is responsible ... Size doesn't matter 0 0 1
St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 Scott Spradlin, January 1, 0001 The St. Louis .NET User Group is proud to announce that registration for the St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 is now open! The conference will once again be held at the Ameristar in St. Charles, Missouri, on ... St. Louis Days of .NET 2012 0 0 0
West Palm Beach Dev Group May 2012 Meeting Recap Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 Rich Dudley from ComponentOne was our May 2012 speaker at the West Palm Beach Dev Group. Rich shared with us his excellent presentation from VSLive on jQuery and HTML5. This event was a great success and ... West Palm Beach Dev Group May 2012 Meeting Recap 0 0 0
New Detailed Documentation for latest Visual WebGui versions/feat... Webgui, January 1, 0001 Hi,I know it is a bit late, but better late than... you know how it goes. So here is the detailed documentation of the latest WINWEB version 6.4.0 Release d / .NETHTML5 Beta3. The document is documenting ... New Detailed Documentation for latest Visual WebGui versions/feat... 0 0 0
The extinction of hard drives iamjames, January 1, 0001 A recent article announced the possibility of 60TB hard drives by 2016.That's only 4 years from now, about as long as this blog has been around (2008-2012), and after seeing that article all I could think ... The extinction of hard drives 0 0 0
IdentityMine is hiring in Seattle! Laurent Bugnion, January 1, 0001 Are you willing to work for a dynamic firm, on the latest platforms, with super modern and enthusing technologies (XAML, C#, Kinect, VUI, NUI, and much more)? Read the rest of this entry » ... IdentityMine is hiring in Seattle! 0 0 0
Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Keep Localizable Strings Close To Your Users 0 0 1
Tales from the Coal Face - The late night greeting TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Many years ago, when I was working for a media company in London, I would dial-up the office system in the evening. (This was in the days when 2400 baud was fast!). One evening I noticed one of the directors ... Tales from the Coal Face - The late night greeting 0 0 0
Useful .NET Delegate Internals Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 Delegates in .NET are a very handy addition to the language. With the introduction of LINQ they did become mainstream and everyone is using them or is at least finding them cool. But what the CLR is really ... Useful .NET Delegate Internals 0 0 3
Stylecop 4.7.24.0 has been released TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Stylecop 4.7.24.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.co... Notes Compatible with the Visual Studio 11 Preview.Install order should be : VS10VS11R#6.1.1 msi (for VS10)R#6.1.1 ... Stylecop 4.7.24.0 has been released 0 0 0
TFS API Find out who deleted your build? Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I am sure you have been in the situation where you start following a change through the list of builds and suddenly realize a lot of the builds have been deleted by some one! The good news is, when the ... TFS API Find out who deleted your build? 0 0 1
HTTP 4xx errors Srijith Sarman, January 1, 0001 HTTP 400 Bad RequestHTTP 404 File Not FoundAnybody who has done some web development would have surely come across these errors. These could be arguably most popular error codes in the HTTP 4xx family ... HTTP 4xx errors 0 0 0
Microsoft Press Ebook Deal of the Day - 19/May/2012 - Programming... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... Microsoft Deal are offering an excellent deal on Programming Windows®, 6th Edition"Reimagined for full-screen and touch-optimized apps, Windows 8 provides ... Microsoft Press Ebook Deal of the Day - 19/May/2012 - Programming... 0 0 0
Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad Kyle Burns, January 1, 0001 Since I have been interested in cross-platform mobile application development, but reluctant to leave behind the IDE goodness that is Visual Studio, I was invited to participate in a private early beta ... Cross-platform mobile packaging made easy with VSNomad 0 0 2
Accessing QuickBooks with Entity Framework 6 dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping framework that can be used to work with data as objects. While you can run the ADO.NET Entity Data Model wizard in Visual Studio to handle generating the ... Accessing QuickBooks with Entity Framework 6 0 0 0
Finding your Office Key TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Following on from my previous post, I needed also to get my key for Microsoft Office. I found http://www.magicaljellybean... downloaded it and run it ... Finding your Office Key 0 0 0
Deleting duplicated fields from the Form Library's content type, ... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 If you did not pay attention to the last step before publishing an InfoPath 2010 form to a SharePoint server and you are facing a lot of problems because the publish created duplicate columns. Look no ... Deleting duplicated fields from the Form Library's content type, ... 0 0 1
Pinning any folder location to the task bar Explorer jump list jeremyj, January 1, 0001 This might not be news to you but for me this was a discovery i made only this week, yes how did i not know this before! So I discovered how to pin any folder to the Windows Explorer jump list on the Windows ... Pinning any folder location to the task bar Explorer jump list 0 0 2
Enum helper for values specified in attributes Scott Wojan, January 1, 0001 I've used this enum helper from time to time to get an enum value from attributes such as Description and XmlEnumAttribute. Maybe you can find it useful? public static class EnumEx { public static T GetXmlEnumValue<T>(st... ... Enum helper for values specified in attributes 0 0 1
Social Meet up on Twitter for Meet Windows Azure on June 7th Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Get ready for a cool event on June 7th. Register to watch live (starting at 1PM PDT): here – The event will be presented by Scott Guthrie. To keep updated on this event follow the twitter conversations ... Social Meet up on Twitter for Meet Windows Azure on June 7th 0 0 0
What Makes Online Business Systems a Best Workplace in Canada D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 We’re having a shindig at my work today, Online Business Systems, to celebrate making the “Best Workplaces in Canada” list for the 6th consecutive year. This is a big deal for us, as we put a lot of work ... What Makes Online Business Systems a Best Workplace in Canada 0 0 1
Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 It’s a Friday evening and you have just checked in that last bit of code, you are waiting for the build to go all green so that you could call it a day. Just then the build summary page comes back red ... Get Detailed Build Test Results using the TFS API 0 0 0
Microsoft Test Manager–Test Cases Not in a Test Plan Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 provided support for system testing. Test cases were added as a work item type. But test plans and suites are not work items and this greatly limits ... Microsoft Test Manager–Test Cases Not in a Test Plan 0 0 1
Mobile responsive site design in Expression Web ihaynes, January 1, 0001 Although it doesn’t have any specific tools to help responsive or mobile site design this is still possible in Expression Web and I’ve created a number of snippets to help the process. HTML5 and CSS3 are ... Mobile responsive site design in Expression Web 0 0 2
Let’s MEET Windows Azure Shaun, January 1, 0001 Microsoft had just released a new website http://www.meetwindowsazure... which announced an outstanding event named “MEET Windows Azure”. There will be some awesome new features and releases being published ... Let’s MEET Windows Azure 0 0 0
Set Lab Management (LM) Permissions for Team Projects Created bef... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 What a long title! Anyway, I didn't add LM until sometime after I had setup my Team Foundation Server 2010 instance. There are 2 important realities to face when you do this: The LM permissions in the ... Set Lab Management (LM) Permissions for Team Projects Created bef... 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The reality is that project managers need work status in real-time. The TFS Excel reports and web parts are great, but because they are sourced from the TFS SSAS cube the information can be up to 2 hours ... Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts 0 0 1
TFS 2010 Web Part for Data Warehouse Views Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server 2010 includes support for Data Warehouse and Analysis Cube Views. The company, Amrein Engineering, sells a web part that uses SQL statements to source data. You can implement this ... TFS 2010 Web Part for Data Warehouse Views 0 0 0
Publish TFS 2010 Last Work Item History Comment to Excel Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server 2010 does not support publishing history data to Excel. However, there is an easy work around to this problem. However, this is limited to the last recorded History comment for a ... Publish TFS 2010 Last Work Item History Comment to Excel 0 0 0
TFS 2010 Agile Iteration Burndown Chart Error - Could not connect... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 It seems there are many issues that can cause this error. But in my situation it turned out to be a permissions issue. It appears that other TFS 2010 reports use the service account (i.e. TFSReports) to ... TFS 2010 Agile Iteration Burndown Chart Error - Could not connect... 0 0 0
Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers Sabbatical for Coded UI Word ... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Earlier this Summer I had the privilege of working for 16 days onsite at the Microsoft offices in Redmond and Vancouver. The assignment, a "Rangers Sabbatical," is part of the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM ... Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers Sabbatical for Coded UI Word ... 0 0 0
SQL Server 2008 R2 Install Failure and Resolution Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I was attempting to install SQL Server 2008 R2 on a sever with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The server had a C:, E: and F: drives for the OS/programs, user DB and TempDB/Logs respectively. With the help ... SQL Server 2008 R2 Install Failure and Resolution 0 0 0
Resolving Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Install Problems Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I experienced the following errors when attempting to upgrade Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on my TFS application server (WS08 R2): The file '[path\file prefix].msi' is not a valid installation package for ... Resolving Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Install Problems 0 0 0
TFS 2010 Backup Utility Support for Multi-Server Topology Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The TFS 2010 backup utility, which is part of the September '10 TFS Power Tools release, is advertised to support a multi-server topology. Specifically where SharePoint is installed separately and on a ... TFS 2010 Backup Utility Support for Multi-Server Topology 0 0 0
TFS 2010 - SPS 2010 MOSS Web Part Connection Refresh Failure Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 ISSUE "Refresh Error" dialog displays on Team Project portal MOSS web parts. There are several variations of refresh errors. Here is one instance: "An error ocurred while accessing application id tfs from ... TFS 2010 - SPS 2010 MOSS Web Part Connection Refresh Failure 0 0 0
Integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint (SP)... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this post is to provide clear and concise steps for a very specific scenario: Integrating TFS 2010 with SP Server (SPS i.e. formerly MOSS) 2010 TFS and SPS are on different ... Integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint (SP)... 0 0 0
Hosting TFS 2010 on an Amazon EC2 Server Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I needed an inexpensive TFS environment to support demos and research work for the TFS Austin User Group. Here's what attracted me to Amazon EC2: Easy sign-up; like buying a book. Seems affordable Here's ... Hosting TFS 2010 on an Amazon EC2 Server 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 – Project Reference Oddness and Revelati... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 This post is an op-ed on how VS handles references. Over the past few years not only have I experienced frustration on this, but I find that many others have similar views. Just recently I took a significant ... Visual Studio 2010 – Project Reference Oddness and Revelati... 0 0 0
Visual Studio ALM (TFS) Benefits Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Here's a summary of TFS 2010 enabled improvement opportunities. This is based on my research and work with TFS 2010 to-date. Unlike a list of features, this information is organized around the typical ... Visual Studio ALM (TFS) Benefits 0 0 0
TFS Branch/Merge and Workspaces Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I recently responded to concerns about TFS branching where "...when I delete files from my local workspace..." was part of the situation. More than once since 2005 I've had developers come to me, red faced ... TFS Branch/Merge and Workspaces 0 0 0
Using Environments in VS ALM 2010 Lab Management Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I have recently setup Lab Management (LM) in a production environment. LM is very feature rich and flexible. So, there are lots of ways to do things, which means it can be hard to figure out the best practice ... Using Environments in VS ALM 2010 Lab Management 0 0 0
Passing in report parameters to TFS 2010 OLAP Web Parts on the Te... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 There is some helpful information from Ewald Hofman on passing in parameters to the TFS SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP reports. But, the 2010 schema has changed. You can use the SQL Server Mgmgt Studio ... Passing in report parameters to TFS 2010 OLAP Web Parts on the Te... 0 0 2
How I Customized Report Parameters for Team Foundation Server 201... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 My goal was to have the burndown chart on the team project portal main page display the current iteration. The default report displays the tasks for the entire team project starting 5 days before the current ... How I Customized Report Parameters for Team Foundation Server 201... 0 0 0