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• Oct 27 Thu


Install Application as Service on Windows Server 2008

Steven Smith writes "...There’s a good article on creating an application that can easily run as either a console app or as a service here. From an administrator command prompt, the syntax is something like this..."

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Updated Win 8 Dev Platform Diagram

Rockford Lhotka writes "...This one adds the Chakra js engine to the WinRT and desktop sides of the diagram, and it expands the detail of WinRT and Win32 to include things like COM, GDI+, and DirectX. The result is that DirectX and GDI+ are duplicated – they are shown as a presentation technology..."

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RazorEngine Performance and Template Caching

Steven Smith writes "....I don’t have any fancy graphs to show off, since all I did was run a 2-minute load test of each unit test with 5 users and no think time using Visual Studio 2010’s load test runner. The results were pretty significant, though, and corresponded with the performance I was seeing in my actual application (about 1 request per second on one thread..."

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Nokia and Windows Phone: What Could Still Go Wrong

Andrew Brust writes "...Now that the first two Nokia Windows Phone handsets, the Lumia 800 and 710, have come out, Windows Phone can stop waiting. But it also has to stop merely hoping, and start actually achieving. This is a big deal, but this is not finish line. And make no mistake, the odds are still stacked in against Windows Phone. The challenges are not insurmountable, but they are numerous and they are formidable. Among them:..."

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• Oct 21 Fri


Putting the BI in Big Data

Andrew Brust writes "...assuming Microsoft makes good on its announcements...then business users will be able to get at big data, on-premise and in-cloud, and will be able to do so using Excel, PowerPivot, and other tools that they already know, like and with which they are productive..."

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Writing Software as a Kaizen Event

Stephen Forte writes "...While refactoring addresses each individual method, Software Kaizen takes a much broader approach and looks for waste in your entire work. A lot of time we developers build features and stuff that are not needed...Software Kaizen asks us to look at our code and asks us why did we do it this way, with a “cut first” mentality. It challenges the assumptions we made at the time we wrote the code. Traditional waterfall approached code..."

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Updates Sneak in Unexpected

Venkatarangan Tnc writes "...Compared to architecting & releasing web applications, Windows Apps (client apps in general) needs more care. The main reason being if you detect any bugs or want to do any enhancements you can’t simply do the changes in your server and be done with it...most of the apps for Windows ship with an thin installer executable that checks for new version of the app from their server and prompts to download and install the new bits..."

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• Oct 17 Mon


Win8, Metro and WinRT Terminology

Rockford Lhotka writes "...I’ve been struggling to come up with clarity as I discuss the technology. In the absence of true clarity from Microsoft, we’re left to interpret that they’ve said and come up with our own consistent terminology...If I’m right, this is important, because people will ultimately be building business applications on WinRT. Those apps may or may not be strictly “Metro”, but by running on WinRT they’ll..."

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Outlook Hangs Caused by Recent PayPal Messages

Guy Barrette writes "...Well, looks like an invalid picture reference in the message. A full explanation and a workaround..."

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A Guide to Integrate Windows Azure in your Environment

Vishwas_Lele writes "...Once an organization has made the decision to adopt Windows Azure, it is faced with a set of planning challenges, beginning with the basic, “Who should be responsible for signing up and managing the Windows Azure account?” to more involved, “How will Windows Azure impact the ALM process, availability, operational costs?”"

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• Oct 13 Thu


Creating a WinRT BackgroundWorker Type

Rockford Lhotka writes "...Because .NET/SL/WP7 don’t (yet) have the async/await keywords, and WinRT doesn’t have BW, I need to come up with a solution that leaves existing code/behavior alone, and yet provides comparable behavior in WinRT. To resolve this issue, I’ve created a BackgroundWorker type for WinRT. This type hasn’t gone through extensive testing, but it is a good start at least:..."

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• Oct 10 Mon


Lessons From Steve Jobs

Stephen Forte writes "...I’d like to call attention to four lessons we can learn from Steve Jobs’ Apple, two positive and two negative. First the good:..."

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Watch out for WCF Errors after Installing Azure SDK 1.5

David Yack writes "...The error occurred right after installing the new Azure 1.5 SDK and the first time I went to run a regular application that did a WCF call I got the following error. The error simply says NetTCPRelayBinding could not be found..."

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• Oct 3 Mon


3 Tips to Improve Your Connection Strings

Steven Smith writes "...Here are three tips you should know about that, if you’re not already using, should improve your use of connection strings. By far the biggest tip I can offer is that you should be using Windows Authentication. You can find this guidance directly from..."

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Get the Mango Update

Alon Fliess writes "...Microsoft has released the Windows Phone Mango update. It can take a while to get the update. However there is a trick that can let you have the update right away. Follow this article to get Mango now!, it worked in..."

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Slides - Demos on Silverlight 5 with Win 8 and WinRT

Brian Noyes writes "...new features of Silverlight 5 and what’s coming with Win 8 and WinRT / Metro development. I covered XAML enhancements, security, text improvements, graphics, 3D, and other features of Silverlight 5. Then I summarized what Windows 8...grab the slides and demos here..."

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Read and Recommended: Windows Azure Development Cookbook

Guy Barrette writes "...Sure you can find most of these recipes online by using your favourite search engine but what I like about this book is that each recipe has clear and detailed explanations. Basically, it adds meat into the bone and you end up getting a better understanding of the Azure API..."

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Working with Lazy Loading in Entity Framework: Run This Command

Steven Smith writes "...Entity Framework 4 has Lazy Loading built-in and enabled by default. Here’s a quick bit of code to show you how to work with this feature. To get started with this, simply create a new Console Application and in nuget (Package Manager Console), run this command:..."

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Why MVVM?

Rockford Lhotka writes "...People often ask “Why should I use MVVM? It seems like it complicates things.” The most common reason hard-core developers put forward for MVVM is that “it enables unit testing of presentation code”. Although that can be true, I don’t think that’s the primary reason people should invest in MVVM. I think the primary reason is..."

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• Sep 27 Tue


Crossing Over to the Metro UI

Bill Wagner writes "...the single biggest lesson as I close this section and move to the developer section: I firmly believe that once Windows 8 is out, Metro apps will destroy classic desktop apps in the market. The only desktop apps that will survive in the long term will be those that don’t have Metro alternatives. Of course, not every application is applicable to Metro..."

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