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When setting up my development environment, one of the first steps I take is to configure a virtual network with my VMs. I do this by setting up a Loopback Adapter in Windows. In Windows Vista+ this device is automatically setup on a 'Public'...
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Before you make up your mind about LightSwitch prior to beta release, watch the new video on Channel 9 . Before you decide that LightSwitch is for non-developers, watch Joe Binder in this video extend a LightSwitch application with a Silverlight user...
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Two days ago, Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio LightSwitch. I heard about it first on Somasegar's blog and have followed the chatter and the growing list of blog posts and comments. I watched the Channel 9 preview video and the VS Live keynote video...
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One of the features in ASP.NET WebPages that is super powerful yet super simple is the “magic names” you can give to a page that make that page behave differently. Unfortunately the feature isn’t really called “magic names” (That would be way too cool...
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With the introduction of ASP.NET WebPages and the WebMatrix stack our team has really be focusing on making things simpler for the developer. Based on a lot of customer feedback one of the areas that we wanted to improve was the built in security in ASP...
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After hearing that there would be no PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in 2010, yesterday Microsoft announced that there will be a PDC. It will be held October 28 & 29 in Redmond on the Microsoft campus. It looks like it will be developer focused...
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Today is an exciting day for the Coding QA Podcast! I am proud to announce that Coding QA has teamed up with TekPub to give-a-way some licenses for TekPub to our listeners. This has been in the works for some time now and we wanted to find some creative...
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One common operation that pretty much every website in the world does is either accepting, creating, editing, or displaying images. This could be something as simple as a user’s profile picture or as complex a full blown image gallery. Either way if you...
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Over the last year or so I have had the opportunity to help develop and shape a brand new framework that is, as of today, in its first ever public beta. I’d like to introduce you all to WebMatrix! WebMatrix is actually a group of products and frameworks...
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My absolute favorite feature of Visual Studio 2010, so far, is the javascript Intellisense support via the <reference> tag. Add the following line to your .js file and you get jQuery Intellisense. /// <reference path="/scripts/jquery-1.4...
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If you leave your door unlocked and someone enters your house for nefarious purposes, can you blame your lock manufacturer? Will you switch to a new brand of lock? Or if you open the door and pickup the the strange package you weren’t expecting from your...
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Lately I've become alarmed at the negative level of my thinking at times with respect to my work which can then spill over into my personal life. I've been wondering how I can more consistently harness all the latent energy in the pressure to...
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This is one of those posts where I don’t talk about coding, sorry, but it’s still about technology so hopefully I don't scare you guys off. So what is this I want to talk about, well my podcast of course, Coding QA . Somewhere February last year ...
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Recently I extended a previous blog post and published it on Code Project under the title Generic WCF Service Host and Client . An astute reader asked about calling a service method asynchronously, something I had not given much thought. I decided that...
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Do you have a hard time making decisions? Even the most decisive of us can get caught in the headlights of the oncoming project train, unable to choose left, right or straight ahead. Here’s a few strategies that I’ve found useful and sometimes forgotten...