The Curious Engineer

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2013 236

December 2013

  1. Channel 9 series: What’s new in Visual Studio 2013
  2. OpenSSL: Creating an ADFS certificate
  3. OpenSSL: Unable to load config info from /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf
  4. Angular.js: Combining $index and orderBy filter
  5. NHibernate: Unrecognised method call:Boolean Contains(Int64)
  6. Angular.js: Simple orderby sample
  7. Combining oData and a custom authentication module
  8. Visual Studio 2013: RunSettings vs TestSettings?
  9. Things I learned at NDC London: ElasticSearch River Plugin
  10. Things I learned at NDC London: OAuth integration in ASP.NET SPA template
  11. Things I learned at NDC London: The Future of C#
  12. Things I learned at NDC London: Reactive Extensions Training Camp
  13. Things I learned at NDC London: Azure Friday
  14. NDC London–Day 2
  15. NDC London–Day 1

November 2013

  1. NDC London: Here we come!
  2. Web Essentials Browser Link Integration
  3. Enterprise Library 6 development guide
  4. ADFS error: The Federation Service could not fulfill the token-issuance request.
  5. EmbeddedSTS
  6. WIF: ID3206: A SignInResponse message may only redirect within the current web application: '/app' is not allowed.
  7. Make your SQL Server Express 2012 available from the outside
  8. Help, how can I log off in Windows Server 2012?
  9. Combining ASP.NET Bundling and Minification and LESS
  10. Azure: Create an Azure package file without using a Cloud Service project
  11. Coded UI Tests: Automatically take screenshots while running your tests
  12. Validate your OData feed: The OData validator
  13. Visual Studio 2013: Where is the Identity and Access tool?
  14. TypeScript: Create a type definition file for a jQuery widget
  15. TypeScript: How to create a static class
  16. TypeScript: Internal vs External Modules
  17. Visual Studio 2013: Search for TypeScript Typings
  18. UI testing using Selenium: The IEDriverServer.exe file does not exist in the current directory or in a directory on the PATH environment variable

October 2013

  1. Kendo UI Window Widget: Window only opens once
  2. Free ebook: 45 database performance tips for developers
  3. TFS Build Server Error: The build service host XXX is currently owned by XXX. A service host may only be active on one machine at a time.
  4. WatiN error: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.SHDocVw’
  5. Secure your cookies!
  6. Saxon: Write XQuery in .NET
  7. Simplify XPath development by using XQuery
  8. Sharpen your TDD skills: Coding Katas
  9. Caliburn.Micro: Async/Await
  10. Dependency Injection with Microsoft Unity Guide
  11. Android Emulator performance tips
  12. Xamarin: Saving and loading preferences in Android
  13. SQL Server: Get a list of most expensive queries
  14. An incompatible DacFx version is installed
  15. Team Foundation Server: Error when creating a new Team Project
  16. Using sequential guids as identifiers in Entity Framework
  17. Fun fact: TFS is using Lernout and Hauspie Speech Technology
  18. Help! The Microsoft BIDS are gone?!
  19. The !! operator in JavaScript
  20. Entity Framework: Specify a schema name
  21. Xamarin AndroidRuntimeException “Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag”

September 2013

  1. Enable the keyboard in an Android emulator
  2. Android: Install an apk file on the Android emulator
  3. Xamarin.Android: error when calling Azure mobile services
  4. Enterprise Library 6 and Unity 3 Hands-on Labs available
  5. Entity Framework error: There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first
  6. Team Foundation Server WorkItem Charts
  7. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about…Environment.FailFast
  8. Developing Big Data solutions on Windows Azure
  9. Durandal 2.0 released
  10. Windows 8–Add a live tile for your website
  11. Building Sharepoint 2013 projects on your TFS Build server
  12. Responsive Design in Sharepoint
  13. Windows Azure Infographics
  14. ASP.NET MVC 4: Error when using anti-forgery token in combination with claims-based authentication
  15. ASP.NET Web API: HttpContext.Current is null inside Task
  16. Team Foundation Server 2012/Service: Create events from web access for other user
  17. IIS error: Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel’
  18. Unity 3.0 and Enterprise Library 6: Attribute based Policy Injection
  19. Entity Framework Code First: Invalid column name
  20. Microsoft Unity Dependency Injection finally available on Windows Phone 8

August 2013

  1. Sharepoint error: The Module DLL 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\isapi\spnativerequestmodule.dll' could not be loaded due to a configuration problem.
  2. Visual Studio: Speed up your build time
  3. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about... the ExceptionDispatchInfo class
  4. The one question a manager needs to ask
  5. Technical Interviewing–You’re Doing it Wrong
  6. Stand alone installer for the TFS object model
  7. ASP.NET MVC 4 Bug: HttpParseException: Unexpected "this" keyword after "@" character.
  8. ASP.NET MVC: [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection.
  9. curl: (1) Protocol 'http not supported or disabled in libcurl
  10. Forget the long planning sessions and work break down: use Blink estimation
  11. WIF: IsAuthenticated is false on a ClaimsIdentity
  12. WCF: Enable the WIF security integration
  13. WCF: Thread.CurrentPrincipal is null when using the WIF pipeline in .NET 4.5
  14. The configuration section 'system.identityModel' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration
  15. Configuring a sliding expiration on the System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache
  16. Error: TF400534: Package (tfs_objectmodel_x64) caching failed with the following status: 0x80070001
  17. Simplify the debugging of Single Page Applications: disable the browser cache
  18. Clearing the System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache
  19. Enterprise Library 6: InvalidOperationException - Database provider factory not set for the static DatabaseFactory. Set a provider factory invoking the DatabaseFactory.SetProviderFactory method or by specifying custom mappings by calling the DatabaseFactory.SetDatabases method
  20. Attempt by security transparent method ‘SomeMethod’ to access security critical method ‘SomeOtherMethod’ failed.
  21. Team Foundation Server 2012 Updates: should I install previous updates first?
  22. Team Foundation Server 2012 Build: The deployed status

July 2013

  1. Going from Tasks back to IAsyncResult(the Asynchronous Programming Model pattern)
  2. The Reactive Manifesto
  3. Enable NuGet package restore on the build server
  4. Team Foundation Server: Map different branches to the same folder using the SAK
  5. Guidelines for Migrating an Application Built Using WIF 3.5 to WIF 4.5
  6. Use NHibernate to execute raw SQL
  7. Unofficial Redis for Windows
  8. Some JavaScript lecture for during the holidays
  9. Error after upgrading an MVC 4 project to .NET 4.5
  10. Green SSL
  11. Things from Build 2013: $returnvalue
  12. FailSafe: Building Scalable, Resilient Cloud Services
  13. ASP.NET Performance eBooks
  14. Windows Identity Foundation(WIF) Request validation in .NET 4.5
  15. Team Foundation Server 2010 Build: Warning: Cannot find the last label '': no changesets will be associated with the build.
  16. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about... <deployment retail=”true”/>
  17. Using different dataloaders in Effort
  18. CSS Float tutorials

June 2013

  1. Team Foundation Server 2012: Customize the quick add panel
  2. Effort - Entity Framework Unit Testing Tool
  3. Metro theme for Bootstrap
  4. SQL is Hard
  5. Free JavaScript ebooks
  6. Team Foundation Server local workspaces: the .tfignore file
  7. Team Foundation Server: change cache location
  8. Entity Framework: Calling SQL Server specific functions
  9. Linq: group by multiple values
  10. Error when uploading package to Windows Azure
  11. Team Foundation Server 2012 Health monitoring
  12. Clean code cheat sheet
  13. Windows Azure announcement: Per Minute Billing and No Charge for Stopped VMs
  14. Enable a wireless connection in Windows Server 2008(R2)
  15. Yelo TV for Windows 8 released
  16. DebugSettings.IsOverdrawHeatMapEnabled property
  17. My journey in discovering Grunt: A JavaScript Task Runner
  18. Hosting a WCF service inside an ASP.NET MVC project
  19. Change the log directory in IIS
  20. SQL or NoSQL, that’s the question…

May 2013

  1. LayoutIt!: A drag & drop interface builder for Bootstrap
  2. Microsoft Code Digger
  3. Reporting Services error: Unable to load client print control
  4. Get rid of the ‘Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member’ warning
  5. Setting up sliding sessions in Windows Identity Foundation(WIF) 4.5
  6. PostMan: an easy-to-use REST client to test all your Web API’s
  7. UnitTestIsolationException when using ReSharper
  8. Visual Studio 2012: Testing the untestable using Microsoft Fakes
  9. Xamarin Objective Sharpie: a binding definition generator for third party Objective C libraries
  10. Nice quote
  11. Specify a CDN fallback when using ASP.NET Web Optimizations
  12. Team Foundation Server 2012: create a direct link to a work item
  13. Entity Framework: Explicit Loading
  14. SQL Server: see which users are connected to your database
  15. Team Foundation Server 2012: Work item link type end '' does not exist
  16. Useful PowerShell scripts for SharePoint
  17. Generate SQL script from Entity Framework Migrations
  18. SharePoint 2013: “You may be trying to access this site from a secured browser on the server. Please enable scripts and reload this page.”
  19. Users can’t login after migrating to SharePoint 2013
  20. Enterprise Library 6 finally arrived

April 2013

  1. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about... the checked and unchecked keyword
  2. BlueStacks: Run all your favorite Android apps on PC and Mac
  3. Creating a custom user type in Nhibernate
  4. Xamarin.iOS: solving the “codepage 1252 not supported” exception
  5. Having a hard time selecting across-platform mobile framework? PropertyCross is here to help you.
  6. Looking for the right template engine for your web project?
  7. Disable browser cache for an ASP.NET MVC application
  8. Plato: a JavaScript source code visualization, static analysis, and complexity tool
  9. Error in jQuery Validation after upgrading to jQuery 1.9
  10. The essential Git cheat sheet
  11. ASP.NET MVC: SCRIPT1004: Expected ‘;’ after upgrading to jQuery 1.9
  12. WCF Data Service: The type initializer for 'System.Data.Services.Client.TypeSystem' threw an exception.
  13. Secure your cookies
  14. Edge.js: Run C# code from node.js
  15. Windows Azure ACS: Get ACS Namespace and Management Key
  16. Windows 8 application returns “Unable to connect to the remote server” when sending requests to an internal test server
  17. OData: attach a client certificate through code when connecting to an OData service
  18. OData: attach a client certificate through Fiddler when connecting to an OData service
  19. TFS 2012 Update 1 issue: Assigned to field is ‘Unknown’ in all reports

March 2013

  1. Web API file upload set filename
  2. Running web deploy from the command line: some useful commands
  3. Windows 8: Load html in a webview control
  4. SOA: the first rule of versioning web services
  5. Here's why HTML-based apps don't work
  6. Where is the Add STS reference option in Visual Studio 2012?
  7. ASP.NET MVC 4: the _references.js file
  8. Add bugs to the task board or backlog pages
  9. Windows Azure Service Bus: Unable to use Transport protection with Hybrid mode
  10. Mono for Android: Read string resource value from code
  11. TFS 2012 Build error: Multiple identities found matching ‘User Name’.
  12. Visual Studio LightSwitch: maybe it’s time to give it a second chance
  13. TFS 2012 Test migration: be careful when switching between environments
  14. Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes guide
  15. Sharepoint 2013: Help, my user account contains some strange characters
  16. Enable dynamic compression for an ASP.NET MVC JSON result
  17. Xamarin 2.0: bringing cross-platform development to the next level
  18. Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone released
  19. Code can change the world
  20. Windows 8 Unit testing: Include files in your test project
  21. Visual Studio: Reference a different DLL depending on your build configuration

February 2013

  1. Web Deploy Improvements in ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update
  2. SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services
  3. Apply an XSL transformation and show the result in a web control
  4. TFS Administrators Toolkit
  5. Team Foundation Server 2012: The team project does not support Microsoft Feedback Client.
  6. Coming soon(hopefully): TfPlugable, a solution to dynamically deploy plug-ins for TFS
  7. Exclude a property from serialization
  8. Team Foundation Server Update 1: Viewing the Kanban board
  9. NHibernate: change command timeout
  10. ASP.NET Web API HTTP Message Lifecycle Poster
  11. Error when executing Unit Tests for Windows Store apps
  12. NUnit: Invalid signature for SetUp or TearDown method: SetUp
  13. Portable Class Library Compliance Analyzer
  14. SQL Server Reporting Services: The feature: "Scale-out deployment" is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services.
  15. Hosting your own NuGet feeds
  16. Copy VHD’s between Windows Azure Accounts
  17. Both Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server get GIT support
  18. Team Foundation Server 2012: Request feedback remains disabled
  19. Shrink log files in SQL Server 2008 (or later)
  20. Stand-alone installer for TFS object model

January 2013

  1. Sideloading prices: will this kill the winrt business model?
  2. WebDeploy error: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
  3. WinRT: AppBar button values
  4. Gister: Create GitHub gists from within Visual Studio
  5. Caliburn Micro: Problems binding an action to an element in a combobox
  6. SQL Server 2012: Nice features for developers
  7. Great Scrum introduction: “SCRUM: The Story of an Agile Team”
  8. OData: include multiple children in a result set
  9. Windows Azure Virtual Machines: The operation cannot be performed because the virtual machine is faulted.
  10. WinRT: Something went wrong with Share. Try again later.
  11. OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 Beta
  12. Visual Studio Extensibility: Configure Custom Tool in an ItemTemplate
  13. WinRT: Check if your app is connected to the Internet
  14. Flat management structures: how it could work.
  15. WPF ChildWindow
  16. Windows Azure Active Directory:Access control & Core Directory for free!
  17. Windows Azure: streaming videos from blob storage
  18. NHibernate: Get distinct results when using the QueryOver API
  19. AES encryption error
  20. Responsive Web Design: Responsinator
  21. RavenDb: Delete al documents from a specific type
  22. RavenDB: Change the primary key convention

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December 2012

  1. NUnit Test Adapter for Visual Studio 2012 updated
  2. Team Foundation Server 2012 Monitoring Management Pack
  3. Native JSON parsing
  4. Updating a Linq to SQL dbml file
  5. Bundling conventions in ASP.NET Bundling and Minification
  6. Team Foundation Server Sidekicks 2012
  7. SignalR Performance Counters
  8. Generating QR codes quick and easy in Windows 8
  9. TFS API Blog Series
  10. TFS Publishing to Windows Azure Websites: What to do if you have multiple projects/solutions?
  11. Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training
  12. Toad for Cloud Databases
  13. Team Foundation Server: Choosing a Process Template
  14. TFS Administration Tool 2.2 Released
  15. Team Foundation Server Source Control Explorer Extension
  16. ASP.NET MVC: Compile your views up front

November 2012

  1. WPF 4.5: Airspace problem solved(...or not)
  2. Windows 8 Wireframe Templates for PowerPoint
  3. Testing Responsive Web Design
  4. Installing the Web Deploy 3 publish components for Visual Studio 2010
  5. Getting DB2 .NET Provider to work on Windows 8(64bit)
  6. IIS 8.0 Application Initialization module
  7. Free e-book: Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012
  8. Windows 8 System Info
  9. ASP.NET Web API REST Guidance
  10. New Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool
  11. Team Foundation Server 2012 Illustrated Install Guide
  12. Need help to remember Visual Studio Shortcut Keys: IntelliCommand
  13. Team Foundation Services is released
  14. ASP.NET MVC: The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property.
  15. Windows 8 Tiles: The tile template catalog
  16. Reporting Services error: Maximum request length exceeded
  17. Show deleted items in Visual Studio Team Foundation Source Control
  18. Changing the WCF Data Service request headers
  19. MSBuild Extension Pack–October 2012 Release
  20. An update on runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests.
  21. Click Once certificates stopped working after a Windows Update
  22. Get the table size in SQL Server
  23. Windows Azure Poster
  24. Callisto: A control toolkit for Windows 8 XAML applications.
  25. Setting up sliding sessions in Windows Identity Foundation(WIF)

October 2012

  1. Another nice Team Foundation Server 2012 feature: formatted activity log
  2. Team Foundation Server 2012: Configure security to access data warehouse
  3. Windows 8 and Windows Azure Virtual Labs available
  4. Improve your application performance by doing nothing(or almost)
  5. New branching and merging guide available
  6. CQRS–Frequently asked questions
  7. TFS 2012 Build: Configure NUnit to run your unit tests
  8. Internet Explorer 10 is coming to Windows 7 (but later then expected)
  9. Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 Release
  10. SUCCINCTLY SERIES: A collection of great free e-books
  11. Visual Studio 2012: Design Patterns UML diagrams
  12. Send an email in WinRT
  13. Caching images in WinRT
  14. Forcing a NuGet Package to update
  15. My first Windows 8 app: POW! Comic Book Reader
  16. A great example of Responsive Web Design: www.microsoft.com
  17. Team Foundation Server 2012: Multi-Proc build
  18. WinRT: No FindSystemTimeZoneId available.
  19. Team Foundation Server add-in for Word
  20. All training kits in a row
  21. Error.stack: a JavaScript stacktrace
  22. What’s new in .NET Framework 4.5?
  23. TFS 2012: Work Item ‘Description’ field is readonly in Excel
  24. Windows 8: Open Type Fonts are not supported

September 2012

  1. WCF Data Service: Error processing request stream. The property name Discount specified for type Order is not valid.
  2. 2 useful tools for the TFS administrator: TFS Power Tools 2012 & TFS Team Project Manager
  3. Gartner report: Microsoft takes the lead in the Application Lifecycle Management(ALM) space
  4. TFS 2012 Web Access: Export Work Item query results to Excel
  5. Windows 8 Camp in a box
  6. WinRT: A method was called at an unexpected time. WinRT Information: An eventhandler has already been registered.
  7. Team Foundation Server 2012 and Visual Studio Compatibility
  8. Microsoft Web Essentials: a must have Visual Studio Extension for every web developer
  9. Error when trying to publish Azure application: Server failed to authenticate the request.
  10. Storyboarding in Visual Studio 2012: now also for iOS, iPhone & iPad
  11. The Transient Fault Handling Application Block
  12. TFS 2012: Some features of Team Web Access are not visible to you.
  13. Custom web.config transforms
  14. TF30172: You do not have permission to create a new team project.
  15. Windows 8: Setting the application theme
  16. Windows 8: Use custom fonts
  17. TFS: Work Item Field Reference
  18. Windows 8: Uniquely identifying a device
  19. Windows 8: Could not initialize secondary tile with provided arguments.
  20. Windows 8: Cannot await in the body of a catch clause

August 2012

  1. Windows 8 AppBar style not found.
  2. Caliburn.Micro: Design time support
  3. Some random Azure news…
  4. Visual Studio 2012 RTM: Async tests are not found when using .NET Framework 4.0
  5. WinRT: The notification platform does not have the proper privileges to complete the request.
  6. Caliburn Micro: configuring the Window dialog
  7. Caliburn.Micro: Using a local resource as a proxy to your viewmodel
  8. Remove Source Control Bindings
  9. Translating localized error messages
  10. TFS gets one step closer to distributed source control…
  11. Configuring AppFabric caching
  12. Community TFS Build Extensions: NUnit activity
  13. Building mobile applications: the big question.
  14. IIS Manager Error: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated.
  15. Disable NuGet Package Restore
  16. WPF: Referring to a resource dictionary in another assembly
  17. GitHub: view commits that include images
  18. Web Deploy 3
  19. NuGet: change build action value
  20. TFS: Do a check-in without triggering a continuous integration build

July 2012

  1. JayData–The cross-platform HTML5 data-management library for JavaScript
  2. Free ebook: Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure
  3. Minification and bundling in ASP.NET: WebGrease
  4. MSTest: use subfolders for your deployment items
  5. aspConf: the free Live ASP.NET Conference
  6. TFS Build: using the built-in editors
  7. TFS Build: output build results to separate folders
  8. Could not find a base address that matches scheme net.tcp for the endpoint with binding NetTcpBinding.
  9. Responsive web design: Mediaqueri.es
  10. Web Deploy publish/package validating error: Missing or Invalid property value for $(MsDeployServiceUrl)
  11. X-ray goggles

June 2012

  1. Visual Studio 2010 Web Deploy improvements
  2. TFS: Automatically exclude from Source Control
  3. Coolest OneNote feature EVER: search text in images
  4. Testing for Continuous Delivery
  5. NHibernate error: Possible non-threadsafe access to the session
  6. Waterfall neither works for User Interface design
  7. Git(hub) for .NET developers
  8. Optimize the performance of your web applications: Don’t use runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true”.
  9. dotTrace Memory profiler keeps connecting.
  10. RavenDB: accessing a specific database using the HTTP API
  11. VS 20120 RC ALM Virtual Machine
  12. Searching TFS work items in Visual Studio 2010
  13. IIS: Management Service Delegation not visible
  14. Learn by doing: Linq koans
  15. JSON to C#
  16. NDC 2012: a happy grain of sand
  17. System.InvalidOperationException: Dispatcher processing has been suspended, but messages are still being processed.
  18. Cannot convert anonymous method to type 'System.Delegate' because it is not a delegate type
  19. TF80067: The data in the work item is not valid or you do not have permission to modify the data.
  20. ‘Strict Mode’ in JavaScript
  21. Ajax requests are canceled when hitting escape
  22. Define a preprocessor variable in TFS

May 2012

  1. Using async in .NET 4.0
  2. Creating a .gitignore file for .NET development
  3. VSColorOutput
  4. Open Office trend: my opinion
  5. jQuery Dialog: don’t close on escape
  6. I’m a problem solver, not a coder
  7. TFS Build: The assembly has already loaded from a different location
  8. Must use the rewriter when using Contract.Requires<TException>
  9. ASP.NET: Load DLL’s from another location
  10. TFS 2010: Enable work item only view
  11. Community Day 2012 is getting closer
  12. Goodbye Visual Studio macro’s, we will miss you…or not
  13. CSS Lint: CSS Code Quality Tool
  14. Windows 8 Metro: A better Grid application template
  15. Creating a list of comma separated values using String.Join()
  16. Project Liike: Exploring the Mobile Web
  17. pServiceBus: a cross platform ESB
  18. Adding AutoRegistration to the Microsoft Unity container
  19. Async Ajax testing using QUnit
  20. Copying reports from one Report Server to another.
  21. Visual Studio error: An error was encountered while opening associated documents the last time this solution was loaded.
  22. TF30027: Team Explorer encountered an error adding the document library.
  23. TFS 2010 Build: Where have my test results(.trx) gone?

April 2012

  1. Using oData feeds in Windows 8
  2. Compile C# code from your browser
  3. Configuring the Scrum for Team System template correctly
  4. SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer
  5. Unit testing Async code
  6. WCF Data Services: Add service reference fails
  7. TF237124: Work Item is not ready to save
  8. Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript
  9. TFS 11 Power Tools beta
  10. WCF service error: This collection already contains an address with scheme https. There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection.
  11. Adobe Shadow: Testing your mobile apps
  12. SQL Azure Tools: Azure User Management Console
  13. NHibernate: DateTime support
  14. TFS Integration Tools – March 2012 Release
  15. Running NCover on a 64bit machine
  16. Check your website security using ASafaWeb
  17. How to check if an MsBuild property exists?
  18. SOAP message properties are ignored in WCF
  19. Running your build server on Azure(continued)
  20. Check-in policies in Team Explorer Everywhere

March 2012

  1. Rubber Duck Debugging
  2. Optimizing for happiness
  3. Enable net.tcp binding support in IIS 7.5
  4. Rolling out TFS 11: Update your SQL Server first
  5. WCF Performance Tuning
  6. CruiseControl and TFS:Unable to perform the get operation because it is writable
  7. Internet Explorer 9: JavaScript window.onerror event
  8. Updated DemoMates for Visual Studio 11 ALM Demos
  9. IIS 7.5: Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule'
  10. ASP.NET MVC 3: ViewContext.FormContext
  11. ASP.NET MVC 3: A Potentially Dangerous Request.Form Value was Detected From The Client
  12. Automapper Array mapping issue
  13. Microsoft adds Mocking/Isolation support to Visual Studio 11
  14. Team Foundation Server Licensing changes
  15. ASP.NET MVC 3: Configuring unobtrusive validation
  16. HTTP status codes database
  17. ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta issues
  18. Responsive Web Design
  19. Visual Studio 11(beta) ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs/Demo Scripts
  20. WCF: Whitespace after ampersand disappears
  21. NHibernate eager fetching

February 2012

  1. TFS 2010: Go offline
  2. Ajax request returns status 0
  3. Just announced: TFS Express
  4. SQL Server Profiler: Trace events from one database
  5. When can I use… Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.
  6. WCF Extensibility
  7. NHibernate Mapping-by-code series
  8. Essential JavaScript Design Patterns for Beginners
  9. C# 5: Caller Info Attributes
  10. Grant IIS 7.5 access to a certificate in certificate store
  11. Windows Phone 7: 31 days of Mango e-book
  12. TF26204: The account you entered is not recognized
  13. Farewell WCF Web API… Welcome ASP.NET Web API
  14. Team Explorer Everywhere without Eclipse
  15. Team Foundation Server 2010: Enable checkin policy through code
  16. SQL Server Reporting Services error: The report parameter has a DefaultValue or a ValidValue that depends on the report parameter . Forward dependencies are not valid.
  17. Effective code reviews: ‘Buddy reviews’
  18. event.srcElement vs event.Target
  19. ASP.NET MVC: Binding Arrays
  20. Visual Studio 2010: Configure the Parallel Execution of Unit Tests
  21. JavaScript and Css Bundling and Minification
  22. ASP.NET MVC: Error during serialization or deserialization using the JSON JavaScriptSerializer. The length of the string exceeds the value set on the maxJsonLength property.

January 2012

  1. Internet Explorer rendering modes
  2. The Firefox fieldset bug… and a possible workaround
  3. ASP.NET MVC: AsyncController Timeout
  4. ASP.NET MVC AsyncController Helper
  5. What’s new in WCF 4.5?
  6. TFS: Change MS Project Field mapping
  7. Visug: Future of the Web–Slides and Demos
  8. App_Offline.htm
  9. 31 days of SSIS
  10. Auto-Start ASP.NET(MVC) applications in IIS 7.5
  11. WCF IsRequired Attribute
  12. VISUG: Future of the Web
  13. OWASP Top 10 for .NET Developers
  14. Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 MOSS Configuration Tool
  15. Official Oracle support for Entity Framework v4
  16. TFS 2010: What to install where?
  17. Generate a help page from a Word document: chmProcessor
  18. TFS: Securing Work Item Definition updates
  19. CleanUp HTML tool
  20. Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit: December Update
  21. Community TFS Build Extensions: December release
  22. TFS 2010 Build: TF215087 error

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December 2011

  1. HTML 5 and CSS: Six Complete Lessons
  2. Telerik MVC Grid won't refresh after delete
  3. Microsoft Product Lifecycle Search
  4. Look up DB2 error codes: the fast way
  5. Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools for Eclipse
  6. Techniques to improve your training feedback: The happiness door
  7. CSSCop: Integrate CSS Lint into Visual Studio
  8. Team Foundation Server WorkItem FieldControl Attributes
  9. TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition: Cannot create unknown type
  10. QFEs and Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager 2010
  11. Team Foundation Services Update
  12. Microsoft Patterns & Practices Roadmap
  13. Clean up your development PC
  14. Unlocalize.com: Translate localized error messages
  15. TFS Build: Build by label
  16. Integrate NuGet in your build process: TFS NuGetter
  17. JavaScript Unit Testing in Visual Studio: Chutzpah 1.3 released

November 2011

  1. Unity IsRegistered throws exceptions when registering Open Generic types.
  2. Creating test data using ElasticObject
  3. Visual Studio cannot start debugging because the debug target is missing
  4. Adobe Flex/Flash versus Microsoft Silverlight. And the winner is… HTML 5!
  5. Mobile website vs Mobile application
  6. Web.config Transformation Tester
  7. Windows Azure Updates: SDK 1.6 and Training Kit November 2011 update released
  8. .NET Framework 4.5–New features overview
  9. Showing the ‘Runas’ option in the context menu
  10. TFS 2010: TF203028 and TF203071 branching errors
  11. TFS 2010: Cube processing failed
  12. TFS 2010: Administrative reports
  13. Attempt by security transparent method to access security critical method
  14. Windows Azure Training Kit: October 2011 release
  15. Waterfall project management was a mistake
  16. Visual Studio 2010: NUnit support
  17. JavaScript Patterns: Settings object
  18. IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools - Training and Exploration Sandbox
  19. Telerik MVC Grid: Client Side filtering
  20. Javascript Patterns: The Module pattern
  21. Bug in Telerik MVC Grid Control: Displaying items 1 - NaN of undefined

October 2011

  1. OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 - v1
  2. Visual Studio Troubles: The project file has been moved, renamed or is not on your computer
  3. Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2
  4. Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Release
  5. Compiler as a service: Project Roslyn
  6. Downloading an old version of a NuGet package
  7. The power of HTML 5 and Javascript: Rendering PDF’s in your browser
  8. Enterprise Library: Windows Azure Autoscaling application block
  9. Team Foundation Server Source Control Explorer VS 2010 Extension
  10. Telerik MVC Extensions: Using a more recent jQuery version
  11. Running your build server on Azure
  12. TFS Build Error: The process cannot access the file 'data.coverage' because it is being used by another process
  13. Customizing TFS Build 2010
  14. Use Fiddler to validate version problems with Javascript libraries
  15. Developer cheat sheet
  16. NServiceBus Modeling Tools
  17. WPF is still alive!
  18. JBOWS: Just a Bunch of Web Services
  19. Brain meltdown: Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
  20. Scrum for Team System became Open Source
  21. Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update

September 2011

  1. ASP.NET MVC: Performance tips
  2. Writing Powershell scripts inside Visual Studio: PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension
  3. JScript Editor Extensions for Visual Studio
  4. The type or namespace name 'Linq' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Data'
  5. JavaScript weirdness
  6. How to connect to tfspreview.com from Visual Studio 2010?
  7. What after BUILD?
  8. Design Patterns: Null Object
  9. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about… private builds
  10. Team Foundation Server Training Kit + TFS vNext
  11. Unity: Interception Call Handler called multiple times
  12. Windows Workflow Foundation Activity Pack for Windows Azure
  13. TFS: Setting a default value for an iteration
  14. JavaScript: Where to start?

August 2011

  1. JavaScript: The good parts
  2. Error message in IIS 7.5: HTTP Error 401.2 – Unauthorized
  3. Web.config transform for all config files
  4. Windows Azure Pricing Update
  5. Validating your WCF messages
  6. Free tools for .NET developers
  7. Fluent NHibernate Error
  8. Building WIF enabled .NET 4 Web applications: Potentially dangerous request
  9. Integrating ADFS and the Windows Azure Access Control Service
  10. Prevent jqGrid from autoloading
  11. WCF: Get the operation name within a Message Inspector
  12. Mapping a Dictionary in NHibernate
  13. Deploying a Windows Azure Project from TFS 2010
  14. ASP.NET MVC JSON strings
  15. ASP.NET MVC 3 ModelBinding Localization: incorrect date
  16. Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - August Update
  17. Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 - August 2011 Upgrade
  18. Microsoft announced Windows Azure Storage Analytics
  19. Improve your Daily Scrum meetings
  20. Visual Studio Database Project Error: User has an unresolved reference to Login
  21. CleanProject: Share your .NET code in a clean way
  22. WCF: Keyset does not exist exception
  23. Tools for the paranoia

July 2011

  1. ASP.NET MVC Telerik Extensions
  2. Windows Azure AppFabric July Release
  3. Claims Based Authentication: SecurityTokenVisualizerControl
  4. Windows Azure Storage: One of the request inputs is out of range
  5. Class Template is missing in Visual Studio
  6. Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles
  7. Good JavaScript Habits for C# Developers
  8. Microsoft - Domain Oriented N-Layered .NET 4.0 App Sample
  9. Windows Server 2008 R2: Assign permissions to ASP.NET v4.0 account
  10. Error when trying to download NuGet Package
  11. Be a ninja in the Cloud
  12. The Visual Studio ALM rangers ship new ALM guidance
  13. Exercise is the key to craftsmanship
  14. NDC 2011: Session videos online
  15. Server hangs: DW20.exe
  16. Could not execute Powershell script

June 2011

  1. Exclude files from the JSLint validation process
  2. Free TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Webcasts
  3. Best practices to speed up your website
  4. Windows Azure: Free Ingress for all Windows Azure Customers
  5. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about… Visual Studio wildcards support
  6. TFS Build: Cannot add custom activity to build workflow
  7. Automating your deployment process using Team Foundation Server
  8. Integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX with Team Foundation Server
  9. Silverlight vs HTML 5
  10. Generate an MDX query from Microsoft Excel
  11. Run MDX queries from .NET
  12. C:\fakepath in Microsoft Test Manager
  13. Azure Throughput Analyzer
  14. ALM Practices every developer should know about
  15. Back from NDC 2011
  16. New Windows Azure Pricing Calculator
  17. Entity Framework Connection Strings
  18. Test Attachment Cleaner
  19. Sharing Windows Azure Drives
  20. Could not load file or assembly ‘XamlServices’
  21. Exporting Fiddler Web Recording to a Visual Studio Web Test
  22. OData improvements for Windows Phone 7
  23. WebActivator: How to control the order of execution?
  24. Maybe it’s time to learn functional programming

May 2011

  1. Console Application fails on Windows Azure
  2. Fun Scrum story: Enable and equip your product owners
  3. The power of jQuery: 50 impressive tutorials
  4. Building Azure solutions on your build server
  5. Copy a DLL from the GAC
  6. Pinify
  7. Deploy ASP.NET MVC 3 application to Windows Azure
  8. ALM vNext
  9. Clear DNS cache in Windows 7
  10. Use Fiddler with the Windows Phone 7 emulator
  11. Windows Azure Service Dashboard
  12. Exporting Microsoft Test Manager Test Results to Word
  13. Monitor your Team Foundation Server data volumes
  14. Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS
  15. Windows Azure Diagnostics Logging
  16. Ordina Stand out from the crowd on May 26th
  17. WPF vNext
  18. SQL Azure Reporting
  19. Microsoft Web Camps Training Kit
  20. WP7 Tombstoning
  21. Climbing Mt. PowerShell
  22. Entity Framework 4.1 Problem
  23. Windows Azure Platform Offer Comparison Table
  24. Windows Azure Training Kit April Update
  25. Community Day 2011 is coming closer…
  26. Integration blog series
  27. TechDays 2011: Telerik ‘Just’ announced 2 new products
  28. TechDays 2011: Some great Windows Azure tips
  29. WCF: Certificate EncodedValue

April 2011

  1. NuGet adds symbol server support
  2. Windows Phone 7 and the Enterprise
  3. Team Foundation Server and MS Project Server integration
  4. Ordina TFS Monitor release announced
  5. Enable windows authentication in an ASP.NET MVC 3 website
  6. .NET Framework 4 Platform Update
  7. ArchitecT contains the T of Team
  8. Mix 2011: Windows Phone 7 updates
  9. Mix 2011: Azure Updates continued
  10. Mix 2011: Azure updates
  11. TFS Project Server Integration Pack Licensing
  12. Windows Phone Programming in C#
  13. Debugging JSON results
  14. Combining ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC
  15. Build Explorer Tool
  16. TF214007: No build was found with the URI
  17. WP7: Pivot bug
  18. Try F#
  19. WP7: Capturing screenshots
  20. WP7: Application Deployment Error - This operation returned because the timeout period expired
  21. WP7: An error occurred while accessing IsolatedStorage.
  22. Useful Visio Shapes
  23. Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit March 2011 update
  24. WP7 Tips
  25. Windows Azure Drives

March 2011

  1. Free WP7 ebook
  2. Problems using the .NET transactionscope with DB2 on a 64 bit machine
  3. TFS 2010: Cleaning test attachments
  4. WPF Inspector
  5. Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
  6. Windows Azure TCO Calculator
  7. Visual Studio 2010 Code Map extension
  8. Entity Framework 4: Disable change tracking
  9. The last app in the Cloud…
  10. Entity Framework 4: Unable to load the specified metadata resource
  11. The InvokeProcess workflow activity
  12. Excluding Managed Paths in WSS 3.0
  13. Enterprise Library 5 Validation Application block now supports Silverlight
  14. Windows Azure SDK 1.4
  15. New free Windows Azure trial offer
  16. JQuery 1.5.1 released
  17. Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and TFS 2010 SP1 available for download
  18. Team Foundation Power Tools March 2011 Release
  19. Unity InjectionFactory
  20. Cross domain handling on Azure blob storage
  21. Windows Azure Training Kit: Februari Update
  22. Unlimited load testing(for VS 2010 Ultimate users)
  23. Run Visual Studio post-build events for debug only
  24. Is business logic a cross-cutting concern?
  25. Improve your HTML(5) websites with @font-face
  26. Enable Search indexing on your TFS Sharepoint Team Site

February 2011

  1. Windows Azure SDK Refresh released
  2. Azure Design Patterns
  3. Free WPF Controls
  4. Showing images in jQuery grid
  5. Enable classic ASP support on Windows Azure
  6. Driving your career
  7. Converting a website project to a web application project
  8. Localhost traffic debugging with Fiddler
  9. Disable #regions in Visual Studio
  10. Load testing with Fiddler
  11. Windows Azure AppFabric CTP February Release
  12. Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 is Available
  13. VISUG Session: Caliburn.Micro–Solving real world problems with MVVM–Sample application
  14. Windows Azure Learning plan
  15. VISUG Session: Caliburn.Micro–Solving real world problems with MVVM
  16. Caching in .NET 4
  17. Windows Phone 7 Emulator: Shortcut keys
  18. Windows Azure Training Kit: January update
  19. Windows Phone Training kit updated
  20. Visual Studio Out of Memory exceptions
  21. 12 keys to success with Agile
  22. Azure Diagnostics Monitoring
  23. Azure@home

January 2011

  1. MVVM and the WP7 ApplicationBar
  2. Async updates of Windows Forms controls
  3. 10 jQuery tips to make your site go faster
  4. TFS 2010: Setting Remaining work to 0
  5. TFS Error while downloading files to workspace: The server returned content type text/html, which is not supported.
  6. Caliburn.Micro at VISUG
  7. TFS Administration Tool for TFS 2010
  8. Azure Durable Message Buffers
  9. WPF: Creating a borderless window
  10. Windows Phone 7: Setting the start page
  11. Windows Phone 7: Simplify URL typing
  12. Windows Phone 7: Detecting the WP7 Theme
  13. Windows Phone 7: Setting the Tile image
  14. Windows Phone 7: Detect device type
  15. Razor Syntax Quick Reference
  16. Icons for your Windows Phone 7 app
  17. Error while deploying to Windows Azure Devevelopment Fabric
  18. Bug in WP7 Training kit
  19. TF84032: Team Foundation could not insert the work item list.
  20. Writing a repository class
  21. Effective Windows PowerShell free ebook
  22. Windows Azure Billing Overview
  23. Enterprise Library 5 Exception Handling
  24. Replacing inheritance by closures
  25. Technology discussions today and tomorrow
  26. TFS vs Subversion continued
  27. RhinoMocks: execute a specific action when a method is called
  28. Cannot convert lambda expression to type 'System.Delegate' because it is not a delegate type
  29. Creating Visual Studio Templates
  30. Visual Studio Tip: From comment to task
  31. Streaming files over WCF
  32. The Windows Azure Platform Training kit: where are we?

2010 345

December 2010

  1. TF266044: One or more machines are not ready to run workflows.
  2. Export mapping files generated by Fluent NHibernate
  3. Distributing check-in policies across your team
  4. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about… PDB files
  5. WCF vNext: Linq to WCF
  6. Boost the performance of your ASP.NET and WCF applications
  7. ThreadStatic and ThreadLocal<T>
  8. How to be a bad programmer?
  9. Silverlight 5: Microsoft’s answer on the Silverlight is dead discussion
  10. Hostname mynamespace.servicebus.appfabriclabs.com can't support more than 1 level subdomain.
  11. Using XML namespaces in WPF
  12. Build times for TFS Team Build
  13. Windows Azure Platform 30 Day Pass
  14. Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta released
  15. Great Windows Phone 7 productivity story
  16. New Visual Studio 2010/ TFS 2010 VPC’s available
  17. Prevent hanging build from blocking your TFS build server
  18. Saving NHibernate objects with assigned id’s
  19. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about…the volatile keyword
  20. Software can not be manufactured
  21. Deleting Team Foundation Server Team Projects
  22. 31 days of Windows Phone
  23. NHibernate 3.0 GA released
  24. Free e-books for .NET programmers
  25. Visual Studio 2010 Extensions: Colored Console Application Template
  26. Error adding test case, there is no test with specified id.
  27. Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2
  28. Check-in Policy override feature
  29. Debugging SQL with SQL Management Studio

November 2010

  1. Windows Azure SDK updated
  2. Lab management deployment script arguments
  3. Change the placement policy of your System Center Virtual Machine Manager configuration
  4. Slow connection when connecting to Team Foundation Server from Visual Studio 2010
  5. WPF and Winforms “airspace problem”: a solution
  6. Learn Python the hard way
  7. Build fails after upgrading to Visual Studio 2010
  8. Sharepoint Schema version error
  9. Team Foundation Server 2010 Extensibility
  10. Windows Workflow Foundation 4: State Machines
  11. Windows Azure Connect
  12. View builds across multiple projects
  13. Logging Visual Studio Actions
  14. From developer to designer: Kuler
  15. HTTP 403 when opening Sharepoint page
  16. Could not open a Silverlight project
  17. Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration
  18. The [TestCategory] attribute
  19. Daddy, when I grow up I want to be a small basic developer
  20. Don’t install Async CTP and ASP.NET MVC 3 RC on the same PC
  21. Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special Extended
  22. IBM announced the beta release of its driver for Visual Studio 2010
  23. Entity Framework vs NHibernate
  24. Team Foundation Server get’s cloudy
  25. WPF vNext: Microsoft will solve the ‘Airspace problem’
  26. Silverlight UI testing is coming to Visual Studio
  27. Programmatically invoke an event handler for a control
  28. An impressive Azure story: Pixar’s Renderman
  29. Clean up your Visual Studio bin folder by using Powershell
  30. Lab Management questions… and answers
  31. SynchronizationContext, a multithreaded UI best friend
  32. Windows Azure ‘Extra Small’ Compute Instance
  33. Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta available

October 2010

  1. Could not create a new TFS project
  2. 10 reasons to do CQRS
  3. Scrum for Team System Template and Sharepoint problems
  4. Project Sydney: The mystery will be revealed soon
  5. NHibernate Day Videos
  6. Enable Excel 2007 integration with TFS 2010
  7. TFS 2010 Management Pack
  8. WCF service not available
  9. Test Results not visible in TFS 2010 Build Report
  10. Vingy, a search plug-in for Visual Studio
  11. New Types and Members in the .NET 4 Framework
  12. Create a load test result database
  13. Hosting a .NET 4.0 REST service in IIS 6
  14. Create a backup of your SQL Azure database
  15. Porting an existing application to SQL Azure
  16. Debugging a WCF Data Service
  17. Sisodb
  18. TfsRedirect.aspx
  19. NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook
  20. New release of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit
  21. Comparing Scrum templates for Team Foundation Server
  22. NuPack – Ruby Gems for .NET
  23. Windows Azure Application Monitoring Management Pack
  24. .NET Framework libraries only show structure but no code in Reflector
  25. Operation could destabilize the runtime
  26. I hope some managers will read this…
  27. VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Lab Management
  28. ClickOnce 3.5 and .NET 4.0 problems
  29. Report Builder Portal
  30. How to explain the benefits of Agile to a CFO?
  31. Tracing TFS data
  32. Icon Extractor
  33. Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2010 Update
  34. Don’t panic, ASP.NET security issue is fixed

September 2010

  1. Failed to create a new Team Project using the Scrum for Team System template
  2. Windows Azure Application Scenario’s
  3. Windows Server AppFabric Architecture guide
  4. This is the kind of architect I want to be...
  5. Error getting latest version
  6. Layered architecture sample for Azure
  7. Clean Code Cheat Sheet
  8. Where to put your Javascript code?
  9. CRUD based SOA
  10. The boy scout rule
  11. Problem when using stored procedure in Linq to SQL
  12. Developing applications for the Cloud
  13. Managing configuration settings for multiple environments
  14. MSBuild Extension Pack
  15. TFS 2010 update available
  16. TFS 2010 Power Tools September version
  17. ASP.NET Security Vulnerability
  18. Error while creating a new Team Project on TFS 2010
  19. Building Silverlight projects on a 64bit build server
  20. Debugging MSBuild scripts
  21. Managing build-level permissions in TFS 2010
  22. Compiling a VS2008 project on a TFS2010 build server
  23. Bring your database to the cloud

August 2010

  1. PowerConsole: Powershell inside your Visual Studio environment
  2. SOA, the ugly truth…
  3. Silverlight Memory Management
  4. New TFS Power Tool: Backup and restore TFS
  5. Introducing the TFS 2010 test features in your existing projects
  6. TF270015: 'MSTest.exe' returned an unexpected exit code. Expected '0'; actual '1'
  7. AG_E_Unknown error in Silverlight
  8. Free C# Ebook
  9. The fallacy of the Repository/DAO interface
  10. Integrating Sharepoint with Team Foundation Server 2010
  11. Designer for NHibernate
  12. Could not load file or assembly 'System.Core, Version=2.0.5.0
  13. Simulating the SVN Externals feature in TFS
  14. Team Foundation Server source control versus Subversion
  15. New Team Foundation Server media
  16. TFS Integration Tools v1.0 released
  17. Upload large files to Sharepoint
  18. Integrate JAVA development in your Team Foundation Environment
  19. Installing the Visual Studio Scrum Process Template
  20. Windows Azure Platform Training kit
  21. Building Silverlight applications on a 64bit build server
  22. Building a custom configuration on your build server
  23. Error while installing the Scrum for Team System Template
  24. Delete work items in Team Foundation Server 2010
  25. Impressive software sample: An IDE in the browser
  26. Integrate Sharepoint 2010 with TFS 2010
  27. Installing a WSP for Sharepoint noobs
  28. Newsflash: Visual Studio Lab Management Announcement

July 2010

  1. Changing the TFS temp location
  2. The correspondence between examples and use cases
  3. Create random text in Word 2007
  4. Enable Intellisense for your custom config sections
  5. Clearing a table: the fast way
  6. jQuery Fundamentals
  7. Powershell: Include other scripts in your Powershell script
  8. Dynamic mapping for NHibernate
  9. Building a business app with Silverlight, RIA Services and NHibernate
  10. ASP.NET MVC 3 is getting closer…
  11. Microsoft released the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Tempplate
  12. NHibernate 3.0.0 Alpha 1
  13. The Big Boy MVC Series
  14. WPF ResourceDictionaries
  15. Clean up your server after a TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 migration
  16. Bad request on Report Server
  17. Changing identities in TFS 2010
  18. Reactive Extensions for .NET Hands-on Labs
  19. Microsoft.WebApplication.targets error on TFS 2010 Build Server
  20. Having problems debugging a Silverlight application?
  21. Integrating MS Project Server with Team Foundation Server 2010
  22. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about…the TextFieldParser class
  23. Visual Studio 2010: ALM article
  24. TFS 2010 API: Connecting to a TFS collection using a specific user
  25. TFS 2010 DLL location
  26. Microsoft ALM site
  27. TFS 2010 bug in upgrade process
  28. DB2 Error codes
  29. Free Visual Studio 2010 Database Edition for Oracle
  30. Debugging databinding

June 2010

  1. Testing NULL values with Powershell
  2. IIS Express: Combining the best of ASP.NET development Server and IIS
  3. SQL Server: Showing a list of open database connections
  4. Nice quote for Team leads and Scrum Masters
  5. Community Day session: Building an enterprise application with Silverlight and NHibernate
  6. OData: Using the reflection based provider
  7. Integrating NHibernate and WCF by a little bit of IoC
  8. Model based frameworks are the future
  9. Downloading files using ASP.NET MVC
  10. My WPF Toolbox
  11. Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering, and Certification
  12. TFS 2010 Status Reports
  13. Uploading file streams over HTTP using WCF
  14. Podcast NHibernate stump the expert
  15. Logging the StackTrace
  16. The directive or the configuration settings profile must specify the ‘varyByParam’ attribute.
  17. Adding reports and dashboards to upgraded Team Projects
  18. Introducing the Linfu Framework
  19. A Microsoft Scrum template for TFS
  20. Visual Studio 2010 Extensions
  21. NHibernate 2 Beginners Guide

May 2010

  1. Community Day 2010
  2. HtmlHelpers and the Spark View Engine
  3. Parsing logfiles
  4. TypeDescriptor.GetProperties() vs Type.GetProperties()
  5. Resolving schema conflicts TFS
  6. Web Part Error: A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type is not registered as safe.
  7. Scrum for Team System version 3 RTM is available
  8. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Cannot open backup device ''. Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)
  9. Silverlight cross-domain trouble
  10. MissingMethodException
  11. MSF Agile 5.0 Tips
  12. NHibernate Basics
  13. Moving Team Project Collections between TFS servers
  14. VS2010 Powercommands
  15. Using Unity Application Block – from basics to generics
  16. TF237002: Cannot open the document because Microsoft Excel 2007 or later, or one of its components is not installed.
  17. ReportViewer 2010
  18. Enterprise Library Configuration error: The type attribute does not exist on the element name.
  19. Productive Programmer needs
  20. Move Reporting Services Reports
  21. Unable to attach a Project Collection in TFS 2010
  22. Multiple TFS Build services on one machine
  23. Office 2003 does not work with Team Explorer 2010
  24. How do I know that an XML element is empty?
  25. Yet another methodology
  26. Error running install with custom arguments
  27. IntelliTrace iTrace Files
  28. Moving to TFS 2010 ebook
  29. Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit 2010
  30. Validating your architecture during a build
  31. TFS 2010 Power Tools Released
  32. Searching through source code in TFS
  33. Change the regional settings of the Sharepoint site in a TFS Process Template

April 2010

  1. Check if full-text search is enabled
  2. NHibernate and Linq
  3. Subscribe to events using reflection
  4. Structuring your workitems using the Scrum for Team System Template
  5. Enterprise Library 5 Released
  6. MSDN Live Meeting - VSTS 2010 Update
  7. Changing workitem types in TFS 2010
  8. Viewing and changing Excel Reports in TFS 2010
  9. Create (less ugly) HTML documents from Word
  10. Refresh the TFS 2010 Warehouse
  11. MSBuild Explorer
  12. Start external program
  13. VSTO Fun
  14. Changing the workitem list type in Excel
  15. TFS 2010 Work Item Link Queries
  16. Migrate data between Azman stores
  17. My TechDays 2010 Presentations are available
  18. ASP.NET MVC 2 Diagnostics
  19. Uploading large files in IIS 7
  20. Becoming a RESTafarian
  21. Step by step guide: Install certificate Services on Windows Server 2008 R2
  22. Extreme Programming in a nutshell
  23. NoSQL: Getting Started with MongoDB and NoRM
  24. Problems configuring Team Foundation Server 2010 to use a Fully Qualified Domain Name
  25. What’s new in WPF 4?
  26. Passing parameters to a Reporting Services Report
  27. Nice Quote

March 2010

  1. Bart @ Techdays 2010
  2. Generalists vs Specialists
  3. Command-Query Separation for dummies
  4. Failed to load Profile data in an ASP.NET website
  5. NHibernate Access Strategies
  6. Team Foundation Server Administration Tool goes 2010
  7. Run Tests in Current Context fails in Visual Studio 2010 RC
  8. Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Pack
  9. VS 2010: Interop type cannot be embedded. Use the applicable interface instead.
  10. Error installing WebSetup on Windows Server 2008 R2
  11. Nice Quote
  12. Running BizTalk ESB Toolkit and Enterprise Library
  13. Test Data Reporting in TFS 2010
  14. Disappearing tab in Microsoft Test and Lab Manager
  15. Connecting with TFS 2010 from Team Explorer 2008 fails
  16. Rewriting and how to survive it
  17. Find the private key associated with a specific X.509 certificate
  18. Using the TFS 2010 object model
  19. Configure WCF Security to use the ASP.NET Membership provider
  20. Enterprise Library 5.0: Beta 2
  21. Securing an ASP.NET MVC application
  22. Specify the testrunconfig in your TFS 2008 build file
  23. Test Scribe: A tool for Test Plan Document Generation
  24. DataSets to the Rescue
  25. ASP.NET MVC 2 released!
  26. MSDeploy
  27. Saving changes not permitted
  28. NHibernate 3.0 becomes lazier

February 2010

  1. Team Explorer is Included in Visual Studio 2010
  2. Testing waithandles in MSTest
  3. Cannot initialize the ASP.NET project
  4. Windows Phone 7 Series
  5. Help, my alerts editor is gone in TFS 2010 Power Tools
  6. TFS 2010 RC Power Tools
  7. MSTest Improvements in TFS 2010
  8. HTML: love it or hate it.
  9. Unity 2.0
  10. Scrum for Team System – Visual Studio 2010 RC
  11. Using a password control in WPF
  12. 'MSTest.exe' returned '128' on TFS 2010 Build server
  13. Configuring SSL in IIS 7
  14. Authorization Manager aka AzMan
  15. Test Impact Analysis in Visual Studio 2010
  16. ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips
  17. SQL Profiling
  18. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Training Kit – Februari Release
  19. NDbUnit v1.6 supports Oracle
  20. SmtpClient deliveryMethod
  21. SQL Server – Get current user
  22. Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 Beta 1
  23. VS 2010/.NET 4.0 RC
  24. Sharepoint sucks… or that is what some people are saying
  25. Multiple endpoints for a WCF service hosted in IIS
  26. Junior developers
  27. NHibernate guides
  28. CopyPasteKiller
  29. Visual Studio 2010 and Oracle
  30. Code Coverage issues with Team Build
  31. Complex bugs and multithreading
  32. WCF streaming is not supported in the ASP.NET Development Server

January 2010

  1. Add reference dialog in VS2010
  2. How we do things
  3. Username authentication in WCF
  4. NDbUnit- Invalid object name
  5. I can’t remember that reporting server url when using multiple instances.
  6. TechDays 2010 Belgium
  7. Error while creating a new Team Project in TFS 2010
  8. No more magic strings in NHibernate 3.0
  9. ASP.NET MVC 2 series
  10. Exclude specific files from TFS source control
  11. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (January 2010 Release)
  12. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance
  13. Disable logging in WSS 3.0
  14. Change the Service Account for Team Foundation Server 2010
  15. Exception handling in ASP.NET MVC 2
  16. Using SSL with ASP.NET MVC 2
  17. Diagnose build errors using TFS Build 2010 Beta 2
  18. Using the AsyncController in ASP.NET MVC 2
  19. A small change a day keeps the angry code reviewer away (and your code cleaner)
  20. Sending Email with System.Net.Mail
  21. Remove a test case from the Visual Studio 2010 Test and Lab Manager UPDATE
  22. Uploading files using ASP.NET MVC 2
  23. Failed to queue test run in Visual Studio 2010
  24. Video record your test session using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager
  25. Back to basics: the HTML form
  26. Creating custom HTML helpers for ASP.NET MVC
  27. Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) Timeout

2009 119

December 2009

  1. Installing SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
  2. Where are the documents and reports tab in Visual Studio 2010 Web Access?
  3. Visual Studio Unit Tests fails to run
  4. Can the ScrumMaster become an impediment?
  5. Remember this before you jump on the SOA architecture train
  6. UX Patterns Explorer
  7. Database query plans: why should you care?
  8. Why don't I see traffic sent to http://localhost when using Fiddler
  9. Web deployment in Visual Studio 2010
  10. ASP.NET MVC 2 RC Released
  11. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta period extended
  12. TFS 2010 TFSAdminUtil became TFSConfig
  13. ADO.NET Data Services update
  14. Linq to NHibernate
  15. Help! Where is my Javascript Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2?
  16. Reading performance counters on remote machines
  17. Fatal Execution Engine Error when calling a WCF service in IIS
  18. Failing app pools after Windows update
  19. Remove a test case from the Visual Studio 2010 Test and Lab Manager
  20. Step by step guide for building and publishing an extension in Visual Studio 2010
  21. Visual designer for NHibernate
  22. Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 2
  23. Distributed Transaction Coordinator(DTC) and Windows Vista
  24. Code Kata
  25. No warning on missing comments
  26. VS 2010 Lab management
  27. Let your code be in good shape – Fitnesse free ebook
  28. What’s new for ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2010
  29. ASMX services and Self-Signed Certificates
  30. Running a 32-Bit Assembly on a 64-Bit IIS server
  31. TFS Power Tools 2010 available
  32. Truncate your SQL Server Transaction logs
  33. WorkItemTypeDeniedOrNotExistException
  34. Buy of your guilt
  35. Creating a Self Signed Certificate in IIS 7.0
  36. Configuring Bindings for SSL in IIS 6.0
  37. Scrum for Team System Version 3 Beta 2 released

November 2009

  1. Touchpad issues with my Dell E6500
  2. Scrum but…
  3. And another (small) NHibernate update: NHibernate 2.1.2 is released
  4. Configuring an incremental build in TFS
  5. SOA: The good, the bad, the ugly
  6. Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, Second Edition
  7. Repartition your hard disk
  8. Make managing config files easier with configSource
  9. Using Visual Studio 2008 with Team Foundation Server 2010
  10. Tracing performance issues with Performance Monitor
  11. Is software development too complex?
  12. 10 Must-Know Topics For Software Architects In 2009
  13. Report website is empty on TFS 2010
  14. Change HostName for a WCF service in IIS 7
  15. MSBuild Extension Pack to the rescue
  16. I’m a certified Scrum Master
  17. PDC 2009: Silverlight 4 announced
  18. Web Setup fails on IIS7
  19. Configuring WCF on IIS7
  20. You must use the Role Management Tool to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
  21. Installing TFS 2010 Build Server
  22. After the flu, it's time for the Gu!
  23. TechEd 2009 Berlin: Microsoft has Acquired the Teamprise Client Suite
  24. Incentives versus passion
  25. Tips for ORM Data Access
  26. Balancing your mockups
  27. The right tool for the right job: Specification gathering
  28. TechEd 2009 Berlin: Fishbowl Fun part 2
  29. Didn't you notice the NHibernate 2.1.1 release?
  30. NHibernate 3.0 goodness
  31. TechEd 2009 Berlin: Entity Framework 4.0
  32. TechEd 2009 Berlin: Fishbowl fun
  33. Creating a chm file from word documents
  34. MSBuild error MSB3491: Could not write lines to file “D:\Builds\*\*.sln.Release.vsprops”.
  35. TDD: Test Driven Development or Test Driven Disaster?

October 2009

  1. 12 ASP.NET MVC best practices
  2. NHibernate knol
  3. Spawn a web server against a local folder to preview a web application
  4. Configure an MSBuild script to read file data
  5. Improving type safety for INotifyPropertyChanged without expressions
  6. VSTO here I come
  7. ReportViewer got an upgrade in Visual Studio 2010
  8. C# and it’s lifecycle
  9. 31 days of refactoring
  10. VSTS 2010 Beta 2 Training Kit released
  11. Laws of dependency injection
  12. Generic Comparer
  13. Database Change Notification in Oracle
  14. How to Run Programs as a Domain User from a Non-domain Computer
  15. Why can't I edit my WinForms control?
  16. Enable code coverage on your TFS Build server
  17. Using the HelpProvider to show an HTML help page
  18. Diving into the StoryTeller trunk
  19. Limiting the users in the Assigned To field on a Work Item
  20. Why project managers are underpaid?
  21. Scrum in 10 minutes
  22. TDD for Dummies
  23. How do we get ClickOnce working with Team Build?
  24. Hosting an ASP.NET 3.5 website on IIS 7
  25. Healthy Team Habits with Team System
  26. 97 things every programmer should know
  27. 12 Practices to be a Better Developer
  28. IP address restrictions in IIS
  29. TFS Workflow Control
  30. .NET 4.0 becomes lazy...

September 2009

  1. Instantiating types with no public constructors
  2. .NET 4.0 Goodies: Linq to Filesystem
  3. Impress your colleagues with your knowledge about... the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface.
  4. Design Fundamentals for Developers
  5. I almost forgot that C# supports pointers
  6. Help! SQL Server is eating my memory.
  7. The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID...
  8. Truncate database logs
  9. Caliburn - The mighty sword is almost RTM
  10. Scott Guthrie about VS 2010 and .NET 4
  11. Will MS Test always be the little brother of NUnit?
  12. NHibernate - Embedded Resource

August 2009

  1. Beware of the dot when parsing XAML
  2. Disable workitem creation on build failure
  3. VSTS Team Build Failure when using click-once
  4. I need a makeover
  5. I want to google myself...

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