InfoQ: Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM
Microsoft has detailed Windows 8 for ARM: architected for low power consumption, apps that can only target WinRT, restricted desktop that... more »
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Windows 8: The Facts About ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack
With the announcement that Microsoft will release the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29 in Barcelona, Jeremy Likness breaks down... more »
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Resetting Idle Detection Countdown in Windows Phone
Francesco De Vittori provides a detailed tutorial on how to use accelerometer events to reset the screen-saver countdown for Windows... more »
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EvenTiles from Start to Finish - Part 9
Maarten Struys continues his series on developing a Windows Phone app from start to finish. In this post, he talks about adding a... more »
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Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions
David Amador gives a brief tutorial on using Find/Replace to change unwanted code snippets using regular expressions in Visual Studio.
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Getting started with SSIS - Part 3: First SSIS Package
Hope that you have a basic understanding of ETL, SSIS and BIDS. So without much delay, let us start getting our package to move data from... more »
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#0131 - SQL Server – SSMS – Tutorial – Part 06 – Introduction to the Properties Window (L100)
The SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) continues to fascinate me with it’s immense wealth of features geared towards developer &... more »
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Dynamic CSS with Razor (part 2)
In PART ONE we saw how to create a gradient programmatically in order automate a CSS stylesheet using the Razor engine. We started from a... more »
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Save Camera Captures in Media Library for Windows Phone
This simple tutorial will show you how to save pictures taken with your camera phone directly to the Media Library to help save storage... more »
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Data Profiling Task to Validate data before load to EDW
Everyone has problem when going to load data into Data warehouse (EDW). They all need to confirm that data quality is good but they don't... more »
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Add SSRS 2008 named instance tutorial
A recent questions about how to add SSRS named instances, couldn't find any that talks about SQL server 2008, anyway I decided to help by... more »
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C# and Facebook
You can interact with Facebook in C# by installing Facebook C# SDK dlls. The easiest way to do this is using NuGet. To add the reference,... more »
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The Microsoft C++ Compiler Turns 20!
This month, we enter the third decade of C++ at Microsoft. It was twenty years ago, in February of 1992, that we released our first... more »
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Test Driven Development (TDD) in C#
There is such a great buzz about Test Driven Development(TDD) among the geeks and in the software industry that its being talked about in... more »
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Visual Studio Live! - Las Vegas
I will be speaking at Visual Studio Live! in Las Vegas this March 26-30. The conference is a full 5 day event and there’s still time to... more »
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GIF to JPEG for Windows Phone 7 - via a WCF service
As you probably know, Windows Phone 7 application development is mainly based on Silverlight, and Silverlight doesn’t support GIF images.... more »
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Set the Slice on your SSAS Cube Partitions now!
I am pretty sure that most of you would have heard or read about this at least once in your SSAS career, but how many of you actually do... more »
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Getting started with SSIS - Part 2: BIDS Overview
3 questions are asked here. Therefore, I will provide the 3 answers to you.
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WP7 Icons Quick and Undirty
An unexpectedly time consuming part of Windows Phone 7 development are icons. As a developer with some occasional design inspirations I... more »
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Globalization and Localization with ASP.Net Web Applications
Most websites on the internet today are designed and developed to support a single language and culture, but making a website or web... more »
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EvenTiles from Start to Finish - Part 7
Maarten Struys continues his series on developing a Windows Phone app from start to finish. In this post, he covers how to use Fast... more »
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Microsoft Announces C++ AMP Open Specification
Microsoft has announced a new open specification for Visual Studio 2011: C++ AMP will allow developers to write programs that compile and... more »
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Why is RAID So Important for Databases?
A good server design has no, or very few, single points of failure. One of the most common server component that fails, are disks. So... more »
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Getting started with SSIS - Part 1: Introduction to SSIS
SSIS is a tool used for ETL. Before we talk on SSIS, let me walk you through what is ETL. ETL stands for Extract Transform and Load.... more »
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Sample Mobile App with Backbone.js and PhoneGap
PhoneGap — if you are not familiar with it — is an open source platform that allows you develop cross-platform Mobile applications using... more »
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