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Lohith Nagaraj05/24/13
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Web API in ASP.NET Web Forms Application

With the release of ASP.NET MVC 4 one of the exciting features packed in the release was ASP.NET Web API. In a nutshell, ASP.NET Web API is a new framework for creating HTTP services that can reach a broad range of clients including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is also an ideal platform for building RESTful services.

Greg Duncan05/23/13
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Visual Studio ALM Ranger Solutions Catalog - All ALM, All Awesome

While Greg usually keeps ALM Ranger stuff for RadioTFS this was just too awesome a resource to not share here too.

Greg Duncan05/23/13
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Visual Studio ALM Ranger Solutions Catalog - All ALM, All Awesome

While Greg usually keeps ALM Ranger stuff for RadioTFS this was just too awesome a resource to not share here too.

Michael Crump05/22/13
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How to Specify the Startup Page in Windows Phone

Something that developers ask quite often is how do you specify the startup page in Windows Phone. Most people are trying to use the MVVM pattern and by default the MainPage.xaml lives in the root folder.

Anders Abel05/21/13
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Calling Non Public Setters

Properties with non public setters sometimes make sense – until a unit test requires an object to be set up in a specific state.

John Sonmez05/20/13
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Getting Started With Glimpse In ASP.NET MVC

If you are using ASP.NET, especially if you are using ASP.NET MVC, you need to be using Glimpse.

G. Andrew Duthie05/19/13
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Game (and App) Jam, Windows 8 Style!

Andrew is excited to announce a new set of workshops he has been planning in collaboration with the folks from the BaltoMSDN user group and the CMAP Code Camp.

Den Delimarsky05/17/13
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Windows Phone Apps - Saved Photos to the User and Back

Den Delimarsky explains what's the best way to handle a tricky photo storage situation in Windows Phone applications.

G. Andrew Duthie05/17/13
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Windows Store App Template to Live Data in 3 Easy Steps

One of the things about building Windows Store apps using Visual Studio 2012 is the availability of several rich and useful templates. One the favorites is the Grid App template, which demonstrates how to build an app with a hub page listing grouped items in a ListView control, a group details page, listing information about each group, and an item details page, for information about specific items.

Imran Baloch05/16/13
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Creating a Simple Live Cricket Score Using ASP.NET SignalR

In this article, Imran shows how to use ASP.NET with SignalR. You will see how easy it is to create a real-time Live Cricket Score app using the power of ASP.NET & SignalR.

Greg Duncan05/15/13
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Mission Control to Major...C4F - Coding4Fun Mission Control project

Den Delimarsky and the C4F team are doing it again. Coding4Fun Mission Control is a flexible framework that allows developers to easily create an API to control a variety of devices through an extensible network communication platform.

Greg Duncan05/14/13
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Here is The DevStore! Buy (and Sell) VS Extensions Right From Within VS

With access to free and paid extensions. Easily browse and purchase extensions online with a few clicks, just from within the Extension Manager:

Gil Fink05/13/13
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VSLive Chicago Here I Come

In about a few hours Gil will be starting a trip to Chicago to attend VSLive Chicago conference. It is going to be the second time he's speaking there - here is the session breakdown.

Bart De Smet05/12/13
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Hosting Windows PowerShell 2.0 under CLR 4.0

Being designed around the concept of managed object pipelines, one may expect powershell.exe to be a managed executable. However, it turns out this isn’t the case completely.

Bart De Smet05/11/13
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Getting Started with Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services

Use of hierarchical storage and auxiliary services provided by technologies like Active Directory often has advantages over alternative designs, e.g. using a relational database. For example, user accounts may be stored in a directory service for an application to make use of.

Den Delimarsky05/10/13
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Let's Talk ASM - XOR-ing a String

Den Delimarsky shows how it's possible to create a string XOR character swapping routine in X86 Assembly.

Greg Duncan05/10/13
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WebMatix Gets Azure, Version Control Support, Remote Editing and More

WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool Microsoft first introduced in 2010, and which provides a great, focused web development experience for ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js.

Filip Ekberg05/09/13
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Utilize Roslyn to Create the Next Level Plugin Capability

We are moving towards a new era where more and more people want to offer the possibility to expand the system with widgets and plugins. By utilizing Compilation as a Service can make it easier for all parties to create plug-ins.

Rob Sanders05/08/13
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Enabling the Windows Store

If you are a user of the new “Windows to Go” feature of Windows 8 Enterprise edition, which enables you to boot and run the Windows 8 operating system off an external USB device, you may have noticed something odd when trying to use the Windows App Store.

Alex Schearer05/07/13
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Writing a Windows 8 Game Loop

When developing games for Windows 8 with C# it is not immediately clear how to construct a basic game loop.

Erik Ejlskov Jensen05/07/13
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SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #13 : Reseed (Reset) an IDENTITY Column

Erik shows how it is possible to reseed an IDENTITY column that is a part of a table in a SQL Server Compact database.

Greg Duncan05/06/13
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Using Process Monitor to Solve Nearly Any Problem

Nice kind of recursive example of using Processing Monitor to debug a debug tool. Details about the download and additional information inside this article.

Sony Arouje05/05/13
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StaleStateException for Entity with Assigned Id and Version in NHibernate

Sony Arouje covers the possibility of triggering the StaleStateException issue when working in NHibernate, as well as a way to solve it.

Jon Davis05/04/13
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Automatically Declaring Namespaces in Javascript (namespaces.js)

Namespaces in Javascript are a pattern many untrained or undisciplined developers may fail to do, but they are an essential strategy in retaining maintainability and avoiding collisions in Javascript source.

Den Delimarsky05/03/13
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Let's Talk ASM - String Concatenation

Den Delimarsky provides a basic implementation for a string concatenation mechanism in x86 Assembly.