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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.

Greg Duncan05/03/13
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NuGet Your Enterprise?

The NuGet package manager is a great way for developers to install and update third-party tools. It solves a lot of the problems of dependency management and integration. Is it ready for the exacting requirements of development in the enterprise?

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.

Prashant Khandelwal05/02/13
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Using the SkyDrive REST API

In this post, Prashant documents his self-made wrapper for the SkyDrive REST API, that can be reused in a variety of .NET applications.

Greg Duncan05/01/13
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Microsoft Download of the Day: "Cancelling a Project (Without Cancelling Your Career)"

Discusses best practices for recognizing when a project should be cancelled and the benefits of doing so.

Alexander Beletsky04/30/13
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Building Single Pages Applications

From technical perspective SPA means the web application, that being loaded as one HTML page and redraws it's UI without round trip to server. That sounds not so exiting, but we can see that SPA is much more than that.

Juri Strumpflohner04/29/13
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Git Explained: For Beginners

How is Git different from other VCS (Version Control Systems)? Probably the most obvious difference is that Git is distributed (unlike SVN or TFS for instance). This means, you’ll have a local repository which lives inside a special folder named .git and you’ll normally (but not necessarily) have a remote, central repository where different collaborators may contribute their code.

Michael Crump04/28/13
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Setting up a Command (MVVM) in Windows Phone 8 Video Tutorial

Should I use code-behind or MVVM in my application? What are the pros/cons of each and can you show me a simple example of how a Command works?