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Small Basic E-Books

2013-04-10T01:36:55Z

Today's TechNet Wiki article comes from me.

Learn more about Small Basic and find detailed samples by reading sample chapters from one of three e-books that we are providing to you at no cost. If you like using the e-book format, we have links on each page to where you can purchase the complete e-book.

	The Developer's Reference Guide to Small Basic
	Beginning Microsoft Small Basic
	Basic Computer Games Small Basic Edition

We're starting with these three ebooks from Phil Conrad. Let me know if you've written a Small Basic book and would like it featured like this.

Enjoy!

- User Ed

How to Insert a Formatted Code Snippet and Code Block on TechNet Wiki

2013-03-28T00:30:01Z

Today's featured Wiki article is on:

Wiki: How to Insert a Formatted Code Snippet and Code Block on TechNet Wiki

This article originally comes from the ducky mind of Tony Soper:

I recently made some changes to the article, including building out this section:

How to Use the Format Code Block Tool

The TechNet Wiki Editor has a Format Code Block option (). Click it, insert some code, select a language, click Preview to see it, tweak the code, and then click OK. The source code is now formatted and into your article!

To add line numbers on the left side of your code, click the checkbox in the middle, Display Line Numbers.

Clicking the Format Code Block button opens the following popup window. But there is no option to select the Small Basic programming language. See Small Basic: How to Format a Code Block.

So again, please go check out all the resources in this article here:

Wiki: How to Insert a Formatted Code Snippet and Code Block on TechNet Wiki

If it's TechNet Wiki, then boy is it sticky.

- User Ed

Simple Data Binding in XAML

2013-03-17T21:10:36Z

Today's featured wiki article is...

Simple Data Binding in XAML

It was written by my friend and co-Wiki Ninja, Horizon Net.

Data binding is a great way to display your data. This step-by-step tutorial will teach you the basics of data binding. If you are already familiar with data binding you can skip this tutorial.

Data binding provides a simple and consistent way for applications to present and interact with data. Elements can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects and XML.

Let’s create the application stub. For this demo I will use Expression Blend, because its support for XAML-based tooling, especially data binding, is great and designer as well as developers can profit from it.

Keep following the tutorial here:

Simple Data Binding in XAML

This article is available in two other languages:

German: Einfache Datenbindung in XAML (de-DE)
Italian: Data binding - Esempio base in XAML (it-IT)

Remember to jump on in! The Wiki is warm.

- User Ed

All about ASP.NET MVC

2013-03-09T22:56:24Z

Welcome to another featured Wiki article! Today we're featuring...

ASP.NET MVC

The article comes from Esref DURNA:

ASP.NET MVC is a part of the ASP.NET Web application framework. It is one of the two different programming models you can use to create ASP.NET Web applications,the other being ASP.NET Web Forms.

An MVC Application is designed and implemented using the following three attributes:

Model: The model contains the core information for an application. This includes the data and validation rules as well as data access and aggregation logic.
View: The view encapsulates the presentation of the application, and in ASP.NET this is typically the HTML markup.
Controller: The controller contains the control-flow logic. It interacts with the Model and Views to control the flow of information and execution of the application.

Read about the different versions here:

ASP.NET MVC

This article is also available in these languages:

Keep on Wikiing away. Wikiing away is the Wiki Way!

- User Ed

Windows Phone 7 Application With Federated Authentication

2013-03-02T23:25:44Z

Welcome to today's featured Wiki article!

Windows Phone 7 Application With Federated Authentication

This is another article written by a great community contributor, Alik Levin:

In this scenario you are developing a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) application that consumes RESTful WCF service. You need to integrate Internet Identity Providers (IdP's) such as Live ID, Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and Open ID 2.0 identity providers for authentication purposes.

WP7 application with WCF (REST) service as its back end.
Internet Identity Providers (IdP's) such as Live ID, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Open ID 2.0

You can read about the Solution and Analysis here:

Windows Phone 7 Application With Federated Authentication

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm. Very warm.

- User Ed

ASP.NET MVC Web Application With Federated Authentication

2013-03-02T02:10:51Z

Welcome to today's featured Wiki article!

ASP.NET MVC Web Application With Federated Authentication

It was written by a great community contributor, Alik Levin:

In this scenario you are developing ASP.NET MVC web application and you need to implement authentication using either Internet identities such as Live ID, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, or OpenID 2.0 or enterprise identities managed by corporate Active Directory.

Web Application is developed using ASP.NET MVC.
Internet identities such as Live ID, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, OpenID 2.0
Enterprise identities managed by corporate Active Directory (AD)

Read about the Solution and Analysis here:

ASP.NET MVC Web Application With Federated Authentication

Thanks to Horizon Net, this article is also available in Geman: ASP.NET MVC Web-Applikationen mit Federated Authentication (de-DE)

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm.

- User Ed

Get started with Windows Workflow Foundation and ASP.NET

2013-02-28T02:07:04Z

Today's featured wiki article is...

Getting Started: Windows Workflow Foundation and ASP.NET

It was written by my friend and co-Wiki Ninja, Horizon Net.

Windows Workflow Foundation is a great technology for creating workflows. It can be used in combination with different technologies, for example SharePoint, WCF, etc. In this article we will combine the Windows Workflow Foundation with ASP.NET.

To keep things easy, we will create a very simple greeting application. The user will type in his name into a TextBox, click a button, and a greeting with his name will appear. Sounds simple? It is!

Start by creating an empty Visual Studio Solution:

Read the rest here:

Getting Started: Windows Workflow Foundation and ASP.NET

The article includes code and many images, carefully taking you through every step!

Remember to Wiki while you work. Especially if the Wiki article helps you work.

- User Ed

How to migrate ASP.NET applications to IIS 7 Integrated Mode

2013-02-26T02:36:20Z

Today's featured article is from Suresh Mekkattil:

Migrate ASP.NET Applications to IIS 7 Integrated Mode

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There has been a lot of discussion on how to make your application compatible with IIS 7 Integrated mode. To know how to make your application compatible with IIS7 integrated mode, you first need to understand what the integrated mode is and why we want to use it.

This article explains the “Request is not available in this context” exception.

The “Request is not available in this context” exception is one of the more common errors you may receive when moving ASP.NET applications to Integrated mode on IIS 7.0/7.5. This exception happens in your implementation of the Application_Start method in the global.asax file when you attempt to access the HttpContext of the request.

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Read the solution here:

Migrate ASP.NET Applications to IIS 7 Integrated Mode

Jump on in! The Wiki is warm!

- User Ed

How to Create a Small Basic Extension Using C#

2013-02-24T22:03:02Z

Today's featured article comes from Liam McSherry:

Small Basic: How to Create an Extension Using C#

Here is a sample of the article...

Introduction

Microsoft Small Basic, while a good language for a beginner, is rather limited once you really get into programming. If you feel you're rather advanced with Small Basic, but you also feel that you're being limited by it, you may want to write an extension. You may also wish to write an extension simply to help the Small Basic community by expanding what they have available to them.

To write an extension for Small Basic, you'll have to select a CLR-compatible language to write in. This tutorial will be using Microsoft C#, but there is a large selection of languages compatible with the CLR which can be used to write a Small Basic extension (and we have a tutorial for writing an extension in Visual Basic.NET here). This tutorial will assume that you have a grasp of using Visual Studio, which is the preferred environment for developing for the CLR. Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Professional will be used in this tutorial.

Setting up your Visual Studio Project

Small Basic is built for version 3.5 SP1 of the .NET Framework, and won't be compatible with extensions in any other versions of it. You will want to create a class library (as outside of Small Basic "extensions" are generally referred to as libraries, or libs for short). You'll have to select ".NET Framework 3.5" from a dropdown at the top of the "New Project" window, and you'll have to select "Class Library", as shown below.

You will also need to add a reference to SmallBasicLibrary.dll, which can be found inside the directory you installed Small Basic to. We need this library because it allows us to flag classes with an attribute that makes the Small Basic IDE show them. Once you have added the reference. you'll also want to include the namespace in your code file.

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To read the rest, including instructions about how to program your extension, check out Liam's article on TechNet Wiki:

Small Basic: How to Create an Extension Using C#

Thanks to Liam and everyone who has made Small Basic articles on TechNet Wiki!

- User Ed

SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Content

2013-02-23T23:21:31Z

Today's featured article is...

SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Content

This is an overview article about the type of content that you'll find in the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit.

It comes from my friend and fellow SQL Customer PM, Roger Doherty (profile):

The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit is a collection of content that can be used to familiarize a developer or IT professional with key improvements in SQL Server 2012. Download and install the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit to get your own copy of the training kit content. See the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit BOM wiki for a detailed list of the content in the training kit.

Read the rest of the article here:

SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit Content

Also, see the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit BOM wiki article for a detailed list of the content in the training kit.

Thanks! And remember to jump on in! The Wiki is warm.

- User Ed