In my last post I illustrated some of the basics of MEF through a Hello MEF dashboard app that I used in my PDC talk. In this series of posts, we’ll build that application from scratch and then go even further than we did in that talk. This might take...

If you have an environmental site, or would like to embed Eye On Earth to your site this can be done very easily with the following code. <iframe name="eoe_frame" src="http://eyeonearth.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx? latitude= 55.676&...

Volevo ricordarvi le tappe di Dicembre del Community Tour: 4/12/2009 – San Vito al Tagliamento (Pordenone) – DotNetWork, XeDotNet e PowerShell.it ( tutto il giorno ) 4/12/2009 – Firenze – ASPItalia – SOLD OUT 11/12/2009 – Bari – DotNetSide ( tutto il...

Managed to squeeze in a little bit more tinkering with the Windows Home Server and Media Center set-up this weekend. First of all, the WHS had updated itself to include Power Pack 3 . The main benefits of this are the integration into the Windows 7 Libraries...

仕事の合間に PDC09 で発表されたものをいろいろと検証したりしています。本日は、My Favorite のひとつ "Oslo" から Oslo MVC 2.0 Web Application について軽くご紹介します。 動作環境: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 SQL Server Modeling CTP Nov. 2009 この動作環境下で、新規にプロジェクトを作成しようとすると、"Oslo MVC 2.0 Web Application"...

Buenos días a todos! Nos complace inaugurar este blog de Office y Outlook desde el Grupo de Soporte de Microsoft en España. Este grupo está formado principalmente por Luis y por mi (Eduardo) y damos soporte a clientes Premier de España y del resto de...

Ok, so this one is interesting. I was reading an Internal DL (Distribution Group) post on tuning %Like% operator performance. I find some confusion in various places about index selectivity of ' %Like% ' operator, and I decided to do few test myself....

In uno dei miei post precedenti, Sempre chiamare il metodo Dispose! , avevo trattato un di un crash che avveniva per una exception generata all’interno del metodo Dispose. Siccome il codice non chiamava esplicitamente la Dispose, questa era chiamata dal...

Как вы уже заметили, указатель (Pointer) находится в верхней части каждой группы. Это сделано потому, что когда любой из элементов выбран, курсор мышки автоматически становиться в “drag” для этого элемента, и вам остается только перевести мышку на форму...

Assume that you have some important object that performs some important task. It may look something like this: 1: public class ImportantObject 2: { 3: public void ImportantMethod() 4: { 5: // Do things. 6: } 7: } You've done everything right and created...

Do you have a Windows Live Account? Check out the Video Below and see why you should have one! Home.Live.Com (Liked the Audio?? – Download it from Here ) Cheers, SC tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/samer/archive/2009/11/30/my-mind-on-my-money-my-money-on-my-live.aspx';...

We’ve all had that experience: a bunch of directed graphs in our heads that we’ve been thinking about rendering. However lacking in the time and expertise to do so, unrendered they remain. However, If you’ve got a little patience watch this screencast...

Jaime Rodriguez has a great post on some of the interesting things we at Microsoft have on one of our internal discussions, namely the WPF one.   The big one I noticed was that my favorite was smack at the top.  INotifyCollection is now going...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex   One of MVC 2's major new features is the support for breaking up a large application into "Areas". This works by following a structure that looks like: Root folder Models...

Like any other good product, the Testing Tools in VS also have tracing support to generate the extra trace logs that can help the product team debug the customer issues better.  Though this trace logs could be used by the customers in certain scenarios,...

If starting a blog is difficult , restarting it is more difficult.  For several weeks I have been planning to start on the blogs again but it is not easy to shed of rust of 3 years.  Apart from the fact that some of my blogs in past have more...

Below I put together a quick reference of the known SharePoint properties and methods that you do not want to call Dispose against when developing SharePoint applications (AKA “ Do Not Dispose Guidance ”). Please check back on this blog post as I will...

Short work week last week. Not a lot of great links showing up in my RSS reader or my email inbox. It seems like a lot of people took the week off completely. I needed a bit of a break and I’m sure many others did as well. I do have a couple of interesting...

Larry Ellison, Founder and CEO of Oracle, asks the above question (using the R-rated word instead of my PG substitution) in this audio sound bite as his way of saying the term is meaningless and ill-defined. His rant becomes even more strident in this...

Consider these requirements; · The system shall properly calculate the taxes due at the time of payment. · The system shall properly display the location and speed of inbound projectiles. · All users will only be able to change data appropriate to their...

Hey all, During PDC09 we spent a bunch of time handing a survey for folks to fill out to give feedback to the team.  I would really encourage you to fill this out.  If there’s a data type that you’d like to see supported, feature enabled, enhancement,...

This time a real simple one prompted by this question on StackOverflow. Problem: If you tell the Entity Framework about this class using Code-Only, by default every property becomes part of Entity, and as a result stored in the database. Usually this...

In my previous posts , I mentioned my trip around the world. In this and the next few posts, I’d like to share a few demos and resources from my presentations. Test cases to improve interoperability I will start with the IE Testing Center , where you...

Well, I posted the previous one from OneNote/Word after a lot of messing around with the picture settings. After following documentation red herrings I discovered that I had to supply my own picture hosting service. I had to do this because the MSDN blogs...

I've decided to use OneNote as my blog writing tool as I work with OneNote almost daily. It's an easy way to paste thoughts from what I'm working on into blog posts. With any luck, OneNote will be my one stop editor for just about everything except code…...