MCS UK Solution Development Team
The blog of the UK Solutions Development Team of Microsoft Consulting Services.
Debugging the .NET framework source code
I am sure lots of us have been in the situation where, after hours of poring through compiled source...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 09/09/2010
U-Prove and why U should care
Privacy and minimal disclosure of information are important aspects of any identity verification...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 09/02/2010
Introduction to Feature Builder (part 1)
Over the course of a project (or several projects) it is common for teams to establish certain...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 09/01/2010
DesignData MVVM support in Blend, VS2010 and WPF/Silverlight
When developing a solution using WPF or Silverlight, there are normally designers working in Blend...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 08/27/2010
Microsoft Consulting Services are Recruiting
Are you looking for your next career move? Do you want to work with customers and delivery partners...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 08/27/2010
Eye On Earth update
So, we’ve just released an update to Eye On Earth that adds in Birdseye support, the new style Bing...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 07/20/2010
Windows Phone ApplicationBarIconButton not displaying icons
So you’ve added an ApplicationBarIconButton to your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight page and you can’t...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 07/14/2010
Building and deploying an Outlook 2010 Add-in (part 1 of 2)
So, you’ve cracked open your shiny new Visual Studio 2010, and you would like to build and...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 07/12/2010
Windows Identity Foundation 101’s : WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (part 1 of 2)
Background It is becoming more commonplace for the means of authenticating a user to be externalized...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 07/07/2010
Interrole Communication Example in Windows Azure
There are many scenarios where you will need to do interrole communication when creating a solution...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 06/29/2010
Dev and Test, Better Together
Kevin D’Souza and Duncan Millard from Microsoft MCS will be speaking at the BCS event “'Testing Then...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 06/28/2010
Common Problems Collecting Azure Diagnostics
Windows Azure Diagnostics enables you to collect diagnostic data from a service running in Windows...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 06/25/2010
Security Best Practices in Azure
Recently the Azure and security community published the “Security Best Practices for Developing...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 06/21/2010
CodePlex Community Projects
Listed below are the community projects that are currently being undertaken by the Solution...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 06/18/2010
Adventures in TSQL: Using CTEs when performing DELETE operations
In most applications these days there will always be some form of backend database. So hopefully...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 06/03/2010
SQL Azure Date and Time Functions derived from the Operating System
Transact-SQL includes a number of date and time functions that have values are derived from the...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 05/26/2010
Deploying a .NET 4 MVC 2 Application to Windows Server 2003 Using WiX 3.5
Warning: WiX 3.5 is still under development, so you may encounter things that do not work with your...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 05/26/2010
System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException : Why extending Silverlight through sub-classing might result in this error.
Earlier this week we spotted we had a problem with a Silverlight application that has been live for...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 05/11/2010
How does Azure identify a faulty role instance?
The Azure platform in the form of the Fabric Controller (FC) provides monitoring for a health of a...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 05/10/2010
Silverlight Arc Control in 5 Easy Steps
Whilst working on a proof of concept, we came up with an idea for an interesting menu that would...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 05/07/2010
Crash course on the TFS Integration Platform
If you are somehow involved with TFS and ALM, I bet you have heard about TFS Integration Platform...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 05/05/2010
Using Reflection and Attributes for better Tracing and Logging data rendering
In most projects there is always a requirement for tracing and/or writing debugging information...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 05/04/2010
Managed Extensibility Framework Overview
This blog post is going to explain what MEF is, the benefits of using MEF and then a walk through on...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/28/2010
Performance characteristics of the Silverlight DataGrid
Overview This article will discuss the performance characteristics of the Silverlight DataGrid both...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/13/2010
Creating a new Microsoft Word document from a template using OpenXml
When working with Microsoft Word automation there is often the requirement to create documents from...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/09/2010
Sending an Email from within Microsoft Word – with the Word document attached
Recently whilst working on a project I had the requirement to send an email from within Word,...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/09/2010
BizTalk SSO stops working after installing Visual Studio 2010
After installing Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows Server 2008 R2 box with BizTalk Server 2009 I got...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/09/2010
Dynamically Changing the Display Language in Silverlight
On a recent Silverlight project we had a requirement to be able to dynamically change the language...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/08/2010
The Extreme Retrospective
Most agile methodologies have some way of analysing past behaviour, recording it for future...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/01/2010
Keep your Eye On Earth
Last November saw the release to web of the project I led for the 8 months previous. Eye On Earth is...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 04/01/2010
XML Namespaces and Prefixes
This entry may be useful to people confused by BizTalk's inclination to insert "ns0" into XML...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 03/31/2010
Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure with SQL Azure
I was recently talking to a customer about the possibility of moving a web site from Linux to...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 02/26/2010
Running Memcached in Windows Azure
Memcached is a distributed cache used to help speeding up large scale web applications by taking...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 02/04/2010
Dynamic XML Reader with C# and .Net 4.0
Along with the new features of .Net 4.0 (including the long awaited Tuple classes, BigInteger, extra...
Author: MCS UK Solution Development Date: 02/04/2010