How Microsoft and others, empowers you with PowerShell [Think Server Services that PowerShells]

TechNet Wiki - PowerShell-Enabled Technologies Many companies have provided out of the box support for managing their software with Windows PowerShell. This list only covers those companies, not any 3rd-party modules or snap-ins. For the list of standalone (i.e. not bundled with any bigger product) 3rd-party and community extensions please see Popular Powershell modules. For the list of Windows Features, roles and technologies that...

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Awake Await, Async Asink... Think before you async...

//InterKnowlogy/ Blogs - Async or Asink? More and more nowadays there is a push  to run more application code in an asynchronous manner to prevent blocking the UI thread and making the application unresponsive.  As the need for this type of programming becomes more prevalent thankfully the APIs to do so have also become easier to implement.  The last part (easier APIs) has led to more and more async code sprinkled through an application...

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Shaping up Office 2013 with these 300 Visio icon stencil...

Microsoft Downloads - New Office Visio Stencil This stencil contains more than 300 icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office 365 deployments including Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Version: 1.0 Date published: 12/18/2012 Language: English FLEX_Stencil_121412.vss, 3.9 MB Creating visual representations of your Microsoft Office and Office 365 architectures, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync is a helpful...

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Today's LINQPad fun, SelectExcept! (a tip on selecting all the fields, except...)

Managing My Technical Mess - Use SelectExcept When You Are Too Lazy To Type "Do you love LINQPad?  Use it every day?  Do ad-hoc queries non-stop against your DataContexts?  Love C#/LINQ’s ability for anonymous object projections into new forms?  I’m assuming you said yes to all those.  Here is the question that drives this post…do you hate having to type *every* field *except* one (or a few) when you *only* need almost...

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Helping a sick system get better... Five Windows AntiVirus bootable CD's

The Windows Club - 5 Free Bootable AntiVirus Rescue CDs for Windows Some malware cannot be removed from your computer easily, once they get past your anti-virus protection and integrate themselves deeply in your system – sometimes making it unbootable. In such a situation,  it may be advisable to use Rescue CDs. A Rescue CD will help you recover your system by removing nasty threat that resist removal by regular antivirus software. These CDs perform a scan and removes computer virus without booting the computer system. They then allow...

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Helping you Hadoop with "Hadoop illuminated" the free weBook...

SHMsoft blog - Announcing open access Hadoop book, "Hadoop illuminated" "Friends, we would like to tell you about an open access book on Hadoop, called "Hadoop illuminated." You can find it here. We want to make learning about Hadoop and its ecosystem fun and engaging. The book is accompanied by its project on GitHub. The book is work in progress, we consider it in alpha stage. We will be updating and adding to it. Your feedback is welcome....

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Robert continues to guide us in the right direction... This time with a Visual Studio Extension Guide

Robert MacLean - Visual Studio Extension Guide This page is meant to provide a one stop shop for the Visual Studio Extensions that are available for Visual Studio 2012. Included here will be only extensions from Microsoft that are available on the Visual Studio Gallery. Some maybe betas, CTPs etc…  ..." Robert continues his Guide series, this time pointing out a number of long time and brand new Visual Studio extensions......

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IE10 RTW now available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (in about a million [95] languages...)

Download Internet Explorer 10 You can download Internet Explorer 10 in the language that matches your version of Windows or choose the English version, which works with all versions of Windows 7. Internet Explorer system requirements (For Windows 7) Processor Computer with a 1 gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor. Operating system Windows 7 32-bit with...

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LINQToWiki (yes, even Wikipedia)

Wikipedia - User:Svick/LinqToWiki LinqToWiki is a library for accessing MediaWiki wikis (including Wikipedia) through the API from .Net languages like C# and VB.NET. It can be used to do almost anything that can be done from the web interface and more, including things like editing articles, listing articles in categories, listing all kinds of links on a page and much more. Querying the various lists available can be done using LINQ queries,...

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Sacha say IOC you! Sacha Barber presents his BarbarianIOC...

CodeProject - BarbarianIOC : A simple IOC Container Introduction What Does It Do How Do You Configure The Container Allow For Non IOC Constructor Parameters Constructor Injection Property Injection Resolving Instances How Does It Work Registering Instances Registering Concrete Instances Registering Service Instances Specifying The Instance Mode Providing Extra NON IOC...

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Robert's "One Stop VS Update Shop" guide to all things VS 2012 (and related) updates

Robert MacLean - Visual Studio 2012 Update Guide This page is meant to provide a one stop shop for the updates that are available for Visual Studio 2012. Included here will be only updates from Microsoft. Some maybe betas, CTPs etc…  If you think I have missed any please contact me! ..." Robert's put together this awesome guide for VS2012 and related tools/extension upgrade guide. If you're using VS2012, bookmark this, well...

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Windows 8 + Kona + Steve = Itinerary Hunter

#WINNING with C# - Windows Store App Example: Itinerary Hunter Source: https://github.com/stevenh77/ItineraryHunter-Win8 Using KONA as a framework, you can think of KONA as the Windows 8 equivalent of PRISM, I have created a Windows Store App for Itinerary Hunter. The solution features distinct projects for UI views, UI logic (view models, converters, etc), services and tests.  Interfaces are used throughout to enable mocking for unit...

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ClickOnce, Windows 8 and SmartScreen (If you're using ClickOnce, planning on Windows 8 [Desktop] and don't have a CA cert, read this...)

RobinDotNet's Blog - Windows 8 and ClickOnce : the definitive answer There have been a lot of copies of Windows 8 sold since it came out a few months ago, and the Surface Pro was just released. (In fact, I’m writing this on my brand new Surface Pro, which I really like, but that’s a subject for another time.) If you’re using ClickOnce deployment, you’re probably wondering how (or if) it’s going to work with Windows 8. I’ve worked with Saurabh Bhatia at Microsoft to ensure that this article will cover what you need to know. We use ClickOnce...

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Wak-A-PST with Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0 Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0 is used to discover and import .pst files into Exchange Server or Exchange Online Version: 15.00.0641.000 Date published: 2/20/2013 Language: English KB articles: KB2815301 PSTCapture.msi, 11.2 MB PSTCaptureAgent.msi, 632 KB PST Capture 2.0 is used to discover and import Outlook Personal Folder (.pst) File Format files into Exchange Server and Exchange Online. PST Capture helps an organization that wishes to gain more control over...

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Excel with Excel without Excel... Seven Excel/XLS Libraries

Ginktage - 7 Libraries for Reading and Writing from/to Excel File in C# Few months back , I was making an R&D on the possibilities of reading and writing to/from the Excel file from .NET (C#) . At that point of time , I came across various libraries and SDK’s available for Reading and Writing from Excel File in C# . In this blog post ,I will list some of the libraries used for reading and writing from/to Excel sheet using C#. Note that...

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The All-In-One Framework goes Metro... errr... umm... Modern... um... Windows Store App! One app, 5000+ samples...

Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - Developers' Pain Killer - Releasing Sample Browser for Windows 8 – Get Your "Hands" on 5000 Amazing Code Samples Sample Browser 1.0 for Windows 8 is released in the Windows Store today – a new relaxing way for Developers to search, browse, learn and share over 5000 code samples on any Windows 8 devices, including Surfaces! This is a collaborative effort from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework, Windows 8...

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Modernize your WPF app's with the Modern UI for WPF Templates

Visual Studio Gallery - Modern UI for WPF Templates A collection of project and item templates for Modern UI for WPF. Adding a number of Visual C# project and item templates to Visual Studio 2012 for creating WPF applications with a Modern UI look & feel. New Project Template 'Modern UI WPF Application' available in Visual C#\Windows New Item Templates in Visual C# Items\Modern UI for WPF For more information about Modern UI...

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The Expression death march continues... Expression Gallery is now locked and going to be killed on March 7th

Just got this email... A note about the Expression Gallery You are receiving this note because you are shown as an owner of one or more projects in the Expression Gallery.  As noted on the Expression Gallery home page, on February 14th, 2013 the Expression Gallery was locked, and new contributions will no longer be accepted. On March 7th, 2013, the Expression Gallery will be shut down. The MSDN and Visual Studio galleries are available...

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Kevin's Tips To Technology Presentation Perfection. Six tips for to help you toward Demo Mastery

Kevin E. Kline - Demo Mastery for the Technology Evangelist In the same way that the finest presentations involve much more than the simple relaying of information, the finest software demos are much more than just presenting features. REMEMBER: The goal of a demo is to INSPIRE the audience to use the software/technology, not to teach them every nuance of software/technology. I’ve spent the last 10 years learning how to give good presentations...

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The HTML5 Quick Start For Greg's (err... Dummies... um... err... um.. for the HTML5 Challenged. Yeah. Them)

CodeProject - HTML5 Quick Start Web Application Background I started learning more about HTML5 from December last year. Since it was new, talked about and had real good features, I got a jump start from the thought of using it in our upcoming projects and possibly giving a session on HTML5 to my team once I have some good insight on the same. While learning about the HTML5, I started developing a demo web application that was fully HTML5...

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Find your inner App Hero with these two new Windows 8 App Templates

Mark Arteaga - Windows 8 App Templates Released "For the past month we have been busy putting together some Windows 8 templates to help developers build apps for Windows 8 faster. With the help of Barranger, I have built out two Windows 8 templates with each having a companion backend server. If you are a regular reader of my blog, your will know that almost everything I do is .NET C#/XAML development.  For these templates, I decided...

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It's a Rap! The Surface Pro Rap, that is...

Go DevMENTAL - The Surface Pro Rap "The Surface Pro was released on Saturday, enjoy this little rap inspired by the Surface Pro commercial below ... The rap (thanks MC Sean I warned you I would post it!) To rock my business I needed something fine So I got a Surface Pro To make my business shine Running all my apps In the modern UI Jump into desktop mode Business on the fly Super sleek and light Black as the night Keyboard is the cover Stand props just...

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Microsoft Message Analyzer better in Beta 2 (Gantt viewer, Quick filter, Parsing REST Protocols and more)

MessageAnalyzer - Microsoft Message Analyzer Beta 2 is released (build 5950)! Install the Beta 2 version from here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site216/Downloads.  You’ll need to be a member of our connection. This release adds a range of new functionality and resolves a number of bugs: · IntelliSense UI for filter creation – As one of the most requested features, Filter IntelliSense is now available for exploring protocol message hierarchies to find the fields you need to build filter expressions. The capabilities are vastly improved...

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Note to Los Angeles Metro (aka subway) riders: Don't block the darn doors...

blogdowntown - Metro continues transit manners campaign with new platform decals DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — A few weeks after Metro beefed up their bike etiquette signs aboard trains, they have continued to promote good public transit manners with new platform decals at the 7th/Metro Center Station. These floor signs have been placed on red and purple line platforms and are intended to help coordinate the flow of traffic on and off trains, Metro's...

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Adobe Photoshop Source Now Available! (For the 1990 v1.0.1 version... ;)

Computer History Museum - Adobe Photoshop Source Code When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary. ... That first version of Photoshop was written primarily in Pascal for the Apple Macintosh, with some machine language for the underlying Motorola 68000 microprocessor where execution efficiency was...

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Microsoft SQL Server Licensing Question? There's a hotline for that...

MSSQLFun - Microsoft SQL Server License Helpline Microsoft SQL Server license has lots of flavors in terms of user based \ CAL or processor based license, license based on versions or license based on environment (physical or virtual). Although, Microsoft release license guidelines for each & every SQL server version. But there are more complex scenarios for licensing then we think. Best person to answer your all queries over licensing...

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Wiki-wiki, here's some popular PowerShell add-ons...

TechNet Wiki - Popular Add-Ons for PowerShell Users Just a few of the many add-ons and things you can extended PowerShell with, but good ones none-the-less......

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Table Per Type(TPH) Inheritance in Entity Framework, a Beginner's guide oneness (well understanding at least)...

CodeProject - A Beginner's Tutorial on Understanding Table Per Type(TPH) Inheritance in Entity Framework "Introduction In this article we will discuss about implementing Table per Type inheritance hierarchy using Entity Framework. We will see a small sample to see how this can be implemented in a step by step manner. Background There are times when our database design has tables that do not logically match with the entities that we need...

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Gaming up a story with the PowerPoint Game Design Storyboard Shapes...

Visual Studio Gallery - Storyboard Shapes - Game Design Shapes "Use these shapes to visualize your game and then connect them to the Team Foundation Server This is the first of a number of icons that you could use to design your games.  This is not intended to be used in place of your final graphics, but allows you to determine what graphics you need and to explain your work goals. For connectors in Storyboarding, use the "shapes"...

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Glima!... Gilma v3 is a .Net 4.0 update...

CodeProject - Gilma - GUI for the ILMerge Application Revised for .NET 4.0 Introduction I saw the beautiful interface made by Tomer Shalev on the SourceForce Web site and thought I could rewrite it in a self-contained way. The original Tomer Shalev's Gilma is a front-end application to ILMerge: Microsoft's command-line utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge is freely available from Microsoft's...

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"Official" Surface Getting Started Guide (free 68 page PDF) is now available...

Microsoft Press - Quick news: Surface Getting Started Guide now available Greetings, gang. Just wanted to let you know about this guide to the Microsoft Surface, which was published yesterday. You can download the 68-page PDF (1.35 MB) here: Surface_Getting_Started_guide.pdf Surface Getting Started Guide Here's the table of contents... Am resisting the urge to insert a snarky comment about how nice this PDF might have been 90+...

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You've heard of ASCII Art? How about DNS Art!?

Saving the world, one bug at a time - Hilarious network configuration "I call this DNS art :) Try running this from a cmd prompt: tracert -h 99 216.81.59.173 You'll get something like this: ... 14 150 ms 153 ms 144 ms Episode.IV [206.214.251.1] 15 152 ms 147 ms 143 ms A.NEW.HOPE [206.214.251.6] 16 146 ms 148 ms 147 ms It.is.a.period.of.civil.war [206.214.251.9] 17 147 ms 145 ms 148 ms Rebel.spaceships [206.214.251.14]...

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Adding a 4th row of Windows 8 Start Screen tiles to any 1366x768 display (i.e. a Surface RT or standard notebook...)

Kurt Shintaku's Blog - INFO: Adding a 4th row of tiles to the Start page of Surface for Windows RT What you need to do is: Open the Registry via the desktop using REGEDIT.EXE Create the following key[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Scaling] Create the following String value in this key: MonitorSize="12.1" Reboot Don’t fully know all the side effects of this...

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