Unusual Microsoft Download of the Day: "Cancelling a project (without cancelling your career)"

Microsoft Downloads - Cancelling a project (without cancelling your career) Discusses best practices for recognizing when a project should be cancelled and the benefits of doing so. Version: 1 Date published: 4/25/2013 Language: English Cancelling a project without cancelling your career.docx, 29 KB This white paper is written by Chris Vandersluis of HMS Software and describes best practices for recognizing when a project should...

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Enterprise Library 6 and Unity 3 are out today... (Semantic Logging and Transient Fault Handling Application Block added, other Blocks updated)

ALM and Beyond - Microsoft Enterprise Library 6 and Unity 3 Released Microsoft Enterprise Library is a popular collection of reusable software components (called application blocks) designed to address common cross-cutting concerns of enterprise application developers (such as logging, validation, data access, exception handling, and more). Enterprise Library is provided as source code, test cases, and documentation that can be used "as is" or...

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NuGet your Enterprise?

simple talk - Taking NuGet to the 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? ... NuGet as That Tool A World Without NuGet NuGet… to the rescue? Dependency Management Overview Brief History of NuGet The Enterprise Development Challenge Enterprise Annoyances with NuGet Getting...

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Infragistics Releases 13.1 with new set of Windows Metro/Modern/UI XAML/HTML controls (which is now in the box for NetAdvantage Ultimate & NetAdvantage .Net subscribers)

Infragistics Releases 13.1 The wait is over! This morning, Infragistics released NetAdvantage Ultimate 13.1 and our related 13.1 toolsets and products to the community. Ultimate 13.1 is the only design and development toolset on the market that lets you create both hybrid and native mobile applications, in addition to modern and touch-friendly apps for the desktop and web. The release includes updated versions of our WPF, Silverlight, iOS (NucliOS),...

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Getting into the mood... (well...) Microsoft Research Mood Board

Microsoft Research - Microsoft Research Mood Board Microsoft Research Mood Board is a Windows application that combines image search, image collection, and sketching to support creative activities. Download Details File Name: MSRMoodBoardSetup.msi Version: 1 Date Published: 23 April 2013 Download Size: 3.46 MB There's not much more information seemingly available. Here's some snaps from the app... Desktop Icon; Main screen;...

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Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel download - A granddaddy free ISO mounting utility from Microsoft

Microsoft Downloads - Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel "This utility enables users of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 to mount ISO disk image files as virtual CD-ROM drives. Version: 2.0.1.1 Date published: 4/23/2013 Language: English winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe, 60 KB Overview The Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel utility enables users of Windows XP, Vista, and 7 to mount ISO disk image files as virtual CD-ROM drives. This can be highly useful for reading disk images to install software or recover backup files. Notes:...

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Public Sector Developer Weblog highlights a whole passel of free workshops for the coming months...

Public Sector Developer Weblog NW Cadence- Live Workshops Neudesic- Live Workshops Magenic- Live Workshops InCycle- Live Workshops Imaginet- Live Workshops AgileThought Live Workshops Just a few sessions to keep you busy and your brain growing......

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The First [12] Steps in using Caliburn Micro to build awesome Windows Phone 8 App's

qmatteoq.com - First steps with Caliburn Micro in Windows Phone 8 – The complete series This post is simply a collector of all the blog posts I wrote about using Caliburn Micro, a very powerfull Model-View-ViewModel framework, in Windows Phone 8. The posts are listed in chronological order, so it will be easier for you to follow the logic path of the posts: from the basic concepts (what’s Caliburn, conventions, etc.) to the most complex stuff...

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You are such a Code Digger... Code Digger VS2012 extension released (Think "Pex powered input/output analysis for Portable Libraries Extension")

Nikolai Tillmann's Blog - Introducing: Code Digger, an extension for VS2012 Today, the Pex team at Microsoft Research (Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux) is happy to announce that Code Digger, an extension for Visual Studio 2012, has shipped to the Visual Studio Gallery. After shipping the Moles framework as Fakes in Visual Studio 2012, this is the next step of bringing our research projects to the latest and greatest development environment....

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I trace, you trace, we all IntelliTrace (or want to at least) - Here's a link round-up to help you learn it

Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog - Learn IntelliTrace There’s a lot of good content on IntelliTrace and we’ve grabbed a few links here to have in one place. If you’ve got some time and want to get to know more about IntelliTrace in Visual Studio these are great places to go. Zain Naboulsi on Understanding IntelliTrace: ... A couple of interesting reads in the context of DevOps: ... Of course, we on...

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Example using the Task Parallel Dataflow Library help keep... well, your data, um, flowing...

.Net Curry - Building an Image Resizer using .NET Parallel Dataflow Library in .NET 4.5 Abstract: With .NET 4.5, the Task Parallel Library team went another step ahead and built a little known library called Parallel Dataflow Library. This article explains why as a .NET developer, you must know about this powerful library. By now, we’ve all heard about the Task Parallel Library (TPL) introduced in .NET 4.0. TPL is really neat and goes a long...

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Learning Log Parser Studio in two parts... (From Install to Library Ninja)

Kary Wall - Getting Started with Log Parser Studio - Part 1 & Getting Started with Log Parser Studio - Part 2 Hopefully, if you are reading this you already know what Log Parser 2.2 is and that Log Parser Studio is a graphical interface for Log Parser. Additionally, Log Parser Studio (which I will refer to from here forward simply as LPS) contains a library of pre-built queries and features that increases the usefulness and speed of using...

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"The Essential Binary Repository Management Cheat Sheet" (Think "You've got bin's in my source VCS... No, you've got source in my bin VCS")

DZone - Binary Repository Management The Essential Binary Repository Management Cheat Sheet Software development produces both source code and binary artifacts, and both kinds of artifact need to be handled differently. This Refcard assumes basic familiarity with source repository management, and is intended to help you design and configure a binary repository, optimize it for various workflows, and fit it smoothly into your software development...

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Bye bye Kona code name... Hello "Prism for Windows Runtime"

Brian Noyes Blog - Kona is Dead, Long Live Prism! If you have read my blog, seen me speak at conferences or user groups, or read some of my articles lately you might know I have been working with the Microsoft patterns & practices team on guidance for Windows Store Business apps. This guidance has been code named “Kona” up until recently, and I’ve posted and written articles on that in various places. As the team was getting the guidance...

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14 Minute cartooned video guide to to building your own Azure IaaS Pop-up Lab

Plankytronixx - Cartoon and Demo: Build the World’s Simplest Pop-Up Lab in Windows Azure Using IaaS Features I thought this would be interesting since WIndows Azure VMs and Virtual Networks were released as a Generally Available (GA) service With the diagrams live-drawn in “cartoony” format, this video shows how to build a really simple lab consisting of 2 IIS web servers connected to a load balancer with traffic balanced over port 80. ...

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Just about everything you ever wanted to know about SQL Server Date and Time Data Types...

CodeProject - Date and Time Data Types and Functions - SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012) Introduction It would be better, if we know the different functions available with SQL Server for date and time. So that we can make use of functions properly in different scenarios. In this article we will go through all the available date and time data types and functions with sample codes. This article will list down the available date and...

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TFS/Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1 is available (think "Batch of Bug Fixes" release)

Microsoft Downloads - Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1 This is a community technology preview (CTP) for Visual Studio 2012 Update 3. Version:2012 Date published:4/15/2013 Language: English VS2012.3 CTP TFS Express ENU.iso, 483.0 MB VS2012.3 CTP TFS Server ENU.iso, 1.1 GB VS2012.3 CTP.exe, 1.3 MB Visual Studio 2012 Update is providing continuous value to customers, adding new capabilities year-round to features in the...

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