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Turn your tests into stress tests easily
It’s great to be able to write tests and execute them while developing a project. While I’m developing, I can hit a button and run the dozens of tests to see if I’ve broken anything. As code gets...
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What to do when the IDE Navigator gets stuck – the workaround
If you ever noticed the IDE Navigator get stuck, we now have a workaround. Thanks to Eric Carr for emailing me last week about my long forgotten blog post that never contained the answer and most...
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El formato de fecha de acuerdo al RFC1123 - C# - Azure
Cuando trabajamos en escenarios de software con un despliegue en múltiples culturas, temas como el manejo de las fechas se vuelve engorroso y delicado, por lo cual es conveniente tener un buen soporte...
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FTP Clients - Part 11: Beyond Compare 3
For this installment in my series about FTP clients, I want to take a look at Beyond Compare 3 from Scooter Software. At its heart, Beyond Compare is a file/folder comparison tool, so it might seem an...
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Using the BootstrapContext property in .NET 4.5
Few minutes ago, while exchanging mails with some colleagues, I suddenly realized that although we gave various heads-ups about the change from BootstrapToken to BootstrapContext when moving from WIF...
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Collaboration cache—colocation
Software geeks know that registers fetch data roughly 10 times faster than the L2 cache, 100 times faster than main memory, and more than a million times faster than hard drives. Smart software...
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The power of T-SQL
Samuel Lester, a senior tester in the SQL Server team is writting a blog series about how to solve common T-SQL problems in different ways. To that end, each entry in the series proposes a problem and...
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El poder de T-SQL (es-ES)
SamuelLester, un senior tester en elequipo deSQL Server estáescribiendounaserie de blogsacerca de cómosolucionar problemas comunesde T-SQL de diferentes maneras. Para tal efecto, cada entradaen la...
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Les Big Data aux Journées SQL Server 2012
Les Journées SQL Server 2012 approchent et auront lieu dans un peu plus d’une semaine au Centre de conference de Microsoft France.Ces journées sont l’occasion de se former et de s’informer sur SQL...
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Partners in Learning–5 more years!
Partners in Learning has been working with teachers and schools in the UK for 10 years, working with thousands of teachers during that time. The UK team are here in Prague at the 2012 Microsoft...
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How to find test points assigned to a particular person
Here is a code snippet which you can use to find test points assigned to a particular person. # Load Client Assembly [Reflection.Assembly]::Load(“Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, Version=11.0.0.0,...
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The Four Colors of Microsoft, revisited
Previously I explored if we could substantiate the rumor that the new Microsoft logo colors each represented a distinct product or business group within MicrosoftThe Four Colors of the New Microsoft...
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Out in NYC last night. Was playing with a Lumia 920. Guy comes up to me with...
Out in NYC last night. Was playing with a Lumia 920. Guy comes up to me with his 920, very excited say"Best phone I ever had. Us Windows Phone folks need to stick together." Maybe, just maybe people...
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Getting started with the CRM 2011 Windows Store app sample
I’ve blogged about a hackish, but workable approach to building an Windows Store app here and here. However, as I disclaimed in the posts, if you like it use it. If not wait until there’s an official...
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Access Control & Core Directory Available at No Charge
Folks, this is big. Check out the announcement that went out yesterday on the Windows Azure blog.In fact, I am going to quote it here in its entirety! Here goes:Identity Management and Access Control...
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Small Basic Interview - Philip Conrod (Visual Basic, Assembler, Pascal,...
Today I am interviewing Philip Conrod. Philip has co-authored, edited and published several Microsoft Small Basic programming books and tutorials with his friend and colleague, Lou Tylee. Some of...
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How to use a SQL Server database with your PHP web site
Today's featured TechNet Wiki article can be found here. It was originally authored by Larry Franks.===============Intended audience: Web developers who are not familiar with SQL Server, yet want to...
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20,000 apps in the store and growing.
20,000 apps in the store and growing. CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft's Windows App Store Is Already Smoking Apple's Mac App Store www.businessinsider.com One of the many big changes for Microsoft's......
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The UK strike GOLD at the Microsoft Olympics for Teaching and Learning!
It is with great honour and pleasure to announce that Katie Boothman and Nicki Maddams have each won awards at the Worldwide Global Forum, Prague 2012. There were 18 educator awards up for grabs and...
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[Sample of Dec 1st] Implement Search Engine in ASP.NET
Sample Download: CS Version: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSASPNETSearchEngine-52f5392cVB Version: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VBASPNETSearchEngine-30f7b126This sample shows how to implement a...
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