Friday Five–July 27, 2012
1. Configuring Visual Studio 2012 RC for SharePoint 2013 Preview Development By SharePoint MVP Doug Ware – @DougWare 2. Top 6 New Features for Designers in SharePoint 2013 By SharePoint MVP Randy...
View ArticleAn in-depth look at Ghost Records in SQL Server
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View ArticleWeb Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Candidate Recommendations
We’re pleased to share that three new W3C Web Performance Working Group specifications moved to W3C Candidate Recommendations. Accurately measuring the performance characteristics of Web applications...
View ArticleBuilding apps for SharePoint and Office 365
This article is brought to you by Howard Crow, Principal Group Program Manager for SharePoint Developer Experience team. Thanks for reading us ! My name is Howard Crow, and I have been working on...
View ArticleGoodbye Microsoft, Hello Caradigm
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein. I am moving on. I am leaving Microsoft and joining Caradigm, a Microsoft/GE joint venture, as security...
View ArticleFIM XPath using .Net client: Escape single quote
Technorati Tags: FIM,Xpath,.NetHi There, I am Syam Pinnaka, Dev in IAM services team at Microsoft.Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) supports querying its data using XPath. XPath queries can be...
View ArticleJanison–the people behind online ESSA
I've written a few times about one of our partners, Janison, who worked with the New South Wales Department of Education to produce the ESSA online science test for all students across their...
View ArticleSecrets to great technical presentations
From time to time I get asked how someone might deliver a session successfully for 1 hour.I get the opportunity to see many, many presentations. I attend and host many user groups.I consider...
View ArticleAuthor news: A small taste of Programming Windows, Sixth Edition
I’m working on Chapter 13, “Touch, Etc.,” for the Release Preview ebook of Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows, Sixth Edition, which we’ll release in the next two weeks. (Consider buying now before...
View ArticleGo for the Gold!
The 2012 Summer Olympics have officially started. Many of the world’s finest athletes have converged on London, England! Several of you also have well-conditioned professionals in your organizations....
View ArticleBeing a Social Do-Gooder Means You Still Have to Run a Business -- How...
How does Desiree Vargas Wrigley, founder of GiveForward, raise capital? It must be particularly different for social good startups, since they traditionally work in a low scale market, or so people...
View ArticleBlocage en vue des clés RSA de moins de 1024 Bits
Le 14 août prochain, soit le deuxième mardi du mois, Microsoft publiera un correctif critique qui aura pour effet de bloquer l’utilisation de clés RSA de moins de 1024 bits. Cette mesure est la...
View ArticleadCenter Certification - Microsoft adCenter Budget and Billing
This blog covers the chapter "Microsoft adCenter Budget and Billing" The topics included in this post are: adCenter Budgeting adCenter Bidding adCenter Billing Read more about it at...
View Article[Sample of July 28th] Demo the use of SPCalendarView in SharePoint
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View ArticleAre your slicers disappearing in PowerPivot 2012? Always click on a...
Overview Over the past couple of months I have occasionally been losing my PowerPivot Slicers in Excel when using the PowerPivot 2012 add-in. I have now managed to put together a repro for the issue...
View ArticleRegular expressions interview questions with detailed answers
I recently started a new programming interview question and answer series on regular expressions. The first installment at Regular expressions interview questions–Part 1 talks about regular expression...
View ArticleLatest Windows Phone Update
Hi Windows Phone users, Recently I got the latest Windows phone update for my HTC Phone (OS Version 7.10.8112.7)… This software update includes the following: So, connect your phone via Zune to update...
View ArticlePort your UNIX code to Visual Studio 12
All right, you just graduated from college, never worked with Visual Studio and you got a lot of code built on UNIX. You employer is purely Visual Studio and Windows, they don’t want to support a...
View ArticleRegular expressions interview questions part 2
Continuing on the programming interview series on regular expressions, here is the next installment at http://www.programminginterviews.info/2012/07/regular-expressions-interview_27.html . Regular...
View ArticleLaunch Your Windows App in 30 Days
If you’ve got an idea and wanted to get started with creating your app quickly, check out Microsoft’s Generation App program. Whether creating a Windows 8 app, or a Windows Phone app, you can sign up...
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