Essential Tools to find bugs... before they get to production

Developers now have access to free and inexpensive developer tools that can help find and fix many common application problems. These new APM tools are now an essential part of every developer’s tool set. Show me the tools!

Three Untold Lessons from Hosting WordPress in Microsoft Azure

Scott Ge shared his experience and learnings from hosting a WordPress personal website on Microsoft Azure. http://scottge.net/2015/07/... Lesson 1: The cost ...

Running Your First Code Camp

Every now and then I get people asking me about how to run a conference. One thing I encourage is that people start small and build from there. I ran the Winnipeg Code Camp for a number of years before ...

Free Newsletter Email Template for Reporting Project Status

Please feel free to Download this free email template ...

Free Microsoft Azure account for Students

Good news for global students! If you are a student (current active student having a .edu email account), you can get a FREE Azure cloud computing account from Microsoft today! The free account includes: ...

Server 2016 – How to add or remove windows features (including GUI)

If you try to install Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2, you'll realize that Server Core is the default and recommended choice. Of course you can choose a server with GUI, but in many situation someone ...

A Detailed Walkthrough of ASP.net MVC Request Life Cycle

MVC Request Life Cycle Life cycle of MVC request is a series of steps involved in processing client request. Regardless of technology and platforms almost all the web frameworks have one or other type ...

Connect to Salesforce Data as a Linked Server

Use the TDS Remoting feature of the ODBC Driver to set up a linked server for Salesforce data.You can use the TDS Remoting feature to set up a linked server for Salesforce data. After you have started ...

What’s New in C# 6.0: Auto-Property Initializers

Today, Somasegar announced that Visual Studio 2015 will be released on July 20th, 2015. This release will also include C# 6.0. This is the first in a series of posts on the new features of C# 6.0 and I’ll ...

What's Wrong with GWB

I started to use Geekwithblogs (a.k.a. GWB) since 2010, based on one of my friend's recommendation. I've to say during the past 5+ years I was really enjoying blogging and had published 107 posts with ...

Hands-on Labs of Azure Machine Learning

Deploying a Model with Azure Machine Learning This lab explores unsupervised learning in Azure Machine Learning and how to deploy a predictive model as a web service. The lab will walk through copying ...

How to programmatically upload a new Azure Management Certificate

If you want to use the Azure Resource Management APIs, Service Management APIs or Management Libraries, you'll need a management certificate which authenticates your process with the Azure subscription ...

Set the default value to taxonomy site column or In the Library Field in the package

Set default value to taxonomy fieldhttps://social.msdn.mi... ...

Creating Custom List Definitions with Content Approval enabled and Version Enabled

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SSD upgrade in a MacBook Pro

I recently upgraded my wife’s MacBook Pro by replacing the original hard drive with an SSD. The performance improvements were just as good as when I did this same upgrade for Lenovo laptop in the family ...

Customize Authentication Header in SwaggerUI using Swashbuckle

Swagger has quickly established itself as an important tool for building Web API’s for any platform. Swagger enables interactive documentation and client SDK generation/discoverability. One of the most ...

Thank you Chrome for the Task Manager

I’ve been trying to see if I have memory leaks in my web application. Windows task explorer is helpful, but if you’re like me and have a lot of chrome extensions running, it is difficult to find the right ...

How to Access Data from a SharePoint List Based on a Custom View

The CData ADO.NET Providers for SharePoint you to integrate live SharePoint data with other applications. For example, Visual Studio provides built-in support for ADO.NET data sources. This article shows ...

Connect to Nonstandard OData Services

The CData ADO.NET Provider for OData enables you to expose Web services as a fully managed ADO.NET data source. It allows you to access almost any OData service from native ADO.NET tools. You can follow ...

Get a list of all columns that participate in Foreign Key relationships

The following query returns all the column information for columns in the specified table that participate in a FK relationship. You can modify the query to return PK information by changing the constriant_type ...

How-Old.net and TwinsOrNot.net Implementation Details

Have you ever wondered how the well-known http://how-old.net and http://twinsornot.net were implemented? Check out the answer here: TwinsOrNot.net Source Code Download ...

Using Git for versioning of Word (doc/docx) documents

In too many projects I saw a chaos to store different versions of documents (in case these documents are edited over the time and older versions were kept for later analysis). Each colleague has an own ...

Error “Couldn’t install programs” during installing Windows Live Writer

By downloading the latest version of WLW you normally get the online installer. It is a small program wlsetup-web.exe which downloads during setup the necessary components. Unfortunately this setup raised ...

NDC 2015 Videos

The Norwegian Developer Conference 2015 videos have been uploaded in the last few days. I didn’t get to go, but they always have a lot of great speakers and .Net Rocks guys are always pitching it. I’m ...

FTP Adapter - No such host is known Please check the configuration and The URI scheme is not valid

Earlier today I hit the following errors (found in the event log) when trying out a newly deployed FTP send port: The adapter failed to transmit message going to send port "DCSendLimaPurchaseOrder_FTP" ...

Compare Email Marketing and Social Media Marketing

A report entitled ‘The Collaborative Future’ by ExactTarget and CoTweet discovers many interesting strengths and weakness in email marketing and social media marketing: http://scottge.net/2015/06/... ...

Custom News RSS Feeds from Bing and Google News

You can find bing and google news RSS feed from here and learn how to customize it: http://scottge.net/2015/06/... ...

Announcing DAX Studio 2.2.0

Today we released DAX Studio 2.2 which includes a number of big enhancements. You can download the new release from http://daxstudio.codeplex.c... Below is an outline of the new functionality you ...

How to collect troubleshooting log in Windows Phone

My Windows Phone (Lumia Icon) has recently run into some trouble when I upgrade it from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows Phone 10 Preview. It constantly reports the error “0x80070002” and fails the upgrade. ...

Configure an HDInsight HBase cluster that doesn't keep going BANG! with 502s

This post has moved! The updated version is on the new blog here: Configure an HDInsight HBase cluster that doesn't keep going BANG! with 502s ...

If IIS Express stops working….

close Visual Studio delete the c:\users\{your user}\My Documents\IISExpress restart Visual Studio and run your web application The IISExpress directory will be re-created and IIS Express should work again ...

CSS3 Fade out and Fade in with CSS3 Animations

I needed to fade out an image, then fade in the new image. For this post, I’m not concerned with the coordination with the loading delay of the new image. I will show how fade out and in a single image. ...

Real World Big Data in Azure

My latest Pluralsight course is out now, it's about building Big Data solutions using .NET technologies: Real World Big Data in Azure The typical Big Data stack (think Kafka, Cassandra, Kibana and the ...

Review – Guidebook, Mobile App for Conferences/Events

For Prairie Dev Con Regina I decided to use Guidebook – a service that provides a mobile application for conferences and events along with online administration/content-mana... tools. If you’re running ...

MVP Virtual Conference Videos

A few weeks ago I was one of the presenters for the Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference. All of the videos for the conference have recently been published to Channel 9. There were many great talks at this ...

Visual Studio makes 1 feature per list

I'm running into an odd problem with Visual Studio 2013 (Update 3) and SharePoint 2013. I created a Sandboxed solution for SharePoint 2013. I then right-clicked on the solution 7 times and selected to ...

Japan launches the first emotional robot

His (or her) name is ‘Pepper’. Say hello to the first emotional robot in the history! It sells for 198,000 JPY (about 1,600 USD) http://scottge.net/2015/06/... ...

Laurie Frick: Turning Personal Big Data into Art

Today I attended a presentation by Laurie Frick, a data artist exploring patterns of self-tracking sensors, surveillance, etc. Using her background in high-technology she offers an alternative view of ...

SpinWait Is Dangerous

Some bugs are easy some are hard. If you are dealing with a massive multithreaded distributed application consisting of many different processes talking to each other performance issues are pretty much ...

Free PowerPoint Template (Modern Grey) for Download

Here is a free PowerPoint template for download Inverted color: ...

C# Tutorial - Image Editing: Saving, Cropping, and Resizing

Hi All, this is the best for handling photos in your visual studio c# code. http://tech.pro/tutorial/620/csharp-tutorial-image-editing-saving-cropping-and-resizing Thanks

creating taxonomy and folksonomy in the visual studio package for lists or libraries

Hi All,I have successfully completed the creating taxonomy and folksonomy in the visual studio package for lists or libraries using the below links ..https://cann0nf0dder.word... ...

Connect SharePoint to SQL Server through SSIS

Using SQL Server as a backup for critical business data provides an essential safety net against loss. In addition, backing up data to SQL Server enables business users to more easily connect that data ...

Use Crystal Reports to create reports with Salesforce data

Crystal Reports provides built-in support for the JDBC standard. The CData JDBC Driver for Salesforce enables you to use the Report Wizard and other tools to access Salesforce data in Crystal Reports. ...

Design a Custom SAP Function Module to Circumvent RFC_READ_TABLE Limitations

While the SAP SDK provides the RFC_READ_TABLE for accessing data from SAP tables, using it to select data is limited to 512 bytes at a time so you may not be able to retrieve all columns. You can resolve ...

The most important factor to great software…

… is a great team. I guess everybody knows this. After all: creating software is a craft and you need good people to do that. If you ever get the chance, I suggest you visit some companies that create ...

Face Detection and Recognition APIs in the Market

The following blog post lists two popular face detection and recognition APIs in the market, with live demos and detailed introductions. Best Face Detection and Recognition APIs in the Market http://scottge.net/2015/06/... ...

Thoughts on Building, Making, Being Positive, Fearing Failure, and Smoking Meat

I was recently gifted a smoker from my awesome Prairie Dev Con speakers – an electric Bradley 4 rack smoker! Upon reading the instructions, I realized that due to the “electronic” nature of the device, ...

Angular JS - adding Options dynamically to Select drop down box

You can create options elements of <select> dynamically using Angular.An example of it with various options like grouping options or disabling few are also available.<html> <head> <script ...

Building & Validating Data Entry Forms in AngularJS – Cape Fear .NET User Group

I took the two-ish hour drive down I-40 to Wilmington, NC recently and presented this session to enthusiastic group at the May Cape Fear .NET User Group monthly meeting. I had a wonderful time and I think ...

AngularJS - Basics

I have recently been learning AngularJS by myself through online documentation. No Wonder it is so popular, its just WOW. It's sop much easier to work and not to worry about two-way binding. Angualr JS ...