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Creating a Great Mashup: Part 2

This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps.  Earthquake Explorer was based...

0 replies - 104 views - 06/18/13 by Brian Hitney in Articles

Undo Checkout for Unchanged Items in TFS

The pending changes list of TFS is a lie. It shows all files checked out for edit, not those with actual changes. A TFS power tools command can save the...

0 replies - 728 views - 06/17/13 by Anders Abel in Articles

Important WCF Performance Issue + Workaround

I have written about Wcf performance issues before, but this one seems to be the biggest. Valery had published in the Wcf forum an interesting performance...

0 replies - 599 views - 06/11/13 by Yaron Naveh in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (June 11)

“Please stop serving .git to the outside world.” One developer finds too many sites -- including some from the FCC, *chan boards, and a cloud security...

0 replies - 4080 views - 06/11/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

gSoap and WCF Routing Services are Not Friends

One of the common patterns with web services is the router service. It can hide routing logic from the client or help with load balancing. Wcf 4 ships with...

0 replies - 1998 views - 06/10/13 by Yaron Naveh in Articles

Build Your Own Bing Maps API Mash-Up: Architecture

In my last post, I mentioned the “starter-kit” applications my colleagues and I have built around the many open APIs available across the web. My...

0 replies - 517 views - 06/09/13 by Jim O' Neil in Articles

WCF with 256 bit SSL

Recently I had to call a Java web service from Wcf. The service was secured with a 256-bit ssl certificate. Every request I made was rejected with a 401...

0 replies - 1213 views - 06/07/13 by Yaron Naveh in Articles

Developing on the Cloud: Concerns and Solutions

Cloud computing is all about taking application resources, moving them from dedicated environments to shared environments, and expecting to deliver value...

0 replies - 3096 views - 06/07/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

A New SQLite Wrapper for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 – The Basics

One of the topics that gathered more attention on my blog is SQLite: developing an application without the need to store, somehow, the data locally is almost...

0 replies - 1134 views - 06/04/13 by Matteo Pagani in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (June 4)

“I Don’t Want to be a Douchebag,” says Rich, Still-Working Ex-FacebookerAnd he has kids.  That’s another reason why this guy, with over $65...

0 replies - 4650 views - 06/04/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

New Relic at TechEd North America 2013

This post come from Kirby Frugia at the New Relic Blog. Laissez les bons temps rouler! I’m Kirby Frugia and I’m excited to represent the New Relic...

0 replies - 603 views - 06/03/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 29)

Building Android Apps w/ Gradle and TravisCIAutomate your Android app builds with these tools. 12 Productivity Tips from a Startup DadThis startup owner...

0 replies - 2997 views - 05/29/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

Windows Store app Development snack: XAMLSPY

For more posts in this series, see the series index. The above video shows the great XAMLSPY tool which is a massively helpful tool when working with any XAML...

0 replies - 580 views - 05/28/13 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Web API - Custom header value provider

There are cases when you have to send a complex object to server side using GET requests. In order to achieve that you would use the URI binding by decorating...

0 replies - 1696 views - 05/24/13 by Mihai Huluta in Articles

Using MongoDB via .NET

Objective : In this post i will explain how can we interact with data residing in MongoDB using .Net. Ingredients : Mongodb-win32-i386-2.2.3 ,...

0 replies - 1792 views - 05/24/13 by Sarfraz Khan in Articles