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Using .Net Settings? Settings "Go Away"? Here's Why

John's Workshop - Automatically upgrading user settings after an application version changeSuppose you’re building a .NET desktop or console...

0 replies - 125 views - 06/17/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Mash Some Web API's With Your Brain and Windows 8

Devhammer's Den - Build Apps with APIs - Register Today for Upcoming Webcasts!Join Microsoft Technical Evangelists for upcoming app mashup webcasts...

0 replies - 534 views - 06/16/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Win8Templates now at 71 - 71 Windows 8 App Design Reference Templates

CodePlex  - win8templatesHere's the current list...Windows 8 App Design Reference Template: Baby Journal Windows 8 App Design Reference...

1 replies - 1045 views - 06/16/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Key Stages of a Successful Office or Windows Migration

Now that the end of support for Windows XP and Office 2003 is approaching (April 2014), companies should accelerate their plans to migrate to a new version of...

1 replies - 980 views - 06/16/13 by Chip Bates in Articles

WPF TextBlock vs Label, what's the diff?

2,000 Things You Should Know About WPF - #842 – The Differences Between Label and TextBlockYou can use...

1 replies - 900 views - 06/16/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles

WintellectNOW FTW - Wintellect Providing On-Demand learning for Everyone

Wintellect - Introducing WintellectNOWLast week, we introduced WintellectNOW, a new on-demand learning service designed to make the same...

0 replies - 1044 views - 06/12/13 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Getting a Game Rating Certificate for Windows Store and Windows Phone

If you've written a game for the Windows Store or for Windows Phone, you may have noticed that some markets require the use of game rating certificates....

0 replies - 908 views - 06/12/13 by G. Andrew Duthie in Articles

Simple Validation with MVVM for Windows Store Apps

Developers who are writing Windows Store apps using C# and XAML might find some of the support for Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) lacking. Both WPF and...

0 replies - 950 views - 06/12/13 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

SSH.NET

I’ve recently had the need to automate configuration of Nginx on an Ubuntu server. Of course, in UNIX land we like to...

0 replies - 180 views - 06/08/13 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

MonoGame: Building Portable Solutions

In one of my previous articles I talked about how MonoGame could be used with portable libraries, this was off the back of some work I was...

0 replies - 1188 views - 06/06/13 by Simon Jackson in Articles

Windows Azure Mobile Services "Rent a Home" Sample, Part 4: Push Notifications

In the previous posts we explored data and authentication on the backend and client-side. This post explains how the Rent a Home application uses push...

0 replies - 1153 views - 06/04/13 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles

After Completing 40 Online Training Courses for Pluralsight, What Have I Learned?

Wow, I can’t believe I have actually reached the milestone of authoring 40 courses for Pluralsight.My first Pluralsight course, Introduction to...

0 replies - 1418 views - 06/03/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Using Visual Studio Database Post-Deployment Scripts in Practice

Visual Studio database projects support database post-deployment scripts you can use to make additional modifications to database or to insert some test...

0 replies - 1054 views - 06/03/13 by Gunnar Peipman in Articles

Introducing My Cloud Deployment Service, OnCheckin.com

Constantly over the past few years I’ve thanked my lucky stars that I’ve had continuous integration and deployment setup for the web sites I’ve been...

0 replies - 1337 views - 06/01/13 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Sending Large Files Through Sockets on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8

Using sockets to send files is not that uncommon. As a matter of fact, if you ask any of the Windows Phone developers, this would probably be their first...

0 replies - 1138 views - 05/31/13 by Den Delimarsky in Articles