Q & A with Marc Farley, author of Rethinking Enterprise Storage free ebook
As you might have seen, Microsoft Press published a new free ebook this week: Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model. Below is a quick Q & A with the author about the book. Enjoy.Q:...
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[Troubleshooting] BHOLD Core installation: Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Custom action CA_CoreProductGetWebsiteExists script error -2147217394, :...
View ArticleVS 2012.4 (Update 4) will exist!
Sometime this spring, though for the life of me I can’t find it, I wrote a blog post where I said I thought Update 3 (VS/TFS 2012.3) would be the last update in the VS/TFS 2012 update line. I often...
View ArticleA New Chapter at Microsoft
I have a bit of personal news to share. I have a new job, which I’ve already begun! After about 6.5 years as a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, starting this month I’ve taken on a new role. Still...
View ArticleTake the 2013 exams in advance, before the 2010 will retire!
Partners – I have just passed both new exams for Project – as you heard me saying – if a marketing person like me can do it, there should be no single reason for anyone of you in the field not to pass...
View ArticleImagine Cup: Three Gold Medals, What a Night!
Editor’s note: The following post was written by Windows Azure MVP Rainer StropekWhat a night! Of course I was hoping that the teams I had the privilege to accompany at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup here in...
View ArticleSAP and Microsoft BI Interop White Paper (Plus Some Color Commentary)
Last week (week of July 22 2013), Microsoft held its TechReady conference for internal employees. I didn't get to go this time around, but I was able to audit the classes remotely (a very cool...
View ArticleTop 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 30th
Beth Massi: Adding Stored Procs to your LightSwitch Intrinsic DatabaseVideo Replay from Build 2013: .NET Today and Tomorrow with Habib HeydarianSudhanshu Kulkarni: Speed up LightSwitch Development with...
View ArticleAdding mount points to a WSFC SQL Cluster ( FCI ) Instance
In this blog post I will look at how you can add a mount point to a Windows Server Failover Cluster and use that mount point for SQL Server 2005 and later installations. I already have the SQL FCI...
View ArticleNew Features in for VS 2013 RTM
Introduction:Hi, I’m Brandon Jacobs, an intern on the Visual C++ Libraries team. For part of my internship, I was tasked with adding new features to Stephan T. Lavavej’s <collection.h>. It was...
View ArticleOOPS, I got an error. Ensuring The Correct Bitness Provider is Installed
The field of Business Intelligence involves consolidating and aggregating data from a number of different and often highly disparate data sources. The cool part is that working in the field of BI means...
View ArticlePinging a List of Machines in PowerShell
I know what you are thinking, another ping script? Yes, there are thousands of ping tools and scripts out there and every IT administrator has a couple handy that they use on a regular basis. I ended...
View ArticleOh what do I do with my Windows 8 apps in Windows 8.1 and VS 2013?
Oh-oh. If you are an advanced developer and get to try the newest and greatest, than make sure you go to this site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn263114.aspx And follow the...
View ArticleWriting a simple implementation of dependency injection in MVC 4 Web API with...
ASP.NET Web API is a new feature release with the .NET Framework 4.5. It allows a single Web service to communicate with multiple clients in various formats such as XML, JSON and OData. Although many...
View ArticleBringing my Meetup APIMASH Starter Kit to Windows Phone
Not too long ago, as part of my team's effort (which we call APIMASH ) to create a set of starter kits to demonstrate how to use a variety of publicly-available APIs in Windows Store apps, I created an...
View Articleクールな Windows 8.1 New API #10:PDF、Text-to-Speech、Text
皆様、こんにちは!このシリーズ 10 回目、今回は、# 10 PDF、Text-to-Speech、Textです。Windows 8.1 Preview 製品ガイド (開発者向け)こちらのガイドに沿って、新しいWindows 8.1 新しいAPIを一つずつご紹介していくシリーズ、今回は、#10 として、 PDF、Text-to-Speech、Text...
View ArticleNajava Mobility Day 2013 konferencije
Kraj septembra rezervisan je za tradicionalnu Mobility Day konferenciju u Zagrebu, najveću konferenciju posvećenu mobilnim tehnologijama u regiji, koja se ove godine održava 26. septembra u zagrebačkom...
View ArticlePost invitado: "Refactoring" por Quique Martínez
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View ArticleBabylon.js: Creating a convincing world for your game with custom shaders,...
After talking about multi-materials in the previous post, I would like to share with you a more advanced sample. This sample will allow me to introduce you some really powerful features of...
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