Fixing TFS 2012 Power Tools PowerShell CmdLets in PowerShell x64
The TFS 2012 Power Tool installation only installs the TFS PowerShell Snap-In for the 32-bit flavor of PowerShell on an x64 machine. With nearly all developers running x64 machines, we […]
Building Backbone Applications with TypeScript
Hot off the press, TypeScript was announced earlier this week and has resulted in an explosion of commentary over Twitter and various blogs. The language claims to be tailored for […]
Merging Symbol Servers
Conservation is always good so I’m going to recycle some keystrokes. Today I got an email where a company had two symbol servers set up. One was no longer used […]
Entity Framework: Expressing the Missing LINQ
I have worked on quite a few projects that use the Entity Framework. It is a powerful ORM and does quite a lot out of the box. I’ve worked with […]
Process Lifetime Management (PLM) and Managing State in Windows 8 Metro C# Applications
In the traditional Windows environment, the user manages the lifetime of their applications. The user launches the application and it continues to run until the user decides to close it. […]
Boston Azure Bootcamp Presentation Materials
I had a tremendous time this weekend presenting alongside Bill Wilder, Michael Collier, John Zablocki, and Jim O’Neil at the Boston Azure Bootcamp event in Cambridge, MA. The topic once […]
Testing SmtpClient using Microsoft Fakes
A new feature of Visual Studio 2012 is the Microsoft Fakes functionality (well, not a new feature, per se, just a repackaging of the Moles Isolation Framework published by Microsoft […]
How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile
I’ve been working on Chapter 7 of my upcoming book, Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML. This chapter focuses on tiles and toast notifications. In the Windows […]
The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World
In my last blog post, I covered how to wrap your arms around the Task class and its relationship to the new async and await keywords. I mentioned that the […]