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30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker - Scott Hanselman

published 1105 days, 3 hours, 46 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1107 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes ago

As a Remote Worker I'm always looking for tips and tricks and checklists to make my, ahem, remote working life easier. I've made a cheap Wide Angle Lens so I could better see my co-workers, created a robot cart so they won't forget me, tested 4G cards so I can be online anywhere, switched to Hi-Def Video Cameras for web chat, written articles on how to Collaborate with Remote Employees with Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Phil Haack and I made the HanselPortal, for virtual camaraderie.Yesterday Jonatha... (more)

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tags: Remote worker, Tips & Tricks

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The Secret of Results - J.D. Meier

published 1107 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1108 days, 4 hours, 40 minutes ago

You can master your time management only to spend your time on the wrong things. You can master task management and miss windows of opportunity. What are the real secrets to great results? I’ve found that there are 3 keys to effective results:TimeEnergyTechniqueAs I explain this, it should become obvious why.Time When you don’t put in your time, you don’t get the results. It’s that ... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Energy, techniques, time

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Upgrading WPF Themes to WPF 4 - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

published 1107 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes ago posted by

http://rudigrobler.myopenid.com/ 1108 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes ago

Upgraded the WPF Themes project to WPF 4 (more)

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tags: WPFThemes, WPF

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Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/10/2010 - Pete Brown

published 1110 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1111 days, 2 hours, 36 minutes ago

This is Windows Client Developer roundup #23.The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA,Windows Forms, Silverlight, Windows Phone and Visual Studio. If you have something interesting you've done or have run across, please send me the URL an... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: 10rem.net

tags: xna.NET, Silverlight, Windows 7, WPF, Visual Studio

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Effect compilation and Content PipeliXNA Game Studio 4.0ne automation in - Shawn Hargreves

published 1110 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1111 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes ago

Previous XNA versions included an Effect.CompileEffectFromSource method. We do not support runtime shader compilation on Xbox, so this was only available in the Windows framework, which could compile shaders targeting either Windows or Xbox. This factoring was problematic because:The API looked like part of the runtime framework, but was not available on all platforms.Our Windows redistributable had to include the Xbox sha... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: API, XML, UI, XBox

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Visual Studio 2010 - Help Viewer Power Tool BETA - Help Index and Standalone Help - Scott Hanselman

published 1115 days, 6 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1116 days, 6 hours, 56 minutes ago

The help system changed in Visual Studio 2010. I totally had a "Who Moved My Cheese" moment, as did many folks. Where's my "as I type" Help Index?Where's my separate Help Viewer? I don't want help in my browsers, it clutters my tabs.If you don't install the Help Documentation at the end of the Visual Studio 2010 setup, you help will be online and shown in your default browser. Personally, I like the idea of an external help viewer. I just saw on the Help Team's blog that they released the Help Viewer P... (more)

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tags: MSDN, VS 2010

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Innovation Showcase : Second IE9 Platform Preview Now Available

published 1115 days, 6 hours, 48 minutes ago posted by

jbarnes 1116 days, 2 hours ago

05 May 2010 Second IE9 Platform Preview Now Available Today, Microsoft announced the release of the second IE9 Preview. This release builds on the first Platform Preview from MIX10 and now contains:More improvements to IE9’s performance and support for standards.Additional tests submitted to the working groups at the W3C.New developer samples the IE9 Test Drive site.10-12 new samples across performance, graphics and HTML5. The goal of IE9 is to provide professional-grade, modern HTML5 support on top... (more)

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VB.Net Code to get Graphics Card Name [ PCI Graphics Card ]

published 1122 days, 6 hours, 7 minutes ago posted by

pons_saravanan 1123 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes ago

Detect Graphics Card Name Is it possible to detect the graphics card name form .Net code? Yes it is possible using WMI. But you need to reference the System.Management and import it. Using WMI to get the Graphics Card Name WMI can be used to query a ... (more)

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Innovation Showcase : New IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab

published 1123 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by

jbarnes 1124 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes ago

27 April 2010 New IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab Did you know that IE9 now includes a nice set of built-in Networking Tools? The new IE9 developer tools include some new capabilities and improvements over the great tools in IE8:A new tab for inspecting network traffic. Improved performance working with large JavaScript files: think 70k+ lines of code (even if it’s all on one line!) Improved CSS view that lets you work with complex CSS. For example, better consistency when working with @ media rules.... (more)

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Innovation Showcase : PowerPivot is Released!

published 1123 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by

jbarnes 1124 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes ago

26 April 2010 PowerPivot is Released! PowerPivot gives users the power to: Create compelling self-service BI solutions…Facilitate sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment..Enables IT organizations to increase operational efficiencies through Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2-based management tools… PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and ... (more)

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Building OpenPOS: Part 7 – NoSQL, MSSQL, SQL CE? - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

published 1124 days, 9 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by

http://rudigrobler.myopenid.com/ 1125 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes ago

OpenPOS supports multiple data storage mechanisms including SQL CE, MSSQL and MongoDB (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.rudigrobler.net

tags: WPF, Prism, NoSQL

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Finding Your Strengths - J.D. Meier

published 1125 days, 9 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1126 days, 8 hours, 2 minutes ago

At Microsoft, I learned to keep my energy strong while making things happen. The best ways I’ve found to do that are follow my growth and follow my passion. Another way, that’s very important, is to play to my strengths. Spending time in my strengths is the key to hitting the high notes and getting exponential results. It keeps me strong, my energy high, and produces more impactful results in less amount of time.Whenever I find myself drained, all I need to do is take a look... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | 1 comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Getting Results, Effectiveness

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Sharing the goodness that is VB : Add Spark to Your OData Consuming Data Services in Excel 2010 Part 2 - Beth Massi

published 1128 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1129 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes ago

Last post I talked about how you can create your own WCF data services (OData) and use PowerPivot to do some powerful analysis inside Excel 2010 as well as how to use the new sparklines feature. If you missed it:Add Spark to Your OData: Consuming Data Services in Excel 2010 Part 1In this post I want to show how you can create your own Excel client to consume and analyze data via an OData service exp... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 3 | 1 comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: ADO.NET Data Services, Visual Basic, article, VS2010, WCF Data Services, DevCenter, VSTO, Sharepoint, OData

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Application Recovery and Restart C# Quick Reference - Arik Poznanski's Blog

published 1131 days, 2 hours, 1 minute ago posted by

arik 1131 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes ago

Application Recovery and Restart C# Quick ReferenceBackground Application Recovery and Restart (ARR) is a feature that allows you to prepare for the impossible (?) case where your application crash or waits forever (“Not Responding”) The feature lets you “register” for these cases in order to give you the opportunity to save the application data or do some clean up operations, before it ends its life. This feature exists from Windows Vista, but it seems that not enough people knows it, so let’s see ho... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.microsoft.co.il

tags: Windows API Code Pack, C#, Application Recovery and Restart

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Building OpenPOS: Part 6 – Make it look pretty… - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

published 1135 days, 6 hours, 4 minutes ago posted by

http://rudigrobler.myopenid.com/ 1136 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes ago

How to make a bland WPF app look pretty-ier using themes (more)

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tags: Themes, WPF

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VSTS load testing : Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Version 2.0) Published - Ed Glas

published 1136 days, 5 hours, 41 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1138 days, 4 hours, 35 minutes ago

Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Version 2.0) Published Version 2 of the Quick Reference Guide has now been published. This guide is chock-full of information gathered through real experience with the product. This new version contains 97 new or updated articles.Special thanks to Geoff Gray for once again spearheading this effort. Geoff is one of a handful of elite VS load test practitioners. As he encounter unexpected behavior or bugs in the product, or gets undocumented infor... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Test, Visual Studio Performance

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Building OpenPOS: Part 5 – SalesModule (Part 2) - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

published 1137 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes ago posted by

http://rudigrobler.myopenid.com/ 1138 days, 4 hours, 18 minutes ago

Next installment in the series on how we build OpenPOS. This article focus on how the SalesModule was build (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.rudigrobler.net

tags: WPF, Prism

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VB.Net Web Page Link Grabber

published 1139 days, 6 hours, 12 minutes ago posted by

pons_saravanan 1139 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes ago

Grab Links from a Web Page There are several ways to get all the links in a web page document. But I like this approach because of its simplicity and straight forward implementations. The rest of the approaches are like text processing with regular expressions.... (more)

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Building OpenPOS: Part 4 – SalesModule (Part 1) - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

published 1146 days, 4 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by

http://rudigrobler.myopenid.com/ 1150 days, 5 hours, 1 minute ago

Started implementing a very basic sales module (more)

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tags: WPF, Prism

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Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record - Stephen Walther

published 1148 days, 7 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by

jantu 1151 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes ago

n my previous blog entry, I explored two ways of inserting a database record using jQuery. We added a new Movie to the Movie database table by using a generic handler and by using a WCF service. In this blog entry, I want to take a brief look at how you can insert a database record using OData.Introduction to ODataThe Open Data Protocol (OData) was developed by Microsoft to be an open standard for communicating data across the Internet. Because the protocol is compatible with standards such as REST and J... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: stephenwalther.com

tags: JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, ASP.NET

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Smart Client

30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker - Scott Hanselman

The Secret of Results - J.D. Meier

Upgrading WPF Themes to WPF 4 - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

Windows Client Developer Roundup for 5/10/2010 - Pete Brown

Effect compilation and Content PipeliXNA Game Studio 4.0ne automation in - Shawn Hargreves

Visual Studio 2010 - Help Viewer Power Tool BETA - Help Index and Standalone Help - Scott Hanselman

Innovation Showcase : Second IE9 Platform Preview Now Available

VB.Net Code to get Graphics Card Name [ PCI Graphics Card ]

Innovation Showcase : New IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab

Innovation Showcase : PowerPivot is Released!

Building OpenPOS: Part 7 – NoSQL, MSSQL, SQL CE? - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

Finding Your Strengths - J.D. Meier

Sharing the goodness that is VB : Add Spark to Your OData Consuming Data Services in Excel 2010 Part 2 - Beth Massi

Application Recovery and Restart C# Quick Reference - Arik Poznanski's Blog

Building OpenPOS: Part 6 – Make it look pretty… - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

VSTS load testing : Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Version 2.0) Published - Ed Glas

Building OpenPOS: Part 5 – SalesModule (Part 2) - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

VB.Net Web Page Link Grabber

Building OpenPOS: Part 4 – SalesModule (Part 1) - Rudi Grobler in the Cloud

Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record - Stephen Walther

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