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WebP - Advanced image optimization using ASP.NET MVC

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deanomachino 46 days, 10 hours, 25 minutes ago

Most modern web pages contain a lot of images. These images often make up the bulk of a web page request. According to the HTTPArchive, images make up over 50% of the average web page and if you are looking to optimize on the performance of your web page, the best place to start is often with the images on your page. By optimizing your images and simply reducing the amount of bytes that your users are downloading, you can drastically improve your page load times. (more)

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LINQ Style Variance and Standard Deviation Operators

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BlackWasp 47 days, 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

In statistics, the variance and standard deviation for a set of data indicate how spread out the individual values are. Small values indicate that the elements of a set are close to the average value, whereas larger values suggest a greater spread. (more)

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How to keep the Win8 Display ON during audio/video playback?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 47 days, 7 hours, 16 minutes ago

Are you a Windows 8 Application Developer? Are you building an app like audio/video player or game which needs to keep the display active when user is inactive in the system? Then you came to a right place where we will discuss how to keep the display on while idle. This post details about the Windows 8/Windows RT API usage and code snippet to request the system to keep the display on. Continue reading to know more about it. - See more at: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2013/04/how-to-keep-windows8-disp... (more)

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Strong Naming: One Year Later

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http://managedfusion.com/ 47 days, 9 hours, 40 minutes ago

It is almost 1 year to the date of when I first posted JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes and the NuGet compatibility issues have stabilized This stabilization hasn’t happened through a change from Microsoft, but a change in how publishers of NuGet packages version their libraries. (more)

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Unit testing improvements in Visual Studio 2012 Update2 | TechBubbles

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kalyanms1 47 days, 23 hours, 55 minutes ago

This post explains the features that have been introduced for unit testing in Visual Studio 2012 update 1 and 2. Visual Studio 2012 update 1 and 2 introduced many new features for testing which can be read here. New features grouping and filtering tests by project, by trait or by class enables testers to work with lots of tests easier. (more)

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Testing Features added in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 | TechBubbles

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kalyanms1 48 days, 22 hours, 42 minutes ago

This post explains the enhanced testing features that were introduced with Visual Studio 2012 update 2. In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has been updated with new features enabling manual testers more productive and efficient. The new feature Test Management and execution from light-weight browser based environment. This web based test management features enables manual testers to test non-Windows applications and executing test cases without installing test-specific tools. You... (more)

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Using Promises in JavaScript | TechBubbles

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kalyanms1 49 days, 22 hours, 43 minutes ago

Promises in JavaScript gives you great power of asynchronicity while you are creating Windows 8 Apps or Web Applications. Promises gives you the ability to call something without blocking your UI thread. Instead of waiting for a call to return something, let that function fire when it complete. In this way you can continue the execution for the user. You are definitely need to know and use promises if you are going to develop Windows Apps. The reason is in Windows RT which is the API on windows where you... (more)

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How to change the Windows 8 Lock Screen Programmatically?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 50 days, 3 hours, 33 minutes ago

Are you a Windows 8 or Windows RT user? Are you looking for a code to change your Windows 8 lock screen programmatically? Then this post will be definitely helpful for you. Just follow the simple steps to write an application by which you can change it easily. Windows 8 already exposes settings panel to change the lock screen of the Windows, but this post will help you to programmatically access that using the exposed APIs. (more)

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Run Multiple Tasks in a Windows Service

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tdupont 51 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes ago

Run multiple tasks in a single WindowsService, and let the base library do all of the work setup and tear down for you. The WindowsServiceTasks NuGet package is simple, flexible, and extremely light weight. (more)

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Memory Snapshot Enhancements in JustTrace Q1 2013

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KodefuGuru 52 days, 7 hours, 16 minutes ago

JustTrace now seamlessly integrates into Visual Studio to provide an unobtrusive development experience, but that’s not all we did for the Q1 2013 release. We also enhanced memory snapshots to provide more data to discover the cause of a memory leak. (more)

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Fast. Free. Forever.

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KodefuGuru 52 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes ago

We began the development cycle with one primary goal: make JustDecompile a flawless, shining example of software engineering. We knew it was a pie in sky goal to complete in only a few a months, but to capture the moon you must reach for the stars. (more)

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How to Detect WP Device Infos using DeviceExtendedProperties?

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http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 52 days, 19 hours, 17 minutes ago

Almost two years ago we discussed about “Microsoft.Phone.Info.DeviceStatus” class to retrieve Windows Phone device information in your application. In addition to those, there are some more APIs to fetch more details which is available as extended properties set. Today in this post, we will learn about the API and the way to fetch those additional details in your application. Continue reading to know more about it. - See more at: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2013/03/wp-deviceextendedproperties-in-dept... (more)

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C# Smorgasbord book: 50 copies to win with Raygun

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hilarycook 53 days, 38 minutes ago

Win C# Smorgasbord by Filip Ekberg by trying out Raygun.io! A great book for beginners through to advanced C# coders. (more)

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Road To DR #12: How to Start Sharepoint Services using Powershell ?! | SPTechyTalks

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Freddy_Khalaf 66 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes ago

Using Powershell is much better than Central Administraion when trying to run Sharepoint services , cause using Central administration may lead to several problems like giving errors that ” Error Starting ” , or to change the status of the service to ” Starting ” while its totally Halted . so using Powershell is really more useful and faster way . To start Sharepoint service using powershell , follow the below steps: 1.Get the Service GUID by doing the below steps: 2.Open the Server you Want to Run S... (more)

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Road to DR #11: How to Delete Service using stsadm. ?! | SPTechyTalks

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Freddy_Khalaf 66 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes ago

Dears , we faced a very tough problem last few days . which is we wanna delete search service application but we didnt succeded , using powershell or central administration we couldnt do it. but after search Thanks To Jesus , finally we found this link http://donalconlon.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/deleting-the-search-service-application/ the solution is to remove the service using the old way the Stsadm. (more)

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Road to DR #10 : How to copy Farm Configurations between servers ?! | SPTechyTalks

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Freddy_Khalaf 66 days, 13 hours, 28 minutes ago

To copy farm configurations between servers you will need to check the below articles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff627859(v=office.14).aspx and check how to perform backup and restore for the sharepoint farm configurations only at the below sites: (more)

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Road to DR #7: How to Perform P2V ?! | SPTechyTalks

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Freddy_Khalaf 66 days, 13 hours, 31 minutes ago

This article talks about How to Perform P2V ?! , which means converting Physical machines into Virtual ones , you may need it rather than Taking Sharepoint Farm backup and restore on new VMs , you just copy and paste the Physical machines into Virtual ones with the same structure and the created ones. (more)

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Road to DR #6: Microsoft Server Speech Platform ?! | SPTechyTalks

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Freddy_Khalaf 66 days, 13 hours, 32 minutes ago

I faced an error while installing Sharepoint 2010 prerequisites , which was: The tool was unable to download Microsoft Server Speech Recognition language – TELE (en-us) (more)

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Road to DR #5 : Windows Identity Foundation ?! | SPTechyTalks

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Freddy_Khalaf 66 days, 13 hours, 32 minutes ago

you may face this problem while installing Sharepoint 2010 prerequisites , which is : Error Occurred when downloading Windows Identity Foundation (more)

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Road to DR #4: How to Restore Sharepoint 2010 Farm ?! | SPTechyTalks

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Freddy_Khalaf 66 days, 13 hours, 33 minutes ago

How to Restore Sharepoint 2010 Farm ?! – TechNet Article This article shows how to restore sharepoint 2010 farm using the 3 ways mentioned also in the backup article: •Using Powershell •Using Central Administration •Using SQL server tools (more)

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