- Posted by SondreB on August 10, 2010
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Here is my analysis of the recently “released” (embedded) Microsoft.Data.dll assembly, the namespace and the types it includes. It’s been the topic of a lot of heated debate recently, with viewpoints I’m unable to relate to and understand just from reading, so I needed to u...
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- Posted by SondreB on June 8, 2010
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One of the annoying things when you start working with Model-View-ViewModel in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the fact that you can’t just delete the code-behind file for your .xaml files. After discussing the problem with Peter Lillevold, he came up with a solution to our problem. Let’s ...
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- Posted by SondreB on April 1, 2010
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April Fool: It was fun participating in this years April Fools’ day, I hope nobody got hurt ;-). Thanks for all the congratulations and responses on Twitter and Messenger, and special thanks to Clemens Vasters for helping me out! Please enjoy the Geek and Poke cartoon at the bottom. ---- I’m thril...
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- Posted by SondreB on March 11, 2010
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At the next MSDN Live tour in Norway (in April), I’m doing a talk about Solution Architect and SharePoint 2010 for Developers. I would like to air some ideas I have for the Solution Architecture talk and hopefully get some feedback, perhaps some tips and hints that can improve my talk. What’s in a...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 5, 2010
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During the winter I’ve been working on a new project called Boks. Boks is a rich interactive application that helps you organize all your stuff. Stuff such as books, movies, games and more. Boks runs entirely in the cloud, that means all your stuff is stored online and there is never any need for ...
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- Posted by SondreB on December 13, 2009
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Here is an example that show how you can extend your Entity Framework entities with properties, which you might return from a stored procedure, a database view or inline SQL. The use case if when you want and need to return more data from your database than what is in your 1:1 mapped entity models. ...
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- Posted by SondreB on November 30, 2009
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Update: Some of the details in this blog post is no longer required, by downloading and installing SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 you get better support for SQL Azure. Read my post about simpler management with SSMS.
Here follows a step-by-step introduction to SQL Azure....
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- Posted by SondreB on October 19, 2009
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Today Microsoft introduced beta 2 of their next update to Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. As a Microsoft Regional Director and Visual Studio Team System influential, I have used and tested this future version for a while. It’s represents the
first major upgrade to the Visual Studio suite since Visual Studio .NET was upgraded from Visual Studio 6...
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- Posted by SondreB on October 15, 2009
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Today I want to introduce you to a wide range of extensions and additions to Visual Studio. Lots of developers are not aware of the potential of your existing .NET skills and experience and how you can utilize them across multiple devices, form factors and platforms. Learn about Game Development, Cloud Development and Robotics Development...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 17, 2008
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Abstract: Learn how to use Windows Live Mesh to carry your Flickr photos with you on your Windows Mobile phone. For years I’ve relied on Flickr as my service for hosting photos that I’m willing to share with friends and others. Yet there has never been a good way of downloading all the Flickr photo...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 4, 2008
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Gøran Hansen tagged me once more, this time he want us to blog about our customization of Visual Studio IDE and third party tools we use in our daily jobs as software developers. To be honest, I rarely customize anything. I rely on few (if any) third party tools within the IDE and just a handful o...
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- Posted by sondreb on September 1, 2008
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We're currently in the starting phase of a big new project and we're already at a steady speed at producing the functionality that we set out to do. Actually we got a very good start, which was contributed by a lot of factors, but one important one is Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Before al...
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- Posted by sondreb on December 14, 2006
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Microsoft have released Service Pack 1 for their Visual Studio family of products. The biggest update is the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 which is the update you would want to download and install if you are using any edition of Visual Studio 2005 except the Express editions. Express has their...
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- Posted by sondreb on December 5, 2006
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While doing TDD (Test Driven Development) with Visual Studio 2005 is not always an easy task when you get down and dirty. Microsoft is already working on improvements for the next version (codename "Orcas") of Visual Studio, but right now I needed a better way to compile the current projec...
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