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This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (ea98cd28-10ae-4644-8415-2ef3940a0e89 – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7) Blog Post by: Anthony Borton (TFS Instructor)

Here’s a nifty way to add a ‘Run in Command Prompt’ context menu item to the Visual Studio solution explorer. http://www.rickglos.com/post/How-to-run-windows-batch-files-from-Visual-Studio-2010-Solution-Explorer.aspx Very handy for executing .cmd files to generate .Net type definitions...

This blog post represents the first in a weekly series that will highlight things you need to know about new features in BizTalk Server 2013. This week we will look at the new mapping engine and how the underlying changes in the engine might effect the behavior you see when using the BizTalk Mapper....

During the month of May QuickLearn will be collaborating with Neudesic and BizTalk 360 to bring a special BizTalk 2013 Event to major cities across the US. Discover how to transform your business with BizTalk Server 2013. This invitation only event is designed to help you: Connect and automate your existing...

Visio 2013 was released recently with updates including the new visio file format .vsdx, easier collaboration abilities and my favorite, the ability to provide data graphics to shapes. In this blog I will be discussing some of the basics of creating and using these data graphics with both internal Visio...

Delegate Controls are generic controls found in all of the out-of-the-box master pages in SharePoint, a Delegate Control provides the ability to dynamically render ASP.net controls (candidates) in master pages extending the functionality of SharePoint without the need to directly modify any of those...

Creating successful user experiences is an art. A lot of art involves taking advantage of the way that the brain processes information. The most successful designs (user experiences or otherwise) are those that give off feeling of “how else would you do it?”. The design simply seems to make...

Error handling: One of the reasons that HTML standards are so important is because HTML is a language that has historically been written with a lot of errors and now has many different versions. One of the rules that has been generally agreed upon by browser makers is “don’t break the web”...

Brief (but required) history lesson: Back when IE had 90% or so of the market share, browsers were essentially an enigma. It was hard to know exactly how things worked. Now that open source browsers have a significant part of the market share and there is competition between them in terms of functionality...

The language of the modern web is HTML5. It’s a great thing. You probably don’t understand why yet, but you will. Our most basic page: That’s really boring, you might say. Well yes, it is. If you opened it in a browser it would be a blank page. But it is important because before we [...] Blog Post by...

Visio Professional 2013 allows users to bind dynamic data to shapes, external images, sheets, graphs, and just about anything else you can put in a Visio doc. Out of the box, Visio provides some data graphics which allows you to display this data visually. The exhaustive list of data graphics provided...

While looking for the best way to implement an input widget to retrieve the users’s Date of Birth I came across this input field while editing a contacts information in the generic People List that comes with the Android OS: When pressed this opens the DatePickerDialog as shown below: The Android...

I recently ran into a situation where I had “inherited” a laptop from a previous developer on a project. This laptop was on the customer’s domain, and had been configured for source control using Team Foundation Services. A problem arose after logging in using my own credentials, and...

I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I’ll get a recap going just after New Years! Take care of yourself, friends and family. I wish you the best for 2013! Blog Post by: Tord Glad Nordahl

Well it has been a while since I last posted. I have been sitting on a couple things and wanted to get this information out there. Recently I had to work on an ADFS 2.0 to 2.1 migration. There is apparently not any supported easy way to upgrade an ADFS environment to work on Windows [...] Blog Post by...

The Adventure of Build 2012 This has been and exciting year for technology especially around Windows8. Shortly after Build 2011, last year, I began my work with Windows8 and completed my first book ever Getting Started with Windows 8 Apps. A large part of this year has been spent really understanding...

While working on an SSRS Report for a client, I ran into a problem surrounding the summing of a particular field in my dataset, called “TotalAmount”. It seemed that the SSRS Sum function was returning double the amount that I was expecting. This was a result of my view returning multiple rows for items...

I recently found myself in need of adding a username and password to a BizTalk 2010 application binding file. By default, WCF bindings at least, do not save any password currently assigned to a WCF-Custom send port when you export the application bindings from within Management Console. In order to add...

A few days ago I was troubleshooting an odd error in one of our pipe delimited flat file outputs from a map. The application was just migrated from BizTalk 2004 to BizTalk 2010, and had developed a unique problem. This file was showing what seemed like random carriage returns in the output flat file...

As preparation for our 5.0 release in October we are presenting BizTalk360 in various live user group presentations this month. Here are the list of event during the month of September. Norwegian user group (NoBug), September 18th, Gothenburg, Sweden Norwegian BizTalk User group (NoBug): NoBug is community...

Hey, Here are some links for those who like reading. Microsoft publish a list of technical books frees. You can found books about : Azure Windows server 2012 Windows 8 Sharepoint 2013 Windows phone Office and many more (I’ve checked there is no BizTalk book ) the books are dispatched in three link...

A quick tutorial on html parsing using the jsoup Java library. Blog Post by: Richard Krajunus

I really, really like Notepad++ as a drop-in replacement for the standard Windows Notepad. It’s fast, light-weight, can open just about any file format, regardless of encoding or byte-order marks. And best of all, it’s free! There are a couple of plug-ins that I consider almost essential...

Overview I recently came across a frustrating issue when looking at ULS logs for a client with a SharePoint 2010 installation.  We were seeing huge numbers of repeated errors stating : Performance Counter OS (pdh) call failed with error code PDH_CSTATUS_BAD_COUNTERNAME. PDH failure on counter \<servername>...

Following on from my other blog post on the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC 2012), I wanted to highlight another overlooked aspect of the new iOS6 called Guided Access. This was a feature that Apple originally created for people with disabilities. Essentially what the feature allows you...