After almost a month of vacations, I’m back (you’ve probably noticed that I’ve resumed my basics series )! This year I had a really cool time in my vacations. I’ve stayed almost a week in Milano (here are some pics ), I’ve managed to go to the beach several
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If you have some cool technology info that you’d like to share with your peers, here’s your chance. You still have a little time left before the window closes on speaker submissions for the next Richmond Code Camp , to be held at the J. Sargeant Reynolds
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I’m just starting to use Windows Azure for a project and plan on using the Azure Blob Storage part. I won’t go into the details here, but let’s say I figured it out far enough so that I have...
This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming
By default, parameters are always pass by value. However, the CLR does allow you to pass parameters by reference. In C#, you can use the out or ref keywords for passing parameters by reference. When the compiler sees that you’ve used these keywords, it
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First, let me say I’m not a professional photographer or even a good amateur one, but I do take a lot of pictures. You can look up the spec on line, but basically, the Epic has a 5MP camera and...
This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming
I’ve published a new DevNugget screencast on Channel 9, and linked/embedded it below. In it, I provide an overview of the various options available in the Microsoft WebMatrix beta for opening existing sites or creating new sites, including creating sites
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I’m guessing that I won’t be giving any news when I say that parameters are used for passing values into methods. By default, parameters are passed by value. Here’s a quick example which will let us discuss this behavior: public class Student { public
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I got a question on Twitter the other day about why I am using the StartMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges() feature of the CLLocationManager. I think this link on Apple's Developer site describes why this is significant . The important text for
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For those who don’t subscribe, here’s my local editorial for the MSDN Flash newsletter for Mid-Atlantic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff956201.aspx Topics include how to help me help you, and some first impressions of Visual Studio LightSwitch from
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I was working on my iPhone app last night. It requires the features of iOS4. I found a weird behavior. When I ran my app in debug mode on a device, it ran properly. When I ran my app in release mode on a device, I was getting behavior like I was running
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Here’s a neat promotion for my readers in the U.S. If you’ve been wanting to try out Windows Azure and/or SQL Azure, but didn’t want to hassle with providing a credit card, here’s your chance. Through October 31st, 2010, the first 500 respondents
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Just find few useful tips/tool when I try to compare the schema and content of two SQL databases: DBComparer (free) Find out DB lock: select distinct object_name(a.rsc_objid), a.req_spid, b.loginame from master.dbo.syslockinfo a (nolock) join master.dbo.sysprocesses
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Normally, setting up Microsoft Exchange Server with a mobile phone is pretty straight forward. I just got the Samsung Epic 4G today (see my earlier post here: (...
This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has examples by Peter Kellner of techniques for high performance programming
You may have been hearing about the iOS Version 4 a lot. You probably have installed it onto your iPhone/iPod Touch devices. It's got a couple of cool features that I think are significant. One is the ability to run applications in the background.
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