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[#VS2013] HowTo: Use #BingMaps to #Win8 apps with Visual Studio 2013 (without having to use VS2012)
Hello a couple of days ago I wrote about how complicated it is to work in Visual Studio 2013 with Windows 8 Store Apps projects . With cases like the Bing Maps, this is even more complicated. Now, even if you still need a laptop with VS2012 to create the project for Windows 8 app,… — read more
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[#VS2013] HowTo: change the settings of Remote Debugging in projects #Windows8
Hello. The option of remote debugging in Windows 8 is quite useful. However, changing the initial settings is a bit complicated and not very intuitive. Here is an example, when you change a the debug mode in a project to “Remote Debugging”, the form will appear In this view you can manually set an IP… — read more
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[#ICAL] HowTo: Create an ics file
Hello! 2 Days ago I had one awesome idea: create an ICS file as part of an C# app. The strange thing, is that when you are looking for this topic in the internet, you get some examples which involves outlook automation. This scares me, because in addition to having a very restricted security model,… — read more
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[#VS2013] Access to Team Rooms information in the VS IDE
Hello I wrote a little about the Team Rooms a few weeks ago. Team Rooms are an excellent feature included in Team Foundation Server 2013, which is available from the WebAccess. Now Tarun Arora (and MVP and also a colleague in Avanade) has created an AddIn for Visual Studio that allows you to access Team… — read more
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[#HUMOR] HowTo: upgrade from Surface to Surface 2 (the easy way and always with #LEGO)
Hello! one of the most interesting new features in the surface 2, is the different positions for the kickstand (link). This allows different positions to use the device, something which was not possible with the “old” model. Good thing of it was not possible, it was if you don’t have a 5-year-old boy, lots of… — read more
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[#RESHARPER] Very fast implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged with #ReSharper
Hello! If you have ever worked with WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone or Windows 8 (and its updates), surely you know the interface INotifyPropertyChanged. Therefore yesterday creating classes on the fly, I find ReSharper helps us a lot if we work with this interface. First we can implement the interface with a single click and then… — read more
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[#ONENOTE] #OCR in 2 clicks! (OCR = optical character recognition)
Hello! After Excel, OneNote is perhaps the 2nd best application of the Microsoft Office suite. Today I found myself in those rare moments where I had to go through hardware serial numbers and put them in a digital storage. Well, OneNote has a very powerful feature which is the ability to perform optical character recognition… — read more
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[#TFS2013] HowTo: make a Get Latest with a BAT (after the PowerShell version)
Hello. Every time I open Visual Studio I have to do a Get Latest from several sources to get my code updated. Repetitive tasks are the measure which defines a good programmer, so that’s why a few years ago, I created a BAT file with the following content TF.exe get “$/ location1/sampling/dev” recursive forceTF.exe get… — read more
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[#VS2013] AddIn: Start the IDE with admin privileges, medium privileges, etc.
Hello. If you work with Windows 8 or Win 8.1 applications, for sure you may have noticed that you require special privileges to launch the emulator. If you also want to attach to your IIS server, you will get some strange errors. In any of this scenarios, you need to start the VS IDE with… — read more
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[#VS2013] Can I use VS2013 to create Windows 8 apps? (yes, but …)
Hello! I will share with you a strange scenario with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 de Visual Studio. In general, most development tools have backwards compatibility, That’s why I assume that it is possible to use VS2013 to create Windows 8 apps, but you can not create apps Windows 8 with… — read more
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[#HDI] HowTo: List #HID devices connected in Windows 8.1
Hello! First the most important thing: I almost forgot to write about this. Windows 8.1 have a new capability that allows us to work with HID devices, so my posts on the USB missile launcher connected to the Kinect or the USB post light notifier, is now much easy. To have a good start, the… — read more
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[#RESHARPER] Free Command Line tools ! (Yes ;))
Hello! On a day of changes, let’s go with some big news: ReSharper has a free version. Yesterday ReSharper sales team has contacted me to tell me that, now that Visual Studio 2013 RTM has been released, I have to request a new license for R#. I find therefore that, between chats and mails, since… — read more
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[#VS2013] HowTo: Generate different app.config for debug or release in non-web projects
Hello. If you’ve ever worked with web projects, you’ve probably used a functionality that allows you to have a different configuration file in the application (web.config), for different build modes (by default are DEBUG or RELEASE). If you want to see a post explaining this operation, this one is great > MSDN. Initially this functionality… — read more
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[#VS2013] Pending Changes: so cool now with a non-modal window!
Hello. Pending Changes windows in Visual Studio was always kind of annoying. In the beginning it was a modal window, which was not closed until everything was complete. So, forget to do something within the IDE while you make a CheckIn. Visual Studio 2012 improved it a little bit, but it is in VS2013 where… — read more
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[#VS2013] HowTo: Delayed start for some projects (mine is not a a cool solution)
Hello. I am working with a VS solution with 1 Draft WebAPI 1 WPF project 1 Draft Win8 The WepAPI project is also a hub of SignalR communications with the WPF and the Win8 projects. I use the the capabilities of launching of multiple Visual Studio projects at once: The problem is that both the… — read more
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[#HUMOR] Build?
Hello! I’ve been since Friday dealing with a weird poltergeist, something like this one : Source: http://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2013/8/10/the-little-miracles Greetings @ Home El Bruno Google — read more
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[#ALM] #Waterfall process are not legal for the DoD
Hello! Finally someone eventually realizing that it is meaningless to continue working using Waterfall models. And, if the Ministry of Defense of the United States declares it so, you should listen isn’t it? If you ask me to me, in fact illegal should not be the waterfall model, but rather the “no conversion to an… — read more
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[#AZURE] HowTo: use #svg files in an AZURE web project
Hello! today I’m one of those crazy Friday that steal me more than 2 hours on a 10-minutes task. The scenario was simple, it had to publish an ASP.Net MVC application with massive Bootstrap inside on Azure to validate it with the team in USA. Since the Azure SDK v2, this is only a 2… — read more
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[#VS2013] HowTo: Select the windows you want to close in the IDE
Hello! Usually I’m not those people who have many windows open in Windows. In the Visual Studio IDE I feel the same, I only have open classes that I need. And when I close windows, I do like Chuck Norris > > do a waterfall of CTRL + F4 or a “Close all windows“. And… — read more
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[#LYNC] My dear Lync client blocked my Windows account, I think I found a solution
Hello! Since about 1 month ago my Windows account is blocked every 60 minutes. I’m always using different devices from here to there, so I thought that leave my old credentials in one of these devices so that’s why is blocked. So I started to check everything in Madrid, Barcelona, Seattle, etc. and nothing… every… — read more
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