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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… β 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… β 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 thatβs why a few years ago, I created a BAT file with the following content TF.exe get “$/ location1/sampling/dev” recursive forceTF.exe get… β 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… β 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, Thatβs why I assume that it is possible to use VS2013 to create Windows 8 apps, but you can not create apps Windows 8 with… β 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… β read more
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[#RESHARPER] Free Command Line tools ! (Yes ;))
Hello! On a day of changes, letβs 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… β 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… β 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… β 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… β read more
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[#HUMOR] Build?
Hello! Iβve 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 β 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… β 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… β 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… β 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. Iβm always using different devices from here to there, so I thought that leave my old credentials in one of these devices so thatβs why is blocked. So I started to check everything in Madrid, Barcelona, Seattle, etc. and nothing… every… β read more
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[#VS2013] Visual Studio 2013 release date? yes, 18-Oct
Hello! October 18! Update: I’ve make some mistakes in the original post, and David Salgado (now in the USA) has pointed me in the right direction. The 18-Oct is the launch of VS2013. Prices for Team Foundation Service still has no date, you have to check the following page: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/pricing/tfs-information The only thing that we… β read more
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[#LIVEWRITER] HowTo: BackUp settings, posts, etc (the easy way!)
Hello! a few days ago I wrote a post where I describe a manual way to make a backup of the Windows Live Writer settings. The process was a little complicated, involved to copy files from the AppData folder and OMG !!! There is a much simpler way: Windows Live Writer BackUphttp://wlwbackup.codeplex.com/ This, is a… β read more
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[#HUMOR] Narwals, narwals…!
Hello! today a video dedicated to a fantastic sea monster β¦ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc Greetings @ La Finca El Bruno Google β read more
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[#LEGO] Project management board with LEGO! (Freak level 9)
Hello! Now that I work with UX people more time, I realize that their level of insanity is very nice. The developers are cool, but the UX are coolest … !!! And the people of Vitamins has make my day. Imagine that someone ask you for a tool to control tasks for a tem and… β read more
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[#TFS2012] HowTo: Manage #Bugs with #Kanban boards in the #CMMI template
Hello! After more than one year of working with Team Foundation Service, I now realize that I had forgotten what it is to work with TFS on Premise. If I also add the years where I use the CMMI template, Iβm kind of confused. So when Edu ask the next question to me, I kind… β read more