The problem I was trying to solve was that, when I had a playlist set to shuffle, WMP would break up songs that should always play together (for example, Jackson Brownes The Load-Out and Stay, or Pink Floyds Brain Damage and Total Eclipse). In those posts, I worked around this by building my own shuffler which would emit a new randomized playlist .. more »

XML Editor. This will close the design surface and open the contents of the EDMX file in the XML Editor. Scrolling down, the CSDL XML fragment for our Independent Association looks like this: It would also have an MSL XML fragment that tells EF how to traverse the relationship if wed mapped the new entity & association to storage objects. Since we .. more »

So really, it is just about here! I leave in just over 48 hours to head to Las Vegas for the third annual US OpenForce (DotNetNuke conference), once again being held at Mandalay Bay along with DevConnections. If the previous two years were any sort of indicators this year is promising to be a good time! I’m excited about heading out to Vegas ag.. more »

Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect working on complex BizTalk deployments you MUST attend Uri's session . In order to keep things .. more »

Linq is used generally to get and manipulate data by using Linq to Sql, Linq to Entities or Linq to Xml. However, it can work on many collections in .NET Framework. Now in this post, I'll show how to work on with Linq. Think about the scenario you want to get every textboxes that has a text in it. To see which ones we select add them a text you .. more »

post we saw that the use of the wrong comparison operator with Nothing in an If block can lead to surprising results. Lets look at a slightly different case today: "A true statement - we land here" "The statement is a lie - we land here" If the code is intended to print A true statement, is there actually a bug in this code? The code is correct .. more »

, we walked through the designers out of the box database schema generation experience. In this post, we show how some new designer features in VS2010 Beta 2 integrate with this capability, then we pop the hood and show how easy it is to replace or extend parts of the generation system. We will begin with a simple model that contains two newly .. more »

On one of the projects I am working on I needed a way to work get the JSON string generated from some sort of serialization process. If you are working Ajax or MVC controller actions, this work is done for you automatically, but I wanted the string all by itself. After some searching I ran across this article How to: Serialize and Deserialize JSON .. more »

This week I attended and spoke at the Oredev conference in Malm Sweden, and it was great fun as usual. It was a pretty productive few days with a lot of good talks and conversations with some really cool people. I’ll put up a link to the talk as it becomes Read More......(read more).. more »

During the last couple of weeks, we at have been very busy building course material for our upcoming SharePoint 2010 courses. We expect that lots of experienced SharePoint developers, power users and administrators are very eager to get up to speed with the new version of SharePoint as soon as possible. Thats why the first course that weve build is .. more »

update of the Entity Framework Feature CTP ! The updated CTP includes many requested improvements and added features weve gathered from the community since the release of our first CTP and supports installation with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 as well. Some of the improvements and added features added since the last CTP include: Over the next few .. more »

The test migration of our TFS 2008 went extremely well (the import command processed nearly 7GB of data from our TFS 2008) in less than half hour, and all running in my notebook (not some kickass server...). Today I executed the script published by Hakan Eskici to upgrate the process template from v4.2 to v5, by simply running a BET file. The .. more »

I am proud to inform you that yesterday we released our Q3 2009 version of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. As promised this release includes: You can find the live version and source codes in the following locations: In this post, I will show you how to create a basic CRUD(Create/Read/Update/Delete) application with our new MVC Grid. I will be .. more »

It all started because I couldn't find a way to automatically scroll any element into view in Silverlight (a feature that exists in WPF).  I take that back, I could get the job done with a ListBox's ScrollIntoView(ListBoxItem item) method, but I hardly wanted everything on my screen to be wrapped as a ListBoxItem; it feels as dirty as it sound.. more »

Fresh on the heels of the beta 2 release of .NET 4/Visual Studio 2010 , the team has been working on supplemental documentation to help you out with evaluation and adoption of WCF and WF in .NET 4. Last week, two sets of documentation went live: : The WF team updated the documents to .NET Beta 2. We posted the documents up to the Downloads site mid .. more »

Hi Steven Michalove here, I’m a principal program manager on Microsoft IT’s Information Security (InfoSec) group. For the last of couple weeks, we’ve been talking about Microsoft IT’s (MSIT) dogfooding process, known as the First & Best program. Concluding this dogfooding blog series, I would like to share with you how we help influence the deve.. more »

Microsoft has this neat mailing list called “Spot the Bug” where developers can send interesting snippets of code that look correct but actually have subtle bugs in them.  The puzzles are a lot of fun and I’ve always thought it’d be a fun thing to try here on the team blog.  Over the past year or so I’ve been keeping a list of interesting .. more »

Other Windows menu). To add new objects to UML model just right click on the title with mouse and select object type. Visual Studio 2010: UML Model Explorer You can see UML Model Explorer on image at right. I took this screenshot after adding some objects to my modeling project so you can see how this window looks like when there is some content. .. more »

I have uploaded Silverlight sample that uses my VBScript.net compiler to . It is available under the source tag in change set 31328 or later. I am not quite using the capabilities in Microsoft.Scripting.Silverlight yet. I want to take advantages of it when its document becomes available. For the time being, I created my own little host called .. more »

I’ve got the pleasure to be able to present a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at TechEd Europe next week: BOF14 Microsoft SharePoint, jQuery and Microsoft Silverlight: Better Together. If you are interested in these technologies please join the discussion on Thursday, 12:20 in Theater 6 – Pink. Feel free to comment if you are planning to atte.. more »