5 February 2012 0 Comments

Kodu- free software for teachers in February

Some Free February Appy-ness with a new piece of free software for teachers from Microsoft every day in February. Many of these items are unknown heroes, but they all share two things in common: 1) They are useful for teachers or students and 2) they are free

31 January 2012 0 Comments

Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C#

  There’s been a lot of posts on using the Roslyn CTP APIs for syntax trees, semantic binding, and IDE smart editor features.

26 January 2012 0 Comments

ダブル・ヘッダーです。 .NET ラボ勉強会と VSUG Day 2012 Winter で Web 開発のお話しを。

イベント・セミナー登壇のお知らせです~ 今週末、1 月 28 日(土)に 2 つのイベントに登壇します。 1つめは .NET ラボ勉強会 「ASP.NET習得の最短経路を考察する~ Razor記法とASP.NET Web Pages、そして、WebMatrix ~」 弊社のエバンジェリスト武田とともに登壇 (私はサブで 10 分位?) します。 詳細・お申込みはこちら: http://kokucheese.com/event/index/24944/ 2つめは VSUG DAY – 2012 Winter 「patterns & practices "Project Silk" に見る HTML5 とモダンブラウザのための Web 開発の今後」 詳細・お申込みはこちら: http://vsug.jp/tabid/228/EventID/18/Default.aspx 共に弊社品川オフィスで開催です。土曜日ですがぜひご参加いただけると幸いです。

24 January 2012 0 Comments

Lamda, Lamdee, Lamduh: Delegate first and then do the Lambda

So you take your Java classes, you take your C++ classes and you take that data class, then you take that Operating System class that is cranking hard.

23 January 2012 0 Comments

Microsoft Certification Program: Looking Back at 2011

Some think certifications are just revenue generating schemes created by companies to push more of their product. Others think no certification in the world can replace years of experience “in the trenches” business acumen. While both of these psychologies have merit in some cases, most often than none, companies who institute certifications do so to raise awareness of the level of technical prowess needed to obtain such a certification

21 January 2012 0 Comments

Hadoop XML Streaming and F# MapReduce

So, to round out the Hadoop Streaming samples I thought I would put together an XML Streaming sample. As always the code can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Hadoop-Streaming-and-F-f2e76850 XML Streaming Reader So how does one stream in XML

20 January 2012 0 Comments

Costa Concordia: The Goals of Software Architecture

With the tragedy of the Costa Concordia, design with the human in the control loop comes to mind.  A cruise ship is a large system with many moving parts and error points.  In a large mechanical system like a ship have long used computers, in the past the computers might have been the sextant to determine position, the length and angle of a rope pulled by a rock for speed, as well as other analog types of tools.  In some cases, though not many, analog computers can be faster and more accurate than digital computers.  No matter what you use, what are the goals of Software Architecture? So what is good Software Architecture? Good architecture reduces the business risks associated with building a technical solution

20 January 2012 0 Comments

Visual Studio 11 ALM Advances

Happy new year. Over the last several months since //BUILD/, I’ve published multiple blog posts outlining advancements made in Visual Studio 11, from languages to the .NET Framework to IDE productivity to platform-specific tooling .  I’m concluding this five-post series with a look at some of the work that’s gone into making Visual Studio 11 a premier system for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).  Since many of these features were first announced at TechEd North America 2011, many individuals from my division have spoken and blogged quite eloquently about the new capabilities, so I’ll use this opportunity simply to highlight a few of these new features and to point you to the other resources they’ve created to describe them in more depth. The ALM offering in Visual Studio 11 was designed to enable improved collaboration amongst team members, accelerate the adoption of agile processes, and improve the cycle that links development and operations.  I’ll take a look at a few examples of how Visual Studio 11 achieves this

20 January 2012 0 Comments

Solution to hard to check CheckBox when using a DataGridCheckBoxColumn without a Label in WPF

When you have a DataGridCheckBoxColumn without an associate label it is very difficult to check and uncheck the CheckBox.  I know this solution makes no sense, but it works. In your Xaml add this markup.   < DataGridCheckBoxColumn > < DataGridCheckBoxColumn.ElementStyle > < Style /> </ DataGridCheckBoxColumn.ElementStyle > </ DataGridCheckBoxColumn >…( read more )

19 January 2012 0 Comments

「学生版DreamSpark」をご利用のみなさま、LiveIDのメールをご確認ください。

「学生版 DreamSpark」ソフトウェアのダウンロード方法が変更になったため、現在ご利用されている25桁の認証コードが使用できなくなっております。  そのため、以前DreamSpark登録時に使用されたLiveID宛にマイクロソフト本社より以下のようなメールをお送りしております。その本文に『25桁の認証コード』が記載されておりますので、そちらのコードをご利用の上、『アカウントの作成』をお願いします。   ①    届いたURLをクリックすると、アカウントの作成画面が表示されます。(コピー&ペーストして、URLに貼り付けてください) https://www.dreamspark.com/activate/?Key=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx  ②    認証方法 の「Step5」をご確認ください。   既存のご利用者様には混乱させてしまい大変申し訳ございませんでした。 何卒よろしくお願いいたします。   DreamSpark認証事務局

19 January 2012 0 Comments

Microsoft Technology Guru Contest – Question 55

Why are the ASP.NET Ajax extensions 1.0 needed for a successful Operations Manager 2007 R2 installation?

19 January 2012 0 Comments

Microsoft Technology Guru Contest – Question 54

Which of the following is not a document types which the mail merge wizard will work with? 1.