In some software projects I used empty Visual Studio solutions to create some kind of database projects. I added SQL script files to the solutions to create all database objects, like tables, functions, stored procedures, views, constraints, and so forth. A batch file was used to run all these scripts …
Create a SQL Azure Database using SSDT
To get into Microsoft Azure application development, I was playing around with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), trying to create a database on SQL Azure. I started creating a simple database, having two tables with a few columns. As done before with other tools, I was using the extended properties …
Windows Store App .NET Framework Subset
I’ve learned it when I created Silverlight apps – so why am I so surprised when playing around with Windows Store apps? The .NET framework for Windows Store apps only ‘provides a subset of managed types‘. This subset officially is called ‘.NET for Windows Store apps’. For details, please refer …
Regard The Sequence of XAML Style Definition
Going through a Windows Store App XAML sample, I came to the point where a pre-defined style, located in Common/StandardStyles.xaml file, should be used. The tutorial at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj215600.aspx told me to remove the comments of PicturesAppBarButtonStyle. Well, that was not that hard. I deleted the XML comment markup and moved …
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ASP.NET MVC 4, VS 2012 and the Usage of jQuery UI
It took really some time to get the ASP.NET MVC jQuery sample on ASP.NET running. At the time of writing, the sample was based on MVC 3, while I was working with MVC 4. Well, not a big deal, just change the name of some .css and .js files. But …
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VS 2012 Recent Project List
For whatever reason, the VS dev team decided to remove the Recent Projects from the File menu. Thankfully, they did not removed the command itself. The only thing one has to do is right-click the menu bar (or go to Tools / Customize), switch to the Commands tab page, select …
Tired Of Office / Visual Studio Yelling!
Have you already installed Office 2013 and / or Visual Studio 2012? And are you one of the “old-fashioned” internet guys who understand UPPERCASE as yelling? Then you might feel uncomfortable when you are looking at the headings of Office’s and Visual Studio’s ribbon bar. Thankfully, others were already tired …
ASP.NET MVC 4 jQuery Validation Globalization
Going thru the ASP.NET MVC 4 intro on www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/getting-started-with-aspnet-mvc4/adding-a-model, I thought that I couldn’t believe what I saw. In this intro, a MVC Web application is built, having a page to enter movie data, including a date and a price. The price is a decimal value. Now on my machine, …
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Logging in a Multithreaded Environment
Preface This article was written in 2002 for the C/C++ User’s Journal. But when two years from submitting the proposal to still-not-published were gone, I put it on my first Website. This site is history, so I decided to re-publish it here. Start Having a flexible and dynamic way to …
Manage Wireless Networks in Windows 8
For whatever reason, Microsoft decided to remove the “Manage wireless networks” from the Network and Sharing Center. As long as you want to manage the connection to a network you are already connected to, that’s no problem. Just right-click the properties of this connection. Managing a not connected wireless network …