Preface I know, the concept of app.config files is not part of Windows Store App development. The docs and postings say that one should use local or roaming settings. But I needed something to pass environment depending initial data to the app. One scenario I can think of is the …
Create Custom IE Tracking Protection List
In case one does not have some third party tracking protection tool installed, there is an easy way to create a custom list. First step is to download an existing tracking protection list. Just open IE and go to Tools / Tracking Protection / Get a Tracking Protection List online… …
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Update: Microsoft Advertising Services Test Mode Sample for Windows 8 Version 3.0
Microsoft has updated the list of possible advertising test modes. So I updated the Test Mode Sample as well. You can find the latest version in this post.
Simple Migration of TFS 2012 Express to TFS 2012 Full Version
Starting to dig a little bit deeper into TFS 2012, I noticed that my local TFS 2012 Express installation had not all the features I saw on Team Foundation Services (tfs.visualstudio.com/), which I was using too. Of course, if I had read the docs, I might have known before that …
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Microsoft Advertising Services Test Mode Sample for Windows 8
Microsoft offers a very simple way to show advertising in Windows Store apps. A starting point is adsinapps.microsoft.com. The Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8 can be found here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506371%28v=msads.10%29.aspx. The SDK docs lead you to a document, listing all the possible advertising test modes with their appropriate test values: …
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Visual Studio UI Toolbox disappeared
I can’t recall if it was right after the initial installation, or if I hit any whatever key-combination to hide it, or closed it by mistake: The UI toolbox in my Visual Studio 2012 was not visible. First, I did not care because I didn’t needed it. But the point …
Using Membership and Authorization in ASP.NET MVC 4
With the introduction of .NET 4.5 and MVC 4, some changes to Membership and Authorization came along. To keep this posting as short as possible, I will just list the findings and refer to some postings I read. 1. Web Site Administration Tool is gone, and there is no replacement …
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HowTo: Completely Delete Virtual Machine in Windows Azure
Update 2020-07-09: This post is almost outdated. The post “Challenge: Delete Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure” provides more recent information. Creating a virtual machine in Windows Azure is quite simple. Open the management console, select the Virtual Machines tab, click New, select the kind of VM, enter some additional data, …
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Installation Issue with Windows 7, Intel RAID Storage Controller and Advanced Format Disk
I had to re-install Windows 7 on one of my machines. It’s important to note that I had to re-install it, means, I had Windows 7 already running on that box. The installation started as expected, created the partition, copied the files, started to setup the system. And when it …
Disk Space Side Effects of SQL Server Data Tools
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) installs LocalDB, a new version of SQL Express. For details on LocalDB, please refer to Introducing LocalDB, an improved SQL Express. As Kevin Cunnane explains in the SQL Server forum thread Importing database always defaults to localdb, creating a SQL Server database project by SSDT …
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