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Check your code portability with PCL Compliance Analyzer

I am extracting parts of my Simple.Data OData adapter to make a portable class library (PCL). The goal is to create an OData library available for desktop .NET platforms, Windows Store, Silverlight, Windows Phone and even Android/iOS (using Xamarin Mono...

Posted to Vagif Abilov's blog on .NET by Vagif Abilov on Tue, Feb 5 2013

Filed under: portable class libraries

Managing type inheritance with Simple.Data OData adapter

Type inheritance is not frequently implemented in OData services. I’d say that REST services is not a very good fit for OO paradigm and there are other means to expose information in a REST service than to open up the whole object hierarchy. However,...

Posted to Vagif Abilov's blog on .NET by Vagif Abilov on Thu, Jan 31 2013

Filed under: data model, Entity Framework, OData, Simple.Data

Installing your app on your Windows RT device

Alright… so my app is almost finished and I want to install it for real on my Surface tablet. How do I do that? Is it possible? Yes it is. NB: People, seems like I was not entirely accurate. Before you can install the package this way, you need a developer...

Posted to Dries Marckmann by Dries Marckmann on Tue, Jan 29 2013

Filed under: WinRT, Windows 8

BizTalk Server 2013 SharePoint Adapter Walkthrough

The SharePoint adapter has been redesigned in BizTalk 2013. It now supports for example SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint online, but it can still communicate with the current common versions like SharePoint 2007 and 2010. If SharePoint 2013 is your platform...

Posted to Jean-Paul Smit by Jean-Paul Smit on Fri, Jan 25 2013

Windows 8 –Live tiles

My friend Pascal ( http://www.pazquality.com/ ) is also working on a windows 8 application. He was having trouble with getting the Live tiles to work so I volunteered to find out how to cycle to a couple of tiles and keep cycling between them. Well, it's...

Posted to Dries Marckmann by Dries Marckmann on Tue, Jan 22 2013

Filed under: WinRT, Tile, Windows 8

Windows 8 & Caliburn.Micro – Being a Sharing Target

I wanted to be able to add items to GetPocket.com via my app. To do this in the nicest way possible, it would be awesome to be able to share urls from other apps to my app. I saw that you can add an OnShareTargetActivated method to your app.xaml.cs where...

Posted to Dries Marckmann by Dries Marckmann on Fri, Jan 18 2013

Filed under: WinRT, Windows 8, Caliburn.Micro

How to add Next and Previous buttons to Twitter Bootstrap tabs

Just a quickie today: when working with Twitter Bootstrap tabs , like I am in my ASP.NET MVC 4 project, you might want to add Next and Previous buttons on the tabs to create something of a Wizard. Here’sa step by step overview of how I did this: Add an...

Posted to Rick van den Bosch - Blog by Rick van den Bosch on Wed, Jan 16 2013

Filed under: .Net, HowTo, Development, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap

Dutch BTUG meeting with the BizTalk product team

Yesterday we had a special Dutch BizTalk User Group meeting. The guys from the BizTalk product team were in The Netherlands because of the BizTalk summit tour and they came by to talk about BizTalk. Three presentations were given about the upcoming release...

Posted to Jean-Paul Smit by Jean-Paul Smit on Tue, Jan 15 2013

Filed under: BizTalk, Azure, ServiceBus

Windows 8 – Using Caliburn.Micro

A collegue of mine followed this blogpost ( http://www.jfarrell.net/2012/11/caliburn-from-windows-8-apps.html ) to implement Caliburn.Micro in the WinRT app… He stumbled upon a problem. The post seems to suggest that you should remove all content from...

Posted to Dries Marckmann by Dries Marckmann on Thu, Jan 10 2013

Filed under: WinRT, Windows 8, Caliburn.Micro

Windows 8 – WebClient and the AppBar or flyouts

Here's what I found out the hard way. If you show web content in a WebView control and you want to use the AppBar in the same page (overlapping the WebView) than the AppBar isn't shown. This allegedly also happens to flyouts. Very annoying. Apparently...

Posted to Dries Marckmann by Dries Marckmann on Wed, Jan 9 2013

Filed under: WinRT, Windows 8

I’m back, starting a new blogging style

It's been a while since I blogged. I have been busy with other stuff, but I'm back… I am currently building a Windows 8 application for Pocket (http://www.getpocket .com). I want to share my experiences here. It won't be a blog with long posts...

Posted to Dries Marckmann by Dries Marckmann on Wed, Jan 9 2013

Databases and coupling

We probably all learned this at school. When you build software, you analyze requirements, find the nouns and build an entity-relationship model , an ERD. You start with the first normal form and normalize the model until you start building software upon...

Posted to Dennis van der Stelt by Dennis van der Stelt on Fri, Jan 4 2013

Filed under: Architecture and Design, WCF

Content by query webpart not performing due to misconfiguration

Today we were experiencing some major performance issues on some pages on a new website. The pages that were experiencing these performance issues, all made use of the content by query webpart (we didn't have any performance issues before on these...

Posted to BBB - Bas Blogging 'Bout SharePoint by Bas on Thu, Jan 3 2013

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, content by query webpart

Simple.Data OData adapter: approaching version 1.0

It’s January the first, but when I looked at my Twitter feed I realized I am lazy. People are discussing programming bugs, API design flaws and book chapters they are writing. I need to pretend I’m one of them and do something useful. And it’s a good...

Posted to Vagif Abilov's blog on .NET by Vagif Abilov on Tue, Jan 1 2013

Filed under: dynamic, C#, OData, Simple.Data

SharePoint 2010 signout different behaviours based on the number of selected Authentication Types

While working on our custom ADFS login component and deployed this version to our DTAP street, we saw different behaviours when signing out of a site, under different circumstances. Wen users tried to logout via the page "/_layouts/signout.aspx"...

Posted to BBB - Bas Blogging 'Bout SharePoint by Bas on Sat, Dec 29 2012

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, authentication

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