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When customers ask me how they can run Windows Store app from Desktop usually the answer is – You Can’t, but if you really want there is a way to do that. The reason I usually answer is You Can’t is because – In order to run Windows Store app from Desktop you need to install Windows App Certification Kit , this pack contains “ microsoft.windows.softwarelogo.appxlauncher.exe ” file that can run a Windows Store app by his application model id. So if you plan on publishing your app you can’t assume...
Tweet I think this is a most tool for any blogger out there, most of my posts contains Source Code examples and pasting Source Code without Colors and Format is just ugly. In Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft released the Productivity Tools that has the Copy Source Code as Html built in, also there is a CodePlex project - http://copysourceashtml.codeplex.com/ that supports Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. Because Productivity Tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta isn’t out yet I’ve modified the CopySourceAsHtml...
Tweet Over my last posts I talked about Windows Phone 7, we saw some real examples for Location Service, Maps, Ads, Accelerometer and more. Location Service and Bing Maps Raise My Dog–Russian Connect Window Phone 7 and Windows 8 app to Microsoft pubCenter Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7 Because I saw how many of you download my demo projects I understand the need for more demos around Windows Phone 7. So Today, we’ll build a Puzzle Game for Windows Phone 7 (Including the Sources ) Download...
Tweet This is a game I wrote couple of months ago and now Sela helped me to translate and publish to the Russian market. This is all part of Sela Group massive work on Windows Phone 7 for enterprise application and games. Raise My Dog is an interactive game for WP7 that allows you to raise a dog inside you mobile device. Marketplace
Tweet Over the last two posts I’ve talked about Microsoft pubCenter ads into your Windows Phone 7 application and Accelerometer Sensor for Windows Phone 7 all as part of a very long series I’m planning to write on Windows Phone 7 in order to help you write cool and useful applications for Windows Phone 7. In this Post I’ll talked about Location Service and Bing Maps. Location Service – I’ll show how to receives data from the Microsoft Location Service and displays the geographic coordinates of the...
Tweet In my previous post on Windows Phone 7 I’ve showed how to integrate Microsoft pubCenter ads into your Windows Phone 7 application , the second part is writing an application for Windows Phone 7. Thinking about a good application isn’t simple but I can help you with some cool features available in Windows Phone 7 that can help your application to be much more cooler! There are APIs available to obtain raw sensor data from the device’s Compass , Gyroscope , Accelerometer and Motion API , but...
Tweet When writing a Windows Phone 7 or Windows 8 application you might want to put some Ads, some applications cost money when others has ads. Microsoft pucCenter isn’t the only solution for Windows 7 and Windows 8 but it’s something easy and simple to do when working with Visual Studio to developer applications. Microsoft Advertising pubCenter empowers Web site publishers and Windows Phone 7 application developers to place ads within web pages and Windows Phone 7 apps. When users click on these...
Tweet I did some cool things lately with TFS Lab Management API, from connecting it to TFS Web Access and allow REST access to the lab (if you want to ask why – The customer is always right ). So this part of TFS API will deal with Lab Management API, although Lab Management API is not public I’ll show some cool things you can do but this will be under your own risk. Again, this is just the beginning of the Lab Management API, so let’s get started Download Demo Project Step 1: Located “ Microsoft...
Tweet In the past I’ve showed some examples on how to work with TFS IGroupSecurityService for getting users list, but you can do much more, Create new Group, Add or Remove users from group etc… TFS API Part 25: Get TFS User List (Mail Sid, Account, Domain) – TFS 2010 TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) Download Demo Project Step 1: Connect To TFS and Get All Users and Projects As always we need to start with connecting to TFS, but here we’ll also obtain 2 important services...
Tweet In my previous post on ASP MVC I showed How To Add Captcha to ASP MVC Web Application, but even if you use captcha you still want to make sure the user email is real and not just a fake one. In order to make sure the user has gave you his real email you need to use Email Confirmation mechanism to your site. ASP MVC is doing some of the work for us, when a user is register to your site is assign with a unique ID (Guid) property called - ProviderUserKey I’ll use this value to verify the...
Tweet The conference was Amazing!!! I had great time in the conference with partners, customers and friends, I didn’t went to most of the lectures (Ich weiß nicht Deutsch spricht) but from the people who presented the presentation and the title there were plenty of interesting lectures. In my lecture I’ve talked about Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 , I showed demos on Test Manager, Web Performance Test, Load Testing and of course Coded UI Testing. I’ve also talked about Migration...
Tweet Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. When building public web sites captcha is very important to avoid script and bots running on your web site. First go to reCAPTCHA site and register for unique Key, then Download reCAPTCHA .NET Library . Save you Public and Private keys safely. Now, Let’s start new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2010 Download Demo Project Choose to create...
Tweet First, what is the Build Service Host or IBuildServiceHost ? The BuildServiceHost object represent the physical location of the Controller and/or Agent objects. The name property is usually the machine name that the Controller or Agent lives on. In earlier versions, this was simply the Machine Name property on the Agent. Now, I’m working with a customer works with Lab Manager and after upgrading the SCVVM and perform some port changes we faced an issue – The Build Service Host stuck in your...
Tweet A long time ago I wrote about SharePoint 2007 Files Restore Tool , tool that allows you to connect to SharePoint content database (not need to have SharePoint installation) and extract documents. The reason I wrote this tool was a customer that upgrade TFS and perform a new installation of SharePoint so he lost all his documents, this tool helped me to extract all documents and added them to the new SharePoint site. SharePoint upgrade/migration can be unpleasant and sometimes I prefer to do...
Tweet Couple of days ago I wrote about How To Change Test Scribe Template since than I got plenty of emails on that subject asking me to supply more and more information about changing Test Scribe Template. Many people thinks that: “The output generated by Test Scribe is not customizable in this release.” But this is not fully correct, you can change the Test Scribe template but this will require couple of hacks….. But possible I recommend you to read the How To Change Test Scribe Template article...
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