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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 Today I came to a customer for consulting and the customer told me that there is no Backups for TFS. So right away I told him this is very important and let’s create a Backup Plan for TFS. How To: Create TFS 2010 Backup Plan Problem So I’ve download TFS 2010 Power Tools, Install, Open TFS Administration Console, Click “Create Backup Plan” and Nothing happens. So I’ve started to investigate and saw some errors in TFS Event Log, of course I saw “Object reference not set to an instance of an object...
Tweet Last night I’ve received a message from Code Project letting me know that I received the CodeProject MVP award for my work at Code Project. CodeProject is enormous community of technology writers with tones of technical articles, and I’m prod to received this award for my work at CodeProject. Those who have spent their time answering questions in the forums and writing great articles. MVP status is awarded annually based on ones contributions, and the feedback of the other members. Members...
Tweet Today I got a interesting questions from a customer – How I can force format to a version field? I said cool finally I can use the MATCH Element (Work Item Type Definition Schema) to set a regex for System.Title field, The MATCH rule doesn't support full regular expressions , but a simplified version. <MATCH pattern="pattern to match" for="user name" not="user name" /> Enforces basic pattern matching for strings only. <pattern> should be replaced...
Tweet Yesterday a got a a request from a customer how want to work with TFS Source Control from RoboHelp: Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 software is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. This is possible using the MSSCCI provider and some registry changes: Download and Install – MSSCCI - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn...
Tweet Many times when you write a number in your site you want to add commas and format the number, for example: instead of 1000000 I want to my user to see 1,000,000. Using JavaScript this is very simple task, you can also extend this code example to a Plugin inside JavaScript Lib - How To Write JavaScript \ JQuery Plugins First I’m looking for . char inside the number (we don’t want to split this…) and after that using Regex just adding comma after 3 chars. function addCommas(nStr) { ...
Tweet Today everything is about Mobile Devices, users are using their tablets and phones to view web sites. Some web sites has a mobile application or just what to inform the user about a related mobile application. So the question is how to inform the user about a mobile application related to a specific site? You can put some links in your site and maybe the user will click on those links and will be redirect to your mobile application, but I want more – I want my site to detect if the user comes...
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 I know for most of you what I’m going to show is obvious, But today during a course for a customer (That already working with MTM for 6 months) I found out this wasn't so obvious…. When using Microsoft Test Manager for running Tests the window is automatically Dock to the left side, this will rearrange all icons and will force other applications to work with a smaller screen. And yes you can change it, as you can se from the picture below I’ve changed the windows to “ Floating ” And now...
Tweet Couple of days ago I wrote about how to download YouTube movies to your machine using JavaScript, The solution I showed didn’t worked for all browsers because Cross Scripting blocks in some browsers. But don’t worry, there is always a way! I’ve toke the same script I’ve used in the YouTube download tool and add a “JavaScript :” before the script so it can be used directly from the YouTube page. All you need to do is enter the desire YouTube video and click the bookmark or just paste the entire...
Tweet I’m working on some big projects involve a lot of JavaScript, JavaScript has many libraries to improve JavaScript writing (JQuery, Open Rico, Qooxdoo and more…) but still sometimes you want more from your JavaScript, so I’ll show you how you can write Plugins for JavaScript and JQuery. Everyone working with JavaScript should be familiar with prototype object (not library): The prototype object is here to help when you wish to quickly add a custom property to an object that is reflected...
Tweet Sometimes I want to download a YouTube video, and yes there are plenty of tools on the web to help you doing that, but I really want something that doesn't require installation each time I want to download a YouTube video. So, I’ve decided to write some pure (don’t want to download JQuery or any other library) JavaScript to help me do that, this script will work locally and you only need to open the html file on your machine. Download YouTube Download Html (Right Click and Save) I’ve add...
Tweet I know this sound like something from computer games, but not. I was showing some demos on my machine and some one asked me during the demo: What is the “GodMode” folder on your desktop? GodMode is a nice trick I’m using from Windows Vista to manage my computer, GodMode lets me access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder. Create a folder, the name is not important. Rename the folder name to: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} And Walla! Now...
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