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 I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...

Tweet Quality Center vs. TFS is a question I hear a lot, each customer that works with Quality Center has faced this question when the development team has decided to work with TFS or the Testers want features to help them improve their testing quality. Instead of talking about that subject only with my customers I decided to write something on that subject to help you understand the power of TFS for Testers, and how this platform will improve your Testing abilities with more advance features and...

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...

Brian Harry הודיע על הוצאת Power Tools חדשים . ה – Power Tools מכילים בעיקר חידושים עבור משתמשי ה – Team Explorer Everywhere. לראשונה מיקרוסופט מוציאה Power Tools עבור ה – Team Explorer Everywhere, הפונקציונאליות ב – Power Tools אילה בסך הכול מיישרת קו עם משתמשי ה – Visual Studio בחלק מהפונקציונאליות. התוספות הם: Alerts – המשתמש יוכל להגדיר התראות למייל עבור חוקים שונים, בדיוק כמו שיש למשתמשי ה – Visual Studio Search – פעולה בסיסית שהייתה מאוד חסרה ב – Team Explorer Everywhere נכנסה ל – Power Tools...

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 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...