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MeasureTime function with Action
A small piece of code; if you want to test the speed of a function, you can use a timer. I created a helper function to capture this stopwatch timer. It executes your code and shows the amount of time it took to execute the action. Feedback is welcome. /// <summary> /// Measures the time [...]
Hyper V R2 server on USB
Always wanted to play with your own Hyper V R2 Server but you did not want to install it on a disk? Or do you own a server with an internal USB connection and want to virtualize? Have a look at Hyper V R2, the free hypervisor of Microsoft. You can download it for free [...]
Handling the The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure exception
If your application accesses a webservice or other type of service where a secure connection is required by the use of SSL, you need to make sure this SSL certificate is valid. On a development machine this is not always possible. At runtime the application will throw an exception: System.Security.Authentication.AuthenticationException: The remote certificate is invalid [...]
SQL Azure update (SU2)
The SQL Azure team announced a planned upgrade to the SQL Azure environment. This update (SU2) was announed at MIX10 and contains support for Multiple Active Row Sets. The 50 GB databases and spatial data are planned for SU3 (June). The update will be rolled out over the datacenters and will be finished at the [...]
Create predicates with the PredicateBuilder
When passing a predicate to a function, you can use lambda expressions like this: a => a.Id == 1 This is a nice way to specify strongly typed expressions to a function which can be checked at compile time. But what if you want to create an expression based on some parameters? You want to dynamically add [...]
jQuery (UI and themes) CDN with Google and Microsoft
There are multiple javascript frameworks out there, but jQuery is one of my personal favorites. Combine it with jQuery UI and the vast amount of plugins available and you can do almost anything with it. Of course you can download the source or minified files and put them on your own server, but you can [...]
Use action filter to fill in parameters
When you use MVC you basically build Actions. Each action is reached by a route and parameters of the action are parsed from either the querystring or form values. This makes it easy to access the supplied values in the route or form and use them in your code. It is also very convenient to access the [...]
MS shows new OCS version
Microsoft has made some more details public about the next version of OCS. See ZDNet for more details. The interface looks nice and more social functions are integrated. There is also support for geolocation and to find people based on their location. See also the screenshots at ZDNet.
Is there going to be an App store for BPOS?
There are some rumors that Microsoft is creating an application store for their Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). See this article for more information: http://enterprisecloudnews.com/2010/03/microsoft-preparing-bpos-app-store/ The dedicated cloud-watchers here at The VAR Guy have heard some rumblings. Rumor has it Microsoft’s BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) will soon gain a SaaS application store. Our sources [...]