The Daily Six Pack: September 18, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Notifications Notifications in Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio Blog Other When Objects Become Eligible for Garbage Collection, Sean Sexton Detecting Potential Bottlenecks with the help of Profiler, Pinal Dave Visual Studio 2013…

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The Daily Six Pack: September 17, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 CodeLens CodeLens for Visual Studio 2013 configuration, Jim Wooley Other What’s New in Entity Framework 6.0 RC1, Pravinkumar Dabade 10 Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL, Lukas Eder Three…

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The Daily Six Pack: September 16, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 8.1 Search Dirty fix: Search in Windows 8.1 does not work, Iris Classon Other Windows 8.1 Tip: Use System Image Backup, Paul Thurrott Brilliant New Windows Phone Video Takes on Lapsed iPhone Innovation,…

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Ten Minutes With… Beth Massi

beth massiAny developer involved in LightSwitch will know her name. Programming since the age of 8, Beth Massi and her blog is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to get involved with this awesome technology. Below she answers a few questions about herself, LightSwitch and Microsoft.

Bio

I’m a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and a community champion for business application developers. Before Microsoft, I spent 15 years building business apps for small businesses as well as large enterprises.

I am a frequent speaker at various software development events and you can find me on a variety of developer sites including MSDN.com, Channel 9, and my blog www.bethmassi.com. Follow me on twitter @BethMassi (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: September 13, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 New LightSwitch Features My Favorite New LightSwitch Features in Visual Studio 2013, Beth Massi Other Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available, Brian Harry A better switch with Lambdas in .NET, Part…

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CryptoLicensing For .Net – License Your Software

CryptoLicensingCryptoLicensing – In a previous article I talked about Crypto Obfuscator For .Net which obfuscates your source code allowing you to protect your intellectual property.

As part of this first line of defense, you need to enable licensing in your commercially available software. CryptoLicensing from LogicNP Software is a very good and feature packed licensing tool.

Enabling the logic in your code is really easy. Follow along with the code samples below. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: September 10, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate Announcing the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate, S. Somasegar Other Using Dropbox in your .NET Application, Artem Smirnov Announcing the .NET Framework 4.5.1 RC, The .NET Team Top 10 things…

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Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense Stopped Working – Solved

intellisense stopped working visual studio 2012Sometimes software surprises me. Somehow it just inexplicably stops working the way we expect it to. What is even more surprising is how somewhere, someone has a solution to this problem you are facing.

I am using Visual Studio Ultimate 2012, and the other day while writing some code for a blog post, Intellisense suddenly stopped working. This happened while I was coding and wasn’t a result of me installing anything or removing anything. It literally worked the one minute, and stopped working the next.

Perturbed by this situation, I set out on a (very short) quest to find out how to fix this. (more…)

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