Welcome to Tuesday. Today, Nicholas Butler shows us some code when it comes to Progress Reporting in C# 5 Async. Then if you don't already know, shortly TechDays Online 2013 will be in full swing! If you haven’t registered yet, do so now to take advantage of this unique online 3…
Is your Windows 8 machine taking a millisecond longer to start up? Well, that’s easy to diagnose. Just head on over to the Startup Programs and change what apps are loaded when you start your PC.
Right…. the Startup Tab…. where is it? Well Microsoft have moved the Startup Tab from MSCONFIG to the Task Manager. (When did they tell us about that?)
Yes, and they’ve beefed it up a bit too. So start up your PC and let’s take a closer look. (more…)
Welcome to a new week. For those not eager to start the grindstone, take a few minutes and check out the links in today's edition. Sam Landstrom shows us 11 methods for monetizing Windows Store apps you develop. There are also great articles on Code Snippets (something I'm sure most…
No doubt by now you have heard that Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is available. Check out some of the links below as well as Rob Caron's article on how to install the update offline. With this, the LightSwitch HTML Client is also in this update and Brian Harry talks…
Welcome to Friday! Yes, it is my favourite day of the week. In today's edition of The Daily Six Pack, Kirk Evans talks about the new features in Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. Then, head on over to the TechNet eBook Gallery. There are loads and loads of free…
Do you want to have an all access icon on your desktop? Some call this God Mode but I am sure that if it were, you would be able to do much more.
I came across this tip the other day and thought it would be nice to share here. Windows 8 settings are spread across the OS in various nooks and crannies. How many times have you rooted around the Control Panel in search for that one setting you used a few months ago?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have it all in one place (so that you can go rooting around in only one place)? Well, Mark Kaelin shared this tip on TechRepublic (reference link below) and here it is. (more…)
Today Kirk Evans shows us the difference between Access 2013 and Access of the past. The improvements to the UI is impressive when compared side-by-side. Then Abhinaba Basu shares some nice code for creating shortcuts with Admin privilages. Anand talks about free anti-theft laptop recovery software, so if you're used…
With today's edition I decided to share some different content for a change. I was quite impressed with the Nano Quadrotors clip on YouTube. Check it out, some awesome technology right there. Then Suumit Shah shows us how to find the product key of any software while Paul Thurrott talks…
Tuesday is looking to be a good one so far. To kick the day off, Ian Walker shows us how to programatically search the Windows Store while Paul Thurrott talks about dual-booting Blue and what he has learned. Pinal Dave brings us more great SQL tips and advice in his…
The last two weeks I have been developing an application that creates Sales Orders from a web interface. The application is used to return damaged watches and sunglasses to the repair centre.
It creates a Sales Order entry in SYSPRO and makes use of various custom fields to store data not available in SYSPRO. The application wasn’t very complicated, but did take a few days to complete.
During this development, I came across a nice quick tip (see reference below) when browsing ASP.NET pages in Visual Studio that allows you to specify that you need to browse with a Browser (IE in this case) sans the add-ons. I wanted to share this here.