Hello again on the half week hump. From here on it is all downhill to the weekend. Omkar Khair discusses getting started with Github on Windows 8 while Pinal Dave simplifies Primary Keys and NonClustered Indexes for us. Then Janes Oosthuizen wrote an excellent article on enabling iPad Gestures in…
Scott Hanselman speaks about managing your personal brand online in this 50 minute video. So put aside a lunch hour and have a look see. Pinal Dave takes a trip down memory lane and lists a few of his favourite posts of the past few years. His blog is definitely one you…
Visual Studio 2012 has a quirk that many users despise. The Uppercase menu. Now personally I don’t mind it, but some developers simply hate it. Unfortunately, it’s not an option you can just enable or disable. Fortunately, there are people out there that have a solution for this (See Reference below).
Before we continue, the solution involves editing the registry. Modifying the registry can cause problems or unexpected results, so continue at your own risk. (Seeing as the intended audience will probably be developers, I guess you have no qualms with modifying the registry). Now that this warning is out of the way, let’s continue.
Today, Google Developer Relations' Nicolas Garnier talks about elevating your app in Google Drive using the Drive SDK. Michael Washington takes us through an end-to-end Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML5 Application. If you have never played with LightSwitch before, I invite you to try it out. LightSwitch is incredibly powerful. Gouri Sohoni…
Today marks the first day with The Daily Six Pack's brand new Logo. The logo was designed by Janes Oosthuizen and captures exactly what I imagined it to be. I have also created a Twitter Account called @SixPackEveryDay, so head on over to Twitter and follow if you want to get…
The PowerPoint Add-In for Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate users is a great tool to quickly create interface designs that you can provide to your customers. This in turn allows you to gain valuable feedback from them because you can make these designs interactive.
What is even better is that, because it is PowerPoint, your customers can change elements on the form to illustrate exactly what they mean. To start using PowerPoint Storyboarding, head on over to your Windows 8 Search. (Windows Key + C to activate the Charm Bar and select Search)
As you type “PowerPoint Storyboarding” into the search field, the results will filter until you can select the application from the search results.
Greg Duncan shows us version 2 of the Coding4Fun Toolkit. Rohit Shaw shares another post on Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2012 and Scott Hanselman lifts the lid on MultiEdit, an awesome free Visual Studio extension. We also take a look at disabling Java to improve security and Robert Moore…
In today's post, Jon Skeet shows us how to create a thread safe class using the singleton pattern. This is an excellent post, and very well worth a read. Then for the LightSwitch fans out there, some 'How Do I?' videos. Ray Shuman goes through how to prepare your Windows…
Today, Brandon LeBlanc has a Q&A with Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller on how Windows 8 is doing. Then, if you are interested in Adruino, Andrew Chalkley takes us through a beginners guide. Want to write better C#? Then read Monjurul Habib's article on CodeProject before checking…
Today, Iris Classon takes a look at Windows Store Apps for beginners while Jon Galloway has a whirl round Visual Studio 2012 and the included Git support. Sandeep Singhal tells us a bit more about modern.IE. A simple design time data example with Windows Store Applications for beginners, Iris Classon…