The thing I like about Microsoft is that they really give away some nice free stuff. If you have ever been to a Microsoft Event, you will know that they usually hand out some goodies to the attendees. For example, the last event I went to I received a laptop…
What is Windows To Go? In short, it is a fully manageable Windows 8 Desktop on a bootable USB drive and is only available with Windows 8 Enterprise. IT Departments can give staff access to the corporate environment without compromising security. This means that users can use the USB drive to boot from any PC available (At home, At Work, connected or disconnected). It is like having your secure corporate PC in your pocket.
Including today there are 27 days till 2013. Hope your new years resolutions are made. For now, here is The Daily Six Pack. Episode 52 of Visual Studio Toolbox: Sample Browser Visual Studio Extension, Robert Green What are ‘unmanaged resources’ in .Net?, Iris Classon Getting info from .NET applications in…
The Windows 8 Start Screen can become cluttered with all the Apps you install and download from the Windows Store. Did you know that you can create groups and name them? It kind of reminds me of the excellent Fences app by Stardock. The only difference is that Fences organises your desktop, while in Windows 8, you are grouping and organising your Start screen tiles. You can start organising your apps by dragging them into neat groups on the Start screen.
Kick off the start of the week with a sixer. Here is The Daily Six Pack. Enjoy! Ultimate Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcut Guide, Steve Sinchak Microsoft launches web-based Windows 8 app creator, John Callaham StringBuilder performance issues in .NET 4.0 and 4.5, Jan Krivanek Download the Visual Studio Image Library…
For your Sunday reading pleasure, The Daily Six Pack. Windows Through the Ages, Benj Edwards Developing a Windows 8 Application prototype, Lee Stott The "Light" theme for Windows store apps, Amar Nityananda Updated TFS 2012 Power Tools for Update 1, Brian Harry Windows Azure Training Kit - November 2012 31…
Welcome to December. And nothing better (for me anyway) than to kick it off with The Daily Six Pack. Enjoy! Events and Delegates Simplified, Meysam Mahfouzi Building Beautiful and Interactive Windows 8 apps with JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3 | Presentation, Demo and Resources, Doris Chen New LightSwitch VS 2012 “How…
How important is the data on your PC to you? Let me rephrase that, how sensitive is that information? Are you a lawyer that has confidential case files on your PC? Are you a doctor that needs to keep patient or research data of clinical trials safe and secure? Are you a small business owner that views the data on your PC as essential for your business survival? Are you none of the above, but need to protect files such as tax information, salary information, medical history data or other more risqué files you rather would not fall into the wrong hands? [Please note: Securing anything illegal plays havoc on your Karma and will make you a very unhappy person]
If you enjoy The Daily Six Pack or have any suggestions on how to improve The Daily Six Pack, please let me know in the comments section. Enjoy! Windows 8 – 40 Million Licenses Sold, Brandon LeBlanc EF Fixes in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, Rowan Miller Windows Phone 8 Tip: Send…
I quickly wanted to share a nice trick I learned today in Excel 2013. As we all know, visualizing data trumps any text representation hands down. In programming, when we as developers can create useful dashboards we give our applications a definite edge above other competing apps out there. It is no wonder that Excel is so good at charting and visualizing data.
To illustrate this nice trick, open up Office Excel 2013 and enter some random City Names in column A, and dummy sales figures for each city in Column B.