The Daily Six Pack: July 23, 2014

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Software Development Process Seven Changes to Remove Waste From Your Software Development Process, Cecil Dijoux Other SSMS: Activity – All Blocking Transactions, Pinal Dave Tips and tricks for using XAML controls in your universal Windows apps, Windows Apps Team Capitalization Conventions in .NET, Brian Mullen The

The Daily Six Pack: November 8, 2013

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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Virtual Reality Virtual Reality in the .NET Framework, Part 1, Eric Vogel Other New Features in Blend for Visual Studio 2013, Alvin Ashcraft .NET Framework setup verification tool and cleanup tool now support .NET Framework 4.5.1, Aaron Stebner Compare Clone Code in

The Daily Six Pack: July 29, 2013

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Ajax Control Toolkit release for July brings performance improvements to the fore. This July release of the Ajax Control Toolkit introduces Control Bundles. To take advantage of this and other performance features, you need to do two things. Create an AjaxControlToolkit.config file to list all the controls used on your site

The Daily Six Pack: June 19, 2013

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Fix System Restore in Windows 7 and 8... well there is something you don't hear every day. System restore has saved my bacon on many occasions. But if for some reason your Operating System isn't creating those System Restore Points, you could be headed for a bucket load of trouble.

The Daily Six Pack: May 11, 2013

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Hello and welcome to more tech goodness. Beth Massi, a Senior Program Manager on Microsoft's Visual Studio team answers a couple questions she received recently. In particular, how do you add data to tables with a one-to-zero-or-one relationship in Visual Studio LightSwitch. Then you might remember that earlier in the week Julie

Windows 8 Tips Part 17 – Enable Merge Folder Dialogue

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Back in Windows 7, when you copied a folder into another folder that already contained a sub-folder with the same name, you would receive a warning dialogue warning you that the folders with the same name will be merged. This at least gave you a heads-up before continuing. Unfortunately (or fortunately,