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Remembering 9/11 (from a Developer's Perspective) by A blog by Jason Gaylord

I can still remember today, 11 years later. I was just about to walk in late to my English class at Penn State University when I heard that the first tower was hit on 97.9x. At the time Freddie Fabbri (the insignificant significant one) was the DJ (known...

Old Deployment Options Abandoned in Visual Studio 2012 by A blog by Jason Gaylord

One of my colleagues found out earlier today that a project he recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 was broken. What caused this? The setup project that was added to his solution. Back on July 15th, 2010, a program manager from Microsoft posted that...

Customize the Color Scheme and Theme of Visual Studio 2012 by A blog by Jason Gaylord

During early builds of Visual Studio 2012, many developers griped and complained about the lack of color within the application. By the time VS2012 has RTM’d, two themes shipped with VS2012. There is a light theme and a dark theme. Recently, the Visual...

Launch your Windows 8 app from Idea to Market in 4 weeks by A blog by Jason Gaylord

Begin your 30-day journey to create a great Windows 8 app. Get started here and receive: Insider tips and tricks on Windows 8 application development. Personal on-the-phone access to a Windows 8 architect*. An exclusive one-on-one design consultation...

Windows 8 Released (to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers) by A blog by Jason Gaylord

After much anticipation, Windows 8 is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. There are two versions to download. One version is Windows 8 which has Windows 8 Pro capabilities (with the appropriate key). The other is Windows 8 Enterprise which...

Visual Studio 2012 Released (to MSDN Subscribers) by A blog by Jason Gaylord

Much like Windows 8, many developers have been anticipating the release of Visual Studio 2012. Earlier today, Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Team System were made available to subscribers of MSDN. Non-subscribers of MSDN can download a 90 day...

Windows 8 Enterprise Activation by A blog by Jason Gaylord

If you are downloading the new Windows 8 Enterprise edition from MSDN or TechNet today (as a Volume License Customer) and plan on adding in your volume license, you can do so without the need for a Key Management Server (KMS). To do so, run a command...

SharePoint 2013 Review: Installation Process by A blog by Jason Gaylord

Now that Office 2013 is out, I wanted to check out the new SharePoint 2013. I downloaded the ISO, mounted it in my brand new installation of Windows Server 2012, and clicked setup.exe (no auto run executed on mounting). After a couple of minutes, I was...

Using Conditional Formatting in Microsoft Excel by A blog by Jason Gaylord

Have you ever had a spreadsheet that you’d like to apply formatting, such as highlighting a row, if a certain value was within a particular range? It’s not that difficult to do. Below, I’ll walk through doing this in Microsoft Excel 2003 and again in...

Only One Dialog Box is Allowed in Silverlight by A blog by Jason Gaylord

Today I came across an interesting issue. I have a Silverlight project in which I’d like to be able to show the OpenFileDialog as well as a JavaScript alert. However, I was able to determine (and confirmed at StackOverflow ), that the alert cannot happen...

Why the US is Helping Itself go Bankrupt by A blog by Jason Gaylord

Earlier today, I received an email chain from a family member. I usually read these, but very rarely forward them off. However, this one brings up very interesting points. The tone of the email was against the current Obama administration. I’m going to...

Visual Studio 11 - Now with some Color by A blog by Jason Gaylord

The Visual Studio is constantly reviewing items that have been posted to their User Voice site . One of the items that I’ve been asking for, installation customization in Visual Studio , has been voted up to number 4 on the list. Keep the votes...

So Where Have I Been Now? by A blog by Jason Gaylord

I figured you may ask. Since my last post, I have been working hard to prepare and organize Northeastern PA’s only true technology conference, TECHbash 2012 . The event was great! Everything was a huge success and the attendees seem to be pumped up for...

Should Microsoft and Amazon put Windows 8 on the Kindle? by Jason's Blog

A co-worker of mine sent off a Fox News article yesterday about a Former Microsoft employee that is “fixing” Windows 8 . After reading the article, my first take away was another person explaining the Windows 8 UI flaws. Seriously? Those articles are...

Preventing Web Applications from Inheriting Parent Dependencies (bin) by Jason's Blog

Have you ever created a web application for something specific such as a standalone web app (forum, photo gallery, web service, etc.) while using ASP.NET and received this: If you have, you probably became frustrated. I know I have. The reason this occurs...

JavaScript onClick Navigation Issues within Google Chrome are Solved by Jason's Blog

For the longest time, If I needed to use an onclick event for navigation ( div or some other page element), I’d use something similar to: <div onClick="location.href('/admin');"></div> However...

Finding Microsoft File Transfer Manager by Jason's Blog

Earlier today, Microsoft released Windows 8 Beta. Of course, when I was downloading it, I had to leave and head to another building. So, I paused my download in the Microsoft File Transfer Manager. However, I couldn’t find it easily again. I finally found...

Using Data Annotations in the .NET Framework by Jason's Blog

Starting with .NET 4 or MVC3, a developer could use a data annotation on a property to force data validation. This is extremely powerful especially for MVC developers. The same data annotations can also be used when building custom modules for Orchard...

Using HTML 5 Geolocation, Google Maps to Generate Driving Distance by Jason's Blog

HTML5 will introduce many new and exciting features including the addition of geolocation. Geolocation allows a device to determine a global position of the device (latitude and longitude), it’s accuracy (horizontal accuracy and vertical accuracy), altitude...

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released by Jason's Blog

The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta and ASP.NET Web API Beta have just been released. You can visit the asp.net , msdn.microsoft.com , or Microsoft Download Center to download the latest bits. ASP.NET MVC 4 includes many new features including, but not limited to...