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Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here with additional notes below it. Let me know which one of the following is your favorite article from memory lane. […]...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Lets say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by anyone unless they login (or maybe even login as an admin).  Using web.config (with Visual Studio 2012), transformations makes that very straight forward.  I know because I just did [...]...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

There is more to styles in web development than .class and #id. The structure of your HTML is also important....Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Working on implementing a POC to demonstrate the new e-Discovery capabilities in SharePoint and Exchange 2013 I hit an interesting issue which I could not find any resources online. To setup the e-Discovery I successfully: Installed the EWS components on SP2013 servers Established S2S auth between Exchange and SharePoint 2013 by following the TechNet article Configured permissions on the Exchange side Added and validated a Search Result Source for Exchange After provisioning an e-Discovery site ,I managed to successfully add a mailbox but then notice the following error on the page: "This source may be invalid, you do not have permission to access this location, or the location is not indexed by Search." Looking at the ULS log I noticed the following exception: "ExecuteDiscoveryQuery: Query to Mailbox with Id [/o=ALIMAZ/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=12f2304707574b4c88a645db9e7c09e2-Administrator], IsArchive [True] failed with error code [0] and error message [Search AdminRpc call failed on Mailbox database instance 1b061d06-19a9-4fcd-b61b-9dcac1a1c97b with return code 2802.]" After searching online and not finding anything related to the above error I suspected that our friend Exchange should be the cause of this error :), wearing my Exchange admin hat (Kinda scary) I saw the same error in the event log on Exchange server and running Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet noticed that Content Index State for the mailbox database is in "FailedandSuspended" mode. Following TechNet article Reseed the search catalog and manually resetting the index on Exchange resolved the issue and I managed to conduct queries against Exchange from e-Discovery site and wrap up the POC:

The popular digital magazine app Zinio arrived in the Windows Phone Store this week as an exclusive for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 models. (Miss it? You can grab it here.) It’s a beautifully-designed app that should please any magazine junkie. But it gets better: To celebrate their debut, Zinio is also offering a $50 magazine credit to jump start your library. Click here to claim the credit. The deal ends June 30. Zinio has an impressive stable of publications to pick from—everything from mainstream titles like The Economist, Esquire, and Rolling Stone to niche offerings such as Poker Player and Simply Crochet. Reader-friendly features of the official Windows Phone app include the ability to pull articles from multiple sources into your own customized reading list and read magazines offline. Zinio also serves up free articles each day from a selection of top-drawer titles. Check it out and let me know what you think.

This blog post was authored by Joao Lucas Guberman Raza, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam In this post we cover important information for Windows Phone 8 developers who use the XAudio2 APIs, including best practices for battery performance. XAudio2 is a high-performance audio API available in Windows 8, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 8. An app developer can use XAudio2 to create audio graphs in which they can treat each audio source in the graph as a distinct “voice.” The developer can apply different effects to each of the “voices.” In Windows Phone 8, the XAudio2 engine must be aligned with the life cycle of the app. This means that if an app is suspended, the app that’s using XAudio2 must force the XAudio2 engine to stop. When the app resumes/rehydrates, if it is designed to resume sounds using XAudio2, it must restart the XAudio2 engine. Significant battery drain can occur if an app doesn’t stop the XAudio2 engine when the app is suspended, and the engine continues to run. To avoid this scenario, an app must call IXAudio2::StopEngine when the app is suspended as described in the Native audio APIs for Windows Phone 8. When the app is resumes, it should call IXAudio2::StartEngine. For Silverlight and Direct3D with XAML apps, the suspend/resume APIs are the Suspended and Activated events. For Direct3D native-only apps, the suspend/resume APIs are the Suspending and CoreView Resuming events. The following code examples show you how you can do this in a pure native Direct3D app. First create the XAudio2 object, which handles the XAudio2 sound APIs. C++ IXAudio2* pXAudio = NULL ; if( FAILED(XAudio2Create(&pXAudio, 0, XAUDIO2_DEFAULT_PROCESSOR) ) )         return false ; if ( FAILED(pXAudio->CreateMasteringVoice( &pMasterVoice ) ) )         return false; Then, on the suspending/resume events, set up the XAudio2 object to call StopEngine and then StartEngine. In the following example, we use the default events in the Windows Phone 8 SDK template for Direct3D native-only apps. C++ void WindowsApp::Initialize(CoreApplicationView^ applicationView)     {     applicationView->Activated +=         ref new TypedEventHandler(this, &WindowsApp::OnActivated);     CoreApplication::Suspending +=         ref new EventHandler(this, &WindowsApp::OnSuspending);     CoreApplication::Resuming +=         ref new EventHandler(this, &WindowsApp::OnResuming);     } void WindowsApp::OnSuspending(Platform::Object^ sender, SuspendingEventArgs^ args) {     pXAudio->StopEngine() ; }    void WindowsApp::OnResuming(Platform::Object^ sender, Platform::Object^ args)    {     pXAudio->StartEngine() ; } With these steps, you can design your app to follow best practices for battery consumption when you use the XAudio2 APIs. It’s important to note that this is one of many best practices you can use in your app. To learn more, see also local folder best practices for Windows Phone, localization best practices for Windows Phone, and background agent best practices for Windows Phone.

Body: I’m running a Free workshop with Bill Pitts in Utah on May 30, and have a few seats available.  I’d like to give others the opportunity to attend.  Thursday, May 30, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (MDT) Includes light breakfast & lunch Microsoft Offices in Lehi Utah3400 N. Ashton Blvd., Suite 300Lehi, UT 84043View Map Maximize your existing SharePoint Investments or in your SharePoint 2013 Upgrade or Deployment We’ll surface real- world examples from your industry that demonstrate the real business value your company can receive by maximizing the investment... We’ll surface real-world examples from your industry that demonstrate the real business value your company can receive by maximizing the investment you’ve ALREADY made in your SharePoint platform. This session is BUSINESS-focused, NOT technology-focused, for business stakeholders who are responsible for defining and/or executing strategies for their division, department or organization Read MoreWe hope you can make it!Cheers,Joel Oleson Hold a seat to attend the Event If you’re disappointed you won’t be able to make this, I’m working with the MS teams to put one of these together in Seattle/Bellevue in a couple of months… I’m also co-presenting with Bill at a few User Groups in So Cal and can present this on site for some customers potentially while in the area… Attachments: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/651/image_2_0A9B665C.pnghttp://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/651/image_thumb_0A9B665C.png

Twitter's video-sharing app, Vine, has been used for a variety of teasers, including a Wolverine movie, a TV series, and the new Daft Punk album. Keen to promote its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft is taking to Vine to create some entertaining and unique six-second sequences. In a series of "not your father's browser" clips posted to its browser you loved to hate site, Microsoft is once again poking fun at the perceptions of its old web browser. The vines depict a relationship between old Internet Explorer and his son, modern Internet Explorer. One shows Internet Explorer 10 celebrating the news that he's adopted. Another includes a bluescreen when old Internet Explorer attempts to rotate, a modern feature of Internet Explorer 10.... Continue reading…

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