UWA: This application can only run in the context of an AppContainer

Enrico
C# .NET language

Run it from VS (with or without debugging). This will actually install unpackaged version of your app, so you will see it in the start screen. Create a package to use locally. You can do this in VS by going to Store → Create App Package → Build a package to use only locally. This will create a bunch of files, including a command-line script that will actually install the app. You probably could use this method to distribute the app, but it would work only on developer-enabled computers. Publish…

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Microsoft now has six million Windows Insiders

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In a video posted earlier (see it below), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella once again accepted the challenge of former NFL player Steve Gleason, who suffers from ALS, and poured a bucket of ice cold water over his head along with Terry Myerson and members of the Windows 10 team. At the same time, Myerson, head of the Windows and Devices division, confirmed that six million have signed up to the Windows Insider program that sees users able to test preview releases of Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, according to Windows…

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Universal Windows app samples

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windows store universal windows platform

On GitHub Microsoft have published a lot of examples for Universal Apps: the link is https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples This repo contains the samples that demonstrate the API usage patterns for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10. These code samples were created with the Universal Windows templates available in Visual Studio, and are designed to run on desktop, mobile, and future devices that support the Universal Windows Platform. Universal Windows Platform development These samples require Visual Studio 2015 and the Windows Software Development Kit…

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Windows 10: Changing Paradigms

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Windows 10 is the main discussion topic in the online development communities. This new operating system that is currently in the technical preview (and available through the Microsoft insider program) is a milestone in the platform unification journey that Microsoft embarked upon with starting with Windows Phone and Windows 8 operating systems. With Windows 10, developers and users are introduced to one development kit, one store, one application and one binary distribution package. Introducing Windows Core With Windows 10, developers are introduced to the new Windows Core concept. Windows Core…

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Windows 10 uses peer-to-peer networking to distribute updates by default

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Now that Windows is a service (WaaS), which means it will constantly be updated rather than have big regular updates, Microsoft has put some features in to Windrows 10 to speed up the delivery of those updates. One feature that may have escaped your notice is called Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO). This feature isn’t mentioned in the "Get Started" app but needs to be searched for in the documentation. This new Windows 10 feature works in a similar way to torrent technology which uses a peer to peer network…

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Crypt and decrypt your email with JavaScript

Enrico

If you want to publish an email on your site but you want to protect it, I have a simple solution   HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <script src="crypto.js"></script> <script src="uncrypto.js"></script> </head> <body> <h1>JavaScript eMail Encrypter</h1> <p>You can encrypt mailto: links on a website, so that spiders can’t detect them, with a simple javascript.</p> <p>Example: <a href="javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto(‘nbjmup;spttjojAftjb/dp’);">rossini [at] esia [dot] co</a></p> <form> <div> <div class="container"> <div class="desc">enter your eMail address:</div> <div><input type="text" name="emailField" size="40" maxlength="255" /></div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="desc"><input type="button" name="ecrypt" value="Crypt eMail Address" onclick="CryptMailto()" /></div>…

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Classical Inheritance in JavaScript

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JavaScript is a class-free, object-oriented language, and as such, it uses prototypal inheritance instead of classical inheritance. This can be puzzling to programmers trained in conventional object-oriented languages like C++ and Java. JavaScript’s prototypal inheritance has more expressive power than classical inheritance, as we will see presently. Java JavaScript Strongly-typed Loosely-typed Static Dynamic Classical Prototypal Classes Functions Constructors Functions Methods Functions But first, why do we care about inheritance at all? There are primarily two reasons. The first is type convenience. We want the language system to automatically cast references…

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Apple Pay Has Officially Launched In The U.K.

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The Eagle has landed. An accidental tweet told us that the U.K. wouldn’t have to wait for Apple Pay much longer, and that tweet was right. Apple Pay has officially launched in the U.K. Finally! It has been available to customers here in the US since last October, so your time has finally come, U.K. Hopefully your bank is one of the launch participants: American Express, First Direct, HSBC, Nationwide, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Ulster Bank. I use Simple as my bank and had to wait until…

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Delete all Stored Procedures at once

Enrico

If this is a one- time task, just open Object Explorer, expand your database > programmability and highlight the Stored Procedures node. Then turn on Object Explorer Details. On the right you should see your list, and here you can multi-select – so you can sort by name, choose all procedures that start with aspnet_, and delete them all with one keystroke. If you are doing this repeatedly, then (assuming your procedures are all in the dbo schema): DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(MAX) = N”; SELECT @sql += N’DROP PROCEDURE dbo.’ +…

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Microsoft may be interested in buying struggling chip vendor AMD

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Microsoft may be interested in buying AMD, according to a new report citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Microsoft has a lot to gain by acquiring AMD’s APU business, given the Redmond giant’s ambitions in the console gaming segment. Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 use AMD’s Jaguar-architecture APU, and if Microsoft were to buy AMD, Sony will have to shell out a significant amount of money to Microsoft on each PlayStation sold. The vendor can side with other chip manufacturers, but that will mean designing a new…

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ASP.NET MVC 3: Razor’s @: and syntax

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Razor minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required when writing a view template, and enables a fast, fluid coding workflow. Unlike most template syntaxes, you do not need to interrupt your coding to explicitly denote the start and end of server blocks within your HTML. The Razor parser is smart enough to infer this from your code. This enables a compact and expressive syntax which is clean, fast and fun to type. For example, the Razor snippet below can be used to iterate a list of products: When run,…

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Five key trends in the developer economy

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The Developer Megatrends report series distills the major data points and insights from our research into the most important trends in the developer economy. In this 7th edition Megatrends report, we cover app business models and examine how developers can escape the poverty trap. We look at how consumer technology will invade the enterprise, and how data will be at the center of the most interesting apps in the coming years. We’ll also revisit experience roaming – a trend from 2010 that is now in full swing. One thing is…

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Using the UpdateProgress to lock down controls in the browser

Enrico

If it takes awhile for the server to process the postback (e.g. complex rules or badly written code ), the user may not realize that the server is processing the request. This can lead to all kinds of issues with users that are not savvy or familiar with web applications (multiple clicks, moving off the page, etc.). Consequently, I want to tell the user that the server is processing the request and disable the controls on the page. Let’s break this down into two steps: show a message, and disable…

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A free version of Google Play Music has launched just before Apple Music

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The company is making a Pandora-like radio streaming service available to everyone in the US initially, consisting of curated playlists and automatically generated streams. However, users won’t be able to pick any song they want like Spotify’s free tier allows. “We think that by giving users a taste of Google Play Music, through the ad-supported tier, more users will ultimately become paying subscribers,” said Google Play’s vice president of partnerships Zahavah Levine. “Until now, this was a lost opportunity – to bring more people into Google Play Music.” Google is…

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Windows 10 to come on USB sticks in addition to DVD

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According to information obtained by Winfuture.de, Windows 10 may be sold on USB drives in addition to DVD disks. The unnamed source of Winfuture’s information also reports that both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 10 will be available on the thumb drive, and the customer will be able to choose which version to install. This is an added advantage of placing the Windows 10 install files on a USB drive as historically DVD copies will solely be for either a 32 or 64 bit system. If true,…

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Download ReportViewer 2010, ReportViewer 11 and SQLSysClrTypes

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Have you tried to install ReportViewer on a server? If you as me receive a similar error, I have a solution. When you have to install the Report Viewer on a server, it’s quite difficult to find the install file and a reference for Report Viewer 11 (SQL System Clear Tyle). Here you can download the last ReportViewer with its dependencies. SQLSysClrTypes.zip (1.4MB)ReportViewer.zip (6.1MB)ReportViewer2010.zip (4.5MB)

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How to roll back from Windows 10 Mobile preview to Windows Phone 8.1

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It’s the first preview of the universal version of Office apps, and starting with build 10080 the operating system now expands to new phone headsets, including the Lumia Icon/Lumia 930, Lumia 640/Lumia 640 XL, and HTC’s One (M8), which is the first non-Lumia phone joining the Windows 10 preview program. Although, now more users can get access to Windows 10 Mobile preview and get their hands of on the new preview of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, Microsoft warns that there is a significant number of bugs in this particular…

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Reading and Writing XML in C#

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In this article, you will see how to read and write XML documents in Microsoft .NET using C# language.  First, I will discuss XML .NET Framework Library namespace and classes. Then, you will see how to read and write XML documents. In the end of this article, I will show you how to take advantage of ADO.NET and XML .NET model to read and write XML documents from relational databases and vice versa. Introduction to Microsoft .NET XML Namespaces and Classes Before start working with XML document in .NET Framework, It…

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Russian Dies After Eating Tablet Computer to Avoid Police Detention

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A man in St. Petersburg has died after eating parts of a smashed-up tablet computer to avoid being detained by police, the law enforcement agency said Monday. Police were called to an apartment in the city at about 5 p.m. on Sunday after reports that someone was throwing items out of a window, the regional branch of the Interior Ministry said in a statement. When the local police commissioner arrived at the scene, the 41-year-old unemployed man started to behave strangely by eating pieces of glass and the smashed-up tablet…

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Could Microsoft’s biggest Windows 10 feature be AllJoyn powered interoperability?

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  The new, more open Microsoft has been implementing support for a lot of popular cross platform and open source technologies previously held at a distance by Redmond. Recently we’ve heard of support for open source projects like Node.js and SSH. But last November, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would work with a new technology called AllJoyn and this led Time magazine to speculate that it could be the biggest secret Windows 10 feature. AllJoyn is a protocol or common language that allows for devices to talk with each other…

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Microsoft explains what you’ll lose by upgrading to Windows 10

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Microsoft announced today that it will be launching Windows 10 on July 29th, encouraging Windows 7 and 8.1 users to reserve their free upgrade with a notification in their task bar. However, while the company has been busy highlighting all the shiny new features in the upcoming OS, it’s been a bit quieter when it comes to spelling out the limitations — including making updates automatic for Windows 10 Home users. Firstly there are the software losses. Most of these will only affect a small number of users, but upgrading will mean…

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New report claims Microsoft has bought Wunderlist for up to $200 million

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A couple of weeks after rumors first hit the Internet that Microsoft might be in talks to acquire the popular “to-do” app Wunderlist, a new report claims that the acquisition is a done deal. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft has purchased the company behind the app, the German-based 6Wunderkinder, for between $100 and $200 million. Neither company has officially confirmed this deal, but the WSJ claims that the Wunderlist team will remain in its home office in Berlin, Germany to continue working on the app. If the report…

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Windows and OS X are malware, claims Richard Stallman

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Linux GNU firebrand Richard Stallman says Windows and Apple’s OS X are malware, Amazon is Orwellian, and anyone who trusts the internet-of-things is an ass. In a column for The Guardian Stallman preaches to the non-technical masses about the evils of proprietary software and vendor lock-in, and how closed-door coding facilitates clandestine deals with nation state spy agencies. “What kinds of programs constitute malware? Operating systems, first of all,” Stallman testifies. “Apple systems are malware too: MacOS snoops and shackles; iOS snoops, shackles, censors apps and has a backdoor. “Even…

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Future Decoded 2015 – your future starts today!‏

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Join us at Future Decoded, a unique experience from Microsoft that brings together some of the world’s technical experts to explore the opportunities that will define your success in the 21st Century. Following last year’s inaugural event, we’re back with an even greater line up of industry superstars to inspire you. Register your interest now to attend deep dive technical sessions, share learnings and network with tons of other developers and IT Professionals. There has never been a more exciting time to work in the tech industry.                            

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