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source: mobileworld The App Hub has just undergone a (much needed) facelift. Reporting is much better (there IS some reporting), metadata is retained and loads of other enhancements - check it out. However, I came to update one of our apps recently, and had a problem. I went through the procedure of uploading the updated XAP file, and after pressing 'Next' I got the error:- The [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly. (2003) I searched for the error message, saw loads of entries, and then read this from Microsoft:-  "There is currently an issue with the upgraded

App Hub that is affecting app submissions. The error codes states: "The [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly.(2003)" We apologize for the inconvenience. The fix for this issue is to follow the guidance provided on MSDN to add the NeturalResourceLanguage attribute and upload the updated XAP. We sincerely thank you for your patience. " ......(Read whole news on source site)

Here comes the weekly news digest of Silverlight-Zone.com. During last week (i.e. from 7th August 2011 to 13th August) we have submitted 83 news links in Silverlight-Zone on various topics like Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, LightSwitch, XAML, MVVM and more.   In this post, I am going to share the top 5 visited posts @SilverlightZone during last week. Also, I am going to share the daily news digest links in case you missed to find some of them.   Top 5 Posts of the Week In this week, top viewed posts are from

@SharpGIS, @identitymine, Daniel Jebaraj, Tom Warren and @ToddAnglin. Here is the list of top 5 posts, read them if you missed: WPF vs. Silverlight - Part... Read more

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If you are looking for Multi-Threaded application, you must have already tried our very old lock statement (synclock in VB.NET). The lock statement is the most common practice to make certain block of code Thread safe or in other words, it blocks all other Thread from entering the block which one thread is actually executing. [...]

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Besides SharePoint my very dear topics is performance optimizations and new technologies, so here's a post mixing all these together. Background Caching is one way to improve the performance of any application, there are several ways to do it in-memory, disk etc etc. SharePoint 2010 has a set of caching capabilities, most of them are in-memory caches and some involve disk or even SQL based. One problem with (especially) in-memory caching is that if you have a farm different servers may display different results, which is due to the fact that the different servers cached information at

different times. Another problem with in-memory caching is that it's per process, that is that you have different caches for different web applications and application pools. Windows Server AppFabric is an extension to Windows Server. There's one cloud version of AppFabric in Windows Azure but there's also an on-premise installation of AppFabric that contains hosting and caching capabilities. AppFabric is a middle-tier service platform (the real middle-tier, not the other middle-tier :-) and can be used in all kinds of scenarios. The caching features of AppFabric is based on the Velocity project, which was one of my...(Read whole news on source site)

A compendium of Windows Azure, SQL Azure Database, AppFabric, Windows Azure Platform Appliance and other cloud-computing articles. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Drive,

Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database and Reporting Marketplace DataMarket and OData Windows Azure AppFabric: Apps, Caching, Access Control, WIF and Service Bus Windows Azure VM Role, Virtual Network, Connect, RDP and CDN Live Windows Azure Apps, APIs, Tools and Test Harnesses Visual Studio LightSwitch and Entity Framework v4+ Windows Azure Infrastructure and DevOps Windows Azure Platform Appliance (WAPA),...(Read whole news on source site)

So, you grabbed the latest Mango Build and installed it on your phone. Now your probably thinking, Why should I update to the latest Mango Beta 2 Refresh? Well, I will give you two good reasons.  New Screen Shot Tool built into the Emulator Marketplace Test Kit Screen Shot Tool You may be thinking, there are a hundred ways to take a screen shot. I personally used SnagIt, but this involved a lot of steps. Load up SnagIt.

Make sure my Emulator was visible. Click the “Capture Button” in SnagIt. Resize the Image to the proper dimension for the MarketPlace. Save the file as a .PNG for the MarketPlace. Now, Microsoft has made this much easier. Fire up your WP7 project and run it. After the emulator loads then click on the >> button and you will see “Additional Tools”. A new tab is located called “Screenshot”. If you click the Capture button then the image will display in the preview window below as...(Read whole news on source site)

Yesterday I presented at SPSTC, had an absolute blast, and I truly hope the attendees to my session did as well!  That was my requirement! We discussed the reasons for failed requirements management, scope creep and other pitfalls.  But the main goal behind this is how to enable an effective Requirements Management Engine by using SharePoint Technologies and Team Foundation Server. Keep posted as there is much more to come in this space about that thought process.  In the meantime, here is the deck I created. ...(Read whole news on source site)

If you want to write scalable applications with a high throughput you need to take care of good data structure design to make your application scale. If you want to read for example 200 MB data from a file and process it you can finish it in 5 or 30s. To be on the 5s side it is educational to see how fast you actually can get. To measure the raw disc performance I do read the file into a pre allocated byte array. [Test]
public void ReadFile_Store_In_ByteArray()
{

    var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
    int read = 0;
    int numRead = 0;
    using (FileStream rStream = new FileStream(TestData, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite, 4096, FileOptions.SequentialScan))
    {
        byte[] bytes = new byte[210 * 1024 * 1024];         while ((numRead = rStream.Read(bytes, read, 4096)) > 0)
        {
            read += numRead;
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I just had a cool idea! (actually I had it like 6 month ago, but bear with me). My idea involves mixing some of the features in Windows 7 with some of the features in Windows Phone 7, to create a glorious mix!   Windows 7 One of the new features in Windows 7 is the Sensor API which provides a standard interface for accessing sensors of various types, like accelerometer, etc.. I wrote in the past about how you can consume this API from a C# application using
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