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Solution: GitHub Actions Failing with Unexpected value 'branches'

Microsoft Teams - How to Get a Link to a Private Channel

Adobe Lightroom Import - How to change dash in folder name to underscore

This is Not A Toy - Mandalorian + Grogu Puzzle Added to Puzzle Wall

The Case of the Last T: A behind the scenes look at how we decided to capitalize the T in Azure.IoT

Solution to Could not locate the included file jekyll-theme-primer

Solution to PNG files not rendering on GitHub

Solution: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime when calling DateTime.ParseExact on results of GetDetailsOf call

Solution to GitHub CLI 'GraphQL error: Resource protected by organization SAML enforcement. You must grant your OAuth token access to this organization.'

Introducing the New Azure SDKs

Proactive Mentorship

Proactive Mentorship

Solution - Value cannot be null. Parameter name paths at System.IO.Path.Combine(String[] paths) at Microsoft.TemplateEngine.Utils.EngineEnvironmentSettings.DefaultPathInfo.get_BaseDir()

Where to Find Your SpectraView II Serial Number

I'm moving to Starbucks to be the new Chief Coffee Officer!

Solution to "No Bluetooth adapter found" on RaspberryPi 3

HIRING: Senior PM Evangelist - Internet of Things (IoT) - Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Fix for Azure Stream Analytics–Duplicate property names are not allowed

3D Printing Lesson Learned: Nozzles are Fragile. Have a Spare On Hand.

Solution to "Port '443' is in use" When Starting a Web App from Visual Studio

Workaround for "Not Enough Storage. This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. You can manage your storage in Settings."

Announcing Open Live Writer

Announcing Open Live Writer

Solution to "No nearby Photons detected." while running particle setup

HueyPro by Pantone Doesn't Have a Windows 10 Driver

Solution to "Built-in function 'has_dbaccess' is not supported in this version of SQL Server." when connecting to an Azure SQL Database from Access

How to get a Particle Photon MAC Address before connecting it to a WiFi network

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Solution to "Why can't I change my billing address country when buying something from MicrosoftStore.com"

How to build a simple blinking led circuit with a capacitor, transistor and two resistors

Solution to: Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed

Where can I download older versions of Photoshop?

On Developer Productivity

Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Starbucks

Solution to "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item" c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\ink\tabtip.exe when trying to edit a PDF file.

Solution to sluggish Lenovo X1 Carbon running Windows 8.1 while connected to Targus ACP71USZ Docking Station

AngularJS CRUD Grid v5: Now with Dynamic Columns

Solution to: Attach database failed for Server. Unable to open the physical file. Operating system error 5: "5(Access is denied.)". (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 5120)

Warning: Don't install Windows 8.1 on your Asus UX31A while plugged into your Targus Docking Station ACP71

HermanMiller Aeron Chair 12 Year Warranty is NOT Transferrable

Solution to: Inheritance security rules violated by type: 'System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory'. Derived types must either match the security accessibility of the base type or be less accessible.

Solution to: [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from 'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' in the context 'Default' at location 'C:\windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.WebPages.Razor\v4.0_2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll'. Type B originates from 'System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' in the context 'Default' at location 'C:\Users\jong\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\6f8c444d\f737f6f4\assembly\dl3\dde55404\3dbcbf4e_cab0ce01\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll'.

How to Integrate a Bootswatch Theme into an ASP.NET Mvc App

Solution to: "The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value" with Entity Framework when calling SaveChanges

Use OWA when Outlook 2013 doesn't let you delete folders from Deleted Items. "Cannot delete this folder. Right-click the folder, and then click Properties to check your permissions for this folder. See the folder owner or your administrator to change your permissions." & "Outlook is synchronizing local changes made to items in this folder. You cannot remove this folder until the synchronization with the server is complete."

My Thoughts on the Microsoft Career Model

I need 2 QA/Test engineers pronto. Remember that super-secret project I was telling you about? Well now we need to test the thing

My Thoughts on Work:Life Balance at Microsoft

KakaoTalk - A free alternative to WhatsApp

My Thoughts on the Microsoft Employee Review Model

Solution to "Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\TestResults\Out\'." when running Unit Tests via ReSharper in Visual Studio 2012

Solution to: "The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\TypeScript\Microsoft.VisualStudio.WJProject.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk."

Windows 8 File History is great for version history, but make sure you have an alternate "latest version restore" plan.

Solution: The Sony QuickTime plug-in was not able to initialize the QuickTime components on your system. It appears that QuickTime for Windows is not properly installed. QuickTime files cannot be read or written without a full installation of the QuickTime version 7.1.6 or greater components, including the authoring components.

How and Where I Bought Fully Functional iPhone 5 Lightning Cables for Less Than $4 Each

Solution to "iTunes was unable to load provider data from Sync Services. Reconnect or try again later"

Yes, Google Maps is better than Apple Maps…But I Can't Add Businesses to My Contacts!

The Unwritten Requirements for Implementing an Email Notification Unsubscribe Feature

AzureConf 2012 Speaker Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & LinkedIn Accounts

Build 2012 Speaker Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & LinkedIn Accounts

Web Unleashed 2012 Speaker Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & LinkedIn Accounts

Solution to Windows+S Screen Clipping Shortcut not working in Office 2013

Ladies Who Code 2012 Speaker Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & LinkedIn Accounts

IAB MIXX 2012 Speaker Blogs, Twitter & LinkedIn Accounts

MADExpo 2012 Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts

Where is the Mac App Store on Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6)?

How to upgrade to Lion (10.7) from Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6)

How to upgrade Mac OS X from Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7) to Mountain Lion (10.8)

How to upgrade to Mountain Lion (10.8) from Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6) or Lion (10.7)

Don't fall for the "lol wat r you doing n this video" or the "heh u didnt see them tapping u" phishing scam on Twitter

DevReach 2012 Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts

That Conference One Day 2012 : Harper College Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts

Philly DotNet Code Camp 2012.1 Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts

Code Camp NYC 2012 Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts

ThatConference Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts

Minnesota Developers Conference 2012 (MDC) Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts

Vote for my CodePlex work item if you also find it annoying that NuGet clears the search string every time you select a different tab (Online, Updates, Installed, etc)

Solution to the exception: "Updating 'Newtonsoft.Json 4.5.8' to 'Newtonsoft.Json 4.5.5' failed. Unable to find a version of 'Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client' that is compatible with 'Newtonsoft.Json 4.5.5'." when trying to install the twitterizer NuGet package in Visual Studio 2012

After 2 months of training I can now run a 5K! A review of C25K, MapMyRun and a few audiobook recommendations.

How to load a webpage that uses Windows Authentication with HtmlAgilityPack, WebProxy and UseDefaultCredentials

Solution to "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Web\MVC 4\CodeTemplates\AddView\CSHTML\Empty.tt(-1,-1): error: There was a problem getting an AppDomain to run the transformation from the host. The process cannot continue." Exception in Visual Studio 2012

Solution to Intellisense not working in Visual Studio 2012

Solution to unresponsive Visual Studio Extension Manager Update button when trying to update NuGet Package Manager

AT&T might be double billing you for data

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Is it more secure to not allow passwords with special characters? Hyatt.com thinks so.

Couch to 5k for free with voice prompts, music and GPS tracking on iPhone

Solution to hard to check CheckBox when using a DataGridCheckBoxColumn without a Label in WPF

Solution to WPF DataGrid not showing any items after setting the DataSource

How to easily add an attachment to a TFS work item

How to Programmatically Bulk Update TFS Query Columns and Sort Order to Match Another Query Using the TFS SDK

Solution to TF80012: The document cannot be opened because there is a problem with the installation of the Microsoft Visual Studio v10.0 Team Foundation Office integration components.

How to quickly open a TFS New Query form

Solution to the error "An error occured during the transfer. Please check your Wi-Fi connection." with PhotoSync

Solution: TFS always shows ChangedBy as the current user

Solution to missing "Add photos" button in Facebook Photo Album

Solution to "An internal error has occurred: There is something wrong in CryptUnprotectData." in Lightroom 3

Solution to Visio 2010 crash on Windows 7

Solution to the Dell Monitor Buzz

TFS 2010: "Branch by Label" is back in the UI

GEMPLUS GPR400 Driver

Manage SkyDrive from Windows Explorer

Solution to "Error" in Windows Mobile Device Center when trying to dock a Windows Mobile Phone

Solution to an Unresponsive Zune Pad

Solution to the Windows Task Scheduler "Start only if the following network connection is available" disabled issue

Microsoft will Donate 8 Meals to Feeding America for Every IE8 Download

Dimecasts.net – A great Video Based Learning Resource for Developers

Mobile Web Design Book References

Solution to "To install the software, you must log on as a member of the Administrators group." error when installing a Canon Printer

How to copy tables from one Access database to another

Solution to the cmsscciabstractionlayer.cpp Line number: 5892 error

Windows Live Sign-In Assistant Conflicts with Outlook IRM

Hidden Facebook Status Codes

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Solution to SQL Server 2005 SP2 Upgrade Issue : KB921896 1603 29565

Entering Credentials in Gmail App on BlackJack II

Solution to SqlCommand "expects parameter" Exception

Backslash key on Blackjack II

New MSDN & TechNet Search URLs

LINQ TO SQL Designer not updating Codefile Fix

ASP.NET Dynamic Data - A property with name '[table].[column]" does not exist in metadata for entity type '[type]'.

Web Unit Tests Without HttpContext

Solution for "Download Failure" exception with Scottgu's DiggSample

Windows Live SkyDrive - 5 GB of Free Online Disk Space

System.Net.Mail.MailMessage Mail Header Casing Issue Fixed in .NET 2.0 SP1 & .NET 3.5

SilverLight for Linux

Visual Studio - Close All Documents toolbar command

ASP.NET WebProfile Generator Released to CodePlex.com

Workaround for Blend 2 "Edit in Visual Studio" wrong Framework version issue

ATOM 1.0 Schema

How to get your local machines IP address using C#

Solution: WPF/e not showing up on new server deployment

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack for Vista Released

Hiding and showing the Office 2007 ribbon

Solution: How to get the InnerText value of a node when using XmlDataSource

Solution to jagged images in IE at 1600x1200

Page Cannot Be Displayed error in IIS

Commerce Server/IIS: File or assembly name Microsoft.CatalogServer, or one of its dependencies, was not found.

Commerce Server: Failed to get the connection string of the product catalog resource for the specified site.

PhotoSynth TechPreview is now available

Slow Jerky Cursor on Virtual Machine?

JavaScript Lint

What is your dream dev portal?

What's your homepage?

ASP.NET Videos

Learning Platform v3 is live!

Blinq - Database editor webapp autogeneration

Solution to the ambiguous "Configuration Error" - An error occurred loading a configuration file: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Cons of Response.Redirect(url, false)

Convert.ChangeType for Nullable types

Type conversion (From object to Nullable, Enum, Custom TypeConverter)

How to properly unregister a Commerce Server pipeline component

VSTS Performance Tools

Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Mix Day 2 - Office, Media Center, Gadgets, Atlas

Mix Day 1 - Part 1

Mix Day 1 Part 2

Office 12 - What do you think?

Mix it up!

WirDirStat - Disk Usage Utility

Be careful what you have on your clipboard while surfing

VSS File Paths

Outlook 2003 Add-in for XP Events

VSS Cloaking

Name That Control

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