I’ve spent a good part of the last 15 years doing .NET development. When I joined IoT and started getting ramped up, I quickly discovered that it is largely an unmanaged non-.net non-Microsoft world.
Canon has a program called the “Customer Loyalty Program” that allows you to send in your broken Canon camera and get a refurbished camera at a discount. There’s nothing about it on the Canon website,
It took me a while to figure out the best way to automatically start a windows app when a user logs into their computer. There were a bunch of suggestions on StackOverflow, but the registry key approa
It took me a few mins to get the exact steps figured out to upgrade the firmware of the Arduino Wifi Shield. Hope this saves you some time. Here are the original steps: http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/Wi
It took me a few mins to get all the right firmware and sdks going for Netduino Plus 2 and Visual Studio 2013. Hope this post saves you some time. .NET Micro Framework and VS2013 Setup 0. Close VS20
I’m working on an NFC project and to test things out I got a PN532 NFC shield working with a RaspberryPi via libnfc. Adafruit has a good step-by-step tutorial, but it’s not up-to-date and it’s for the
I was just messing around with Node.js Tools for Visual Studio and Azure and ran into a few gotchas while getting everything setup. Hopefully this helps you get going. 1. Install the Node.js Tools for
Many years ago, I resolved to get a handle on managing the plethora of email that is part of the Microsoft culture. Email is a very important communication mechanism – it’s just a messaging system -
I just committed a big change to the AngularJS CRUD Grid – Lookup Tables! CODE: https://github.com/jongio/AngularJS-WebApi-EF Here’s what’s included: Lookup tables: You can now specify that a column
I just added filtering to the AngularJS CRUD Grid. AngularJS makes filtering VERY easy. All I had to do was add a text box with ng-model and then use the “filter” filter in your ng-repeat CODE: https:
I just added support for dynamic columns. Before you were limited to Id and Name, now you can specific the columns as a Json object in the directive. <div crud-grid table='person' columns='[
I just added sorting and upgraded to AngularJS 1.2.0 and Bootstrap 3. CODE: https://github.com/jongio/AngularJS-WebApi-EF I’ll eventually put the into directives, just ran out of time today. 1. Added
CORS support is very easy to setup in WebApi, but the docs are outdated. They removed the parameterless constructor and didn’t update the docs. For testing purposes, you should just pass “*” for all t
Bootswatch is nice. Free themes for Bootstrap. Integrating into an MVC app turned out to be a little more involved than I thought it would be. Here’s what you have to do: Sample Code: https://github.c
The Targus ACP71USZ docking station doesn’t come with an ASUS UX31A power tip. Targus will send you one for free. Just go to the Targus support chat page and tell them what you need and they’ll ship
Today I took my V2 Crud Grid and moved it into an AngularJS directive. That allows me to reuse the crud grid functionality and have many of them on the same page. Here’s what it looks like now: CODE:
In V1 of my AngularJS, WebApi grid I used $http to call my WebApi endpoints. I’ve been using $resource a lot lately, so I thought I’d go back and update it to use $resource instead. Here’s what it loo
I almost gave up, but I finally found where Microsoft hid the ability to lock shapes in Visio 2013. You actually don’t want lock shapes, you want to create layers and lock the layers. But if you reall
UPDATE 7/30/2013: I modified the code to use $resource instead of $http. Go to my new post “V2 of my AngularJS, WebAPI CRUD Grid - Now using $resource instead of $http and deployed a LIVE DEMO to Azur
@itsananderson and I just spent way too long trying to get Restangular running. Here’s what worked for us: <!doctype html > <html ng-app="app"> <head> <title>Restangular<