Monthly Archives: August 2013

Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 fails with error ‘The pipe is being closed”

Posted on August 28, 2013 by chanmingman

When you want to install Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 you may hit the error ‘The pipe is being closed”.   Do not waste your time to download the Update 3 using: VS2012.3.exe /layout option. It is waste of time. … Continue reading →

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Upgrade to Entity Framework 6

Posted on August 27, 2013 by chanmingman

1. When you upgrade from EF 5 to EF6 then you might need to delete tt file for example in the followjng video is Model.tt. Right click edmx page then select Add Code Generation item… then choose EF 6.x DbContext … Continue reading →

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The audio and video go out of sync in Windows 8 Windows Media Player

Posted on August 21, 2013 by chanmingman

When you watch some of the mp4 movie then you might hit a problem that the audio and video go out of sync. Meaning that when the sound is ended but the mouth in the video still moving. Something that … Continue reading →

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My IE 10 can no longer start in Windows 8 after download and install the K Lite 10 from here

Posted on August 20, 2013 by chanmingman

My IE 10 can no longer start in Windows 8 after download and install the K Lite 10 from here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/k_lite_codec_pack_full.html You can take a risk. I have no choice but to reinstall Windows 8.

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How to uninstall IE 10 in Windows 7

Posted on August 19, 2013 by chanmingman

Why do I need to uninstall IE 10? IE 10 give me a nightmare on TFS 2102 Web Access. The error “The required anti-forgery form field “__RequestVerificationToken” is not present. Ensure that cookies are enabled in your browser” popped up … Continue reading →

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How to calculate the range for certain percentile for Visual Studio Load Test

Posted on August 15, 2013 by chanmingman

You can find a stored procedure with the below SQL statement in load test database. What the statements do is to find right percentile like the below example, percentile 90 and percentile 95. From the follow statement we can also … Continue reading →

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Tips on better Demo Presentation Skills and Story telling

Posted on August 13, 2013 by chanmingman

The key point we also miss:Tips on better Demo Presentation Skills and StoryTelling 1. Know your target audience 2. What is your message? 3. How will you present your demo? 4. Personalize and build out your story 5. Polish / … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET 2013 Web Form sample

Posted on August 5, 2013 by chanmingman

Two key features in ASP.NET 2013 when you refer to the link below. http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/latest/release-notes 1. Scaffolding http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/latest/release-notes#TOC12. 2. New Web Forms template https://chanmingman.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/create-asp-net-2013-webform-in-visual-studio-2013/. You can see the video for ASP.NET 2013 features http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/2-546. The site does not associated with any … Continue reading →

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Where to find forums in new MSDN

Posted on August 3, 2013 by chanmingman

Click on the Connect tab then you will see the Forums.

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