ICS is a file type online commonly used for calendar data. Windows Phone 8 doesn’t have support for ICS built in, but it does allow applications to handle that file for you, and given access to your calendar, can quickly add items to your calendar.
This video uses a nice application from Quincy Mitchell named Add to Calendar.
Maybe someday, the OS will have this baked in, but for now, we’re happy that the extensions can be handled by 3rd party applications.
WOW. That is how I describe this screen cast. It’s 7 minutes long, and what can be done in 7 minutes is simply amazing. I know there are other ways to do this, and that Azure isn’t the first continuous deployment solution by any means …. but WOW. I have seen this and heard it talked about before, but today is the first time I’ve actually done it on my own.
In this screen cast, I start from scratch. Zero. Ziltch. Zippo. Nadda. Nothing. And from there we …
Final site can be seen here: http://scottcate-waws.azurewebsites.net/
Github repo: https://github.com/scottcate/scottcate-waws
Enjoy the Video … This one was REALLY fun to record. Watch it full screen, you’ll enjoy it.
I wanted to use the Data Attributes in asp.net MVC, for both a label, and a description. After finding out there isn’t a build in helper for Description, I searched and found an answer on StackOverflow. Using that starter knowledge, I (copy/paste/enhanced) this little helper …
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.PropertyName, cssClassName: "desc", "tagName: "div")
The sample code can be found in this github gist: https://gist.github.com/4469809
Hat Tip: Jakob Gade
SkyDrive from Microsoft has a new Survey Over Excel feature. Fill out a few questions, publish, and BAM … you have a survey / form for people to fill out.
Easy, fast, and Free 🙂
This is a link to the survey I create in this video: http://sdrv.ms/Xa6VE7
Toggling bookmarks are extremely helpful. You have to jump from file A to file B, over to file J, back to B, back to A. (Sound familiar to what you did today 🙂 – Bookmarks are little popcorn nuggets you can leave along your trail to find your way back to where you once were quickly. Bookmarks are controlled from the Edit | Bookmarks menu, or fully from the keyboard. This video introduced you to bookmarks, and then shows you how to change the look/feel and visibility of the bookmarks.
[CTRL]+B,T = Toogle bookmark on or off
[CTRL]+B,P = Jump to Previous Bookmark
[CTRL]+B,N = Jump to Next Bookmark
[CTRL]+B,C = Clear all Bookmarks
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