Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 4 – Deploy the app to an Apple device

In the prior parts of the series we have created a simple iOS application and tested it in the iOS Simulator. The real gratification comes when we can see our own app on a real device, an iPhone, iPod or iPad. In this article we will deploy the app to an Apple device. Get an …

Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 3 – Make it work

In this article we will make our application work. We already created a simple application and added a Text field, a Label and a Button to the view. We created connections between the user interface elements and the View Controller. To make more room to work, close the Utilities area by clicking the Utilities button …

Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 2 – Adding User Interface elements

Add user interface elements to the view Open the MainStoryboard.storyboard file in the project navigator Open the Utilities area by clicking the right most view button in the upper right corner of the screen In the Library selector bar of the Utilities area select the object library From the list drag a Text Field, a …

Create an iPhone, iPod or iPad app – Part 1 – Getting started

As of the writing of this article to create iOS apps for iPhone, iPod and iPad you need a Macintosh computer with the Lion (Mac OS X 10.7),  Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) or later operating system. Check the hardware requirements of Lion and Mountain Lion if you need to upgrade you computer from Snow …

Display deleted items in the Microsoft Visual Studio Source Control Explorer

When you delete a file or folder in TFS by default it is no longer displayed in the Source Control Explorer. To be able to “undelete” a file or folder enable the visibility of deleted items in Microsoft Visual Studio. To see deleted items in the Source Control Explorer Start Visual Studio In the Tools …

Insert multiple rows into a Microsoft SQL Server database

There is a great way to insert multiple rows into a Microsoft SQL Server database in one statement. This notation has multiple advantages: simplicity and the grouping of multiple instructions into one transaction. INSERT MyTable (name, description)VALUES(‘John’, ‘Manager’),(‘Bill’, ‘Truck driver’) Script from Ernie Cruz

The ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine. (System.Data)

When you try to import Excel 2007 or later “.xlsx” files into an SQL Server 2008 database you may get the following error mesage : The ‘Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine. (System.Data)   To solve this problem install the appropriate version of the Microsoft Access Database Engine.   On 32 bit …

How to open SQL files in Visual Studio 2012

The default installation of Visual Studio 2012 cannot open SQL documents when you double click on them in Source Control Explorer.  To be able to do that you have to install the SQL Server Data Tools  for Visual Studio 2012 Open the ” December 2012″ update page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650015 Download and install SSDTSetup.exe by clicking Download …