Using Visual Studio 2013 Preview and Team Foundation Service

Back to Microsoft Windows stuff. To maintain my program skills, I alway learn a new thing, practice what I learn and review what I did. This time I work with ASP.NET by using Visual Studio 2013 Preview on Microsoft Windows 8.1 Preview with Microsoft Team Foundation Service, a free TFS on the cloud.

Learning ColdFusion 10

Temporary hold my current projects: Microsoft C# ASP.NET MVC and Google Android Demo App for a week to try out Adobe® ColdFusion® 10 Developer edition and MySQL 5.6.12. I love the opportunity to learn a new thing.

Install Adobe ColdFusion 10 Developer edition on Microsoft Windows.

Install MySQL 5.6.12

Using GitHub on Windows for version control.

Using GitHub for Windows with Bitbucket

GitHub is a popular Git version control hosting but it's not provide free unlimited private repositories like Bitbucket. I end up using both. To push files to Bitbucket.org using GitHub for Windows:

1. Open Git Shell
2. Change to other directory if need (cd "..\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\DisplayRSSFeeds")
3. Add .gitignore
4. Add readme.txt (optional)
5. Initialize empty git repository: git init
6. Add the existing files to the repository: git add .
7. Commit the files: git commit -m "First commit" or git commit -a
8. Log into Bitbucket.
9. Create a new repository.
10. Add a new remote: git remote add origin-bb https://yourusername@bitbucket.org/yourusername/yourgit.git
    (Note: See picture below. You cannot push or remove the remote origin, so just make a new one called origin-bb as I did).
11. Push up the repo for the first time: git push -u origin-bb --all  

Other git commands
# view current remote
git remote -v

# remove remote
git remote rm origin-bb

# Use these sequence git commands to update Git repository in both local and remote later.
git add .
git commit -a
git push -u

Further reading:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Import+code+from+an+existing+project
http://git-scm.com/book/ch2-5.html

Buying a new laptop

If you are going to buy a laptop using Microsoft Windows, make sure it has Windows 7. Windows 8 is not good, hard to use and took a lot of time to learn. Thus Microsoft force to make Windows 8.1 as a new free upgrade.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/155747-windows-8-1-will-be-a-free-upgrade-will-begin-public-beta-testing-on-june-26.

Also, make sure the CPU support supports Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) along with many advanced technologies as I mentioned on my previous post. I preferred Intel® Core™ i3, i5 or i7 processor.

Your laptop should have:

• 15.6" monitor screen. 
• At least 1.9 GHZ Intel® Core™ i3 processor 
• At least 4 GB RAM expandable to 8GB or 16GB
• Built-in high-speed wireless 802.11b/g/n and Gigabit Ethernet LAN. 
• Two or more USB ports.
• Built-in front camera.
• At least 3 hours battery.

My experience with Android Studio

I love to learn or try a new thing everyday. Yesterday, I downloaded Android Studio and installed on both Mac OS/X Lion 10.7  and Ubuntu 13.04 laptop. Here is the screenshot of Android Studio my MacBook Pro.

I'm still figuring out how to fix this error: "emulator: ERROR: unknown skin name 'WXGA720'" when  attempt to load Android Virtual Device without using Eclipse Juno to launch the AVD first.

For Ubuntu 13.04, I must using Oracle Java Development Kit instead of OpenJDK to run Android Studio. With Eclipse IDE, I can use OpenJDK. Here is the screenshot when I make a new Android project imported from my GitHub account:

I also trying to install Android Studio on Microsoft Windows. To save time, you need to read carefully the note on http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

Since this is a preview release, I don't expect much. I hope Google will make Android Studio tool better.

Error when add the StoreManagerController on MVC Music Store Tutorial Part 5

When I followed the MVC Music Store Tutorial using Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web on Windows 8, I got this error:

Unable to retrieve metadata for 'MusicStore.Models.Album'. Using the same DbCompiledModel to create context against different types of database servers is not supported. Instead, create a separate DbCompiledModel for each type of server being used.

No idea. Let google for a solution. Here a solution from ITorian (http://www.itorian.com/2012/10/unable-to-retrieve-metadata-for.html) :

After I delete this line in web.config, it worked: 

     connectionString="Data Source=|DataDirectory|MvcMusicStore.sdf"

     providerName="System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0"/>

Thank the author of ITorian.com.

What did I do last weekend?

Look at this picture :)

I played with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4, Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8. Actually Windows 8 hosted on my Apple MacBook Pro. On my Dell laptop, I used Google Chrome on Ubuntu. I love to learning a new thing everyday.