Archive for July, 2011
WCF Services in Windows Azure
| What is Windows Azure? Windows Azure provides developers computation power storage and can scale web applications on internet through Microsoft Datacenters. Developers can use Azure platform to build WCF service application using their existing Visual Studio 2010 expertise. |  |
Windows Azure supports the protocols and formats including SOAP, REST and XML. This post discuss about creating a simple WCF Service and hosting it on Windows Azure and consuming in client application.
1. Create a WCF Service Contract in Windows Class Library project as shown below which in-turn you use in Web role, worker role and in client application. Read more about roles in windows Azure here
1: using System;
2: using System.ServiceModel;
3: namespace WCFContract
4: {
5: [ServiceContract]
6: public interface IContract
7: {
8: // This operating returns the server information, including
9: // the role's name and instance id
10: [OperationContract]
11: string GetRoleInfo();
12:
13: // This operation returns the information of the channel
14: // being used between the client & the server.
15: [OperationContract]
16: string GetCommunicationChannel();
17: }
18: }
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1 commentTop Weekly Updates!
Azure Toolkit for iOS developers
Few days ago Windows Azure team released a tool kit for iOS. It is a Object C library where you can write a code for devices eg: It uses the same set of services for Windows Phone 7 and upcoming Android toolkit. You can use these Access Control services to write code for various devices.
More about can be read here
Azure AppFabric July Release
There are several enhancements made to the Windows Azure AppFabric Portal and the Access Control Service more can be read here
Windows Phone “Mango” released to Manufacturing
Mango is the next release OS for Windows Phone. Team introducing the fastest HTML5 mobile web browser in this release. More about this can be read here
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Available
I have written a post on creating a sample on Beta2 here. Now it is released and you can try and download the product from here
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No commentsJavaScript Intellisence for SharePoint 2010 Projects
| Visual Studio 2010 is really have useful and helpful capabilities from tooling prospective and it allows JavaScript developers to more productive through JavaScript Intellisence and JavaScript debugging. This post discusses about getting the JavaScript Intellisense in SharePoint 2010 projects. |  |
1. Create an empty SharePoint 2010 project as shown below
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2 commentsUsing Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum template in TFS
| This post defines the SCRUM and discusses how to use SCRUM Template 1.0 to manage projects in Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server. You can develop the enterprise projects using SCRUM framework which is based on Agile development methodology. |  |
What is SCRUM?
SCRUM is an iterative framework for project management and agile software development.
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1 commentIE10 Platform Preview 2 features for developers and designers
| Few Months ago IE9 has come up with as HTML5 enabled web browser where most of the HTML5 components are rendered in IE9. After that Microsoft released IE 10 Platform Preview 2 which is a major step to stand in first place and really improving a lot with these HTML 5 features. There is testdrive site where you all find the below discussed showcase of features in next IE version. |  |
CSS gradient marker demo
If you are a designer and you like HTML 5 and CSS features then you like Gradient Marker demo. Doing gradients in web browser is usually harder but HTML5 and CSS markup makes it easy
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No commentsDeploying Database with ASP.NET Web application
| Web applications can be deployed in two different ways one by using one-click publish or by using a Web deployment package. Usually we may want to deploy our database scripts that we used along with the application deployment. This post discusses the procedures to deploy the database along with web application in Visual Studio 2010. |  |
Assume there is no database exist in destination and configure the below steps for first-time database deployment
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1 commentRunning SQL Server JOBS with different user accounts in SQL 2008
| This post discusses about configuring different user account to JOB running in SQL Server 2008. By default SQL JOBs runs under service account that you have configured while installing the SQL Server. You can follow the below steps to change the user account that running under JOB |  |
1. Open SQL Server Management Studio and expand the SQL Server Agent node and Select the JOB that you want to change the running account.
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No commentsVisual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks
This post discusses about tips and tricks in Visual Studio 2010 which helps developers to write the code faster and make their life easier in day to day work much better. Especially you need these tips when you are concurrently working on two many projects.
Let us group these tips and tricks
1. IntelliSense
- Filtering
IntelliSense options are filtered in Visual Studio 2010 let us take an example when you are typing the list will filter with the words you type
this feature is not available in earlier versions. It is not only matching the prefixes but also matches the substrings as shown below
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1 commentVersion History in a SharePoint library
| This post explains how to view version history in a SharePoint library. It also shows how to open a previous version and how to compare the current version with previous version. We will examine this with microsoft word document. If version history enabled in your SharePoint library then you can view in two different formats Major version and Minor version. | |
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No commentsKey terms and Concepts in SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata
What is Managed Metadata? This post explains key terms and concepts in Share Point 2010 Managed Metadata. Understanding these terms are very important before you read the Managed Metadata Features.
Taxonomy
A taxonomy is a hierarchical of words which are organised into groups based on similarities. It can be defined by one or more individuals. Advantage with Taxonomy is, it provides a logical hierarchical structure of metadata which can be used to classify the information.
