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Deploying Windows Azure Application Part2
| In my previous post I have discussed about creating the service accounts which required to create to deploy the windows azure application. This post discusses the second step which is deploying the application management portal. Windows Azure tools for visual studio allows you to create and deploy the service package to Windows Azure using Visual Studio. |  |
Before deploying the application to the staging environment using management portal, generate the service package using the visual studio
1. Open the ServiceConfiguration.cscfg file in windows azure service project
replace the placeholders [YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME] with the storage account name which you created in the step1 and [YOUR_ACCOUNT_KEY] with the primary key access value.
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No commentsDeploying a Windows Azure application Part1
| This post discuss about deploying your web applications or WCF Applications to Windows Azure using the new Management Portal. Before deploying the application to portal , you need to have a subscription with Windows Azure read this post to signup for a Windows Azure account and to purchase a subscription. | |
After having an account with Windows Azure you need to do the below steps to deploy your application to portal
Step1 Create the required service components
Step2 Upload and configure the application package to Staging Area [Nothing but deploying the application to Management portal]
Creating a Storage Account and a Hosted Service Component
1. You need to create a Windows Azure storage account to allow your application to persist the data.You need to have a Hosting Service component to execute your application.
Sign in to the windows azure management portal by navigating to http://windows.azure.com/
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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 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 commentsUsing Silverlight Web Part in SharePoint 2010
| Using Silverlight Web Part, You can add Silverlight applications and videos to SharePoint page. Users just need Silverlight runtime to view or run the applications. You must be member of default security group in-order to add the web part to the page. |
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You need to complete the below steps before adding the Silverlight application to SharePoint site.
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No commentsCreating a UML Model Diagram in Visual Studio 2010
| This post discusses about how to use UML models and diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 ultimate edition. Models are very useful to describe the requirements and design of the system. Models help you to visualize how system works and clarifies the user needs and finds the architecture of the system. |
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1. Launch the Visual Studio 2010 and create a new project by selecting the modeling from templates window as shown below
2. In this empty project , you will find an empty .uml file which is an xml document which holds all the UML elements
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1 commentVisual Studio 2010 IDE Tip–Highlight References
| Highlight References is a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 IDE which allows you visually to navigate between the references to a symbols in a opened file. This feature only available in Visual Studio 2010. | |
Highlight the symbol that you want to navigate in the opened file as shown below
Now press Ctrl + Shift + Down then your cursor shifts to all instances of the symbol in opened file. Please note this feature is available for active files that is opened files in IDE.
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2 commentsWeb.Config Transforms in Visual Studio 2010
| This post discuss about using Web.Config Transformations in Visual Studio 2010. It is a new feature in Visual Studio 2010. |
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You have a very simple web.config file as shown below. In this Config file we have a very simple connection string for NorthwindDatabase. It is pointing to the local SQL Server Express instance.
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No commentsPerforming a farm backup in SharePoint 2010
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This post discuss about performing farm backup in SharePoint 2010 using central administration.You can do variety of backup operations using Backup tree on the perform a Backup page. To perform the farm backup |
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1. Click the Backup and Restore from Quick launch in central administration in SharePoint
