The firewall feature in Windows Azure portal allows you to store your data securely on cloud which deny all connections by default. The new firewall feature allows you to specify list of IP addresses which can access your SQL Azure Server.You can also programmatically add connections and retrieve information for SQL Azure database. This post discusses about creating the firewall rule using...
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...
Deploying 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...
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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...
Using 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.
IE10 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...
Using 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.
You need to complete the below steps before adding the Silverlight application to SharePoint site.
Creating 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. 1. Launch the Visual Studio 2010 and create a new project by selecting the modeling from...
Visual 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...
Web.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.
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.