Top 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 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 commentCreating 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 commentsMicrosoft Windows Server APPFABRIC
APPFABRIC CACHING SERVICES
It speeds up the frequently accessed data like Session data used by ASP.NET application.
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No comments.NET Framework 4 SortedSet
You can get the overview on what’s new in .NET FW BCL by reading my post .NET Framework 4 BCL. This post explains about one of the feature SortedSet. .NET Framework 4 adds a new collection to System.Collections.Generic, named Sorted Set<T>. It is like HashSet<T> collection of unique elements, but SortedSet<T> keeps the elements in sorted order.
The Collection is implemented using red-black tree datastructure. Compared to HashSet<T> provides lesser performance for insert,delete and lookup operations. Use this collection if you want to keep the elements in sorted order.
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No commentsMicrosoft Amalga
Introduction
Microsoft Amalga is a Health Care Product which allows you to manage current and future information. It is a information intelligence system which captures real-time data, storage and present in rich customizable view.
Features:
- Brings the data from disparate systems with no impact on existing systems.
- Accepts the data of any format.
- Efficiently stores the data for faster retrieval.
How it Works
- Amalga works with the existing systems by making copy of the data from those systems and saving it to its own store.
- After the configuration Amalga provides unified views and reports for rapid analysis.
- Gives the quick access to anyone who needs the data.
It delivers a unique approach to
- Data acquisition
- Data storage
- User viewing
Microsoft Amalga integrates vital clinical data from multiple systems and delivers it through a highly customizable role-based user interface.




