This post outlines the concepts for mobile development using Visual Studio 2013 update2 and Xamarin.In perfect world, you could develop a single codebase and target all mobile devices. Unfortunately it is not as simple as it said in the statement but you have following options for developing the mobile applications. The first option uses HTML5, JavaScript and CSS using web standards basically...
AngularJS Controllers overview
What is a Controller in Angular world? Controller is a set of JavaScript functions bound to a scope. ng-controller directive tells the Angular to instantiate the new controller object and injects the new scope as a dependency. It contains the business logic for your view. The best practice is not to use controllers to manipulate the DOMs. When you create controller in AngularJS, you may need to...
AngularJS basics overview
What is AngularJS? AngularJS is a front-end JavaScript Framework for creating web applications. It is a declarative programming language. The first question is why should I use this for web application development when MVC is already there? The reason behind using AngularJS on front-end is if you are developing large scale applications then it gives you structure and put things in specific places...
Misconceptions about Microsoft Cloud
This post outlines some of the misconceptions around cloud computing and also lists the facts and what you need to know about cloud computing. Cloud changes the way that we do our business and when change happens to organization and individuals sometimes there is some uncertainty there. The challenge is “Cloud†is often misunderstood by many customers. When it first comes around year 2010 the...
Invoking Web API using JQuery
HTTP can be used for building the ASP.NET Web APIs that exposes your data and business services. HTTP is simple platform that can reach broad range of clients varying from desktop applications to mobile devices. What is ASP.NET Web API? ASP.NET API is a framework for building the RESTful services on top of the .NET Framework. This post outlines the steps to create a web API project in visual...
ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core Framework overview
What is ASP.NET 5? ASP.NET 5 is entirely new open source web application stack for .NET from Microsoft. It designed to meet the need for modern server web applications and it is optimized for modern development workflow. ASP.NET 5 continuous to run on .NET Framework but also run on new framework called .NET Core. ASP.NET 5 on .NET Framework You can continue to run all your applications on .NET...
Using Tasklist window in Visual Studio
Most of the time developers work on multiple tasks or code files, it is hard to keep track of what is complete or go back and update in a particular class file. Tasklist feature definitely makes developers more productive. You can bring the Tasklist in visual studio by clicking view menu and click Tasklist option Tasklist is literally a todolist; things that you want to remember to do later, you...
Publishing a website to cloud using Visual Studio
This post outlines the steps involved in publishing a asp.net websites to Windows Azure sites (Microsoft cloud).Create a new website in visual studio 2013 and right click on the website and say publish web site You will get different options in publishing web window; one of them is Microsoft Azure Websites When you click the Microsoft Azure Websites option then you will be prompted to enter login...
Entity framework 7 features overview
What is Entity Framework 7? Entity framework 7 is a lightweight and extensible version of Entity Framework. This post outlines some basic concepts in EntityFramework 7 and then what is new in EF7? New platforms targeted with EF7 like windows Phone and Windows Store. Off course ASP.NET 5 is supported. The core of entity framework is now supported in mac and Linux. Historically EF 7 is supporting...
ASP.NET 5 main goals overview
The main goals of developing ASP.NET 5 are as follows .NET 4.6 which is a big framework also called desktop CLR. The Core 5 CLR is a subset of desktop CLR. It does not contain Win forms, WCF, workflow or WPF. Development is made much faster by killing the compilation step, when you save the changes in VS editor it then automatically compiles the file you just need to refresh your browser to see...