What is Web API? It is a Framework for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. To get familiarise yourself with ASP.NET Web API then you can read this post here. What is OData? Open Data Protocol is a web protocol for accessing information via services. It is built upon technologies such as XML and JSON. More on this topic can be read here. What is ASP.NET Web API OData? It is a...
OData Querying Options in ASP.NET Web API
What is OData? Open Data Protocol is a web protocol for accessing information via services. It is built upon technologies such as XML and JSON. OData allows you to exposing the data and metadata in a standard way. OData Querying is a query language which allows the clients to send the OData defined parameters in the query string of the request URI. This post discusses the various OData query...
Visual Studio 2012 Update2(Feb CTP) features
Visual Studio Team aiming to release updates through out the year 2012. As part of this they have released Update1 and features can be read here. This post details the new features in Visual Studio Update2. You can download the Visual Studio 2012 udpate2 CTP from here. Visual Studio 2012 update2 mainly focusing on Modern Application life cycle and development. The features in this...
Tabular Models and Multidimensional Models in SQL Server 2012
Tabular Model is a new data model introduced in SQL Server 2012 Analysis services. Tabula Models are in-memory databases which uses analytic engine named (VertiPaq) which delivers fast access to data to client applications like Excel and Power View. This post describes the differences between Tabular Model and Multidimensional model and outlines which model to choose and when over the...
Gits support to Visual Studio and TFS
Some good news to Visual Studio developers, Full Visual Studio integration with Gits and Visual Studio now can talk to Gits repository projects. Also full support to Team Foundation servers and now you can create traditional team foundation projects and Git version control projects all integrated inside team foundation server. You can download this Visual Studio extension tool from here...
Creating Custom Tiles in SharePoint 2013
The default sitepage in SharePoint 2013 site contains Tiles but if you want to create custom tile in your site page then follow the steps described in this post. The default SharePoint 2013 site tiles looks as below You can remove the above tile using remove this link and create your own tiles, To create your own tile you need to use a new list template called “Promoted Linksâ€. This list...
Setting SharePoint Master Page using Power Shell
You can use Master Page under look and feel section in SharePoint site settings for changing the Master Page for your site.
You can also use power shell script to achieve the same
$web = Get-SPWeb
$web.CustomMasterUrl = "/_catalogs/masterpage/v15.master"
$web.MasterUrl = "/_catalogs/masterpage/V15.master"
$web.Update()
Immutable Collections in .NET Framework
What are Immutable Collections? Immutable Collections are collections which guarantees that they never change their content and completely thread safe. Immutable suggests that data will not change and will not ever change and moreover you can hold a reference to it as long as you want. Why should we use Immutable Collections when there are Readonly Collections like ReadOnlyCollection<T>, an...
Building Windows Phone Application using HTML5 and OData
This post explains the steps to create a Windows Phone application using HTML5 and OData. You need to install Windows Phone SDK on developer machine which can be downloaded from here. The idea is to show the product categories information from Northwind OData service. 1. Create a ASP.NET Web application and refer the Northwind OData service 2. Add the Jquery and datascript libraries into...
Facebook Canvas Application in ASP.NET
A number of enhancements made in ASP.NET web tools 2012.12 for web developers which can be found here. In this update you have a new ASP.NET Facebook template which actually uses the open source Facebook C# SDK, which helps the developers to build the Facebook Canvas applications. This post outlines creating simple Facebook Canvas Application using ASP.NET and deploying that to Windows Azure...