SketchFlow is a tool which you can use to create prototypes for interactive applications. Prototype can be used to workflow of your application or it can be a complex graph. SketchFlow is available in Blend Studio and it can be downloaded from here for Visual Studio 2012. This post discusses the SketchFlow features and then creating a prototype project for Visual Studio 2012. You can do the below...
Microsoft Big Data Solution
What is Big Data? It is a popular term used to describe growth of structured and unstructured information. This post discusses the Trends driving the “Big Data†and Microsoft Big Data Solution. There are vendors in market which provide Hadoop deployments but most operate outside central IT operations. Microsoft Big Data solution can analyze over 100 petabytes of data to produce results...
Asynchronous Lambda Expressions in C#5
Asynchronous functions make asynchronous programming similar to synchronous programming. You can read my previous post on C# 5.0 features. Normal methods can written as asynchronous as shown below 1: async Task Demo() 2: { 3: await Task.Delay(10000); 4: Console.WriteLine("Hello World!!"); 5: } You can call the method as await Demo(); Lambda Expressions and anonymous methods can be preceded by the...
Caller Info Attributes in C# 5.0
Caller Info Attributes is a new feature in C# 5.0, Caller Info Attributes instructs the compiler to obtain and feed information into the parameter’s default value. You can tag optional parameters using Caller Info Attributes. Three Caller Info Attributes are [CallerMemberName] – It applies the caller’s member name [CallerFilePath] - It applies the path to the caller’s source code...
Windows Store for Developers
Windows store is really an important part of Windows 8 platform. Windows store is the place where user find the metro-style apps. Windows Store is the distribution point for metro style applications. The idea behind building the windows store is connecting people to as many apps as possible. Additional details about the Developer opportunity coming on windows 8 with the windows store can be found...
Application Lifecycle Management in Visual Studio 11
This post discusses about new Application Lifecycle Management features in Visual Studio 11. Application Lifecycle Management represents how do you prioritize your requirement, how do you breakdown them into tasks and how do you implement those tasks. Start with the Requirements, Visual Studio 11 coming up with new tool PowerPoint Storyboarding which you can use for visualise your...
Displaying Custom HTML message in SharePoint 2010
This post explains about displaying a custom HTML message in Visio Web access web part on a SharePoint web part page. We are using two web parts content editor webpart and Visio Web access webpart as shown below
Windows Azure–Security essentials
This post discusses about Security essentials which technical decision maker should know in-order to protect customers applications and data in Windows Azure platform. Instead you building the server racks and datacenters, Cloud takes your traditional data centers from you and run on their premises which greatly reduces the cost and maintenance. Cloud runs as services platform follows the...
SQL Azure vs SQL Server
This post discusses the differences between SQL Azure and SQL Server in the context of security Supports SQL(native) and Windows authentication. Supports SQL(native) only, no windows authentication...
Heterogeneous Development using Visual Studio 2010
Your organization might have .NET and Java developers working on different platforms to develop the applications. Each development team might have been using different processes to develop the application. With this separation, Organisations have no end-to-end visibility on the development efforts. With Visual Studio 2010 this separation become a thing of past. Visual Studio 2010 ultimate...