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Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:17:25 GMT

This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards update here to refresh your memories.

Visual Studio Achievements

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:22:52 GMT

What is Visual Studio Achievements? Gamification is an idea behind Visual Studio Achievements. Visual Studio is a powerful tool and it contains many features which you may not know about it. Visual Studio Achievement is something you earn when you unlock the Visual Studio feature. It is an add-in to Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2010 professional and above. If you are having a Visual Studio professional edition then you need to download FXcop to add-in work.

MVC Asynchronous Controller : The Basics

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:43:37 GMT

When I first saw the Asynchronous Controllers introduced in MVC 2, I couldn't wait to start playing around. I thought that it would be a really easy to get up and running with a simple example, but after searching online for a few working examples - pretty much all of them used an event based pattern that wasn't easy to understand. In this blog post I am going to run through a really simple example that will show you the basics of Asynchronous Controllers, and show you how easy they really are.

Microsoft Codename Cloud Numerics

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:32:54 GMT

Microsoft Codename "Cloud Numerics" is a new .NET programming framework which can be used to perform intensive numeric computations on large distributed data sets. If you are some one who works with large data sets, extracting the data and forming and simulating the models then you might need more computing power and memory.

Windows Store for Developers

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:48:53 GMT

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.

Configuring Custom Master Page in SharePoint 2010

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:25:49 GMT

This post discusses about configuring custom master page in SharePoint 2010 website. You might have use custom images, custom style sheets to create new master page in SharePoint. Follow the below steps to apply custom master page in SharePoint 2010.

In Managed Code We Trust: Our Recent Battles With the .Net GC

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:26:37 GMT

Following up an earlier article this week, Sam Saffron of Stackoverflow expands on how they mitigated performance problems caused by the .Net generational garbage collector.

Impersonation and Delegation in WCF

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:37:07 GMT

Impersonation is a technique that WCF Services use to authorize the caller's identity to access to service resources such as files and database tables. Service resources can be located either on local service machine or remotely hosted. The resources are being accessed by WCF Service's process identity or specific windows identity.

Application Lifecycle Management in Visual Studio 11

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:13:20 GMT

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.

How to choose right WCF binding?

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:28:12 GMT

Binding in WCF defines how clients can connect with your service. The base class for all bindings in WCF is System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding. A Binding includes definition for WS-* protocols used, the message encoding and the transport protocol.

Transport and Message Security in WCF

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:15:35 GMT

This post discusses about transport and message security. In Transport Security user credentials and claims are passed using transport layer. The transport protocols are TCP, HTTP, MSMQ and IPC. Each of these protocols have their own mechanism for passing user credentials. The most common approach is using secure socket layer(SSL) for encrypting the details which sent over HTTPS.

WCF 4.5 Features

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:52:45 GMT

This post discusses the new features in WCF 4.5. There have been significant improvements in WCF 4.5 on configuration. Simplifying the generated configuration file in client A client configuration file is generated when you add a service reference in Visual Studio 2010. The configuration files in earlier version of WCF contained the value of every binding property even if it is a default value. In WCF 4.5 Configuration files contain binding properties that are set to non-default value.

OData and Windows Azure

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:25:04 GMT

This post discusses about building a service using CLOUD platform that can reach various devices. What is OData and Where it fits in? OData is a specification that makes very easy to exchange and interact with data on the web. So OData is all about connecting up devices to the CLOUD. This post also discuss how to create a OData Service in Visual Studio 2010 and host it on Windows Azure then explains how to consume the service on Windows phone Mango.

Performance Tricks to Metro Style Web Applications

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:45:27 GMT

What is web performance? It is actually when does the user perform an action it self and when does those results occur on the screen. The three key factors to web performance is Network, CPU and Memory.

Comparing Profiler Performance Reports in Visual Studio 2010

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:46:34 GMT

In VS 2010 you can compare two different profiler performance report files (.vsp ). Find the reports in the reports folder in performance explorer. View the rest of this article to find out how to compare the reports and preform other actions.

What is new in .NET Framework 4.5

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:37:34 GMT

Another major release in .NET Framework, .NET 4.5 which allows the developers to use Windows 8 technologies and windows runtime directly from .NET 4.5. It makes easy and natural to write Metro style applications using C# and VB. .NET 4.5 makes your applications run faster eg: Faster ASP.NET startup. .NET 4.5 gives you easy access to your data with entity framework code first approach and recent SQL Server features. This post discuss these features in detail.

Doing crazy things with ASP.NET MVC 4 display modes

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:19:09 GMT

The post explains how to use ASP.NET MVC 4 display modes to make a view work better with mobile platforms like Android.

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Survey is Open

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:23:10 GMT

If you've had a chance to test out the new Visual Studio 11 Developer then you can follow the links from this article to take a survey and help the Microsoft team learn how they are doing.

What's new in Visual Studio 11

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:48:29 GMT

This post gives you an overview on new features in Visual Studio 11. Developers constantly looking for better user experience, developer experience and team experience while using the Visual Studio IDE.

WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:17:12 GMT

This post discuss about using WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5. You can read this post to get an understanding about WebSockets. This post shows piece of code which uses WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5 and the code is related to simple chat application.

First Review of ASP. NET MVC 4.0 Developer Preview

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:50:11 GMT

After so much buzz Microsoft has launched some of the new tools at build conference and ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview is one of them. How I can install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview? There are three ways to install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview You can download from following link-http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27419You can install ASP.NET MVC 4.0 Developer preview with web platform installer from following link-http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/instal...

Microsoft HealthVault SDK v2 released

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:50:31 GMT

The HealthVault SDK contains: ..net assemblies for interacting with the HealthVault platform .sample applications that you can run from your development machine .documentation including a CHM file and a Getting Started Guide .Application Manager to create HealthVault applications and manager certificates.

Windows 8 Metro-style application manifest

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:50:31 GMT

When creating a new Windows Metro style application, Visual Studio will create the application manifest. This article explains how to create the manifest, edit, and preform other tasks.

Why WebSockets?

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:33:11 GMT

WebSockets are required to develop the rich and real time web applications. WebSockets can securely enable the real-time web. Before explaining the need of WebSockets we see what current Web is and it's limitations.

Calling ASP.NET AJAX Modal Window from JavaScript

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:50:05 GMT

This post discusses about calling AJAX model window from JavaScript. The scenario is checking the UI controls in page and alerting the user if he is leaving the page without saving the data. This shows confirmation window with yes and no buttons.