Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, which includes the Windows Azure SDK, extends Visual Studio 2010 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. New for version 1.3: Virtual Machine (VM) Role (Beta):Allows you to create a custom VHD image using Windows… Continue reading
Use LoadDataOptions class in LINQ for immediate filtering and loading of relational data
LINQ is one of the nice feature every .NET developer would love to appreciate Microsoft for. I do not wish to explain much about linq, I am getting in to topic with a belief that you will have minimum understanding of LINQ and how it helps in data access from .NET Framework 3.5 onwards. Consider… Continue reading
Microsoft® SQL Server® code-named ‘Denali’ – Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1)
Microsoft has announced the preview version of their next generation of SQL Server database software code named “Denali” Quoting from MSDN Download Center SQL Server code-named ‘Denali’ helps empowers organizations to be more agile in today’s competitive market. Customers will more efficiently deliver mission-critical solutions through a highly scalable and available platform. Industry-leading tools help… Continue reading
ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The latest Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC 3.0 for Visual studio 2010 has releaded. Download latest ASP.NET MVC 3 – RC – Release Candidate
Doing Parallel Tasks using Parallel Class – Part 01(Parallel.For Parallel.ForEach)
Introduction Recently I had a requirement for performance tuning the application which my team is working on. We thought of running using normal .NET Threading. But I thought about utilizing the Parallel programming extensions(PFX) in .NET Framework 4.0. Since we have lots of For Loops and for each loops consisting of web service calls, makes… Continue reading
Released: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 RC
Microsoft has announced the public availability of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1. At the Official Windows Team blog, Windows Communications Manager Brandon LeBlanc stated that this RC signals the release of the last public beta build before the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) final release. Back in July, Microsoft… Continue reading