As I mentioned before, I spoke at VS Live 2013 in Las Vegas last week. I spoke on two topics Entity Framework Code First End to End This session will cover the use Entity Framework in .NET based applications. Discussion will include model creation and organization as well as schema evolution via migrations. The role …
From talking to other developers, it appears that the fact that Microsoft shipped Service Bus for Windows last year with an update this year went largely unnoticed. Hence, I want to document my experience in getting started with the product. From high level perspective, service bus is a messaging system, promoting the following key values …
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I blogged previously about securing services with forms authentication. In this blog post I would like to describe a shortcut to creating a secure service using membership provider infrastructure. To start with, we need to create a provider. It is pretty easy step, as you can inherit System.Web.Security.MembershipProvider and override any methods you need to. …
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I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live!, March 25-29 in Las Vegas, NV http://bit.ly/VSLVLSPK1. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, Visual Studio Live! provides you with immediately usable IT education that will keep you relevant in the workforce. I’ll be presenting the following session: · Entity Framework Code First End to End · WCF Data …
Every year, usually in December, I make a plan as to what I would like to learn next year. This time my number one goal is to get up to speed on iOS development. So, when I got my Macbook Pro, I started on that task. As a matter of fact, I spent a good …
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2013 is here, and it brought big changes for me. Technically, I brought all of them myself, but that is a minor detail. First of all, I was re-awarded Microsoft MVP today! This is a huge and welcome news for me, just like it had been the two times prior to this year. It is …
I really like the idea of using Web Api technology. I have been wondering however for a while about using this technology in multi-tier web application. All the demos I have seen expect to have connection string in the web application exposed by Web Api. I think that not having an ability to run a …
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Since in our software due to pricing of SSRS on Azure we chose not to use that reporting solution, we decided to go with Crystal Reports. I already blogged about that once here. Since then I encountered a few more issues that I wanted to document. Copying Crystal JavaScript files worked for us for brand …
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Last week I did some more research into publishing to Azure from MSBuild. One of the requests we received is to keep virtual IP address (VIP) the same throughout publishing. I blogged on the subject before here. This code worked just fine, but it was replacing virtual IP every time when deployment was deleted and …
I am working on and off on a personal application for Windows 8. I would like to protect the data via a login screen, but I would really hate for the user to remember yet one more login. Moreover, I would like to at some point generate email reminders for the users as well as …
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