I have a project I am working on for the client that targets Azure. I wanted to move up to .NET 4.5 to take advantage on async/await keywords and other improvements. It is a an MVC 4 project. Of course in order to run .NET 4.5 on Azure, you have to update your project configuration. …
I have had a pet project for calendar control for Windows Phone 7 on CodePlex for quite sometime. I also have had this project on NuGet as well. I have been working for a while on porting this project to WinRT / Windows Store Applications. I am finally done with first revision and it is …
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I wanted to organize my thoughts while they are fresh in my mind regarding what I have heard the BIILD conference the week of October 28th 2012. First of all, let me talk about first day keynote. Steve Ballmer talked for quite a while, but other people participated as well. I really liked the energy …
This is really a minor issues that have been bugging me for a little while. We are using jQuery UI datepicker controls in our MVC application. There is one annoying part with these controls. When you pick a date from the calendar popup, the unobtrusive JavaScript validation we use does not kick in immediately, as …
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We have TFS setup to do integration builds after every check in. The entire setup is working perfectly well. The only issue is that at times the build fails. Since I marked unit tests in TFS Scrip to “Continue On Error = true”, the build is marked as partially successful a few times a day. …
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if you worked with Silverlight and WCF, you no doubt are familiar with ClientAccessPlicy.xml. Recently I found a use case that is not documented in the link above and had me stumped actually. Our application was hosted on a subdomain, something like my.mysite.com. I added client access policy file to the root of the domain, …
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SQL Azure got a couple of new exciting features in the last upgrade a few weeks ago. Specifically I am talking about import/export abilities. For a while now it has been a bit painful to create a backup on SQL Azure database and store it either on premises or in the cloud. Azure migration wizard …
As I am implementing a small application framework for my current project that is using ASP.NET MVC and Knockout JavaScript library, I had to rethink the approach to using anti forgery tokens. Any forgery tokens in ASP.NET MVC are designed to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks. Cross site scripting is number 2 on list of …
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I spoke yesterday at AMDev on Entity Framework. Here is a short session description. This session will cover scenarios beyond the basics. Topics such as creation of object hierarchies and complex types will be discussed. Performance tips will be covered as well as usage scenarios in services. Techniques to handle schema changes will be discussed. …
I am trying to get up to speed with knockout.js. I am brining it into an MVC application. I am trying to reduce the amount of JavaScript our team has to write, especially in large, complicated screens. At the same time, I want to leverage the power of MVC views. Our application is using DataAnnotations, …