In this post I will describe what I learned in creating my first Windows Store App projects using Azure Mobile Services. Windows Store app is the current name of the applications designed to run on Windows 8 using WinRT (Windows Run Time). These types of applications can be download and installed on any machine running …
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I spoke at the Microsoft Integration Architects Users Group on September 20th. Here is the summary of the talk. This talk will highlight new programming model for Windows 8. Application types that Windows 8 will support will be discussed. The discussion will concentrate on Metro style applications and various programming languages that developers can use …
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In case you were wondering why my blogging slacked off a bit during summer months, I have been working on Entity Framework online course for CampusMVP.net. It was pretty hard, yet exciting work for me. I tried to do my best to cover data access using Entity Framework from the ground up. The material starts …
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I am very excited to announce that Magenic Atlanta is hosting free Visual Studio 2012 Launch event on Saturday October 13th at Magenic office in Atlanta. Join us at Magenic Atlanta for the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Experience all of the incredible new features and powerful possibilities offered, plus learn to build modern …
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One of the products I am working on these days has a WCF component. WCF service is using flexible bindings, so you can configure the service to run locally (via direct invocation) or via a WCF proxy using either HTTP, named pipes or TCP bindings. I have set this up before by creating a new …
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I spoke today at DevLink 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 will be speaking at DevLink this coming Friday, August 31st, 2012. I will be speaking 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 …
Last week I discovered an extremely coo feature in TFS build process. Apparently you can write custom tasks that can compile and run .NET code on the fly. I used to write various command line utilities to do that. They do give me a lot of control, but they require some extra work. Wouldn’t be …
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Last week I was faced with this exact problem in the title. As I was migrating an existing Silverlight application to run on Azure, I wanted to have a solution to the requirement that stated that the users must be able to upload files to the server and view them in the application. Previously, those …
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I was recently working on a ClickOnce application, that was part of a large business software solution hosted on Azure. I decided to host ClickOnce on Azure as well. Azure blob storage does not really support directory structure, it just supports single level of containers, then all other files (content) goes into those containers via …
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