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Productivity is a buzz word in our life today. The more productive we are, the more successful one is. A few questions arises as mentoned below On the way to productive are we trying to be someone else and not being your one? Are we trying to do it just because someone else is achieving something by being productive? Are we not achieving things the way we work or do things

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This article describes a simple application intended to notify users when a new user is created. To build the same we are using the technologies like ASP.NET MVC 4, SignalR, KnockoutJS, ToastR, Twitter BootStrap. First lets create a ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application. Lets add the SignalR, KnockoutJS, ToastR, Twitter BootStrap by using the Package Manager Console into the project. install-package

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Microsoft released VS 2013 and .NET 4.5.1 . Some of the key highlights are as below Innovative Features for Greater Developer Productivity Support for Windows 8.1 App Development Web Development Advancements Create Modern Business Apps for Office 365 Debugging and optimization Improvements Expanded ALM Capabilities To read about them , please check out http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng

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Sometimes you may wonder the disk space on your drive where the OS is installed is reducing. This could be because of the "hiberfil.sys" file. To delete the "hiberfil.sys" file in Windows 7 , you can open the command prompt and type the command powercfg.exe -h off After which check the folder size and you would have regained the free space.

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Looking back at the year that has gone past, it has a lot of memories. I thank god for the year that has gone by and what he has done in my life.  On professional front, it was a good year with new challenges and new opportunities. There was travel involved as well. Learned new things on technology and management perspective. I was privileged to attend some of the high end

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Its been a while i have blogged, as usual the reasons been busy :). I feel i should take some time for blogging.   Hopefully i will get to be more regular and start sharing on whatever i learn.

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The features of ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta are ASP.NET Web API Refreshed and modernized default project templates New mobile project template Many new features to support mobile apps Recipes to customize code generation Enhanced support for asynchronous methods To know more please read the blog post from Scott Gu at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/02/19/asp-net-mvc-4-beta.aspx

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In this article we will look at how to implement Context Menu in Windows Phone. In order to implement Context Menu, we need to first download the SilverLight for Windows Phone Toolkit (November 2011) from http://silverlight.codeplex.com/ . We need to reference “Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit” in the application. We will add the Context Menu to our earlier build application “ContactApp”. We

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In this article we will look at the various Launchers available for Windows Phone. Launchers are nothing but enablers to perform common task enabling to provide a common user experience across the windows phone platform. This does not return any data. The launchers available for Windows Phone are as follows Bing Maps Direction Task Bing Maps Task Connection Settings Task Email Compose

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In the previous blog post we had used the Isolated Storage for storing the data. We wondered how we can see the file or interact with the same. For this we have a tool called “Windows Phone 7 Isolated Storage Explorer”, this is a codeplex project. We can download the same from http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/ . The features are mentioned in the website. In this article we will focus on

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In this article, we will build a simple windows phone application. We have seen in the earlier blog post on the installation of windows phone SDK. We will see how to create a simple application which will save the contacts on a windows phone. Let’s begin by choosing the Windows Phone Application project as shown below By default the “MainPage.xaml” file is created, we will modify the

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If you are planning for development of apps for Windows phone, download the SDK 7.1 which has all tools needed for development from here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27570 Happy Coding...

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The new features of ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview as the release notes mentioned in http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc4-release-notes is as follows Enhancements to Default Project Templates Mobile Project Template Display Modes jQuery Mobile, the View Switcher, and Browser Overriding Recipes for Code Generation in Visual Studio Task Support for Asynchronous Controllers Azure SDK

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If you are a SQL guy and want to use Mongo then you can check out this chart which illustrates the SQL to Mongo Mapping. Check this out at  http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/SQL+to+Mongo+Mapping+Chart Hope this Helps. Please do drop a comment.

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I am sure you have read the first article on Building a OData Service. In Continuation, lets use the created OData Service along with a ASP.NET MVC application. In this article we will execute a OData Service query and the returned results will be displayed on the ASP.NET MVC application using JQuery. As you are aware the OData Service in the previous article was created over the

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To get started with Entity Framework 4.1, we need to install the following http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26825  Please ensure you are already running Visual Studio 2010. The Entity Framework 4.1 has the features of "Code First" and DbContext API.

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This article talks about building a simple application using ASP.NET MVC and MongoDB. From my earlier blog post, the installation steps for Mongo DB were explained. For building application using MongoDB and .NET, we need the 10gen C# Driver. This can be downloaded from http://github.com/mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver/downloads Let’s began creating a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 application. We

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The installation of MongoDB on a windows system is pretty simple. Step 1: Download the Binaries for Windows from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads (32bit or 64bit) Step 2: Unzip the file into a folder in C drive or drive of your choice . Lets name it "mongo" Step 3: Mongo stores the data in a folder "data\db", but this needs to be created manually. Lets create this on the same drive

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Open Data Protocol is popularly known as OData. The definition from the OData.Org is as mentioned below “Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData does this by applying and building upon Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing

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Abstract Factory Pattern is a type of Creational Pattern . What is Abstract Factory Pattern? Let’s go by Definition in Gang of Four (GOF) “Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes“ Let’s look into this pattern for an example where we are products which can be categorized for Basic, Regular, Seasonal etc.

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The memories of the last new year 2011 is so fresh in my mind. It just shows how quick the year passed by. There has been always high's and low's in a year. On the professional front i did get a promotion. I did learn new stuff's on the technology front, but not to my expectation. The past year i have been little active on the social media (Twitter, Facebook). On the blog front, i could only

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While adding a controller in ASP.NET MVC 3 application, you might get a error “Unable to retrieve the metadata for …”. This error is due to the incorrect connection string name or the connection string in the web.config. I had encountered the same error and the issue was that the name of my DBContext was different from that of the web.config connection string name. When I made it same it

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jQuery Mobile 1.0 is released. This is a HTML5 based UI system for all the major mobile device platforms. To  know more about check http://jquerymobile.com/ .

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In order to install Node.js and build application on windows follow the steps mentioned below 1. First you can download the WebMatrix from http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=webmatrix, if you need it. 2. Download the node.js for windows from http://nodejs.org/ 3. Install the iisnode for the web server a. iisnode for iis7 express - http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9784329

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To learn Javascript courses, try Codecademy at http://www.codecademy.com/ . This is a nice site to learn javascript.

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