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Isolated Storage Explorer for Windows Phone 7

2012-01-24T04:43:00.000-08:00

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

Building a Simple Windows Phone 7 application

2012-01-23T08:55:00.000-08:00

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

Getting started with Windows Phone Development

2012-01-18T08:44:00.000-08:00

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...

Features of ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview

2012-01-17T08:48:00.000-08:00

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 Known Issues

SQL to MongoDB Mapping Chart

2012-01-15T04:55:00.000-08:00

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.

Displaying Data using ASP.NET MVC and OData Service

2012-01-15T04:49:00.000-08:00

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

Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.1

2012-01-09T09:02:00.000-08:00

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.

Building application using ASP.NET MVC and MongoDB

2012-01-05T09:05:00.000-08:00

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

Installation of MongoDB on a Windows

2012-01-04T02:46:00.000-08:00

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 where

Building a OData Service

2012-01-03T06:50:00.000-08:00

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 Protocol (AtomPub) and

Design Patterns -- Abstract Factory Pattern

2012-01-02T08:52:00.000-08:00

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.

End of 2011 and Beginning of 2012

2011-12-31T23:18:00.000-08:00

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

“Unable to retrieve the metadata for …” Error while using ASP.NET MVC 3

2011-12-18T02:31:00.001-08:00

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

jQuery Mobile

2011-11-27T06:44:00.001-08:00

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/ .

Node.js on windows

2011-11-21T10:46:00.001-08:00

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

Learn Javascript Courses

2011-11-12T04:02:00.001-08:00

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

Nice Article on HTML5

2011-11-11T21:51:00.001-08:00

Read this nice article titled "Better Web Forms with HTML5 Forms" at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh547102.aspx

FireFox 8 to be launched on Nov 8

2011-11-07T04:02:00.001-08:00

FireFox 8 will be launched on Nov 8. Firefox 8 Launches In Two Days, But Here's How To Get It NOW, Read at http://www.businessinsider.com/download-firefox-8-2011-11 "Firefox 8, which comes just six weeks after the launch of Firefox 7, includes some slick new features. There's Twitter embedded in the search bar, better add-on management, much improved tabs, support for HTML 5 context

MSDN Magazine November Edition

2011-11-05T00:45:00.000-07:00

The MSDN Magazine November edition is available. Check out here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh547094.aspx

Nice article - "The Internet of Things and the cloud"

2011-10-11T20:03:00.000-07:00

This is a nice article related to internet and cloud , its titled "The Internet of Things and the cloud" http://gigaom.com/cloud/alex-salkever-on-the-internet-of-things/

MSDN Magazine October Edition

2011-10-06T11:01:00.001-07:00

The MSDN Magazine October edition is available. Check out here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh463583.aspx

ASP.NET vNext Series by Scott Gu

2011-10-06T11:00:00.000-07:00

Check out the articles on the ASP.NET vNext Series by Scott Gu at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2011/08/31/asp-net-vnext-series.aspx

Types of Cursors in SQL SERVER

2011-10-02T03:25:00.000-07:00

The types of Cursors are as mentioned below Static The static cursors are those where the data on retrieval is not modified and remains as before it entered the cursor since its stored in the tempdb. This is also know as read-only cursors. Forward The forward only cursors can move forward in the result set. Dynamic The dynamic cursors identify all changes to data inside of the cursor

8 years of Blogging

2011-10-01T03:23:00.000-07:00

I was just thinking that it has been 8 years since i started blogging, time passes so fast. Just wanted to put down the number of blog post i have written in all these years 2003 - 2004 => 8 2004 - 2005 => 0 2005 - 2006 => 0 2006 - 2007 => 31 2007 - 2008 => 28 2008 - 2009 => 55 2009 - 2010 => 26 2010 - 2011 => 61 From above it looked like in the initial days i was not blogging much. For 2

Cursors in SQL SERVER

2011-09-29T10:31:00.000-07:00

We may need to do some operation each record wise in the record set returned. This is reason for cursors. The Syntax is as follows DECLARE cursor_name [ INSENSITIVE ] [ SCROLL ] CURSOR FOR select_statement [ FOR { READ ONLY | UPDATE [ OF column_name [ ,...n ] ] } ] [;] The below example shows that we need to print the employee name and employee id in a specific manner as Robert Smith (