Tech-no-logy Demystified with Sandeep Joshi

2 simple things Microsoft can do to accelerate Windows 8 adoption in enterprise and consumer space

sajoshi — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 09:50:35 GMT

1. Separate UI and Installation for touch vs. non touch devices This will make life simpler. I have been looking to upgrade all my corporate laptops and desktops on Windows 8 and the response from the pilot that I did with few users, was not that great...(read more)

Windows Media Player for Windows 8

sajoshi — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:32:00 GMT

After setting up your machine with the latest Windows 8 OS, as a user you would assume Windows Media Player to be installed by default. Don't be surprised if you find it otherwise. There is no Media Player installed by default with Windows 8. The reasoning...(read more)

Running Standalone Intellitrace Collector - step by step

sajoshi — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:35:00 GMT

Step 1: Download the Standalone Intellitrace Collector http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=245688 Step 2: Run the Standalone Intellitrace Collector. This will create the IntelliTraceCollection.cab file in the specified directory. Step 3...(read more)

How to install Microsoft Office 2013

sajoshi — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:34:00 GMT

I was looking for a preview link to download MSI for Office 2013 Preview bits. To much of my surprise when I go to official Microsoft Preview site, it only gives me links to explore Office 365 version. There is also no mention of MSI. Finally when I searched...(read more)

Automating Code Metrics in VS2010/VS2012 during Builds

sajoshi — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:53:09 GMT

Code Metrics provide an easy way to measure quality parameters for your code. While this feature has a good application within VS IDE, most of the people look for automating it with their build scripts. To facilitate build integration Microsoft released...(read more)

Awesome TFSPreview.com

sajoshi — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:53:00 GMT

Background : Primarily as a developer, I always wanted an online service which is free for me to put my projects under source control. I could find few paid TFS hosted services but I was not ready to put sample projects or source code which has no...(read more)

Getting started with Windows Metro style app development

sajoshi — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:31:25 GMT

I started reading this and can't stop. Very interesting and mostly step by step. Getting started with Windows Metro style app development http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/br211386...(read more)

A great place to start learning development

sajoshi — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:29:12 GMT

Development for Beginners - A very good resource repository for beginning your development journey http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx...(read more)

Working with Agile in a Distributed Team Environment

sajoshi — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:50:00 GMT

I am proud to share my achievement as a MSDN author with you all. My recent article titled ‘ Working with Agile in a Distributed Team Environment ’ got published in MSDN magazine January 2012 Issue and very well received by respected industry...(read more)

Learn ASP.NET MVC3 using Virtual Labs

sajoshi — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:54:15 GMT

If you are restricted by your work desktops's RAM or availability of VS2010 or SQL Server on your development machine, Virtual Lab is the answer. With Virtual Labs you can learn almost everything about your favorite technologies like ASP.NET MVC, SharePoint...(read more)

My new Windows Azure Step-By-Step Course at Udemy

sajoshi — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:51:00 GMT

Link to Course Page Windows Azure for Developers...(read more)

Passing Named Parameters to POST action and getting JSON array - Programmatically

sajoshi — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:06:00 GMT

Yesterday, I was approached by one of my teammate where he was facing an issue with getting JSON response from an ASP.NET MVC action. He was working on a Console Application where he wanted to get the list of products from another internal ASP.NET MVC...(read more)

LinqToSQL - Row Not found or Changed

sajoshi — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:14:00 GMT

Last week, I was asked to help on an exception on an ASP.NET page, which was occurring intermittently. The exception was Message: Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException: Row not found or changed. Initially, I started with Page Requests...(read more)

Easiest way to setup a new virtual machine with Windows 8 Developer Preview 64 bit

sajoshi — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:46:00 GMT

#bldwin was an overwhelming experience. The keynote session, demos and content – all are awesome!!! I just can’t wait my PC to have the new bits. I started the Developer Preview download around 30 minutes back. Lets see how long it takes....(read more)

Dependency Injection with ASP.NET MVC3 - with custom IDependencyResolver

sajoshi — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:32:00 GMT

One of the new features of ASP.NET MVC3 is better support for dependency injection. There are changes in how the framework interacts with your Inversion of Control (IoC) Container. As we all know the whole point of DI is about separating component...(read more)

CodedUI and Load Tests with Visual Studio 2010 - Your complete testing tool

sajoshi — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:55:12 GMT

Here are the slide deck I used during one of the Microsoft Events recently for describing CodedUI and Load Tests....(read more)

Which Unit Test framework to use with VSTS - MSTest or NUnit

sajoshi — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:25:00 GMT

Unit Testing is the core of TDD and it requires a lot of collaboration and communication among developers. One of the most debated topics among developers is "Should we use MsTest or NUnit ?" People agree on disagreement and have their own preferences...(read more)

Load Testing with Visual Studio 2010

sajoshi — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:50:25 GMT

An Excellent Video from TechEd on Load/Performance Testing with Visual Studio http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/DEV302...(read more)

Looking at Design Patterns - From Developers' Eye

sajoshi — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:01:00 GMT

I am in a training class (again) and this time for different reasons. I am looking at how to code better with design patterns. While all this design patterns stuff looks so good and sounds so exiting, some of the thoughts keep me on my toes. I observed...(read more)

.NET vs Java - Do we still need to talk?

sajoshi — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:14:00 GMT

.NET vs JAVA is a hot topic of debate, specially in an enterprise environment. Every team does try to impress the stakeholders and convince that their (although not really) technology is the best in the world and why any new initiative should be started...(read more)

When to use Code Contracts?

sajoshi — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:25:00 GMT

Code Contracts - Introduced by Microsoft Reseach which claims to provide more readability to you code by making it more clean. One very easy to follow article is here where you can learn how to use Code Contracts in you code: http://www.abhisheksur.com...(read more)

Self Service Provisioning Portal for Virtual Machine Manager

sajoshi — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:02:59 GMT

A snippet from Microsoft Site: System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 is a free, partner-extensible solution that allows you to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage datacenter resources. Using the Self-Service Portal, you can...(read more)

.NET 4 Event at Penang

sajoshi — Thu, 26 May 2011 03:14:00 GMT

I had a priviledge to present a session on topic '.NET 4 Demystified' during the 'Community Technology Update' event in Penang (Malaysia) on 25th May 2011. Some of positive things that I observed are: Participants were very keen to learn and very...(read more)

Practical Usage of Tuple in C#

sajoshi — Sun, 22 May 2011 09:22:15 GMT

Introduction of ‘Tuple’ in .NET Framework 4.0, really filled in a missing piece in C#. Apart from giving us the ability to interoperate with functional languages like F# or Python/Ruby, It does offer the convenience of heterogeneous collection which can...(read more)

MCM Exchange Server 2010 - Now available from testing centers

sajoshi — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:19:06 GMT

Microsoft announces plans to provide Microsoft Certified Master program for Exchange Server 2010 through a network of international testing centers. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/may11/05-16MicrosoftCertifiedMaster.mspx Starting...(read more)