Musings of a Software Architect

Open Source for .Net Development

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:11:02 PST

Summary I wanted to list good alternatives to the Microsoft stack for developing websites with Microsoft ASP.Net MVC technology. Database My SQL My SQL Client Tool LINQ Provider for...

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Threadsafe Invocation

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:12:35 PST

Summary In my opinion, all Windows Forms applications should be designed in a thread-safe manner instead of having everything run on the main UI thread. Use the following code to update the form's...

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ASP.Net MVC4 Mobile Tutorial - Part 3

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:19:36 PST

Summary Continuing from our discussion around a sample ASP.Net MVC4 Mobile application, this final post will discuss the final piece; the UI and how it all comes together. You can download...

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ASP.Net MVC4 Mobile Tutorial - Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:21:17 PST

Summary In the last post, we covered the database design and the Entity model for the sample ASP.Net MVC4 Mobile application. We will continue with the Service layer in this post. The...

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ASP.Net MVC4 Mobile Tutorial - Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:23:09 PST

Summary The ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview introduces also new template for mobile web applications which use jQuery Mobile – a special jQuery library for building mobile user interfaces. In...

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Elmah Exception Logging with Azure

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:17:40 PST

Summary If you have an ASP.Net project mapped to an Azure worker role, then Elmah is a great exception handling framework for providing near code-less, world class exception handling for your...

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NodeJS and Windows Azure

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:00:47 PST

Summary NodeJS offers a server side JavaScript programming model ideal for building highly scalable and performant network applications whether on premise or in the cloud. It allows you to write...

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SharePoint Managed Account Password Expired

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:46:35 PST

Summary My local SharePoint development environment uses my corporate login as the farm account (since I cannot create another AD forest without messing up my corporate login). When my password...

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Get User Profile Owner

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:05:04 PST

Summary Do you need to get the owner of the user profile in SharePoint to conditionally display sensitive data? If yes, then read on... (Tip from colleague Kiran...

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Dynamic Rows to Columns

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:50:50 PST

Summary Do you have a situation where you have data in your table rows that you want to transpose into columns? Furthermore, you are not sure of the number of columns you want to transpose? Read...

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SQL Azure Supported and Unsupported TSQL Statements

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:08:22 PST

Summary Unsupported and partially supported t-SQL statements in SQL Azure. Partially Supported UnSupported Keywords: SQL AzureCopyright 2010 Shailen Sukul

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Exporting Sql Server Schema to SQL Azure

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:55:50 PDT

Summary This article will show you how to export schema from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Azure. Open SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 Connect to your SQL Server that contains the source...

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Building an MVC App with Azure

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:43:42 PDT

Summary In this article, we will create an deploy an ASP.Net MVC application and deploy it to Azure. Download and install the Visual Studio Azure tools from here Get an Azure account if you do...

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SharePoint and Windows Azure

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:28:54 PDT

Summary Learn how to take advantage of Azure features in SharePoint There are 3 areas where you can leverage the cloud computing power of Azure: Reach - you can deploy custom WCF services...

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Azure Components

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:12:17 PDT

Summary The Windows Azure Platform is an application platform in the cloud that allows Microsoft datacenters to host and run applications. It provides a cloud operating system called Windows Azure...

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Microsoft Build Conference - Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:47:44 PDT

Summary Catch my video notes from day one of the Microsoft Build conference. Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from...

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Exporting and Importing Taxonomy

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:08:18 PDT

Summary This post covers the procedure for exporting and importing terms from the term store. Exporting Export-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData [-Identity]...

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Helpful Apps for Windows Users

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:07:11 PDT

Summary Although the Mac/IPad appstore has popularized the third-party marketplace, Windows applications have the oldest and largest ecosystem of such applications, although it is a bit hard to...

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Javascript and CSS Optimization with SharePoint

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:42:36 PDT

Summary It is a common practice to minimy Javascript and CSS files. This is achieved by removing whitespace and unncesssary characters (like comments) from the files to make the footprint as small...

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Windows Storage Emulator Database Issue

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:53:43 PDT

Summary When you attempt to launch the Windows Azure storage emulator, you are presented with the following error message: "Failed to initialize Windows Azure storage emulator. See output window...

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Sequel Server or Entity Frameworks–Guest Article

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:52:17 PDT

Sequel Server or Entity Frameworks XSD is a document written in XML schema language, also known as XML schema definition. XML schema is more powerful than DTD(Document Type Definition)and being...

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SharePoint Smart Serve

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:29:23 PDT

Summary SharePoint 2010 has numerous artifacts which make up a SharePoint web page, just like any other web page. The primary ones are: Javascript Images CSS Often, these will add up to make a...

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Internet Explorer cannot display this feed

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:21:44 PDT

Summary When browsing feed urls in IE 8/9, you get this error message: "Internet Explorer cannot display this feed" Solution To fix this, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Content tab. Under...

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Node.js on Azure

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:07:56 PDT

Summary Looks like Microsoft is helping ensure that Node.js runs on Azure. News here: http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/06/23/porting-node-to-windows-with-microsoft%E2%80%99s-help/ Snippet here: I’m...

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Remove Event Handlers

noreply@blogger.com (Shailen Sukul) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:39:46 PDT

Summary I found this handy little utility to remove event handlers from a list from:...

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