An excellent release which somehow missed getting its due attention is the Windows azure Management Tool!! This tool can be used to manage not only your configurations but also enable logging, analyse reports in excel, increase, decrease your role instances , Manage your certificates and monitor your storage including some simple Partition key based querying!!. […]
Category Archives: Looking Forward
Monetize your Silverlight Videos!!
Silverlight streaming seems to have caught the fancy of many and a lot of sites are now streaming Silverlight videos.. however very few are making money from doing so!!.. Recently came across an Open Source Silverlight Media player called OpenVideoPlayer which lets you do just that!!.. Dynamically Insert ads into your media files with configurations […]
Silverlight:- Browsing without a Browser??
Wanna navigate to Google.com from your Silverlight application?? Just put the following code HtmlPage.Window.Navigate(new Uri(“http://www.google.co.in/”) We all know THAT…so what’s this blog all about??.Now lets take this application Out of Browser This is what you will get.. WHY???:- Because there’s no browser when running out of browser, so you can’t use the DOM and Scripting.Html […]
Microsoft Strengthens its hold on the Private Cloud
Microsoft seems to have realized that the true utilization of Cloud Computing atleast in the beginning is going to be in Hybrid deployment models. Keeping in tune with this trend they have empowered data centres and private customers to build Private clouds by announcing new “Windows Azure Platform Appliance” Below are some extracts from the […]
Creating An “Extensible” Consolidated Social Networking Platform in WPF using MEF
One of my recent projects was on Social Networking where we worked with various social networking sites like WL, Facebook, Delicious, Twitter ,Picassa, Flickr etc to bring them to a common platform for a user. It was a pretty interesting application and i’ll try to demonstrate multiple WPF patterns we implemented in it. One was […]
Location Based Applications in Silverlight Using Bing Maps!
Going to the headquarters of Microsoft..Redmond is every developers dream…so the first time i happened to go there i was truly overjoyed!!. I tried my best to describe the entire town to my family and friends but pictures were never enough…and then came in Bing Maps…now they can virtually (pun intended:-)) walk the streets of […]
Looking Forward to VS2010!
Few really useful developer friendly features in VS2010 1. Pin your favorite project so that its always available in the recent projects(even after a year!) 2. Double click a variable to highlight its usage all over the current page (no more find all references). Do a Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow to move to next reference 3. Do a […]
Migrating ASP.Net MVC 1 to ASP.Net MVC 2
With release of ASP.NET MVC 2, are you planning to migrate your ASP.Net MVC 1 applications. Here are few links which would help you to migrate Eilon Lipton has created migration tool for migrating ASP.NET MVC 1 solutions to ASP.Net MVC 2 solution over here To manually upgrade project one can find instructions at www.asp.net […]