Have you been working on a website or an application where you maintain a user database for people coming from different companies/domains ? Someone is… Read More »Introduction into the world of “Claims”( Windows Identity Foundation & Azure App fabric Access Control!)

One of our early blogs was about extracting images from databases, websites and showing them on the screen. The blog(see it here) dealt with a)… Read More »Store Retrieve image to/from Database

Sometimes when using the Entity Framework we decide to encapsulate a complicated piece of SQL into a stored procedure and call it directly from your… Read More »💡Complex objects from Stored Procedures in Entity Framework!

I’ve often been asked the question of when should we use a Canvas and when a Single Celled Grid…. This is a snapshot of the… Read More »WPF/Silverlight Canvas Vs Single Cell Grid

A quick post about setting commands within DataTemplates when using the MVVM pattern! When you are inside a DataTemplate the DataContext is changed to the … Read More »Commanding within DataTemplates in MVVM!

The ADO.NET team recently came up with a new concept in OR mapping called “Code First” model in Entity Framework 4.0 In addition to supporting… Read More »Introducing Code First Entity Framework 4.0!

Just created a sample to showcase EF 4.0 Code First approach..it so happens that the app made to showcase uses the MVC 3.0 pattern with… Read More »ASP.NET MVC , Razor and Validations!!

This month’s Tech net magazine has quite a useful article on “Cost architecting” your azure deployments. We had written something on the same lines here.… Read More »Optimizing your Azure Deployments for Cost and Performance!

I’ve seen a couple of developers fumble with a LOT of Code when asked to implement a 2-3 level Master –detail form. So we put… Read More »Multiple Level Master Detail Binding in WPF(XAML)