While reading up on Prism 4…the integrated Prism which ships in .NET 4.0, i  saw people still wondering on how MEF and Prism compare…are they… Read More »MEF ,Prism and the Surrounding Confusion!!

I feel the importance of Queues as a communication medium between Web and worker roles is quite a bit under-glorified…apart from acting as reliable messengers… Read More »Azure Scalability:- Use “Queues” as your bridges..

Azure queue takes either an array of bytes or a string as an input. While working on a web role- worker role interaction , i… Read More »💡Azure Message Queues-Passing objects

Azure holds a lot of promise for applications with 1. Spikes in usage 2. Requirement for low set up cost 3.Huge storage requirements Out of… Read More »Programming Table Storage in Azure…Choosing your Keys!!

Another one of my favorites!..Everytime i need to serialize an object i end up surfing the web to get the correct code(who wants to reinvent… Read More »Code for Keeps:- Serialization

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… Read More »Creating An “Extensible” Consolidated Social Networking Platform in WPF using MEF

Applications deployed on azure are meant to 1. Perform better at 2. Lesser cost. As a software developer its inherently your job to ensure this… Read More »💡Few tips to Reduce Cost and Optimize performance in Azure!

An architect always has the tough job of convincing the client that the solution deployed is “optimum” under the given constraints!!. Especially when it comes… Read More »Azure:- What Azure Offers and what exactly does “Compute” mean?

Was collating all sorts of size restrictions for tables, blobs etc but found this really useful post by Cerebrata which has the exact info i… Read More »💡Remember the restrictions in Azure!!

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… Read More »Location Based Applications in Silverlight Using Bing Maps!