Category: CodeSnippets

WordPress Blog in Azure App Service In Minutes–Part 01

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All my life I have been a tech saavy person would make my hands dirty trying out all odds available. Here I am going to help you with setting up your own WordPress Blog in Azure App Service. SPOILER ALERT: We will be using a B1 – Basic instance to save the cost. Step 1:… Continue reading

Getting Started local development with Azure Cosmos DB services – Part 2

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In my previous article we discussed about setting local development environment using Cosmos DB Emulator for Windows. With this part 2 of the article, we will cover developing, debugging and integration related aspects of using Cosmos DB Emulator. Developing with Cosmos DB Emulator Once you have Cosmos DB emulator installed and running on your machine,… Continue reading

HTML5 – Introduction to HTML5Shiv for Internet Explorer 6/7/8

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HTML5Shiv is a JavaScript workaround, discovered by Sjoerd Visscher, to enable support styling of HTML5 elements in versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 9.0, which do not allow unknown elements to be styled without JavaScript. Means your CSS classes and attributes will not be applied to the particular HTML5 specific display element, until and… Continue reading

Free eBooks from Microsoft Press on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

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Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Final Edition) You can download the eBook in: Introducing Windows 8- An Overview for IT Professionals – PDF ebook Introducing Windows 8-An Overview for IT Professionals – Mobi format for Kindle Introducing Windows 8-An Overview for IT Professionals – ePub format If you prefer a hard copy… Continue reading

Zip(Archive) API’s in .NET Framework 4.5 – Part 2 – ZipFile Class

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In my previous post I shared some information on API’s/Classes included as part of System.IO.Compression namespace in .NET Framework 4.5, and given on overview of ZipArchive class. Once such class I would be sharing some insight with post today would be ‘ZipFile‘ class. The ZipFile class provides convenient static methods for working with zip archives:… Continue reading

Zip(Archive) API’s in .NET Framework 4.5 – ZipArchive Class

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With release of .NET Framework 4.5, Microsoft has introduced new classes in to System.IO.Compression namespace. These classes will add the necessary programming support for Zipping(Achiving), and Extracting support for Zip Files in your .NET Source Code. Below are the newly introduced classes as part of .NET Framework 4.5: ZipArchive – Represents a package of compressed… Continue reading

Lazy Request Validation in ASPDotNET 4.5 and AntiXSS

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Lazy Request Validation is an interesting feature included as part of .NET Framework 4.5 and ASP.NET 4.5. By default all request data is subject to request validation. However, you can configure the application to defer request validation until you actually access request data. You can configure the application to use deferred validation in the Web.config… Continue reading