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Category: .NET Framework
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1–Available Now
Microsoft has released the Update 1 for Visual studio 2012 RTM. The key features available with this update include: SharePoint development: additional ALM capabilities in SharePoint – such as Load Testing and Coded UI testing support – improving quality, scalability and agility. Agile team support: easier agile planning with Web Access and new Kanban support,… Continue reading
WP8 Developer Series–Getting to know Common API’s for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8
[ Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 logos are trademarks of Microsoft ] Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system by Microsoft, officially announced the release to manufacture on 29th OCT 2012. Previous Windows Phone versions were all based on old CE kernel and with Windows Phone… Continue reading
WP8 Developer Series–Installing Windows Phone 8.0 SDK and Getting Started
Microsoft has released the final SDK for Windows Phone 8.0 for developers. In this article we are going to walk through the steps and requirements to install Windows Phone 8.0 SDK on your PC. To find out what’s new in the SDK visit What’s new in the Windows Phone SDK 8.0. 1. Requirements Windows Phone… Continue reading
New Update for ASP.NET & Visual Studio 2012 – Microsoft ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Prerelease
A new prerelease update for Microsoft ASP.NET 4.5 has been introduced for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio Express for WEB. This release updates Visual Studio 2012 with a prerelease update to ASP.NET. Features and updates: Enhanced Website publishing New ASP.NET MVC Templates for Facebook applications and Single Page Application using knockout.js and ASP.NET Web… Continue reading
Windows Phone Toolkit–October 2012 with WP8 SDK support
Windows Phone Toolkit is an additional set of controls for Windows Phone Development released by Microsoft Windows Phone developer platform team through Codeplex.com. Windows Phone Toolkit provides the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. Windows Phone Toolkit – October 2012 includes additional support for using the… Continue reading
Zip(Archive) API’s in .NET Framework 4.5 – Part 2 – ZipFile Class
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
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
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
Read and Write HTTP Requests and Responses asynchronously using ASP.NET 4.5
With ASP.NET 4 – Microsoft has introduced the ability to read an HTTP request entity as a stream using the HttpRequest.GetBufferlessInputStream method. This method provides streaming access to the request entity. But this process happens synchronously because it was tied to a thread until the request is completed. Now with new ASP.NET 4.5 –… Continue reading