Microsoft has released final version of .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 today. During May 2016, Microsoft has released RC2 version of the same framework hinting the release of final version soon, within a month Microsoft has released final version (Release to Manufacture). With this release, you can start building your next application today… Continue reading
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Visual Studio 2015 Update 2–Download
Today Microsoft has released Update 2 for Visual Studio 2015. Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 includes a variety of capability improvements and bug fixes. To find out what’s new, see the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 Release Notes. For a list of fixed bugs and known issues, see the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 MSDN… Continue reading
Visual Studio Code – download
Visual Studio Code is free open source editor from Microsoft. Download: Visual Studio Code for Windows Visual Studio Code for Mac OS Visual Studio Code for Linux Release notes
Installing Windows 10 Client Hyper-V in VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX
As a Windows 10 Insider, I would always latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 10/UWP development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 10 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V… Continue reading
Back to Basics : Singleton Design Pattern using System.Lazy type
This article takes you to a simpler/alternative approach in making a Singleton Design Pattern implementation using System.Lazy class rather that using our traditional approach. Singleton Design Pattern implementation without lazy initialization: This code is thread safe enabled [code language=”csharp” padlinenumbers=”true”] /// <summary> /// Singleton class /// </summary> public class AppConfig { private AppConfig() { }… Continue reading
New Certification – MCSD – Azure Solution Architect
Microsoft has made availability of new MCSD certification called as “MCSD – Azure Solutions Architect“. Required Exams: 070-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 070-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 070-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Once you complete the above required exams you will be awarded MCSD – Azure Solutions Architect certificate valid for 2 years. PS:… Continue reading
Introduction to HTTP/2
The reason I got started with topic is that, there were some buzz around Visual Studio 2015 RC support for HTTP/2 and Windows 8 – IIS support for HTTP/2. I was curious to learn further about the HTTP/2 and sharing my findings in this article. About HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is the first new version of HTTP… Continue reading
All you need to know about Microsoft Azure Stack(Azure on On-Premises
Typically it is a hype among people that if a product comes from Microsoft, it needs to be criticized and thinking Microsoft would only be promoting their products with Azure. That’s not right and I would say we are being judgmental without even looking at the capabilities on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure the prime competitor… Continue reading
Static vs Singleton Classes
Recently while I was attending an interview I came across a question Static vs Singleton. Though I know the differences I couldn’t answer it properly, as I was not refreshed my programming knowledge before the interview. I would like to quote a reference to Jalpesh’s blog article (www.dotnetjalps.com) explaining the difference: Difference between Static and… Continue reading
Why SOA ?–Service Oriented Architecture
SOA starts with a simple idea – the concept of service. Services are unassociated, loosely coupled units of functionality that are self-contained. Each service implements at least one action, such as submitting an online application for an account, retrieving an online bank statement or modifying an online booking or airline ticket order. There are multiple… Continue reading