Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC(Release Candidate)

This release updates Visual Studio 2012 with a pre-release 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 API ASP.NET Web API enhanced with new features: ASP.NET Web API OData gives you the flexibility you need to build OData […]

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Free HTML5 Certification and Training Offer from Microsoft–Prove your HTML5 Programming Skills for free

Microsoft few month back launched a free HTML5 Certification program for exam – 070-480 – Programming in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. To prepare for this exam you have set of nice Training materials also available through http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com. Lets go through in detail How you can utilize this exam. When you pass Exam 70-480: Programming in […]

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Introducing IIS Transform Manager & IIS Smooth Streaming – Stream your Media files through IIS

Few weeks back one of my colleague asked for some help on setting up an IIS Smooth Streaming capability for an iOS application. Users will be uploading the videos to Servers. We wanted to stream videos on demand to iOS Devices such as iPhone, iPod, iPad. Inorder to stream we have to convert the video […]

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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: […]

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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 […]

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Download – Microsoft Web Deploy v3.0 for IIS

The Web Deployment Tool simplifies the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web applications and Web sites. Administrators can use command-line scripting with the Web Deployment Tool to synchronize IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0 and IIS 8.0 servers or to migrate an IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 servers to IIS 8.0. The Web Deployment […]

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