New Release: Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010)

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, which includes the Windows Azure SDK, extends Visual Studio 2010 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. New for version 1.3: Virtual Machine (VM) Role (Beta):Allows you to create a custom VHD image using Windows […]

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Use LoadDataOptions class in LINQ for immediate filtering and loading of relational data

LINQ is one of the nice feature every .NET developer would love to appreciate Microsoft for. I do not wish to explain much about linq, I am getting in to topic with a belief that you will have minimum understanding of LINQ and how it helps in data access from .NET Framework 3.5 onwards. Consider […]

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Microsoft® SQL Server® code-named ‘Denali’ – Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1)

Microsoft has announced the preview version of their next generation of SQL Server database software code named “Denali” Quoting from MSDN Download Center SQL Server code-named ‘Denali’ helps empowers organizations to be more agile in today’s competitive market. Customers will more efficiently deliver mission-critical solutions through a highly scalable and available platform. Industry-leading tools help […]

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ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The latest Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC 3.0 for Visual studio 2010 has releaded.  Download latest ASP.NET MVC 3 – RC – Release Candidate

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Doing Parallel Tasks using Parallel Class – Part 01(Parallel.For Parallel.ForEach)

Introduction Recently I had a requirement for performance tuning the application which my team is working on. We thought of running using normal .NET Threading. But I thought about utilizing the Parallel programming extensions(PFX) in .NET Framework 4.0. Since we have lots of For Loops and for each loops consisting of web service calls, makes […]

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Experiencing DEVCON 2010 – Hyderabad with MUGH

It was nice informative session we had in DEVCON2010 by Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad(www.MUGH.net). I was really glad to meet Aaron Skonnard(@skonnard) directly and learn from him, such an excellent speaker he is, I really a great fan of him, experienced his works etc. I always admire his works and rocking session on Future of […]

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