Couple of years ago a reliable and decent performing Windows hosting was not affordable to many enthusiastic developers who want to try a startup idea or build a hobby site. I tried to start an ASP.NET website few years ago to provide services like – Mobile Tracing, Vehicle Tracing. But due to high cost of …
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When we manually build a .NET project using Visual Studio, the reference paths set in Project Properties are picked up by Visual Studio for referring to dependent DLLs. But the project is built using TFS, the reference path’s specified in project properties are not considered. This is because Reference Paths are user specific settings and …
Team Foundation Server – How to pass ReferencePath argument to MSBuild Read More »
An Object Relation Mapping(ORM) library helps developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual model instead of programming against a relational database model. ORMs bring lot of advantages and few of the prominent ones are - RDBMS independent data access layer development, rapid application development, huge reduction in code, auto generation of …
List of ORM libraries available for .NET and the best one Read More »
Traditional asp.net web applications maintain their configuration settings in web.config files, where as Windows Azure based applications should have configurable entities into Service Configuration files. What if the application needs to run on Azure as well as traditional environments? Where do you store the configurable entities and how do you access them depending on the …
With cloud computing services, architecting a highly scalable and reliable applications is much easier than ever before. One of the main components of highly scalable architecture is Caching. A well cached application can boost performance by many folds depending on how effectively it is used. For an ASP.NET web application cloud architecture, one can choose …
Amazon ElastiCache Vs. Windows Azure AppFabric Cache Read More »
While enhancing one of Windows Azure web application today, I was struck with the following error that occurs only Windows Azure environment Could not load file or assembly ‘xxxx’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. When the web application is tested on local development …
Looks for steps to attach IIS 7 process to Visual Studio 2010 running on Windows 7? Here are the steps to be followed
Problem When you try to debug a solution in Visual Studio, you may get an error “Unable to attach. The binding handle is invalid”. This error does not stop you from running the solution, but it will not allow you to debug the code and none of breakpoints will stop the code execution. A kind …
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jQuery, the awesome open source javascript framework, is all set to embrace Microsoft’s Templates plug-in in its upcoming release. Microsoft’s Scott Gu made an announcement about this today. Along with Templates plug-in Microsoft developed Data Link and Globalization plug-ins for jQuery. All the three plug-in are now official jQuery plug-ins and the jQuery development team …
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In one of the mobile device application we are developing using .NET Compact Framework(C#) utilizes conditional compilation to include/exclude device specific source code. In Visual Studio, we can define the conditional compilation constants using “Conditional compilation symbols” input box in Build tab of Project Properties.
