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  • Blog Posts of the Week (4th - 17th August 2013)

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Tanmay Kapoor} Tanmay Kapoor
    • 1 Comment

    Developers

     

    WebResource.axd ScriptResource.axd not working: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: utcDate

    By Raghav Khunger published on 08-04-2013

    Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: utcDate….(more)

     

    CRUD operation on ASP.NET Web API from .NET client

    By Dhananjay Kumar published on 08-07-2013

    In this part of blog, we will learn to create ASP.NET Web API. To create launch Visual Studio and create a project by choosing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application template….(more)

     

    Making Windows Azure Caching Work in Compute Emulator

    By Gaurav Mantri published on 08-07-2013

    Recently I was working on a project where we wanted to use In-Role Windows Azure Caching. We ran into a number of issues while….(more)

     

    Windows Azure vs. Force.com vs. Cloud Foundry

    By Niraj Bhatt published on 08-17-2013

    Windows Azure is the premier cloud offering from Microsoft. It has a comprehensive set of platform services ranging from….(more)

     

    How to Build a RSS Feed Reader using Windows Phone App Studio?

    By Kunal Chowdhury published on 08-13-2013

    Let’s start building a RSS reader of your blog. For next 15 minutes forget that you are also a developer or have knowledge on Windows Phone app programming. Just make sure….(more)

     

    Working with EventViewer using C#

    By Brij Mishra published on 08-16-2013

    There are several phases of a Application . It does not end with developing the application and deploying it on production servers. Other most important part….(more)

     

    Async in Web API, Entity Framework 6 and ASP.NET Web Forms vNext

    By Suprotim Agarwal published on 08-16-2013

    .NET Framework 4.5 as we all know has introduced the new async and await keywords that go a long way in making Asynchronous easier. However async APIs are….(more)

     

     

    IT PRO

     

    How to Add external users to SharePoint Online

    By Sundararajan Narasiman published on 08-06-2013

    The external users are nothing but people who don’t have user accounts in the SharePoint Online environment. The access to external users can be provided by sending….(more)

     

    Public access of Website hosted in Azure Windows Server VM

    By Rami Vemula published on 08-07-2013

    In this small post we are going to look into how quickly we can configure Azure Windows Server 2012 VM and access a website which is hosted in its IIS. We need to add 80 port….(more)

     

    Access Services is unable to process the request. Click here to try again

    By Amol Ghuge published on 08-08-2013

    While working on asset database site, trying to create new item and got the following exception….(more)

     

    The file that you are trying to create cannot be created error in NAV2013

    By Mohana Krishna published on 08-12-2013

    There is a parameter in Custom Settings File called ClientServicesProhibitedFileTypes which will not allow you to create files with extensions you mentioned….(more)

     

    Re-create deleted records using Audit History

    By Roohi Shaikh published on 08-14-2013

    Many a times we come across situations where we accidentally, delete a particular record and wish to recover that record back in CRM. This is possible only if you have….(more)

     

    Exchange CAS high availability with Windows NLB

    By Prabhat Nigam published on 08-14-2013

    Application availability is getting super critical these days. Most of them can be clustered but there are still few applications which can’t be clustered. So we have Network load balance hardware….(more)

     

     

    Consumer

     

    Windows Media Player 12 constantly “Retrieving media info for an unknown album”

    By Soumitra Sengupta published on 08-04-2013

    I am getting constant message “Retrieving media info for an unknown album”. I have noticed, however, that if I sort my library by artist….(more)

     

    Access your SkyDrive Files Offline in Windows 8.1

    By Anand Khanse published on 08-05-2013

    You can now easily view and browse the files you’ve saved to SkyDrive.com. Moreover, you can make those files available offline especially, if you wanted to access….(more)

     

    Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Resizing Shapes

    By Geetesh Bajaj published on 08-05-2013

    Once you insert your shapes on a slide, you may realize that it's not the perfect size -- did you want it larger, or a wee bit smaller? However you want your shapes resized….(more)

     

    How to create a Then vs. Now interactive chart in Excel?

    By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 08-06-2013

    Since our chart will display values for one region at a time, we need a mechanism to let user control which region is displayed. We will use a combo box….(more)

     

    Xbox One’s Video Capture Detailed – “Manage, Edit, and Share”

    By Kartik Mudgal published on 08-06-2013

    Your clips are stored in the cloud. Also, you’ll see games making “magic moment” videos of your gameplay based on the game….(more)

     

    Ensure that “Show Value as” feature of the Pivot Table works even when some Pivot Table columns are unfiltered/hidden

    By Ashish Mathur published on 08-09-2013

    Let's say the data sheet has Sales and Profit data by Product, Region, Salesman and Date.  One may want to analyse….(more)

  • Blog Posts of the Week (18th - 24th August 2013)

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Tanmay Kapoor} Tanmay Kapoor

    Developers

     

    Enabling Client Side Validation on Custom Data Annotations with IClientValidatable in MVC

    By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 08-20-2013

    In this post you will learn how to create or enable client side validation on the custom data annotations. If you go through….(more)

     

    Do you know, #VisualStudio 2013 can sync all settings across Devices?

    By Kunal Chowdhury published on 08-20-2013

    If you already started using Visual Studio 2013 Preview, you might already know about this feature but those who didn’t yet get the chance to explore it….(more)

     

    Awesome Libraries For C# Developers #1 - Interactive Extensions

    By Anoop Madhusudanan published on 08-21-2013

    Interactive Extensions, at its core, has a number of new extensions methods for IEnumerable – i.e it adds a number of utility LINQ to Object….(more)

     

    Effects of impersonation on WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name property

    By Raghav Khunger published on 08-24-2013

    Following are the outcomes of my test which I did in my ASP.NET site with app pool set as "Network Service" identity….(more)

     

    Entity Framework 6 beta – Customizing Code First Conventions

    By Suprotim Agarwal published on 08-22-2013

    Entity Framework is now well established as Microsoft’s de-facto data access story. It has notched up 5 impressive revisions already….(more)

     

    Saving Email from External Login in ASP.NET MVC 4.0 with SimpleMembership

    By Brij Dammani published on 08-24-2013

    ASP.NET MVC 4 web application allows users to log in from an external provider, such as Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft….(more)

     

     

    IT PRO

     

    The workbook cannot be opened error while opening excel files in SharePoint 2010

    By Amol Ghuge published on 08-21-2013

    I am using SharePoint 2010 and when users click on an .xlsx document in a document library it throws….(more)

     

    Export SQL server data to dBase files

    By Visakh Murukesan published on 08-24-2013

    There's a table in SQL Server (say Customers) whose data needs to be exported to dbf file. The process should pick only the deltas….(more)

     

     

    Consumer

     

    Add SkyDrive Accounts to Office Mobile

    By Geetesh Bajaj published on 08-19-2013

    We already showed you how you can navigate within a PowerPoint presentation within Office Mobile….(more)

     

    Edit or Create Tracking Protection List in Internet Explorer

    By Anand Khanse published on 08-24-2013

    If you are using a Tracking Protection List in your Internet Explorer, you may find that some elements of a web page that you want displayed….(more)

  • Blog Posts of the Week (28th July'13 - 03rd August'13)

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Tanmay Kapoor} Tanmay Kapoor

    Developers

     

    Working with Azure BLOB Storage in MVC

    By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 07-28-2013

    Windows Azure provides various cloud enabled storage services, and BLOB is one of them. BLOB stands for Binary Large Object….(more)

     

    How to get the Geolocation in WP8?

    By Kunal Chowdhury published on 07-30-2013

    If you are a WPDev and looking for a way to retrieve the Geo Location of the user and integrate that Geo Coordinates in your Windows Phone 8 application….(more)

     

    How to pass Object or collection of Objects to a web resource in CRM 2011

    By Roohi Shaikh published on 07-30-2013

    In Dynamics CRM if we want to pass data to a web resource, then we use Xrm.Utility.openWebResource function and pass as second parameter. But in this case we….(more)

     

    Writing Unit Tests for ASP.NET Web API Controller

    By Shiju Varghese published on 07-30-2013

    Let’s write a unit test class for verifying the behavior of a ASP.NET Web API controller named CategoryController. Let’s define mock implementation for Repository class….(more)

     

    A Glimpse into the Gut of your ASP.NET application

    By Suprotim Agarwal published on 07-30-2013

    Some of us may have heard or used MiniProfiler a profiling library for your ASP.NET applications, from the StackExchange team. We carried….(more)

     

    Performance comparison - IIF logical function Vs CASE expression

    By Madhivanan Jr published on 07-30-2013

    Both IIF and CASE expressions are used to make some decision based on an expression and return one of the two values. While CASE expression is supported….(more)

     

     

    IT PRO

     

    Exchange Server – Troubleshooting internal/external mail flow issues

    By Ratish Nair published on 07-29-2013

    Sometimes for a properly working mail flow structure with a valid SMTP domain which is in the list of accepted domain, internal mail may not reach the recipient properly. This may be due to….(more)

     

    Exchange 2013: Planning and Design Guide

    By Prabhat Nigam published on 07-30-2013

    In order to get correct designing of resources we need to do planning and designing the Exchange environment. We can achieve some good design by following the….(more)

     

    Unable to call to Response Group agent

    By Balasaheb Ilag published on 07-31-2013

    The Lync Server-enabled user account for the Lync Server Response Group agent was assigned to a different SIP domain that is registered with….(more)

     

    Expired sessions are not being deleted from the ASP.NET Session State database

    By Amol Ghuge published on 08-02-2013

    If expired sessions are not deleted, the server that hosts the ASP.NET Session State database may run out of disk space and the SharePoint farm….(more)

     

    Enable FTP Access on Windows Azure VM

    By Rami Vemula published on 08-03-2013

    First we will create a brand new VM, then we enable FTP Server in it. Then we open TCP ports (Data and Control Ports) for FTP communication and add….(more)

     

    Importing DBF files to SQLServer Table using SSIS

    By Visakh Murukesan published on 08-03-2013

    Recently we had the requirement of importing data from multiple dbf files to SQL Server database. This post explains the step by step procedure of how this can be achieved using SSIS….(more)

     

     

    Consumer

     

    Fix: The update is not applicable to your computer error when installing Windows 8.1

    By Shyam Sasindran published on 07-28-2013

    The first reason if you have a different language version that the Windows 8.1 supported ones. Apparently Windows 8.1 only support 14 languages. The supported ones….(more)

     

    Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Insert and/or Link Pictures

    By Geetesh Bajaj published on 07-31-2013

    When a picture is inserted on your PowerPoint slide, you are essentially doing a task that is frequent and commonplace -- and to you, this may look like an activity….(more)

     

    Microsoft exec explains Why They Boosted Xbox One GPU clock by 6%

    By Kartik Mudgal published on 08-03-2013

    Microsoft earlier confirmed that they were going to increase the clock speed of the Xbox One to 853mhz, and while this offers exactly….(more)

     

    Fix: Internet Explorer 11 does not open in Modern UI

    By Anand Khanse published on 08-03-2013

    Recently, some users had run into a problem while installing the preview version of Windows 8.1. They noticed, Internet Explorer 11 Tile was suddenly missing from Start screen….(more)

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