Introduction I have been developing an MVC 4.0 web application that is hosted in Azure platform. In this first part of 2-blog post series, I will talk about leveraging built-in logging and tracing features of Windows Azure platform.   Context Use...

Introduction AS I was attending on of the sessions I found an Interesting Microsoft Tool called "Microsoft StreamInsight", so I decided to write this post to provide more information about it and provide general guidelines on it. What is Microsoft...

Many think that you have to install the SQL Server client tools to be able to create a SQL Server alias on a client machine. You can do this without installing SQL Server client tools. Windows ships with the SQL Server Client Network Utility. This is...

During one of our engagement we had a requirement for one of our customers to build video galley on SharePoint The video galleries are created based on SharePoint content type as backend storage and content Query web part mixed with JQuery features to...

In this post, I am going to list the most used tools aligned with MS recommended practices for custom SharePoint development and administration. Please note that there are hundreds of tools available (from MS or 3 rd party) in the market and the tools...