• Blog Posts of the Week (17th - 23rd February 2013)

    Developers

     

    What is Yield Return? Let’s have fun with it

    By Kunal Chowdhury published on 02-18-2013

    Yield is a contextual keyword available only in certain contextual statements, mainly interacts with the foreach loop. It allows each iteration….(more)

     

    What is Method Invocation Pattern in JavaScript

    By Dhananjay Kumar published on 02-19-2013

    In this post we will take a look on “Method Invocation Pattern” in JavaScript. In JavaScript when function is defined as….(more)

     

    Best way to prevent Cross Site Request Forgery Attacks in MVC 4

    By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 02-19-2013

    In this article you will learn what CSRF is and best way to prevent such attacks. After a quick introduction about….(more)

     

    Lazy loading of Images in ASP.Net MVC with RouteHandler and JQuery

    By Rami Vemula published on 02-19-2013

    In this short tutorial, I am going to narrate on how we can lazy load images in a ASP.Net MVC 4 page. In most of today’s social media sites, we often come across….(more)

     

     

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    Moving a SQL Server 2008 Database from on-premise to SQL Azure

    By Sundararajan Narasiman published on 02-17-2013

    These days I’m doing lot of proof-of-concepts around the SharePoint 2013 App Model and how an ASP.NET MVC 3 application can be….(more)

     

    Central Management Store Replications

    By Balasaheb Ilag published on 02-18-2013

    CMS is new in Lync and it is best enhancement because it reduces administrator….(more)

     

    The super reader account utilized by the cache does not have sufficient permissions to SharePoint databases

    By Amol Ghuge published on 02-21-2013

    We have moved one web application from Development to staging environment. Movement was successful and we started facing….(more)

     

    Compiler Error Message: CS0016: Could not write to output file

    By Raghav Khunger published on 02-21-2013

    Compiler Error Message: CS0016: Could not write to output file. 'c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\xxx' -- 'Access is denied.’….(more)

     

    Update Windows Defender even when Automatic Windows Updates is disabled in Windows 8

    By Anand Khanse published on 02-21-2013

    Windows Defender will not update its definitions, if Windows Updates is not set to Install updates automatically in Windows 8….(more)

     

     

    Office 2013

     

    How to Setup SharePoint 2013 with Windows Azure

    By Destin Joy published on 02-20-2013

    As you know cloud computing can be defined as IT services that are deployed and delivered over the Internet and are scalable….(more)

     

    Use Advances vs. Declines chart to understand change in values

    By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 02-21-2013

    Lets say you are responsible for sales of 100s of products (which belong to handful of categories). You are looking at sales of each product in last month & this month….(more)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Blog Posts of the Week (10th - 16th February 2013)

    Developers

     

    Ajax.ActionLink and Html.ActionLink in MVC

    By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 02-10-2013

    In this post you will learn use of Ajax.ActionLink helper and Html.ActionLink. I will compare both to show you how….(more)

     

    Working with Message Dialog in WinRT apps

    By Kunal Chowdhury published on 02-11-2013

    As a Silverlight, WPF or WPDev you might be aware of the MessageBox class present in the SDK to show a message to the user….(more)

     

    Accessing other domain web services via jQuery Ajax (CORS)

    By Brij Mishra published on 02-12-2013

    Now a days, most of the web developers are working on mainly Client side programming to make the web more responsive, intuitive and….(more)

     

    Working with Tables in LightSwitch Application

    By Karthikeyan Anbarasan published on 02-14-2013

    In this article we are going to see how to work with Database and Tables to store the data and manipulate it in Visual Studio….(more)

     

     

    IT PRO


    Fixing kdbsync.exe has stopped working error in Windows 8

    By Soumitra Sengupta published on 02-11-2013

    When I start my laptop having Windows 8 Professional installed I always get the following error….(more)

     

    How to view Lync log using Snooper?

    By Balasaheb Ilag published on 02-12-2013

    Snooper is my favorite diagnostic tool and honestly without SNOOPER I cannot troubleshoot Lync or MOC issues….(more)

     

    Failed to open a connection to the Nintex Workflow configuration database

    By Amol Ghuge published on 02-13-2013

    This time, the issue was with Nintex workflows at the time of activating a site collection feature. Let me describe the….(more)

     

    Fix: Windows Store apps crashing in Windows 8, by performing Clean Uninstall using PowerShell

    By Anand Khanse published on 02-13-2013

    Sometimes Windows Store apps may keep crashing every time you run it, in Windows 8. This may happen for no apparent reason….(more)

     

     

    Office 2013


    Dynamically extract unique values from a filtered range

    By Ashish Mathur published on 02-10-2013

    Data in a two column database (A3:B13) can be Auto filtered on column A with one or many conditions….(more)

     

    Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Reset, Export, and Import Ribbon Customizations

    By Geetesh Bajaj published on 02-11-2013

    PowerPoint 2013 allows you to customize the Ribbon in a number of ways -- you can add Ribbon tabs, add Groups, and populate these with commands….(more)

     

    Office Web Apps and SharePoint 2013

    By Destin Joy published on 02-13-2013
    Office Web Apps is the online companion to Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote applications. It enables users….(more)

     

     

  • Blog Posts of the Week (3rd - 9th February 2013)

    Developers



    DropDownList Helper Data Binding in MVC

    By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 02-03-2013

    In this post you will learn how to bind the data to DropDownList helper in MVC. We will try binding data to DropDownList from List….(more)

     

    Coded UI Test – Re-use and Customize the code generated with CUIT Builder using Visual Studio 2012

    By Gouri Sohoni published on 02-07-2013

    In this article, we will discuss how to customize and re-use the code which gets automatically generated with CUIT Builder….(more)

     

    Programmatically create Promoted Links list in SharePoint 2013

    By Vijai Anand published on 02-07-2013

    SharePoint 2013 introduced a new list template called Promoted Links. This list is used to store the links that has to be shown as a tiles format….(more)

     

    Attach JavaScript with Auto-Generated Buttons of the GridView Control

    By Pranay Rana published on 02-07-2013

    This small post is about how you can attach a JavaScript confirm box with the auto-generated Delete button of the GridView control….(more)

     

    Error Handling in SQL Server with THROW

    By Suprotim Agarwal published on 02-09-2013

    In versions prior to SQL Server 2012, we used @@RAISE_ERROR to generate error messages dynamically or using the….(more)

     

     

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    Dynamic Partition Problem During Windows 8 Installation

    By Brij Dammani published on 02-06-2013

    If you try to install windows 8 on dynamic partition, you will get message “Windows cannot be installed to….(more)

     

    Fix: Hard disk suddenly shows Raw partition, not accessible in Windows 8 , 7 , Vista, XP

    By Shantanu Kaushik published on 02-05-2013

    Windows cannot access this drive, do you wish to format it, is the message that you will receive when you try to open your hard disk drive….(more)

     

     

    Office 2013



    Create In-Cell Charts Using VBA for Data Visualization

    By Ashish Koul published on 02-08-2013

    If you want to create in-cell charts using VBA. Try this macro….(more)

     

    Formula Forensics No. 033 – Interpolation

    By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 02-08-2013

    Recently in my consulting role I came across a not so uncommon question which required me to find the intersection of an unknown Curve….(more)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     



     
     

     

     

     

     

     

     



     
     

     

     

     

  • Blog Posts of the Week (27th Jan'13 - 02nd Feb'13)

    Developers



    Getting started with Knockout.js

    By Dhananjay Kumar published on 01-28-2013

    Knockout.js helps us to create dynamic JavaScript UIusing the MVVM pattern. It simplifies the task of linking Data Model to….(more)

     

    Pivot Control in Windows Phone 8

    By Karthikeyan Anbarasan published on 01-29-2013

    In this article we are going to see what a Pivot Control in the application development for Windows Phone 8. Pivot control are available right….(more)

     

    What is the use of Dispatcher object in XAML Technology?

    By Kunal Chowdhury published on 01-30-2013

    When you are working on a different thread like Background Worker, you may have to deal with the UI. Though you can do this by exposing properties and binding the properties….(more)

     

    CSS Selector

    By Pranay Rana published on 01-28-2013

    In the following first is css example and than html code on which it will work, so to try by yourself create html page and put the css as well as related Html….(more)

     

    Lookup A Dictionary with duplicate key value pairs

    By Amit Choudhary published on 01-29-2013

    Have you ever felt a requirement of duplicate keys and value pairs in a dictionary? Sounds like crazy!!! But yes few days back….(more)

     

     

    IT PRO



    Server based Search- Exact match and Prefix match in Lync Server 2010

    By Balasaheb Ilag published on 02-02-2013

    Server-based search can be used for both exact and prefix searches. The exact and prefix match searches….(more)

     

    Steps to monitor the SQL Server Services

    By Jugal Shah published on 01-28-2013

    I have a need to monitor the SQL Server Services in my environment.  Are there any programmatic options to do so?  Check out this tip….(more)

     

    Wildcard character based pattern search in T-SQL

    By Visakh Murukesan published on 01-27-2013

    Today happen to see a question based on wildcard characters search within a string pattern in a forum. I gave the solution for it and in my efforts….(more)



    Office 2013



    Business Data Connectivity connectors are currently enabled in a partitioned environment: SharePoint 2013.

    By Amardeep Singh published on 01-28-2013

    Business Data Connectivity (BDC) Models containing External Content Types with database, WCF, Web service or custom connectors can be used by….(more)

     

    Introduction to DAX Formulas & Measures for Power Pivot

    By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 01-28-2013

    Implicit measures are created automatically when you drag and drop a field in to Power Pivot values….(more)

     

    Hide all data label less than any percentage in Pie Chart Using VBA

    By Ashish Koul published on 02-02-2013

    If you want to hide all the data labels in a pie chart which are less than any specific percentage. Try this macro it will hide….(more)