Developers

What is Eager Loading and what is Lazy Loading and what is N+1 Problem in Entity Framework

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 06-17-2013

With Entity Framework we have various patterns that you can use to load related entities. As you know, entity types can define navigation properties….(more)

Handle partial content request in WebAPI Aspnet

By Amit Choudhary published on 06-17-2013

In this post we’ll talk about downloading the full and partial content of a file from server. Then we’ll see if you can achieve….(more)

How to Check-In, Check-Out silently using commands in TFS?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 06-21-2013

Visual Studio comes up with a command file named “TF.exe” which resides in the common IDE folder of the Visual Studio installation directory. If you want….(more)

IE - JavaScript - Image load not working

By Raghav Khunger published on 06-21-2013

While working with "load" method of image I noticed it was not working successfully in IE….(more)

T-SQL Tips: Beginning of Month Calculation

By Visakh Murukesan published on 06-22-2013

One of the most frequently used date manipulations in SQL Server is for calculating the beginning and end dates of a month….(more)

Analyzing the new social engineering spam on Facebook - lady with an axe

By Krishna Chaitanya published on 06-19-2013

Spammers are everywhere and are waiting desperately for stealing user information, mass advertisements etc. and Facebook….(more)

IT PRO

Phases of SharePoint Transition Plan: SharePoint 2010

By Amardeep Singh published on 06-18-2013

To make sure service transitions projects are planned in accordance with the organization's Project Management guidelines, and to coordinate activities and resources….(more)

Exchange 2010 SP3 CAS Installation Failing – IISRESET “Process execution failed with exit code 1062”

By Prabhat Nigam published on 06-20-2013

While preparing my org for the migration to Exchange 2013, I was installing SP3 for Exchange 2010 and I got the following….(more)

Consumer

The DATEDIF() bug

By Ashish Mathur published on 06-20-2013

Assume a beginning date in cell A7 and ending date in cell B7.  In range C7:E7, the task is to compute the years….(more)

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Slide Sorter View

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 06-20-2013

Most of the time, you are working on a single slide in your PowerPoint presentation -- but there are times when you want to copy….(more)

10 Lesser Known/Used Features of Outlook 2013

By Nirmal T V published on 06-21-2013

Microsoft Outlook is one of the most popular and best email clients out there even though….(more)

Fix: System Restore not working in Windows 8 | 7

By Anand Khanse published on 06-18-2013

The System Restore feature is a very useful feature in the Windows operating system and it can be a real life-saver at times. But if you, for some reason….(more)

Developers

Horizontal and vertical scrollbar in HTML5 and CSS3

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 06-09-2013

In earlier version of HTML and CSS if we have to put only horizontal or vertical scrollbar that was not possible. Because there was no such properties….(more)

Claim based Authentication

By Brij Mishra published on 06-10-2013

Just to brief, In federated scenario, two Identity Providers comes into the picture: one is Identity Provider (where user puts its credentials) and another is Federated Provider….(more)

What is Model and ViewModel in MVC Pattern?

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 06-10-2013

Let's assume, we want to implement a view page that will have three textboxes for Username, Password and Re-enter Password. To achieve this we could design….(more)

PoshUtils: Retrieve Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) to physical disk mapping

By Ravikanth Chaganti published on 06-10-2013

Last week, I was looking for a way to retrieve the Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) to physical disk mapping on Windows Server 2012 using PowerShell….(more)

Scaling Node.js Real-time Apps with Windows Azure Service Bus

By Shiju Varghese published on 06-10-2013

In this post, I will demonstrate how to scale out real-time Socket.IO apps with Windows Azure Service Bus by leveraging the Node.js module Socket.IO-ServiceBus….(more)

Enum operations for name value attributes

By Amit Choudhary published on 06-10-2013

Enumerations are basically used to write clean and readable code for a set of constant values. I won’t be explaining about the basics of Enumeration but going to….(more)

What is Lazy loading and how this will benefit your project?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 06-11-2013

Let’s suppose you built an application which loads records in a Grid in a paginated manner. But when you loaded thousands of records….(more)

Inspecting SharePoint 2013 ContextToken and Refresh Token

By Sundararajan Narasiman published on 06-12-2013

We know that there are couple of tokens, namely Context-Token and Refresh-Token are involved in the life-cycle of SharePoint 2013 App Authentication….(more)

IT PRO

Cannot synchronize with the corporate address book in Lync client

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 06-10-2013

Cannot synchronize with the corporate address book. This may be because the proxy server setting in your web browser….(more)

Fix: Windows 8 Live Tiles Not Working or are Blank

By Anand Khanse published on 06-13-2013

Typically static tiles on the Windows 8 start screen will show the name of the program and its icon. A Live Tile will flash the latest news or content which….(more)

Fix Component Store Corruption or Repair Windows Image in Windows 8

By Anand Khanse published on 06-14-2013

In Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the Inbox Corruption Repair brings the functionality of CheckSUR into Windows. You do not require a separate….(more)

Get fiscal year dates corresponding to a date value

By Visakh Murukesan published on 06-14-2013

Quite often we need aggregations to be done based on fiscal years rather than on financial years. My preferred method always has been on storing….(more)

Office 2013

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Mini Toolbar

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 06-10-2013

Making edits to your slide objects quickly can be an asset for your time -- but awesome slides are created painstakingly, and use a large amount….(more)

Developers

Rounded corner div with HTML5 and CSS3

By Jalpesh Vadgama published on 06-08-2013

So In this post we are going to learn how we can create rounded corner div with HTML5….(more)

XML Configuration Files Effect in SSIS Package

By Joydeep Das published on 06-02-2013

When we are creating the package we are using different types of variable or property values….(more)

IT PRO

Lync-Skype Connectivity

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 06-02-2013

Now Lync- Skype connectivity is possible and you will get your access your contacts between Lync and Skype….(more)

Get the latest weekday of month in SQL 2012

By Visakh Murukesan published on 06-04-2013

Recently there was a requirement to get latest weekday of a month. I made use of a solution based on….(more)

Load Balancing Exchange Server 2013

By Ratish Nair published on 06-05-2013

Load Balancing is the distribution of workload across different available servers, so as to accomplish optimal resource utilization, maximized throughput, minimized response time….(more)

Block Syncing of Personal Phone Contacts in GAL through Social Connector

By Manu Philip published on 06-06-2013

I have received a question on Exchange 2013 about the syncing of personal contacts in Outlook on GAL. For example, a user that has their own personal….(more)

Things to Know before you Upgrade to Windows 8.1

By Nirmal T V published on 06-06-2013

Windows 8.1 will deliver improvements and enhancements in key areas like personalization, search, the built-in apps, Windows Store experience, and….(more)

Office 2013

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Views

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 06-06-2013

Your slides remain the same -- yet exploring the same slides using a different view makes sense, depending upon the tasks….(more)

Developers

Protecting your Azure Blob Storage Items using Shared Access Signatures

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 05-28-2013

Share Access Signatures are conceptually similar to OAuth access tokens. A common example to explain the scenario is having a padlock….(more)

Windows Authentication in MVC4 with IIS Express

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 05-29-2013

MVC4 gone through some major changes in Windows Authentication functionality with IIS Express. In this article you will learn how to enable Windows Authentication….(more)

Edge.js - Running Node.js and .NET in One Process

By Shiju Varghese published on 05-29-2013

C# is the most powerful static type programming language which can be used for developing wide variety of applications. Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform….(more)

How to auto publish a website each time a #TFS build succeeds?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 05-31-2013

You might have already created the build definition in your TFS server for either manual or automated build (compilation of your source code) and to reduce your effort of deployment, now you want to automate….(more)

Kill all processes by database name instead of spid

By Raghav Khunger published on 05-31-2013

How often you have to kill processes of a database and run "sp_who2" command and then "kill <spid>" to kill each processes? This is a tedious task. I have written a Stored procedure….(more)

IT PRO

Step By Step Hiding Ribbon Button in MS CRM 2011 Part1

By Mahender Pal published on 05-26-2013

Sometime there some system ribbon button which is not required by our client, so if we need to hide them we have two….(more)

How To Automatically Preview Songs In WMP12

By Soumitra Sengupta published on 05-28-2013

Open Windows Media Player in Library mode….(more)

Rebuild the Full-Text Index Catalog of Exchange Database

By Manu Philip published on 05-30-2013

Recently, I have noticed one issue showing ‘Database Content Index State: FailedAndSuspended’….(more)

What to Look for in Windows 8.1

By Nirmal T V published on 05-30-2013

Windows 8.1 will deliver improvements and enhancements in key areas like personalization, search, the built-in apps, Windows Store experience….(more)

Exchange 2013 Public Folders – A step toward high availability & moving to Sharepoint

By Prabhat Nigam published on 05-31-2013

Public Folder which has always been hard to troubleshoot or you have problems in adding the replica or one of the subfolder you missed to replicate and other country office reporting….(more)

Big Data, NoSQL and MapReduce

By Niraj Bhatt published on 05-31-2013

As name suggests Big Data is about huge and fast growing data, though how huge and how fast is left to one’s discretion. Big Data initially attributed to search….(more)

Third party content-The paradoxes of the web

By Krishna Chaitanya published on 05-31-2013

When the World Wide Web started, it was just a bunch of static HTML pages which are interconnected by hyperlinks. More importantly, each website had content….(more)

Unable to send Links via Lync or OCS

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 06-01-2013

When you Lync Server configuration not allowing the hyperlink including http, https, www sharing through Instant Messaging or….(more)

Office 2013

Attributing Creative Commons Pictures in your PowerPoint Slides

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 05-27-2013

First let us decide what exactly the attribution statement should contain – we will base our example attribution statement on content….(more)