Developers

“Place Explorer” app for #WindowsPhone users

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 10-14-2013

Here comes my another application for Windows Phone users, named “Place Explorer”. The app is currently available in Windows Phone Store for free….(more)

What is SecureString ?

By Brij Mishra published on 10-15-2013

In this post, we are going to discuss a class SecureString. Although this class is available since .NET 2.0….(more)

Category and Sub Category in single Drop Down List (DDL) in MVC

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 10-17-2013

In this article you will learn how to create a Drop Down List in MVC that can display States and its associated Districts in a single Drop Down….(more)

Timeout in Regular Expressions

By Abhishek Sur published on 10-18-2013

Regular expressions are common forms of parsing a document and get meaning. It has been very popular and….(more)

Deep Dive into IntelliTrace using Visual Studio 2013 for ASP.NET & other .NET Applications

By Gouri Sohoni published on 10-21-2013

Using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2013 helps in understanding and pinpointing any problem encountered while executing….(more)

CakeRobot - A Gesture Driven Robot That Follows Your Hand Movements Using Arduino, C# and Kinect

By Anoop Madhusudanan published on 10-22-2013

Over the last few weekends I’ve spend some time building a simple robot that can be controlled using Kinect. You can see it in….(more)

Ambiguous Reference issue in WCF RIA Service Generated Code

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 10-22-2013

Ambiguity is the ability to express more than one interpretation in normal way. This can happen in any manner; in our code too. If you are working on WCF RIA Services….(more)

Scripting the definition of computed columns

By Madhivanan JR published on 10-25-2013

One of my friends asked me if there is an easier way of knowing the definion of the computed column. Currently what he does is to script out the table definition….(more)

Different ways to export SQL Server data to text file

By Visakh Murukesan published on 10-14-2013

This blog explains few methods you can use to export data from SQL Server table to a text file….(more)

A New Version of Windows Azure Service Management API Is Available with Delete Specific Role Instances and More Goodies

By Gaurav Mantri published on 10-16-2013

As you know, each release of Service Management API has a unique version number and in order to use the features available in that version you must specify that version number….(more)

Table Hints – NoLock vs ReadPast

By Jugal Shah published on 10-16-2013

When any data in a database is read or modified, the database engine uses special type of mechanism, called locks, to maintain integrity….(more)

IT PRO

How to configure a trusted application server?

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 10-14-2013

I have been publishing issues and their resolution since long, today I want to take break from issue / resolution and want share….(more)

Exchange 2010: Test-IRMConfiguration Failed

By Prabhat Nigam published on 10-14-2013

After Configuring the AD RMS when you integrate ADRMS with Exchange 2010 you run the Test-IRMConfiguration Command which should pass to confirm Exchange Integration….(more)

SharePoint 2010: "This tab has been recovered, a problem with this page caused internet explorer to close and reopen this tab"

By Amardeep Singh published on 10-15-2013

Some of the user has reported that while using the SharePoint sites with IE8 they are getting above error message. Based on the above grounds we started….(more)

Exchange Server 2010 troubleshooting notes

By Ratish Nair published on 10-17-2013

Migration Issues with Mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.User is unable to Move mailboxes in Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010….(more)

Working with PowerShell Preference Variables: $OFS (Output field Separator).

By Aman Dhally published on 10-25-2013

When you open PowerShell console, type $ and start pressing ‘tab’, you will amaze that there are many pre-built variables exists ….(more)

High Availability in Azure WebRoles using Traffic Manager

By Rami Vemula published on 10-26-2013

High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are most prominent terms we often hear in cloud computing technologies. To be precise I would say they are not….(more)

Dynamics

Accessing custom aspx page from MS CRM 2011 and passing EntityID

By Mahender Pal published on 10-23-2013

Recently we got one request to show custom website page in CRM from left navigation in MS CRM 2011 based on….(more)

Merge forms in CRM 2013 form customizations

By Roohi Shaikh published on 10-14-2013

If you have upgraded from CRM 2011 to CRM 2013 you may have noticed that the forms in 2013 has been redesigned with the new look. After upgrading to CRM 2013….(more)

Abstract Class and Abstract Method in Axapta

By Deepak Agarwal published on 10-17-2013

When we declare a class as abstract, this class cannot initiate in X++ code. To use this class….(more)

Consumer

Perform a lookup with inexact text strings and/or spelling mistakes

By Ashish Mathur published on 10-19-2013

Any lookup function i.e., VLOOKUP(), LOOKUP(), INDEX()/MATCH(), HLOOKUP() requires the text lookup variable….(more)

Fixing 0xc00d11cd (0x8000ffff) error During XBox Music Streaming

By Soumitra Sengupta published on 10-13-2013

When I am trying to stream or,play any song via Xbox music pass , I am m getting the 0xc00d11cd (0x8000ffff) error….(more)

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Fills for Shapes

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 10-16-2013

When you insert shapes within a PowerPoint 2013 slide, you will notice that all shapes you insert contain the same fill. Most of the time, the shapes….(more)

Improved Mail app experience in Windows 8.1

By Vasudev Gurumurthy published on 10-20-2013

As you know Windows 8.1 is recently released and with it comes more than 20 new and improved Microsoft apps and services….(more)

Fix: You can’t install Windows on a USB flash drive from Setup, when upgrading to Windows 8.1

By Shyam Sasindran published on 10-23-2013

Microsoft has recently released Windows 8.1 update that will make lots of users happy due the lot of enhancement that was promised….(more)

Nokia Lumia 2520 Hands On

By Nirmal TV published on 10-25-2013

Nokia announced their first tablet running Windows 8.1, the Nokia Lumia 2520 at the Nokia World….(more)

Developers

Route Constraints in MVC

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 10-07-2013

Route Constraints allow us to apply a regular expression to a URL segment to restrict whether the route will match….(more)

Conditional Compilation with Precompiler Directives in C#

By Abhishek Sur published on 10-08-2013

Coming from C or C++, C# has always the flexibility to handle directives. The directives are well known in those languages….(more)

ON-OFF Keyboard Lock keys {Caps,Scroll,Num} Using PowerShell

By Aman Dhally published on 10-08-2013

Today one of my user complained that his password is not working, I reset his password but he still complaining about it, I asked him to check….(more)

NavigationService in WP throws Exception when navigating to Web URL

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 10-08-2013

Last day while building a Windows Phone application, one of my friend did a common mistake and used the NavigationService class to navigate to a web URL….(more)

Git Source Control Integration with Windows Azure Mobile Services

By Shiju Varghese published on 10-09-2013

Windows Azure Mobile Services is great framework for mobile backend development on the Windows Azure platform….(more)

Revealing Module Pattern in JavaScript

By Dhananjay Kumar published on 10-10-2013

In Revealing Module pattern we put all code inside a function represented by a variable. This is self-executed function….(more)

Web API, Async and Performance in an ASP.NET MVC application

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 10-10-2013

Async and performance are often a considered to go hand in hand because performance is bracketed with scaling. Today we explore the differences….(more)

Upload large files to Azure Blob Storage through Azure Web Role WebApi services and Azure Cache Service

By Rami Vemula published on 10-11-2013

The main aim of this project is to provide a working scalable solution for uploading large files to server. In this modern era, when web development taking modern cloud workflows….(more)

IT PRO

Using Quick View Form in MS CRM 2013

By Mahender Pal published on 10-07-2013

This form was initially introduced in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Fall 13 Service Update. Quick view forms are associated….(more)

Creating and Deploying Azure based Report

By Visakh Murukesan published on 10-07-2013

This blog post explains the step by step procedure for creating a sql report based on azure datasource and host it on a azure….(more)

XP_LogEvent and RaiseError

By Jugal Shah published on 10-08-2013

xp_logevent extended stored procedure is used to log the message into the SQL Server error log and event viewer application log….(more)

Exchange: Mail attachments are turning to winmail.dat

By Prabhat Nigam published on 10-09-2013

The issue is when one messaging system user is sending an attachment it is becoming winmail.dat. I recently got this issue in mail flow between IBM Lotus notes Domino….(more)

There was a problem acquiring a personal certificate required to sign in. If the problem continues, please contact your support team

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 10-12-2013

When you are trying to sign-in on Lync you may receive above errors. There error look like big however resolution….(more)

Consumer

Internet Explorer 11 New Features and APIs

By Anand Khanse published on 10-07-2013

On Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, it boasts a clean design with some powerful developer tools. To bring these tools up, you are required to press the F12 key….(more)

Windows 8.1 allows to setup Mail App without using Microsoft Account

By Vasudev Gurumurthy published on 10-09-2013

Earlier when you were signed into Windows 8 with Local account, you’re required to sign-in to Mail App using Microsoft Account….(more)

SkyDrive Smart Files in Windows 8.1 & how to Hydrate them

By Vasudev Gurumurthy published on 10-10-2013

Smart Files are one of the coolest features built into Windows 8.1 SkyDrive. In today’s world more and more people are taking more pictures, videos, storing them….(more)

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Chart Legend

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 10-10-2013

The Legend within a chart is one of those chart elements that lets you identify all the Series in a chart via color or pattern. Typically, the Legend is a box….(more)

Developers

Carousel Image Gallery With AngularJS UI Bootstrap And ASP.NET MVC

By Brij Dammani published on 09-29-2013

This article explains how to implement carousel image gallery with AngularJS UI Bootstrap and Entitiy Framework database first approach….(more)

Working with flagged enumeration in Csharp

By Amit Choudhary published on 10-01-2013

Let’s take you to the world of Enums where you are allowed to use multiple values rather than using only single value for comparison/storing. To create an Flagged Enumeration you need an attribute...(more)

Understanding Prototype Pattern in JavaScript

By Dhananjay Kumar published on 10-02-2013

In this post I am trying to explain my understanding on Prototype Pattern in JavaScript….(more)

ASP.NET Web API OWIN Self Host on Windows Azure

By Shiju Varghese published on 10-03-2013

In this blog post, I will take a look at Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN) and will also demonstrate how to deploy….(more)

Reading Event logs efficiently using C#

By Brij Mishra published on 10-04-2013

We’ll be talking about the reading event logs. In my last post I discussed about reading the event….(more)

Getting Started with jQuery.tmpl (jQuery Templates) in MVC

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 10-04-2013

There are number of JavaScript templates used these days, some of them works really great. And every JavaScript template library has a slightly….(more)

Just a few steps to make your WP app recognizes your speech

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 10-04-2013

Do you want to add a functionality in your Windows Phone device which can actually listen to users voice or commands….(more)

IT PRO

Type your user name and password to connect for retrieving calendar data from Outlook

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 09-29-2013

Sometime you will receive credential prompt however after typing credential prompt will occur continually because….(more)

Using SSRS to Export SQLServer data to multiple Excel Sheets

By Visakh Murukesan published on 10-01-2013

One of my readers asked me whether we could achieve this using any other method. There's a much easier method using SSRS if you've a reporting server….(more)

AD Based Activation Over KMS Activation

By Awinish Vishwakarma published on 10-03-2013

To minimize the problem of piracy, Microsoft has announced starting from windows Vista & above, office products etc, you need to activate it even though you are using ….(more)

Getting Last Installation Success Date and Last Search Success date of Windows Updates using Powershell

By Aman Dhally published on 10-05-2013

Everyday is a new day, with new problems and new issues, sometime at users side and sometime at Server side….(more)

Consumer

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Drawing a Perfect Square

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 09-30-2013

We already showed you how to draw a perfect circle. Now, we'll show you how to draw a perfect square in PowerPoint 2013 using….(more)

Windows 8.1 gets SkyDrive OCR Search indexing & Smart File features

By Vasudev Gurumurthy published on 10-01-2013

SkyDrive photos will use the Bing-powered SkyDrive OCR tool, that will be automatically run on your photos and display the extracted text on….(more)

Sysinternals Autoruns for Windows: Start Up Manager for Power Users

By Anand Khanse published on 10-03-2013

This portable tool, when run, provides a comprehensive list of all programs that are configured to run when your Windows starts….(more)

Different types of Internet Cookies

By Anand Khanse published on 10-04-2013

An Internet Cookie is a small snippet of information sent from a web server to a user’s browser, which then stores it. On subsequent access to the same web server….(more)

Dynamics

Connecting to Databases through X++

By Deepak Agarwal published on 10-02-2013

Connection class is mainly used for accessing the database in which a user has logged into AX i.e. Current Database and carry out the….(more)

Quick Create Form In MS CRM 2013

By Mahender Pal published on 09-29-2013

Quick create form facilitate ms crm user to create entity record quickly as name suggest, just filling key information….(more)

Now Store Images in CRM 2013

By Roohi Shaikh published on 09-30-2013

We got the first hint of the much awaited data type Image with the introduction of activity feeds where we were allowed to provide a profile image….(more)