Few months back, I wrote an article about how to retrieve weather information from using XOAP services. In that article I was subscribing the data from server side, caching data to SQL server database and then retrieving the information from SQL to display on the page. You can read that article from the link . After published the article, I .. more »

, a young Italy-based start-up, aims to build innovative software development tools and components for the Microsoft .NET platform. We are looking for a software technical writer who can prepare documentation and code samples about our products; this is a part-time, telecommute-only position. - Deliver high quality, user-friendly product .. more »

Oracle JDeveloper is a free integrated development environment that simplifies the development of Java-based SOA and Java EE applications. One of main goals of Team Foundation Server 2010 is to support heterogeneous development environments and of course part of it is supporting  Java developers to make use of team development features provided. E.. more »

Welcome to this first part of a whole series on Windows 8 articles, which I’ll be writing over the coming weeks and months. It’s my goal in this series to introduce you to what we know at this point about Windows 8 and how we as (XAML) developers will need to adapt to the new platform. Since you’re probably a XAML developer like I am, we are going .. more »

There is not any doubt, the first thing you meet when you use Windows Phone are the tiles. These are the large squares on the home screen that identifies some applications and they are also a distinguishable character that make your Windows Phone unique. As you know for sure, the tiles can be attached or detached from the home screen and some .. more »

C# 4.0 language includes a new feature called In C# 4.0 we can create Tuple with Create method. This Create method offer 8 overload like following. So you can group maximum 8 data types with a Tuple. Followings are overloads of a data type. Following are some example code for tuple. You can also access values insides Tuple with ItemN property. .. more »

Google’s various page speed testing tools seem to prefer browser caching set with at least a one week expiration set. That makes great sense to me! Setting a browser cache expiration tells the visitor’s browser that is is okay to … Read more »...( read more ) Read More......(read more).. more »

Tomorrow morning I’ll be delivering one of our free DotNetNuke Explained web seminars, the 4th in our series of 6. This seminar is for Basic Module Development, in which I will show you how to quickly get up and running with custom module development for DotNetNuke. If you haven’t signed up yet, you still can, go to the registration link . Afte.. more »

In one of my current projects I have some pivot reports that show count of issues in different states. Grouping depends on report. States are dynamic – admins can define new states and save them to states table. This means that I cannot hardcode names of states to queries. Instead I need dynamic pivots. In this posting I will show you how to wr.. more »

You can find this week’s video here . IIS FTP supports a new type of user called IIS Manager Users. This type of user can be used instead of Windows Local or Active Directory Users. They are useful if you want to manage a number of FTP users but don’t Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more).. more »

I presented at the New York City SharePoint Developers User Group (NYCSPDUG) on Dec 21st - SharePoint Workspace 2010 for Developers. It was well attended (~70) and the presentation was well received (based on the questions & feedback).Download the presentation deck (PDF) from here.. (ping me if there are any questions or for more info)... more »

A Visual Studio.Net add-in with features that extend and enhance the functionality of the SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 BI Development Studio (BIDS). Features Analysis Services Aggregation Manager Calculation Helpers Column Usage Reports Delete Unused Aggregations Deploy Aggregation Designs .. more »

My thanks goes to Microsoft for the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2012 - 5th time in a row since 2008!  The award is based on SharePoint WorkSpace 2010 – find out more about it at the Office 2010 website.I have been working with the CTDOTNET/CTSPUG developer community and also actively presenting and participating in numerous events - m.. more »

Microsoft Patterns & Practices has recently started a new project whose codename is “Liike” (pronounced as LEEE-keh) for delivering guidance and a reference application in the mobile web space. As many of the recent initiatives started by different teams in Microsoft, this project will also be hosted in GitHub under . All the artifacts, patt.. more »

     Just received an email from Microsoft that I'm being nominated for Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (Microsoft MVP) for the second consecutive year.This is great news for me It feels so great for me. I am very thankful to all friends, community member and team members. Special thanks to Rick Anderson(ASP.NET MVC Team member).   .. more »

This is a post relevant to all the developers out there that use Web Forms as their main ASP.Net platform. In this post I would like to talk about ViewState and how we can move it and store it in a session on the server's memory. We know that the default hidden client field for ViewState can become very large on pages.That can problematic in terms .. more »

Two months ago Microsoft published an update for the WebDAV module that shipped with IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and this update is documented in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article ID 2593591: FIX: A hotfix is available that enables WebDAV to store the properties of file resources by using NTFS alternate data streams in IIS .. more »

I have events web site where I want to show events start and end time to visitors. I wrote simple extension method called DisplayTimeRange() to display event time range on user-friendly manner. My goal is to show times as 01.01.2012 10:00 – 14:00 and 01.01.2012 15:00 – 01.03.2012 18:00. It’s practically displaying time ranges is shortest possib.. more »

You may get the following error when deploying your web application from Visual Studio to Windows Azure using WebDeploy: Remote agent could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer. An unsupported response was received. The response header 'MSDeploy.Response' was '' but 'v1' was expected. T.. more »

I found very good blog post by Andy Cross’ Blog where he describes how to deploy multiple web sites in a single Windows Azure web role . I like the idea but there are some things that should be understood and done differently if you plan to use same web role for totally different web applications that you want to run on your Windows Azure in.. more »