By Onkar Singh  In recent times, mobile devices have become quite powerful and feature rich and are getting attention from consumers and businesses alike. Faster processors, larger RAM and flash memories along with multiple communication technologies have made mobile devices suitable to deploy and run... Nov. 26, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 4,219 |
By Andreas Grabner  Every time I work with one of our .NET customers to help them with managing their application performance I come across the same problems as seen with other clients before: lots of ADO.NET queries, many hidden exceptions in core or 3rd party .NET libraries, slow 3rd party components, i... Nov. 24, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 4,789 |
By Kevin Hoffman  If you want the full gory details, check out the .NET Services team blog post here. What follows below are some of the things that I think are most crucial to understand both for new developers and for developers unfortunate enough to be in a position of having to migrate a lot of code... Nov. 24, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 4,234 |
By Kevin Hoffman  Recently I installed the Beta 2 version of "Geneva", or ADFS 2.0. All of my machines are now Windows 7 machines, including just about all of my VHDs and virtual machines. The only time I use Win2k8 R2 is when the product I'm installing specifically requires me to do that. So when I ins... Nov. 24, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 6,228 |
By Bury Shane  Each physical disk is partitioned into several partitions. The disk MBR (Master Boot Record) and optionally EBRs (Extended Boot Records) hold the metadata information of these partitions. These tables collectively form partition table. Nov. 24, 2009 10:00 AM EST Reads: 8,244 |
By Kevin Hoffman  If you've been trying to get the ASP.NET providers working on the November 2009 CTP of Windows Azure then you may have run into a snag, or a couple snags if you're using Visual Studio 2010.
First of all, if you're using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, then you're going to need to either ... Nov. 17, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 4,761 |
By Kevin Hoffman  As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don't get full designer support on SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don't get designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So what ... Oct. 31, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,373 |
By Colin Walker  What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can... Oct. 30, 2009 01:12 PM EDT Reads: 4,629 |
By Kevin Hoffman  When we all build websites, usually we're concerned with figuring out how we're going to get the major entities into the view. We want to know how we're going to handle the shopping cart or how we're going to get the customer record onto the page, etc. But, one of the little details th... Oct. 2, 2009 12:17 PM EDT Reads: 3,716 |
By Dmitry Sotnikov  Are cloud services about efficiency or negligence? About being able to outsource commodity services and concentrate on core competence or loosing control and risking getting out of compliance? Which IT services can be safely moved to the cloud and which should stay in house? Let’s get ... Sep. 29, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,059 |
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy  SQL Azure Migration Wizard is a nice tool. It can connect to (local)Server as well as it supports running scripts. I tried running a script to create 'pubs' on SQL Azure. It did manage to bring in some tables and not all. It does not like 'USE' in SQL statements(to know what is allowed... Sep. 26, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,333 |
By Jayaram Krishnaswamy  Enterprises are increasingly being called upon to provide a high level of user experience with compelling and interactive content. Serving enterprise content and data securely to internet / intranet has become a very common necessity and is routinely handled by web servers. Web service... Aug. 17, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,558 |
By Jim Williams  Putting cloud computing into the spotlight means that Microsoft will inevitably draw fire from the doubters and conspiracy theorists. These sorts of comments are highlighted as being all the more ridiculous when we read on message boards things like: “Call me paranoid, but all I see i... Jul. 16, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,085 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Monday evening, at a gathering called Campfire One, Google unveiled App Engine, a hosted web application platform that offers web developers free use of Google's mighty infrastructure and all the building blocks that Google uses for its own applications. Amusingly, it's as vendor lock-... Apr. 17, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 12,440 |
By Jerry Dixon  In a previous article (DNDJ Volume 3, issue 4), I discussed an application that had to load, process, and transmit data received from multiple customers. The system had to perform a specific set of tasks or steps for each customer. Because of the diverse needs of each customer, however... May. 20, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,815 |