Formulating successful strategy for cloud development starts with technical and business objectives. This post outlines the problem areas that must address while building your cloud application. Each problem area outlines the challenges and solution as well. Availability – defines proportion of the time your system is functional and working. An available application should consider the...
Azure DocumentDB overview
DocumentDB is a NoSQL database supports fast performance, ease of development and high availability. Its schema –free NoSQL database. As data is stored in JSON format reads and writes are served under 10 milliseconds. DocumentDB is ideal for developing web, mobile, gaming and IoT applications. You can use SQL like language to query the DocumentDB data. All the data that you stored in DocumentDB...
Windows Azure API Management Features
You build the web API and decided to sell number of API calls like selling the data behind it, another example is you partners may want to integrate your product into their environment.Microsoft making easy way using Azure API management to discover, use and manage easy way to access resources. Azure Web API has got inbuilt Analytics engine. You can create an instance of API management in...
Hub App Project Template in Visual Studio 2013
Hub App Project Template is a new project template introduced in Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Store App developers. It is a three page project for a Windows Store App that uses Hub control. This post outlines the features of this project template.Open Visual Studio 2013, Create a new project and select Window Store section and select Hub App template from template dialog box and say ok Now run...
XAML Editing and Coding Experience in Visual Studio 2013
This post outlines some new things for XAML in Visual Studio 2013 release, coding and editing experience is much easier in this release. As you type in XAML editor you will get an autocomplete and it is lot more flexible now, for example if you want to add a stackpanel and you mistakenly type like “stak†it still shows in window. some times you might write nested grids in your XAML editor and...
Windows Azure support to SharePoint 2013
Last week Microsoft announced general availability of Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) support for Windows Azure. You can signup here to see what is new in this release? Key Enhancements are made in General Availability like creating a new virtual machine and virtual networks in Windows Azure. This post outlines the steps to create a new SharePoint 2013 virtual machine and setting up a...
Private Cloud IaaS basics
What is IaaS? Infrastructure as a service. How it is different from existing services in Windows Azure like Software as Service and Platform as Service? Saas and PaaS are service models where you can use the capabilities of Cloud computing to deliver services. Many customers adapting IaaS model because they have the capabilities for managing their software but not underlining physical...
Service Bus Fundamentals
What is Service Bus? The Windows Azure Service Bus provides a secured infrastructure for wide-spread communication. It provides the connectivity options for Windows Communication Foundation and other service points. This post explains various tools around Service Bus like the most fundamental is how to create a namespace and how to create entities and how these work through the windows...
Windows Azure New Features
What is Windows Azure? From platform perspective it is Microsoft computing cloud platform. It is designed and enabled to build the applications and scale it robustly. It is flexible to enable you to handle any type work and it acts as platform as service which provides a set of managed scalable services and now it is turned as infrastructures as service which is the ability to host and scale...
OData and Windows Azure
This post discusses about building a service using CLOUD platform that can reach various devices. What is OData and Where it fits in? OData is a specification that makes very easy to exchange and interact with data on the web. So OData is all about connecting up devices to the CLOUD. This post also discuss how to create a OData Service in Visual Studio 2010 and host it on Windows Azure...