What is CORS? Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a standard that allows your web pages to make AJAX requests to another domain. The idea of implementing this standard to ASP.NET Web API came from Brock Allen. This post outlines the preview of CORS support for ASP.NET Web API.If you try to make a request to a service that is hosted in different domain then browser actually blocks that...
Creating SharePoint App using Office Developer Tools
Office Developer tools for Visual Studio 2012 allows you to develop Apps for office and SharePoint 2013. The tools can be downloaded from here. This post outlines the steps to create the SharePoint ContactListApp using Visual Studio 2012. Create a new Project in Visual Studio 2012 and select App for SharePoint 2013 template. once you click ok it then asks you to give the name for App and...
Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Using Developer Tools for Visual Studio you can develop new class Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013.Developing Apps is as easy as developing web applications, you can use HTML and Java Script and server side languages such as C# and VB for App development.You can then host the App in Office store or Corporate environment. The developer tools for Visual Studio 2012 can be downloaded from here...
Social Features in SharePoint 2013 Part2
A Big boost for social features in SharePoint 2013 which were an extension for the features introduced in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2013 Collaborating and exchanging information options have been improved a lot, Features like Micro Blogging, Community sites and sharing introduced in SharePoint 2013. The out of the box SharePoint 2013 social features can be read here and this post outlines...
Setting up PowerShell ISE in SharePoint
PowerShell ISE is really cool and it is basically like mini Visual Studio IDE. It is an integrated graphical scripting environment that helps with the PowerShell. Using this tool you can build your scripts and debug line by line by putting break points. It is very powerful tool included in the operating system. You have turn this feature on as shown below If you open the ISE first time...
Creating and Deploying an ASP.NET MVC4 Application
This post gives you an introduction to MVC model and outlines the steps in creating a new site and adding a model, controller and view using entity framework code first. It also gives you the steps to deploy this site to Windows Azure Web Sites. How MVC Works? User sends a request to your web site and that request through a feature called routing goes to controller, In MVC URL does not maps to a...
ASP.NET 4.5 New Features Overview
ASP.NET Web developers needs to understand Visual Studio , NuGet , ASP.NET and Windows Azure for developing cloud services. Visual Studio 2012 made some cool improvements for web development.This post outlines HTML5 , CSS3 improvements in Visual Studio editor, Page Inspector and new features in ASP.NET 4.5. Using Visual Studio 2012 now you can write HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Razor, C#, VB...
Selectors and Style Properties in CSS3
Cascading Style Sheets is basically collection of selectors and property values. This post outlines the Selectors and Properties in CSS3. Selectors are way to determine what about your HTML is going to be affected and different ways that you can use are Type Selector type selector refers to types of HTML tag, for instance if you want to change everything in a tag of type table table { color:red;...
Semantic Structures in HTML5
What is HTML5 Semantic Structures? Semantics are meaning of subject, like a word or sentence. This post shows the HTML5 tags that you can use for developing Windows Store Applications. How do you or machine interpret these semantics are matter? Example Semantics via attribution when you look at the divs with the ids and classes, so much repetition going on with people creating header...
Top Features in ASP.NET Web Tools 2012.2
ASP.NET Web Tools 2012.2 is an ASP.NET release with features including entire ASP.NET family (Web Forms, MVC, Web API). This release also includes new tooling for Visual Studio 2012 that improve the web development experience.This post overviews the features in this incremental release. You can download the tools from here.The installation is pretty quick and it would not ask you to reboot...