Multicore JIT is a great new feature in .NET Framework 4.5. Multicore JIT parallelizes the some of the JIT compilations that happens on the start of the application, Historically .NET FW has used the Ngen Native Image Generator for parallelization. It works particularly well where this Ngen is installed. It has been with Silverlight 5 and ASP.NET. This post describes it’s features and how it...
Understanding the ASP.NET Programming Models
This post helps you to decide what programming model is right for you to start writing applications in ASP.NET. Using ASP.NET you can build great web applications. ASP.NET offers three models to build the web applications. The models are ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Web Pages The three models built on top of ASP.NET core web platform. Each model is ASP.NET. Each model creates and...
Working with Public OData Producers
There are number of public products or services which have already adopted OData in their data publishing and also provided the OData compatible interfaces for the clients to consume the application data. Microsoft products SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure Storage Service,SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services have started supporting OData. Many online services such as Netflix.com,eBay.com...
Community Site Features in SharePoint 2013
This post outlines the Architecture and Structure of Community Site Features in SharePoint 2013. Social Features that introduced in SharePoint 2013 can be read here. The following are the Features of Social Community site Discussion and Moderation Reputation model Discovery and Membership Community sites offer a form of experience that categorize and cultivate discussions for a broad group of...
Social Features in SharePoint 2013
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 productivity pillars for Social Features are shown as below
My Sites in SharePoint 2013
My Site is a personal site in SharePoint for user. This post outlines the steps to set up My Sites in SharePoint 2013. My Site depends on User Profile service application and managed Meta data service application. Optionally Search Service application requires to be configured but it is not required. Optionally you can configure profile synchronization to configure user and group information...
Application Hosting Models in SharePoint 2013
New Application Development model was introduced in SharePoint 2013 which allows the developers to extend the SharePoint platform. This post discusses the different hosting models available for the developers in SharePoint 2013. You need to understand the App Identity concept before knowing the details of Hosting Models. App Identity in SharePoint 2013 Why do we need App Identity when there is a...
Creating prototype projects with SketchFlow for Visual Studio 2012
SketchFlow is a tool which you can use to create prototypes for interactive applications. Prototype can be used to workflow of your application or it can be a complex graph. SketchFlow is available in Blend Studio and it can be downloaded from here for Visual Studio 2012. This post discusses the SketchFlow features and then creating a prototype project for Visual Studio 2012. You can do the below...
Microsoft Big Data Solution
What is Big Data? It is a popular term used to describe growth of structured and unstructured information. This post discusses the Trends driving the “Big Data†and Microsoft Big Data Solution. There are vendors in market which provide Hadoop deployments but most operate outside central IT operations. Microsoft Big Data solution can analyze over 100 petabytes of data to produce results...
Automated UI Testing with Visual Studio 2012
This post discusses about creating a fully automated UI test cases for your application using Visual Studio 2012. You can convert your existing manual tests into fully automated user-interface tests. Without manual intervention you can quickly alert the developers about possible faults in the application. Once you automated your manual tests then you can run the automated tests multiple...