This post outlines the tools available in Visual Studio 2017 IDE for developer that can improve the productivity in areas like debugging, live code analysis, navigation, intellisense and live unit testing. It also outlines the improvement in mobile and cloud development. Live Unit Testing Make sure you refer the NUnit3TestAdapter and NUnit nuget packages for testing this feature If you use...
Cloud Application Development Availability strategy
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...
C# 7 features overview
C# 7 added some new features with a focus on code simplification and performance. This post explains C# 7 new features Binary Literals We now have binary literals like 0b followed by 0’s and 1’s; literals can often get longer so you can add underscore to separate them as shown in above screenshot. Tuples Install-Package “System.ValueTuple” One...
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...
Visual Studio 2017 IDE features
Visual Studio 2017 announced in Microsoft Connect event today. Number of interesting announcements made in this event. Following are the highlights Key theme: Any Developer-Any App-Any platform · Visual Studio 2017 RC – Just downloaded loving the new IDE · Visual Studio Mobile Center – Using Xamarin for developing any mobile app and test on cloud · Visual Studio for Mac ·...
ASP.NET Core 1 details
ASP.NET core is different from ASP.NET in the past.ASP.NET core is just bunch of libraries; it doesn’t have any host process that comes with it. ASP.NET core is completely decoupled from System.web dll. This post outlines the following ASP.NET Core 1 features in detail · ASP.NET Core hosting · Request handling · Routing · MVC Application Parts You provide the host process for example when...
Connection issue with SQL Azure
Today, I got the following error message when connecting to SQL Azure from our dev environment Don’t panic follow the below trouble shooting steps. 1. Check your Microsoft Azure portal firewall settings. You should add your client ip address range as following 2. If you still get the same error message then double check the way that your are connecting to server using client tool example: if...
Front End development with Node and Jade
This post outlines how Jade Templates helps you to build the front end pages using Node. When you install node then you will get Jade as a default templating engine. Why Jade for templating in Node? Jade is a templating language to simplify writing HTML. Jade syntax and keywords map directly to HTML.Jade add ability to separate and extend your HTML.Jade generates cleaner html and dynamically...
What is Node Express?
Node Express is a minimal, open source and flexible node.js web app framework designed to develop websites, web apps and APIs much easier. Especially developing single page applications is easy with node express. This post outlines the node express features , creating a simple REST API and interacting with Mongo database to get the data and show on views. Why should I use Node Express...
Explore what Node.js is?
What is Node.js? Node.js is a runtime environment and library for running JavaScript applications outside the browser. If you are a JavaScript developer and you are used to doing front-end stuff then you can take that knowledge and use it in server side backend.Node.js is mostly used to run real-timer server applications and it shines performance using non-blocking I/O and asynchronous...