Visual Studio 2019 preview recently released at Microsoft Connect Event by Scott Guthrie and can be downloaded from here. You can install this side-by-side with Visual Studio 2017, it wouldn’t spoil your development environment. This post outlines the features that introduced in Visual Studio 2019 preview. Microsoft Focussing on improving productivity of developers more in 2019 version. Key...
DevOps overview with Microsoft Azure
This post outlines the steps that you can follow to implement DevOps in Azure pipeline. The steps includes setting up an application, creating continuous integration, continuous delivery and release pipelines in Azure environment. What is DevOps? DevOps is the union of people, process, and tools to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. Most people feel that DevOps is just...
Remote debugging AZURE app service web app
This post outline the steps to debug the AZURE app service using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2015. Before you start remote debugging the application make sure you deployed your web app to azure using debug settings not release. Step 1 Enable remote debug and visual studio version for your app service web app in AZURE portal Step2 You can attach the debugger in two way one is from cloud...
What’s new in Visual Studio 2017
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...
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...
The new ASP.NET Core Overview
ASP.NET Core (previously ASP.NET 5) is a new open-source and cross-platform framework for building modern cloud-based Web applications using .NET. This is completely re-done new framework designed for building modern web applications. What is this new ASP.NET Core framework all about? Daniel Roth spoke about the new ASP.NET Core in Build 2016 and content is based on his demos and session...
Microsoft’s First in-house Laptop – “Surface Book”
Surface Book is Microsoft’s first in-house high-performance laptop which released yesterday, you can pre-order from here. It is power full laptop with a full sized backlit keyboard. It is lot more than a laptop, the screen is actually detachable from keyboard so it can be used as tablet. It has lovely magnesium body design with a hinge that folds and expands when you open the note book. The...