Microsoft released Windows SDK for Facebook and can be downloaded from here. The main objective of this SDK is building Universal Windows Applications with Facebook integration. What is Windows SDK for Facebook? It is an open source SDK for integrating Facebook features into your application that you develop using window platform. It has support to Universal apps on Desktop and Mobile, apps that...
Error Handling in Web API Design
This post outlines how to manage the errors and status codes using modal validation, exception filter s and global exception handling. The common status codes that you deal while you are writing Web API code Model Validation is a very power full capability of web API. It is a data annotation library and allows you to annotate your classes and indicate different types, ranges and validations. You...
Diagnostic tooling features in Visual Studio 2015
IntelliTrace UI has completely redesigned in Visual Studio 2015. This post outlines what improvements have been made to IntelliTrace and PerfTips which is a feature to evaluate your application performance easily during the debugging process. These features are available in VS 2015 CTP5. Using the new features in IntelliTrace, it is really easy to fix the bugs. Let’s take a scenario, Assume you...
iOS Application Development with Xamarin and Visual Studio
As Xamarin allows us to build iOS, Android and windows applications, this post outlines the steps that required developing an iOS application using Xamarin and Visual Studio. What is Xamarin? Build and execution model is different from iOS and Android. In iOS you have something called “Ahead of Timeâ€(AOT) compiling which is basically there to compile your application down to native code...
Cross platform mobile development with Xamarin and Visual Studio
This post outlines the concepts for mobile development using Visual Studio 2013 update2 and Xamarin.In perfect world, you could develop a single codebase and target all mobile devices. Unfortunately it is not as simple as it said in the statement but you have following options for developing the mobile applications. The first option uses HTML5, JavaScript and CSS using web standards basically...
AngularJS Controllers overview
What is a Controller in Angular world? Controller is a set of JavaScript functions bound to a scope. ng-controller directive tells the Angular to instantiate the new controller object and injects the new scope as a dependency. It contains the business logic for your view. The best practice is not to use controllers to manipulate the DOMs. When you create controller in AngularJS, you may need to...
AngularJS basics overview
What is AngularJS? AngularJS is a front-end JavaScript Framework for creating web applications. It is a declarative programming language. The first question is why should I use this for web application development when MVC is already there? The reason behind using AngularJS on front-end is if you are developing large scale applications then it gives you structure and put things in specific places...
Misconceptions about Microsoft Cloud
This post outlines some of the misconceptions around cloud computing and also lists the facts and what you need to know about cloud computing. Cloud changes the way that we do our business and when change happens to organization and individuals sometimes there is some uncertainty there. The challenge is “Cloud†is often misunderstood by many customers. When it first comes around year 2010 the...
Invoking Web API using JQuery
HTTP can be used for building the ASP.NET Web APIs that exposes your data and business services. HTTP is simple platform that can reach broad range of clients varying from desktop applications to mobile devices. What is ASP.NET Web API? ASP.NET API is a framework for building the RESTful services on top of the .NET Framework. This post outlines the steps to create a web API project in visual...
Using Tasklist window in Visual Studio
Most of the time developers work on multiple tasks or code files, it is hard to keep track of what is complete or go back and update in a particular class file. Tasklist feature definitely makes developers more productive. You can bring the Tasklist in visual studio by clicking view menu and click Tasklist option Tasklist is literally a todolist; things that you want to remember to do later, you...