Blog Posts of the Week (3rd - 9th March 2013)

Developers

 

Generating Entity Data Model Diagram from EF Code First DbContext

By Shiju Varghese published on 03-03-2013

The Entity Framework Code First approach lets the developers to build applications with Domain-Driven Design….(more)

 

Logging Errors with ELMAH (Error Logging Modules And Handlers) in ASP.NET MVC 4

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 03-03-2013

ELMAH is an alternative to HMS (Health Monitoring System) for logging errors which is free and available under open-source which is created….(more)

 

WCF Concurrency (Single, Multiple, and Reentrant) and Throttling

By Shivprasad Koirala published on 03-04-2013

In this article, we will concentrate on WCF concurrency and throttling. We will first try to understand what….(more)

 

AutoCommand For MVVM – More tricks With Lambdas and CallerMemberName

By Anoop Madhusudanan published on 03-06-2013

Few days back I ranted about Lamdba Patterns in C# and Init Time branching.  I also had a generally….(more)

 

How to Integrate WP7.8, WP8 Live Tiles in your WP7.5 apps?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 03-07-2013

The Windows Phone SDK update for WP7.8 is already there and many people already started receiving the WP7.8 OS update in their existing WP7.5 handsets….(more)

 

Manage Nuget packages with source control

By Amit Choudhary published on 03-07-2013

Nuget is the visual studio plugin that allows you to download and install the libraries directly into your solution. It’s another adapted….(more)

 

 

IT PRO

 

SQL Server - What is the purpose of DENSITY in STATISTICS?

By Amit Bansal published on 03-04-2013

There is a table in AdventureWorks2008R2 called SalesOrderHeader which has a column called TotalDue. Let us create….(more)

 

Fix: Windows 8 fails to boot; Automatic Repair, Refresh, Reset PC also fail

By Anand Khanse published on 03-09-2013

If your Windows 8 fails to boot, it will launch Automatic Repair, in order to attempt to repair Windows. In the event….(more)

 

 

Office 2013

 

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Resume Reading

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 03-04-2013

You have a 100 slide presentation that you are working on -- it's past midnight and your eyes feel glassy. In a state of semi-consciousness, you save your slides….(more)

 

Finding Conversion ratio using Pivot Table Calculated Items

By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 03-06-2013

Today, let’s understand how to use Calculated items feature in Pivot tables. We will use a practical problem many of us face to learn….(more)