Blog Posts of the Week (28th July'13 - 03rd August'13)

Developers

Working with Azure BLOB Storage in MVC

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 07-28-2013

Windows Azure provides various cloud enabled storage services, and BLOB is one of them. BLOB stands for Binary Large Object….(more)

How to get the Geolocation in WP8?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 07-30-2013

If you are a WPDev and looking for a way to retrieve the Geo Location of the user and integrate that Geo Coordinates in your Windows Phone 8 application….(more)

How to pass Object or collection of Objects to a web resource in CRM 2011

By Roohi Shaikh published on 07-30-2013

In Dynamics CRM if we want to pass data to a web resource, then we use Xrm.Utility.openWebResource function and pass as second parameter. But in this case we….(more)

Writing Unit Tests for ASP.NET Web API Controller

By Shiju Varghese published on 07-30-2013

Let’s write a unit test class for verifying the behavior of a ASP.NET Web API controller named CategoryController. Let’s define mock implementation for Repository class….(more)

A Glimpse into the Gut of your ASP.NET application

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 07-30-2013

Some of us may have heard or used MiniProfiler a profiling library for your ASP.NET applications, from the StackExchange team. We carried….(more)

Performance comparison - IIF logical function Vs CASE expression

By Madhivanan Jr published on 07-30-2013

Both IIF and CASE expressions are used to make some decision based on an expression and return one of the two values. While CASE expression is supported….(more)

IT PRO

Exchange Server – Troubleshooting internal/external mail flow issues

By Ratish Nair published on 07-29-2013

Sometimes for a properly working mail flow structure with a valid SMTP domain which is in the list of accepted domain, internal mail may not reach the recipient properly. This may be due to….(more)

Exchange 2013: Planning and Design Guide

By Prabhat Nigam published on 07-30-2013

In order to get correct designing of resources we need to do planning and designing the Exchange environment. We can achieve some good design by following the….(more)

Unable to call to Response Group agent

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 07-31-2013

The Lync Server-enabled user account for the Lync Server Response Group agent was assigned to a different SIP domain that is registered with….(more)

Expired sessions are not being deleted from the ASP.NET Session State database

By Amol Ghuge published on 08-02-2013

If expired sessions are not deleted, the server that hosts the ASP.NET Session State database may run out of disk space and the SharePoint farm….(more)

Enable FTP Access on Windows Azure VM

By Rami Vemula published on 08-03-2013

First we will create a brand new VM, then we enable FTP Server in it. Then we open TCP ports (Data and Control Ports) for FTP communication and add….(more)

Importing DBF files to SQLServer Table using SSIS

By Visakh Murukesan published on 08-03-2013

Recently we had the requirement of importing data from multiple dbf files to SQL Server database. This post explains the step by step procedure of how this can be achieved using SSIS….(more)

Consumer

Fix: The update is not applicable to your computer error when installing Windows 8.1

By Shyam Sasindran published on 07-28-2013

The first reason if you have a different language version that the Windows 8.1 supported ones. Apparently Windows 8.1 only support 14 languages. The supported ones….(more)

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Insert and/or Link Pictures

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 07-31-2013

When a picture is inserted on your PowerPoint slide, you are essentially doing a task that is frequent and commonplace -- and to you, this may look like an activity….(more)

Microsoft exec explains Why They Boosted Xbox One GPU clock by 6%

By Kartik Mudgal published on 08-03-2013

Microsoft earlier confirmed that they were going to increase the clock speed of the Xbox One to 853mhz, and while this offers exactly….(more)

Fix: Internet Explorer 11 does not open in Modern UI

By Anand Khanse published on 08-03-2013

Recently, some users had run into a problem while installing the preview version of Windows 8.1. They noticed, Internet Explorer 11 Tile was suddenly missing from Start screen….(more)