Blog Posts of the Week (4th - 17th August 2013)

Developers

 

WebResource.axd ScriptResource.axd not working: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: utcDate

By Raghav Khunger published on 08-04-2013

Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: utcDate….(more)

 

CRUD operation on ASP.NET Web API from .NET client

By Dhananjay Kumar published on 08-07-2013

In this part of blog, we will learn to create ASP.NET Web API. To create launch Visual Studio and create a project by choosing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application template….(more)

 

Making Windows Azure Caching Work in Compute Emulator

By Gaurav Mantri published on 08-07-2013

Recently I was working on a project where we wanted to use In-Role Windows Azure Caching. We ran into a number of issues while….(more)

 

Windows Azure vs. Force.com vs. Cloud Foundry

By Niraj Bhatt published on 08-17-2013

Windows Azure is the premier cloud offering from Microsoft. It has a comprehensive set of platform services ranging from….(more)

 

How to Build a RSS Feed Reader using Windows Phone App Studio?

By Kunal Chowdhury published on 08-13-2013

Let’s start building a RSS reader of your blog. For next 15 minutes forget that you are also a developer or have knowledge on Windows Phone app programming. Just make sure….(more)

 

Working with EventViewer using C#

By Brij Mishra published on 08-16-2013

There are several phases of a Application . It does not end with developing the application and deploying it on production servers. Other most important part….(more)

 

Async in Web API, Entity Framework 6 and ASP.NET Web Forms vNext

By Suprotim Agarwal published on 08-16-2013

.NET Framework 4.5 as we all know has introduced the new async and await keywords that go a long way in making Asynchronous easier. However async APIs are….(more)

 

 

IT PRO

 

How to Add external users to SharePoint Online

By Sundararajan Narasiman published on 08-06-2013

The external users are nothing but people who don’t have user accounts in the SharePoint Online environment. The access to external users can be provided by sending….(more)

 

Public access of Website hosted in Azure Windows Server VM

By Rami Vemula published on 08-07-2013

In this small post we are going to look into how quickly we can configure Azure Windows Server 2012 VM and access a website which is hosted in its IIS. We need to add 80 port….(more)

 

Access Services is unable to process the request. Click here to try again

By Amol Ghuge published on 08-08-2013

While working on asset database site, trying to create new item and got the following exception….(more)

 

The file that you are trying to create cannot be created error in NAV2013

By Mohana Krishna published on 08-12-2013

There is a parameter in Custom Settings File called ClientServicesProhibitedFileTypeswhich will not allow you to create files with extensions you mentioned….(more)

 

Re-create deleted records using Audit History

By Roohi Shaikh published on 08-14-2013

Many a times we come across situations where we accidentally, delete a particular record and wish to recover that record back in CRM. This is possible only if you have….(more)

 

Exchange CAS high availability with Windows NLB

By Prabhat Nigam published on 08-14-2013

Application availability is getting super critical these days. Most of them can be clustered but there are still few applications which can’t be clustered. So we have Network load balance hardware….(more)

 

 

Consumer

 

Windows Media Player 12 constantly “Retrieving media info for an unknown album”

By Soumitra Sengupta published on 08-04-2013

I am getting constant message “Retrieving media info for an unknown album”. I have noticed, however, that if I sort my library by artist….(more)

 

Access your SkyDrive Files Offline in Windows 8.1

By Anand Khanse published on 08-05-2013

You can now easily view and browse the files you’ve saved to SkyDrive.com. Moreover, you can make those files available offline especially, if you wanted to access….(more)

 

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Resizing Shapes

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 08-05-2013

Once you insert your shapes on a slide, you may realize that it's not the perfect size -- did you want it larger, or a wee bit smaller? However you want your shapes resized….(more)

 

How to create a Then vs. Now interactive chart in Excel?

By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 08-06-2013

Since our chart will display values for one region at a time, we need a mechanism to let user control which region is displayed. We will use a combo box….(more)

 

Xbox One’s Video Capture Detailed – “Manage, Edit, and Share”

By Kartik Mudgal published on 08-06-2013

Your clips are stored in the cloud. Also, you’ll see games making “magic moment” videos of your gameplay based on the game….(more)

 

Ensure that “Show Value as” feature of the Pivot Table works even when some Pivot Table columns are unfiltered/hidden

By Ashish Mathur published on 08-09-2013

Let's say the data sheet has Sales and Profit data by Product, Region, Salesman and Date.  One may want to analyse….(more)