Blog Posts of the Week (1st - 7th December 2013)

Developers

 

Windows Azure Storage and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) – Lets Have Some Fun

By Gaurav Mantri published on 12-01-2013

In this blog post, we will focus on CORS and that too for blob service. We will talk about how you can enable CORS for blob service….(more)

 

Adding custom buttons to iOS Keyboard in C# & Xamarin

By Nishanth Anil published on 12-02-2013

The area above the keyboard is an extra UIView known as Input Accessory View which you can customize to add your extra keyboard buttons. To add an accessory view….(more)

 

Creating Android Client for Team Foundation Server 2012

By Subodh Sohoni published on 12-03-2013

This article explores a unique scenario for TFS data access using an Android Client and presents an innovative use case….(more)

 

Product Review: Collabion Charts for SharePoint

By Karthikeyan Anbarasan published on 12-05-2013

Collabion Charts for SharePoint is a handy product which provides a quick and easy way to create insightful dashboards in SharePoint, without the need for MOSS….(more)

 

Using generic List as key in Dictionaries

By Amit Choudhary published on 12-05-2013

Dictionaries in CSharp are datastructure which represents hash maps. You can store key value based data easily also it prevents to insert….(more)

 

Logging Database Operations in Entity Framework 6 - EF6 New Feature

By Abhimanyu Vatsa published on 12-07-2013

In this blog post you will learn a new feature ‘Logging Database Operations’ introduced with Entity Framework 6. This features works for models….(more)

 

 

IT PRO

 

SharePoint: Unknown Error Accessing Storage Allocation Page

By Amardeep Singh published on 12-03-2013

After clicking on Storage Space Allocation (Site Actions, Site settings, Site Collection Administration), you get an "Unknown Error on page" error….(more)

 

How to solve Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 error "Unspecified error"

By Visakh Murukesan published on 12-03-2013

When trying to use Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider in a linkedserver or distributed query you'll get the….(more)

 

Exchange 2013 OAB troubleshooting: Task reported error (0x8004010F): ‘The operation failed. An object cannot be found.’

By Ratish Nair published on 12-04-2013

When you have an issue with OAB, first thing to check is whether you can see the address list you're trying to download in Outlook. If it's missing, outlook just can't locate….(more)

 

Lync Server integration with Exchange Outlook Web Access

By Balasaheb Ilag published on 12-05-2013

Recently I have deployed Lync integration with Exchange Outlook Web Access. Whenever you accessing Outlook web access….(more)

 

 

 

Office 2013

 

Long presentation with photos in few clicks

By Dr. Nitin Paranjape published on 12-01-2013

Needless to say, most of us take the laborious and inefficient path of adding one slide and inserting a picture repeatedly….(more)

 

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Advanced Glow Options

By Geetesh Bajaj published on 12-02-2013

Applying a Glow effect adds a nice halo around a selected shape or most other slide objects. You may find that the Glow effect defaults….(more)

 

Making a slick on/off switch using Excel & little bit of VBA

By Purnachandra Duggirala published on 12-05-2013

As you know, there is a form control in Excel that behaves like on/off switch. It is called check box. Although they are easy to use….(more)

 

Compute configuration count using Set Theory and Venn Diagrams

By Ashish Mathur published on 12-07-2013

Assume a table which lists attendees for a Company's Annual day function.  In this Table, data for every attendee….(more)