Team Foundation Server : Build Automation
This article will focus on achieving build automation using TFS. However, if you want to understand the architecture, configuration, project creation, ...
Team Foundation Server : Understanding the Architecture
This article will briefly describe the high-level architecture of Team Foundation Server. It will help you understand the different tiers in TFS, their...
Recovering your external hard disk data
I recently faced a situation that my external hard disk that I used as a backup drive started giving me bad sector issues. I ignored the early warnings...
[Solved] App Store : Your PC is not connected to Internet
Sometimes the Store application on Windows 8.x gives connectivity error. If you are reading this article, it means you have tried clicking on ‘try agai...
Method, Delegate and Event Anti-Patterns in C#
No enterprise application exists without a method, event, delegate and every developer would have written methods in his/her application. While definin...
Which one is better : JSON vs. Xml serialization?
One of the hot topics of discussion in building enterprise applications is whether one should use JSON or XML based serialization for data serialization and...
WCF NetTcp Port Sharing on Windows 8+
In Windows 8, when hosting WCF in a managed application running under a normal user privileges and NetTcp binding, you might get an exception Verify that the...
What is the difference between System.String and string?
One of the questions that lot of developers ask is – Is there any difference between string and System.String and what should be used? Short Answer Th...
HTTP/S WCF : Commonly faced access issues and solutions
When running WCF services on Windows 7+ (actually, includes Vista too) operating systems when you write a simple code at the service side to open the service...
The Encoding saga for English and non-English languages
There are several approaches in understanding the encoding mechanism. The approach we will take today is to see data conversion and storage using bytes...
Using Claims-Identity with SimpleMembership in ASP.NET MVC
About an year ago, I had a chance to work on ASP.NET MVC and Claims-based identities for an enterprise application. Claims-based identity, though...
Dynamic Guide Article on Channel9
This is one of my proud moments as my dynamic guide has been mentioned on Channel9 Video Link: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Apr...
Complete guide to dynamic keyword in C#
The dynamic keyword, a new addition to Microsoft .NET C# 4.0 language, is believed to change the type binding to a variable from compile time to runtime....
Team Foundation Server : Managing Sprint and Releases
This is continued from the series of articles on TFS. I would recommend you reading two articles if you are new to TFS TFS - Creating an Account & Proj...
Team Foundation Server : Creating Product Backlog
This post is continued from TFS – Creating an Account & Projects so if you haven’t read that and are interested in knowing how to create a project in TFS...
Team Foundation Server : Creating an Account, Project
Recently did I acquire the key to TFS Preview from Microsoft when I started exploring TFS and its features. Not much is known about the pricing plans, but s...
Presentation: 5-steps to Optimizing WCF Services
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Understanding Mock and frameworks - Part 4 of N
I am glad that this series has been liked by large audience and even got focus on Channel9 Video and that motivates to continue this series further on. ...
Understanding Mock and frameworks - Part 3 of N
This series on Mock frameworks takes you through Rhino Mocks, Moq and NSubstitute frameworks to implement mock and unit testing in your application. This se...
Understanding RhinoMocks, NSubstitute and Moq
For those who are following me on Codetails, would know that I am actively blogging (since Nov 2012) on Codetails on all technology stuff. One of the series...
Mocking Framework Articles mentioned on Channel9
This is one of my proud moments as my Mocking Framework series has been mentioned on Channel9 [allvideogallery profile=2 video=1] Video Link: http://channel9...
Understanding Mock and frameworks - Part 2 of N
Continuing on where we left in the previous post - Understanding Mock and frameworks Part 1 – this post will take a very simple example and illustrate how to...