Thoughts from Imagine Cup Innovation Judge
I just completed going through dozens of applications for Imagine Cup 2015 Blueprint Innovation Challenge as a judge. Judging these applications from partici...
Migrating from SVN to GitHub
For those who are following my posts and my open source work, might have found that I've started adopting GitHub for KonfDB and my blog samples. So I thought...
Porting a .NET Console App to run on Linux
With .NET 2015, as we know .NET has provided first-class cross-platform support. So if you have a Linux or Mac environment, you could run a ASP.NET website i...
Shell Script to setup .NET on Linux
If you are scared by the tedious process of setting up Mono, KVM and KRE on Linux or are not aware of how to get started with it, here is your lifesaver - a ...
Hosting your ASP.NET application on Azure Linux Hosting
Now that ASP.NET 5.0 (vNext) runs on .NET 2015 – a cross platform version of .NET – it is worthwhile hosting your web applications on Linux. So let's get sta...
Speaker for C# 6.0 session organized by Microsoft
Welcome and Introductory Meetup Tuesday, December 2, 2014 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM SGT Location: 22CF12, Level 22, Microsoft Singapore, Singapore 018989 One Marin...
Xamarin, Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Android Development and Emulators
Well, this post is inspired to help a close friend of mine who was struggling to get Xamarin run on Visual Studio 2015 Preview and develop some Xamarin appli...
Launching Microsoft File Transfer Manager manually
Microsoft File Transfer Manager is a wonderful tool to download ISO images and large packages from MSDN. You can suspend downloads when you are on low-bandwi...
KonfDB Ref-Card
KonfDB is a Configuration as a Service for multi-tenant, cross-platform applications. For more information, please check out www.konfdb.com
MVP Summit session on KonfDB
I had an opportunity to present my platform KonfDB at Microsoft MVP Summit (2014) and get bunch of good ideas from my fellow MVP friends. Thanks to all of th...
High DPI (HiRes) and Applications
Recently upgraded to Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 for my development and research activities. With an excellent ultrabook that runs like a beast, you can spend good ti...
Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio Online and Azure
On June 26th 2014, I will be delivering a talk on Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio Online and Azure for a Brazil User Group. This will be a webcast for...
[Solved] The connection to Team Foundation Server has been restored
Error The connection to Team Foundation Server http://...... has been restored Root cause The Build Notification application tries to connect to TFS serve...
Recording: Continuous Integration with TFS
I had recently done a webinar on DevOps - Continuous Integration with TFS which was organized by Microsoft. If you missed it for any reason, you can watch th...
Webinar - DevOps: Continuous Integration with TFS
Speaker: Puneet Ghanshani Topic: DevOps: Continuous Integration with TFS Date & Venue: May 07, 2014 (Wednesday) at 6:00 PM to 6:45 PM (SGT) Venue: Onli...
[Solved] TF246017: Team Foundation Server could not connect to the database
Error TF246017: Team Foundation Server could not connect to the database. Verify that the server that is hosting the database is operational, and that net...
[Solved] TF250061: The following site could not be attached to Team Foundation Server
Error TF250061: The following site could not be attached to Team Foundation Server: The site is already associated with a team project on an installation of ...
[Solved] TF31001: Cannot connect to Team Foundation Server
Error TF31001: Cannot connect to Team Foundation Server at .visualstudio.com. The server returned the following error: Key not valid for use in specified ...
Build Automation using Jenkins and TFS version control
I’ve used several version control systems for my source code and research projects. Recently, I’ve consolidated them to TFS and Git. I have started usi...
Using XecMe to host Windows Services
When you are developing server side components using .NET framework, you would either end up having a IIS hosted component (a website, WAS, Web Services (RES...
[Solved] TF400012: Full-text search failed
Error TF400012: Full-text search failed. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator or try the operation again. (Code 30046: SQL Server encountered...
[Solved] TF400324: Team Foundation Services are not available from server
Possible Errors TF400324: Team Foundation services are not available from server <Server/CollectionName>. Technical Information (for administrator): Pa...
Team Foundation Server : Removing a Collection (client side)
There are 2 ways to delete and reconfigure a TFS collection on your desktop (or local machine). Using Visual Studio. Using Team Explorer, you can firs...
[Solved] TF271001: Connection timed out type SmtpException
Error TF271001: The server response was: 4.4.1 Connection timed out type SmtpException. TFS Email Notifications Delayed or Not Sent Root Cause Following a...
Team Foundation Server : Disable Work Item to be marked as Resolved
When you check-in a code change using Team Explorer in Visual Studio, you can associate the check-in with one or more work items. As shown in the snapshot be...
Global Windows Azure Boot Camp—Singapore Chapter 2014
Global Windows Azure Boot Camp—Singapore Chapter (Register @ http://gwabsg2014.eventbrite.sg) A Windows Azure Boot Camp On More Than 100 Location Globally at...
Optimizing performance of your WCF Services
Performance Optimization process starts when you are provided with Non-Functional Requirements such as Availability, Concurrent Users, Scalability and so on....
5 quick steps to resolve Android Battery Drain Issues
Applicable to: Some Android Phones (incl some Galaxy variants) This article is for those who are facing battery drain issues with some Android/Galaxy phones,...
Why is StringBuilder faster in string concatenations?
Almost every developer who is new to development using C# faces a question as to which one is better - string.Concat, + (plus sign), string.Format or StringB...
Using Directives and Namespace in C#
UsingDirectivesMustBePlacedWithinNamespace is one of the rules of StyleCop and I was trying to figure out why StyleCop recommends having using directives def...
Team Foundation Server : Check-in Policies to ensure traceability
One of the things many teams thrive to achieve is 100% traceable code against Business Requirement Document (BRD) or Requirement Matrix. With evolution...
Team Foundation Server : Build Logging
When you use Team Foundation Server for Build Automation, you can configure build controller and agents. In the Team Foundation Administration Console,...
Upgrading to .NET 4.5.x for Enterprise Applications
Microsoft launched .NET 4.5 in 2012 and later added an upgrade to .NET 4.5.1 in Dec, 2013. So considering the timelines, there has been over an year th...
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award
Received an award notification email from Microsoft on 1st Jan 2014 – Marks as the perfect beginning of 2014 for me! My MVP profile can be visited at - http:...