Another one of my favorites!..Everytime i need to serialize an object i end up surfing the web to get the correct code(who wants to reinvent… Read More »Code for Keeps:- Serialization

One of my recent projects was on Social Networking where we worked with various social networking sites like WL, Facebook, Delicious, Twitter ,Picassa, Flickr etc… Read More »Creating An “Extensible” Consolidated Social Networking Platform in WPF using MEF

Applications deployed on azure are meant to 1. Perform better at 2. Lesser cost. As a software developer its inherently your job to ensure this… Read More »💡Few tips to Reduce Cost and Optimize performance in Azure!

An architect always has the tough job of convincing the client that the solution deployed is “optimum” under the given constraints!!. Especially when it comes… Read More »Azure:- What Azure Offers and what exactly does “Compute” mean?

Was collating all sorts of size restrictions for tables, blobs etc but found this really useful post by Cerebrata which has the exact info i… Read More »💡Remember the restrictions in Azure!!

Going to the headquarters of Microsoft..Redmond is every developers dream…so the first time i happened to go there i was truly overjoyed!!. I tried my… Read More »Location Based Applications in Silverlight Using Bing Maps!

Recently started working on an azure project where we frequently updated a setting in our Service configuration file. Only every time we did that  our… Read More »💡Update Configuration without restarting your webrole

Consider the case :- WCF uses LINQ to SQL to connect to a DB with extensive foreign key relationships. You set Serialization Mode= Unidirectional to… Read More »💡Foreign key objects from WCF service not propagated to Silverlight client!

Few really useful developer friendly features in VS2010 Pin your favorite project so that its always available in the recent projects(even after a year!) Double… Read More »Looking Forward to VS2010!

Grabbed this screenshot from a Virtual Tech Day webcast. Good snapshot explanation of which control to use when Hope this clears some confusion! Cennest!!