Monthly Archives: March 2011

A look on Database [SQL Azure] option of new Windows Azure portal

Windows Azure Development portal has been moved to new Silverlight based portal. It has all new look and many new features. SQL Azure can be explored by selecting Database option from the left panel. New SQL Azure portal is having

Posted in AZURE

Windows Azure for Developers Task 10: Creating Storage Account in new Silverlight based Windows Azure Portal

1. Login to Windows Azure Development portal. 2. After login at left panel you can see number of storage and service account in your subscription. 3. Select subscription and storage account option to create new Storage Account. At top left,

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Windows Azure for Developers Task 9: Hosting WCF Service Role in Windows Azure Hosted Service

In Previous Article We saw How to work with WCF Service Web Role I am going to extend previous article to publish in hosted service. Hosting WCF Service Role in hosted service is exactly the same as we host  ASP.Net

Posted in AZURE, WCF

Windows Azure for Developers Task 8: Working with WCF Service Web Role

WCF Service Role enables us to create WCF service and host in Windows Azure. In this article, we will create a WCF Service Role and host on local development fabric and consume in a console application. In second part of

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Type casting with is and as operator in C#

I have been seeing many developers are casting between two types using is operator. As we know, we do have as operator also for type casting. For purpose of this article, we are going to use below two classes, Very

Posted in CSharp, Miscellaneous

Binding XML File to Data Grid in Silverlight

It is a common scenario when we need to bind or display data from XML File to Silverlight Data Grid. In this article, I have tried to demonstrate this with simple steps. What all we are going to do is

Posted in Silververlight

Windows Azure for Developers Task 7: Creating Hosted Service in new Silverlight based Windows Azure Portal

Windows Azure Development portal is in new look now.  It is Silverlight based and all operation can be performed from one page. New portal is having Ribbon at top, left panel and right panel. From configuring guest Operating system to

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Windows Azure for Developers Task 6: Hosting ASP.Net Application in New Silverlight based Azure Portal

Windows Azure Portal is now all new. It is made in Silverlight. Almost all information is on one page and almost all operation can be performed from same page. Properties Windows for Deployment, Role Instances, and Hosting Service provide extensive

Posted in AZURE

Sharing port between WCF Services in netTcpBinding

WCF allows us to share the port between Services in TCP connection. For HTTP connection is allowed on IIS using HTTP.SYS Service. By default port sharing for TCP connections are disabled. So to use port sharing between services using netTcpBinding

Posted in WCF

Reading files asynchronously using WebClient class in Silverlight

WebClient class is used in Silverlight to asynchronously download or read a file from a particular URI. 1. WebClient class is under System.Net namespace. 2. This can retrieve data from any format of service. This can retrieve data in JSON,

Posted in Silververlight

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