Year: 2010
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Report on Community Tech Days Ahmedabad: 11th December 2010
It was a cold December morning but as usual energetic Ahmedabad crowd was there on the venue to attend the full day sessions from various speakers on various latest topics on Microsoft technologies. There were 6 sessions scheduled for the day. And all speakers were veterans (Excluding me) and well known for their ability to…
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Connecting from SQL Server 2008 management studio to SQL Azure
In this walkthrough we will see how to connect from Local SQL server management studio to SQL Azure. Follow the below steps. Open SQL Server management studio You will get Connect to server dialog box. Click cancel on that. After cancelling the dialog box click on New Query from left top On clicking New Query,…
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Upcoming book titled “Pro WCF 4.0” by Nishith Pathak
Title : Pro WCF 4.0 “Practical Microsoft SOA implementation” Author : Nishith Pathak Publisher : APress USA Expected Release : Jan/Feb 2011 Link : http://apress.com/book/view/9781430233688 About book The release of .NET 4.0 brought a wide range of new functionality to WCF. Developers and Architects with experience using WCF 3.5 or earlier who want to be…
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Creating Firewall rule for SQL Azure
All access to SQL azure is blocked by firewall. By default Database created on SQL Azure is blocked by firewall for the security reason.. Any try to external access or access from any azure application is blocked by firewall. Image taken from MSDN Connecting from Local system When we want to connect SQL Azure…
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Walkthrough on creating a Database in SQL Azure
In this article, we will see how to create database in SQL Azure. Step1 Login SQL Azure portal with your live credential https://sql.azure.com/ Step 2 Click on SQL Azure tab. You will get the project , you have created for yourself. Step3 Click on the project. In my case project name is debugmode. After clicking…
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Setting up the Firewall on local system/computer to connect to SQL Azure
If we want to connect to SQL Azure from local system then we need to create an exception at local firewall for TCP port 1433. Follow the below steps to create Exception on Windows 7 machine Step 1 Click on Start button and then in Search text box type Firewall. Step 2 You will able…
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Default Protocol Mapping in WCF 4.0
In my previous post, I talked about Default End Point in WCF 4 . If we closely look at the output that by default WCF maps protocol to binding as below. So if we are not configuring any EndPoint , then for http type base address in default EndPoint created by WCF will have basicHttpBinding.…
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Default End Points in WCF 4.0
For a normal developer like me, had a great challenge working with WCF 3.x was configuration of End Points in config file. Developer had to add endpoints to setup a WCF service. In WCF 4, Defualt End Point is associated with the service, if we don’t configure any WCF endpoint. To see how Default EndPoint…
Dhananjay Kumar 