Monthly Archives: October 2011

LINQ to XML in a Nutshell

Data may exist in much form. You may have data in relational tables residing on a relational database or portable data in form of XML. Since data exist in many forms, obviously there are many ways to manipulate or access them. One of the most popular ways of sharing data is as XML. Considering prominentContinueContinue reading “LINQ to XML in a Nutshell”

Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API

In previous post I discussed about Roslyn Syntax API: First Look . In pervious approach I traversed manually in Syntax Tree to the Method level and started from Compilation Unit level to get the Method Arguments. Rather than manually navigating the Syntax Tree, you can use LINQ to get the parameter in the function. WeContinueContinue reading “Query Methods in Roslyn Syntax API”

Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB

Conditional reading of BLOB implies, you want to read BLOB only when BLOB is modified. There are scenarios when you need to read BLOB frequently. In that case to avoid network usage and bandwidth, you may consider reading BLOB only when BLOB has been modified since last read or download. This type of BLOB readingContinueContinue reading “Conditional Reading of Windows Azure BLOB”

Roslyn Syntax API: First Look

When BUILD was going on, I blogged ROSLYN: Complier as Service? Recently Microsoft released Roslyn CTP and you can download it from here. You can learn more here In this post, I will focus on Roslyn Syntax API. Syntax Tree is used by the compiler to understand the language constructs. Syntax Tree exposed by RoslynContinueContinue reading “Roslyn Syntax API: First Look”

Block diagram for Push Notification in Windows Phone 7

Below is the block diagram to Push Notification in Windows Phone 7. There are three types of Push notification Live Tiles Toast Notification Raw Data   Above diagram is very much self-explanative. There are five steps to perform push notification Application open a HTTP channel with Microsoft Push Notification Service Microsoft Push Notification Service returnsContinueContinue reading “Block diagram for Push Notification in Windows Phone 7”