Author Archives: Dhananjay Kumar

Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1

Windows Azure Storage Client Library allows you to perform operations on Windows Azure storage from Windows Phone. Using Windows Azure Storage Client, you can Perform operations on Table Perform operations on Queue Perform Operations on BLOB If you are not using Windows Azure Storage Client Library then to work with Windows Azure Storage you mayContinueContinue reading “Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Phone: Part 1”

How to work with NuGet?

NuGet is a visual studio extension and you can get it from here. It helps you Add library and tools to visual studio .Net Framework project Remove library and tools to visual studio .Net Framework project Update library and tools to visual studio .Net Framework project NuGet does all the necessary tasks required to workContinueContinue reading “How to work with NuGet?”

List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application

In this post we will see, Working with ListView control in WinJS ItemTemplte in WinJS Data Binding to ListView Creating Data Source in WinJS For purpose of this post I am going to bind name and images of Indian cricket player in ListView. After data binding ListView should look like below, To bind data withContinueContinue reading “List View Data Binding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro Application”

How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7

Recently I got a mail from one of the reader. She asked; How could be launch Call Task from Secondary Tile? In this post I am going to show the way to do that. Before you go ahead with this post, I strongly recommend reading below three posts for more on Live Tiles and CallContinueContinue reading “How to launch Call Task from Secondary Tile in Windows Phone 7”

Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML JavaScript Metro Application

In this post, I will discuss how to work with Message Dialog in Windows 8 Metro application. I will use WinJS to create message dialog. Message dialog look like below, Message Dialog is part of UI surfaces in Windows 8. There are four types of UI surfaces in Windows 8. App Bar Context Menu MessageContinueContinue reading “Message Dialog Control in Windows 8 HTML JavaScript Metro Application”

DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro JavaScript Application

In this post I will show you, how to work with DatePicker control in HTML Metro App. DatePicker controls comes as part of WinJS. To use DatePicker control very first let us create a blank application Right click and open project in Expression Blend. Choose Date Picker from Assets and put it below Body tag.ContinueContinue reading “DatePicker control in Windows 8 HTML5 Metro JavaScript Application”

Create Hosted Service using Windows Azure Management API

In this post I will discuss, how could we create Hosted Service in Windows Azure using Windows Azure Management API? To create Hosted Service you need to perform POST operation on the below URI. You need to change subscription id with your subscription Id. https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices While making the request, Request Header must contain information asContinueContinue reading “Create Hosted Service using Windows Azure Management API”

SQL Azure to Developers: Some Basic Concepts

Objective In this post we will focus on overview of SQL Azure along with a first look on SQL Azure Management Portal. Essentially we will cover in this part What is Cloud Database What is SQL Azure Create and Manage Database in SQL Azure Fire Wall in SQL Azure What is Cloud Database? For aContinueContinue reading “SQL Azure to Developers: Some Basic Concepts”