Author Archives: Dhananjay Kumar

Fetching name of all tables in Windows Azure Storage

To list all the table name from Windows Azure storage account, you need to call ListTable() function of CloudTableClient class. To start with first you need to add below namespaces. Then create a storage account as below, Make sure to put your own connection string to azure storage to parse. Next you need to createContinueContinue reading “Fetching name of all tables in Windows Azure Storage”

Code to make call in Windows Phone 7

Launchers are used to perform task provided by phone operating system. Making Call is feature of Windows phone operating system and can be used by Launcher API. PhoneCallTask launcher is used to call. This launcher class is defined as below,   To work with PhoneCallTask, first you need to add namespace of Microsoft.Phone.Task Then createContinueContinue reading “Code to make call in Windows Phone 7”

Video on How to Send SMS, Send Email and Make a Call in Windows Phone 7

What is wrong with the Partition Key value?

If you are trying to insert Partition Key and Row Key values as below image then very likely you will encounter DataServiceRequestException. You cannot have below special characters as value of Partition Key and Row Key. Let us say you have a table called School and you are trying to insert entity in that tableContinueContinue reading “What is wrong with the Partition Key value?”

I UNLOCK JOY Program : Great opportunity for Developers and Students

Browse to official site What is this Program all about? At the recent Mobile Developer Summit which took place on November 2, 2011 at Bangalore Microsoft announced the details of the developer programme for Windows Mobile in India with I unlock Joy, a unique Application Development and Submission Program, where technology professionals and students getContinueContinue reading “I UNLOCK JOY Program : Great opportunity for Developers and Students”

Unpacking Book Authored and Autographed by Pinal Dave

It was month of July, when I was in flight with Pinal Dave sir from Bangalore to Kolkata. Both we were travelling to present in Kolkata community tech days. Pinal Dave sir in flight to Kolkata I consider him as my one of the inspiration. Hence I was asking many questions to him related toContinueContinue reading “Unpacking Book Authored and Autographed by Pinal Dave”

List valid Data Center Locations for a Subscription using Windows Azure Management API

Windows Azure Management API enables you to manage Azure subscription through codes. In this post, I will show, how could you list valid datacenter locations available for given subscription using Windows Azure Management API? Windows Azure Management API is REST based API and allows you to perform almost all management level tasks with Azure subscription.ContinueContinue reading “List valid Data Center Locations for a Subscription using Windows Azure Management API”

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”