One common question, which always pops up on a testers’ mind is that “Why do I need Test estimation?”. The answer to this question is very simple – to avoid the exceeding timescales and overshooting budgets for testing activities. Before I proceed further, I would like to throw some light on what is an Estimate… Continue reading Top Approaches for Test Estimation
Many organizations, particularly those building for Microsoft platforms, use TFS as their planning and reporting center. Team Foundation Server- A Collaborative software development tool for the entire team Team Foundation Server is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system. It is a system that takes care of all the aspects… Continue reading A Look at the Capabilities of Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Entity framework, as discussed in our last blog, is one of the most powerful ORM (Object Relation Mapper) frameworks. It is generally used as a Data Access layer in the application. Initially, Entity framework came with fewer features and limited functionality. There were continuous changes made in the Entity framework as a result, entity framework has… Continue reading Overview- Entity Framework 7 Features
Many teams make use of SharePoint lists to access, share, and collaborate around structured data. To cater to this, Microsoft has provided a powerful capability to create apps using PowerApps that utilizes SharePoint lists as a data source. PowerApps is a service that fundamentally transforms and accelerates how organizations build the custom line of business… Continue reading Creating PowerApps using SharePoint list
Machine Learning– Doesn’t it sound intriguing? Machine learning is a kind of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that helps computers learn from existing data with a specific end goal to forecast future practices, results, and patterns. These forecasts or expectations from machine learning can make devices and apps more quick witted. Machine learning as it depends on… Continue reading Analytics with Azure Cognitive services joined by Flow in SharePoint Online
Azure Data Factory is a Microsoft cloud-based data integration service which helps to transfer data to & from Azure Data Lake, HDInsight, Azure SQL Database, Azure Machine Learning (Cognitive Services), Azure Blob Storage etc. It organizes & automates the movement and transformation of data. Azure Data Factory works across on-premises, cloud data sources as well as SaaS… Continue reading Extract Data and Load using Azure Data Factory
The cloud is one of the biggest changes in our industry and it has impacted all of us. Cloud is the latest symptom of a general trend towards more open, collaborative ways of working where companies become much less self-sufficient “islands” of activities than they were in the bygones. From my point of view, businesses… Continue reading Azure Automation – Working with ARM
Overview In today’s web development, it is pretty common practice to load data using WebApi / Rest based service from Client side script (Jquery/AngularJS). There is no issue when consumer web application and rest/api services are hosted in the same domain, but when web-based applications are trying to load data from a domain which is… Continue reading Cross Domain API Access using JQuery and JSONP
Data taps are one of the great significant features in SQL Server in the Data analysis during runtime. In a nutshell, they enable us, at runtime, to choose a given path from a data flow and capture a copy of the data at that specific point of the data flow in a .csv file on… Continue reading An Insight into Data Tap in SQL Server
SharePoint Server 2013 brings a significant advancement to Workflow: enterprise features such as fully declarative authoring, REST and Service Bus messaging, elastic scalability, and managed service reliability. SharePoint Server 2013 can use a new workflow service built on the Windows Workflow Foundation components of the .NET Framework 4.5. This new service is called Workflow Manager… Continue reading Creating subsites and change master page using REST API from SharePoint Designer Workflow