Building and Managing Microservices Applications with Azure Service Fabric

In recent times, more and more organizations are moving their applications and infrastructure to the cloud. The flexibility that cloud-based applications have provided to businesses has, in turn, made them want more. No business likes to have its website down for the maintenance, not even for a few minutes. The websites crashing on a Black… Continue reading Building and Managing Microservices Applications with Azure Service Fabric

Why Coded UI is a Smart Choice in Test Automation?

Coded UI Test (CUIT) is a relatively new automation tool supported by high-level programming languages such as C# and Visual Basic .NET. Find out why Coded UI is a Smart Choice in Test Automation • Software testers and Developers can work using the same tools/language, which enables them to collaborate effectively.• The Coded UI automation… Continue reading Why Coded UI is a Smart Choice in Test Automation?

SharePoint Online does not render svg images and html files – How to overcome this?

Problem Description: SharePoint On-premises versions do render .svg and .html files on the browser without any issues (of course with the additional configuration of allowing these MIME types from SharePoint Central Administration). It’s just a minute’s job to create an HTML file in SharePoint On-premises and even, we can embed a good number of controls… Continue reading SharePoint Online does not render svg images and html files – How to overcome this?

Powering your Business with Microsoft Azure

In the technology services industry, we love to talk about all the business benefits of moving to the cloud. Though, in the bygones, the conversation was merely about consolidation and costs. With IT budgets still a driving force; today, the talks have been shifted to the practical benefits that cloud computing can bring: affordability, flexibility,… Continue reading Powering your Business with Microsoft Azure

SharePoint 2013 Client-side rendering

Client-side rendering (JS Link) You can use it to style complete List Views, Fields, Search Results and more. This makes it a lot simpler and more intuitive, especially for web developers who haven’t used SharePoint before.JSLink files have the ability to quickly and easily change how the list views and forms are rendered.More specifically how… Continue reading SharePoint 2013 Client-side rendering

Azure IoT Hub – Connecting your Device to the Cloud

One of the biggest challenges facing IoT projects is how to reliably and securely connect devices to the solution back end to enable the device to send telemetry and retrieve commands. IoT devices have different characteristics as compared to other clients such as browsers and mobile apps. IoT devices: • Are often embedded systems with… Continue reading Azure IoT Hub – Connecting your Device to the Cloud

SharePoint Server 2016 Features

Microsoft has announced the general availability of SharePoint Server 2016, which provides SharePoint customers a foundation for modern, intelligent intranets and content collaboration. SharePoint Server 2016 delivers foundational improvements that enhance the quality of your on-premises SharePoint solutions and enable users to take advantage of innovations that the company introduces to Office 365 and SharePoint Server moving… Continue reading SharePoint Server 2016 Features

Microsoft Snaps Up Solair to Boost Azure IoT Portfolio

It is no surprise to me that the acquisition of Solair by Microsoft is the latest in a string of moves by the company to bolster its position in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) space. As a matter of fact, Microsoft has always focused on burgeoning areas of technology that hold great potential to… Continue reading Microsoft Snaps Up Solair to Boost Azure IoT Portfolio

‘Centennial’ Tool for Moving Legacy Apps to Windows Store Unveiled

One of the most exciting announcements of Microsoft’s Build Conference 2016 is that the company has now unveiled the ‘Centennial’ desktop app converter. Thedesktop app converter tool will help developers to convert classic desktop applications to packaged UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps for Windows 10 and then extend them with unique Windows 10/UWP features. Desktop… Continue reading ‘Centennial’ Tool for Moving Legacy Apps to Windows Store Unveiled

Entity Framework 7- A Major Redesign of Entity Framework

EF (Entity Framework) is Microsoft’s flagship data access platform — an extended ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that abstracts the calls to the ADO.Net data access provider underneath. The latest version of this ORM is Entity Framework 7. EF 7 is an extensible and lightweight version of Entity Framework that enables support for new platforms and… Continue reading Entity Framework 7- A Major Redesign of Entity Framework