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WIF:-Customising the WCF Token Service template for Custom Authentication

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:54:22 +0000

Installing the Windows Identity Foundation SDK installs a set of templates into VS2008/VS2010. Two of these templates are for creating Custom Security Token Services. Out of these the ASP.NET Security Token Service is a template for a Passive Federation STS and the WCF Security TokenService is a template for an Active FederationSTS.

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WIF:-Customising the WCF Token Service template for Custom Authentication

My first Razor (ASP.NET WebPages) based app in WebMatrix

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:02:41 +0000

If you are following Scott Gu’s Blog or simply the ASP.NET Community, you would have definitely heard about WebMatrix and the Razor view engine. More specifically you must have heard of something known as “ASP.NET WebPages” The ASP.NET WebPages, Razor Engine as well as WebMatrix can definitely be confusing for many who have been into ASP.NET Development for sometime now. Clearly, this is not for you, if you are hard core ASP.NET Web Developer and are happy with either Webforms or MVC based development.

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My first Razor (ASP.NET WebPages) based app in WebMatrix

Billion Hearts Beating–Take the pledge…after all, you have only heart !

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:52:21 +0000

Yes, this is an unusual post on the strictly technical blog. But what I loved about the Billion Hearts Beating campaign is that, it addresses something close to my heart – literally. One of the common causes of death in the middle age group 30 – 50 (middle at least by Indian norms ) is cardiac arrest. I have seen this happen more often than not for people whom I would have, in my weirdest dreams, imagined of. You don’t have to be a chain smoker, alcoholic to get cardio arrest. You can be a teetotaler, non smoker. But if you are not health conscious, cannot avoid that Mal Pua/Jalebi/Rasagulla (Indian Sweets), you will be surprised, you might well be in the path Another reason I wanted to write about this, is to also give ME the awareness. Like I mentioned earlier, I am a non-smoker, teetotaler and don’t even eat non-vegetarian. But can you imagine that over the last 3-4 years, I have literally stopped playing games/working out and that has resulted in way too much extra pounds

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Billion Hearts Beating–Take the pledge…after all, you have only heart !

What’s New in the YUI 3.2.0 Preview Release?

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:19:47 +0000

The Yahoo User Interface (YUI) dev team recently announced a developer preview of the upcoming 3.2.0 version of the YUI JavaScript and CSS library. While many developers (including myself) more often reach for jQuery when doing JavaScript development, YUI remains an interesting alternative; these new features in the 3.2.0 preview might make it worth checking out. It’s an extensive update with a slew of new offerings, so I’ll only cover the most salient ones here

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What’s New in the YUI 3.2.0 Preview Release?

Creating and running VS 2010 Web Application Projects and Web Sites on IIS instead of the default Cassini web server

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:30:17 +0000

One of the clear changes in Visual Studio from Visual Studio 2005, is the dependency of VS on IIS for creating websites/web applications. In VS 2005 until its SP1 you only had the choice to create Websites that use the local cassini web server for development purposes. The Web Application Projects allows you to create the legacy style of project based sites which can run on IIS.

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Creating and running VS 2010 Web Application Projects and Web Sites on IIS instead of the default Cassini web server

Error Connecting to SQL Azure from Management Studio (Microsoft SQL Server, Error:53)

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:22:19 +0000

If you are receiving an error trying to connect to SQL Azure from Management Studio (SQL Server 2008 R2) and the error code indicates Error:53, most likely you are running into the following issue. Note that, the rest of the post assumes that you have the proper server name / credentials and have configured your IP Address range in the SQL Azure administration portal. The above error clearly indicates that the connection couldn’t be opened. One of my colleagues faced this issue and we were pretty sure we had the correct username/password. We also had enabled IP Address from the https://sql.azure.com portal, so that shouldn’t be the cause

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Updated Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 available

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:24:22 +0000

Since the commerical availability of Windows Azure, there were a few releases of Windows Azure tools for Visual Studio that had shipped. Now, there is an updated version of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio available. It is available as Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 (June 2010) and can be downloaded from here This includes support for Visual Studio 2010 RTM as well as Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Other features include Cloud Storage Explorer, .NET 4 support and few other new things as explained in the download page.

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RIA Services and Authentication – Part 2 (Using Roles)

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:12:20 +0000

When I posted my RIA Services and Authentication post earlier in the week (which I highly recommend checking out first if you haven’t), the first comments/tweets I saw indicated people also want to see roles working in the application. So I decided to add this bit of functionality, both in the Book Club application and the supporting functionality in the RIAEssentials framework, so you can use it easily in your own applications as well

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Tips To Start With A Web Development Project

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:07:25 +0000

Starting a new web development project is not a cakewalk. Instead, it is a grueling task, as it involves a number of complex issues that can only make sense to an experienced web developer. Before proceeding further with a new web development project, you need to have a fair idea of the exact requirements of the project otherwise; the entire effort might come to a sudden halt.

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Tips To Start With A Web Development Project

ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery and AJAX Control Toolkit–the roadmap

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:21:13 +0000

The opinions mentioned herein are solely mine and do not reflect those of my employer Wanted to post this for a long time but couldn’t. I have been an ASP.NET Developer for quite sometime and have worked with version 1.1, 2.0, 3.5 as well as the latest 4.0. With ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, came the era of AJAX and rich UI style web applications. So, ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed “ATLAS”) was released almost an year later. This was called as ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. This release was supported further with Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1.

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