Error Installing ASP.NET MVC 4 with Web Platform Installer

I’m starting this post with a rant. Here it goes. Web Platform Installer has got to be the most pathetic piece of crap ever produced by Microsoft. It just does … Continue Reading →

WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed.

After installing Windows Azure SDK and Visual Studio tools November 2011, I got this error when compiling an existing Cloud project. WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please … Continue Reading →

Google Shortener API For .NET Written In C#

Google Shortener is a service provided by Google to create short URLs. Google Shortener has been available for some time now but only recently Google released a public API to … Continue Reading →

Binary Attachments In WCF With MTOM

MTOM which stands for Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism is a W3C Recommendation which is mostly about reducing the size of binary data when transferred through SOAP web services. Binary data … Continue Reading →

Working With SQL Server HierarchyId Data Type In .NET Application

Recently I was working with some hierarchical data stored in SQL Server. The data was related to products where each product is a package which includes other packages which in … Continue Reading →

Use LINQPad To Query Entity Framework

LINQPad is a must have tool for all .NET developers who write LINQ queries. It allows you to write and execute LINQ queries without compiling your code. In this post … Continue Reading →

Generate SQL Server Database From Entity Data Model

In an earlier post we looked at how to generate an Entity Data Model using Visual Studio 2010. The data model we created was not generated from a database. This … Continue Reading →

Creating Entity Data Model Without A Database With Entity Framework 4

This article shows you how to generate an Entity Data Model for Entity Framework 4 using Visual Studio 2010. Entity Data Model is widely known by its acronym EDM. A … Continue Reading →

Could Not Create SSL/TSL Secure Channel Solution

Could Not Create SSL/TLS Secure Channel is an error you my get when communicating with web services in a two way SSL scenario from ASP.NET application. Here is a guide … Continue Reading →

Easiest Way to Generate Connection String And Verify Database Connectivity

There are two things which I as a consultant / developer come across many times. One is verifying connectivity to a database which is often a cause of production issues … Continue Reading →

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