In this post we will look at Logical Operators in ADO.NET Data Services. These operators can be used as filter expressions in our requests and ADO.NET Data Services applies the filter before results are returned. We will use Data Services generated over Adventureworks Lite database. If you are new to ADO.NET Data Services and would [...]

Introduction
In an earlier article I looked at how DO.NET Data Services can be used with ASP.NET. In this post I will talk about using ADO.NET Data Services to retrieve data via SQL Server stored procedure. Doing this is simple and I will follow a similar approach to hook everything up as I did in my [...]

Riviera is a sample application for Windows Azure available on MSDN Code Gallery for download. Riviera has been developed by Platform Evangelism group in collaboration with Cumulx who are a Cloud ISV partner. Key features of Riviera are:

Multi-tenant data store based on Azure Table Storage as well as SQL Azure.
Per tenant customization of data model
Per [...]

Microsoft PDC 2009 site is now accepting registrations. PDC 2009 will run from 17th November to 19th November 2009 at Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles. Here is pricing information from PDC website.

I think in or around PDC 2009 we should see commercial launch of Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 and maybe [...]

Introduction
In this tutorial we will look at how ADO.NET Data Services can be used to create services which are consumed by ASP.NET client. We will use Adventure works Lite database as an example to demonstrate the concepts. Code for this article can be downloaded at the bottom of the article.
ADO.NET Data Services as the name [...]

I’ve been using Bing as my main search engine for sometime and I’m very happy with it. Within that plain search box lies a lot of power and many ways to search for information. Here I am sharing some of the ways I use Bing on daily bases. You may find these interesting and see [...]

As a web developer it is hard to ignore the popularity of JQuery. The issue however is that there are too many JQuery plugins available and at times it is hard to decide which one to chose. The Ultimate JQuery List is a fantastic web site which lists hundreds of JQuery plugins with examples.
This will [...]

 Much awaited Windows 7 went RTM today. Microsoft’s new Operating System is scheduled to be available to available to public around October 22. MSDN and TechNet subscribers will be able to download Windows 7 in next few weeks, most likely around August 6. Comparing to release of Vista this looks much more well executed. Windows [...]

Jim Nakashima has announced the availability of Windows Azure Tools and SDK July 2009 CTP. Here are the download links:

Windows Azure Tools For Visual Studio 2008 And Visual Studio 2010 (also includes the SDK).
Windows Azure SDK only.

 
Here is a list of new goodies in July 2009 CTP re-posted from this link. 
New for the July [...]

One of the things that you will notice when you open an Office 2010 application is that the orb has a new look. This is what the orb looks like in Word 2007

This look has slightly changed now. Here is the orb in Word 2010

The look has also changed when you click on [...]

Microsoft is interested in feedback from those who have access to Office 2010 Technical Preview. And they are asking for it in a nice way. When you install the Technical Preview, you will notice two icons in your Icon Tray.

Don’t they look cute? As you can see that there is a smile icon and [...]

Because of my karma and auspicious planetary alignments I got an email yesterday notifying me that I can access Technical Preview of Office 2010. Needless to say that I downloaded a 32bit edition immediately. This is a teaser post with screenshots of Office 2010 setup on Windows XP. Enjoy.

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