My team was facing acute errors just about the delivery time. We approached MS India, freelancers, topic expects but so solution. In our case, I found out that this was a local environment issue rather than a generic issue which is why no one had any solution. Environment: SharePoint 2010 Issue: we were getting error while creating a new site from a site template we had created. Our deliverable to the client was a site template. Our resolution (steps): 1. Create a new “site template” without content....

Available immediately from Code Gallery, download the Windows Azure MMC. The Windows Azure Management Tool was created to manage your storage accounts in Windows Azure and makes it simple to help debug, create, and explore your storage solutions. In our testing, this tool has been invaluable to us to inspect messages in our queues. debug, create, explore… Developed as a managed MMC, the tool allows you to create and manage both blobs and queues. Easily create and manage containers, blobs, and permissions....

Have you read or experimented with Azure yet? Business wise this is a fantastic approach from Microsoft for the way they want to sell Azure platform. Pricing, SLA and commercial version are yet to be made available by Microsoft but it’s worthwhile looking at it in its current form. For developers… here are some resources: What is Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/az... Demos and samples: Updated MMC for .Net Services: http://code.msdn.microsoft.... Windows Azure...

I use webcast as one of primary source of information to upgrade myself. Its rapid action upgradation (RAU) for you You can easily upgrade yourself to .Net technologies if you are aware of any object oriented language. Upgrading to C# would be easiest for JAVA professionals. One excellent collection of .Net webcast series is at: http://www.pluralsight.com/... .Net Framework 3.0 webcast series: http://www.microsoft.com/ev... Modern Software Development...

Be ready for new wave of Microsoft technologies and products. Few are already released and rest will follow in the next few months. Below are some of major releases from Microsoft. Click on links below for more information: .Net 3.5 o WCF, WPF, WWF o ASP.Net § ASP (.Net 3.0) - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/... Check below blogs for “what is .Net 3.5” § http://www.danielmoth.com/B... § http://www.danielmoth.com/B...

Everyone working in Rich Internet/Interactive Application (RIA) must look at Silverlight. Web application are really getting richer. Once this is released, you may not need flash component for many things. Silverlight is a lightweight component/app for web extended from WPF. To run a Silverlight application - In addition to server installation, you will need client side installation of Silverlight plugin for the browser. Browser will prompt for installing "Silverlight" if your browse do not have...

There are many vendors who develop such tools. Below are two leaders in this domain that i know: 1. NDoc (Recommended my Microsoft) http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/ - NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler - NDoc uses pluggable documenters to generate documentation in several different formats, including the MSDN-style HTML Help format (.chm), the Visual Studio .NET Help format (HTML Help 2), and MSDN-online style web...