Quick note: Below case only affects developers using VS2015 (only) and AzureSDK for .NET - v2.8.2 seems to fix the problem. Link: Azure SDK for .NET v2.8.2 Many of you are using Azure Mobile Service as your service back-end for the mobile device applications. It has…
Recently started playing with XAMARIN and working on related stuffs. I created a Xamarin.Forms Shared application, which creates an [ApplicationName].Droid and [ApplicationName].iOS project along with [ApplicationName] shared project. To work further on the images, I replaced the default XAMARIN icon image which is added in [ApplicationName].Droid\…
Windows 10 says "Hello World" starting on 29th July, 2015. It is in the buzz since few months now and topping the charts everywhere on the release day and since then. I am sure most of you are now using brand new OS release from Microsoft - Windows 10. Reading…
While I was working on some code today and found that some NuGet packages where out of date. So I went to update tab in Manage NuGet packages window and updated all of them. MySql.Data package (not important which package, just an example) was also updated in that from…
Did you encountered following exception / error when trying to run ASP.NET MVC web application? The view must derive from WebViewPage, or WebViewPage or Type 'ASP._Page_Views__ViewStart_cshtml' does not inherit from 'System.Web.WebPages.StartPage'. I encountered while I was playing with MVC 5 (applies to MVC…
Small footprint Windows Server Images is not a myth anymore. Few weeks back Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Nano Server preview coming out as part of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2. Nano Server as they call at the moment is a re-engineered, small footprint, hosting oriented, command-line only,…
Pretty exciting times for all developers. Microsoft is changing the course on how you can build application and not worry what platform you choose to achieve that. Every few months and at sessions / conference we see Microsoft teams making Frameworks, Libraries and Tools open source. As "No one is left…
Note: [Deprecated Content] This was written while ASP.NET and .NET Core was in beta (around beta5 or beta6). Since then a lot of stuffs have changed and moved around. Stuffs described below may or may not be true for current stable releases of ASP.NET Core - Configuration feature.…
