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Exclusive Amazon Deals In one of the recent announcements, Microsoft has changed the name of ASP.Net 5 and .Net Core 5. Official blog post says: However, naming the new, completely written from scratch ASP.NET framework "ASP.NET 5" was a bad idea for a one major reason: 5 > 4.6 makes it seem like ASP.NET 5 is bigger, better, and replaces ASP.NET 4.6. Not so. So we're changing the name and picking a better version number. ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0. NET Core 5 is now .NET Core 1.0. Entity Framework 7 is now Entity Framework Core 1.0 or EF Core 1.0 colloquially.   

Exclusive Amazon Deals Few days back I downloaded Update 1 of Visual Studio 2015 using VS2015 Extensions. It ran quickly but in the end it reported that .Net Framework 4.6.1 RC had not been installed. On restart and installation, it was successfully installed. But when I tried to open and run my already created ASP.NET application, I landed up with another issue. Visual Studio 2015 was not able to launch IIS Express. This was not an end. I noticed another strange thing. Although my installation was successful, Extension's dialog was still showing that Update 1 is available. Now I was left with only one option – uninstall and reinstall Visual Studio 2015. So, I went to control panel and selected Visual Studio Enterprise. As soon as I clicked on that, a notification popped up:               I clicked on Update and noticed that check box provided for VS 2015 Update 1 was still unchecked in the newly opened window as shown below:          

Setting context Those who are using Windows 8 or later are already aware about apps available in Windows store. Those apps can be can be installed on Phone, Surface , PC, HoLoLens and other devices having Windows operation system. Few of them are free and remaining ones are paid. One needs an internet connection to get these apps on devices. Now question is, is just by having an internet connection brings an app to our devices? What if you are in some enterprise network? In that case, in spite of having an internet connection, you may not be able to download an app from Windows Store. And the very well-known reason for this is organization’s FIREWALL L . As you are protected by your enterprise firewall, you may not be able to download the required app from Windows Store. Now question is how to get the required app. To get rid of this shortcoming, Microsoft came up with a new store called Business Store for Windows 10. Those who all have attended Build 2015 may already aware of it

In one of the recently made announcements, Microsoft decided to end support for few of the .Net frameworks .Net 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1 on January 12, 2016. Apart from these, rest of the frameworks will still be supported till further notice. If your application is using any of these mentioned versions then you can run those applications on the later .Net framework because those have compatibility using quirking. More information of .Net framework migration can be found here .

I received a very wonderful gift from C# corner on the occasion of New Year :) Yes, I received yet another MVP award for the consecutive 2 nd time. More

As most of us are aware that there can be 3 return types of the method marked as Async. Task Task<T> void When any Async method has return type as void, it means not to return anything. In case of synchronous, this is fine. But situations become difficult when it comes to asynchronous operations. While dealing with asynchronous operations, void behaves like ‘fire and forget’. It means whatever happens, but do not let caller know anything. So, it means, caller will not at all aware about the operation stage, whether it is successful or unsuccessful. As data type is void, method will not even propagate exceptions, which can be very harmful in some cases. So, always use the word void with caution. If you don’t want your Async method to return anything, then also one should prefer to use return type as Task so that at least exceptions will be propagated to the caller.

What is CDN? CDN is short for Content Delivery Network. A CDN in simple terms is a collection of servers that are spread across the globe. In other words, a CDN is a network of servers in which each request will go to the closest server. Why Do We Need CDN? For any web application, data can be categorized into either static or dynamic content. Dynamic content is the one which generally comes from a database. Static content is the one like CSS, images, JavaScript, flash files, video files, etc. Now one may ask, how are requests served when a user enters an URL in the browser? Interesting… let’s take a look at it. Before knowing a CDN and its usage, it is very important to understand this process. How is a Web Page Served? When a client requests any URL, let’s say www.google.com in the browser, there is a server configured to listen to any request that comes in for www.google.com . A server in turn performs some computations and sends raw HTML back to the client. Raw HTML

Recently I came across a requirement in which I was supposed to data bind a command from my viewModel to an event. In other words, my code-behind was not supposed to contain any code related to event handlers of a control. After digging more into Prism, luckily I found my answer. Above requirement can be achieved using InvokeCommandAction provided in Prism 5.0. Well, so my article will elaborate more on how to achieve this. InvokeCommandAction InvokeCommandAction consents us to invoke ICommand implementation on our viewModel to an event that exist on our control. It basically means, we are no longer bound or required to have a command property on a control in order to invoke a command. Now, you may say you have seen this similar thing before. And you are right because Blend SDK ships one. But the InvokeCommandAction which Prism provides is little bit different in two ways: First, it manages the state of the element. It updates the enable state of the control that is att

Microsoft just announced that soon we will be able to make voice and video calls from our web browser. This Skype for Web (beta) calls will work on Firefox, Safari, Chrome and of course IE. As of now, it will work as a plugin but soon it will work natively on all browsers without plugins. So, are you excited to try this out ???

Yes, its true. Soon Microsoft is about to reveal its own Lumia having 5-inch display, 1.2 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage and 3G-only connectivity. First look of this Lumia is already out: More info