Blogs

Exchanging messages between devices and services.

In this post I will provide few example which shows how to exchange messages between devices and service. In all examples, we will assume that service is implemented in .NET for Windows System32 (today known as desktop) and device is implemented in .NET...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 10-08-2013

Filed under: cloud, azure, windows azure, Windows, ServiceBus, Apps and Devices

Working With DateTime, WebApi and Windows Store Apps

Every time when some new technology wave appears, there is at least one same thing which makes me crazy. My pain is called “DateTime”. Although we know how to deal with DateTime, it seems still to be unsolvable issue. In year 2007 we learned that...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 10-03-2013

Filed under: cloud, azure, windows azure, Integration

Windows Store App does not pass certification test due to long file path?!

When deploying your app it can happen that you want to publish the update of the app, but certification/publishing fails due the length of the name of some assembly. This happened to as after we implemented support for notification hubs. That means...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 10-02-2013

Filed under: METRO, Windows, Apps and Devices

Page Transition between with JQuery Mobile and Knockout.js

If you are fan of jQuery mobile and Knockout , you have probably noticed that page transition is a true issue. If you want to understand why, you can try here and here and many, many other. All very nice articles, which obviously explaining some...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 10-01-2013

Filed under: Asp.Net, knockout, jQuery

SharePoint Update Hell

Hey guys, everyone of you who is working with sharepoint have seen the following scenario. You install a patches on the servers (WFE/APP) and when running the ConfigurationWizard on one of them you will get the following error: "HotFix xy is missing...

Posted to Nadine's Posts by Nadine Storandt on 09-26-2013

Filed under: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

Windows Azure WebSites Error:Could not load file or assembly 'DotNetOpenAuth.Core

When trying to deploy Windows Azure Web Site you might get following error: Server Error in '/' Application. Could not load file or assembly 'DotNetOpenAuth.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2780ccd10d57b246' or one...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 09-26-2013

Filed under: Asp.Net, cloud, azure, windows azure

How to send toast notification to Windows Phone?

Right now, there are 3 ways to send notifications to Windows Phone. 1. Native Notification by using MPNS ( Microsoft Push Notification Service , team blog ) 2. Windows Azure Mobile Services 3. Windows Azure notification hubs . In this post I will describe...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 09-24-2013

Filed under: cloud, azure, Windows Phone, WindowsPhone, windows azure, Windows

Maximal value of SharedAccessExpiryTime

When working with Shared Access Signatures of Table Storage, there is a property SharedAccessExpiryTime. Sometimes I do not want to use original access keys and want to use Share Access Signature instead. But, the question is what is the maximal allowed...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 09-24-2013

Filed under: cloud, azure, windows azure

Announcing “Windows Azure Notification Hubs” session on Mobility Day 2013

Cross-Platform Push Notifications Windows Azure Notification Hubs is a new cloud service which enables you push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows and Windows Phone with few lines of code. Notification Hubs is the service build on top of Windows Azure...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 09-20-2013

Filed under: cloud, windows azure, ServiceBus

Problems with WebApi, Multipart Content Upload and boundary quotes

From time to time you will probably have a requirement to simply upload some file to some remote system by using HTTP. Assuming that you are .NET developer you will probably peak HttpClient library which is a client implementation of WebApi . As long...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 09-10-2013

Filed under: Asp.Net

New Windows azure updates for Distributed Systems and other Developers

Today Microsoft shipped a new bucket of updates and new preview features in Windows Azure platform. Shortly, following services have been refreshed: Dedicated Cache Service: Announcing the preview of our new distributed, dedicated, high performance...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 09-03-2013

Filed under: azure, AppFabric, windows azure

Windows Store App fail on create/publish package

When working with multiple languages in Windows Store Apps you might be surprised if your 100% by Windows Application Certification Kit (WACK) certified application cannot be published to the store. The application work and it is successfully validated...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 08-27-2013

Filed under: Windows

Why Workflow Manager 1.0 and Service Bus 1.0 do not show up in Platform Installer

If you have noticed that the Workflow Manager 1.0 and Service Bus Server 1.0 do nor show up in the Web Platform Installer you should check few things. Following picture shows that Cumulative Update, WF-Tools and WF-clients are listed in WPI, but workflow...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 08-22-2013

Filed under: Workflow, ServiceBus, Workflow Manager

How to programmatically manage Service bus notification hubs?

If you want to manage Hubs programmatically then you need Windows azure Service Bus client 2.1.2.0 (or higher) which can be downloaded here . This API contains a new *Description entity called NotificationHubDescription . Remember we have TopicDescription...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 08-16-2013

Very slow startup of AppFabric Distributed Cache Service

When working with AppFabric Distributed cache v1.1 (v1.0 does not have this issue) you might experience bad service startup performance. Sometimes you need to simply restart the service or even to reboot the machine. In both cases service will start up...

Posted to Damir Dobric Posts by Damir Dobric on 08-13-2013

TAGS

BLOGS