Developer Conference 2011 by Kolkata Geeks

              Those who missed the developer conference 2011 by Kolkata Geeks, this blog is for them. I tried to communicate all of my friends, colleagues, students and corporate clients. Some of them attained, but not all of them. I feel, due to different other prgrams/assignments attaining this kind of sessions takes a backseat.

             

Comparison of Visual Studio 2010 Tools from MS

Visual Studio 2010 has got different versions with different services. Before downloading and installing please compare the versions. The details is mentioned very properly on the following link.....



http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/product-comparison


Students surely can work with the free versions. 

A Free Workshop on Cloud Computing

Dear All,

   A free cloud computing workshop is there on 27th October, 2011. If you are interested, visit the following link
http://www.cloudcomputinglive.com/india/ 

Wanna work with Windows Azure

Microsoft hears the voice of developers and thinks about developers pain (My Faith).

Windows Azure became a famous platform to develop and maintain Cloud Computing. So, if you are really interested with that just check the following links.

It provides 3 kinds of services to you. They are,

   Windows Azure:  Operating system as a service
   Microsoft SQL Azure: Fully relational database in the cloud
   Windows Azure platform AppFabric: A fantastic environment which provides hosted authentication and access control using powerful, secure, standards-based infrastructure. 

The following link might be beneficial for you. Check and Enjoy.....

       http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Azure/ (A good offline training kit is available from MS)
      http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/azure.aspx?tab=videos (Download Lectures directly from
MS)

.....................Hope you enjoyed....

Happy Cloud Computing...................
      

Handling Stored Procedure with C# and SQL Server

See, stored procedure in DB means storing small database handlers into DB directly. This ensures two things, 1. Make the retrieval/insertion/any db operation faster; 2. security of SQL.

At this stage we do not want to write any SQL inline (means not within C# Code). Now the question is how to write stored procs in SQL Server? How to call the proc from within your code?

Reading RSS Feed from C# Code

Recently I am getting a request from students and my corporate clients to read RSS feeds from different sites. Yes. To serve recent client's requirement this is extreamly important. So, planned and finally writing this blog for you.

Reading RSS feed is very easy with C#. You basically need to use System.XML namespace to read the feeds.

Just browse the following link and download the code.....AND THEN???????

Ctrl + C AND Ctrl + V.....Hah.

1. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/ReadForSpeed.aspx (A typical C# Desktop Application)

2. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=194 (If you do not have a clear idea about XML, RSS etc.)

Please keep on visiting this blog..... I am going to put some more interesting links very shortly....