April 2011 - Posts

• SQL Azure Migration Wizard Tool

  The SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is an open source tool at CodePlex that can help you migrate your SQL Server database to SQL Azure.The SQL Azure Migration Wizard tools will help you analyze your SQL Server database for compatibility issues and will migrate your schema and data to SQL Azure. Check out the SQLAzureMW tool from http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/. the SQLAzureMW tool can use to migrate the data between the following Sql Server to Sql Azure Sql Azure to Sql Server Sql Azure to Sql Azure The below screen shot shows the start UI of the SQLAzureMW tool Posted Apr 29 2011, 06:28 AM by Shiju Varghese's Blog Filed under: .Net, Azure

• Speaking at Windows Azure Camp

  I will be speaking at Windows Azure Camp, at Trivandrum on on April 30, 2011. In my session, I will be create a Windows Azure Web Role App using ASP.NET MVC and EF Code Fist and will deploy this app to Windows Azure. This session will also cover the Windows Azure AppFabric caching. The event details available from here.  Posted Apr 28 2011, 11:11 AM by Shiju Varghese's Blog Filed under: ASP.NET MVC, Community News, Entity Framework, Azure

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

  Microsoft has released a new update for ASP.NET MVC 3 named  ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update won’t update the MVC 3 runtime and it  only updates the tooling for ASP.NET MVC 3. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update is also includes the NuGet 1.2 version. You can download the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update from here. Changes in ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update New Intranet Project Template for  Windows Authentication. HTML 5 checkbox to enable HTML 5 versions of project templates. "Add Controller" dialog box can now scaffold controllers with views and data access code. Project templates now include Modernizr 1.7 Project templates include updated versions of jQuery (jQuery 1.5.1), jQuery UI (jQuery UI 1.8.11), and jQuery Validation (jQuery Validation 1.8) . Project templates now include ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 as a pre-installed NuGet package. Project templates include JavaScript libraries as pre-installed NuGet packages. The below screen shot shows the new ASP.NET MVC 3 project dialog box The below screen shot shows the new add controller dialog box Posted Apr 13 2011, 10:02 AM by Shiju Varghese's Blog Filed under: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, .Net, ASP.NET MVC 3

• Entity Framework 4.1 RTW Released

  Microsoft ADO.NET team has announced the final Release to Web (RTW) of of Entity Framework 4.1. You can download the  Entity Framework 4.1 from here or you can use NuGet to get final version of Entity Framework 4.1. Demo App for Entity Framework 4.1 Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3 You can download my demo web app at CodePlex for demonstrating  Entity Framework 4.1 Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3. The demo app also provides generic repository and unit of work pattern for Entity Framework 4.1 Code First. Posted Apr 12 2011, 01:05 PM by Shiju Varghese's Blog Filed under: Entity Framework, .Net