How to convert PSD into image file in c# with Magick.NET

Recently in one of project we had a requirement of converting a Adobe Photoshop file (PSD) into image file(.png) file. After digging while on internet I have found a great library which has so many features in can easily convert PSD files into any time of image file.

The Library is Magick.NET. It’s a open source project you can find more information about it from the following codeplex link.
https://magick.codeplex.com/

There are lots of example available for image conversion and other image editing functions. You can find that about that on documentation.
https://magick.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Convert%20image

There are lots of NuGet package are available also. Following is a one of them.

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How to change a profile picture in Visual Studio 2013

With Visual Studio 2013, Microsoft has provided synchronized settings in visual studio 2013 with live account. So all you need to do is to login into your live account and then it will automatically sync the settings of Visual Studio 2013 in different machine. Recently one of the reader of blog has asked me question How I can change the Profile Pic on Visual Studio. So I thought it will be good Idea to write a blog post about it.

Here’s how you can change profile picture of Visual Studio live/outlook account. One you done with sign in with visual studio it will load default image with your firstname first character and last name character like below.



Now to change the account picture or profile picture click on name load a popup like following.

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Scope to this feature in Solution Explorer- Visual Studio

Visual Studio is one of my favourite IDE. I love more and more whenever I’m using it. Recently I have found a very good feature called “Scope to this” so I thought it will be a good idea to write a blog post about it.

This feature comes very handy when you have large solution and you want to work /Concentrate on the only portion of a solution. In solution you can select particular project/folder/file and right click and click on “Scope to this” Menu. It will scope your solution explorer to that particular item.

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Entity Framework code first and Inheritance–Table per hierarchy

Before some day I have posted a blog about Entity Framework code first and Inheritance – Table per type and this post in next in series with that.

In previous post we have learned about how entity framework code first handles inheritance and in this part we are going to extend this and modify some of code of the code of data context to see how its creates a “Table per Hierarchy”.

We’re going to use same code as previous post just going to change EDataContext code like below.

public class EDataContext : DbContext
{
    public EDataContext() : base("MyConnectionString") 
    { 
    }
    public IDbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }
    public IDbSet<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
    public IDbSet<Person> Persons { get; set; }
}

If you see this code carefully and compare is with previous post. The only difference is persons property. That will force Entity Framework to create a single table for inheritance hierarchy. Now we are going to run this application again and see how it creates table. It will create only one table like this.

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Entity framework code first and inheritance- Table Per Type

Also see part-2 of this blog post- Entity Framework code first and Inheritance–Table per hierarchy

Recently I am using Entity Framework a lot. So I tried some of advance scenario and this post related to it only. In this post we will learn how entity framework handles inheritance.

In object oriented world, We all use Inheritance for reusability. We create some base classes and inherit those in child classes to facilitate code reuse and we don’t have to write again and again. In this post we will also have same kind of methodology. We are going to create a “Person” class and inherit this in to Employee and Customer class and we are going to see how entity framework code first handles this kind of inheritance by default. I’m going to use entity framework version 6.0 and Visual Studio 2013.

So what we are waiting for. Let’s get started. So create a console application from file menu new project.



Once you are done with creating a application. It’s time to add entity framework via nuget package.

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Visual Studio 14 CTP virtual machine on Azure

Recently Microsoft has release a CTP version of Visual Studio 14 with ASP.NET VNext application. So I thought I will download and try it. But due to bad internet connection it was not downloading properly. Then I cam across following post about Visual Studio 14 CTP Virtual Machine on Azure.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/06/04/visual-studio-14-ctp-now-available-in-the-virtual-machine-azure-gallery.aspx

So I thought it’s a good idea to spin a virtual machine instead of downloading and installing that which would cost me a day. While on Azure I can set that virtual machine in minutes.

So Following are steps for creating a virtual machine in Azure.

How to Create a Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure with Visual Studio 14 CTP:

1) Login into your Microsoft Azure Account

2) From dashboard goto virtual machine and select Create Virtual Machine.

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One ASP.NET in Visual studio 2013

This post is part of Visual Studio 2013 features series.

Since first release of ASP.NETMVC 2009, There are lots of type of projects are available for ASP.NET and It’s always been confusion to find all the projects under one hood. So now developer has not to worry about whether I should use Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC and If I need some functionalities of ASP.NET MVC in web forms or anything then how it will work? How we should combine all those different project types?

Now that fuss for developer is over. With Visual Studio 2013 Microsoft has vision called One ASP.NET so when you create a web project there will be a single project in Web Category only.

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Video Review: Restful Services with ASP.NET Web API by Packt Publishing

If you enjoy seeing videos to learn thing this is the opportunity, Now  Packt publishing is also started providing video courses and tutorial. I’m lucky enough to get an opportunity to review this video and thanks again Sagar Malage and Packt publishing marketing team to providing me opportunity to review this video.

About Video Course:

Course Name : Restful services  with ASP.NET Web API by Packt Publishing.
Total Duration: 2 hours and 4 minutes.
Release Date: Wednesday February 26,2014.
Author: Fanie Reynders

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Visual Studio update 2 is here download now!!

10 days ago Microsoft has release Visual Studio 2013 update 2.  This update includes bug fixes as well as new features and customer feedbacks. Following are some new capabilities included in this updates.

Universal Apps:

With this release you now build Universal Apps that can run on Windows 8.1 and Windows phone 8.1 while sharing code and assets through shared projects.

There are two types of app available 1) Blank app as universal Project and Hub application for that. So now if you already developed the windows phone 8.1 app and want to create same app with windows 8.1 then you can do that very easily Add windows 8.1 and same way you can add windows phone 8.1 if you have already developed windows 8.1 via Add windows phone 8.1.

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.NET Framework 4.5.2 released by Microsoft

Microsoft has released .NET Framework 4.5.2 before some time see the announcement from It’s .NET Framework team blog. It’s a compatible, in-place update for Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0,4.5 and 4.5.1.  This framework also run side by side with earlier version of .NET framework.

From where I can download .NET Framework 4.5.2?

Following are link from where you can download .NET framework 4.5.2.

.NET framework web installer- Internet required at the time installation. It will download required file runtime.A Boots trapper that pulls in components based on the target OS/platform specs on which the .NET Framework is being deployed.

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