Completed 725 blog post and still counting

I’m not a fan of counting milestones but today it was huge one so I could not resist myself to write a blog post about it. Today this blog has been completed 725 Blog post.

I still could not believe this blog has come so far!. This will would not have been possible without you guys.

I promise that I try to keep updated this blog in weekly.  Also on this occasion I would also like to thank my family. Specially my wife who is continuously supporting me and sacrifice her time for my blog post.

Thanks you all again! . Also today I have changed my blog theme to a modern look. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more. Keep reading my blog. 

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Double quotes not working with Visual Studio

Recently, In one of the development machine with Windows 7, I was having strange problem with Visual Studio 2013, When I type double quote first time it was not there and then after once again type I type then it was there. I was wondering what is going on. After digging into little deep, We figure out it was due to language settings and that is creating problem. After fixing languages I was able to fix this issue. I thought it will be good idea to write a blog post about it. So other can be benefits also.

So problem I was having is I have to type double quotes two times. To fix that problem first thing you need to do is Goto  control panel-> region and language options. There you need to go to Keyboard tab. In windows 8.1 Go to search and search for language preferences.

Once you go to language preferences select English US Keyboard. Set that as default.
Now once you are done with your control panel settings. It’s time to make settings changes in Visual Studio. To Change the settings in visual studio go to Tools –> Options –> Environment Settings –> International Settings.

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Visual Studio 2015 Github tools

I love open source and that’s why I’m making all the source code of my blog post on Github. Now with Visual studio 2015 RC Microsoft and Github released a GitHub tools for visual studio. So now you can directly interact with your Github repositories from team explorer itself. Working with Github never be easy now.

Once you install, Github tools for Visual studio with visual studio 2015 installation. It will be available on Team explorer like below.

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My sample code for 2015 Global Azure Bootcamp Ahmedabad

Lots of people ask for my sample code application for my presentation on “Azure Storage Services”.  So here is source code(Sample application) for 2015 Global Azure Bootcamp, Ahmedabad.

Source code of sample application for  2015 Global Azure Bootcamp , Ahmedabad:

You can find source of sample application which I have created at following location on GitHub.
https://github.com/dotnetjalps/GlobalAzureBootcampDemo

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Azure Frequently Ask Questions: How to create a storage account with new portal

After presenting About Azure Storage Services at Global Windows Azure boot camp at Ahmedabad. I got lot of feedback and questions. One of the frequently asked question was how we can create a storage account with new Azure portal Preview. So I thought it would be a great idea to write a walk through post for it.

As you know, Before few months Microsoft has launched a new Azure portal in preview mode. It’s amazing there are lots of features available. You can find azure portal at portal.azure.com. You can do lots of stuff and monitoring that were not possible with current portal. I've tried and really like it. Please do try it and tell community about your feedback.

How to create a storage account with new azure portal:

So what we are waiting for let’s start our walk through of creating a storage account with new portal. So once you put url in browser it will be ask for login with your azure live account.

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Structure and Operator overloading in C#

Recently I have been playing with structure and It’s fun. In this blog post we are going to learn how we can use operator overloading with structure in C#.  You can find my blog post that I have already written about structure  at following location.

Structure in C#
Structure with constructor in C#
Structure with Interface in C#

So as usual I've created a console application to demonstrate operator overloading in C#. Here I have created a structure with equals operator overloading and following is a code for that.

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Structure with Interface in C#

Recently I have been playing with Structure and it is fun. I have written couple of blog post about structure. Following are links for that.

Structure in C#
Structure with constructor in C#

In this blog post we are going to learn how we can use structure with interface. So like earlier example I’ve created a console application. Now it’s time to write interface which we can implement with structure. Following is a code for that.

using System;

namespace StructureWithMethodAndInterface
{
    interface IPrintable
    {
        void Print();
    }
}

Here you can see that I have simple interface IPrintable which has simple print method. Now let’s create a structure which implement this interface. Following is a code for that.

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Structure with constructor in C#

Before some time , I have written basic introduction post about Structure in C#. In this blog post we are going to see how we can have constructor with Structure. As we all know structure is a value type so it stored on stack. So let’s create a structure like follow with constructor.

public struct Customer
{
    #region Fields

    public int CustomerId;
    public string FirstName;
    public string LastName;

    #endregion 

    #region Constructor

    public Customer(int customerId, string firstName, string lastName)
    {
        CustomerId = customerId;
        FirstName = firstName;
        LastName = lastName;
    }

    #endregion
}

Here you can see I have created Stucture with parameter. As we all know structure is a value type so when initialize the it at that time we need to give values to its elements so that’s why default constructor without parameter is not supported in C#.

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Structure in c#

In this blog post we are going to learn about Structure Data structure in C#. In C# Structure is value type which stores on Stack. It is a composite value type that contain other types. You can also create object of structure like class. In C# structure can  contains fields, properties, constants, constructors, properties, Indexers, operators and even other structure types.

So enough theory. Let’s create a sample console application to learn about structure.

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Entity Framework Code First and MySql on Azure

We have used Entity framework with SQL Servers mostly. In this blog post we are going to see how we can use Entity framework with MySql on Azure.

How to create MySql database on Azure:

On azure MySql is not maintained by Microsoft itself. It is provided their partner cleardb. So You need to search at Azure Market Place and then add it like below.

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