DocumentDB data in Visual Studio with cloud explorer

Recently, During Global Azure Boot camp presentation , One offline question was asked that how we can see and browse the data from DocumentDB. So I thought there will be lots of developers who might have the same question that where I can see data from DocumentDB in visual studio.

Yes you can see your DocumentDB data into visual studio. There is an extension called Cloud explorer from where you can browse all the services of Azure. With Visual Studio community edition its comes inbuilt But If you have not that installed then you can install via following steps.

How to install Cloud explorer in Visual Studio:

Open visual studio and go to Extensions and updates like below.

Once you click on that it open a window loading all the extensions select online and type cloud in the search box and you will able to see cloud explorer like below.



I have Cloud explorer installed in my Visual studio that’s its showing Green tick otherwise it will show download button there and you can download and install it.

You can also download manually from the following link.

For Visual Studio 2015:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/84e83a7c-9606-4f9f-83dd-0f6182f13add

For Visual Studio 2013:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d3896fc2-109b-4420-9c38-b6ab1cfa9fe5

How to use Cloud explorer to see data of DocumentDB:

One you are done with installing Cloud explorer, You can load that from View Menu-> Cloud explorer in Visual Studio. It will load like below.



Here I have already given my Azure Credentials If you have not given that it will ask for credentials and then will load this screen.

Here it will show the list of all services available for storage. To see what is there in our DocumentDB account click on DocumentDB Account.  It will show your account name lie below.



One you click on the database name it will show all the collection and record below.



One you select records(JSON documents) and right click. It asks for you to open in the editor like below.



Once you click on open editor, It will ask open that JSON document like below.



So you can see that it's very easy to browse data of DocumentDB in cloud explorer in Visual Studio itself. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more!.

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Visual Studio code 1.0 Released

Microsoft has released visual studio code on 1.0 version 14th April 2016. Those who have not used Visual Studio code, Visual studio code a is cross platform open source editor from Microsoft. It supports the variety of languages and you can do almost everything that you can do in an IDE. It also provides support for the debugging few languages.

In blog of Visual Studio Code, Microsoft says

Since our initial launch one year ago, 2 million developers have installed VS Code,” the Visual Studio Code team revealed. “Today, we’re excited to report that more than 500,000 developers actively use VS Code each month.

Image source: Visual Studio code blog.

There is some important milestone that Visual studio code is received like following.

• Visual studio code is now fully localizable and supports 9 languages
• Visual studio supports extensions and community has built more than 1000 extensions in such a sort span
• It now supports syntax highlighting and few more features for more than 100 languages.
• It got more than 300+ pull request on Github.

It will be interesting to see how Visual Studio Code move ahead. I have used it for many times and I am quite happy with it.

You can find more information about it at the following link.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs
https://www.thurrott.com/dev/66355/microsoft-delivers-visual-studio-code-1-0

If you have not used it then I recommend you to download this and try it from the following location.
https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more!

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Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 Ahmedabad–Awesome event recap

Yesterday, Ahmedabad User group has organized the Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 event. It was a fun to be there. The event was very well received and attended by the group of people excited about Azure cloud platform.  Thanks for hosting is Ahmedabad User Group.

Event Recap:

In the morning, Event is started around 10:00 am. Mahesh had made all attendees comfortable and given some insights about Azure platform.



After that, It was my time to present some. I have shared my knowledge about DocumentDB with my presentation about Introduction to DocumentDB.




There well lots of interest in the audience and we had lots of conversation about it. Here is the presentation link for the same.

Here was the agenda for my presentation.

• What is document databases?
• What is DocumentDB?
• Why we should use DocumentDB?
• How we can use DocumentDB?

You can also find demo code for the presentation at the following location.
https://github.com/dotnetjalps/gab16augdemo

Due to the huge interest in people, We promise them to have some advanced level sessions about DocumentDB in forthcoming months.

After that Jagdish has taken over the stage and had presented about Azure mobile services. He presented how we can leverage Azure mobile services with Windows Phone Application and some other cool insights for Azure mobiles services.



Then we had lunch and we had some great interaction and conversation about cloud technologies during lunch.



After lunch, there was post lunch session. It was time for Sanket Shah to rock the stage. He has presented about Architecting Modern solution on Azure.  He had some cool demo and audience was amazed about his demo.




After that, we had another back to back session from Kaushal Bhavsar. He had presented about how we can create a secure two factors authentications with  Azure technologies. He had some given some cool demo using Azure Active directory and Office 365 account authentication about it.




After that we had tea and It’s time for Ahmedabad User group president Mahesh Dhola to rock the stage. Instead of giving demo he chooses to use WhiteBoard and given presentation DevOps and Microsoft Azure. It was fun watching is him presenting the topic that we all love.




After the presentation, it was the time where everybody wants to get some prize. We had the lucky draw and almost everybody gets price.





And this guy was an inspiration for all us.



Then we has some photos of all the speakers. We missed Jagdish here as he needs to go home for some personal work.



Overall, It was a fun event. We had some much fun hacking and learning something new. Thank you, Microsoft and Ahmedabad user group for hosting such a nice event.

Keep rocking!.

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Visual Studio 15 Next version of visual studio is available now

With Build 2016 event, Microsoft has announced the preview of next version of Visual Studio called Visual Studio 15. You can download the next version of VS from below link.

https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/visual-studio-next-downloads-vs

There are two options available for there on above link for download. One is normal Installed which is traditional installer contains all the functionality of earlier version of visual studio.

The second option contains a new lightweight installer which a brand new install from the Microsoft focusing on making visual studio installation faster and-and less impactful. The smallest installation of the Visual studio is now under 500 MB and includes support for more than 20 languages. You can optionally add additional features like desktop development using  Windows forms and WPF.

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P.S. This is a preview still Microsoft is working on that so you will not see lots of new features and its in preview so you should never use it for production.

There are some new features announced like Open Folder, Improvements of the debugger and few other stuff. You can see the complete list of features in release note at the following link.

https://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs15-preview-vs

On the same page, you can see the list of new features. That’s it. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more!.

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Come join us at - Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 Organized by Ahmedabad User Group

Do you want to be part of largest community event is the world? If Yes, then Global Azure boot camp 2016 is there. Ahmedabad User group is going to organize Global Azure boot camp.


The global azure boot camp is going to be organized at more than 180 locations worldwide. They are going to have some cool Azure lab. So I would encourage you to participate in that.

You can find more information about that following link.

http://global.azurebootcamp.net/

If you want to participate in this one of the greatest event hosted by Ahmedabad User Group then you can register via the following  link.

gab16aug.eventbrite.com

Please create a pass for yourself and be there. I am also going to be there as a speaker and going to present about document DB.

So see you all there!

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Visual Studio 2015 update 2 is available for download now

Visual studio 2015 is a great IDE and I love that more and more. As we all know that visual studio update 1 was released few months ago, Yesterday at build conference Microsoft has announced  Visual studio 2015 update 2.

From where I can download Visual Studio 2015 update 2:

You can download Visual studio 2015 update 2 different editions from the following links.

Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition:
Web installer : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532606&clcid=0x409
ISO  File: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615448&clcid=0x409

Visual Studio 2015 Professional Edition:
Web Installer: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615435&clcid=0x409
ISO File:https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615436&clcid=0x409

Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition:
Web Installer : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615437&clcid=0x409
ISO File: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615436&clcid=0x409

Also, You can download visual studio update 2 only without whole editor from the following link.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/03/30/visual-studio-15-preview/


There are lots functionalities new features provided for new updates. You can find a complete list of features the following link.

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-update2-vs.aspx

I am going to post about some new features in visual studio update 2 in forthcoming blog posts. Hope you like it and Stay tuned for more!.

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Build 2016 Conference Live streaming

Microsoft continues to focus on enabling developers to do amazing work as businesses and industries transform in support of the shift to a cloud-first, mobile-first world. At Build 2016 Microsoft will present the latest tools and technologies and how they can help today’s developers be their most creative and productive.

From here you can see the live streaming  of build conference 2016.

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