With the Windows Azure Websites platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which was released as a preview to a general audiance in June last year, PHP applications can be deployed to Azure with as much as a Git push to a remote repository. At the same time Microsoft released a new and much improved PHP SDK, which integrates with all the Azure webservices.

Custom paging in Gridview

Pivot in SQL Server is used to transform row values of a column as the columns of the output. What is the need of dynamic pivot? The need of dynamic pivot arises when the row values for the column are not static i.e you do not know what all values would be there in the column

Column Level Encryption in Sql Server

For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and enterprises like JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse. The goal has been to build an open, wire-level protocol standard for messaging that enables easy interoperability between different vendor products. Back in October 2012, the OASIS standards organization announced the approval of AMQP 1.0 as an OASIS Standard and, on the same day, we released a preview implementation of it with Windows Azure Service Bus.

Data can be very valuable, and storing it in Excel is a great way to risk making it worthless. Your file can get deleted, become unusably slow, or subtly accumulate errors.

I’d like to share with you a mysterious internal secret kept within Microsoft for now a long time. It’s the real story behind the concept of the CSS Grid Layout imagined by Microsoft for IE10 and Windows Store Apps.

Earlier this month Anthony Borton, Lead ALM Consultant at Enhance ALM, and Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, delivered a very successful Jumpstart for Microsoft Virtual Academy.

Don't start from scratch. Our Platformer Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 will get you going with full code & free game art.

The other day I was thinking about the function for performing dynamic memory allocation in the C standard library, malloc. From the manual pages, If successful, the malloc() function returns a pointer to allocated memory. If there is an error, it returns a NULL pointer and sets errno to ENOMEM. One of the most common errors when using malloc is not checking for allocation failure. The allocation is not guaranteed to succeed and trying to use a NULL reference can lead to program crashes.

Speaking of building Windows 8 app's, here's the template of the week. Imagine you

Today's project by Mick Palmer shows off, with source, one of the killer features of the Kinect, it's superior speech capabilities. And who doesn't want to name their Kinect and to be able to yell (err... talk too) their media player?

Windows Store Weekly highlights 5 of the coolest apps in the Windows Store each week. In just 5 minutes you'll get to know what's new, what's hot and what you should be checking out in every app category out there.

As just announced by Scott Guthrie, we're releasing the AMQP 1.0 support for Windows Azure Service Bus today, with commercial support and full SLA.

In the world of Windows Phone development, the cornerstone app architecture is called MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). In this video, I talk through some of the structure of an MVVM application to talk about how we build MVVM apps for the phone to take advantage of benefits like data binding, commanding and ViewModel portability.

Recently I was working on a Feature that when activated would create a new list in the site. I was creating the list and its columns via code...

This is the most common requirement on most of the Exchange servers hosted on IIS. The server admins configure an http to https redirect. Today I will be discussing few ways of doing this. I will keep updating this document as I find more ways to do so. I am considering OWA as a sub application under IIS for all the below examples. Here is the structuring of the Web Site: