Helpful Question Answer forum for technical guys

Hello Friends!

Today i would like to suggest one best Question Answer forum which i use in my daily professional life and that is Stackoverflow. It is different than other forums or discussion site because of it's terminology and whole system.
There are many section as per your question you can see in bottom pics.

You do not create special account here , they are providing many option to login as OpenId as per below.

Just login with it and ask your question , there are very good professionals on this forum and they will help us and also you can help other for their questions.

Stacoverflow will give you reputation (badges , medals, points) as you go on this forum step by step and you can put this on your profile as well.

So use it , ask question , discuss and get your answer !
cheers!

Shorten your URL for Twitter & Facebook

I have created twitter acoount to twit about my blog post and came across one good link to shoten URL and that is http://bitly.com/.

You have found on twitter and on facebook http://bit.ly/Understand-NuGet sometime and on clicking on that it will redirect you to main link.

It all about make your post shorten perticularly when you want to write twits on twitter, It so much easy and need not create account untill you want customize your link.

Understanding the NuGet-Package Manager for .Net platform

1) What is NuGet?

NuGet is free & open source package Manager for .Net Platform to incorporate third party modules, libraries in your existing project.

2) From where to Install?

Codeplex is very good platform to host your open source project and you can find NuGet on codeplex from here.

3) How to use it?

When I was searching of it i found good article by one of my favorite technical author Scott Hanselman, He talked about NuGet and show the example how to add ELMAH(see my previous article) using NuGet here.

You can also look at this to explore NuGet with Package Management console.

4) Use with Visual Studio 2010

After installation you can find Manage NuGet Packages when you right click on your application as per shown in fig.

 

And you'll presented by dialog of Manage NuGet Package where you can search and install available packages as per shown in below fig.

You can search and install , all reference in web.config will automatically add by NuGet packages, you do not worry about that, so it's easy way to incorporate any third party module instead to do it manually.

You can also enable (View>Other Windows>Package Manger Console) and use Package Manger Consol to add any package using command line as per shown in below fig.

Hope at this point you got almost overall knowledge about NuGet. If you like it then leave your valuable feedback as well.

Cheers!

Create backup of SQL Azure database.

I have search around the net to take backup of SQL Azure database and found something interesting, so would like to discuss it here steps for that

1) Download Sql Azure backup tools form red-gate , it's free

It will cost you as per Azure cost , so please lookup this cost from here  before go ahead

2) Run the EXE file of SQL Azure backup

3) Select destination where you want to take backup , there are 2 options as per shown in fig. 

Select SQL server and then give your local server information as per shown in fig.

and click next and you have done!