RazorSQL - Very useful client to manage SQL Azure database

If you are working with SQL Azure database then you know that how tough it is to manage database with Azure portal!

If you are using it after connecting Sql Azure database with SQL server R2 then also there are some limitations to manage it..

You are not able to

• Create table
• Edit data
• Manage relationship

When i goggled it to find useful tool i found one and that was RazorSQL - very awesome tool!

You can manage 30 type of databases using it including cloud database like SQL Azure and you can overcome all that limitations of Sql Azure to manage from client like SSMS

Look out the features of it form here

Look out the features providing for SQL Azure from here

Look out the screenshot from here

This is paid tool but you can use as trial version for 30 days and after using it you will like to buy it :)

Look out price from here

cheers!

Enable intellisense with HTML & css in Visual Studio using Web Essentials Extension

If you are using visual studio 2010 then this is good to know that now it is possible to use intellisense with css & html file by adding "web essential" extension.  So by using it you can increase your productivity in Visual Studio , it's awesome!

This extension developed by Mads Kristensen .
you can download from here.

Alternate way you can add it in visual studio by Extension Manager

Now when you open any css file then as per above you will able to add property value through  intellisense and that's great feather for designer.

Cheers!

Related Links

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6ed4c78f-a23e-49ad-b5fd-369af0c2107f

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UsefulVisualStudioExtensionWebEssentialsFromMadsKristensen.aspx

Explore your knowledge about cloud computing , it's future of Technology

If you are developer , IT student or interesting to read about technology then anytime you may came across this word "Cloud Computing" so what it is ?

Cloud computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing) is nothing but provide you any functionality as service (e.g. As you use electricity in your house) mean pay as you go or pay as you use.

Have you ever think that how it is hard to manage more than 1 computer! You can , but you have to establish infrastructure , investment , people and many things..

But let leave all worry & just concentrate on idea and application because that's all care will be taken by cloud computing service provider , just you need to pay what you will use

Generally it has 2 kind

SasS – Software as a service 

PasS – Platform as a service 

 

Cloud computing era is started in 1999 and first mover was Salesforce.com (SasS), which delivering enterprise applications via a simple website over the internet.

Then Amazon played a key role in the development of cloud computing by modernising their data centeres and by Amazon Web service (AWS) (PasS),

After that heroku (PasS) built great infrastructure for ruby developer (happy developer) , generally it is for ruby application, they are also provide add-on functionality by which you can boost you application

Then Microsoft also jumped in to this competition and lunched Microsoft Window Azure platform (PasS) to mostly support .net developers 

Benefit to host your application on AWS, Heroku or Azure is you can manage infrastructure of your application by your way and also you can scale your application as you wan.

If you are using Google docs then it is also one type of cloud computing (SaaS).

I will describe one by one in more details in future talks but would like your valuable feedback if this can be helpful to you and also tell your interest so i can talk about on that.

Have a great day

Cheers!

Related Links

History

http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2011/02/a-history-of-cloud-computing/

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/10/235429/A-history-of-cloud-computing.htm

Providers

http://aws.amazon.com/

https://www.salesforce.com/in/

http://www.heroku.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/

Development

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/learn/

http://aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/

Cool Tips to speed up in visual studio 2010 - Short keys

If you are .Net developer or Student and you are using Visual Studio in day to day life then following tips can speed up your productivity on that.

The best way to use any tools by knowing the hot key (short key) to do anythings with that tools

Visual Studio is vast product and you can do many thing as your mind can think

There are some hot key which are beneficial to your daily programing , practice on that

Code Outline:
Ctrl+M , M – Fold/Unfold the current code block
Ctrl+M, L – Unfold all
Ctrl+M, P – Stop outlining 
Ctrl+M, O – Fold all

Editing:

Block Selection: – press Alt and then select the area you want with your mouse.

Line No in Code – Tools>Options>Text Editor>All Languages>General>Line numbers.

F4: Property Window
Ctrl+Alt+L – Solution Explorer
Ctrl+Alt+O – Output Window
Ctrl+Alt+K – Task List
Ctrl+Shift+Space – intellisense window.
Ctrl+R – Word Wrap

BookMark:
Ctrl+K, K – Create/Remove Bookmark
Ctrl+K, N  - Move to next bookmark
Ctrl+K, P –  Move to previous bookmark
Ctrl+K, L – Clear all bookmarks

Code Format:
Ctrl+K, F – Auto-format selection
Ctrl+U - Convert to lower case
Ctrl+Shift+U – Convert to upper case
Ctrl+K, C – Comment selection
Ctrl+K, U - Uncomment selection

Running/Debugging:
F5 - Start Application in debug Mode
Ctrl+F5 – Start Without debugging
F11 – Step into
F10 – Step over.
Shift + F11 – Step Out.
Shift + F5 – Stop debugging.
Ctrl+Shift+F5 - Restart Debugging.

You can download full list of short keys from this link

Happy Programming , cheers!

Google+ Ripples , New fetcher by Google

Google is adding new & new functionalists every day to it's social networking Google+ to compete with Facebook. and it seems like new type of war "Technology War"

I came across today new fetcher of google+ is Ripples by which you can visualize your post by some new way how your post is being shared by users.

Go through below video which show how can you see Ripples , It's truly amazing!

Related Links
Hanselman's blog 
Gabriel Vasile's link (with login in your google+)
Googleplus blog

How to change theme of visual studio 2010

Today I bored with my visual studio color scheme and thought about to chage that and just googled it and found some good stuff , would like to share here

You can import export setting of Visual Studio from Tools>Import Export Settings as per shown in below fig.

 

I have also found one articale of ScottGu about that, please look at here .

You can Download more themes (settings) from here .

You can find your settings in below path also put your downloaded setting in same.

C:/user/document/visual studio 2010/settings

You can export and save your current setting before to import another one.

Import your setting and click finish and restart your visual studio and it's done 

 

I got DarkPastel setting form here and i got new visual studio , right now I am feeling experience of C++ coding as i was doing in my college days. So why you are waiting , just change your usual look and feel of visual studio and feel some different!

Cheers!