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F5debug Milestones of the Year 2011

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on December 30, 2011

Friends,

This year is really a special year for me, I started this blog on April 2011 and had a long journey to get things on to the right path. Well in this journey I came across many wonderful persons who encouraged me to the core to continue with the work that I am doing right now. To mention few  Pinal Dave (blog.sqlauthority.com), Mahesh Chand(c-sharpcorner.com), Jacob Sebastian(Beyondrelational.com) thanks to them for providing me support and guiding me in the right direction to do my best to the community.

Below are some of the milestones of the blog www.f5debug.net for the year 2011 and I am really happy to share these with you all.

  • Articles – 255 articles covering SSIS, SSRS, Windows Azure & SQL Azure.
  • Blog Post – 250 blog posts on SQL Server Transact Basic to Expert series.
  • Series – 3 Series on Getting Started Articles(SSIS, SSRS and Azure).
  • Ebook – Free ebook on SQL Server Integration Services Step by Step Tutorial.
  • Presentations – 8 Sessions totally on various topic.
  • Forums – Answered around 1500+ questions in MSDN forums and Dotnetfunda forums.
  • Page view’s – 1,30,000+ page views in 8 months(from April 2011 – the month this blog created)
  • Facebook – 600+ Facebook fans likes for F5debug page
  • Twitter – 120+ Twitter followers
  • Blog – 150+ Blog followers
  • Ebook Downloads – 15000+ downloads in last 3 months.
  • Microsoft – Microsoft Most Valuable Professional(MVP) 2011 Award
  • Mindcracker – Mindcracker Most Valuable Professional(MVP) 2011 Award
  • Dotnetfunda – Dotnetfunda Most Valuable Professional(MVP) 2011 Award
  • Dzone – Dzone Most Valuable Blogger(MVB) 2011 Award
  • C-sharpcorner Awards
    • March 2011 – Winner of the Month for Articles
    • June 2011 – Winner of the Month for Articles
    • August 2011 – Winner of the Month for Articles
  • Dotnetfunda Awards
    • April 2011 – Winner for the Forums section
    • April 2011 – Winner for the Articles section
    • March 2011 – Winner for the Forums section
    • March 2011 – Winner for the Articles section
    • February 2011 – Winner for the Forums section
  • Dotnetspark Awards
    • September, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • August, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • July, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • June, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • May, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • April, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • March, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • February, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award
    • January, 2011 – Member of the MONTH Award

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Happy New Year 2011 to you all and see you all with great articles and blog posts in the year 2012.

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Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – New Series of Articles Kick Start

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on December 23, 2011

Friends,

Right now I am working on a new series of articles on Windows Phone 7. These articles are for the Novice to get exposed and be a Professional with Windows Phone 7 Development. The article covers in-depth and the step by step process on how to set the development environment and make use of the inbuilt controls available to develop the Windows Phone 7 Application. I am not going to limit these with the numbers provided below, but still as a start up I have targeted these 31 topics and to give my readers a fair idea on these topics.

I would like to get continued with the sort of feedback provided by my readers so that I will provide my best to the community. Below is the agenda for the list of topic that will be covered in this series on Windows Phone 7.


Topics

Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 1 – Overview and Requirements of WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 2 – Creating a Hello World Silverlight Application in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 3 – Using Expression Blend to Design the WP7 Application
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 4 – Working with Application Bar in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 5 – Working with Alarms/Reminders in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 6 – Working with Contacts in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 7 – Working with Calendar in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 8 – Working with Camera in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 9 – Working with Panorama Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 10 – Working with Pivot Application Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 11 – Working with Media in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 12 – Working with Toast Notification in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 13 – Working with Tile Notification in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 14 – Working with Raw Notification in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 15 – Working with Tiles in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 16 – Working with Launchers in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 17 – Working with Choosers in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 18 – Working with Navigation in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 19 – Working with Web Browser Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 20 – Working with Screen Orientation in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 21 – Working with BING Map Control in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 22 – Working with Device Information in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 23 – Working with Themes in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 24 – Working with Isolated Storage’s in Wp7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 25 – Working with Files and Folders in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 26 – Working with Creating a Local Database in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 27 – Working with Consuming an ODATA Service in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 28 – Working with Consuming a WCF Service in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 29 – Working with Encrypting Data for Security in WP7
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 30 – Installing and using WP7 Tool kit for Silverlight
Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days – Day 31 – Deploying the application to the WP7 Market place

Watch out my blog on these tutorial series and hope it will be useful for my readers.

Happy Coding!!!

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Getting Started with SSRS – Part 10 – Creating a Report with Charts

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on December 23, 2011

This article is a part 10 and the final post of series of article on SQL Server Reporting Services. This will help you to get started with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

  1. Getting Started with SSRS – Part 1 – SQL Server Reporting Services Overview and Installing in Windows Server 2008
  2. Getting Started with SSRS – Part 2 – Designing a report using Report Wizard
  3. Getting Started with SSRS – Part 3 – Designing a report using Report Designer
  4. Getting Started with SSRS – Part 4 – Configuring SQL Server Reporting Services in Windows Server 2008
  5. Getting Started with SSRS – Part 5 – Deploying a report to the Server
  6. Getting Started with SSRS - Part 6 – Creating Deleting and Moving a folder in SSRS Server
  7. Getting Started with SSRS - Part 7 – User Roles and Permissions in SSRS Server
  8. Getting Started with SSRS - Part 8 – Show SSRS Report in ASP.NET Web Page
  9. Getting Started with SSRS - Part 9 – Creating Matrix Report with inbuilt styles in SSRS
  10. Getting Started with SSRS – Part 10 – Creating a Report with Charts and Gauges

 

Introduction

In this article, we will cover how to use Charts and Gauges with the reports in the SQL Server Reporting Services. In our earlier articles, we saw how to design and deploy basic reports and some options to administer the server with basic operations on manipulations with the folder. Let us see the step-by-step process on how to use the Charts and Gauges.

Steps

Follow the earlier article steps on how to open and create a Report Server project and connect to a data source (Select * from EmployeeInfo). A screen will open as shown below which is with empty screen.

Launching the Report Designer view of the Report Project

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Windows Azure – Announcement on Access Control Services

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on December 22, 2011

Microsoft has announced important update on the Access Control Services to the end users and the updates are as below.

 

Extension of the promotional period of Access Control Service to December 1, 2012

Extended Promotional Period till Dec 1, 2012 will be effective immediately and ACS will be available to the end users with free of cost till the promotional period. This promotional free offer is available for both ACS 1.0 and ACS 2.0

 

Availability of the Access Control Service 1.0 Migration Tool

ACS 2.0 is introduced by April 2011, by then end users uses the ACS 2.0 and some application still with ACS 1.0 can now be easily migrated to ACS 2.0 using this Migration Assitance. This tool can be downloaded from the link http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27545&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

This Migration Assitance provides the consumers with the below

  • Copying data from ACS 1.0 namespace to a ACS 2.0 namespace.
  • Migrating DNS name from the original ACS 1.0 namespace to the new ACS 2.0 namespace with no service downtime.

Check this MSDN article on Guidelines or points to consider before migrating the ACS 1.0 to ACS 2.0 using the tool http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh400207.aspx

 

Deprecation of Access Control Service 1.0 on December 20, 2012

By 20 December 2012, ACS 1.0 will be shutdown officially, and no support will be available. All consumers are adviced to convert to ACS 2.0 in this 12 months duration which provides much comfort and to avoid any sevice interuptions.

 

Happy Coding!!!

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