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Presenting at MUGH Tech Meet – Hyderabad 26th Nov’11

by Abhijit JanaNovember 23, 2011November 23, 2011Leave a comment

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH ) invites you to monthly Tech Meet on 26th Nov’11 . This monthly UG meet scheduled on this Saturday (26th Nov – from 9:30 A.M ) at Microsoft Campus , Building 3 MPR Halls , Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

I am presenting on ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview. This will be a complete demo oriented session where I will be talking on few new features of VS 2011 Developer preview and enhancement of ASP.NET 4.5 core runtime enhancement, data binding and new request validation features.

Presenting at Developer Conference – Kolkata 12th November, 2011

by Abhijit JanaNovember 6, 2011Leave a comment

November 12th , I will be presenting at Developer Conference 2011 Organized by Microsoft User Group Kolkata (KolkataGeeks) . Developer Conference is the premier technical event for technology professionals at Kolkata interested in learning, connecting and exploring latest Microsoft technologies. This is also going to be community Launch event for Office 365. So be there and enjoy the flavor of cutting edge Microsoft technologies.

16 Tips on .NET, ASP.NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview, Profiler – October 2011 Links

by Abhijit JanaNovember 1, 2011Leave a comment

Daily .NET Tips is aiming to sharing useful coding tips and tricks for .NET Developers. This site completely design for sharing Tips and Tricks, useful Code Snippet which anyone use in daily development work and targeted anything related with .NET. This month we have wide range of tips including ASP.NET 4.5, C#, .NET , Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview, Profiler etc. In this post I am quickly listing down all the tips which are published over the month October 2011

Few Nice features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview for ASP.NET Developers

by Abhijit JanaOctober 12, 2011October 17, 201111 Comments

Visual Studio 2011 developer preview introduced many great features. These includes IDE features such as HTML Editor Enhancements, Debugging features, parallel computing improvements, SharePoint development features etc. You can read the Announcing Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview post from Jason Zander’s WebLog to know more about the newly launched Visual Studio. In this post I am going talk few of nice features of Visual Studio 2011 developer preview related with ASP.NET.

Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET 4.5

by Abhijit JanaOctober 6, 2011October 10, 201125 Comments

Optimizing application performance is a key element for business. There are several ways by which we can optimize the applications performance. It can be done either by server side code optimization, caching or some client side optimization. In this post I am going to discuss about one handy and smart way to optimize web applications performance using Bundling and Minification features which is introduced with ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview. ASP.NET 4.5 Developer Preview introduced bundling, which combines multiple JavaScript files for faster loading with less number of requests for download and minification, which reduces the size of JavaScript and CSS files by removing unneeded characters . Combination of these bundling and minification helps web pages to load very faster. Let’s have a looks how it works.

Use Visual Studio 2010 to Profile your ASP.NET Application which is hosted on IIS

by Abhijit JanaOctober 4, 2011October 17, 20112 Comments

Most of all are well aware about command line profiling for ASP.NET Application using VSPerfASPNETCmd command line tool . This can easily profile your ASP.NET Web applications which is hosted on IIS. We just need to run VSPerfASPNETCmd command with required parameter. Once profiling done, we can inspect the generated performance report (.vsp) file within Visual Studio. But, do you know we can do the complete profiling within Visual Studio itself. How ? Here you go.

Download Presentation Slide “Knotting Windows Phone 7, Windows Azure and Kinect” – Developer Conference 2011

by Abhijit JanaOctober 3, 20111 Comment

Here is the presentation slide that we have used during our session at Developer Conference 2011, Hyderabad on 1st October. During the session I started with very fundamentals of Kinect devices and Kinect .NET SDK. I have shown how much easy it was to code with Kinect .NET SDK and developed different application with Kinect Camera, 3D Depth and Skeleton Tracking. In the next step, captured images using Kinect when it was detecting any Skeleton and uploaded the same on live Azure Blob Storage and added some information on Azure Queue Storage. After that Jebarson took it forward and shown how Push notification can be placed in between Azure and Windows Phone 7 to notify the subscribed user when some photo been captured, uploaded to the Azure and then the image is shown in your WP7 Device after successfully authentication.

25 Tips on ASP.NET, C#, MEF, Visual Studio, Profiler – September 2011 Links

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 30, 2011Leave a comment

Daily .NET Tips is aiming to sharing useful coding tips and tricks for .NET Developers. This site completely design for sharing Tips and Tricks, useful Code Snippet which anyone use in daily development work and targeted anything related with .NET. This month we have wide range of tips including ASP.NET, C#, MEF, Visual Studio, Profiler etc. In this post I am quickly listing down all the tips which are published over the month September 2011

Download PPT – “Tune Your ASP.NET Application Using Visual Studio 2010 Profiler” – Virtual Tech Days – 29th Sept 2011

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 29, 20111 Comment

Today I delivered 1 hour session on “Tune Your ASP.NET Application Using Visual Studio 2010 Profiler” at Microsoft Virtual Tech days 2011. Got few minute delayed to start the session due to some network issues. during the session I started with fundamentals of profiling and different profiling methods and also talked about choosing right profiling technique. During the demos I showed different tooling features with in VS 2010 Profiler. Profiled Few ASP.NET Application using Sampling and Instrumentation and discussed about complete analysis and internal of how sampling and instrumentation works . I have also covered the Tier Interaction Profile, Profiling ASP.NET Application from Command Prompt and JavaScript Profiling.

Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part V) – Developing Application using Multiple Kinect Devices

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 23, 2011January 14, 201324 Comments

This is the fifth post in the series of Development With Kinect .NET SDK. In this post I am going to discuss about interacting with multiple Kinect devices with in a single system using Kinect .NET SDK. Before going forward, I will strongly recommend you to read my previous post where I have discussed about Connecting Multiple Kinect Devices with System which will help you setup your system with multiple devices.

My Upcoming Events : Virtual Tech Days and Developer Conference 2011

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 21, 2011September 22, 20114 Comments

The 12th edition of Microsoft Virtual Tech Days – being held on 28th to 30th Sept 2011. I’ll be present ing a session on Web Developer Track and will talk about “Tune Your ASP.NET Application Using Visual Studio 2010 Profiler” on 29th Sept 2011 from 1:45pm – 2:45pm (IST) . Application Performance is very much critical for any business so, tuning and analyzing application’s performance is must needed for any application. In this Session we will learn how we can use Visual Studio 2010 Profiler to Tune ASP.NET Web Application with different approaches like Sampling ,Instrumentation and other profiling strategy. We will learn about details application execution process, object allocation, call trees which help tune the performance of the application and how instrumentation can helps to get those details by injecting a marker in the underlying code base of application . We will also learn how we can use profiler with web load testing, profiling application from IIS, Profiling with IIS Express, Compare different profiling reports and finally will look inside some JavaScript Profiling.

Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part IV) – Connecting Multiple Kinect Devices with System

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 20, 2011January 14, 201310 Comments

This is the fourth post in the series of Development With Kinect .NET SDK. In few of my previous posts I have covered Setting up Kinect Devices and Getting Started with Kinect Development ( Part I) , Exploring NUI APIs with Camera ( Part II) and Adjusting Kinect Camera Angle (Part III). Till now whatever I have covered, that comes under dealing with single Kinect devices. Let’s have some more fun with multiple Kinect devices. The Kinect .NET SDK does provide support for multiple Kinect devices. In this post I am going to discuss how you can configure two devices with your system.

Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part III) – Adjusting the Kinect Camera Angle

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 18, 2011September 19, 20117 Comments

This is the Part III of my Kinect .NET SDK Development series post. In past two posts I have discussed about Installation of Kinect Devices along with setting up your development environment and Exploring NUI APIs with Camera. In this post I am going to cover some more fundamental stuff of Kinect Camera. Kinect .NET SDK provides some API to interact with motorized tilt ( Check out the device details section of first post for more information ) to enables the camera up (+27 Degree) or down (-27 degrees) . To adjust the motorized tilt you need to set the NUI Cameras ElevationAngle property to a value between –27 and +27.

Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part II) – Using NUI APIs with Camera

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 17, 2011September 22, 201113 Comments

In my previous post Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part I) – Installation and Development Environment Setup I discussed about fundamentals of Kinect sensors and developing application using Kinect .NET SDK. I also explained different types of API that mainly used for interacting with Kinect Device. Natural User interfaces (NUI) and Audio are the core APIs stack for Kinect sensors and and in the previous article we starts with NUI APIs. By this time you must know how to get start with of NUI API’s by initializing the runtime. Let’s take a inner look of NUI API. In this post I will discuss about NUI APIs for Kinect .NET SDK and will see how we can interact with Kinect Camera Sensors using it.