This tutorial explains how to enable TLS 1.2 for Authorize.Net and Salesforce API calls.
Continue ReadingImportance of DevOps is growing by the day as development teams adopt agile practices and start on the path of shorter development cycles. Having a good Continuous Integration system in place is one of the key parts of DevOps setup. In this blog I will explore the process of getting a simple ASP.NET MVC application configured using Online Visual Studio Team System's Build and Release process to deploy to an Azure WebApp.
Continue ReadingWhile developing ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC Web or WebAPI applications, we use IIS self-signed certificate to test sites locally or on test servers with HTTPS enabled. Such HTTPS websites throw a warning message when they are accessed first time from any browser. If you are using WebAPI with HTTPS and trying to access those APIs from Ionic or iOS mobile applications, then it will not work. This article focuses on configuration of Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate with AuctionWorx web application.
Continue ReadingThis tutorial explains how to use Nexmo SMS and Verify API to add additional functionality into AuctionWorx web application.
Continue ReadingIn this blog post, we will update the default scaffold ASP.NET Core 1.1 application using Entity Framework Core to connect to PostgreSQL database using Code first approach on Ubuntu Linux. We will explore some of the new features of ASP.NET Core 1.1 and how easy it is to use entity framework to connect to open source databases like PostgreSQL. We will be using the free, open source Visual Studio Code Editor and .NET CLI to build the application to understand how to build ASP.NET Core applications on Linux or other supported platforms.
Continue ReadingThis tutorial explains how to use Lucene.Net to acheive faster search responses in ASP.NET or MVC or C# applications. You can use Lucene.Net library to create indexes and search to retrieve the data which can be stored by relevance or by a sort field.
Continue ReadingIn this blog post, we have explained how we can perform CRUD operations with Salesforce custom objects. We have integrated Salesforce with RainWorx AuctionWorx software (ASP.NET MVC application). Refer our previous blog "Integrate Salesforce with C# or ASP.NET MVC Application", where we have shown how you can set up a project for Salesforce integration. Salesforce integration will allow better interaction between customer support team and bidders/buyers post bid/purchase process.
Continue ReadingThis tutorial explains the manual steps to authenticate Salesforce account using C# or ASP.NET MVC application. Even though the sample provided is C# Console application, we have implemented the same with RainWorx's AuctionWorx software (ASP.NET MVC application).
Continue ReadingWe would like to announce the release of our open source small project, a real time chat room with Text, Image and File transfer support. Built on NodeJS, ExpressJS and Socket.IO.
Continue ReadingIn this blog post we try to highlight some of the challenges and advantages that we faced while working with OVH. It took us several hours trying to figure out different parts of the service and get it functional. There have been several forum posts by others who have given important information to help us configure our servers correctly. In this blog post we are trying to string together our journey to make it easier for others. We specialize in bespoke software development and are not trained IT admins, but we definitely like to dabble into IT as far as we can. We are sure someone with a strong IT experience in virtualization might know these issues up front. But this is our layman’s view of this process.
Continue ReadingMicrosoft has recently released Visual Studio 2015 Preview for evaluation. Along with Visual Studio Microsoft has announced that it will open source complete ASP.NET stack and make it hostable on Linux as well as Mac. Microsoft has changed their web project significantly to make it work across open source platforms. Visual Studio 2015 preview brings a lot of enhancements in the editor as well as one of the significant components that ship with it is ASP.NET v5 and total change in project structure of web applications. In an effort to embrace open source they have made a lot of changes to to the project templates to utilize a whole bag of popular open source technologies like NPM, Grunt and Bower. Enabling the use of popular open source package managers saves Microsoft from duplicating and maintaining the rapid speed of changes and new developments that are happening on the web. For example instead of building their open Less to CSS compiler and keeping it updated, now they enable developers to use popular open source versions of the same.
Continue ReadingThis tutorial explains how to use jQuery lazy loading technique with Knockout binding.
Continue ReadingThis tutorial explains the manual steps to integrate Facebook Login and add Camera plugin for Android application which is created using PhoneGap 3.4. For Facebook plugin configuration and samples, refer phonegap-facebook-plugin available on GitHub.
Continue ReadingWhile creating an Umbraco site, I came across the need for displaying images along with additional text information which can be setup and managed using Umbraco CMS administration tool. In this blog post, I will explain how to create Document Types and Partial View for a Umbraco 7 website using MVC to display the details.
Continue ReadingThis tutorial explains how to setup Phonegap 3.4 on a Windows 8 64-bit machine and use it for Android application development.
Continue ReadingThis tutorial explains how to set up Phonegap 3.3.0 on OS X Mavericks 10.9 to compile and run apps for iOS and Android. One of the main reasons for using PhoneGap on OS X platform was to make sure that we can create test builds for iOS and Android devices.
Continue ReadingImage Sliders and Carousels are very popular elements for building any kind of modern websites. There are several JQuery based scripts available which provide a wide variety of features for building the carousel element. In this blog post I’ll illustrate how easy it is to implement bootstrap based carousel for your website. This blog post with build on my previous blog post Create a Responsive, Fluid HTML5/CSS3 based website on Umbraco 7 using Bootstrap 3.0 Framework where I have integrated bootstrap 3.0.1 with Umbraco 7. This example can be extended to use your own JQuery based slider script.
Continue ReadingBuilding responsive, fluid HTML5/CSS3 based websites are a rage these days delivering the best ROI for clients investing in building new web sites. Building a single website which adapts itself depending on the device screen size gives end users richer experiences. There are several ways of building responsive websites, one of the popular ways to to use an existing framework like Bootstrap which provide base scaffolding to quickly build responsive websites. In this blog post I am going to focus on how to integrate Bootstrap v3.0.X with Umbraco 7 to build a HTML5/CSS3 based fluid responsive website. The goal is to build a simple single page responsive web page similar to the Jumbotron bootstrap sample and focus on the integration part so that you can build more complex layouts as required. I plan to build upon this sample in future blog posts.
Continue ReadingUmbraco 7 has been released, with a refreshed administrative interface making it one of the top CMS in the market. Our earlier blog post on Setting up Umbraco 6 in Visual Studio 2012 for MVC development was found useful by many readers so its time to write and updated blog post with Umbraco 7. The Umbraco team have fully embraced ASP.NET 4.5 as well as MVC for Umbraco 7, making it far more easier for us to build MVC based web sites. In this blog post we will focus on using Visual Studio 2013 and creating a fresh Umbraco 7 website which can be built upon going further.
Continue ReadingA client we recently worked for had a ClickOnce WPF application developed by some other team who could not figure out how to use the Code Signing certificate from GoDaddy with ClickOnce. Unless the ClickOnce deployment is correctly signed Windows 8 Smart Screen Filter will not let the user install the application in Windows 8. In older versions of Windows, unsigned deployments show a Unverified Publisher message and discourage the users from installing your application. This application was meant to be distributed over the internet and it meant doom for the client who had invested so much in getting the application built, but was being stopped from rollout due to this issue. We were able to resolve the issue for the client with a bumpy ride. This blog post tries to describe the process that worked for us, hopefully it will serve as a guidance to all those who are hitting against a brick wall trying to resolve this issue with very little guidance from GoDaddy documentation.
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