March 2013 - Posts

How to enable MS Dynamics CRM 2011 to integrate with Windows Azure
Fri, Mar 29 2013 12:01

Hi, I'm writing this article to explain a good architecture design for integrating your Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 with windows azure. Let's say you have on-premise CRM 2011 instance, and you want to use Windows Azure Blob storage to store Customer's...

by Mostafa Elzoghbi

Filed under: C#, Developer Tools, Architecture Design, Integration, Administration, CRM 2011, design pattern

Fix It: Application deployment Failed, Please try again in VS 2012
Wed, Mar 27 2013 20:40

Hi, A well-known error message is being thrown from VS 2012 when you try to run the emulator for Windows Phone 8. After you installed all the tools and trying to see your application on the emulator you get the above error and it is a show stopper! It's...

by Mostafa Elzoghbi

Filed under: Developer Tools, VS, WP8

VS 2012 Update 1 is available
Wed, Mar 27 2013 12:05

Hi, Yesterday, Microsoft released a new update for VS 2012. In this first update for VS 2012, They included a lot of enhancements in terms of TFS services, SharePoint Development ALM, .NET Framework enhancements, Mobile development Enhancements and IDE...

by Mostafa Elzoghbi

Filed under: Developer Tools, VS

Generic Failure in WP8 Emulator and Error when opening Hyper-V Switch Manager!
Sun, Mar 24 2013 19:20

Hi, I was developing a windows phone 8 application using VS 2012, and after i did some changes in the network adapter by disabling the hyper-v virtualization protocol "vEthernet" and all its components, the emulator stops working!. The reason...

by Mostafa Elzoghbi

Filed under: Windows 8, WP8, Hyper-V

Calling Stored procedure from EF takes long time and times out!
Wed, Mar 20 2013 10:13

Hi Folks, I was going through an interesting performance issue when calling a stored procedure from my web application more than one time and the WCF was timing out because of the stored procedure execution takes long time to execute. At the first, I...

by Mostafa Elzoghbi

Filed under: asp.net, EF, Performance, SQL Server

Conditional using statement in C# debug versus Release
Mon, Mar 11 2013 11:32

Hi Folks, I'm writing this blog post to share how to write conditional using statements in C#. The meaning of this is how to use using statements in Debug mode versus Release mode in reference to different dlls. This is needed when you are using any...

by Mostafa Elzoghbi

Filed under: C#, WP8