Moustafa Arafa Blog : Developer Tools

WCF Error: The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly.

Mostafa Elzoghbi — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:31:00 GMT

Hi Folks, While i was developing a WCF service API for my enterprise application, I got an error while i'm calling a search function in the WCF. The WCF function is calling a stored procedure. I tested the stored procedure and there is no issues with...(read more)

How to enable MS Dynamics CRM 2011 to integrate with Windows Azure

Mostafa Elzoghbi — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Fix It: Application deployment Failed, Please try again in VS 2012

Mostafa Elzoghbi — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

VS 2012 Update 1 is available

Mostafa Elzoghbi — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Error connecting to TFS 2010 using VS BIDS 2008

Mostafa Elzoghbi — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:48:00 GMT

Hi All, If you are experiencing an error when connecting to TFS 2010 using Microsoft Visual Studio Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) while you don't have this problem connecting using VS 2010 so follow below steps to fix it. 1) Close...(read more)

Avoid Run Time Errors while deploying SharePoint 2010 Solutions

Mostafa Elzoghbi - C# MVP — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:33:00 GMT

Hi All, Through my discussions with developers and attendees in SharePoint Events, I was getting a lot of questions about the target .net framework for applications and solutions that are built against Server and Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010...(read more)

How can you deploy Windows LIVE Project Template on Azure

Mostafa Elzoghbi - C# MVP — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:43:00 GMT

Hi All, If you are developing windows live application using Window Live SDK June CTP, You won't be able to deploy your windows live application on windows azure if you didn't update your web.config by adding the following section: diagnostics...(read more)

Export office system files to PDF

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:49:00 GMT

Hi all, Office System 2007 save as PDF add-in now is available without 3rd party tools/add-ins. Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en This add-in work with all office...(read more)

24 Hour Virtual Event - TechEd 2009 Developers !!!

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:23:00 GMT

Hi folks, Do you have a problem of different time zones for online trainings and workshops ? If Yes, here is a good news from microsoft : Defy all challenges of different time zones, Now you can attend Virtual Tech Ed Event for Developers on 1st April...(read more)

Integrate SharePoint Data to non Microsoft Portal Products

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:02:00 GMT

Hi all, Great News !!! Recently MS SharePoint product team has released Web Services Remote Portlets (WSRP) toolkit, This toolkit provides developers to expose easily sharepoint data to non microsoft portal products such as : AquaLogic Portal, IBM WebSphere...(read more)

New useful tool to prepare your web server or development machine

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:56:00 GMT

Hi All, We used when we want to install any software for our web servers or any of our development machine is to read alot of KBs article how to install .Net Framewort 3.5,SQL 2005 express edition...etc. and it was a long process you have to have your...(read more)

Test the performance of you web pages

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:09:00 GMT

Hi All, For all web developers to measure the performance of your web pages,now MS has released new tool to visualize analyze the performance of your roundtrip in your webpages called VRTA. download link : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...(read more)

Different Languages Interface for VS 2008

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:25:00 GMT

Hi All, MS has released a new tool since that all developers all over the globe can see the translation of VS Interface in different languages other than english Interface (CLIP). This is one announcement,the other one which is interesting,that i have...(read more)

VS.Net WSS 3.0 Extensions V1.1

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:20:00 GMT

Hi, Great News,New version of VS.Net 2005 Extensions for WSS 3.0 V1.1 has been released,New templates and tools has been added and updated from the last version V1.0. Download it now : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3E1DCCCD...(read more)

SharePoint Developers' Tips for better machine performance

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:48:00 GMT

Hi Folks, As a SharePoint developer or any developer who have SharePoint on your development machine, after a while of developing SharePoint sites you will find that your machine is getting slower and slower and your don’t know plus the space is eating...(read more)

Deploy your Windows App using ClickOnce on Vista Machines

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:37:00 GMT

Dear Folks, If you tried to deploy you are windows application using ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2005/2008 on Vista Machine, you will find that your published installation package will not work for clients have Vista machine, Why ? The reason is simple...(read more)

Ready Tool for managing Asp.Net 2.0 Membership Data

Moustafa Arafa - C# MVP — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:01:00 GMT

Hi Folks, Very useful tool i found it on CodePlex community site,this tools give you easily manage the membership tables,manage user roles,Roles,Reset passwords. The tools is available with source code also.... :) Download URL : http://www.codeplex.com...(read more)

New Tools for Developers & DBAs

Moustafa Arafa El-Zoughby — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:54:00 GMT

Hi Folks, New Tools has been released for Developers & DBAs. SQL Server Migration Assistant for Access http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6852361 Automates database migration from Access to SQL Server 2005. SQL Server Migration Assistant for Sybase ASE...(read more)

IE Developer Toolbar

Moustafa Arafa El-Zoughby — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:33:00 GMT

Hi Folks, New tool has been released for all Web Developers,the tool name is "IE Developer Toolbar" : These features enable you to: -Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page. -Locate and select specific elements on a...(read more)

Migrate from Oracle to MS SQL

Moustafa Arafa El-Zoughby — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:58:00 GMT

Hi Folks, Microsoft has released a new tool to migrate from Oracle to MS SQL,this is a cool tool ,download it now and use it :) "SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle V3.0 " http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6604763 This download is a complete suite...(read more)