Simple 5 steps to expose WCF services using REST style

In this article we demonstrate the 4 important steps to enable your WCF service as a REST service.

Read more at http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article779-simple-5-steps-to-expose-wcf-services-using-rest-style-.aspx

Author: Questpond

WCF Hosting in Windows Services

In this article, we are going to see how to host Windows service in WCF and automatically start and stop the Service by using Button click events.

Read more at http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article777-wcf-hosting-in-windows-services-.aspx

Author: Anup1252000

Simple 7 steps to run your first Azure Blob Program

In this section we will create our first program using Azure blobs. This article creates a simple web page where we upload image files which are stored in azure blobs. We have also created a simple search text box which will help us to search the image blobs with the image file name.

Read more at http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article775-simple-7-steps-to-run-your-first-azure-blob-program-.aspx

Author: Questpond

SQL Query Optimization FAQ Part 1 (The SQL Plan)

In this article we first try to understand what is a SQL plan, how is it created and then we will move towards understanding how to read the SQL plan. As we read the SQL plan we will try to understand different operators like table scan, index scan clustered scan etc. As we understand the logic of these operators we will also try to understand what are the best practices in different situations.

Read more at http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article776-sql-query-optimization-faq-part-1-the-sql-plan-.aspx

Author: Questpond

External Style Sheet

External style sheets have many powerful that make them ubiquitous in professional Web sites: It keeps your website design and content separate. It's much easier to reuse your CSS code if you have it in a separate file. Instead of typing the same CSS code on every web page you have, simply have many pages refer to a single CSS file with the "link" tag. You can make drastic changes to your web pages with just a few changes in a single CSS file. It allows a single style sheet to control the rendering of multiple documents. This results in a time-savings for the author, a savings of space for the web server, and less download time for the user. This method can be used in both HTML and XML.

Read more at http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article773-external-style-sheet-.aspx

Author: Chikul

ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

This is my first article on asp.net and I will try to explain the basics of asp.net page life cycle and easy understanding of its usage. Page life cycle depends on whether it is requested for the first time or it is after postback(page request of itself) and finalize to the web server. When a web page is requested to web server, it goes through a series of sequence of steps/events (like initialization, instantiating controls, restoring and maintaining state, running event handler code, and rendering) before it returned back to the web browser.

Read more at http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article771-aspnet-page-life-cycle-.aspx

Author: Inder2305

Jokes section - There will not be any winner now

Dear Visitors,

After the discussion on Jokes section in this thread http://www.dotnetfunda.com/forums/thread1158-posting-copy-jokes.aspx we have decided to keep the Jokes section out of the "Winner of the month" award contest.

Of course, person with more quality jokes will be selected as another winner types described here

Thanks

Introducing User Level and UserStatus on DotNetFunda.Com

From 18-Jan-2010, we have formally introduced UserLevel and UserStatus on DotNetFunda.Com. The details of which can be found at our FAQ page http://www.dotnetfunda.com/misc/page14.aspx

Following are the details about these two enhancements that can also be found at FAQ page.


User Level - how it is calculated

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