Installing Windows 10 Client Hyper-V in VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX

As a Windows 10 Insider, I would always latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 10/UWP development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 10 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V […]

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Back to Basics : Singleton Design Pattern using System.Lazy type

This article takes you to a simpler/alternative approach in making a Singleton Design Pattern implementation using System.Lazy class rather that using our traditional approach. Singleton Design Pattern implementation without lazy initialization: This code is thread safe enabled This approach ensures that only one instance is created and only when the instance is needed. Also, the […]

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New Certification – MCSD – Azure Solution Architect

Microsoft has made availability of new MCSD certification called as “MCSD – Azure Solutions Architect“. Required Exams: 070-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 070-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 070-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Once you complete the above required exams you will be awarded MCSD – Azure Solutions Architect certificate valid for 2 years. PS: […]

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Introduction to HTTP/2

The reason I got started with topic is that, there  were some buzz around Visual Studio 2015 RC support for HTTP/2 and Windows 8 – IIS support for HTTP/2. I was curious to learn further about the HTTP/2 and sharing my findings in this article. About HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is the first new version of HTTP […]

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All you need to know about Microsoft Azure Stack(Azure on On-Premises

Typically it is a hype among people that if a product comes from Microsoft, it needs to be criticized and thinking Microsoft would only be promoting their products with Azure. That’s not right and I would say we are being judgmental without even looking at the capabilities on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure the prime competitor […]

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Static vs Singleton Classes

Recently while I was attending an interview I came across a question Static vs Singleton. Though I know the differences I couldn’t answer it properly, as I was not refreshed my programming knowledge before the interview. I would like to quote a reference to Jalpesh’s blog article (www.dotnetjalps.com) explaining the difference: Difference between Static and […]

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