Understanding Azure File Share

n nAll of us atnsome point, be in our educational institutes or in professional world have usednthe file share, i.e. the common storage space maintained by IT team of annorganization where users can create their folders, access common softwareninstallers or keep project specific documents. Usually we mount this storagenspace as a network drive for easy … Read more

Guide to Azure Remote Apps

n nAzure Remote Apps n nBeing anpopular cloud services provider, Microsoft Azure keeps adding variety of newnservices to its existing offerings making sure cloud becomes your platform ofnchoice for your existing business scenarios and applications. nn nThis articlenmainly focuses on introduction to one of such offering of Microsoft Azure I.e.nAzure Remote Apps.  n n n … Read more

Unresponsive DataCacheFactory Constructor Initialization

nHey folks,nnThis was one of the most strange issue I saw today and it is with Microsoft Azure Managed Cache Service APIs.nnWhat was the issue?nnWe were using Azure managed cache 2.3.1 APIs and everything was set including changes needed in the configuration files.nnHere is what typical snippet to initialize the cache factory looks likennnnn nstatic … Read more

Get MIME Type by file extension

nI was searching for a way to get the MIME type of a file by file extension and .NET Framework 4.5 comes to the rescue.nnYou can make use of API GetMimeMapping which is found in the .NET Framework 4.5 System.Web.dllnnHere is the documentation of it – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mimemapping.getmimemapping.aspxnnExample on how you can use itnnstring mimeType = … Read more