Add New Package source to NuGet Package Manager.

NuGet has surely reduced the maintaining the library package to some extent, we are using NuGet package manager quite often in our project. Recently I Needed a package which is not part of the NuGet Official package source. After a small research I found the solution and its been already published in many blogs in the internet.

Still sharing it, by default we have “https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=206669” as a default NuGet Official package source. If you want to add additional repository you can always add it by adding more source in Package Sources, user can find this on Visual Studio 2010->Tools->Options-> Package Manager tab.

Above we have the option page where additional source can be added, just add a name and source url where the nuget package is published for a particular library.

Now you go to your project and right click on project reference and select manage nuget package, and a package manager will popup.

In the above window you can see that I have added First Floor Software package as additional source.

Its truly a nice feature and making the management of software library a piece of cake.

BCL : PDF converter and sdk for easy use.

Hi recently we developed a Silverlight component for one of our client and used some very interesting technologies. I thought those are worth sharing. If you are thinking about converting your PDF document to word or some other format I would suggest you use BCL component. You can download the sdk as well as the trial software from http://www.pdfonline.com/.

There could be lots of technologies for converting documents from one format to another but sad thing is noting is free. You have to pay to use this component so some financial bottleneck is involved. I would very much like to see some free component in future. In those cases open source software's would have had those rich conversion facilities.

Until we find free products for conversion, this is a good choice.

Trello an excellent example of awesome scrum/Kanban digital board

 

Today I want to share a really interesting tool with the community. Its simple, its easy, its really user friendly its Trello. From the makers of FogBugz yet another awesome tool to ease the developers life. It’s a free tool, at least till now you can create and manage multiple boards. Typically a organization have multiple ongoing projects, and this tool also support multiple boards.

We can create as many columns depending on our needs. For instance. Back lock, Hotbox , In Development, Pre-QA, Under –QA, Finished, etc. We are trying to use this for our small projects till now, but it has huge potential to manage big size projects. I am looking forward to get some velocity calculation and advanced reporting features in future.

Till Next time. Its me signing out.

Most widely used WPF client application development frameworks

I done some research on WPF client application development frameworks and eventually found out three most used framework and one yet to be mature framework. I thought its worth sharing the research result

1. Prism

http://compositewpf.codeplex.com/

Impression : Most advance framework

2. Caliburn

http://caliburn.codeplex.com/

Impression : Advanced  framework

3. Cinch

http://cinch.codeplex.com/

Impression : Solved particular set of problems and can be used along with other framework

4. WPF Application Framework (WAF)

http://waf.codeplex.com/

Impression: Primitive and useful framework to develop MVVM pattern based application

All the application framework used MVVM pattern to develop the applications, I am sure this frameworks are worth learning and will definitely help us in career.