Microsoft has today released their IoT SaaS offering for customers and partners called as “Microsoft IoT Central”. IoT Central enables powerful IoT scenarios without requiring cloud solution expertise and also simplifies the development process and makes customers to make quick time to market solutions, making digital transformation more accessible to everyone without overhead of implement […]
Read more →Visual Studio 2017 Install error– 0x80131500 – Failed to Deserialize packages
I was frustrated by this error when I am trying to reinstall Visual Studio 2017 after my visual studio got corrupted/failed during upgrade to 15.1 ( or after a previous installation failed due to low disk space). There is a file called ‘state.json’ , in below mentioned path, which is creating this particular issue. %ProgramData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Instances\<instance> […]
Read more →Azure SDK for .NET 3.0 available for Visual Studio 2015/2017
Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for Visual Studio development for Azure Cloud enabled applications. Microsoft has released latest Azure SDK for .NET along with Visual Studio 2017 (RTW). The new version v3.0 will support only Visual Studio 2015/2017, if you are using Visual Studio 2013 you can […]
Read more →Creating Visual Studio 2017 Offline Installer
In my earlier article, I shared the details to download various Visual Studio Editions. This is an online installer which would require associated packages to be downloaded from online Microsoft sources. Means Microsoft is not providing an Offline ISO as a download like in Visual Studio 2015. This would be a time consuming process depending […]
Read more →Visual Studio 2017 Released
Microsoft has released today the latest version of Visual Studio. The new Visual Studio 2017 will help you develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Web, and Cloud. It will also help you use version management, be agile, and collaborate effectively. Includes support for Xcode 8.3, iOS 10.3, watchOS 3.2, and tvOS 10.2 tools and APIs in […]
Read more →IoT Security–Essentials–Part 01
Security(Cyber Security) is an essential requirement for any IoT platform or devices or end users and the communication infrastructure. In order to achieve or design best possible security solutions, to avoid some external entity or hacker gaining access to your IoT device or infrastructure, every architect or system designer should do Threat Modeling exercise. As […]
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