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We are pleased to announce the release of SaaSGrid 1.8.1! Our testing sandbox located at http://saasgridpreview.com has been updated to this version. SaaSGrid licensees are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible and can contact SaaSGrid Support for...

We are pleased to announce the release of SaaSGrid 1.8! Our testing sandbox located at http://saasgridpreview.com has been updated to this version. SaaSGrid licensees are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible and can contact SaaSGrid Support for the...

Web services play a central part of all SaaSGrid applications, including those that take advantage of SaaSGrid’s native Silverlight 3 Support. There are some things to be aware of when developing, and more importantly, configuring your services...

We are pleased to announce the release of SaaSGrid 1.7! Our testing sandbox located at http://saasgridpreview.com has been updated to this version. SaaSGrid licencees are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible and should contact SaaSGrid Support for...

This article was last updated on November 6, 2009. Did you know that your SaaSGrid application can use Windows Workflow Foundation? SaaSGrid even provides native support for the most popular aspect of Windows Workflow Foundation: database persistence...

This release of SaaSGrid introduces the following major features: Native support for SOAP 1.1 across the services fabric Application Cloud Control Please continue reading to learn more about these features. Additionally, several minor enhancements to...

A common question that we get is "What will it take to change my existing .NET application to work on SaaSGrid?" The answer depends on these factors: The current architectural structure of your application and how closely it matches that of SaaSGrid's...

Consider the following use cases: My application permits tenants to create events, and I want to publish a list of all of those events in another location. I want tenants to be able to mark data as sharable so it can be viewed by other tenants. SaaSGrid...

This release of SaaSGrid introduces the following major features: Tenant-wide pricing introduction Checkout process changes Subscription information display improvements Remote API Please continue reading to learn more about these features. Additionally...

This article assumes that you are creating a public website for your SaaSGrid application, and you wish to take advantage of ASP.NET's Providers. This article talks about considerations to keep in mind when using these providers within a SaaSGrid application...

This release of the SaaSGrid platform introduces the following major features: Multiple Payment Methods Manual Billing and Invoice Management Deployment Settings & Application Preferences We've also implemented a number of minor enhancements and bug...

Because the SaaSGrid platform is multi-application/multi-vendor, yet single sign-on from the user’s standpoint, Apprenda has provided expected authentication mechanisms and appropriate user interfaces at the platform level. Users have the ability to login...

Last week we released the first version of a development library called the SaaSGridControlToolkit that will make developing ASP.NET user interfaces for SaaSGrid even easier. The SaaSGridControlToolkit is a collection of ASP.NET controls that provide...

This release of the SaaSGrid platform introduces two major features: Public Websites Anonymous Concurrent User Support Please note that a new version of the SaaSGrid SDK (Version 1.6) has been released to support these new features. Please read on for...

We've just released a new version of the SaaSGrid Mocker to support the new functionality introduced with the latest version of the SaaSGrid SDK (v 1.6) as well as some minor bug fixes. The bug fixes are related to issues trying to save the active configuration...

Introduction : With the release of the SaaSGrid SDK v1.6 we introduced 2 very cool new features, the first one is the ability to support the notion of public websites and the second one which goes hand in hand with the first one is the ability to control...

This release of the SaaSGrid platform introduces two major features: Database patching support User interface re-branding Please read on for additional information about these changes. Database Patching Support Database patching has been introduced and...

By default, LINQ to SQL uses fully qualified object names derived from the application's datacontext file (.dbml) during compilation. When you initially create this datacontext file for your application, every table entry has a property called 'Source...

One of the powerful features of the SaaSGrid platform is the ability to work against a "mock" SaaSGrid environment when developing locally. An XML file is read when executing code locally to establish the context of the user and tenant. This article will...

A nifty aspect of the SaaSGrid API and the various contexts (Tenant, User, Subscription) is that they are accessible at any point in the lifecycle of an ASP.NET request in your application. You are not limited to accessing the API in the codebehind of...

Most existing Javascript frameworks (Microsoft AJAX, ExtJS, jQuery, etc) give the client developer a clean and easy way to make AJAX calls to the server, receive data back, and update a portion of the current page without needing to make a roundtrip post...

SaaSGrid application deployments support a variety of technologies at the user interface layer. Consider the following scenarios: Standard ASP.NET web user interface using traditional WebForms. Standard ASP.NET web user interface using the new ASP.NET...

Unlike Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005 provides no automatic way to launch a WCF Service. This is a major pain point for those of you developing SaaSGrid applications, but this article leads you through the process of creating a simple helper project...

Who should read this article? If you are developing a SaaSGrid application you should read this article to understand how the new SaaSGrid Mocker can help you debug your application right from Visual Studio prior to deploying it to a cloud instance of...

New release schedule : Now that SaaSGrid is ready for GA, future releases will occur less often and be scheduled in advance to maximize system availability for our customers. A new version of the SaaSGrid SDK has been released; there is a small breaking...