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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Recently, we had the opportunity to demo SaaSGrid to Eugenio Pace and Gianpaolo Carraro from Microsoft's SaaS Architecture team. You can read about their impressions of the platform here: Northwind Hosting exists, it's better than what you saw and it...

UPDATED ON: 3/11/2009 Who should read this article? If you've developed an application in a local development environment and you're ready to deploy the application into a live environment, you should read this article. This article explains how to package...

Who should read this article? This article is meant for SaaSGrid developers that have configured their applications to run on their local environment and wish to prepare their application's configuration to run on a live SaaSGrid instance. Introduction...

Who should read this article? This article is meant for developers that need to persist information for their applications, or in other words if your application is backed by a database and you are planning on using SaaSGrid's database capabilities. It...

This article was last updated on November 9, 2009. Who should read this article? If you are developing an application and need to resolve certain types of information that is only available once an application is deployed, you should read this article...

Who Should Read This? This article assumes that you are familiar with the general SaaSGrid concepts and it will help as an introduction to understanding how to configure your local environment. So how does SaaSGrid work? It is important to understand...