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Project Spark will go on sale in the Americas on October 7, in Asia-Pacific countries on October 9 and in Europe on October 10. The retail version will sell for $39.99 and include a bunch of new content for users to use in their own games, as well as “Champions Quest: Void Storm,” the first episode […]

Microsoft and Perfecto Mobile Ltd. yesterday announced new features for mobile app testing in Visual Studio and Microsoft Azure. Perfecto Mobile provides mobile app testing solutions with its MobileCloud platform, which can draw upon a cloud of thousands of connected smartphones and tablets on which developers can run various kinds of tests. The testing service […]

Remote Desktop App Version 8.1.2 for Windows Phone 8.1 arrives in the preview version and includes a few minor improvements. Including a new easier view which makes it much easier to locate the short name of the PC that the user is trying to connect with, the ability for the app to perform simple NetBIOS […]

According to the report, the new build number comes in at 8.10.14130 for Windows Phone 8.1 with the current OS build for the GDR3 version of Windows Phone 8.1 is actually 8.10.10532 and the developer preview version of Windows Phone 8.1 is 8.10.12397. This update is scheduled to roll out as early as next month […]

Microsoft announced an enhanced partnership with Perfecto Mobile to provide mobile app developers with a multiplatform testing experience for mobile devices. Acknowledging that mobile-first development requires testing on the wide variety of devices, Microsoft has tapped Perfecto Mobile, a provider on on-device testing solutions, to deliver mobile testing extensions to Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server […]

Microsoft’s announces is good news for people who wanted to use the motions sensing capabilities without the need for a $400 Xbox One. And while Microsoft had originally announced that the new standalone device would be available in November, it was just released today for pre-order via the Microsoft estore, for Windows, and at the […]

The new conference will be dubbed Oculus Connect and has been created by the Oculus VR group and focused on developers around the world. It’s scheduled to take place this year at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood, California, on September 19th and 20th with registration for Oculus VR opening on July 10th at oculusvr.com/connect. In […]

The WritePad SDK is now optimized for the Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 allowing development of desktop, metro, WinRT, and phone applications, including support for ARM, X86, and X64 architectures. The SDK also features improved handwriting recognition quality especially when used for recognition of large digital ink data, and updated UNICODE (UTF-16) APIs for […]

Omar Shahine, Principal Group Program Manager, OneDrive at Microsoft, recently announced on the Microsoft Office Blog (https://blog.onedrive.com/new-onedrive-storage-plans/) that Microsoft OneDrive will soon come with 15 gigabytes for free (up from their current 7 gigabytes offering). Microsoft’s announcement will enable OneBigDrive’s customers to consolidate a minimum of 57 gigabytes of free cloud storage, up from our […]

Microsoft Outlook.com and OneDrive have enabled PFS, or Perfect Forward Secrecy. This is a new encryption solution which provides a unique encryption key for each connection as it happens. This new technique is designed to be more challenging for attackers to decrypt the connections. PFS is not necessarily new to the web with Google leading […]

Telerik® today released major, new mobile advancements to its award-winning DevCraft suite of UI controls. New in Q2 2014, Telerik is optimizing mobile development for ASP.NET projects by providing responsive, adaptive and elastic capabilities; mitigating the challenges of developing for multiple devices and screen sizes. The release also includes document processing and cloud capabilities for […]

In this article I will introduce the readers to the state machine model and also create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in C# language. What is a State Machine? Any device that changes its state from one to another due to some actions are defined to be state machines. For […]