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In a move to lure developers towards developing mobile apps for their new OS, Microsoft today launched their new Windows Phone development center. Their new portal is a step forward from their traditional App Hub all new clean design with the Windows 8 Metro interface. Including a streamlined set of menu options, quick links, PayPal […]

Being dubbed as “the most significant change to Microsoft Office and SharePoint in the last 15 years,” by Richard Riley, Microsoft’s Director of Office division. With this announcement Microsoft is betting that its installed base of Office some 1 billion users will provide the success of Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store in […]

Portable Class Library, otherwise called PCL, comes with .NET framework 4.5 RC and a separate project template is available on Visual Studio 2012 RC. The portable class library can also be installed on top of Visual Studio 2010. It can be downloaded from here. Portable Class Library If you are developer working on applications targeting […]

For over a year Microsoft has used the term “Metro” for its newest Windows interface type, first employing the title for their Windows Phone 7 OS, and again with the announcement, and release of the new Windows 8. And now, seemingly out of nowhere, they have decided to drop the Metro campaign. Officially, they are […]

Microsoft is trying to inspire developers and administrators to begin developing with open Web technology for the upcoming release of their flagship office productivity suite, Office 2013. Developers will have access to VBA, Visual Basic Application and the new Office Cloud App Model which implements standards such as CSS, HTML, REST and Microsoft’s proprietary OData […]

Visual Studio over the years has provided very good support for the core application development languages like C#, VB, etc. But when it comes to web development languages like javascript and CSS, Visual Studio lacked some main support such as intellisense, debugging, etc. This article discusses some key features introduced in Visual Studio 11 with […]

Introduction In this article I will explain about the reset events in the .NET framework. I have chosen to write on this topic as I felt this part is always little confusing for developers. The reset events are the wait handles, which helps in synchronizing threads in the middle of some asynchronous threading operations where […]

In an effort to increase transparency, Microsoft has released code for its Entity Framework database mapping tool via open source. Thanks to Microsoft new subsidiary, Microsoft Open Technologies, Microsoft has released their Entity Framwork under open source licensing. Entity Framework is a tool used for developing .Net applications and providing an object-relational mapping framework to […]

While the announcement of the new Microsoft App store pricing is final, the Windows 8 app store itself is was a little weak in the consumer preview, at least in terms of quality. This of course is easily explained by the fact that the beta version of Windows 8 doesn’t allow developers to charge for […]

Microsoft has big plans for the Cloud and Office 2013 will be intimately connected to their SkyDrive cloud-storage service. SkyDrive of course is their key cloud component for Windows 8 and while Microsoft has not yet announced pricing for the new Office suite, they have announced that it will only be $40 US to upgrade […]

Prior to the introduction of Task Parallel Library (TPL) in .net framework 4.0, writing an asynchronous program was quite a tedious task. One had to write too many lines of code in order to accomplish a simple multi-threaded operation; for example creating wait handles, writing callbacks, complex error handling, etc. In .net framework 4.0, TPL […]

Microsoft Windows 8 is arguably the software titans single most important software upgrade to date. With so much riding on the new metro app style and recent losses for the Redmond business, a Windows 8 failure simply is not an option and could upset the company’s rule over the PC dominion. October 26 is only […]