Introduction My intention with this article is to clarify the doubts among the .NET programmers having a misconcept about Windows Phone 7 and Metro. When people first hear about METRO, they started believing that it’s a new programming language for Windows Phone 7 and they start referring to that in so many places. What […]
Read more →Month: April 2011
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 and Hardware Rendering/acceleration
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM was released on 12-APR-2010, 1 year completed as of now. The major change of VS2010 was that it is a completely reworked and is completely developed in WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation). Since it is based on WPF, Visual Studio 2010 performance is based on hardware rendering(using “3D Graphics”/VGA hardware). In order […]
Read more →Future of Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 been recognized as one of the major release by Microsoft, just like the way Windows 7 win the hearts of millions of Windows 7 users around the globe. Recent survey indicates that over 350 million licenses of Windows 7 has been sold across the world so far. The MetroUI – Design Guidelines/language […]
Read more →Sorting a List in ASC/DESC order using LINQ
Most of the developers are unaware of the capabilities of .NET 3.5 and above. Still going for old way of sorting calling List.Sort and implementing a delegate or lambda expression to specify the sort expression. But the slight problem is what you will do for “ASCENDING” and “DESCENDING” order sorting. You have to specify the […]
Read more →Tech Presentation Tips – Checklists for an effective presentation
Today I came across an article by Phil Haack through his tweet. The article is Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes . A good informative article by Phil, by the way may of you know him through his blog http://haacked.com. Phil has shared his past experiences and mistakes he done while doing Technical presentations. […]
Read more →How to Download MIX 2011 Videos
Scott Hanselman has shared a nice article on how to download the videos of MIX2011 – Conference LAS VEGAS, happened last week. These are good presentations about Windows Phone 7, MVC, Silverlight 5, XBOX, and Azure.. Don’t miss it!! Read through the link Mix 2011 Videos – article by Scott Hanselman Thanks Scott!! for such […]
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