Windows 8 Camp in a Box is a set of hands-on-labs, presentations, samples and resources from the Windows 8 camps. The Windows 8 camps are free training events for developers ramping up on Windows Store app development. To sign-up or join for a Windows camp(in your region), please visit http://devcamps.ms/windows. We have two packages available… Continue reading
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Must Read – Unleash the power of HTML 5 Canvas for gaming
An excellent article discusses about using HTML5 canvas for building browser based games using only HTML and Javascript. The <canvas> element is used to draw graphics, on the fly, on a web page. The power of HTML5 Canvas is that you can draw any 2D or 3D content within the canvas region using powerful HTML5… Continue reading
jQuery Mobile 1.1.0 Final Released!
Jquery team has released final version of Jquery Mobile 1.1.0. jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework (additionally known as a JavaScript library or a mobile framework) currently being developed by the jQuery project team. The development focuses on creating a framework compatible with a wide variety of smartphones and tablet computers, made necessary by the growing but heterogeneous tablet and smartphone market. The JQuery Mobile framework… Continue reading
Mobile Application Development
Mobile Applications are rapidly developing segment in the global mobile sector. Developing mobile applications targeting different mobile platforms such as Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Bada(Samsung’s Proprietary OS) is the trend setter now. Quoting from Wikipedia Mobile application development is the process by which application software is developed for small low-power handheld devices such… Continue reading
WebSockets endpoint/transport support with WCF 4.5 *New*
WebSocket is a web technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket. The WebSocket API is being standardized by the W3C, and the WebSocket protocol has been standardized by the IETF as RFC 6455. WebSocket is designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers, but it… Continue reading
MUGH Developer Day–January 2012
Microsoft User Group Hyderabad invites you to the Developer Day on Sunday, January 29th 2012. Register for this event for FREE @ http://mughdeveloperday01.eventbrite.com Here is the agenda: Timing Topic Speaker 09:30 to 10:00 Registration 10:00 to 11:00 Coding for Fun with Kinect Abhijit Jana, Microsoft 11:00 to 12:00 I Love HTML5 Shravan Kumar, Thomson… Continue reading
Beginning HTML5 Development with Visual Studio 2010
Recently I was doing some research works on HTML5 development using ASP.NET Â on Visual Studio 2010. Â Really liked the cool features HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript API’s. Major part of my research was around building mobile web applications using jQuery Mobile and Responsive Web. Quick Intro of HTML5 HTML5 will be the new standard for HTML,… Continue reading
CSSCop for Visual Studio – FxCop for StyleSheet
CSSCop makes it easy to adhere to best practices for writing stylesheets. It catches common errors that affect browser compatibility and much more. You can think of it as FxCop for stylesheets. CSSCop for Visual Studio tries to help us write better CSS, by making sure we remember all the right vendor specific properties or that… Continue reading
ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview & new Mobile Application Project Templates with jQuery Mobile support
Newly released Developer Preview of so called ASP.NET MVC 4 is having some interesting additions. ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview introduces also new template for mobile web applications. These templates are special because they are using jQuery Mobile – special jQuery library for building mobile user interfaces Check jQuery Mobile support levels for different mobile… Continue reading
Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor
Web Platform and Tools team announced the Visual Studio Web Standards Update. This adds better support for HTML5, CSS3 and new JavaScript features to ALL versions of Visual Studio. HTML5 moves fast, and this update will aim to keep up with it. It adds support to Visual Studio and the editor for HTML5, CSS3 and… Continue reading