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Introducing IIS Transform Manager & IIS Smooth Streaming – Stream your Media files through IIS

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Few weeks back one of my colleague asked for some help on setting up an IIS Smooth Streaming capability for an iOS application. Users will be uploading the videos to Servers. We wanted to stream videos on demand to iOS Devices such as iPhone, iPod, iPad. Inorder to stream we have to convert the video… Continue reading

Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6–Released

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Microsoft has released v1.6 of the Kinect for Windows SDK with support for Windows 8 application support, Visual Studio 2012 development support. You can develop Windows Store applications that would utilize the Kinect Sensor through the USB interface, the new SDK provides enough support necessary for application development using Visual Studio 2012 in a Windows… Continue reading

Windows Phone Marketplace is now Windows Phone Store

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Welcome to new Windows Phone Store!! Today Windows Phone team has announced the changes to Windows Phone Marketplace and this has been officially renamed to “Windows Phone Store”.   Read the Windows Phone team announcement blog. Here is how the new phone store will look like the shiny new default home page Find my phone Just… Continue reading

Visual Studio 2012 Launch Event– at Hyderabad on – Sept 17th 2012

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I got surprised to see Microsoft has sent out Visual Studio 2012 Launch event invites to most of Microsoft developers. By the time I tried to register, registration was closed – since already reached expected volume of registrations. It was so unfortunate to miss this event, as I could not register for this event on… Continue reading

Facebook C# SDK v6.0.22 RTW with Windows 8 and .NET 4.5 is released

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Facebook v6.0.22 RTW with official support for Windows 8 and .NET 4.5 released. The Facebook C# SDK helps .Net developers build web, desktop, phone and metro style applications that integrate with Facebook. In order to use this SDK with your C# solutions you have the following options. Download Facebook C# SDK  from NUGET   (NuGet is… Continue reading

Windows 8 RTM available for download for MSDN & TechNet Subscribers

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Microsoft has released Windows 8 RTM for MSDN,TECHNET and volume subscribers on AUG 15 2012, as declared earlier on AUG 1st 2012 – RTM(Release to Manufacture) announcement. Windows 8 RTM – Enterprise – x86 & x64 Windows 8 RTM – Professional (Retail and Volume)– x86 & x64 Windows 8 RTM – x86 & x64  … Continue reading

Windows Phone 7.8 Feature set Leaked

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Recently leaked Windows Phone 7.8 feature list indicates some of the interesting features you can expect as part of Windows. Windows Phone 7.8 is an incremental update to existing Windows Phone 7.x platform, as upcoming Windows Phone 8 will not work on existing windows phone 7.x devices, because hardware signature and kernel might change as… Continue reading