I was in a search for finding solution in C# or .NET which would allow me to send iOS Push notifications from C#. Ideally this needs to be a service/scheduler that will send push notifications periodically. Since iOS is a closed platform, I was wondering whether we can create anything like that using .NET. My… Continue reading
Category: .NET Framework
Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2 (a.k.a Windows Phone 7.1 Developer Tools–beta 2) is released
Microsoft has released(06/28/2011) BETA2 of their new Windows Phone 7.1 Developer Tools. The new Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2 (renamed from WPDT – Windows Phone Developer Tools) can be used to develop Applications for both 7.0 and 7.1 version of Windows Phone OS releases. The Windows Phone SDK includes the following Windows Phone SDK 7.1… Continue reading
New MSDN Download Center Makeover
Microsoft Download Center (MSDN Download Center) has come through a new makeover recently flaunting the look and feel similar to METRO UI from Windows Phone 7. Recently after the announcement of Windows 8, microsoft opened up the jar of Windows 8 magic’s people came to know that Windows 8 is going to have a METRO… Continue reading
Microsoft TechEd-2011 – On the Road – Hyderabad is over #in
Hi All; We had a nice learning session as part of TechEd-2011 On the Road – Hyderabad @ Microsoft India Development Center. The sessions started with Shravan’s session about “Exploring ASP.NET MVC 3” which was an interesting session discussing about What is new in ASP.NET MVC 3 and ASP.NET MVC 3 tools update. After the… Continue reading
Enterprise Library 5.0 & Unity 2.1(Dependency Injection Container) for Silverlight and Enterprise Library 5.0 Optional Update 1 for .NET(ASP.NET,WinForms)
Microsoft has recently released few updates for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (A collection of reusable application blocks(logging,caching, cryptography, data access etc) for .NET. One of the interesting part of these releases are Enterprise Library 5.0 & Unity 2.1(Dependency Injection Container) for Silverlight. more details about each release are given below. Enterprise Library 5.0 for Silverlight This release provides… Continue reading
Microsoft Tech∙Ed India 2011 – ON THE ROAD, Hyderabad- on 22nd May 2011
Microsoft INDIA has announced Microsoft Tech∙Ed on the Road at Hyderabad, where microsoft put together the best sessions from Tech∙Ed India 2011 and bring them to our Hyderabad. These events are not only about content and sessions – they also provide an opportunity for you to interact with and have your questions answered by the very… Continue reading
What is METRO on Windows Phone 7?
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading