To celebrate the launch of the Lumia 920 and 820 devices, Windows Phone Geek and Nokia are offering awesome prizes for developers in the Lumia Geek 8 Week Challenge. http://windowsphonegeek.com/lumia-geek-8-week-challenge/ Developers can win a trip for 2 to MWC in Barcelona, customized Lumias and their very own demo space at MWC in Barcelona. All developers […]
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Windows Phone – Downloading and Sideloading Apps from SDCard
With Windows Phone 8 and new Windows Phone store – Microsoft has introduced the support for Manually download the .XAP files and install the application from an SDCard(Memory card). Follow the steps: Step 1: Windows Phone store will have an additional option ‘Download and install manually’ for each application [Similar to the screen shot given […]
Read more →Disable Client Side validation on a button click – ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC we use client side validation using jQuery.validate plugin, which will be based on Model – Data Annotation validation attributes. In some cases we might want to disable such validation on a button click wherever it is not needed. For example: The below code block will register validation block for Title property in the […]
Read more →WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2–available
Latest update for WCF RIA Services v 1.0 includes support for Windows 8.1 and VS2010, 2012, 2013. Version: 4.1.61829.0 | Date Published: 11/5/2013 Little about WCF RIA Services “ WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic […]
Read more →Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express FINAL
Microsoft has released the FINAL version of it’s so called lighter version of IIS 7.5 called as “IIS 7.5 Express”. Which makes developers to utilize the features of IIS 7.5 in WindowsXP and above Operating system environments. Great work Microsoft!!!! Right on time.. IIS 7.5 Express enhances your ability to develop and test web applications […]
Read more →Doing Parallel Tasks using Parallel Class – Part 01(Parallel.For Parallel.ForEach)
Introduction Recently I had a requirement for performance tuning the application which my team is working on. We thought of running using normal .NET Threading. But I thought about utilizing the Parallel programming extensions(PFX) in .NET Framework 4.0. Since we have lots of For Loops and for each loops consisting of web service calls, makes […]
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