Microsoft has released latest version of Kinect SDK for Windows and Kinect Developer Toolkit for Windows. The Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to create applications that support gesture and voice recognition, using Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Embedded Standard 7. News features… Continue reading
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
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… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available
Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update for Visual studio 2012. This update includes lots of bug fixes and improvements. Here are some informative links for you: Download – Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update – KB Article
Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM are available for MSDN/TechNet subscribers
Today, Microsoft has released the Windows 8 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers. As rumoured earlier final build version is 6.3.9600.16384. If you are an MSDN/TechNet Subscriber you can download the latest build from: MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442898 TechNet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442904.aspx Related blogs for reference: Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2013 RC (Release Candidate) now available
Microsoft has released Release Candidate version of Visual studio 2013 which is now available for public download through Microsoft Download Center and MSDN/TechNet. For more details read Somasekhar’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/09/09/announcing-the-visual-studio-2013-release-candidate.aspx Related links: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-2013-Release-Candidate http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch/archive/2013/09/09/announcing-lightswitch-in-visual-studio-2013-rc.aspx Download from below links: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013 RC Microsoft Visual Studio Premium 2013 RC Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013… Continue reading
Certified–Professional Scrum Master-I(PSM-I)
Before I joined UnitedHealth Group as a Consultant in Jul 2010, I didn’t even hear about of Agile or Scrum.I have been working in an Agile environment for last 3 years and it was really interesting experience to develop high value applications and products using Scrum. I worked on few projects during the tenure as… Continue reading
WP8Dev– How to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone
This post will give you an overview on how to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone. As a developer when you are developing for Windows Phone – and your application would need to interact with certain sensors in windows phone to achieve a certain functionality, you would need to verify whether the sensors… Continue reading
Sending Mobile Push notification using C#/.NET (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Blackberry)
This is an update blog to my earlier blog about Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#. With that blog – I introduced you to how to send push notification using Open Source library APNSharp, by the developer John Redth. Redth announced that library is already deprecated. Redth came up with with another open source… Continue reading
Installing Windows 8 Client Hyper-V inside VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX
Typically I used to try latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 8.0 development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 8.1 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V cannot be installed:… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2013 Preview Update released
Microsoft has released an update for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Update to fix some minor issues. Download: Visual Studio 2013 Preview Update