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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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: […]

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