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
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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…
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
Future of Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 been recognized as one of the major release by Microsoft, just like the way Windows 7 win the hearts of millions of Windows 7 users around the globe. Recent survey indicates that over 350 million licenses of Windows 7 has been sold across the world so far. The MetroUI – Design Guidelines/language… 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
Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
Today I was searching for good resources for Windows Phone 7 application development and I came across a cool set of libraries in Codeplex.com. What is Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7? The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 is designed to make it easier for you to build mobile applications that leverage… Continue reading
Silverlight 5 Beta Released & Microsoft Silverlight 5 Beta Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has just released first beta of upcoming Silverlight 5. Microsoft Silverlight 5 Beta Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is an Add-on and pre-requisite files for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 to develop Silverlight 5 Beta and Microsoft WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 Preview (April 2011) applications. Download: Silverlight 5 Tools Beta Microsoft®… Continue reading
IE(Internet Explorer) 9.0 Final(RTW) Released – Version 9.0.8112.16421
Microsoft has today released the final version of Internet Explorer(IE) 9.0. The version number of the final build would be 9.0.8112.16421 (RTW – Release to Web). New features that make its appearance in IE9 include: Streamlined design with compact user interface. Pinned Sites for accessing frequently visited web pages directly from the taskbar on Windows 7… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 SDK – Released (Available for Download)
Microsoft has released final version of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 SDK. The Visual Studio 2010 SP1 SDK provides tools and templates for building Visual Studio extensions. By using the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 SDK, you can build your own tool windows, create menu commands, and add extensions to the new Visual Studio editor and other… Continue reading