Visual Studio 2013 – Update 2 is available

Microsoft has released the latest update for Visual Studio 2013 with major improvements including support for developing Universal apps for Windows 8.x, Win Phone, and XBOX. Here are the list of improvements included as part of the release(lending from Visual Studio team blog): Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has many new capabilities as well as […]

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Microsoft Enterprise Library 6–Released

Microsoft has released the version 6.0 of their Microsoft Enterprise Library collection. Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable components to meet your needs in developing enterprise applications using .NET technologies. Quoting from Microsoft Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable application blocks designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. […]

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Getting Started to become an MCSD in Windows Store Apps

Last few years Microsoft Developer Certification Exams progressed forward through two certification tracks or titles MCTS(Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) and MCPD(Microsoft Certified Professional Developer). Earlier Microsoft certification titles been called as MCAD(Microsoft Certified Application Developer) and MCSD(Microsoft Certified Solution Developer), and Since .NET Framework 2.0 to 4.0 certifications – Microsoft renamed the titles as MCTS […]

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Microsoft ASP.NET and Frameworks 2012.2 – a.ka.–ASP.NET Web Tools – final Released

Microsoft has released ASP.NET and Frameworks Update 2012.2, also known as ASP.NET Web Tools 2012.2. This will provide updates to the web frameworks that shipped with Visual Studio 2012. For more information see instructions in the release notes at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=275132. Download: AspNetWebTools2012Setup.exe

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Kinect for Windows SDK v1.7 released

Microsoft has released the latest version of Kinect for Windows SDK – v1.7 with cool features for developers. The key features introduced are: Kinect Interactions –  Kinect Interactions are designed to let users intuitively do things like press their hand forward a few inches to push a button, or close their hands to β€œgrip and […]

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Introducing IIS Transform Manager & IIS Smooth Streaming – Stream your Media files through IIS

Few weeks back one of my colleague asked for some help on setting up an IIS Smooth Streaming capability for an iOS application. Users will be uploading the videos to Servers. We wanted to stream videos on demand to iOS Devices such as iPhone, iPod, iPad. Inorder to stream we have to convert the video […]

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