Unity is a dependency injection container from Microsoft. It is full-featured, with support for instance and type interception and custom extensions. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers with the following advantages: Simplified object creation, especially for hierarchical object structures and dependencies Abstraction of requirements; this allows developers to specify dependencies at run… Continue reading
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I Unlock Joy 2012–Build Windows Phone apps campaign in India
I Unlock Joy is a campaign by Microsoft. Build Windows Phone apps and learn more about Windows Phone.You will be getting a change to build Windows Phone Apps and showcase your capabilities and win a Windows Phone or other gadgets from Microsoft. The campaign is coming to India in next 24 hours, stay tuned to… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2012 RTMd
Microsoft has announced the RTM(Release to manufacture) of Visual Studio 2012. For MSDN Subscribers, the bits will be available for download on August 15th. Visual Studio Professional, Premium, Test Professional, and Ultimate with MSDN Subscribers can also sign up for a free, one year developer account for Windows Store today, with Windows Phone developer accounts… Continue reading
Microsoft has announced Windows Phone 8
Yesterday Microsoft has made a major announcement few days right after the announcement of Surface Tablet. NFC, MicroSD, dual-core support, more memory – oomphh!!!! I am gonna love new windows phone. Windows Phone 8 is going to be a game changer and Microsoft has revamped it to fit with modern mobile user needs. As per Joe Belfiore’s announcement… Continue reading
New revamped Windows Azure released and new Windows Azure SDK v1.7(JUNE 2012)
Microsoft has made significant changes to existing Windows Azure to make it more user friendly and customer friendly. The new Windows Azure was officially released in an online event Meet Windows Azure (MeetWindowsAzure.com) , in this event ScottGu(Microsoft VP) has walked us through the new Windows Azure features. You can have a quick look at… Continue reading
Kinect for Windows SDK – Version 1.5 Released
Microsoft has released Kinect SDK for Windows – Version 1.5 on yesterday which includes improvements over skeleton tracking and facial tracking features. The Kinect for Windows SDK enables developers to create applications using C++, C# or Visual Basic, which support gesture and voice recognition using the Kinect for Windows sensor and a PC or embedded… Continue reading
Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in Visual Studio 11 RC(Release Candidate)
Go through this Visual Studio Team blog about upcoming improvements to Visual Studio 11 User Interface. This will be included as part of Visual Studio 11 RC(Release Candidate) and probably will be released soon by end of May or in June 2012. For more updates visit the Official blog link below http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visual-studio-11-user-interface-updates-coming-in-rc.aspx Kudos to Visual… Continue reading
Kinect SDK for Windows updated to 1.0.3.191 *MINOR UPDATE ONLY*
Microsoft’s Kinect SDK for Windows version 1.0.3.190(released on 2nd Feb 2012) is replaced by 1.0.3.191 on May 2012. This is a minor update to fix the issue related to the installer certificate. The earlier version had the potential to produce certificate error messages during setup in limited scenarios. The issue was resolved in version 1.0.3.191.… Continue reading
Windows Phone Development–Background Agents in Windows Phone
Windows Phone came through long way after it’s initial release on Oct 21st 2010. Windows Phone 7.5 update release called as “MANGO” brought lots of improvements including Multi tasking capabilities etc. With the introduction of multi-tasking ( it is not true multi tasking, but an efficient application switching which ensures that only one application will… Continue reading
Windows Phone Development–Developing for 256 MB (low profile) Windows Phone Devices
Microsoft has announced that upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh code named as “Tango” will have low profile 256 MB devices which would make Microsoft’s entry in to mobile market by delivering low cost Windows Phone devices. All existing Windows Phone devices are having 512 MB RAM, considering the mid-range or low entry market Microsoft has… Continue reading