Windows Phone Toolkit is an additional set of controls for Windows Phone Development released by Microsoft Windows Phone developer platform team through Codeplex.com. Windows Phone Toolkit provides the developer community with new components, functionality, and an efficient way to help shape product development. Windows Phone Toolkit – October 2012 includes additional support for using the… Continue reading
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Download Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Final (Online and Offline standalone Installer)
Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing(RTM) for Windows Phone 8 on 29th OCT 2012 and as announced on the sameday – Microsoft has released Windows Phone 8 SDK for developers on 30th OCT 2012. The Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is a full-featured development environment to use for building apps and games for Windows Phone… Continue reading
Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2748141)
This update to Visual Studio will provide an extension point to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 that will allow for Web Publishing Updates. DOWNLOAD:Â Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2748141)
Zip(Archive) API’s in .NET Framework 4.5 – Part 2 – ZipFile Class
In my previous post I shared some information on API’s/Classes included as part of System.IO.Compression namespace in .NET Framework 4.5, and given on overview of ZipArchive class. Once such class I would be sharing some insight with post today would be ‘ZipFile‘ class. The ZipFile class provides convenient static methods for working with zip archives:… Continue reading
Zip(Archive) API’s in .NET Framework 4.5 – ZipArchive Class
With release of .NET Framework 4.5, Microsoft has introduced new classes in to System.IO.Compression namespace. These classes will add the necessary programming support for Zipping(Achiving), and Extracting support for Zip Files in your .NET Source Code. Below are the newly introduced classes as part of .NET Framework 4.5: ZipArchive – Represents a package of compressed… Continue reading
Windows Azure Training Kit – October 2012
Microsoft Azure Training Kit – October 2012 is the latest set of Microsoft Azure Training tutorials, samples for Developers and Microsoft enthusiasts. October 2012 Update The October 2012 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit includes 47 hands-on labs, 24 demos and 38 presentations. Some of the updates in this version include: Updated 22 presentations… Continue reading
Lazy Request Validation in ASPDotNET 4.5 and AntiXSS
Lazy Request Validation is an interesting feature included as part of .NET Framework 4.5 and ASP.NET 4.5. By default all request data is subject to request validation. However, you can configure the application to defer request validation until you actually access request data. You can configure the application to use deferred validation in the Web.config… Continue reading
Read and Write HTTP Requests and Responses asynchronously using ASP.NET 4.5
With ASP.NET 4 – Microsoft has introduced the ability to read an HTTP request entity as a stream using the HttpRequest.GetBufferlessInputStream method. This method provides streaming access to the request entity. But this process happens synchronously because it was tied to a thread until the request is completed. Now with new ASP.NET 4.5 –… Continue reading
Windows Phone Toolkit – September 2012
Recently new update for Windows Phone Toolkit – September 2012 has been released. As per the release notes here are the changes or features included as part of this release New Features New control CustomMessageBox New control Rating New transition effects Updated control templates to more closely match the 1st party experience Shortened the product… Continue reading
Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6–Released
Microsoft has released v1.6 of the Kinect for Windows SDK with support for Windows 8 application support, Visual Studio 2012 development support. You can develop Windows Store applications that would utilize the Kinect Sensor through the USB interface, the new SDK provides enough support necessary for application development using Visual Studio 2012 in a Windows… Continue reading