Windows Phone store expands to 37 new countries, adds universal search, and supports installing apps via SD card

Microsoft Windows Phone team announced the availability of Windows Phone web store to new 37 countries. It is pretty fast that Microsoft is expanding its reachability, now consumers from most of the countries from all over the world have the accessibility to Windows Phone store. The new markets are: Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, […]

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Windows Phone – Downloading and Sideloading Apps from SDCard

With Windows Phone 8 and new Windows Phone store – Microsoft has introduced the support for Manually download the .XAP files and install the application from an SDCard(Memory card). Follow the steps: Step 1: Windows Phone store will have an additional option  ‘Download and install manually’   for each application [Similar to the screen shot given […]

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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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Disable Client Side validation on a button click – ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC we use client side validation using jQuery.validate plugin, which will be based on Model – Data Annotation validation attributes. In some cases we might want to disable such validation on a button click wherever it is not needed. For example: The below code block will register validation block for Title property in the […]

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WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2–available

Latest update for WCF RIA Services v 1.0 includes support for Windows 8.1 and VS2010, 2012, 2013. Version: 4.1.61829.0            |        Date Published:  11/5/2013 Little about WCF RIA Services “ WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic […]

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Windows Phone Screen Sharing/Mirroring to PC

Being mobile developer and strong follower of Mobile related technologies, always admire to  demonstrate my work to my friends and colleagues.  All this time I was fancy about iOS Mirroring provided through apps Reflector and Air Server.   With help of these tools we used to mirror our iPad/iPhone to be mirrored to a Windows/Mac and […]

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