Microsoft has released the final version of the Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2. You can get more details on release from Somasekhar’s blog: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available. Somasekhar is VP of Developer Division at Microsoft. For information about the latest update, see Visual Studio Updates. Download Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 […]
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Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322–Released
Microsoft has released a new Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Update. This update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322 adds four new emulator images to an existing installation of Windows Phone SDK 8.0. This update requires Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. Using this update, you can test how your apps will run on devices that have build 8.0.10322 […]
Read more →Installing Windows 8 Client Hyper-V inside VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX
Typically I used to try latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 8.0 development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 8.1 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V cannot be installed: […]
Read more →Sending Mobile Push notification using C#/.NET (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Blackberry)
This is an update blog to my earlier blog about Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#. With that blog – I introduced you to how to send push notification using Open Source library APNSharp, by the developer John Redth. Redth announced that library is already deprecated. Redth came up with with another open source […]
Read more →Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store apps
Microsoft has released a Visual Studio 3D Starter kit sample project which would essentially help the developers to create 3D Games or apps using Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Phone 8.0 SDK or Windows SDK. [Image Courtesy: Microsoft] [Quoting from Visual Studio Code gallery and official blog] This sample contains the starting point for a […]
Read more →Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.3 for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps
Coding4Fun team has released a new updates for their Windows Phone and Windows 8 controls. There are some interesting controls available for free through codeplex.com. Coding4Fun team are major contributors to .NET community including Channel9 video series etc. They always brings up innovation in whatever they do, including set of Kinect based tutorials and sample […]
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