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 […]

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Windows Phone Marketplace is now Windows Phone Store

Welcome to new Windows Phone Store!! Today Windows Phone team has announced the changes to Windows Phone Marketplace and this has been officially renamed to “Windows Phone Store”.   Read the Windows Phone team announcement blog. Here is how the new phone store will look like the shiny new default home page Find my phone Just […]

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Microsoft Windows Server 2012–the Cloud OS is released

Microsoft has yesterday released the latest edition of Windows Server series – Windows Server 2012 – which is intend to power your cloud infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 adds features that make it easier to manage large clusters of servers in data centers remotely. Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the […]

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Fun with Ubuntu Linux

I was trying new build of Ubuntu Linux (in one of the virtual machine. I am impressed with the perfection and simplicity the OS offers.  I love it and Kudos to Ubuntu team. If you are looking for a free open source OS for your desktop or laptop, Ubuntu Linux is the best choice. Here […]

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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 […]

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