Microsoft Media platform team has recently updated the “Media Player Framework” for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to version 1.1, which includes few enhancements and fixes. “Media Player Framework” helps you in building media applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The player framework contains an open source framework available for Silverlight, HTML5… Continue reading
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Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7/Server 2008R2 final released
Microsoft has released the final version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7/Server 2008R2. You can download it from below link: Download: Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 (32bit) Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Edition
Upcoming Webinars and Trainings on Microsoft Technologies(Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure, HTML5) – Feb 2013
Jump Start – February 19: Building Web Apps with ASP.NET (February 19) An accelerated introduction to building modern web applications with ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 team-taught by Scott Hanselman and Jon Galloway. Windows Azure Hands-on Labs Online Training (February 20) Learn how to connect a Paas application to an Iaas application. Matt Hester… Continue reading
Windows Phone 8–Application Model & Fast Application Resume feature
Windows Phone 8 has a new feature introduced called as ‘Fast Application Resume’, which allows the Windows Phone 8 OS to launch the application from suspended to running quickly. You feel like toggling between multiple apps with out much delay comparing to Windows Phone 7.x platform. With Windows Phone 7.5, OS was allowed to move… Continue reading
Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Phone 7.x emulator slowdown
Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows 8 is been called ‘Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available… Continue reading
Making an Offline install of Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8
In my last articles I introduced you to the latest update for Windows Phone SDK to support Windows Phone 7.8. The installer available download from here, the installer package[WPExpress78_update.exe](1.10MB) is an Online/Web Installer – will download the necessary packages on demand at the time of installation, and it would take some time depending on your… Continue reading
Setting up Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8 and working with Visual Studio 2010/2012
Microsoft has just released an update for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and 8.0 to provide support for Windows Phone 7.8 emulators.I have shared the details in my last blog post. With this article I will walk you through how it would look to work with this update. The following simple steps will help you with… Continue reading
Announcing Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8 – for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0
Microsoft has released an update for Windows Phone SDK for Windows Phone 7.8 support. This SDK adds Windows Phone 7.8 emulator support for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0. The Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 adds two new emulator images to your existing Windows Phone SDK installation. New Windows… Continue reading
Download TypeScript 0.8.2 for Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft has announced the availability of latest preview release for TypeScript as Version 0.8.2. Read more about the release from MSDN Typescript Team blog here You can download the TypeScript 0.8.2 for Visual Studio 2012 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34790
StartW8–a closer, free Windows Aero start menu alternative–for Windows 8
While searching for Third Party alternative software’s for bringing back windows start menu feel on Windows 8, I came across few interesting tools – and I introduced them in my earlier blog posts – Stardock’s Start8 (licensed version), Classic Shell, Power8 were those. [logo courtesy: AreaGuard] Today I just found another cool alternative that you… Continue reading