Yesterday Microsoft Windows Phone Team announced the availability of Windows Phone 7.8 to existing Windows Phone 7.x family of devices by early 2013. Some of the interesting features announced are: New Customizable start screen with resizable Live Tiles. It doubles the number of theme and accent colors—to 20—so you can make your phone even more… Continue reading
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Download – Windows Phone 8 Training Kit
Hands on Labs for the Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform. The hands on labs in this package immerse you in Windows Phone 8 development, by walking you building a set of applications that demonstrate many of the most compelling new features for developers in Windows Phone 8 DOWNLOAD: Windows Phone 8 Training Kit
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1–Available Now
Microsoft has released the Update 1 for Visual studio 2012 RTM. The key features available with this update include: SharePoint development: additional ALM capabilities in SharePoint – such as Load Testing and Coded UI testing support – improving quality, scalability and agility. Agile team support: easier agile planning with Web Access and new Kanban support,… Continue reading
Download Today – Windows Internet Explorer10 Pre-release for Windows 7/Server 2008R2
Microsoft has just released the pre-release version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7. Previously IE10 was bundled with Windows 8 and Server 2012. Now that Microsoft has announced the release of IE10 for Windows 7, developers and enthusiasts can experience the capabilities of IE10 – including more support for HTML5, CSS3 and improved security… Continue reading
Just Released – Windows Azure Training Kit – November 2012 Update
The November 2012 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit includes: Updated labs to use Windows Azure SDK (October 2012) Updated labs to use Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8 New Hands-on lab: Windows 8 Mobile Services (HTMLJS) Updated Presentations .NET 4.5 Support in Web Sites and Cloud Services DOWNLOAD: Windows Azure Training Kit –… Continue reading
WP8 Developer Series–Getting to know Common API’s for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8
[ Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 logos are trademarks of Microsoft ] Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system by Microsoft, officially announced the release to manufacture on 29th OCT 2012. Previous Windows Phone versions were all based on old CE kernel and with Windows Phone… Continue reading
WP8 Developer Series–Installing Windows Phone 8.0 SDK and Getting Started
Microsoft has released the final SDK for Windows Phone 8.0 for developers. In this article we are going to walk through the steps and requirements to install Windows Phone 8.0 SDK on your PC. To find out what’s new in the SDK visit What’s new in the Windows Phone SDK 8.0. 1. Requirements Windows Phone… Continue reading
New Update for ASP.NET & Visual Studio 2012 – Microsoft ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Prerelease
A new prerelease update for Microsoft ASP.NET 4.5 has been introduced for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio Express for WEB. This release updates Visual Studio 2012 with a prerelease update to ASP.NET. Features and updates: Enhanced Website publishing New ASP.NET MVC Templates for Facebook applications and Single Page Application using knockout.js and ASP.NET Web… Continue reading
Windows Phone Power Tools–a must have extension for all Windows Phone developers
The Windows Phone Power Tools are a natural extension to the developer tools that come with the Windows Phone SDK. Instead of allowing you to only install developer xaps the Power Tools let you test update scenarios by allowing you to update an existing developer app. Instead of having to step through the IsolatedStorage file… Continue reading
Windows Phone Toolkit–October 2012 with WP8 SDK support
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