Microsoft has recently released few updates for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (A collection of reusable application blocks(logging,caching, cryptography, data access etc) for .NET. One of the interesting part of these releases are Enterprise Library 5.0 & Unity 2.1(Dependency Injection Container) for Silverlight. more details about each release are given below. Enterprise Library 5.0 for Silverlight This release provides… Continue reading
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Microsoft Tech∙Ed India 2011 – ON THE ROAD, Hyderabad- on 22nd May 2011
Microsoft INDIA has announced Microsoft Tech∙Ed on the Road at Hyderabad, where microsoft put together the best sessions from Tech∙Ed India 2011 and bring them to our Hyderabad. These events are not only about content and sessions – they also provide an opportunity for you to interact with and have your questions answered by the very… Continue reading
What is METRO on Windows Phone 7?
Introduction My intention with this article is to clarify the doubts among the .NET programmers having a misconcept about Windows Phone 7 and Metro. When people first hear about METRO, they started believing that it’s a new programming language for Windows Phone 7 and they start referring to that in so many places. What… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 and Hardware Rendering/acceleration
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM was released on 12-APR-2010, 1 year completed as of now. The major change of VS2010 was that it is a completely reworked and is completely developed in WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation). Since it is based on WPF, Visual Studio 2010 performance is based on hardware rendering(using “3D Graphics”/VGA hardware). In order… Continue reading
Sorting a List in ASC/DESC order using LINQ
Most of the developers are unaware of the capabilities of .NET 3.5 and above. Still going for old way of sorting calling List.Sort and implementing a delegate or lambda expression to specify the sort expression. But the slight problem is what you will do for “ASCENDING” and “DESCENDING” order sorting. You have to specify the… Continue reading
Tech Presentation Tips – Checklists for an effective presentation
Today I came across an article by Phil Haack through his tweet. The article is Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes . A good informative article by Phil, by the way may of you know him through his blog http://haacked.com. Phil has shared his past experiences and mistakes he done while doing Technical presentations.… Continue reading
How to Download MIX 2011 Videos
Scott Hanselman has shared a nice article on how to download the videos of MIX2011 – Conference LAS VEGAS, happened last week. These are good presentations about Windows Phone 7, MVC, Silverlight 5, XBOX, and Azure.. Don’t miss it!! Read through the link Mix 2011 Videos – article by Scott Hanselman Thanks Scott!! for such… Continue reading
Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
Today I was searching for good resources for Windows Phone 7 application development and I came across a cool set of libraries in Codeplex.com. What is Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7? The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 is designed to make it easier for you to build mobile applications that leverage… Continue reading
Silverlight 5 Beta Released & Microsoft Silverlight 5 Beta Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has just released first beta of upcoming Silverlight 5. Microsoft Silverlight 5 Beta Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is an Add-on and pre-requisite files for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 to develop Silverlight 5 Beta and Microsoft WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 Preview (April 2011) applications. Download: Silverlight 5 Tools Beta Microsoft®… Continue reading
IE(Internet Explorer) 9.0 Final(RTW) Released – Version 9.0.8112.16421
Microsoft has today released the final version of Internet Explorer(IE) 9.0. The version number of the final build would be 9.0.8112.16421 (RTW – Release to Web). New features that make its appearance in IE9 include: Streamlined design with compact user interface. Pinned Sites for accessing frequently visited web pages directly from the taskbar on Windows 7… Continue reading