Microsoft today announced availability of new azure cloud services named as Azure App Service. Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a replacement of old Azure Websites / Azure Mobile Services, earlier these services were delivered separately and Microsoft has integrated all these capability in to single service and made it easy to configure. Azure… Continue reading
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iOS – Swift vs Objective-C
Since the introduction of Swift by Apple( a new programming language for developing iOS apps using xcode) , among iOS developers it has become a myth that Swift is going to replace Objective-C. I just would like to add my few cents to this view: MYTH 1: Swift will replace Objective-C immediately NO, Swift is… Continue reading
Windows Phone Screen Sharing/Mirroring to PC
Being mobile developer and strong follower of Mobile related technologies, always admire to demonstrate my work to my friends and colleagues. All this time I was fancy about iOS Mirroring provided through apps Reflector and Air Server. With help of these tools we used to mirror our iPad/iPhone to be mirrored to a Windows/Mac and… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2013 – Update 2 is available
Microsoft has released the latest update for Visual Studio 2013 with major improvements including support for developing Universal apps for Windows 8.x, Win Phone, and XBOX. Here are the list of improvements included as part of the release(lending from Visual Studio team blog): Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has many new capabilities as well as… Continue reading
Kinect SDK for Windows v 1.8 Released
Microsoft has released latest version of Kinect SDK for Windows and Kinect Developer Toolkit for Windows. The Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to create applications that support gesture and voice recognition, using Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Embedded Standard 7. News features… Continue reading
Disable Client Side validation on a button click – ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC we use client side validation using jQuery.validate plugin, which will be based on Model – Data Annotation validation attributes. In some cases we might want to disable such validation on a button click wherever it is not needed. For example: The below code block will register validation block for Title property in the… Continue reading
Certified–Professional Scrum Master-I(PSM-I)
Before I joined UnitedHealth Group as a Consultant in Jul 2010, I didn’t even hear about of Agile or Scrum.I have been working in an Agile environment for last 3 years and it was really interesting experience to develop high value applications and products using Scrum. I worked on few projects during the tenure as… Continue reading
WP8Dev– How to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone
This post will give you an overview on how to identify the sensors supported on your Windows Phone. As a developer when you are developing for Windows Phone – and your application would need to interact with certain sensors in windows phone to achieve a certain functionality, you would need to verify whether the sensors… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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:… Continue reading