The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published — the complete definition of the HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications on 17 December 2012. Quoting from the announcement here Though not yet W3C standards, these specifications are now feature complete, meaning businesses and developers have a stable target for implementation and planning. HTML5 is the cornerstone […]
Read more →Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
HTML5 – Bye Bye ‘WebSQL’/’SQLite’ – Welcome ‘IndexedDB’
Since November 18, 2010, the W3C announced that Web SQL database(Sqlite) is a deprecated specification. This is a recommendation for web developers to no longer use the technology as effectively, the spec will receive no new updates and browser vendors aren’t encouraged to support this technology. The new alternative is IndexedDB which is already available […]
Read more →Learn using the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training content–for Online or Offline view–Courtesy Channel9
On November 28-29th 2012, Microsoft has hosted the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training, a fast-paced and demo-packed learning ‘experience’ tailored to show developers how to build responsive, appealing, and effective applications quickly. If you missed this outstanding event, you’re in luck. All 20 modules are now available online for your on-demand viewing, (or download) […]
Read more →WCF Data Services 5.2 RTM Tools for Visual Studio 2010/2012
Microsoft has released an update to WCF Data Services tools – v5.2, this will update the NuGet packages referenced by the WCF Data Services item templates to 5.2.0. This installer also fixes a bug where generating a service reference against a large model would cause Visual Studio to crash. This release contains the following noteworthy […]
Read more →Windows Phone store expands to 37 new countries, adds universal search, and supports installing apps via SD card
Microsoft Windows Phone team announced the availability of Windows Phone web store to new 37 countries. It is pretty fast that Microsoft is expanding its reachability, now consumers from most of the countries from all over the world have the accessibility to Windows Phone store. The new markets are: Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, […]
Read more →Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC(Release Candidate)
This release updates Visual Studio 2012 with a pre-release 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 API ASP.NET Web API enhanced with new features: ASP.NET Web API OData gives you the flexibility you need to build OData […]
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