Category: Windows 8.1

Visual Studio 2013 – Update 2 is available

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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

WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2–available

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Latest update for WCF RIA Services v 1.0 includes support for Windows 8.1 and VS2010, 2012, 2013. Version: 4.1.61829.0            |        Date Published:  11/5/2013 Little about WCF RIA Services “ WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic… Continue reading

Kinect SDK for Windows v 1.8 Released

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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

Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available

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Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update for Visual studio 2012.  This update includes lots of bug fixes and improvements. Here are some informative links for you: Download – Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update – KB Article

Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM are available for MSDN/TechNet subscribers

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Today, Microsoft has released the Windows 8 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers. As rumoured earlier final build version is  6.3.9600.16384. If you are an MSDN/TechNet Subscriber you can download the latest build from: MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442898  TechNet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442904.aspx Related blogs for reference: Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC… Continue reading

Visual Studio 2013 RC (Release Candidate) now available

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Microsoft has released Release Candidate version of Visual studio 2013 which is now available for public download through Microsoft Download Center  and MSDN/TechNet. For more details read Somasekhar’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/09/09/announcing-the-visual-studio-2013-release-candidate.aspx Related links: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-2013-Release-Candidate  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch/archive/2013/09/09/announcing-lightswitch-in-visual-studio-2013-rc.aspx Download from below links: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013 RC Microsoft Visual Studio Premium 2013 RC Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013… Continue reading

Installing Windows 8 Client Hyper-V inside VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESX

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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

The Interestingly new IE 11– F12 Developer Tool Bar

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With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview – Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 11 (PREVIEW) which includes a new developer tools for Windows. How to open Developer Tool in IE11? After opening IE11 – press F12 key – this invoke developer tool bar in IE. F12 Developer Tool bar was existing since the earlier… Continue reading

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