Monthly Archive: October 2012

Updates Released for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012–before general availability – KB2756872

Before the general release of Windows 8 – Microsoft has released a few important updates for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 RTM. Remember if you have running RTM version of Windows 8/2012 your system will be eligible to receive…
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Read and Write HTTP Requests and Responses asynchronously using ASP.NET 4.5

  With ASP.NET 4 – Microsoft has introduced the ability to read an HTTP request entity as a stream using the HttpRequest.GetBufferlessInputStream method. This method provides streaming access to the request entity. But this process happens synchronously because it was…
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Windows Phone Toolkit – September 2012

Recently new update for Windows Phone Toolkit – September 2012 has been released. As per the release notes here are the changes or features included as part of this release New Features New control CustomMessageBox New control Rating New transition…
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Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6–Released

Microsoft has released v1.6 of the Kinect for Windows SDK with support for Windows 8 application support, Visual Studio 2012 development support. You can develop Windows Store applications that would utilize the Kinect Sensor through the USB interface, the new…
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Windows 8 Camp in a Box–a set of Hands-on-labs, presentations, samples

Windows 8 Camp in a Box is a set of  hands-on-labs, presentations, samples and resources from the Windows 8 camps. The Windows 8 camps are free training events for developers ramping up on Windows Store app development. To sign-up or…
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