Switching between Windows Phone 7.1 Mango and 7.0 RTW developer tools

Recently Microsoft has announced the latest version on Windows Phone 7 OS code named “Mango”(Version 7.1). The very next day we received the Windows Phone 7.1  Mango developer tools BETA for Download (my previous post here) will take you through the features etc. Just today I came across a nice article by @WindowsPhoneGeek, Switching between Windows […]

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Windows Phone 7.5[MANGO] and Windows Phone 7.1 OS

Microsoft has released Windows Phone 7.5 on Sept 27th 2011. The Operating system itself been initially been called as “Windows Phone 7.5” code named as “Windows Phone MANGO”. The underlying operating system version is Windows Phone 7.1, even though it is been marketed as “Windows Phone 7.5”. There is been lots of confusion among people […]

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Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Phone 7.x emulator slowdown

Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows 8 is been called ‘Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available […]

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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 […]

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Brief on SQLCLR

Brief on SQLCLR SQL CLR or SQLCLR (SQL Common Language Runtime) is technology for hosting of the Microsoft .NET common language runtime engine within SQL Server. The SQLCLR allows managed code to be hosted by, and run in, the Microsoft SQL Server environment. This technology, introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2005, allow users for example […]

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