Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store apps

Microsoft has released a Visual Studio 3D Starter kit sample project which would essentially help the developers to create 3D Games or apps using Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Phone 8.0 SDK or Windows SDK. [Image Courtesy: Microsoft] [Quoting from Visual Studio Code gallery and official blog] This sample contains the starting point for a […]

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Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012–for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps

Multilingual App toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 helps the windows Phone and Windows store app developers to integrate Multi lingual/localization capability in your applications. This extension for Visual Studio 2012 helps you localize your Windows Store and Windows Phone apps with translation support, translation file management, and editor tools. Download Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual […]

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Download TypeScript 0.8.2 for Visual Studio 2012

Microsoft has announced the availability of latest preview release for TypeScript as Version 0.8.2. Read more about the release from MSDN Typescript Team blog here You can download the TypeScript 0.8.2 for Visual Studio 2012 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34790

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Upcoming Webinars and Trainings on Microsoft Technologies(Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure, HTML5) – Feb 2013

Jump Start – February 19: Building Web Apps with ASP.NET (February 19) An accelerated introduction to building modern web applications with ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 team-taught by Scott Hanselman and Jon Galloway. Windows Azure Hands-on Labs Online Training (February 20) Learn how to connect a Paas application to an Iaas application. Matt Hester […]

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StartW8–a closer, free Windows Aero start menu alternative–for Windows 8

While searching for Third Party alternative software’s for bringing back windows start menu feel on Windows 8, I came across few interesting tools – and I introduced them in my earlier blog posts – Stardock’s Start8 (licensed version), Classic Shell, Power8 were those. [logo courtesy: AreaGuard] Today I just found another cool alternative that you […]

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Power8–yet another replacement to bring back old Windows Start Menu in Windows 8

Power8 is a similar windows start menu alternative like ‘Classic Shell’, which I introduced in the last post. Benefits Power8 includes: No system files patching; No hooks over system objects; No app-init DLLs; No additional services, drivers, etc; No trash in registry; No installation – just unpack and launch; Small, fast and powerful; Open-source; You […]

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