What is METRO on Windows Phone 7?

Introduction My intention with this article is to clarify the doubts among the .NET programmers having a misconcept about Windows Phone 7 and Metro. When people first hear about METRO, they started believing that it’s a new programming language for Windows Phone 7 and they start referring to that in so many places.   What […]

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Microsoft TechEd-2011 – On the Road – Hyderabad is over #in

Hi All; We had a nice learning session as part of TechEd-2011 On the Road – Hyderabad  @ Microsoft India Development Center. The sessions started with Shravan’s  session about “Exploring ASP.NET MVC 3” which was an interesting session discussing  about What is new in ASP.NET MVC 3 and ASP.NET MVC 3 tools update. After the […]

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Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2 (a.k.a Windows Phone 7.1 Developer Tools–beta 2) is released

Microsoft has released(06/28/2011) BETA2 of their new Windows Phone 7.1 Developer Tools. The new Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta2 (renamed from WPDT – Windows Phone Developer Tools) can be used to develop Applications for both 7.0 and 7.1 version of Windows Phone OS releases. The Windows Phone SDK includes the following Windows Phone SDK 7.1 […]

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Windows Phone 7 Mango update goes to RTM (released to Manufacture)

Microsoft’s latest release for Windows Phone is out, long awaited with so many new features, Windows Phone 7.1 a.k.a MANGO. Officially Windows Phone team has signed-off the RTM build for Windows Phone 7 MANGO. The Mango update for current Windows Phone handsets will be ready this fall, and will come pre-installed on new Windows Phones. […]

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Windows Azure SDK for .NET – November 2011 (Version 1.6)–Released

Microsoft has released latest version of Windows Azure SDK for .NET  – November 2o11 – Version 1.6. Windows Azure SDK for .NET, which include SDKs, basic tools, and extended tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Taken from Akash’s blog on Windows Azure here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/11/14/windows-azure-sdk-1-6-is-released.aspx  Latest Windows Azure SDK 1.6 includes the following new features: Windows […]

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Windows Phone "Tango" to be renamed to Windows Phone 7.5 “Refresh” and Windows Phone 8 for the future

Microsoft’s announced upcoming Windows Phone OS code named as Windows Phone “Tango” to be renamed to Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh. This is inline with Microsoft’s cloud feature specific Windows Phone OS called as Windows Phone “Apollo” or Windows Phone 8.   Windows Phone 7 “Tango” a.k.a Windows Phone 7.5 REFRESH The upcoming Windows Phone update […]

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