Making an Offline install of Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8

In my last articles I introduced you to the latest update for Windows Phone SDK to support Windows Phone 7.8. The installer available download from here, the installer packageWPExpress78_update.exe is an Online/Web Installer – will download the necessary packages on demand at the time of installation, and it would take some time depending on your […]

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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 β€˜Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available […]

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Microsoft Tech∙Ed India 2011 – ON THE ROAD, Hyderabad- on 22nd May 2011

Microsoft INDIA has announced Microsoft Tech∙Ed on the Road at Hyderabad, where microsoft put together the best sessions from Tech∙Ed India 2011 and bring them to our Hyderabad. These events are not only about content and sessions – they also provide an opportunity for you to interact with and have your questions answered by the very […]

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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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How to Download MIX 2011 Videos

Scott Hanselman has shared a nice article on how to download the videos of MIX2011 – Conference LAS VEGAS, happened last week. These are good presentations about Windows Phone 7,  MVC, Silverlight 5, XBOX, and Azure.. Don’t miss it!! Read through the link Mix 2011 Videos – article by Scott Hanselman Thanks Scott!! for such […]

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Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0

this is bit late news. – 9.7.2009 Today Microsoft launched its latest effort to “Light up the web”, Silverlight 3 which is now available for download. Silverlight has come a long way since its version 1.0 launched in 2007. It has even attracted big players like Netflix who use it as their primary video player. […]

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