The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published — the complete definition of the HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications on 17 December 2012. Quoting from the announcement here Though not yet W3C standards, these specifications are now feature complete, meaning businesses and developers have a stable target for implementation and planning. HTML5 is the cornerstone […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
HTML5 – Bye Bye ‘WebSQL’/’SQLite’ – Welcome ‘IndexedDB’
Since November 18, 2010, the W3C announced that Web SQL database(Sqlite) is a deprecated specification. This is a recommendation for web developers to no longer use the technology as effectively, the spec will receive no new updates and browser vendors aren’t encouraged to support this technology. The new alternative is IndexedDB which is already available […]
Read more →Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 RC(Release Candidate)
This release updates Visual Studio 2012 with a pre-release update to ASP.NET. Features and updates: Enhanced Website publishing New ASP.NET MVC Templates for Facebook applications and Single Page Application using knockout.js and ASP.NET Web API ASP.NET Web API enhanced with new features: ASP.NET Web API OData gives you the flexibility you need to build OData […]
Read more →Free HTML5 Certification and Training Offer from Microsoft–Prove your HTML5 Programming Skills for free
Microsoft few month back launched a free HTML5 Certification program for exam – 070-480 – Programming in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. To prepare for this exam you have set of nice Training materials also available through http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com. Lets go through in detail How you can utilize this exam. When you pass Exam 70-480: Programming in […]
Read more →Introducing IIS Transform Manager & IIS Smooth Streaming – Stream your Media files through IIS
Few weeks back one of my colleague asked for some help on setting up an IIS Smooth Streaming capability for an iOS application. Users will be uploading the videos to Servers. We wanted to stream videos on demand to iOS Devices such as iPhone, iPod, iPad. Inorder to stream we have to convert the video […]
Read more →Zip(Archive) API’s in .NET Framework 4.5 – Part 2 – ZipFile Class
In my previous post I shared some information on API’s/Classes included as part of System.IO.Compression namespace in .NET Framework 4.5, and given on overview of ZipArchive class. Once such class I would be sharing some insight with post today would be ‘ZipFile‘ class. The ZipFile class provides convenient static methods for working with zip archives: […]
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