Sending Mobile Push notification using C#/.NET (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Blackberry)

This is an update blog to my earlier blog about Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#. With that blog – I  introduced you to  how to send push notification using Open Source library APNSharp, by the developer John Redth.  Redth announced that library is already deprecated. Redth came up with  with another open source […]

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Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM are available for MSDN/TechNet subscribers

Today, Microsoft has released the Windows 8 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers. As rumoured earlier final build version is  6.3.9600.16384. If you are an MSDN/TechNet Subscriber you can download the latest build from: MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442898  TechNet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442904.aspx Related blogs for reference: Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC […]

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Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available

Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update for Visual studio 2012.  This update includes lots of bug fixes and improvements. Here are some informative links for you: Download – Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update – KB Article

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Visual Studio 2012 Update 4–Released

Microsoft has today released the final RTW(Release-To-Web) version of Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 .  This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012. Download:  Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 ( Web Install | Offline ISO ) Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 with Update […]

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Read and Write HTTP Requests and Responses asynchronously using ASP.NET 4.5

  With ASP.NET 4 – Microsoft has introduced the ability to read an HTTP request entity as a stream using the HttpRequest.GetBufferlessInputStream method. This method provides streaming access to the request entity. But this process happens synchronously because it was tied to a thread until the request is completed. Now with new ASP.NET 4.5 – […]

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Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6–Released

Microsoft has released v1.6 of the Kinect for Windows SDK with support for Windows 8 application support, Visual Studio 2012 development support. You can develop Windows Store applications that would utilize the Kinect Sensor through the USB interface, the new SDK provides enough support necessary for application development using Visual Studio 2012 in a Windows […]

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