Learn using the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training content–for Online or Offline view–Courtesy Channel9

On November 28-29th 2012, Microsoft has hosted the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training, a fast-paced and demo-packed learning ‘experience’ tailored to show developers how to build responsive, appealing, and effective applications quickly. If you missed this outstanding event, you’re in luck. All 20 modules are now available online for your on-demand viewing, (or download) […]

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Microsoft has announced Windows Phone 8

Yesterday Microsoft has made a major announcement few days right after the announcement of Surface Tablet.   NFC, MicroSD, dual-core support, more memory  – oomphh!!!! I am gonna love new windows phone. Windows Phone 8 is going to be a game changer and Microsoft has revamped it to fit with modern mobile user needs. As per Joe Belfiore’s announcement […]

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New revamped Windows Azure released and new Windows Azure SDK v1.7(JUNE 2012)

Microsoft has made significant changes to existing Windows Azure to make it more user friendly and customer friendly. The new Windows Azure was officially released in an online event Meet Windows Azure (MeetWindowsAzure.com) , in this event ScottGu(Microsoft VP)  has walked us through the new Windows Azure features. You can have a quick look at […]

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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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Visual Studio 2012 RTMd

Microsoft has announced the RTM(Release to manufacture) of Visual Studio 2012. For MSDN Subscribers, the bits will be available for download on August 15th. Visual Studio Professional, Premium, Test Professional, and Ultimate with MSDN Subscribers can also sign up for a free, one year developer account for Windows Store today, with Windows Phone developer accounts […]

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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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