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.NET Core 1.0.1 Update (September 2016) Available

September 14, 2016 .NET, .NET Core 1.0, .NET Core 1.0.1, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0.1, HotFixes, Linux, Mac OSX, Microsoft, Open.Source, OpenSource, Operating Systems, Updates, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, Visual Studio Code, VisualStudio, VS2015, Windows, Windows No comments

Microsoft .NET Core team has released an update to .NET Core 1.0, versioned as “.NET Core 1.0.1”.

Read more detailed updates from Microsoft Developer Announcement Blog: Announcing September 2016 Updates for .NET Core 1.0

You can read the release notes for .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework 1.0.1 to learn about the specific changes that are included, including the commits that the release was built from.

You can download associated tooling updates from below links:

Introducing Visual Studio Code

May 1, 2015 .NET, .NET Framework 4.6, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Linux, Linux.World, Mac OSX, Open.Source, Operating Systems, Visual Studio Code, VisualStudio, Windows, Windows No comments

As part of Microsoft’s focused approach to bring in more value to Cross platform & Open Source based initiatives Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code IDE along with .NET Core runtime for Mac, Linux and Windows.

Visual Studio Code, a new, free, cross-platform code editor for building modern web and cloud applications on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Visual Studio Code is built primarily with standard web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Visual Studio Code offers developers built-in support for multiple languages (such as CoffeeScript, Python, Ruby, Jade, Clojure, Java,  Javascript,  JSON, C++, R, Go, makefiles, shell scripts, PowerShell, bat, xml), the editor will feature rich code assistance and navigation for all of these languages. JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js and ASP.NET 5 developers will also get a set of additional tools.

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Quoting from Visual Studio code site:

Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of what developers need for their core code-edit-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool – supporting OSX, Linux, and Windows – in the Visual Studio family.

Download:

Read more about it from below references:

Visual Studio Code Team blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vscode/

Coding4Fun Toolkit v2.0.3 for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps

March 21, 2013 .NET, .NET Framework, .NET Framework 4.5, Codeplex, Community, KnowledgeBase, Microsoft, MSDN, Third-Party-Libraries and Frameworks, ToolKits, VisualStudio, VS2010, VS2012, Windows 8, Windows 8 apps development, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7.1 SDK, Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.0 SDK, Windows Phone Development, Windows Phone SDK, Windows Phone Store, Windows Store, Windows Store Development No comments

Coding4Fun team has released a new updates for their Windows Phone and Windows 8 controls. There are some interesting controls available for free through codeplex.com.

Coding4Fun team are major contributors to .NET community including Channel9 video series etc. They always brings up innovation in whatever they do, including set of Kinect based tutorials and sample codes available on Channel9 and Codeplex.

Here is the list of controls and converters available with this toolkit set provided to you by Coding4Fun Team.

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Converters

The new release includes certain enhancements and bug fixes: (details given below)

New/Adjustments

  • PreventScrollBinding is included, this will prevents pivot / panorama movements on slider, prompts, …
  • Forced old nuget packages onto new system
  • Slider property change
    • Fill property -> Foreground property
    • Step property -> StepFrequency property

Bug Fixes

  • Toast Prompt would fail if you had two toasts active at the same time and swiped one away

You can download and try the latest release bits either through direct download from codeplex or through NuGet package installs.

Downloads:

Coding4Fun.Toolkit (Windows Phone 7).zip

Coding4Fun.Toolkit (Windows Phone 8).zip

Coding4Fun.Toolkit (Windows Store).zip

NuGet installs:

Documentation: http://coding4fun.codeplex.com/documentation

Microsoft Media Platform – Player Framework for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 updated to version 1.1

March 5, 2013 .NET, .NET Framework, Codeplex, Community, IIS Smooth Streaming, Microsoft, Microsoft SDKs, MSDN, OpenSource, Streaming Media, VisualStudio, VS2012, Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.0 SDK, Windows Phone Development, Windows Phone SDK, Windows Phone Store, Windows SDK, Windows Store No comments

Microsoft Media platform team has recently updated the “Media Player Framework” for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to version 1.1, which includes few enhancements and fixes.

“Media Player Framework” helps you in building media applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.  The player framework contains an open source framework available for Silverlight, HTML5 and XBox media applications, Windows Phone and Windows applications.  It allows application developers to progressively download and play normal media contents from different download sources and other smooth streaming sources.

Download the latest framework from Codeplex.com:  http://playerframework.codeplex.com

Note: This framework is not for Windows Phone 7.x version applications, as it is based on Windows 8 application API’s – which are common for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 versions.

Fun with Ubuntu Linux

September 2, 2012 All, Linux.World, Open.Source, OpenSource No comments

I was trying new build of Ubuntu Linux (in one of the virtual machine. I am impressed with the perfection and simplicity the OS offers.  I love it and Kudos to Ubuntu team. If you are looking for a free open source OS for your desktop or laptop, Ubuntu Linux is the best choice.

Here is some of the screen shots of Ubuntu I have taken.

 

 

If you want to download Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS