I am happy to host and announce the new Webinar Series which is going to happen very frequently from June 2013. F5debug webinar series will hosting a series of Webinars on Windows Phone, Windows Store and Windows Azure by National and International speakers. The series will be targeting Level 100 to 300 series on the topics mentioned above and will be happening every week. To get update on the webinars kindly follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Subscribe to F5debug and don’t miss the opportunity. More...
I have been using Windows Phone right from its first release and used to test around with almost all the application that are released and available in the Marketplace. Frequently there will be a question like what are the most important apps that should be downloaded as soon as you purchase your first Windows Phone. Right now I have a Nokia Lumia 920 and 620 devices, and here are the top 5 application that are very much required to have it as soon as you purchase your Windows phone from the market. More...
May 21st 2013 yesterday Microsoft reveals the details of the much awaited XBOX One console, which Microsoft called the system an "all in one system" for games, entertainment, and television. The system includes 8GB of RAM, an 8-Core CPU, a 500GB hard drive, a Blue-ray drive, HDMI in and out ports, USB 3.0, 802.11n wireless, and more. The news came from the Xbox Revel event happened at Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington. Experts predict the price of the device should be something around $400 for both Xbox and Kinect which we will come to know on the release date. More...
Its again a news, yes we have the New Windows Dev Center with much enhanced look and feel and better options to get what you need for your development or deployment. Previous release of the Dev center was at the early October 2011 from then Microsoft works closely with the developers and designers to get their inputs on how they can make the resources easily and quickly accessible. As a result we have the new Windows Dev Center released a day before with some good features and enhancements with focuses on great apps, great economics and great reach. More...
In this article, we are going to see how to deploy as ASP.NET MVC application to the Windows Azure Cloud services from Visual Studio 2012 IDE. In our earlier article we have seen how to analyze and capture a Virtual Machine Image and store it to the Cloud VHD. ASP.NET MVC 3 gives a powerful, patterns and framework based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of data and the views and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, Test driven Development friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards. ASP.NET MVC on windows Azure provides a greatest support with the web roles that are available to make the development much easier and quicker. Let us see the step-by-step process on how to develop an application and deploy the application directly to the Windows Azure Cloud Services. More...
In this article we are going to see how to use the Grid Panel in Windows Presentation Foundation application development. In our earlier tutorial we have seen how to use the Gridview control effectively with option to customize by placing the Gridview element inside a Listview control. Grid Panel is mostly used as the base panel when compared to the other Panels that are available with Windows Presentation Foundation as this panel is versatile and most comfortable to place containers and controls inside to effectively align and use it across in complex application development. When a project is created by default we can see the Grid element is embedded in the MainPage.XAML file which is the panel we will be using it across in all the pages as the base panel. Let us see the steps on how to use this control effectively in real time in Windows Presentation Foundation Application development. More...
Friends I am very much excited to share this news, Nokia has awarded me as “Nokia Developer Champion” for my contribution to Windows Phone and the community. It’s a great moment to share my joy with my blog followers, my mentors and my friends to have one more title under my name. Recently I got an opportunity to interact with the Nokia Developer team and to understand how the developer community works around, but it’s a dream comes true to see a mail from Nokia Champion community as I am a “Nokia Developer Champion” from India. Nokia Developer Champions are awarded Globally and from India now I am one among the few developers who are awarded. More...