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Web Development Goodies in Visual Studio 2012
Do you know Visual Studio Gallery provides rich controls, tools and templates to speed up your daily...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 03/12/2013
Windows Phone Hackathon by Microsoft Innovation Center - Lahore IDEA Submission has been closed
Windows Phone Hackathon by Microsoft Innovation Center - LahoreIDEA Submission has been closedWe are...
Author: Zaigham Ikram Butt Date: 03/12/2013
Live Windows Games with Unity Event on 9-10 April, 2013
Are you looking forward to migrate existing apps to Windows 8 and Windows Phone? Here's a good news;...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 03/11/2013
SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 released online
SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 (SSDT BI) templates. With...
Author: Ahmed Tahir Masood Date: 03/07/2013
Pakistan Student Wins February Brain Games in Imagine Cup's Second Innovation Quiz
The news was publicly released at Imagine Cup 2013 Official site yesterday to make us ALL feel...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 03/07/2013
XAML – How to Style?
Following the practice of WPF, both in Windows Phone and Windows 8 Store apps, Style element of XAML...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 03/07/2013
Windows Azure Storage & SQL
Windows Azure offers multiple services to help manage your data in the cloud. SQL Database, formerly...
Author: Ahmed Tahir Masood Date: 03/04/2013
Windows Phone Hackathon - Idea Submission Deadline has been extended till 8th March 2013.
Important Announcement: Windows Phone Hackathon - Idea Submission Deadline has been extended till...
Author: Zaigham Ikram Butt Date: 03/04/2013
Installing and Using Advertising SDK for Windows 8 in your Solution
INSTALLING WINDOWS 8 ADVERTISING SDK Run the .msi file for the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows...
Author: ShahidAziz Date: 03/03/2013
Windows Phone Hackathon; 3rd March is deadline for Idea Submission
As a healthy reminder, 3rd March, 2013 is the last day for Idea submission in Windows Phone...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 03/01/2013
Top posts from a fellow's blog
Here are some top posts by Jibran Jamshad from his official blog that range from SharePoint to...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/28/2013
Midnight Developer Challenge - App Submission has begun
Submissions for Midnight Developer Challenge has begun. Participants now have up till 14th March to...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/28/2013
Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update
The final release of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 update is unleashed. This update is a free...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/28/2013
Visual Studio 2012 :: IntelliTrace -> WHAT IS IntelliTrace
Imagine live debugging as being like directing a cast of people on stage. You can bring different...
Author: Ahmed Tahir Masood Date: 02/26/2013
Dev Center App for Windows Phone
Microsoft today announced an app that is built around your Dev Center Dashboard. I just happened to...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/25/2013
A Windows Phone Hackathon by Microsoft Innovation Center - Lahore
Microsoft Innovation Center - Lahore is arranging a Windows Phone Hackathon, specially designed for...
Author: Zaigham Ikram Butt Date: 02/25/2013
Move to Windows Phone 8 Competition - Winners Announced
Thank You to our esteemed developer’s community for showing great response in “Move to...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/25/2013
What’s new in Location Tracking API for Windows Phone 8.0?
Windows Phone 8 brings forth a lot of new and improved APIs. One of the improved API is for location...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/22/2013
Player Framework: an open source component of the Microsoft Media Platform
Here is great news for companies developing media and video related applications for tablet, phone...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/20/2013
Windows Phone 8 : Identify Battery Status
A very simple and much required API addition in Windows Phone 8 which allows you to retrieve Battery...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/16/2013
An overview of UI Controls from Win RT XAML Toolkit
Are you looking for third party UI controls for Windows 8 app development? Win RT XAML Toolkit has...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/14/2013
A few Important Windows 8 Dev. Center Articles
Whether you are a professional Windows 8 developer or just getting started, here are some recently...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/13/2013
SkyDrive users can now share Office documents with anyone.
Now people can view and edit your Office documents without a Microsoft account. Now it has become...
Author: Zaigham Ikram Butt Date: 02/13/2013
Windows 8 Application Design - Do's & Dont's
The recent launch of Windows 8 brings a lot of new opportunities for both designers and developers...
Author: Ahmed Tahir Masood Date: 02/13/2013
XAML Introduction
XAML stands for Extensible Application Markup Language. Its a simple language based on XML to create...
Author: ShahidAziz Date: 02/12/2013
200 Windows 8 Sample App Pack
This sample pack includes all the app code examples developed for Windows 8. The sample pack...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/08/2013
Windows Phone 7 Application Development - Start to Finish
Welcome to the Windows Phone. This Document contains the basic steps needed to develop apps on...
Author: ShahidAziz Date: 02/06/2013
Download All MSDN Documentations for OFFLINE Access
Now you can download all MSDN documentations OFFLINE on your machine so that you can browse/search...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 02/04/2013
FallFury: an open source 2D game for Windows 8
FallFury is an open source 2D game for Windows 8 released on CodePlex, https://fallfury.codeplex.com/...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/31/2013
34 Cool Videos on Windows Store App Development
There’s a modestly popular 34 parts video series on developing Windows Store Apps by Bob Tabor...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/29/2013
Teams from Pakistan will have a second chance to compete in Imagine Cup 2013!
All local teams from Pakistan not chosen to go to the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Wide Finals as a...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/28/2013
Windows Azure Poster
A picture says a thousand words. Evolution of technology has given more dimensions to this phrase as...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/27/2013
Introducing Cross Browser Testing with Coded UI Tests
Coded UI Tests help automate browser based applications built on Internet Explorer. We are now...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/23/2013
Step-by-Step: Running FREE Linux Virtual Machines in the Cloud with Windows Azure
The Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering supports running Windows virtual...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/23/2013
Windows Phone 7.8 SDK is just announced
Here's a good news for Windows Phone developers. Windows Phone 7.8 SDK is just announced and is an...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/22/2013
Free Windows Azure Ebooks
I know everyone prefers different types of resources, some of them like webcasts/podcasts, others...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/22/2013
Windows Phone 8 Code Samples
You can now download the Windows Phone 8 Code Samples from https://t.co/Fqp3UdnF
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/21/2013
Start Building Apps for Office and SharePoint with Windows Azure
You can start developing Office and SharePoint apps with Windows Azure integration easily. You can...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/20/2013
Immutable Collection addition in .NET 4.5
The BCL team has recently released preview of the Immutable collection for .NET 4.5 and Windows...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/20/2013
Resources for iOS Developers
Are you an iOS developer planning to port app on Windows 8 or Windows Phone and interested in...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/18/2013
Windows 8 on Channel 9
Have you built your app yet? To help you get started we've just opened the Windows 8 Area on Channel...
Author: Usman Ur Rehman Ahmed Date: 01/17/2013