Xamarin Designer for Android released for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop
Xamarin Designer for Android was released few days back that enables the Android developers to create some cool layouts for the Apps from Visual Studio and MonoDevelop. With the Xamarin Designer for Android available for Visual Studio, the developers can get some what experience that is closer to the C# developers expecting from the Visual Studio IDE. Want to know more about Xamarin Designer for Android, Check the Read More....Categories: General, Visual Studio 2010 Tags: Android, MonoDevelop, Visual Studio, Xamarin Designer
Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge 2012
Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge, a Microsoft Initiative Challenge to find entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and that can significantly impact their markets. Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge 2012 includes the Cloud Computing and Mobile Application category and includes the following below winning criteria. Innovation Market Potential Management Capability GScore Microsoft Bizspark Startup Chall Read More....Categories: Events Tags: BizSpark, Challenge, microsoft, Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge
Fix for IntelliSense feature in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 may stop working after you install Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Today , i encountered a wiered thing in my SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 where the intellisense was somehow not working in SSMS 2008 R2 . I had only SQL Server 2008 R2 Express installed on my machine and had recently installed the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 on my Windows 7 System and assumed that this could have caused the issue . If you are one of those users who faced the same issue , th Read More....Categories: SQL Server, Visual Studio 2010 Tags: Fix, Intellisense, Management STudio, SQL Server, SSMS 2008, Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Excel 2010 specifications and limits
Found this interesting post on the Excel specification and limits for Microsoft Excel 2010 . The Excel specification and limits talks about various specifications and limits for Microsoft Excel 2010 that includes Worksheet and workbook specifications and limits Calculation specifications and limits Charting specifications and limits PivotTable and PivotChart report specifications and limits Shared workbook specifi Read More....Categories: General, Others Tags: Excel 2010, limits, microsoft, specifications
Download – White Paper for Integrating FireMonkey into Your VCL, C# and C++ Applications
If you are one of the developers who work on C# , C++ or VCL in Delphi and interesting in developing for Mac via FireMonkey , here’s a free White Paper for Integrating FireMonkey into Your VCL, C# and C++ Applications that is available for download . What is FireMonkey ? “FireMonkey is the first native CPU and GPU powered platform for rich business applications. In this paper, we will look at what is re Read More....Categories: Delphi, Others Tags: c#, FireMonkey, VCL, Whitepaper
Free Live learning events from LearnDevNow
In one of my previous blog posts , i wrote about some interesting online training websites and here comes a free Live training events from one of them . LearnDevNow has partnered with AppDev to bring couple of free online training events . These events includes Building Metro Style Applications for Windows 8 using JavaScript and HTML – Part 2 of 2 – Ken Getz User Experience (UX) Design and the Microsof Read More....Categories: Events Tags: Events, LearnDevNow, Learning
Webinar – Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8 by @silverlightshow
SilverlightShow is organising a webinar on the topic “Live Tiles and Notifications in Windows 8″ on May 17 , 2012 at 10 am (PST) . This webinar will be presented by Gill Cleeren and will intriduce some cool features in Windows 8 specially the Live Tiles and Notifications . Live Tiles concept in Windows 8 is also same as the one in Windows 8 and get a chance to explore the LIve Tiles and Notifications in Read More....Categories: Events Tags: Live Tiles, Notifications, SIlverlightShow, Windows
Useful online training sites on Software Development
Online training or video tutorials are a great and easy way to learn . Some times , i feel watching a video tutorial makes things more easier than reading a book . I was a subscriber to LearnVisualStudio.net and tried a trial version of Pluralsight and both looks simply awesome . Pluralsight has some good collection of video tutorials and interesting thing is that the development and release of new video is done fr Read More....Categories: General Tags: online, software development, training sites
Use Internet Explorer in Google Chrome
Here’s an interesting extension to Google Chrome called “IETab” that lets you use Internet Explorer from Google Chrome browser. To use Internet Explorer in Google Chrome , download and install the IETab Extension for Chrome . You can now start using Interner Explorer directly from Google Chrome without opening Internet Explorer You can also configure Internet Options with this extension. Once yo Read More....Categories: Others, Windows Tags: Google Chrome, howto, Internet Explorer
How to recover a lost file in Word 2007 or in Word 2003 ?
What do you do when the Word document that you were working is lost because of some power interruption .? If you want to recover a lost file in Word 2007 or in Word 2003 , you can follow the one of the steps below as described in the Microsoft Support website . How to recover a lost file in Word 2007 or in Word 2003 ? Method 1: Search for the original document Method 2: Search for Word backup files Method 3: Force Read More....Categories: Microsoft Office Tags: lost file, recover, Word 2003, Word 2007
DevFestX – An Independently Organized DevFest
DevFestX – An Independently Organized DevFest is scheduled to be held on May 19 , 2012 in Bangalore . DevFestX provides an opportunity for the audience to know more about Google technologies . DevFestX, is an extension of Google devfest events. This event is purely managed by local google developer community (GTUG) with help & support from Google. Launch your idea with Google App Engine App Engine Gurmin Read More....Metro theme for jQuery Mobile
Metro styled theme is now made available jQuery Mobile by Microsoft Open Technologies . jQuery Mobile is a open source Mobile UI framework , touch optimized framework that involves HTML5 and jQuery Javascript library. Abu Obeida in the interoperability @ microsoft blog stated that “The theme enables HTML5 pages to adapt automatically to the Metro design style when rendered on Windows Phone 7.5,”. Mobil Read More....Categories: Others Tags: jQuery Mobile, Metro, theme
Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook by Sandeep Chandra published
Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook from PackPub and written by Sandeep Chandra is now published and is available for purchase . Sandeep Chandra is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator , Gold Certified Partner and Director of Solutions , Neudesic. His expertise lies in several Microsoft Technologies and has authored many articles in online developer magazine. Service Oriented Computing, Pervasive Comp Read More....Webinar – Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)
Typemock is organising a webinar on the topic “Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)” on April 18 , 2012 at 19.30 (Indian time). This webinar will be presented by Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, Typemock. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, including test driven development (TDD). Discover what test driven development is and how it can h Read More....Categories: Events Tags: TDD, Test Driven Development, Webinar
Metro UI for Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft used the Metro UI for Windows Phone , Windows 8 and few more products and now its the Microsoft Dynamics business to get the Metro UI . Few weeks back at Convergence , Microsoft’s annual gathering of Dynamics partners , Microsoft provided a sneak preview of Microsoft Dynamics with Metro User Interface. Kees Hertogh , in his blog explains how the Metro UI provides a better user experience with Live Read More....Webinar – DotNetNuke Explained: Upgrades
DotNetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “DotNetNuke Explained: Upgrades” on May 1 , 2012 from 9.00 am – 10.00 am (PDT). This session will be hosted by Chris Hammond , DotNetNuke Corporation. This webinar will make you understand how to easily upgrade your website to the new version of DotNetNuke and also keeping the features and security of the existing DotNetNuke website current. Get to k Read More....Categories: Events Tags: Dotnetnuke, Upgrades, Webinar
5 Things Programmers Can’t Live without
What are the 5 things that a programmer can’t live without ? Below are few list of things that i feel as a Programmer can’t live without . I know there are lot of things 1. Caffeine (Coffee) / Tea 2. Desktop ( Probably Windows PC ) 3. Meetings / Interactions / Code Reviews 4. Teams / Customers / Company 5. Google for searching Each and every one consider few things that are important to them and the s Read More....Categories: General, Personal Tags: Programmers, tips
Bangalore DotNet User Group (BDotNet) UG meet with Atley Hunter
Atley Hunter – a Microsoft MVP in Windows Phone Development and Telerik Insider will be presenting few interesting topics on Windows Phone during the Bangalore DotNet User Group (BDotNet) UG meet to be held on April 28 , 2012 from 10.30 am at Microsoft Corporation , Signature Building , 4th Florr – Hamilton Hall , Bangalore. “Atley Hunter is a passionate mobile developer with over 15 years’ Read More....Categories: Events Tags: Atley Hunter, Microsoft MVP, Telerik, Windows Phone
Overcoming Burnout for Programmers …
Just came across this interesting and good article on Burnout by Scott Boms . I have already read this some time back and might be a bit old article too but the content mentioned in it is definitely worth reading specially for Programmers . Scott explains the term “Burnout” and explains Freudenberger’s research on it and differentiates Burnout and depression. Scott also explains how Burnout happ Read More....Categories: General Tags: Burnout, Programmers, tips
How to block Ads in Internet Explorer 9 ?
If you are one of those users who wants to block Ads in Internet Explorer 9 , you can do it easily with the Tracking Protection feature . “Tracking Protection helps you stay in control of your privacy as you browse the web.” You can enable the Tracking Protection Lists in Internet Explorer by following the below steps 1. Navigate to Settings -> Manage Add-ons How to block Ads in Internet Explorer 9 ? Read More....Categories: Others Tags: Ads, block, Internet Explorer 9
HardlyWork – Check your Facebook Updates in Microsoft Excel Format
Are you a Hard(ly) working employee and most of the time you are on Facebook during work ? . If yes , then this is for you . Have you ever thought how to check the Facebook updates in your office without getting caught by your project manager or colleague ? . HardlyWork.in will help you do that easily . HardlyWork.in is a website that displays your all your and your friends Facebook status updates and photos in a Read More....Categories: General Tags: Facebook, Facebook Updates, Format, HardlyWork, Microsoft Excel
Find your Windows 7 Product Key with Windows Product Key Finder
If you want to know the Windows 7 Product key or Serial key directly on your PC, here’s a simple software that lets you find it easily. It is called Windows Product Key Finder. Windows Product Key Finder is a tool that lets you find out what is your Windows Product Key. So in case you want to reinstall your Windows and forgot your Windows 7 Serial Key or License Key, you can use the Windows Product Key Finder Read More....Categories: Windows Tags: c#, windows, windows 7, Windows Product Key Finder
Open DBDiff for SQL Server 2008
Last few weeks , i have been playing around with this cool tool called Open DBDiff . As the name suggests Open DBDiff tool lets you compare the database schema for SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 . Its a simple and effectve tool for database schema comparision . Open DBDiff is a open source tool and reports differences between two database schemas and provides the SQL Script that synchronizes both databases so Read More....Categories: SQL Server Tags: compare, Open DBDiff, Schema, SQL Server
Maxthon scores better than other browsers in HTML5 test ?
Just noticed something interesting in the HTML5test.com website . HTML5Test is a website that lets the users to compare the browser support for different web technologies . There are different browsers available in the market like Google Chrome , Microsoft’s Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox , Opera , Safari , Maxthon etc. I have heard of the Maxthon browser but was not much familiar with it , but noticed t Read More....Webinar – Introduction to DotNetNuke Professional Edition
DotNetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “Introduction to DotNetNuke Professional Edition” on April 18 , 2012 at 9.00 am (PDT) . This webinar will be hosted by Will Strohl , Sales Engineer , DotNetNuke Corporation . DotNetNuke comes in 3 flavours DotNetNuke Community Edition DotNetNuke Professional Edition DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition DotNetNuke Professional Edition and DotNetNuke Enter Read More....Categories: Events Tags: Dotnetnuke, DotNetNuke Professional, Professional
Different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 in Metro UI ?
If you are one of those users who use command prompt more frequently , then below are different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 . Different ways to open the Command Prompt in Windows 8 in Metro UI ? 1. Press the Windows Key + R and type cmd in the “Run” Window . 2. Press Windows Key + X .This will open a context menu where you could select the “Command Prompt” or “Command Read More....Categories: Windows Tags: Command Prompt, Metro, UI, windows
VisualHG – Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio
Mercurial is a free , cross platform, distributed source control management tool for software developers . VisualHG is a source control Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio and works with Visual Studio 2005 , Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 . VisualHG enabled the developers to quickly verify the file status and access everything within Visual Studio Environment and supports Mercurial Subrepositories . Explo Read More....Categories: Visual Studio 2010 Tags: Mercurial, Plugin, Visual Studio, VisualHG
How to Close Metro App in Windows 8 ?
In this blog post , i will share a small tip on how to Close Metro App in Windows 8 . I have been using Windows 8 Consumer Preview on one of the Virtual Machine and have often used the below shortcuts to close the Metro App . First one is the traditional Windows shortcut (Alt + F4) which works in Windows 7 and now in Windows 8 Consumer Preview too . The Other way to close the Metro App in Windows 8 is to hover the Read More....Webinar – Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD)
Typemock is organising a webinar on the topic Introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD) on April 18 , 2012 at 19.30 (India) . This webinar will be presented by Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, Typemock . This webinar will help you discover what test driven development is and how it can help you to write better code. You will also learn The difference between unit testing and test driven development (TDD). The Read More....Categories: Events Tags: TDD, Test Driven Development, Typemock, Webinar
