Archive for September, 2010

Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Event

Just got to know that Microsoft will be organising some events to help developers build applications for Windows Phone 7 . The Launch event can also be viewed online through MSDN Simulcast . var infolink_pid = 373515; var infolink_wsid = 1; The Event starts on October 12,2010 @ 8.45 AM ( Pacific Time ) . Here’s the schedule of sessions for the day 1 . Session 1 - Get Started! The Basics of Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 30, 2010 at 4:58 pm

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CodeRage 5

CodeRage 5 is an online virtual developer conference that covers Embarcadero products such as C++Builder XE, Delphi XE, RadPHP XE, Delphi Prism XE,RAD Studio XE ... The Event starts on October 8 , 2010 and ends on 8th October , 2010 . ...

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 28, 2010 at 12:18 am

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After C# , now its Visual Basic’s turn for Windows Phone 7

Within a week of the successful announcement of the Windows phone developer tools , Microsoft has announced the Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 CTP Tools. Brandon Watson, Microsoft in his blog post mentions that "Ever since we first announced the application platform for WP7, there was a loud chorus of Visual Basic developers asking if and when they would be able to build apps for Windows Phone"

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 24, 2010 at 7:37 pm

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Free Training on Windows Phone 7 Advanced Topics Part1 and Part2

Earlier in August , Microsoft had released the Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Videos . This really helped me to get to know about the basics of the Windows Phone 7 and the Development on this new platform . Now , its time to catch up some advanced series of training on the Windows Phone 7 .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 19, 2010 at 5:59 pm

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Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM Released

Yesterday , Microsoft had announced the availability of RTM version of their Windows phone developer tools. Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte. You can Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTM here Note that If you have a Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools (CTP/Beta) already installed you must uninstall before you install  RTM Version . var infolink_pid = 373515; var infolink_wsid = Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 17, 2010 at 8:10 pm

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I’m a DZone MVB (Most Valuable Blogger)

A few Weeks back , i got a mail from Karyl Gomoll , Dzone saying that Lyndsey Clevesy, Managing Director of DZone recently enjoyed reading a post on my blog and wanted to invite me to join DZone's Most Valuable Blogger program and now i am DZone MVB :).

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 16, 2010 at 7:55 pm

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SQL Server 2008 – Change Edit Top 200 Rows and Select Top 1000 Rows to Select/Edit All

Have you noticed the Context Menu , when you right click on the table in the SQL Server Management Studio Express 2008 . The SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 allows us to “Edit” or “View” the entire records in a table. You might see the following options in the SQL Server Management Studio Express 2008 . 1. Select Top 1000 Rows 2. Edit Top 200 Rows

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 13, 2010 at 8:20 pm

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Using Array.ConvertAll to Convert an array of one type to another in C#

Thanks to one of My friend (Anil pai) , who asked me a question on how to convert a string array to an float/Double Array which made me to explore the possibilities in .NET and this is when i came across Array.ConvertAll The usual way of doing this is to parse and convert each values one by one like this ..

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 5, 2010 at 7:16 pm

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Microsoft Patterns & Practices – Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide – Drop2

The patterns and practices team has published a new Windows Phone 7-related guide . You can check the official Windows Phone 7 Patterns & Practices Guide at - http://wp7guide.codeplex.com/ This guide will help the developers to design Windows Phone 7 Applications. If you want to know more , then check out the following sections Project overview High-level architecture UI mockups.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - September 3, 2010 at 10:46 pm

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