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....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 11, 2012 at 11:28 pm

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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....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 10, 2012 at 10:08 pm

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Happy Hour – Global Dart Hackathon Event

Happy Hour is the first global Dart hackathon sponsored by Google and produced by the community . The event is scheduled to be held in various locations worldwide during April-May 2012 . The locations include Silicon Valley , Tel Aviv Israel , Tokyo – Japan , Seoul – Korea , Prague – Szech Republic , Chandigarh , Goa and Karnataka , London – England . Happy Hour - Global Dart Hackathon Event Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 7, 2012 at 10:11 pm

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How to find the Top 5 largest files in Windows 7 ?

I learnt something with the PowerShell today when searching for a largest file on my Windows 7 PC If you are one of the users who want to find 5 largest file in Windows 7, you could use the below code in PowerShell… You can launch PowerShell from Start -> Accessories -> Windows PowerShell folder. gci -r D:\ -ea 0 | sort Length -desc | select -f 5 The above example will search for the files in D: drive Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 7, 2012 at 7:20 pm

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Connect Neurons to use Open source for Learning.

In the age of cloud computing, citizen media and social networking, so many organizations across the world are progressing with open source technologies. Whether it is using Linux, Ubuntu kind of software tools or Android kind of apps – the cool technologies are ever reliable like the licensed softwares of the past.  Empowering the likeminded developers, these techno tools are spreading furiously across the glob Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 7, 2012 at 6:14 pm

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Webinar – DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Skinning

DotnetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Skinning” on April 10, 2012  from 9:00 – 10:00 am (PDT) . This webinar will be hosted by Chris Hammond , Director of Training Programs, DotNetNuke Corporation and will help you to understand the contents of the skin package and make minor changes for an existing skin in DotNetNuke and how one can apply skins or themes for a DotNetNu Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 4, 2012 at 11:37 pm

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Event – Reliving TechEd India 2012 with Vinod

Here’s a User Group meet with the combined efforts of BDotNet and BITPro on some interesting topics to be presented by Vinod. The event is titled as “Reliving TechEd India 2012 with Vinod” will be held on April 7, 2012 from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm at Microsoft, Krishna Hall, Embassy Building, 3rd Floor, Domlur, Bangalore. Currently, 2 sessions are planned Understanding Windows with SysInternals Tools Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 2, 2012 at 11:38 pm

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Auto generate change scripts in SQL Server Management Studio

SQL Server Management Studio has a feature that lets you to automatically generate Create or Alter scripts when using the table designer . By deafult , this option is disabled . You can enable it by following the below steps 1. Start SQL Server Management Studio 2. Click Tools -> Options Auto generate change scripts in SQL Server Management Studio - 1 3. Click Designers in the TreeList in the Options Dialog and Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - April 1, 2012 at 11:29 pm

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How to find if your Compuer is a boy or a Girl in your Windows PC ?

Here’s an interesting blog post that helps you to find if your Computer is a boy or a Girl … Although , its a pretty old one , wanted to share it here There are 2 ways to find this . 1. Open Speech Recognition in your Windows 7 Control Panel and then click “Text to Speech” from the left sidebar . You will see a Dialog “Speech Properties” . In this Screen , you will only find an Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 31, 2012 at 11:10 am

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What’s your favourite Programming tool ?

During the Great Indian Developer Summit ( GIDS ) every year , Saltmarch Media honors and awards technologies , frameworks , platforms , toolc etc that makes the developers life easier . The voting to pick the winners in each categories has started and you could vote and also possibly see your favourite tool getting selected as winner in the categories defined by GIDS . These Categories includes Content Management Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 30, 2012 at 10:33 pm

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Webinar – Introduction to Unit Testing

Typemock is organising a webinar on the topic “Introduction to Unit Testing” on April 4 , 2012 from 7.30 PM to 8.30 PM ( Indian Standard Time). Software testing isn’t just a task for QA. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, including unit testing. Discover why you should start unit testing, and how you can get started with automated tests quickl Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 30, 2012 at 10:11 pm

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Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Workshop Video Tutorials

Below are links to the videos that lets the developers know more about Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Claims-Based Identity . Its a series of videos titled “WIF Workshop 1…10″ . The videos were posted by Vittorio Bertocci at Channel 9 long time back but is definitely a good one to leran about Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). WIF Workshop 1: Introduction to Claims-Based Identity and WIF Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 29, 2012 at 11:36 pm

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TRIGGER – Cross Platform framework for Android and iOS

Just came across this Development Platform for iOS and Android and hence wanted to share them here. TRIGGER is a Cross Platform app framework to build iOS , Android and Web Apps using HTML5. TRIGGER , the name sounds very powerful isn’t it ? Some of the features of TRIGGER includes Access to the native feature of the mobile platform via JavaScript Simple development setup process. Distribute in multiple nati Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 28, 2012 at 10:44 pm

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Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Developers

The RadControls for Windows Phone is simple to use and provides rich set of functionalities to develop windows phone App easily. You can download the trial version of RadControls for Windows Phone here If you want to win a copy of the RadControls for Windows Phone , Check the GiveAway details @WindowsPhoneRocks.com Participating in the GiveAway is easy . Just Tweet the below text Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 26, 2012 at 8:41 pm

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Microsoft Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app

Microsoft in its Windows Developer Center has posted a design case study documentation that compares iPad App development with Windows 8 Metro style app development. The Design case study documentation is more of a design comparision of iPad and Windows 8 Metro style app showing hoe iPas based photo journal app works and compared with the Windows 8 tablet. The case study also explains that “In this case study Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 25, 2012 at 5:21 pm

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Webinar – DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Installation

DotnetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic “DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Installation” on March 27,2012 from 9 am – 10 am (PDT) . This webinar will be hosted by Chris Hammond , Director of Training Programs, DotNetNuke Corporation and will help you to understand the prerequisites for DotNetNuke and how one can configure the database and website and get your DotNetNuke website up and running. C Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 22, 2012 at 10:15 pm

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Webinar – .NET Development in RAD Studio with Embarcadero Prism

Embarcadero is organising a webinar on the topic .NET Development in RAD Studio with Embarcadero Prism on March 28 , 2012 at 6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 2:00pm CET / 1300 GMT. Embarcadero Prism is part of RAD Studio provides the Object Pascal programming language and IDE for .NET and Mono Development . This enables the Delphi developers to easily work in .NET . The Webinar – .NET Development in RAD Studio with Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 21, 2012 at 9:21 pm

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How to add My Computer to the Start Screen in Windows 8 Consumer Preview ?

If you want to add My Computer to the Start Screen (Metro UI) in Windows 8 Consumer Preview . You can do that by pinning it to the start screen . To Pin My Computer to the Start Screen in Windows 8 , follow the below steps 1. From the Windows 8 Metro Start Screen , open Windows Explorer using the shartcut key Windows Key + E . You will now see the Windows Explorer opened with the screen “Computer”. 2. R Read More....

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Posted by Guest - March 17, 2012 at 4:06 pm

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Google Play

Google’s Android Market has changed its name. Its new name being Google Play. Many experts believe their re-branding is due to the fact that the previous market place did not offer Android users a complete solution or ‘ecosystem’. Whilst preaching the virtues of the Android OS at WMC this year, Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, too made this point. It is his and the big G’s po Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 17, 2012 at 1:47 am

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Robotics Developer Studio 4 and Kinect Follow Me Robot

Few days back , Microsoft had released Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 which is now available for download from the Microsoft Robotics website. Apart from fixing number of issues in the Robotics Developer Studio 4 , the team also have updated Robotics Developer Studio 4 to work with the release version of Kinect for Windows SDK. Robotics Developer Studio 4 also adds support for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 X Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 11, 2012 at 2:43 pm

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Start Screen

I just started using the Windows 8 Consumer Preview version and in this blog posts and in the next few blog posts, I will share my experiences and the features of Windows 8 that are purely non-developer related one’s. After that, I will cover the developer related articles on Windows 8. Windows 8 comes with an interesting Start Screen. Probably all Windows Phone users would have got used to the Metro Start Screen Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 9, 2012 at 11:26 pm

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Webinar – How to Get QA Off Your Back with Agile Development Practices‏

Typemock is hosting a vendor-neutral webinar next week on how to get QA off your back with Agile development practices. The webinar will be on Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 AM Pacific US Time and 8:30 PM in India Sign up here: http://www.typemock.com/agile-practices-get-qa-off-your-back. QA getting on your team’s back because of bugs or delayed releases? Tired of their ping-pongs and nuisance? Agile can get QA off Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 8, 2012 at 9:11 pm

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When does Windows 8 Consumer Preview Expires ?

Do you want to know when your Windows 8 Consumer Preview expires ? Here’s a simple trick to find it . 1. Press Windows Key + R to open the command prompt . 2. Type winver and press enter key. 3. This will display a window that shows the information of your Windows 8 installation along with the expiry date of the evaluation copy. When does Windows 8 Consumer Preview Expires ? Here’s you will find 16th Ja Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 6, 2012 at 9:25 pm

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview license or Serial key

Few days back, Microsoft had released the Windows 8 Consumer preview which can be downloaded from Microsoft’s Download Center. I just got the Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed on one of the Virtual Machine (VM). During the installation of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you will be asked to enter the serial key or license key. Windows 8 Consumer Preview license or Serial key If you are looking for Win Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 4, 2012 at 9:56 pm

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Nightfall and Starlight Panoramic for Windows 8

Yesterday , Microsoft had made the Windows 8 Consumer Preview available for download . Now , a new Windows 8 Theme called “Nightfall and Starlight Panoramic Theme” is updated in the Windows Personalization gallery. Nightfall and Starlight Panoramic Theme for Windows 8 is designed to extend seamlessly across dual monitors with identical resolution settings. The Nightfall and Starlight Panoramic Theme for Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 1, 2012 at 10:40 pm

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Webinar – Create mobile web apps and native apps for iOS, Android, and more with RAD Studio XE2

Embarcadero is organising a webinar on the topic “Create mobile web apps and native apps for iOS, Android, and more with RAD Studio XE2″ on March 7 , 2012 at 18.30 (Mumbai) time. In this session , the presenters Andreano Lanusse, Anders Ohlsson, and Al Mannarino will share how developers can create Native Delphi apps using RAD Studio XE2 for the following platforms   iOS Mobile Web Apps for iOS An Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - March 1, 2012 at 10:27 pm

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Download Visual Studio 11 Beta

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta which is now available for download here. Check the below links to know more about the features , capabilities and announcements Visual Studio 11 Beta Available Now! Welcome to the Beta of Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5 What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Download Visual Studio 11 Beta here Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 29, 2012 at 9:44 pm

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Download Windows 8 Consumer Preview

The wait for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is finally over . Microsoft has released its most awaited Operating System – Windows 8 Consumer Preview today. Windows 8 Consumer Preview is expected to be a free download and all Windows 7 Desktop, Laptop, Tablets are compatible with Windows 8. Metro Styled UI , XBox Games to display the avatar and game achievements are some of the things that i will be trying to e Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 29, 2012 at 9:09 pm

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How to convert your Windows 7 UI to resemble Android Look and feel?

Are you a Windows 7 user and wish to have your Windows PC have the look and feel of Android? Here’s the Android Skin Pack from Hamed, DevianArt user that transforms your Windows 7 to the look and feel of Android OS. Just Download the Android Skin Pack from the below link and install it on your Windows PC. Download Android Skin Pack (32 bit) Download Android Skin Pack (64 bit) Make sure that you take the b Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 28, 2012 at 9:41 pm

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Microsoft TechEd India 2012 – Agenda Announced

Microsoft TechEd India 2012 is scheduled to be held in Bangalore from March 21-23, 2012. Just few days back, the Agenda for the event was updated in the Microsoft TechEd 2012 India website. The agenda is published for all the 3 days with some part of the agenda is yet to be published. These will be based on the voting Sessions and some will be updated after the Windows 8 Consumer Preview availability. Microsoft Tec Read More....

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - February 27, 2012 at 11:55 pm

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