Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2012

VSColorOutput extension for Visual Studio 2010/11 review Silverfrost FTN95: Fortran for Windows 8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development – Doug Rathbone Windows Phone Local Database tip: Initializing the database – Erik EJ What you can do with 7 lines of JavaScript? – EntitySpaces Team A Kinect & Netduino controlled squirt gun – Greg Duncan Kinect Near Mode: What it is (an

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 24, 2012 at 3:24 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #11 – Make a Phone Call – Part 1

In this blog post , i will show you a simple trick to make a phone call to a number using PhoneGap . If you are developing App using silverlight framework in Windows Phone SDK , we can make use of the PhoneCallTask to make a call in Windows Phone . Read more @WindowsPhoneRocks.com  

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 20, 2012 at 5:31 pm

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound

Well , this is something simple which can be done in 1 line of code if you are using PhoneGap for Windows Phone .   If you are using Windows Phone SDK and developing App in Silverlight or XNA , you might end up using the SoundEffect class to load the sound from the stram and play it for a beep sound . Read more about Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #10 – Beep sound @windowsphonerocks.com &nbs

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 19, 2012 at 2:33 pm

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Windows Phone Camp in Hyderabad

Microsoft is organising Windows Phone Camp in Hyderabad , India on January 28 , 2012 FROM 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM . This is the 3rd Windows Phone Camp that is to be held in India and will be held at Hotel ITC Kakatiya . The Windows Phone Camp focusses around the Windows Phone sessions that is delivered by Microsoft employees for developers . Know more about the Windows Phone Camp in Hyderabad and register here Know mor

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 18, 2012 at 5:31 pm

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Convert your Windows to Windows 8 with the Windows 8 Transformation Pack

Do you want to bring the look and feel of Windows 8 to your existing Windows 7 or Windows XP ? If yes , then here’s a Windows 8 Transformation pack for it . I have used the Windows X live some years back for my Windows XP and now they have released a tranformation pack to convert Windows to Windows 8 . Its the Windows Transformation Pack v2.0 that comes with some cool Windows 8 wallpapers , new login screen a

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Posted by admin - January 17, 2012 at 4:45 pm

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Orientation – Part 1

If you have noticed the PhoneGap Windows Phone Project , you will find a MainPage.XAML page where the PhoneGap runs . By Default , the Windows Phone Silverlight Application runs in the Portrait mode .   To support the Windows Phone PhoneGap application to support both the orientation ( Portrait and Lanscape ) , follow the below steps Read more about Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #9 – Handling Or

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 15, 2012 at 10:39 am

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ChitChat for Facebook Web Messenger

Here’s an interesting Facebook Web Messenger that i got to know when searching in Google called “ChitChar for Facebook Web Messenger” . What is Chit Chat for Facebook Web Messenger ? ChitChat Web Messenger is an online browser based Facebook chatting service. Chit Chat (Web) provides a much more attractive and feature rich interface for your Facebook chatting. ChitChat for Facebook Web Messenger i

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Posted by admin - January 15, 2012 at 10:29 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information

The Windows Phone SDK provides the DeviceStatus class to retreive the Device specific information like DeviceFirmwareVersion DeviceHardwareVersion DeviceManufacturer DeviceName and more… Read more about Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #8 – Retreive Device Information @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 14, 2012 at 4:38 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – January 14 , 2012

Reading and Writing text files in Windows 8 Metro – Morten Nielsen “Operation Not Permitted” On IsolatedStorageSettings in Windows Phone – Matthias Shapiro Breakdown of Windows Phone App Download Statistics – Rene An approach to mobile support in ASP.NET MVC – Jef Claes Session Timeout in IIS 7 – Worker Process of ApplicationPool – Sandeep Prajapati Windows Phone and Ph

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 14, 2012 at 6:40 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections

If you want to find out the connection information of your Windows Phone using PhoneGap you can use the connection object . The navigator.network.connection.type – lets the developers know about the currrent device’s connection states and in simple terms lets you know the type of connection , your Windows Phone is using . Read more @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com  

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 11, 2012 at 4:51 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – Jaunary 11 , 2011

Intellitrace in VS2010 – Mark Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #6 – Make your WP7 Vibrate Windows Phone 7.5 – Using advanced tiles API – Andrea Boschin Implement Role based security using Windows Groups in WCF – Neeraj Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #5 Basic XAML – Windows Phone Geek Webinar – How to Test Dependencies and Legacy Code Cascading Drop

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 11, 2012 at 4:09 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #6 – Make your WP7 Vibrate

The Windows Phone SDK in Silverlight provides the class VibrateController which the developer can make use of it to vibrate the phone . All that the developer has to do is create an instance of the VibrateController and call the start method with the timespan . Read more about Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #6 – Make your WP7 Vibrate here  

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 10, 2012 at 5:26 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – January 9 , 2012

ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters – Jalpesh P. Vadgama C#, Visual Studio 2010, No more Client profile in 5minutes. – Daniel Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #5 – Displaying MessageBox in PhoneGap – Part 2 Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #4 – Displaying MessageBox in PhoneGap – Part 1 SQL Server – Database Backup Statistics and History – Pa

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 9, 2012 at 3:24 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #5 – Displaying MessageBox in PhoneGap – Part 2

In my previous post , i explained about displaying MessageBox in Windows Phone using PhoneGap that had only the OK button . In this blog post , i will show you how to create a MessageBox with confirmation ( OK and Cancel ) using PhoneGap . If you were doing a Windows Phone Development using Silverlight and C# , you would use the below code to display the messagebox with confirmation . Read more about Windows Phone

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - January 7, 2012 at 10:17 am

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Windows 8 Beta and Refresh and Reset PC features

Desmond Lee in the Building Windows 8 Blog has written a post on “Refresh and Reset your PC” , a blog post about push button reset , a feature of Windows 8 . Desmond Lee shares information about what to expect on the PC-reset front that includes information on some of the under the hood changes that will be part of Windows 8 Beta which is expected in few months time . Desomn also highlights Our solutio

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Posted by admin - January 5, 2012 at 5:07 pm

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #4 – Displaying MessageBox in PhoneGap – Part 1

The PhoneGap API provides the method “notification.alert” to display the alert or message box to the end user in the Windows Phone App . For example , if you want to display the messagebox on the click of the button , include the following Read more @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com  

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 31, 2011 at 12:34 pm

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Facebook launches Facebook Messenger for Windows

Facebook has launched its Windows Client for Facebook chat called Facebook Messenger for Windows that allows the facebook users to use Facebook Chat without using the browser With the Facebook Messenger for Windows , you will be able to do the following Chat with your friends on Facebook Send Message to facebook friends Track the updates of your friends Receive the notifications if any You can download the Face

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Posted by admin - December 30, 2011 at 1:03 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 30 , 2011

Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #3 – No Script Engine Error – Windows Phone Rocks Exclusive: Microsoft’s LTE Plans for Windows Phone – Paul Thurrott Colorize Visual Studio Output – Greg Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.5.0 released Easy URL routing in ASP.NET 4.0 web forms – Jalpesh JavaScript for C# developers: the Module Pattern (part 1) – Julian M. Bucknall C#, Generi

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 30, 2011 at 8:13 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2011

Webinar – Software Testing: Introduction to Unit Testing Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application – Michael Crump Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview – Abhijit Jana Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #3 – No Script Engine Error Obtaining the Week Number for a Date (C#) ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options – Hadi Hariri SQL SERVER

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 29, 2011 at 7:41 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #3 – No Script Engine Error

This was one of the errors that i received when compiling my first Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap . The description of the error message was “There is no script engine for file extension “.js”" Read more @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 28, 2011 at 6:47 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011

Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #1 – Introduction – Windows Phone Rocks C# Mentor: Parsing tweet with Regex in C# – C# Mentor Generic Repository Pattern – Entity Framework, ASP.NET MVC and Unit Testing Triangle Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET MVC 4 – Nandip Makwana How to order by multiple columns using Lambas and LINQ in C# ? Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 27, 2011 at 6:55 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started

The Installation of PhoneGap is pretty simple and infact its just about copying the files to the Visual Studio template folder to kick start your Windows Phone Development using PhoneGap . One of the Prerequisite to install the PhoneGap is the Operating System . PhoneGap requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista Service Pack 2 . Note that installing Windows Phone SDK itself requires pne of the above Read more @ Windows

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 26, 2011 at 4:43 am

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Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #1 – Introduction

With the recent release of PhoneGap 1.3 that includes full Windows Phone 7 support , it looks like we got another way to develop Windows Phone App but using HTML5 and PhoneGap . In the current and the next few posts , i will explain how the Windows Phone 7 Developers can use PhoneGap to develop apps . Read more @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 24, 2011 at 3:03 pm

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Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Windows Phone SDK provides the chooser “AddressChooserTask” that enables the users to retreive the physical address of the selected contact . To use the Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone , follow the below steps 1. Add the namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks 2. Create an instance of the AddressChooserTask Read More @ WindowsPhoneRocks.com

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 23, 2011 at 2:30 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 21, 2011

Shadowcasting in C#, Part Three – Eric Lippert Solving Duplicate Content with Distinct URLs Issue in ASP.NET MVC – Imran Baloch What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application? – Kunal Chowdhury WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now! – Rene Schulte No gaps for Windows Phone 7 with latest PhoneGap – Greg Duncan Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? –

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 21, 2011 at 2:55 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 20 , 2011

Don’t forget about the databinding features of Silverlight 4 that you get with Mango! – Cheryl Simmons How to use SaveContactTask to save contact in Windows Phone ? – @WinPhoneRocks ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support – Jenni Konrad Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone – @WinPhoneRocks Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro – Windows Phone Geek

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 20, 2011 at 3:06 am

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Giveaway – 15 EaseUS MacCleaning Pro

Here’s a good news for people who regularly follow Ginktage.com . With the Support of Vanessa from EaseUS Software Company , Ginktage TechBlog is hosting a give away of 15 licenses of the EasUS MacCleaning Pro Software . Thank you Vanessa , EaseUS Software Company for sponsoring the GiveAway . What is EasUS MacCleaning Pro ? Giveaway – 15 EasUS MacCleaning Pro MacCleaning Pro is a powerful & handy menub

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 18, 2011 at 1:32 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 17 , 2011

Keynote: Getting Started with Windows Azure – Scott Guthrie toying with lazy sequences and the fixed-point combinator in F# – Dieser Eintrag SQL Server – Profiler – Part 6 – Correlating the Profiler Trace with Windows Performance Log Data – Nakul Shadowcasting in C#, Part Two – Eric Lippert ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview: Display Modes – Malcolm Sheridan Rotate an ASP.NET I

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 17, 2011 at 4:41 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011

Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) – Zain Naboulsi Windows Phone LINQ to SQL and Data Virtualization – Andy Wigley Inheritance Margin extension for Visual Studio 2010 review Getting the most of the Kinect SDK – Greg Duncan Debugging Application_Start and Module Initialization with IIS and Visual Studio – Rick Strahl Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations – Per Ökvist Visual

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 16, 2011 at 4:14 am

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