Archive for December, 2010

Interesting .NET Links – December 31 , 2010

Developing on WP7 vs Android vs iPhone – Edwin Evans Enum.HasFlag method in C# 4.0 – Jalpesh Top 10 posts of year 2010 how to use Except keyword in linq -Neon ASP.NET 4.0- Menu control enhancement – Jalpesh StyleCop Compliant Visual Studio 2010 Code Snippets January 2011 Release – Doug [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 31, 2010 at 2:18 pm

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Windows Phone 7 and Mashable Gifting idea Poll

Mashable has recently polled their audience for the festive season gifting and it seems like the stats for Windows Phone 7 seems to be looking good . The stats reflects the US Market with Android leading  the Smartphone showdown followed by iPhone , Windows Phone 7 and Black Berry . [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 31, 2010 at 9:06 am

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Dell Venue listed in Dell India Website

Dell has listed the Dell Venue – a  Google Android 2.2 smartphone – Dell Venue  at the Dell India website. The phone was recently launched and was listed very soon in the Dell India site although there is no mention of the pricing . Dell Venue runs with the processor [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 30, 2010 at 3:58 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 30 , 2010

An XNA Template using Farseer 3.1, XNA 4.0 and GameStateManagement – Deadlings Converting Numbers to Words – Jonathan Wood C#: Fun with Indexers – syed Performance-related features in F# and C# – Flying Frog Consultancy ReSharper 5.1.2 Release Candidate – Jura Gorohovsky Authentication on WCF Data Service or OData:Windows Authentication [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 30, 2010 at 10:46 am

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Podcast : Bytes by MSDN: Dr. Ivan Sanabria and Tim Huckaby – Migrating VB6 apps to C# or .NET

Here’s a podcast where Dr. Ivan Sanabria and Tim Huckaby talk about the migration of VB6 apps to C# .NET . Dr. Ivan Sanabria is a Chief Technology Officer for Artinsoft and Tim Huckaby is the Founder of InterKnowlogy. Ivan and Tim also talk about the Artinsoft’s Tools that help [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 30, 2010 at 10:40 am

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SurfCube – A Windows Phone 7 Browser App

Here’s an interesting Windows Phone 7 browser ap based on the concept of a 3D Cube where different sides of the cube represent different screens The Video should represent a lot than words

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Posted by Admin - December 29, 2010 at 4:06 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Windows 7 Themes Datagridview Printing in VB.Net – Pon Saravanan Using the Multi-Touch Behavior in a Windows Phone 7 Multi-Page application – Davide Zordan Output caching with ASP.NET MVC Razor – Jalpesh IR Black Theme For Visual Studio – Rob Conery My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 29, 2010 at 8:39 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 28 , 2010

Silverlight Cream Monday WP7 App Review # 1 – Dave Campbell Silverlight 4 – Productivity Power Tools and EF4 Shared Libraries For Windows Phone 7, MonoDroid and Beyond Remove and Sort – Namespaces using Shortcut in Visual Studio – Abhijit Jana Stream.CopyTo() extension method – Digi Mortel WP7 snippet: analyzing [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 28, 2010 at 12:04 pm

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How to Edit the Word document in Print Preview ?

Here’s simple trick in the Word 2007 that lets you to edit the document when it is in the Print Preview mode . Open the word document and select File – Print – Preview Now , when you click on the document it might zoom in etc.. but you wont [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 28, 2010 at 7:38 am

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Pingback : A quick comparison of getting started on Windows Phone 7 Development and Android Development

Ramesh Prasanna in his blog Ramaprasanna’s blogspace talks about getting started on Windows Phone 7 Development and Android Development . Ramesh explains about the installation of necessary tools like Eclipse , ADT for Eclipse and SDK for Android Development and Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Phone Tools for Windows Phone [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 27, 2010 at 1:16 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2010

GUID Vs Int data type as primary key – jalpesh vadgama Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone in a trial mode  Windows Phone 7 Useful Links for Tile Push Notifications – Jason Zander Mobile Mail sending Application using ASP.NET Windows Phone 7 View Model (MVVM) ApplicationBar – Michael [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 27, 2010 at 12:00 pm

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Windows 64 Bit Processor Compatibility Detector Tool

Do you want to know the compatibility of your Windows 7 system for 32 Bit before upgrading to Windows 64 Bit version ?

64bit Checker is the tool for it .

Its a simple tool that displays the information on if your computer is running a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows and allows to check the compatibility of your computers with 64-bit version of Windows.

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Posted by Admin - December 26, 2010 at 12:15 pm

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Webcast : Using Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

  Here’s a webcast on using the Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management . The Details of the event are below . Please verify the date and the timings from the Microsoft’s Event site Date and Time 1/5/2011 12:00 PM (US & Canada) Duration 90 Minutes Target Audience Programmer Description and [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 25, 2010 at 3:12 pm

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How to make Excel to speak or Read the Data you entered

Do you know how to read out the data back from Excel ?? I am not talking about the person who enters the data to read out the data but Excel itself reading out the Data . There is a feature in Excel that reads out the data you entered [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 24, 2010 at 11:05 am

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New Exam Drills for Windows Phone 7

Microsoft Press has announced new applications for Windows Phone 7 for certification Exam preparation . Some subset of questions were taken from the self – paced training kits and have been created as mobile applications with Silverlight . These exam drills includes MCITP DRILL 70-685 – Windows 7 Enterprise Desktop [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 23, 2010 at 3:31 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 22 , 2010

New Windows Phone 7 Developer Guidance released for building line of business applications – Eric Nelson CodeRush Clipboard History – Alex Skorkin Format HTML on Paste – Zain Naboulsi Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSEWSS) v1.3 Released – Paul Andrew Search As You Type in C# – [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 22, 2010 at 3:16 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 21, 2010

Why are anonymous types generic? – Eric Lippert Bi-Directional SkipList in C# – Jeske VS2010 SP1 “Interim Fix List” -  Greg Duncan Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Interim Fix List – Jason Zander EF4 Code First Control Unicode and Decimal Precision, Scale with Attributes – Dane Morgridge Finding a Relative Path [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 21, 2010 at 2:54 pm

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Converting a Windows 7 Physical System to a Virtual Machine using VMWare Converter

Recently , i was trying to backup my machine to do a clean install of a different OS .Instead of just copying the files , i thought it would be better to make the physical machine to the Virtual Machine . Since there were already quite a few softwares installed [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 21, 2010 at 1:59 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 20 , 2010

OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers part 6: Security Misconfiguration Some hidden features in the Windows Phone 7 emulator – Den Delimarsky Sql Server: Compare two strings on basis of how they sound – ConnectSQL C#/.NET Little Wonders – Cross Calling Constructors – James Michael Windows Phone 7: Beating Expectations [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 20, 2010 at 2:01 pm

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Calling all Windows Phone 7 experts! Update your SME profile now! – Born to Learn

Do you have work experience with developing applications for Windows Phone 7? Want to help us create the first Windows Phone 7 exam? Here’s your chance! We are looking for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for the following exam: … Calling all Windows Phone 7 experts! Update your SME profile now! [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 20, 2010 at 10:07 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 19, 2010

DotNetQuiz 2011 on BeyondRelational.com- Want to be quiz master or participant? – Jalpesh What’s On Your Windows Phone 7? – Richard Hay ASP.NET MVC 3: Using AppFabric Access Control Service to authenticate users – Gunnar ADO.NET – Some Internals Uncovered – Abhishek Sur Why You Need to Build Mobile Web [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 19, 2010 at 8:34 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 16 , 2010

. A repository at the Linq epoch – oleg Entity Framework Patterns: Select multiple entities – Vincent-Philippe Lauzon New Windows Phone 7 Curriculum available!  – Andrew Sithers Windows Phone 7 “Mango” may add HTML5, Silverlight support to WP7′s browser – Erez Zukerman Reporting in .NET – Deborah Kurata December release [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 16, 2010 at 5:10 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 15 , 2010

New Features of IntelliTrace Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 Beta – Abhijit Jana Learn ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 – Free Tutorials – Suprotim Agarwal Reference Highlighting in Visual Studio 2010 – Senthil Kumar (Thats Me) Accelerometer support on WP7 Emulator – Maciek Grabek Mixins in .NET [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 15, 2010 at 3:34 pm

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Inserting a Special Character in Excel 2007

Inserting a special character like Euros(€) etc. is really easy in Excel . There are hundreds of special characters which includes currency characters , special characters and some foreign letters can be inserted in to the Excel sheet . To insert the Special character , follow the below steps Click [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 14, 2010 at 4:32 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 12, 2010

Determining what version(s) of the .Net Framework is installed is just a reg read away…- Greg Duncan The definite guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4 – Laurent Duveau Unbind a Visual Studio 2010 Solution from Source Code Control – Peter Ritchie Microsoft Patterns & Practices “Windows Phone 7 Developer [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 12, 2010 at 1:42 pm

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Have you taught introductory Developer courses? We still want you! – Born to Learn – Born To Learn – Born to Learn

Microsoft is looking for volunteers to help them with the development of a new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exam covering Microsoft .NET fundamentals. You can find more info in the below link if you are interested to volunteer . Have you taught introductory Developer courses? We still want you! – Born [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 12, 2010 at 1:33 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 11, 2010

Windows Phone From Scratch #11 – Behaviors -  Jesse Liberty Using Generate from Usage feature in Visual Studio 2010 – Senthil Kumar(That’s Me) Submitting an App to the Windows Phone Marketplace – Chad Campbell Visual Studio Explosion! – VS2010 SP1 *BETA* Released and Context – Scott Hanselman VS2010/TFS2010 VM Refresh [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 11, 2010 at 5:01 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 8 , 2010

Visual Studio – Past to Present – Shay Friedman WP7 Cut & Paste Update Rollout Begins, Business Insider EF Feature CTP5 – Walkthrough For The New DbContext T4 Template – Gil Fink  “Going Live” with the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta – selkins Windows 7 Phone Database Rapid [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 8, 2010 at 5:51 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 6 , 2010

10 Essential Tools for building ASP.NET Websites – Stephen Walther RageFeed’s Application Bus, and Why I Built My Own – Matt RenderAction with ASP.NET MVC 3 Sessionless Controllers – Keith Dahlby NHibernate 3.0 released – NHibernate Team SQL Indexing and Performance Part 3: Queries, indexes and the query optimizer – [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 6, 2010 at 5:52 pm

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Completed Two Years in Trivium eSolutions

Dont know how i missed to write about this last week , but just now remembered this when i was goining through my Emails . I completed 2 years( including my via Completed Two Years in Trivium eSolutions.

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Posted by Admin - December 6, 2010 at 5:07 pm

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