Archive for February, 2011

Windows CE and Ford Cars

Found some interesting facts about Windows CE and Ford . Just sharing them here Ford SYNC is powered by Microsoft Auto Software , an Windows CE based Operating System is a voice activated communication system for mobile phones and digital music players .   Ford SYNC is one of the [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 28, 2011 at 6:50 pm

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Webinar – Building Windows Phone 7 Apps Using WebORB’s Productivity Tools and APIs

MIDNIGHT Coders is conducting a free webinar on the topic “Building Windows Phone 7 Apps Using WebORB’s Productivity Tools and APIs” on March 22 , 2011 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT During the webinar , the presenters will show how to do remoting and messaging in Windows Phone [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 27, 2011 at 4:37 pm

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New Windows Phone 7 Ad – “What if” featuring Samsung Focus

Here’s a new Windows Phone 7 Ad featuring Samsung Focus . The Ad also ends with ”get the only phone with Office, Xbox LIVE and thousands of applications.” . Thousands of App .. sound great. This might increase with the number of free Apps submission being increased from 5 to [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 27, 2011 at 1:57 pm

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Fijitsu’s Windows 7 Slate – Q550 to be available soon

Here’s a Windows 7 slate from Fijitsu called Q550 Tablet PC is to be launched soon . Q550 security features include Fingerprint Sensor, SmartCard slot and optional TPM . The Q550 sports a 10 inch touchscreen display and runs on Windows 7 OS and is powered by Intel Oak Trail [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 27, 2011 at 1:06 pm

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NetBeans 7.0 Beta 2 availability

Last week , the Net Beans team announced the second version of the NetBeans 7 Beta ( NetBeans Beta 2 ) . Some of the new features includes performance enhancement along with some bug fixes , Git Support , Support for Glass Fish 3.1 and Maven 3.1 . You can [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 27, 2011 at 12:23 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 24 , 2011

Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 is Available – Brian Harry’s Windows Phone 7 Development QuickStarts – Greg Duncan “View this as root” – A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools – Abhijit Jana HowTo: Fileupload with ASP.NET MVC – Code Inside Team Windows Phone 7 – Part [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 24, 2011 at 6:24 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 23 , 2011

Simple menu for your WP7 application – Rudi Grobler Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library – Yochay Kiriaty Your Chance to Win 1 of 50 Licenses for Red Gate’s .NET Reflector Professional – Alvin Ashcraft Open XML 2.0 Code Snippets for VS2010 – Greg Duncan How could I work without resharper [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 23, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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Windows Phone vs Your Phone ?? – Its the new WP7 Ads with the new Real time trials

Here’s a Windows Phone 7 ad that you just find interesting incase you wanted to have a quick compare of your existing phone with the Windows Phone 7 . In the Ad , you can challenge the WP7 with your existing Smart Phone by comparing the common tasks like Uploading [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 23, 2011 at 3:18 pm

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WP7 and Kinect for XBox 360

Microsoft , recenty in the Mobile World Congress displayed a technical preview of the Windows Phone 7 and Kinect for XBox 360 . Check the video’s out to find it more interesting than me writing pages about it Source :D igitalLifeStyle

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Posted by Admin - February 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm

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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Download is now Available

Microsoft has officially released the Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 . The same was made available to the MSDN users few days back . The Windows Server Service Pack  comes with some features like Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX that provides a Rich Virtualization experience [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 23, 2011 at 2:42 pm

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WP7 App : List it Do it

List it Do it is a Simple task manager or To do Application for Windows Phone that helps the users to keep track of all the tasks to do . The Application was developed by Armin Kalajdzija was published on 01-12-2010 and was listed in the Productivity Category. Infact one of [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 22, 2011 at 4:03 pm

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The first update for Windows Phone 7 is available

Today, Microsoft has announced its first update for Windows Phone 7. You should notice the notification message in your Windows Phone 7 , if you have enabled it The first update for Windows Phone 7 You can update the WP7 Device by connecting it to the PC with Zune . [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 22, 2011 at 2:48 am

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What All can you do with your Windows Live ID on Windows Phone 7 ?

If you are a Windows Phone 7 user and you have a free Windows Live ID . Did you know what all can be done with it ? Here’s some info . You can backup your phone contacts , Emails and calenders to the Windows Live website .   Restore [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 20, 2011 at 8:11 am

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Registry Editor for Windows Phone 7 Beta

The first public beta version of the Registry Editor for Windows Phone 7 is released . The Registry Editor fo Windows Phone 7 , developed by Julien Schapman ( @touchxperience ) is a interesting Registry Editor and the author claims that it works on All Windows Phone 7 Devices . [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 18, 2011 at 11:45 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 18 , 2011

Decompiling Made Easy – Chris Using PasswordBox for passwords in Windows Phone 7 Distributed authorization with RavenDB – Oren Eini Managing Session State in a SQL Server – Sumit ILSpy: The Open-Source .NET Assembly Browser and Decompiler – Christoph Wille Brand new Reflector alternatives – Bruno Blog Post: CodeSmith Insight [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm

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Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7 Revealed

You might be aware of the news that the Interner Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7 is on its way later this year . Now Microsoft has unvieled the demo of its Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7 . The video demoed by Joe Belfiore of Microsoft at the [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 18, 2011 at 6:11 pm

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Windows Azure DataMarket Contest

Do you have an Windows Azure App or planning you build one with the Windows Azure Data Market Assets .Then , here’s a chance to win  an i7 laptop or xbox kinect . The “Windows Azure DataMarket Contest” contest starts on January 3rd 2011, and ends on March 31st 2011. [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 18, 2011 at 5:43 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 17 , 2011

Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Programming – MultiTouch and Manipulation – Xianzhong Zhu TODO Comments in the Task List – Zain Naboulsi NuGet 1.1 Released – Scott Guthrie Explain how jQuery works? – Hima Silverlight 4 February 2011 Update Released Today – Tim Heuer EF Feature CTP5: Code First and WinForms [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 17, 2011 at 5:14 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 14 , 2011

WCF Data Service with SQL Azure – Dhananjay Kumar Having Fun with Coding4Fun’s Windows Phone 7 Controls – Michael Parallelism in .NET – PLINQ -  Ramani Sandeep Running .NET applications in-process using AppDomains – Kirill Osenkov Using a Database in MonoDroid Applications – Greg What I learned about being a [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 14, 2011 at 5:09 pm

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Multi tasking in Windows Phone 7 explored

Today at the Mobile World Congress conference , Microsoft announced that the Multi tasking update will be available to Windows Phone 7 sometimes later in this year . Joe Belfiore, vice president of Windows Phone Programme Mgmt. showed a demo of the Windows Phone 7 task switcher that lets the [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 14, 2011 at 4:56 pm

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A new Windows Phone 7 Ad

Here’s a unofficial video ad on Windows Phone 7 which shows some nice features of the Windows Phone 7 . The video was shared by Farshad Zolfaghari through @datisdesign and created by ScottDUK . Thanks Farshad for sharing the link . Nice work …

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Posted by Admin - February 13, 2011 at 5:02 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 10 , 2011

How to display data in gridview using WCF – Tanisha Checking for Anagrams with LINQ – Richard Carr Web Form layout and logic – Web Forms in C# Part 1 – Naimishu Date validation in Infopath forms – Praveen Multipurpose Find Combo Box in Visual Studio – Abhijit Jana Advanced [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 10, 2011 at 4:25 pm

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Official Windows Phone 7 Application for Amazon

Today , Amazon have announced their Windows Phone 7 App that lets the users to buy products from the Amazon store . The Application designed for the Windows Phone 7 lets the users to access and search lots of products in the store as well as make purchase that are [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 10, 2011 at 4:05 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 9 , 2011

Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit – Greg Duncan The right tool for the right job – Bill Gower XNA for Windows Phone 7 and Physics Engines – Ionnis Home-made Regular Expressions in F# – Anton Tayanovskyy Opportunity to Win a free license for Telerik’s RadControls For Windows Phone 7 Writing a [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 9, 2011 at 4:33 pm

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Which is better ? Windows Phone 7 or Android Gingerbread on HTC HD2

jykazu has uploaded a video in youtube where he just breezes through the surface usability of Android Gingerbread and Windows Phone 7. The author has both the Mobile OS being installed on Windows Phone 7. Just watch the video to find out which one is better .

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Posted by Admin - February 9, 2011 at 4:10 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 8 , 2011

Implementing Background Processes – Oren Eini Telerik’s Windows Phone 7 Controls goes public Beta Windows Phone 7 – Part #4: The application lifecycle – Adrea Integrate Bing Maps With Geonames Database And ASP.NET – prashanth Keyboard Shortcuts for the Book – Zain Naboulsi Simple Error Reporting on WP7 – Rudi [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 8, 2011 at 6:22 pm

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How to Check the version number of Zune software ?

Here’s simple steps that can help you find the version . How to check the version number of Zune software? . 1. On the Home screen on the Zune , Click Settings  . 2. Click the About Zune Button in the General Tab . 3. This will open a Dialog Windows [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 8, 2011 at 4:23 pm

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Interesting Camera feature in Windows Phone 7

Interesting Camera feature in Windows Phone 7 Here’s a simple feature tip for the Camera enthusiasts . Did you know that you can launch the Camera in Windows Phone 7 when it is Locked and the screen is turned off ? . Launch the camera by holding the camera button [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 7, 2011 at 3:30 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – February 07, 2011

Do you know about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers Guidance? – Martin Hinshelwood How to mark a method as Obsolete or Deprecated in C# ? Professional Audio Recorder – Rudi Grobler Hierarchy flattening of interfaces in WCF – Arun Mahendrakar C#, Clean up your Linq-queries and lambda expressions – Daniel [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 7, 2011 at 3:16 pm

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Official Bahn Application for Windows Phone 7

The Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is truely gaining more confidence among the consumers as well the App Developers with the Germany’s national railway company ( Deutsche Bahn ) releasing the first version of the Bahn Navigator Application . The Application provides information about the services , train connections and travel [...]

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Posted by Admin - February 6, 2011 at 2:35 pm

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