Interesting .NET Links – May 31 , 2011
Enable Scroll Override in Visual Studio – Abhijit Jana Modifying the Silverlight Toolkit’s DateTimePicker for WP7–part 2 – John Baird Want to develop for Kinect (before the SDK) with .NET – what are the options? – Dennis Delimarsky SQL Running Total Sample in SQL Server 2008 Windows Phone 7 Jump [...]
How to reset Windows Phone 7 to factory default settings ?
Sometimes it may be necessary for you to rest your Windows Phone 7 to factory settings for different reasons which means that the personal data in thw phone like contacts , messages will be erased completely . To reset your Windows Phone 7 to factory settings follow the below steps [...]
Categories: How To's, Windows Phone 7 Tags: tips, tricks, Windows Phone 7
IRajanee – A Windows Phone 7 App for Rajnikanth
Here’s an Windows Phone App dedicated for Rajnikanth , one of the well known Indian Superstars . Its the App called “IRajanee” developed by RadhaKrishna Sanka (Yalla Apps) . IRajanee is a free Windows Phone App listed in the Entertainment Category . The App is nothing but a awesome jokes [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: App, IRajanee, Jokes, Windows Phone 7
Webinar – Lego for Software Engineers – How to build reusable and maintainable applications in C# with Theo Jungeblut
LIDNUG , the official INETA Linked.NET Group is organising a webinar on Lego for Software Engineers – How to build reusable and maintainable applications in C# with Theo Jungeblut on June 2 , 2011 at 10.00 AM . LIDNUG is a group meant to be for professionals using or interested [...]
10 Responsibilities of a programmer …
It was recently , when one of my friend from a completely Non-IT background told me about his responsibilities and asked me what responsibilities do the software engineers have ? Well , Software Engineers do have a lot of responsibilities and here are few of them which i could recall [...]
Categories: Opinions Tags: Programmer, responsibilities
Hidden features of Windows Phone Mango Emulator revealed
Last week , Microsoft had released the developer tools beta for the new Mango Update for Windows Phone 7 and here comes a post from WinPhone7.info which demonstrates several new items on emulator that were not discussed earlier like MP3 Audio Playback that includes controls for repeat and shuffle New Button [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: features, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7
Convert a word document to PDF in Microsoft Word 2010
Do you want to save word document to PDF ? . The word 2010 allows you to save the document to PDF easily . Follow the below steps to see how to convert the word document to PDF . 1. Open the word document you intend to convert to PDF [...]
Categories: MS Office, Tools, Word Tags: Office 2010, Word 2010
Take Screenshots on windows phone 7
Here’s a much wanted feature in Windows Phone 7 , especially for developers to take screenshots of the App running on the device instead of emulator . The App based on Jaxbot’s dehydrate hack is a Homebrew App that uses the DllImport Library . Currently it can only be used [...]
Categories: How To's, Windows Phone 7, WP App News Tags: App, Screenshot, Windows Phone 7
How to send Access 2010 Database to Email in Office 2010 ?
In Office 2010 , if you wanted to send the Access Database to your colleague through email , you dont have to follow many steps like converting the Excel first to the older version ( if any ) Opening the outlook and then copy / attach the access file and [...]
Interesting .NET Links – May 29 , 2011
How to get the length of a string in SQL Server 2005/2008 – Aamir Hasan Alex Golesh’s Windows Phone Mango – What’s New Series What’s New in Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta? – Kunal Building a Navigation ListBox for WP7 – Nigel Removing items in Orchard 10 Ways Your [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: C#, interesting, links
WP7 App – Ninja Birds
Ninja Birds is a free Windows Phone 7 game created by DarkWheat Games . You are the Ninja Bunny battling your way through the 16 levels saving the carrots from invading Ninja Birds . Some of the features of the App includes Tilt and touch controls witha really simple interface [...]
Categories: Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Ninja Birds, Zune
SQL Server Compression Estimator now available on CodePlex
Bob Taylor has released his SQL Server Compression Estimator tool to CodePlex The Current version 1.0.3.0 was released on 23rd May , 2011 . The SQL Server Compression Sstimator allows the developers to estimate the best compression for the SQL Server Object . Know more about the announcement and how [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: codeplez, SQL SERVER
Windows Azure SDK for PHP V3.0 and Windows Azure Sample Kit for PHP is now available
Recently , Microsoft’s Interoperability team had announced the production ready version of Windows Azure SDK 3.0 which is now available from Codeplex for download The release has a new Service Management API for scaling the PHP Apps in Azure and a showcase App “Seal of the Day” http://dealoftheday.cloudapp.net/ which shows [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Microsoft, PHP, Windows Azure
How to show and hide comments and indicators in Excel 2010 ?
Usually , Excel displays the comments in the excel worksheet with the indicator . When the user hovers over the indicator , the comment is displayed . You can change this behaviour easily in Excel 2010 to either disable the indicator and comment or even show the comment by default [...]
5 free screen recording softwares
Sometimes it may seem that just words and screenshots wont be enough to help the user to understand and follow the steps to troubleshoot a problem. The video recording of the steps or description to be followed is one of the easiest way for the user to view them and [...]
Categories: Opinions Tags: free, Microsoft, open source, screen recording
Webinar – Visual Studio Tips and Tricks, Greatest Hits
LIDNUG , an official INETA Linked .NET Group is organising on May 31 , 2011 at 10.30 AM (PT) on Visual Studio Tips and Tricks , Greatest Hits . LIDNUG is a group is meant to be for professionals using or interested in the Microsoft .NET technologies The event will [...]
Zend announces Zend Studio 8.0.1
Few days back , Zend announced the release of Zend Studio 8.0.1 , a release that contains some important fixes and software updates including Zend framework and also a new set of features for RIA ( Rich Internet Applications ) developers using JavaScript and CSS . Zend Studio is the [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: PHP, studio, Zend, Zend Framework
Interesting .NET Links – May 27 , 2011
Creating Animated Splash screen in Windows Phone 7 – Abhijith Sur All-In-OneCode Framework – Release: 2011-05-26 – CodePlex Generating simple collections for Pivot Viewer – Leventy The Busy Developers Guide to Mango. – Michael Crump Customizing Visual Studio Extension Icon in Visual Studio 2010 – Abhijith Creating Custom Ajax Control [...]
Webinar – Enhancing the Look and Feel of MultiValue Applications
BlueFinity is organising a webinar on June 7 , 2011 at 11.30 AM ( New York ) on Enhancing the Look and Feel of MultiValue Applications which introduces the users to the Web Browser Development using Microsoft Silverlight andBlueFinity’s mv.NET . “mv.NET from BlueFinity gives MultiValue developers everything they need [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: bluefinity, Microsoft, NET, Silverlight
How to Prevent moving to the next Cell after pressing enter in Excel 2010 ?
When you type a value in a cell and press enter , you might see that you would have moved to the next cell by default . To prevent this in Excel 2010 , 1. Go to File – > Options 2. In the advanced tab of the Excel Options [...]
Google Wallet Mobile App coming soon
Recently , Google along with Citi,MasterCard , First Data ans Sprint gave a demo of the Mobile “Google Wallet” . Google Wallet is a mobile app that makes the users easier to pay for the goods . It allows the users to store credit cards , coupons , loyalty and [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Android, Mobile, Social Media, wallet
Visual Basic is now integrated in Windows Phone 7.1 Beta(Mango) SDK
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.1 Beta SDK that was released a few days back has some good news for the Visual Basic developers . Visual Basic is now fully integrated in Visual Studio for the WP7 Development with the new Windows Phone 7.1 Mango SDK . The VBTeam states The first [...]
Categories: How To's, Tools, Windows Phone 7, WP News Tags: Mango, Microsoft, Visual Basic, Windows Phone
AppFabric Service Bus now available on NuGet and CodePlex
Yesterday , Microsoft’s AppFabric team has announced few couple of initiatives which includes the Samples and SDK of the AppFabric Service Bus on NuGet Package and the Service Bus Samples on Codeplex . Both of the above samples are still available to download from MSDN Service Bus on NuGet is [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: CodePlex, Microsoft, NuGet
Display Menu Bar in Internet Explorer 9
When you start the Internet Explorer 9 , you might find that there are no toolbars or menu bars on the top of the browser window which makes the browser very simple . But in case you want the bars like ( Mneu bar , status bar etc.) to be displayed [...]
Write Apps on Windows 7 using Microsoft Surface Input Simulator
Luis Cabrera in his blog talks about the release of the Microsoft Surface Input Simulator . The Microsoft SUrface 2 SDK is a new Microsoft SUrface Imput Simulator that enables the users to write Surface Applications on the Windows 7 machine … And Luis also mentions about Simulate hardware capabilities [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: hardware, Inout Simulator, Microsoft, Surface, windows 7
Categories: Announcement Tags: available, Internet Explorer 9, languages, release
WordPress 3.1.3 Released
Wordpress Developer Team has just released the WordPress 3.1.3 , an security update for all the previous versions of wordpress . Some of the bug fixes or patches included in this version include Various security hardening by Alexander Concha. Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky. Prevent sniffing out user [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: announcement, release, security, Wordpress
Interesting .NET Links – May 26 , 2011
SQL Server: Shortcuts for TSQL Code in SSMS Creating a Data Access Layer using Dynamics in WebMatrix – Steve Lydford Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 7.1 Installation behaviour Projecting Indexes with LINQ – Richard Carr Getting Started with FSRepository 2.0 – Daniel Mohl Sneak Peek at RadChart for WP7 Coming [...]
Categories: Dotnet Tags: Data Access, Developer tools, Microsoft, SSMS, WebMatrix
Automatically insert a decimal point in Excel 2010
Do you want to insert a decimal point in Excel 2010 by default when you enter a number in the cell ? You can do it easily in Excel 2010 . You can turn on this feature by checking the option “Automatically Insert a Decimal Point” in the Excel Options [...]
Windows Azure Platform Pricing Calculator is released
The Microsoft’s Windows Azure Team has launched a pricing calculator that helps the users to select the right windows Azure platform offer and estimate their monthly costs . As per the Windows Azure Team Blog , the pricing calculator lets the users to pick compute , database , storage etc [...]
Categories: Announcement Tags: Blog, Microsoft, release, Windows Azure