Archive for December, 2011

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 Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by - 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: [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 @ [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 . [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 [...]

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Posted by Admin - 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 – [...]

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

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Interesting .NET Links – December 15 , 2011

Formatting Enumeration Constants – Richard Carr The absolutely most important thing developers need to know about Windows 8 – Matt Lacey Why do we have circles around icons in the Windows Phone app bar? – Arturo Toledo Visual studio and .NET tips and tricks 13:- Increase performance of IF condition [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 15, 2011 at 4:06 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 9 , 2011

iUI – HTML5 Framework for Android , iOS and Rim MVVM Light template and WCF services (or any ASP.NET application for that matter) – Laurent Bugnion What is Package.appxmanifest File in Windows 8 Metro Style Application? – Kunal Chowdhury SQL Server Storage: Files and Filegroups Video – Brent Ozar You [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 9, 2011 at 4:37 am

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You cant do this using PhoneCallTask in Windows Phone

Today , i was trying to enable the call waiting feature using the Service Code *43# . Read How to enable call waiting in Windows Phone 7 article ? I was able to enable it by manually dialing the service code and tried to achieve the same via PhoneCallTask in [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 7, 2011 at 4:51 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 7 , 2011

Developer: Inexpensive WordPress Themes For Your Windows Phone App – Antonio Hernandez What’s the difference? Remainder vs Modulus – Eric Lippert Webinar – The Mac Imperative for Windows Software Developers MVVM Frameworks For .NET – Roopesh Shenoy From COM to Win8, one developers retrospective… – Greg Duncan SOLID – Things [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 7, 2011 at 3:14 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 5 , 2011

Marketplace ReviewTask in Windows Phone – WindowsPhoneRocks Windows Phone Tutorial: Context Menu – Jesse Liberty SQL Server trace flags How to add Automated Error Reporting to an application – Red-Gate Introducing Telerik Color Editor for Silverlight and WPF Bringing Windows 8 UI to Windows 7 with RadPanorama for WinForms. Today. [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 5, 2011 at 2:21 am

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SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit

The SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center . The SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit can provides the developers with advanced guidance on how to develop Windows Phone 7 Applications for Silverlight . Read More @ [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 4, 2011 at 12:40 pm

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How to insert Comments in Word 2007 ?

Microsoft Word 2007 has an cool feature that lets you to insert Comments in the Word Document . How to insert Comments in Word 2007 ? You can insert a Comments in Word 2007 by following the below steps 1. Open Word Document 2. Select the text that you want [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 3, 2011 at 5:55 pm

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Interesting .NET Links – December 3 , 2011

Unifying Hardware Access across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS – Jonathan Allen New book: Developer’s Guide to Collections in Microsoft .NET – Kim Spilker Delta Engine for iOS, Android and Windows Phone Windows Phone DevCamp – Denmark New ASP.NET website launched – Scott Hanselman ASP.NET website redesign: Now with less [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 3, 2011 at 9:04 am

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Interesting .NET Links – December 2 , 2011

Why Many Developers Hate ASP.NET… and Why They’re Wrong – Jeremy McPeak OData caching in Windows Phone – Samidip Basu Icons in the „Metro Look“ for free – Monochrom/Minimalist Icons – Code Inside Team ResourceManager with an External Assembly DLL – Leniel Macaferi How can you Add Network Connection Settings [...]

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Posted by Admin - December 2, 2011 at 2:09 am

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