Its been a great ride for all of us who Love Technology and play with what it can do for us with the devices that we have. In search to explore new stuff that can be done with the wide range of sensors that are available for us these days I have come across this wonderful post done by Sacha Barber about Light sensor on Windows 8. “Fun With Windows 8 ......

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Microsoft has been very generous with all the free stuff they are giving to the developer community and among that is a free source control (tfs ). It is free for 5 developers and is a very little after that. if you are small business and a single developer like me who works on random projects then this is the best solution (in my mind) for all of us ......

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What happened: I have an online TFS account (if you don’t have one please go to visual studio and subscribe, free for 5 people team). I recently bought a surface pro and started creating various test projects. I created a test project on vs 2012 on my surface, then connected to my TFS (free) and then I decided to sync my project to my TFS, I right clicked ......

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A Microsoft unpaid Evangelist journey to get Surface Pro 128GBIt us who tell other people about Microsoft cool products and the technologies and how easy they are to get things done. blah..blah.. etc...This is what happened today : Surface Pro release dateI was there at a local Microsoft Store (Tysons Corner, VA) a week ago to get a reservation card ......

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This blog post is not to hurt any one, just a thought that I got in my mind when I was walking from an Apple Store to a Microsoft Store. I am not judging any one here but if you are from the DC area and been to Tysons Corner’s Apple and Microsoft Store you can see the change on how the migration happened from the Apple to the Microsoft Store. Lets all ......

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TOMBSTONING (Application Lifecycle) Today we are going to talk about “Application Lifecycle” of an application in Windows Phone. Before we write our first application it is good to have a good understating on how your application is going to be treated by the phone (OS) depending on any user action. Every stage of the application is critical to think ......

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Hi Everyone, By now you are very well aware of the Windows Phone and the development environment that you get after installing Windows Phone SDK on your computer. And if you have tested the tools you might have seen the Windows Phone Emulator which looks like the Test Phone Microsoft showed when they launched Windows Phone last year. Since the launch ......

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Apart from the Introduction that I gave from my previous blog posts about the book and the Windows Phone 7.5 Development, I think we have to jump into the technology of it. In this post we are going to talk about the Design Language, Real Estate, Input Patterns. Design Language: Design Language in my view is something that first strikes to the user/developer ......

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If you are not following Shawn Wildermuth or haven't bought the Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight I would highly recommend. I am not going to talk about why we need a smartphone or how smartphone is taking over all the World, We all know how it started and where it took and where is going to take us in the future. Since we all ......

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I wanted to introduce to you all to a wonderful book that I came across recently by, Shawn Wildermuth “Essential Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”. I never bought a text book but I decided to buy this and start reading it, as I was going thru the book I decided that I made a good buy here. This book is very easy to read and ......

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