Introduction My intention with this article is to clarify the doubts among the .NET programmers having a misconcept about Windows Phone 7 and Metro. When people first hear about METRO, they started believing that it’s a new programming language for Windows Phone 7 and they start referring to that in so many places. What… Continue reading
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 and Hardware Rendering/acceleration
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM was released on 12-APR-2010, 1 year completed as of now. The major change of VS2010 was that it is a completely reworked and is completely developed in WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation). Since it is based on WPF, Visual Studio 2010 performance is based on hardware rendering(using “3D Graphics”/VGA hardware). In order… Continue reading
Future of Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 been recognized as one of the major release by Microsoft, just like the way Windows 7 win the hearts of millions of Windows 7 users around the globe. Recent survey indicates that over 350 million licenses of Windows 7 has been sold across the world so far. The MetroUI – Design Guidelines/language… Continue reading
Sorting a List in ASC/DESC order using LINQ
Most of the developers are unaware of the capabilities of .NET 3.5 and above. Still going for old way of sorting calling List.Sort and implementing a delegate or lambda expression to specify the sort expression. But the slight problem is what you will do for “ASCENDING” and “DESCENDING” order sorting. You have to specify the… Continue reading
Tech Presentation Tips – Checklists for an effective presentation
Today I came across an article by Phil Haack through his tweet. The article is Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes . A good informative article by Phil, by the way may of you know him through his blog http://haacked.com. Phil has shared his past experiences and mistakes he done while doing Technical presentations.… Continue reading
How to Download MIX 2011 Videos
Scott Hanselman has shared a nice article on how to download the videos of MIX2011 – Conference LAS VEGAS, happened last week. These are good presentations about Windows Phone 7, MVC, Silverlight 5, XBOX, and Azure.. Don’t miss it!! Read through the link Mix 2011 Videos – article by Scott Hanselman Thanks Scott!! for such… Continue reading