Typically I used to try latest version of Windows on VMWare Player, Workstation or VirtualBox. Recently I was trying to set up a Windows Phone 8.0 development environment inside a VMWare virtual machine. I tried to enable Hyper-V platform components in my Windows 8.1 Preview Virtual machine. It shows an error. Hyper-V cannot be installed: […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Sending Mobile Push notification using C#/.NET (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Blackberry)
This is an update blog to my earlier blog about Sending Apple iOS Push notifications using C#. With that blog – I introduced you to how to send push notification using Open Source library APNSharp, by the developer John Redth. Redth announced that library is already deprecated. Redth came up with with another open source […]
Read more →Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM are available for MSDN/TechNet subscribers
Today, Microsoft has released the Windows 8 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM bits for MSDN/TechNet Subscribers. As rumoured earlier final build version is 6.3.9600.16384. If you are an MSDN/TechNet Subscriber you can download the latest build from: MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442898 TechNet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/hh442904.aspx Related blogs for reference: Download Windows 8.1 RTM, Visual Studio 2013 RC […]
Read more →Visual Studio 2012.4 RC 3 Available
Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update for Visual studio 2012. This update includes lots of bug fixes and improvements. Here are some informative links for you: Download – Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update Visual Studio 2012.4 RC3 Update – KB Article
Read more →Visual Studio 2012 Update 4–Released
Microsoft has today released the final RTW(Release-To-Web) version of Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 . This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2012. Download: Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 ( Web Install | Offline ISO ) Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 with Update […]
Read more →Read and Write HTTP Requests and Responses asynchronously using ASP.NET 4.5
With ASP.NET 4 – Microsoft has introduced the ability to read an HTTP request entity as a stream using the HttpRequest.GetBufferlessInputStream method. This method provides streaming access to the request entity. But this process happens synchronously because it was tied to a thread until the request is completed. Now with new ASP.NET 4.5 – […]
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