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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:20 PM

70-484 exam: Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps using C#

Just got this one! Here is a little tip for you: While studying a new exam the first thing to do is to consult the “Skills Measured” section of the official page of Microsoft Learning website: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-484...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 2:01 PM

My BUILD 2012 sessions selection

Knowing that my focus is on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps with XAML/C# and Azure , here is my recommended sessions playlist if you want to catch up with BUILD .   Windows Store apps Introduction to creating Windows Store apps using XAML Performance...
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Monday, October 15, 2012 1:55 PM

Sample Browser for Visual Studio 2012!

Remember the "All-In-One Code Framework" , a set of cool code samples available on CodePlex ? Well, the same team along with MSDN just released a Sample Browser Visual Studio Extension for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010. The Sample...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 12:18 PM

“Time-Saving VS11 and ASP.NET 4.5 Features You Shouldn’t Miss” ebook by Telerik

Here is a nice opportunity offered by Telerik : They have created this amazing new ebook that you can download for free. More than that, you don’t even need to register to download the pdf, so it is free free! What’s inside ? Intellisense help you discover...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:39 PM

Installing Windows 8 beta on the Samsung BUILD Slate

The following procedure is for people who were at the BUILD event and got a nice Samsung Slate device with Windows 8 Developer Preview, now wanting to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it: Download the x64 ISO on a Windows 7 machine: http://windows...
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Monday, October 03, 2011 4:26 PM

Activate Wi-Fi sharing on your Samsung Focus with Mango

Back in December 2010, I wrote about how you can Activate internet tethering on Samsung Focus with Rogers Canada . If you installed the latest WP7 update, Mango , this is still valid, but you have a new option: activate WiFi sharing !! As for tethering...
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Monday, August 01, 2011 9:00 PM

[off topic] Delete Windows 7 offline files

Off my habitual topics… but this has been bugging me so much, hope someone will find this post useful! You disabled offline files but never got your GB back ? No “delete offline files” button anywhere ?? Here is what to do: Open Control Panel / Sync Center...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:31 PM

MIX11 videos mass download tool

Check out this free Silverlight tool to filter and mass download your selection of MIX sessions : http://dayngo.com/tools/mix11/Home/Download You’ll get a .bat file, then you need to install wget before downloading content, read more here: http://dayngo...
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Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:14 PM

Windows Home Server Console Incorrect Password

This one gave me headache so I hope this will help people. I’m using Windows Home Server (WHS) v1 in network with 2 laptops and after a storm that destroyed my server power supply I haven’t been using it for a long time. A few weeks later I replaced my...
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Friday, December 10, 2010 6:30 PM

The definite guide to Notification Window in Silverlight 4

Note: This article was first published in Web Central Station , but code format has problem there, so I republish here. When this article was written the latest version of Silverlight was Silverlight 4. Notification Window is a Silverlight Out-of-Browser...
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