Entries categorized 'Blog'

Free eBook: Windows Phone 7

Now that windows phone 7 is out and about I hear a lot of people trying to getting into development of applications for this exciting new platform. There's a free ebook available for anyone trying to get into windows Phone 7 development. I think it is pretty handy and gives a very good set of working...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Friday, November 05 2010 No Comments

FREE e-Book: Moving to Visual Studio 2010

Following up with my post earlier about VS2010 launch there’s a free ebook available on Microsoft website to allow users to move to VS2010. The book itself is very handy as it covers all migration paths – from VS2003, Vs2005 and VS2008 to VS2010. So if you are one of those developers who...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Tuesday, April 13 2010 No Comments

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4 Live

Finally after all this wait, Microsoft today released Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4 officially. This release is first major release of .Net framework since version 2 back in 2005. VS2010 itself has gone through a major overhaul, code editor is designed now designed on WPF shell, it has support...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Tuesday, April 13 2010 No Comments

SOA - What is there for you ?

Now that GFC is coming to an end many businesses all around the world are planning to invest more into their information systems to make them much more resilient to unforeseen change circumstances. There was a lot of hype couple of years about SOA and how every business should be looking into SOA if...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Thursday, March 18 2010 No Comments

Some important events this week

There’s been a bit of buzz on the web around this time of year.. Well for starters   Microsoft had their PDC taking place in LA which always ensure that one or more exciting news is making headways. This year’s keynote presentations ( Keynote 2 ),  revolved around  three screens ...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Friday, November 20 2009 No Comments

VS2010 Beta 2 ISO downloads available now

Following the release of VS2010 and .Net 4 Beta 2 two days ago they are now available for general download . Following are some of the ISOs that have been made available Visual Studio Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (web bootstrapper) Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (.ISO) Visual Studio 2010 Premium (web bootstrapper...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Thursday, October 22 2009 No Comments

VS2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 available, end of the road for SourceSafe ?

Today Microsoft announced release of Beta 2 of visual studio 2010 and .net framework 4. This is immediately available to all MSDN subscribers . Most importantly this release also includes “go-live” license which means you can start using the products for production projects. Interesting thing to note...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Tuesday, October 20 2009 No Comments

Google Wave invite

Anyone after a google wave invite I have about 4 left. Email me your gmail address.

Posted by Sunny Nagi on Wednesday, October 14 2009 No Comments

Secure password

With recent attacks on Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! mail accounts need for secure passwords has become much more evident. Gmail team have put together a really nice blog entry about some of the best practices that should get utilised when choosing a secure password. There are also many software out on the...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Wednesday, October 07 2009 1 Comment

History of Visual Studio

Following up from history of Microsoft videos, channel 9 are about to embark on series of documentary videos explaining the history of Visual studio. For those who don’t know about Visual Studio , it is considered one of the most critical tools that all microsoft platform developers have used for years...

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Posted by Sunny Nagi on Friday, October 02 2009 No Comments