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  The Nigeria Events  If you attended our events in Nigeria you may have seen our team do a combined demo, which showed how you can develop a Windows 8 application, use the same logical layer with Windows phone 8 application. This was later...

We've been doing a combined demo in our dev camps recently, which is a shopping list application that works cross platform (Windows 8, Windows Phone and Android) with a Windows Azure Mobile Services backend. The source code is posted on GitHub: https...

We are coming to Nigeria next week, from the 7th - 10th of May. The whole team will be present where we will cover many topics in different technologies. We will have some basic sessions for those who are new to Microsoft technologies, some mind opening...

Interview Questions Could you please tell us a bit about yourself and your background? I’m a 26 year old from the southwest of Nigeria who’s had a passion for computers since the age of 4. I’ve always enjoyed programming...

This is my first video tutorial for starting to build apps for windows phone 8. It is posted on my YouTube channel here: http://aka.ms/dhelmyWP I hope that you will benefit from it and I'll be waiting for your feedback.

This is My first video tutorial, in it I'm giving a small introduction about windows 8 and building a small demo application in C# and XAML that uses the WinRT APIs to connect with the camera. I hope that you like it and I'll be waiting for your comments...

YouTube channel I started posting video tutorials on YouTube under my channel here: http://aka.ms/sabbourazure 4Afrika Azure Champ Calls We also started a monthly Windows Azure champ call, which will also be recorded and posted to the channel...

Introduction I’ve been in this situation many times, I have an API that needs an authenticated user to access it, how can this problem be solved? You could pass the username and password of the user with each request, a horribly unsecure method...

Last Wednesday was the first meeting of Kenya .NET User Group. I’d like to thank attendees for coming to the meeting and hope that in return everyone learned something new. Big thanks to Jimmy and the team at the iHub for all the heavy lifting that...

1. Could you please tell us a bit about yourself and your background? My name is Allan Rwakatungu. I am founder of intelworld which is a software solutions company – we are focused on enabling all types of businesses to accept...

Windows Phone 8 SDK offers a set of predefined tasks that enable applications to access phone functionality (Calendar, Map, SMS, Camera and more) and perform common tasks such as saving appointments, downloading map data for offline usage, sharing a media...

Now we are coming to Rwanda next week, and here is the full agenda. Day 1 - Tuesday 2.4.2013 Place: Kigali Institute of Science and Technology Audience: Students & Faculty members Agenda: 09:00am – 9:30am: Microsoft Programs...

In this post I’m going to be discussing what’s available in the LayoutAwarePage Class. So First what is that class and how can we get it? The LayoutAwarePage is a class that Microsoft has developed for us in order to help us in handling...

the new Kinect SDK is going to be launched in few hours, so lets talk about it a little bit 1st Introducing new Kinect Interactions We’ve built a new Interactions framework which provides pre-packaged, reusable components that allow for...

So a week ago I was a building an application that was planned to be running on both windows 8 and windows phone 8 and since both of them are running on the same logic and both of them was written in C# and XAML it should be very easy. So after 2 days...

Not all of us know what the future holds for Kinect, Actually kinect was not something that was planned to be productized as kinect for windows , but lets take a look in the Kinect Fusion, so basically Kinect Fusion pulls depth data that is generated...

Introduction In this post, I'll be creating an application that registers for monitoring a specific hashtag on twitter for new tweets. When there is a batch of new tweets, the application will be notified via a Push notification. I'll be using Windows...

One of the most common tasks carried out by online maps users is taking an address and returning its equivalent coordinates as a location on the map. So when you simply type a location, like “Kampala”, on the Bing maps search bar, the underlying...

Furthering Windows Azure commitment to open source development, Microsoft announced http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/mobile-services/ that developers can begin using Windows Azure Mobile Services to develop native Android applications...

One of the best definition for Continuous Integration comes from Martin Fowler Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading...

One of the most criticized features of Visual Studio ever since it came out has been the ability, or lack and inadequacy thereof, of the IDE to integrate third-party unit testing libraries into it. There are many views on which is the best time to...

Bing Maps exposes a host of APIs for developers that we can integrate into our applications to get richly detailed maps. But there are situations when we are looking to add a particular mapping feature into our application and we’ve no idea which...

This blog is intended to show you how you can easily parse JSON strings in Windows Phone applications. If you are intending to reuse your parsed JSON across the project then go for the 1st Method, Otherwise if it is a one time usage, you can parse the...

Since you reached here I don’t think you’ll be interested why JSON is better than XML you are already using it, but if you are interested in why? Here is a great web page speaking about that ( JSON: The Fat-Free Alternative to XML ) but I...

First question that pops up in my mind is why should a business use Kinect , where is the added value to the company and How can Kinect Help your Business or startup to excel in the market and be the provider of the latest technology ? So I thought...