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It was recently brought to my attention that knowing the design guidelines prior to building an application saves the developer a lot of time, since incorporating the design guidelines and certification requirements makes the application acceptance process...

Introduction If you haven’t checked out the ASP.net and Web Tools 2012.12 release, you should! It is a tooling refresh of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web, that extends the existing ASP.net runtime with a lot of exciting...

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...

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...

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...

I'm writing this post from Kenya, where I'm presenting Windows Azure this week at the #MSKenCamp . Be sure to follow the hashtag and @AfricaApps for updates on our whereabouts. Introduction In this post, we are going to deploy an Express Node.js...

Today, I was trying to connect legacy VS2010 Project onto Team Foundation Server on cloud. This was on an old laptop that I have which hasn’t been upgraded to VS2012. The following are the prerequisites that are required to accomplish this task...

Introduction Have you heard of VM Depot ? VM Depot is part of the Microsoft Open Technologies initiative, which is only one way of how Microsoft is opening up to open source technologies. VM Depot is basically a repository of virtual machine images...

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...

Welcome to my second post, if you missed the first one you can find it here . I am writing this post from the windows surface RT , an amazing piece of hardware. Regarding the windows 8 designing, Microsoft is providing a portal with a lot of amazing...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

After the successful event in Kenya, we continue in our mission to help African developers build the best apps. This time we are coming to Uganda. In the next week, you will have a chance to meet our team, learn about the latest stuff Microsoft has...

Ok so now am sitting in the iHub_ as part of the Kenya camp that the evangelizing team is working on right now, So I was searching for a case study that would help the Africans to feel the Impact of kinect in education and how interactive and helpful...

Hello My Name is Shehab Fawzy , I am a gamer I play a lot of League of Legends and in my free time I’m a windows 8 developer evangelist :). I come from an ASP.net background (MVC & Forms). I also used to develop windows forms & WPF applications...

If you want to start building apps for windows phone 8, you can get the jump start here: http://bit.ly/X7Xx1Z . Also you can find my presentation uploaded on: http://sdrv.ms/VqdQZD

If now is the time for anything, it is the time of the cloud. If you've been wanting to try out cloud computing, why wait? Even if you haven't considered cloud computing as a platform for your business, let me take you through 5 reasons why it might...

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...

Did you know that 46 out of the top 50 Apps on both iOS and Android are now on the windows phone market place. You can check out this article for more information: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57542103-94/windows-phone-8-users-can-access-46-of-top...

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...

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...