Some scenarios in a mobile app might require a text recognition mechanism, for example scanning a car plate or passport and transferring the input to data. Microsoft has built the library that you need to develop such a functionality in your WinRT apps...

Windows 10 Coming to Raspberry Pi 2 Yesterday the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the retail availability of their new board, the Raspberry Pi 2. We’re excited to join the Foundation in also announcing that Windows 10 will support Raspberry...

Windows 10 will empower people to do some amazing things with a new version of Cortana for the PC, a new web browsing experience (“Project Spartan”), a true Xbox quality gaming experience on Windows, new holographic and group computing devices...

Hello Gulf Technical Community, Yesterday was a monumental day for Windows as we announced the next chapter of the Windows 10 story! I hope you got a chance to view the live webcast of our Windows 10 announcement yesterday where senior leaders from...

Windows 10 represents the first step of a whole new generation of Windows. Windows 10 unlocks new experiences for customers to work, play and connect. Windows 10 embodies what our customers (both consumers and enterprises) demand and what we will deliver...

  Be Part of the 12 hour Hackathon, Decode Dubai, brought to you by in5 On January 24, in5 will gather developers, coders, programmers and designers from all over the UAE for a 12 hour hackathon at Decode Dubai. The hackathon will be held from 8am...

The GitHub Student Developer Pack is a great free offer for those students, with terrific tools and services from GitHub partners, but felt it could use something more: our world-class IDE. Earlier this week we announced that Visual Studio Community 2013...

Hello Developers! Now with Universal Apps we have 3 or more projects loaded into the Visual Studio solution. Windows 8.1 Project: It contains XAML UI pages and code that targets Windows 8.1. Windows Phone 8.1 Project: It contains XAML UI pages...

I like this blog post about Cordova. We are pushing for advanced mobile experiences with the cross-platform framework Xamarin , but we should also consider the strong partnership that Microsoft is building with Cordova. Cordova lets you use your HTML...

  Join us in our 4 th Microsoft Developers UAE meet-up at our offices in Dubai. This gathering is the opportunity for programmers to meet and get to know each other. We'll have some technical talks and then network over pizza and refreshments. See...

If you're modernizing your existing applications or creating new solutions from scratch, Microsoft provides your enterprise with essential tools needed for rapid development, ALM, and collaboration. Today, technology use is in the midst of a shift...

Microsoft TechDays Online 2015 is here! For those who are new to this .... Microsoft TechDays Online is a digital conference for technical people, so we’re lining up some of the world’s finest technical speakers. Together, we’re committed...

Brian Harry announced, 2 weeks ago, the acquisition of HockeyApp – the next step in our journey to turn Application Insights into the best tool in the world for helping you get insight into your applications. With HockeyApp we add great support...

Source For more than a decade, Skype has been breaking down geographical barriers to make every day audio and video communications possible. As we enter an era in which computing experiences need to be more personal, Skype has looked at ways to help...

Hello Developers and enthusiasts! I am sure most of you have heard about Xamarin , somewhere. Xamarin is a great technology that enables you to develop native iOS, Android, Mac and Windows apps in C# . Xamarin apps look and feel native because they...

Developers! Have you ever suffered from error research frustration? Did you ever complain from having to leave your code to copy/paste and research the error message in a search engine. Does the following image frequently popup in dreams or nightmares...

We released 8 new documents on AAD: Azure AD/Office 365 single sign-on with AD FS in Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 1 whitepaper Azure AD/Office 365 single sign-on with AD FS in Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 2 whitepaper Leverage...

The “ Success with Enterprise Mobility ” is a series of articles published by our EMS Product Group that covers a different topics of the Enterprise Mobility... I highly recommend going through the links for interesting content across EMS...

Left to right: Real Madrid President Florentino Perez, Microsoft Country Manager of Spain Maria Garaña and Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Chairman, Emerging Markets, Orlando Ayala. Real Madrid C.F. and Microsoft have signed an...

Lufthansa pilot Andreas Ritter with a Surface Pro 3. Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines are equipping their pilots with Surface Pro 3 to make flight operations even more efficient, it was announced Wednesday. Lufthansa has purchased...

Migrate to Azure now using the Azure Websites Migration Assistant, and you’ll never have to migrate your sites again. Migration Assistant will analyze your Internet Information Services (IIS) installation and identify which sites can be migrated...

Independent professionals and small businesses have to do more with less. It’s about staying close to your customers, focusing on your business differentiators, and being more agile than competitors. Microsoft® Office 365 can help you achieve...

Finally, I managed to put the time to complete the updated version of the Window Phone 8.0 Developer Roadmap and compile the Windows Phone 8.1 version of it. For those of you who are new to such developer roadmaps, it’s simply a compilation of lots of...

It’s such a rewarding and exciting opportunity to see a startup blossom right before our eyes. And not just a tech based startup but one that absolutely inspires us all to use technology for the betterment of humanity. Heroes is a social media...

Since the launch of Microsoft Band, many people have stepped forward looking to create custom notifications on a device where the SDK has yet to launch. Is there a way to receive a custom text like “Hello World” based on a feed from a local...