Nisha Singh

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how to login to – TFS Connect and TFS Dashboard written for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 respectively. The instructions are the same for the both the apps. The apps can be downloaded from here . The TFS Dashboard app is...

In this blog post, I will be discussing how to update secondary tiles using background tasks in a Windows Store App. I’ll be using the example of TFS Dashboard App in which I connect to OData Service for Team Foundation Server to retrieve data from TFServer...

  In this blog post, I’ll go through the steps of implementing the Share feature in your Windows Store App. Sharing data can be bidirectional, your App can either accept data from another App and/or your App can share data to another App. In this...

  In this blog post, I will be discussing how to communicate with OData Service For TFS using Search contracts in a Windows Store App. The source code for my sample App is available for download as “TFSDashboardBeta.exe”. In this sample App, I can...

Update: OData access for Team Foundation Service   is now available. You can read more about it here . We have made some minor modifications to the Windows Store App and it is available in the Windows Store . The source code and the Appx package...

    In this blog post, I will go through the steps involved in the creation of a WCF service that generates random numbers. I would also be deploying the service to Windows Azure. I will then discuss the process of creating a Windows 8 Store...

Part 2: Get User’s Authorization and Exchange Request Token for an Access Token In the first part of this article, I discussed obtaining the Request Token during the authentication process using OAuth protocol in a sample Windows Store App for Windows...

Part 1: Get a Request Token For one of my first apps at Microsoft, I decided to build a Windows Store App that would exchange data via Flickr’s APIs. One of the challenges I faced while developing this App was communicating with Flickr’s APIs that require...

Hi, I am Nisha Singh! I recently joined Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist at Redmond. To get myself kick started, I have been building Windows 8 apps. And I am very excited about sharing some of my learnings in the process of development. I am a graduate...