Microsoft Pakistan Community Blog

I’m happy to announce that Port Existing PhoneGap apps to Windows Phone 8 Competition is open for developers from Pakistan Take your existing PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) application published in any store and port it to Windows Phone 8. The...

What is Code Map? Back in Nov 2012, in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 a new feature named Code Map was introduced in Ultimate edition. The feature allowed visualization of relationships in code. Here’s a short video that will help you understand...

On Tuesday, May 21, we’ll mark the beginning of a new generation of games, TV and entertainment as Xbox is revealed; a New Generation of Xbox. You can watch it live on May 21 (Tuesday), 10pm Pakistan Standard Time on Xbox Live or Xbox.com. Stream...

Step1: Navigate to the URL : https://appdev.microsoft.com/StorePortals/en-us Step2: A verification code will be sent to you on your cell Phone, Please keep your cell phone handy. Step3: After the verification code, select Individual or...

Dear Windows Azure Marketplace user, Great news! We are now available in 49 additional countries. Customers from following countries can now purchase and consume qualified Marketplace offers: Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia...

Windows Keeps Getting Better & Better. "Windows 8.1", Public preview will be available on June 26 http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/05/14/windows-keeps-getting-better.aspx

Innovation and entrepreneurship is the backbone of the IT software industry. Microsoft Innovation Center - Karachi is organizing an event to launch 4th BizSpark program. BizSpark is a program which is specifically designed to help high-potential startups...

We’re going to launch a “PhoneGap to WP8 Porting Challenge” here: http://www.phonegapwpchallenge.com/ worldwide. The challenge will open for registration May 20, 2013 at the latest and site will be updated to provide details &...

Here is a nice Q&A with Microsoft CMO & CFO Tami Reller, Highlights: - 100M Windows 8 Licence have been sold in 6 months! - First Official Windows Blue mention! Windows Blue is a codename for an update that will be available later...

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services status become General Availability on 16th April, 2013. You can read more about the concept in this blog entry . In this post we'll share with you some resources for deploying SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual...

WAMSA Session 2 start in next 20 minutes WAMSA is the codename for Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS) Academy. Windows Azure Mobile Services is the one of the best and easiest solutions for developing all kind of applications. Please refer to What...

Couple of teams from Pakistan make it to top 10 in Nokia Midnight Developer Contest. While the judges choose the winners for the app and game categories, you can check out the finalists in link given below and tell us who you think has the best app or...

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services status has now General Availability starting 16th April. Given the context, let’s talk about some resources for deploying SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. With GA announcement now you have the...

For anybody looking for training on the Microsoft Application Lifecycle tools one of the absolute best resources is Brian Keller’s ALM virtual machine. The Visual Studio 2012 ALM virtual machine and corresponding hands-on-labs / demo scripts were...

The Azure Team has just released their third poster, Windows Azure Media Services . We believe you'll find this poster helpful in reference to today's session on the very topic. For convenience, links to all three posters are below, Scaling Applications...

Windows Azure Mobile Services Academy (WAMSA) is starting by tomorrow (24 th April, 2013). WAMSA consists of three sequential LiveMeeting sessions in English covering all detailed information about Windows Azure Mobile Services, including development...

The RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 was finished in August 2012 and launched it in September. At that time, the core team committed to release new values into Visual Studio via a regular cadence of Visual Studio Updates, and in November 2012 they released...

Thank YOU all for the tremendous participation in Imagine Cup 2013. We received projects from across universities of Pakistan and each project was unique at its place, gracefully presented and clearly reflected the potential our brilliant students have...

This article resolves the issues that come across when we try to consume a web Service from our Windows Phone 8 Emulator. When you create a WCF web service in Visual Studio, by default the service is hosted in IIS Express and only accepts connections...

Download content for ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint Server and other Microsoft technologies in e-book formats. Reference, guide, and step-by-step information are all available. All the e-books are free. New books will be posted...

"Hello there, I think Windows Phone is a cool OS around and I believe if you add support for following features in coming version it would be great!" I often come across such and similar suggestions and questions from local Windows Phone consumer and...

Windows Phone Hackathon by Microsoft Innovation Center - Lahore Windows Phone Hackathon by Microsoft Innovation Center - Lahore , was held at Park Plaza Hotel on 23 rd -24 th March, 2013 . A total number of 70 participants were on the occasion. The...

Our developers have encountered some issues regarding testing their Windows Phone 8 apps either because their PCs lack the required specs to run the emulator or the lack of devices to test their apps. We found a solution that should ease the pain and...

We are pleased to announce v1 of the Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes guide, under Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance , which allows you to get familiar with the Microsoft Fakes framework, to be in a position to promote, position and use it effectively...

Are you following Scrum and relying on a third party tool to manage Scrum despite that you are already using Team Foundation Server (TFS) in your work environment? Visual Studio TFS is a perfect tool for Scrum as discussed in this blog post by Rene van...