My friends and me were having a casual chat on WP7 development and Android Development and slowly that became a hands-on session of ‘getting started’ on both the platforms. A quick comparison on getting started on Android and WP7. Android WP7 1. Download...

What’s Azure Management Cmdlets: Azure Management Cmdlets is a set of Windows PowerShell Cmdlets for complete Azure management. It consists of 80 cmdlets to manage your Azure Storage (Tables, Blobs and Queues), Hosted Services (Deployment, Storage Services...

buddyHome is a POC done by me (Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu) @ Microsoft Bangalore, India. buddyHome consists of the following modules. 1. Cooking module Consists of a robotic arm connected to the buddyHome core system. It has timer inbuilt that will cook...

Playing with technology is my hobby. Around 11 months back a question stuck my mind. “Why can’t I create my dream home'”. That was the start of this project buddyHome. With buddyHome my entire home becomes my buddy. It can see me, talk to me, interact...

At the PDC last year, you may have seen that NASA and Microsoft made a number of announcements. New data apis in Codename Dallas, a Silverlight+ASP.NET MVC 2 site on Azure.... but did you realize they also launched a programming competition? NASA has...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/videogallery.aspx   Windows Phone in short 1. Better Connectivity (Productivity + entertainment + social networking) 2. Better experience (live tiles) 3. Better organise (One elegant look...

Post PDC November 09 Microsoft introduced the options for the developers to have custom VM sizes in Widows Azure cloud. In this article let’s see how one can go about configuring the VMsize in Windows Azure application. Step 1: Go to the Role properties...

If you are trying to compile an Azure app in Visual studio 2010 Beta and if you encounter an error mentioned below “”” The version of the windows azure sdk currently installed is not compatible with this version of Windows Azure tools for Microsoft...

A Microsoft India DPE initiative that gets you the latest technical content on a daily basis in different channels. Think of it like a personal television that switches on every day at a specified hour allowing you to switch channels and view the channel...

Hello Everyone !! Watch out for MIX in March. We will talk about our Windows Mobile Phone in MIX March 2010 . Don’t get misguided by the speculations that are prevalent in the internet. Watch out !!

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Min Pyo Hong, is one of the three most prominent hackers in the world today . He is very, very well-known white-hacker in Korea and around world. He was invited for the Windows Server 2008 launch session, for discussing about Windows Security. As everybody...

It is getting simpler. Firstly you need to have a live ID. If you don’t have one get one here . To get a Windows Azure token, all you need to do is to click here and complete the application. It would take approximately a week to get a token...

Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows 7 in Indian market today. The launch marks a significant milestone for Microsoft. Windows 7 is engineered to meet the demands of business of all sizes and end consumers.  It has significant productivity...

The screen shot of the start-up screen of Visual Studio 2010. Awesome !!

Check out this link below http://www.wiphala.net/courses/robotics/MSROBOTICS/2008-I/msrs_cw.html The link contains Microsoft Robotics studio courseware. I personally feel that it is an awesome place to start learning Microsoft Robotics studio. At some...

Braintech Inc is a Microsoft Robotics partner and they have developed VOLTS IQ SDK. This SDK helps you add intelligent vision capabilities in MSRDS with so much ease. Braintech calls this as ‘Visual Intelligence software suite’. They have primarily targeted...

When you use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008 to access SQL Azure, if you get the following error Cannot connect to <server name> Additional Information: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL Statement or batch. (microsoft...

If you are interested to learn and start programming with Windows Azure, obviously you would think about writing your first ‘Hello World’ program. This post is the step by step for the beginners to get started and write their first ‘Hello World’ program...

You no more need to wait to get an invitation code to use ‘ Windows Azure’ . All you need to do is to click on ‘Product Keys’ in the connect page to get an activation key instantly. You can click on ‘Get Key’ hyperlink to get the Product Keys to...

Windows Azure, SQL Azure, .NET Services and Live Services are in CTP. You need invitation codes to test and play around with it. You can get the invitation codes for Windows Azure here . It will take around 72 hours to get an activation code to...

LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit includes a 32-bit Microprocessor, 3 interactive Servo motors, a sound sensor, an ultrasonic visual sensor, an improved touch sensor and an improved light sensor. Hans Anderson from Sweden has done an wonderful job of assembling...

If you want to connect to SQL Azure from SQL Management Studio follow the steps below: Procure an activation code for SQL Azure (Since it is in CTP now). Go to http://lx.azure.microsoft.com/ and you can access your SQL Azure from the portal....