1. Separate UI and Installation for touch vs. non touch devices This will make life simpler. I have been looking to upgrade all my corporate laptops and desktops on Windows 8 and the response from the pilot that I did with few users, was not that great...

After setting up your machine with the latest Windows 8 OS, as a user you would assume Windows Media Player to be installed by default. Don't be surprised if you find it otherwise. There is no Media Player installed by default with Windows 8. The reasoning...

Step 1: Download the Standalone Intellitrace Collector http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=245688 Step 2: Run the Standalone Intellitrace Collector. This will create the IntelliTraceCollection.cab file in the specified directory. Step 3...

I was looking for a preview link to download MSI for Office 2013 Preview bits. To much of my surprise when I go to official Microsoft Preview site, it only gives me links to explore Office 365 version. There is also no mention of MSI. Finally when I searched...

Code Metrics provide an easy way to measure quality parameters for your code. While this feature has a good application within VS IDE, most of the people look for automating it with their build scripts. To facilitate build integration Microsoft released...

Background : Primarily as a developer, I always wanted an online service which is free for me to put my projects under source control. I could find few paid TFS hosted services but I was not ready to put sample projects or source code which has no...

I started reading this and can't stop. Very interesting and mostly step by step. Getting started with Windows Metro style app development http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/br211386

Development for Beginners - A very good resource repository for beginning your development journey http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx

I am proud to share my achievement as a MSDN author with you all. My recent article titled ‘ Working with Agile in a Distributed Team Environment ’ got published in MSDN magazine January 2012 Issue and very well received by respected industry...

If you are restricted by your work desktops's RAM or availability of VS2010 or SQL Server on your development machine, Virtual Lab is the answer. With Virtual Labs you can learn almost everything about your favorite technologies like ASP.NET MVC, SharePoint...

Link to Course Page Windows Azure for Developers

Yesterday, I was approached by one of my teammate where he was facing an issue with getting JSON response from an ASP.NET MVC action. He was working on a Console Application where he wanted to get the list of products from another internal ASP.NET MVC...

Last week, I was asked to help on an exception on an ASP.NET page, which was occurring intermittently. The exception was Message: Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException: Row not found or changed. Initially, I started with Page Requests...

#bldwin was an overwhelming experience. The keynote session, demos and content – all are awesome!!! I just can’t wait my PC to have the new bits. I started the Developer Preview download around 30 minutes back. Lets see how long it takes....

One of the new features of ASP.NET MVC3 is better support for dependency injection. There are changes in how the framework interacts with your Inversion of Control (IoC) Container. As we all know the whole point of DI is about separating component...

Here are the slide deck I used during one of the Microsoft Events recently for describing CodedUI and Load Tests.

Unit Testing is the core of TDD and it requires a lot of collaboration and communication among developers. One of the most debated topics among developers is "Should we use MsTest or NUnit ?" People agree on disagreement and have their own preferences...

An Excellent Video from TechEd on Load/Performance Testing with Visual Studio http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/DEV302

I am in a training class (again) and this time for different reasons. I am looking at how to code better with design patterns. While all this design patterns stuff looks so good and sounds so exiting, some of the thoughts keep me on my toes. I observed...

.NET vs JAVA is a hot topic of debate, specially in an enterprise environment. Every team does try to impress the stakeholders and convince that their (although not really) technology is the best in the world and why any new initiative should be started...

Code Contracts - Introduced by Microsoft Reseach which claims to provide more readability to you code by making it more clean. One very easy to follow article is here where you can learn how to use Code Contracts in you code: http://www.abhisheksur.com...

A snippet from Microsoft Site: System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 is a free, partner-extensible solution that allows you to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage datacenter resources. Using the Self-Service Portal, you can...

I had a priviledge to present a session on topic '.NET 4 Demystified' during the 'Community Technology Update' event in Penang (Malaysia) on 25th May 2011. Some of positive things that I observed are: Participants were very keen to learn and very...

Introduction of ‘Tuple’ in .NET Framework 4.0, really filled in a missing piece in C#. Apart from giving us the ability to interoperate with functional languages like F# or Python/Ruby, It does offer the convenience of heterogeneous collection which can...

Microsoft announces plans to provide Microsoft Certified Master program for Exchange Server 2010 through a network of international testing centers. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/may11/05-16MicrosoftCertifiedMaster.mspx Starting...