This blog post walks you through an app which captures image from the device camera using the CameraCapture Chooser, saves it on the phone storage, retrieve it back and update the app live tile with this image 1. Lets get started by creating a new Windows...

In this post, we will create a simple Windows Phone app which uses Bing map control. We will then locate our current location on the Bing map. The app will also have a option to share the current location (Latitude and Longitude) using Email Launcher...

  <Update: 6 Feb 2012> Code walkthrough for apps shown during my session on “Developing applications for Windows Phone”  during Windows Phone Camps Hyderabad are available at the posts below: Windows Phone code sample : showing current...

I just finished my session on Windows Phone 7 Development during CommunityTechDays Hyderabad . I am including resources I talked about to get you started on Windows Phone 7 Development and links to some demos I presented during the session. The live webcast...

With the release of Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM , you may see the below message if you try to open the project you built with earlier versions of Developer Tools. The message is self-explanatory and you can easily make the changes as suggested...

Can’t make it to the New York Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Firestarter? Watch it online : http://bit.ly/90Mq2i Time:  (Pacific) Session Presenter 6:00 AM – 7:30 AM Keynote: Intro to SOA & WCF Miguel Castro 7:45 AM – 9:00 AM Most Common...

Now you can embed Bing twitter maps on your site and scope a search by @user, location or keyword. Simply go to http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/ and click on maps app on the bottom left of the screen. Select Twitter Maps and then put in your search using...

Are you graduating from college soon and feel ill-prepared to enter the workforce directly out of an academic setting. These webcasts attempt to help students bridge the gap between college and the workplace. Through a combination of soft-skills training...

The Beta release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard is out. The Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard lets users stay on top of application and operating system deployments, security updates, the health status of computers, and IT compliance...

Addicted to Scripting? The Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog ( http://bit.ly/hsgblog ) will be publishing seven days per week, starting this Saturday.

What comes to your mind when you think about Product Launch: Roadshows? Celebrity performances? Press conference? Gliterry evening with fancy stage? How about Dominoes? Sounds different? Well, it was. 22 Microsoft employees worked for hours to setup 7000...

Microsoft Virtual TechDays is back – don’t miss on this opportunity to get trained on the latest Microsoft technologies. You have the opportunity to learn and explore how Microsoft products and tools can help you quickly address your most time-consuming...

Registrations for Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is now open. Register before September 15 and receive a $500 USD off the regular conference pass price. ABOUT THE PDC The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is Microsoft’s premier gathering...

Pay your tribute to Michael Jackson and watch his memorial live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009 10 AM PT, 1 PM ET at http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/Michael_Jackson   IIS Smooth Streaming and Microsoft Silverlight will...

You don't need to worry if you want to catch up budget session live and don't have a Television set near you. Just log onto http://budgetlive.economictimes.com/ on 6 July 2009, 10 AM IST, where Microsoft Silverlight will be used to deliver streaming Live...

Recently we changed the Identity of an App Pool in IIS 6, from Network Service to a Domain account. Soon after recycling the App Pool, we started seeing some issues. As soon as we started the App Pool, the following warning was logged in the System section...

Microsoft Global Foundation Services and BPOS team has provided the following resources to assist in concerns regarding the security, Privacy, reliability and operational controls for companies considering moving IT operations to Microsoft cloud.  ...

The company’s  resident IT professional extraordinaire has just returned from a much-deserved vacation but, in a temporary spell of relaxed judgment, has jeopardized their reputation with a poorly placed email and forwarded personal holiday snaps...

Learn more about Azure with free How Do I videos at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx   4 new videos added recently: Solution Topic: How Do I… Description Leverage Concurrency in Windows Azure Table Storage? Windows Azure table...

Mark Russinovich will host a virtual roundtable for IT pros worldwide to discuss Windows 7 Application Compatibility on Thursday, June 18. This is a chance for IT pros to learn all about the Windows 7 Application Compatibility and answer any deployment...

Configuring the properties of a Windows Service using command prompt and scripting it in a batch file is really simple and can save you from performing the same manual configuration again and again. The sc utility comes handy to achieve this. In the example...

[Taken from http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2009/05/29/join-us-june-1st-10am-pt-for-the-bing-webcast.aspx ] Want more Bing?  How about an interactive Webcast where we’ll walk you through all the cool features in our new decision engine. ...

After updating and deleting element from an XML config file, lets see how to add new elements at the desired position in an XML file. We will again take the same web.config file , which we took in the first example and save it at C:\MyApplication <...

This post talks about removing an existing XML element from the config file. Consider a scenario where we have the following web.config file saved at location C:\MyApplication <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration>   <configSections>...

This post contains the Powershell script to modify already existing config key values in a config file. A sample web.config file is given below <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode=...