Category archives for Learning Resource

Two days free online training for Windows Phone “Mango”

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Willing to getting started with Mango development, Windows Phone MVP Rob Miles and Andy Wigley will be taking two-day Jump Start class for the developers to learn building cool applications and games for the new Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Platform. These advanced courses assume a certain level of expertise and domain knowledge, so they move quickly [...]

Download Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365

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Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime is all about cloud solutions for small businesses, focusing on the core software services (Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Office Web Apps, and Microsoft Lync), and demonstrating ways you can create, manage, and lead teams effectively using the communications and collaborative online tools. This book [...]

Upgrade your Development environment with this free ebook

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Most of the developers are concerned about their application upgradation. They develop an application and after some period of time it seems there should be much more functionalities and features in that application which can be made available through the latest development environment. Then they have to migrate from their old development environment to the new system. [...]

Enjoy software development with ease

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In an age governed by technology, the importance of software development has increased manifold. For every entrepreneur or business owner, anything that saves time is of immense priority. In this post we will be talking a little bit about the problems faced by the developers while developing the software application. With regard to this, the [...]

Training course and Developer resources for Windows Phone codenamed “Mango”

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Windows Phone is going to be improved with hudreads of features and immersive user experiences. Microsoft will be shipping the next version of Windows Phone (codenamed “Mango”) later this year. Developers, willing to develop or upgrade their application for the next version, have to download and install the new training kits specially designed for WP7.1 [...]

What is Software Testing? Difference between Alpha and Beta Testing

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Basically people are not perfect. We make errors in design and code. Hence testing is an essential activity in Software development life cycle which is used to uncover as many as possible. Testing is an important activity carried ou in order to improve the quality, finding out all possible errors by generating test cases and [...]

What is COM? Evolution of .NET and DCOM

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This post aims at explining the component model proposed by Microsoft, namely, Component Object Model (COM). This technology of Operating Systems enables software components to communicate with each other. The component model evolved from clipboards, which evolved to DDE. OLE 2.0 removed the defects in DDE and later OLE evolved into COM. To enable communication [...]

Getting started with Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2

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Microsoft’s Drew Robbins has just announced the availability of Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v.1.2 during today’s keynote at TechEd North America. They have demonstrated how to build a cloud application for windows phone 7 through couple of exapmles. Some of the latest feature of V.1.2 is as follows. Support and tooling for [...]

Price increment for Microsoft Certifications

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If you are planning to do Microsoft Certification in comming month, study faster and schedule for it before 1st July. Microsoft is about to do some significant changes in price of Certification exams effectively from 1t July onwards. Although the discounts available for the certification will be remain same. IT Academy members, high school, college, [...]

Developer Giveaway – Visual Studio 2010 Resource Kit

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After getting peesed of with my College schedules and university exams, finally i got some time to spend on my blog. Since a month i am trying to learn Windows Phone 7 Programming and indeed so far im going quite well for which i did my hands dirty on virtual machines and hands on Labs. I got a [...]

Attend Microsoft Certified Career Conference 2011 for free

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I would be very delighted to give away free passes to attend Microsoft Certified Career Conference 2011, an online 24-hour virtual event where you can meet potential employers from across the world and can build a strong network with fellow professionals which can help you through your career opportunities. Microsoft has been hard at work [...]

Silverlight for Windows Phone – another free e-book.

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Development of application for Windows Phone 7 is increasing at greatest hype and Microsoft is providing hell lot of documentation, tutorials, hands on videos through webcast or virtual event and developer oriented e-books. Here is a Free ebook “Silverlight for Windows Phone” written by Puja Pramudya from Microsoft Innovation Center, Indonesia. This e-book is written [...]

Learn at home with Microsoft Interactive Classroom

Microsoft Interactive Classroom helps interaction and collaboration between educators and students by enabling the creation of classroom polls using PowerPoint, and sharing content with students using OneNote. Educators can insert a multiple choice, yes/no, or true/false polling questions to lessons using PowerPoint.

Presentations on popular Microsoft Technologies | Silverlight Learning Snacks

Long time back i had posted about the availability of Learning snacks on Windows 7, now Microsoft is introducing the new latest range of Silverlight Learning Snacks on various Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Silverlight Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts.

Another Visual Studio member for Cloud Computing – LightSwitch

Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new addition to the Visual Studio family, helps you to create business class application for Cloud as well as Desktop. With LightSwitch you can create custom applications for the way you do business. LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to build business applications that target Windows Client or [...]

The Unit testing development tool for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

Every software development has its stepwise procedure of Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, and its maintenance. And testing may be kind of many types like Black-box, White-box, Alpha, Beta, Unit, Milestone etc. Many of the development through Visual Studio 2010 needs to be tested before the actual product launch or distribution. Programmer has to make sure [...]

Bill gates and Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Amethi On Tuesday

The worlds’ one of the richest man Bill Gates and India’s powerful young politician Rahul Gandhi visited the small village Amethi which is situated in Uttar Pradesh (india) on This tuesday (11th may 2010). The visit was maintained as a top secret till late Monday evening, to keep the media and others away. Even the [...]

Getting to know all about Windows Registry

I was going through the Book “Windows 7 UNLEASHED , SAMS publication” that sneaked my attraction on very interesting chapter which was all about the registry. So i thought it would be better to rip out some content for our blog readers. The Registry is a central repository Windows uses to store anything and everything that applies [...]

How E-mail System works | Concept of SMTP and POP3 server

For the vast majority of people right now, the real e-mail system consist of two different servers running on the main e-mail server machine. One is called the SMTP Server (Simple mail transfer protocol) which handles outgoing mail and the other is POP3 Server (Post Office Protocol) which takes the responsibility of incoming mail. The SMTP server [...]

Windows XP Mode without hardware virtualization technology

Today, During the Desktop Visualization Hour Webcast , Microsoft has talked about the investments around desktop virtualization technologies and solutions, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), to help organizations of all sizes increase flexibility, employee productivity and IT cost savings. Within this session Microsoft outlined improvements that make it easier to access desktop virtualization. Like New technology agreement [...]

Download Silverlight 4 Training Course

Microsoft made an announcement of Silverlight 4 RC availability at MIX10 now they have launched special training course kit for the download. The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 RC features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4.

Download Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone

Through MIX Microsoft has made the availability of Developer tools for Windows Mobile 7 application development. So what are you waiting for, Get started with the Windows Phone Developer Tools, Start creating today, and See your application in the Windows Phone Emulator.

Start developing custom applications for your Windows Mobile 6.5 device

Microsoft has officially released Windows Mobile 6.5 in CES, now a new series of videos from MSDEV will help you develop your applications for Windows Mobile 6.5. This series of Web seminars will lead you through common application development scenarios in Windows Mobile 6.5. From “hello world” to embedded databases, from sending a simple SMS [...]

Download now : Microsoft Office 2010 developer training kit

Any developer who is looking for Office customization, SharePoint integration, or who wants to build cool add-ins for Office system, i suggest u to download the training kit and get ahead on the office development ramp. This training kit is an offline complement to the Office Learning Center and provides you with links to the [...]