Occasionally it is necessary for a .NET program to activate a window that belongs to a separate application. The facility to set the foreground window is not available through the .NET base class library but is possible using Platform Invocation Services.

Today, Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS), including Virtual Machines and Virtual Networking, has reached general availability. These new services make it possible for you to move your applications into the cloud as is.

Couple of essential skills every .NET developer should have under their belt before going live. If you are a startup or a developer who has to code, deploy and maintain .NET apps on production, you will find these techniques very handy.

Today I needed to allow a per to access an application that’s under development. Instead of buying a cheap ASP.NET hosting account I decided to host the app on my local IIS 8 server. The process to get this configured and working was somewhat exciting since I learned new things along the way.

Several weeks ago we launched a new hub for Windows Azure on Channel 9. This hub will serve as an index and entry point for all video content related to Windows Azure. Introduction videos have been created for core services like Mobile Services, Web Sites, Cloud Services, and SQL Databases. This pag...

I'm excited to share the news that we have released a number of new iOS samples for Windows Azure Mobile Services. These samples demonstrate common scenarios that developers will run into when using Mobile Services. All of these samples have been open sourced on GitHub and are available today.

Portable Prism in Windows Phone 8 and WinRT

New Launchers in Windows Phone

I installed Endomondo App for fitness. I instantly fell in love with this app and was wondering why didn't I use this in first place :) it allows me to control my music playback from the app itself when I go for a walk, like Runkeeper it allows me to switch to map view during my walk. Best feature I...

WP8 New Location APIs : Part 2 Location Tracking and Background Location Tracking

Windows Phone 8 New Location APIs: Part1 Get Current Location

Send Email with attachments without using EmailComposeTask with MailMessage for Windows Phone

How to create and show an Icon on the Lock Screen in Windows Phone 8

Microsoft has released the Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 this update adds two new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images to the exisiting SDK installation. Using these images the developer can test how the Windows Phone 7.5 Live tiles will look on a device running Windows Phone 7.8