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Patterns and Practices : Dependency Injection with Unity–Just Released
Just Released!!! Patterns and Practices guidance on Dependency Injection with Unity ...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/21/2013
Microsoft Patterns and Practices Guidance on Solution Development Fundamentals
Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks that address...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/21/2013
Windows Phone Security : Encrypt and Decrypt
Often times you may want to secure the user data. However, there is one native API to support using...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/20/2013
Windows Phone Storing string in Application Setting
For small key-value pair like storage we can use Application Setting and store the string. It is...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/19/2013
Windows Store Apps and SQLite for x86, x64 and ARM
There are bunch of resources on how to use SQLite. The one which I came across and liked is...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/13/2013
Windows Azure WebSites–Best Presentation
This one is the best https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/windowsazure/Learn-2012TechEd-EU/WebSites...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/08/2013
Windows Phone Development Absolute Beginners Series
It is amazing series in Channel 9 demonstrating the Windows Phone Development step by step. Watch it...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/07/2013
Build your Windows Phone Application without writing Code
This is pretty cool. You do not need to be a developer to be able to publish an App to Windows Phone...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/07/2013
Windows Phone Developer account at $19
This offer is valid till August 27. See for more https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/join Namoskar!!!
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 08/07/2013
Learn ASP.NET 4.5 through Scott Hanselman
Scott is delivering ASP.NET 4.5, what could be more exciting!!! Mod 01: What's New in ASP.NET 4.5...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/22/2013
Windows Azure Storage 2.0 Changes
There are quite a few changes in Storage Library since SDK 1.8. Here are few resources on this...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 07/10/2013
Connecting and Managing MySQL of Windows Azure
Windows Azure provides the MySQL database but unfortunately we do not have any portal feature to...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 06/24/2013
Windows Azure Tools Error “IISConfigurator.exe has stopped working”
I started getting this error after I had one Web Platform Installer download issue while updating my...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 06/04/2013
Windows Azure Storage Explorer in Visual Studio 2012
After installing the new Windows Azure SDK 2.0 I am happy to see this new Server Explorer component...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 06/04/2013
Entity Framework CodeFirst Calling Find does Top 2
While using ADO.NET Entity Framework’s CodeFirst and we call Find() method against the PrimaryKey...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/20/2013
Scott Guthrie Discusses Windows Azure SDK 2.0
Scott Guthrie Discusses Windows Azure SDK 2.0...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/20/2013
GIDS 2013 Windows Phone 8 Developer Tips and Tricks Samples and Readings
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!!! Samples Used for Demo Speech Synthesizer, Windows Azure and Chat,...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/09/2013
Windows Store Apps power of WinJS
Great Indian Developer Summit we showed the power of WinJS by taking pic and setting it in HTML...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/07/2013
Great Indian Developer Summit 2013 : Windows Store App Development Hands on Lab
I am very excited for the Hands on Lab Workshop tomorrow at Great Indian Developer Summit. Windows...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/06/2013
GIDS 2013 Windows Phone 8 New Features and Tips & Tricks for Developers
I am happy to announce here that I will be delivering another Windows Phone 8 session in this GIDS...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 05/05/2013
GIDS Windows Store Apps Workshop
On May 7th I and Goutham will be delivering 3 hour workshop on Windows Store Apps both in XAML and...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/23/2013
Windows Store App displaying Data in two more columns in ListView
Windows Store apps comes with some amazing data bound controls. The most favorite among them is...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/22/2013
Windows Phone Adding Rating Button in Apps
Often times as a developer we get motivated to see ratings being given to our Windows Phone apps....
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/21/2013
Windows Phone Emulator Orientation is not working
Another classic problem of Windows Phone emulator is that it does not respond as expected if we have...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/06/2013
Windows Phone : How to use PC keyboard in Emulator
In Windows Phone when we use PC emulator and launch app there we could type using mouse through the...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 04/06/2013
Is my PC can install Windows Phone 8 SDK and Emulator
Most PC can run Windows Phone 8 SDK but Emulator will not be installed properly if the below...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 03/13/2013
Windows 8 App Review : Learning Alphabet
Here is my first review of one Windows 8 App which is created by my love Saswati Sanyal called...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 02/22/2013
Free Windows 8 Template for Applications
If you are building Windows 8 Application then for you there are free templates available at...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 02/06/2013
Windows Phone 8 Training Videos of Jump Start and Build 2012 with Training Kit Hands On Labs
There are a bunch of resources on Windows Phone 8 development for free. Windows Phone 8 Jump Start...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 01/03/2013
Marry Jo Foly liked my Windows 8 app “MSDN and TechNet Top Blogs”
This is amazing to see that @maryjofoly liked my Windows 8 App and installed it. Those who don’t...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 12/31/2012
How to make Visual Studio to talk to Windows Azure using Management Certificate
Visual Studio and Windows Azure goes hand in hand. However sometime new developer find it hard to...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 12/28/2012
Windows 8 App : Top blogs of MSDN and TechNet
Most of us follow the great blogs from MSDN and TechNet. So I have build an application which pulls...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 12/19/2012
Windows 8 App : SQL Blogs
Let me introduce my another venture to the Windows Store apps. This is dedicated to SQL Server....
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 12/14/2012
Available Windows Phone 8 MSDN Webcast Recording
We have recently done the webcast series for Windows Phone 8. Below are the recordings Getting...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 12/06/2012
Windows Phone Emulator is not working
The most common issue with Windows Phone Emulator is that at times it does not work well with...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/29/2012
Windows Phone 8 : Sample from today’s MSDN Webcast
Thank you for joining today’s talk. Please find the sample here https://sdrv.ms/11hVCw7 Namoskar!!!
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/29/2012
Windows 8: Free e-book available for HTML/JS
The download links You can download the ebook in PDF format here:...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/28/2012
Windows Phone 8 Webcast Recording Available
Yesterday I delivered the first of the Windows Phone 8 webcast series. There I followed the topics...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/26/2012
Windows Phone 8 : Hindi View
This is my first post on Windows 8. I have managed to display Hindi. Localization is super easy XAML...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/23/2012
Windows store app : Tech Blog
My first ever venture to the world of Windows 8. I read blogs regularly and few of them are like...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/15/2012
Windows 8 HTML 5 Jump Start and Free Certification
HTML 5 certification related Jump start is now available at...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 11/06/2012
Windows Phone Developer registration costs $8
It is no more $99 for the next 8 days till 11/7/2012. So go and grab this opportunity to have the...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/30/2012
Windows Phone 8 SDK is available for download
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/30/2012
Windows 8: Reusable Item Template for ListView
There are quite a lot of Item Templates which can be used under HTML ListView of Windows 8...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/28/2012
Windows 8 : Important to know what makes your app successful in store certification
Do read!!! https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh694083.aspx Follow 4.1 if you have...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/27/2012
Windows Store App : What you need to know
Upload Your app begins the certification process when you upload it to the Store. During the upload...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/27/2012
Windows 8: List of all available AppBar icons
Are available at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh770557.aspx ...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/21/2012
Why I should use Expression Blend for HTML to design?
Because you simply cannot ignore it. It is just an amazing tool to have This gives you WYSWYG Takes...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/21/2012
How long Windows Store apps takes for certification
This one is very commonly asked question. How long it takes Microsoft to certify my application?...
Author: Wriju Ghosh Date: 10/21/2012