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How to make your Windows Phone Vibrate using C#
There are many reasons why you might want to programmatically vibrate the phone during apps or...
Author: Dina Helmy Date: 06/10/2013
Application Lifecycle Management Part 3 of 5
Application Lifecycle Management Tools This is the third blog on Application Lifecycle Management...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 06/07/2013
How to serve static .json files from a Windows Azure Website
If you upload a .json file to your Windows Azure website and try to access it, it would give you a...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 06/07/2013
The Microsoft surface/Kinect marketing solution (Part 2)
If you want the 1st Part you will find it here Lets start by creating a new WPF app, and add the...
Author: Omar Mohamed Islam Date: 06/06/2013
Windows 8 getting StringFormat functionality
So in WPF and windows phone you were able to StringFormat your bindings so you can display your...
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 06/04/2013
Using Microsoft WebMatrix 3 to easily create and publish websites on Windows Azure
What’s WebMatrix 3? If you haven’t checked out WebMatrix 3 yet, you should. It is a...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 06/04/2013
Enable Lock Screen Notifications in your WP8 App
A nice cool feature in Windows Phone 8 is integration with the lock screen, which means now you can...
Author: Dina Helmy Date: 06/03/2013
Integrating Bing Maps with WPF applications
A little background info Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a UI framework for building rich...
Author: John Kimani Date: 05/30/2013
Application Lifecycle Management Part 2 of 5
Building blocks of ALM This is the second blog on ALM, in my previous blog we introduced ALM. In...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 05/30/2013
Creating a load balanced, highly available IIS web farm on Windows Azure
Introduction In the previous post, we learned how to customize a virtual machine and capture it as a...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 05/30/2013
The Microsoft surface/Kinect marketing solution.
So basically For the upcoming 5 Weeks we will be working on making a marketing campaign product for...
Author: Omar Mohamed Islam Date: 05/30/2013
Migrating Windows Phone 7.x Apps to Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8 offers up some exciting new features and opportunities for developers. Are you ready...
Author: Dina Helmy Date: 05/29/2013
Application Lifecycle Management - Part 1 of 5
Application Lifecycle Management at a glance Welcome to Application Lifecycle Management, in this...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 05/29/2013
Serializing objects to JSON in Windows 8 using C#
So In one of my old posts I was talking about how to deserialize JSON you can head there if you’re...
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 05/29/2013
How to customize a Virtual Machine on Windows Azure, then capture it as reusable image
Introduction In this 2 series post, we’ll be creating a web farm of virtual machines running...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 05/28/2013
Windows Azure–multi-platform command line interface into the cloud
There has been a lot of interesting work on windows Azure and if you have been following closely you...
Author: Malisa Ncube Date: 05/27/2013
The new Windows Dev Center
If you haven’t visited the Windows Dev Center before, I advice you to do it now as it’s...
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 05/26/2013
How to unlock your windows phone for development
In order to deploy your apps directly to the device, developers are required to have an unlocked...
Author: Dina Helmy Date: 05/23/2013
Using Windows Azure Mobile services to develop Android Applications–Nigeria DevCamp
The Nigeria Events If you attended our events in Nigeria you may have seen our team do...
Author: Malisa Ncube Date: 05/14/2013
The cross platform Shopping List demo with a Windows Azure backend
We've been doing a combined demo in our dev camps recently, which is a shopping list application...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 05/09/2013
Nigeria, a different approach
We are coming to Nigeria next week, from the 7th - 10th of May. The whole team will be present where...
Author: Mostafa Nageeb Date: 05/03/2013
Interview with The Developer Akinwale Ariwodola (Windows 8 Apps)
Interview Questions Could you please tell us a bit about yourself and your background? I’m a...
Author: Hanan Hazem Date: 05/02/2013
Video Tutorial on Building Apps for Windows Phone 8
This is my first video tutorial for starting to build apps for windows phone 8. It is posted on...
Author: Dina Helmy Date: 04/14/2013
Introduction to Windows 8 with a simple camera application
This is My first video tutorial, in it I'm giving a small introduction about windows 8 and building...
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 04/12/2013
Windows Azure video tutorials and champ calls
YouTube channel I started posting video tutorials on YouTube under my channel here:...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 04/10/2013
Part 1: Protecting an ASP.net Web API hosted on Azure with OAuth Simple Web Tokens using the Access Control Service – Server Side
Introduction I’ve been in this situation many times, I have an API that needs an authenticated...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 04/04/2013
KE .NET User Group Reflections on our first meeting
Last Wednesday was the first meeting of Kenya .NET User Group. I’d like to thank attendees for...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 04/03/2013
Interview With Allan Rwakatungu.
- Could you please tell us a bit about yourself and your background? My name is Allan Rwakatungu. I...
Author: Hanan Hazem Date: 04/02/2013
New Launchers & Choosers in WP8
Windows Phone 8 SDK offers a set of predefined tasks that enable applications to access phone...
Author: Dina Helmy Date: 03/31/2013
Rwanda Developers Camp
Now we are coming to Rwanda next week, and here is the full agenda. Day 1 - Tuesday 2.4.2013 Place:...
Author: Mostafa Nageeb Date: 03/28/2013
What does the LayoutAwarePage Class provide?
In this post I’m going to be discussing what’s available in the LayoutAwarePage Class....
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 03/28/2013
Kinect 1.7 SDK , what are we waiting for ?
the new Kinect SDK is going to be launched in few hours, so lets talk about it a little bit 1st...
Author: Omar Mohamed Islam Date: 03/18/2013
Building a shared core between Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8
So a week ago I was a building an application that was planned to be running on both windows 8 and...
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 03/14/2013
Sneak peek into the future of Kinect
Not all of us know what the future holds for Kinect, Actually kinect was not something that was...
Author: Omar Mohamed Islam Date: 03/14/2013
Creating Hashtag Monitor app. A application using Windows Azure Mobile Services
Introduction In this post, I'll be creating an application that registers for monitoring a specific...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 03/12/2013
Routing using Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps
One of the most common tasks carried out by online maps users is taking an address and returning its...
Author: John Kimani Date: 03/06/2013
Get started on Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps
Furthering Windows Azure commitment to open source development, Microsoft announced...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 03/06/2013
Continuous integration using TFS on the Cloud
One of the best definition for Continuous Integration comes from Martin Fowler Continuous...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 03/05/2013
Test Driven Development using NUnit natively in Visual Studio 2012
One of the most criticized features of Visual Studio ever since it came out has been the ability, or...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 02/26/2013
Bing Maps APIs features
Bing Maps exposes a host of APIs for developers that we can integrate into our applications to get...
Author: John Kimani Date: 02/26/2013
Parsing JSON in Windows Phone Apps
This blog is intended to show you how you can easily parse JSON strings in Windows Phone...
Author: Dina Helmy Date: 02/25/2013
Parsing JSON in Windows 8 store applications
Since you reached here I don’t think you’ll be interested why JSON is better than XML...
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 02/21/2013
How can Kinect help Your Business ?
First question that pops up in my mind is why should a business use Kinect , where is the added...
Author: Omar Mohamed Islam Date: 02/20/2013
Creating a Facebook app using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Templates and hosting them for free on Windows Azure Websites
Introduction If you haven’t checked out the ASP.net and Web Tools 2012.12 release, you should!...
Author: Ahmed Sabbour Date: 02/20/2013
Uganda here we come …
After the successful event in Kenya, we continue in our mission to help African developers build the...
Author: Mostafa Nageeb Date: 02/20/2013
Connecting Visual Studio 2010 Project to TFS on the Cloud
Today, I was trying to connect legacy VS2010 Project onto Team Foundation Server on cloud. This was...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 02/19/2013
Windows 8 free Design assets Part 2
So after my last post about windows 8 free design assets, I discovered some more resources that I...
Author: shehab fawzy Date: 02/14/2013
The Best Place to learn .NET for Free in Kenya
When and Where Every last Saturday of each month, the iHub is going to host the Kenya .NET User...
Author: Stephen Ebichondo Date: 02/13/2013
Getting started with the Bing Maps AJAX Control
The Bing Maps AJAX Control (currently on version 7.0), is ideally a JavaScript control containing...
Author: John Kimani Date: 02/13/2013