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Microsoft WebCamp at Kochi on Feb 18, 2011

I am attending the webcamp happening at Kochi on Feb 18, 2011. If anyone is interested, please see the details below.

09:00am - 10:00am     Registration
10:00am - 10:30am     Opening Keynote     

                                           Nahas Mohammed,Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
10:30am - 11:30am     Introduction to WebMatrix    

                                           Nahas Mohammed
11:30am - 12:30pm     Forms and Data Access     

                                           Nahas Mohammed
12:30pm - 01:30pm     Lunch Break
01:30pm - 02:30pm     Helpers and Publishing     

                                           Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
02:30pm - 03:30pm     DotNetNuke on WebMatrix     

                                           Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
03:30pm - 04:00pm     Audience Q&A and Closing Note     

                                           Nahas Mohammed,Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu

Venue Details

City        Kochin
Date       18th February, 2011
Venue     Abad Plaza
Address   M.G Road, Cochin-682 035
RSVP      080-4089 7010, +91-96636 82120

More details at http://www.microsoft.com/india/events/webcamps/day_events.aspx
 

My First Post Of The Year

Since I was busy with work at my workplace, I was unable to spend time for updating my blogs. We are about to complete a month of the new year and I decided to post my first article of the year.

Update on IE 9

There are unconfirmed reports in the media that Microsoft is planning the public release of Internet Explorer 9 RC on February 14. The beta was made available to the public last year and its been already downloaded 10 million time, making it the most for any beta version of Internet Explorer. Its been rumoured that the final version will incorporate many changes which were not present in the beta version. With the release of IE9,Microsoft is banking on it to gain lost grounds from Chrome and Firefox.

Windows Phone 7

Microsoft released first update to the Windows Phone 7 platform this month and the features include the much needed Copy & Paste functionality, better market place search and faster application and games. The platform is slowly attaining a global reach with more and more manufacturers releasing the WP7 devices world wide. It had also run into several hiccups, the phantom data usage being the most significant one. But MS was quick to respond in resolving the matter, which was not a bug and was attributed to a third party service that caused larger than expected data usage.

Also there were news that some developers has got payments from Windows Phone Marketplace, which came to light through some posting by the developers itself. Earlier Microsoft has said that they will be depositing the money by the last week of January.

My End of Season Thoughts……

 

Another year is going to say good bye to us and its been an eventful year for me. For me, this year started off in the worst possible manner, in the causality of a hospital. Sitting there, I thought it was not a good omen and expected lot of worst things in the days ahead. But to my surprise it turned out to be one of the most interesting time in my life. I ventured in to many new things like blogging, got involved with a technical community, delivered a presentation on WP7 and so on. My blog was up and running this and got over a thousand visitors. A big thank you to all and expects a lot in the coming years also.

Also my long cherished dream of having an SLR was finally fulfilled this year by a friend of mine who bought it from overseas. Then there were a lot of weekend getaways with my friends from college and office. This year also helped me to network with many people from Vijay Raj, an active blogger widely known as msigeek, Janakiraman from MS, Sreeju, Anoop aka AmazedSaint, Jairam, Ramprasanna, again a MS guy who is very familiar these days with this adventures in robotics, Anuraj, Shalvin, Yanesh, Saravana Kumar, Bijith, Safil, Shiju, Satheesh, Saleem and the list goes on. Thanks a lot guys, loved every second spent with you.

Speaking of technology, we experienced an eventful year. We finally the saw the uprising of tablets and smartphones which are poised to dethrone PC’s and laptops in the coming decade.Its that time of year when we take a stock of the developments happened in the past year and here from my perspective the end of the season accolades goes to……

Hello World App in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7

In this section, I will help you to write the widely used “Hello World” application for the Windows Phone. This may seem little bit silly for hard core programmers and non-programmers like. But here the situation is little bit different, we are going to create and compile app in a pc and is deploying and running it in a mobile device or at least an emulator. According to me this simple code serves two purposes, it will help to understand and how easy is to write a text on to the Windows Phone Screen and secondly, it helps us to experience the process of creating, developing, compiling and running a program without too much difficulties.

I will guide you to write the “Hello World”, in both Silverlight and XNA. In most of the cases you will be using XNA for developing games, but I wanted to show that the functionality can be achieved using both technologies.

For writing your first application you need, Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, which includes Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone, the Windows Phone Emulator and it is a free download from the Microsoft Download Center

Writing the App in Silverlight

Power up Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone from Start Menu or from Desktop.  From the File Menu select New Project -> Visual C# -> Silverlight for Windows Phone from the installed templates. Then from the middle area, choose Window Phone Application. Enter a Name for the project and also the location, if we don’t want to create a directory for the solution, you can uncheck the Create Directory for the Solution.

After clicking Ok button and project will be created with a lot files, which I will explain latter. You will be welcomed by a large screen of windows phone in portrait mode, to be more precise 480 * 800 pixels by far largest screen to this date in phone world.  This is shown in the design view and one can add more controls by dragging and dropping them from the control toolbox. Instead of drag n drop we will write markup for creating the controls. For that we need to switch to markup view and this can be one by clicking any of the icons which may appear to the bottom of your screen.

K-MUG UG Meet on Dec 11, 2010 @ Kochi

This month's usergroup meeting for Central Kerala region will be on Dec 11, 2010 at Mastermind Computer Institute, 2nd Floor, New Kochappilly Building,Near Federal Bank,Civil Line Road,Chembumukku. For event details, click here, and registration for the event can be done here.

Agenda                                                                           

09:30 - 09:40 Community updates

09:40 - 10:30 Introduction to WCF

10:30 - 11:15 Lambda - It's uses and abuses

11:15 - 11:30 Tea Break (15 min)

11:30 - 12:15 Introducing Razor – A new view engine for ASP.NET

12.15 - 01:00 Memory and Resource Leaks in .NET application

Microsoft Releases Platform Preview of IE9

Microsoft released platform preview version of IE9 today and can be downloaded from here. According to Microsoft,  Platform preview version is not a full browser, its intended mainly for web developers  to give a sneak preview on upcoming web platform technologies coming in the next version of the browser. For more FAQ's please visit the IE9 site here.

It also supports side-by-side installation along with IE8, but nothing is mentioned about the side-by-side installation with IE9 beta. So its up to the users  to decide on the installation....