Over the period of time lot of asks and solutions were made for selectall selector for DataGrid. However, I failed to see a solution which is completely built on XAML. When my friend approached me, I thought that I will write my own. The idea is to have a template column with a separate definition for [...]
Aug 29 2012
Pin / Unpin Control Template For Toggle Button
I was looking for a template which will help put a pin / unpin button using toggle button. Thanks to Antoni Dol who has already shared a fantastic template in his blog. I had to make few changes with respective to the pinned style as I didn’t like the original one. So I made few [...]
Apr 13 2012
DIY Home Security Using Kinect, Azure, Windows Phone and Windows 8
Most the people who were in the TechEd 2012 India would have witnessed the cool demo by me and Abhijit Jana made on the opening Keynotes of the event. And now we would like to share how this solution was developed so that you can also build your own. Background Before we could pitch [...]
Mar 14 2012
Byte Array To BitmapImage Converter & IRandomAccessStream Implementation For Windows 8 Metro
After writing the application for Windows Phone, I wanted to bring the same feature with Windows 8 Metro but unfortunately, metro didn’t support the same converter for the reason that BitmapImage can no more read from Stream but only from IRandomAccessStream. I was very much disappointed with the Metro 8 API for having different design [...]
Mar 13 2012
TechEd India 2012 – Integrating Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro and Kinect
I am very happy and excited to announce that this TechEd I will be presenting along with my friend Abhijit Jana. We will be presenting a session which will showcase the integration of Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8 Metro and Kinect. For the presentation we have developed a proto solution for Home Security. Well [...]
Feb 15 2012
Byte Array To BitmapImage Converter For Windows Phone Silverlight
While you are binding a byte array of an image file to a Image control in WPF, it displays the image without any problem since, it has the converter for the same defined withing itself. While in Windows Phone, you don’t get the same liberty as with the WPF. Below is the code which I [...]
Feb 02 2012
Programming With Microsoft Surface 2.0 – Part 2
Surface 2.0 Soon after the successful launch of the first version of the Microsoft Surface, the researchers and developers started to work even harder on the device and started to work out charms. And as a result Surface 2.0 has just hit the market. What’s New The device has undergone a major facelift slimming down [...]
Feb 02 2012
Programming With Microsoft Surface 2.0 – Part 1
I have decided to write a complete forum to help programmers develop for Microsoft Surface 2 and over this series I will try to make you learn everything you would require for programming on Surface. Also I will try to keep up my pace of at least one article per week. So lets start from the basics. [...]
Jan 30 2012
uCertify PrepKit Review
Few days back I got an opportunity to review the certification prep kit for Exam 70-515 (C#) from UCertify. The prep kit software neatly downloads and installs on your machine (tested with Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise) without any malware. Once the prep kit is installed you can download and any exam you want. So [...]
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