Mouse without Borders–Excellent tool I ever seen

From last couple of months I always use to think how if I can use my two laptops just like as extended desktop? How if I can use one single mouse and use it on both screens? how if I can I can just drag and drop some file from one laptop/desktop to other? but I never thought that there could be some tool which can allow me to do this.

And today the dream came true, I got this excellent tool called as “Mouse without Borders”. The tool developed as part of Garage projects program in Microsoft. Initially this tool was available only for internal use but now its available publically.

I downloaded it and tested it on my two laptops, its Excellent!!! simply great that’s why I can say. Trust me this is one of the best tool I even came to know.

PUG I Love Windows Phone Contest

Express your love for Windows Phone and win cool exciting prizes.

Pune User Group is hosting a contest for all the enthusiasts who love Windows Phone. All you need to do is submit a simple video expressing your love for Windows Phone and you can win a Windows Phone device or free entry to Microsoft Tech-ed India.
Competition Guidelines :
Key dates of competition :

Competition open for Entries :   14th February 2012Competition closed for Entries : 29th February 2012Announcement of the winners : 10th March 2012

PUG Community TechDays (IT Pro Track) Jan 2012

Date: Saturday, 21st Jan, 2012

 

Time: 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM

 

Venue

MCCIA ‘s Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium
(Ground Floor)
MCCIA Trade Tower, A-Wing,
International Conventional Center,
403, Senapati Bapat Road,
Pune, 411 016,
India

4 Days Free Training on Windows Phone Application Development

Get ready to accelerate your learning with guidance from experts and win Windows Phone Device. Check out the practical examples and learn to compute, develop and build applications  for Windows Phone, the easy way. Pune User Group is coming up with a new 4 Days Training program "iunlockjoy - PUG Windows Phone Development Training Program", an event where professionals can learn all about the Windows Phone Application Development.

Microsoft Announces Windows Phone Developer Program for India

At the recent Mobile Developer Summit which took place on November 2, 2011 at Bangalore Microsoft announced the details of the developer programme for Windows Mobile in India with ‘I unlock Joy’, a unique Application Development and Submission Program, where technology professionals and students get an opportunity to develop applications and showcase creativity.
‘I unlock Joy’ programme for developers has started from November 1, 2011 and will continue till June 30, 2012 whereas the program for students will begin on December 18, 2011 and conclude on March 30 next year.

Developer competitive categories:
“SUBMIT & WIN” CATEGORY: A registered participant submits THREE qualified Windows Phone Application in the Marketplace and gets a chance to win a Windows Phone. In this category, the Applications must be distinct and of non-trivial utility value for the Application User. A “Spam” or close replicas of existing Windows Phone Applications are disqualified.

HTML 5 and CSS3 Support in Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Microsoft released an update for visual studio 2010 to support HTML 5, CSS3. The update is known as “Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1” and it is available to download as a Free update from Visual studio gallery. According to VS web developer Team blog this updates the HTML5 intellisense and validation to reflect the latest W3C specifications and fixes some bugs in the current SP1 support for HTML5. Also JavaScript intellisense it updated to reflect many of the new browser capabilities such as Geolocation and DOM storage. Finally, this update adds comprehensive CSS3 intellisense and validation based on the latest specifications from W3C.
This Update provides you intellisense and validation for most common HTML 5 features like:

• Video & related tags
• Audio & related tag
• New input types like email, url, date etc.
• Drag & Drop support
• Accessibility standard WAI-ARIA
• Microdata
• Schema.org & more SEO friendly goodness

Microsoft Tech Ed India 2011

Multi line ToolTip in Silverlight App

2 days back I came across a requirement in my Silverlight 4 project where I need to display a multiline tooltip on my control… if it is just a tooltip then its very simple requirement. we can just use

ToolTipService.ToolTip="tool tip text”.

or we can also bind it to some object and set the tool tip text to that object. e.g.

ToolTipService.ToolTip="{Binding ActivityToolTip}"

but what if I want to display a tool tip which contains more than 1 line ?

one can simply say user “\n” in text, but there is problem. if you going to assign tooltip text in your XAML then you can not use “\n” in your XAML code. it will give you error. if you binding it and going to assign tool tip form your C# code then you can use “\n” but not in XAML code.

while searching I got a nice solution on MSDN forum which worked for me and now I can add multiline tooltip from my XAML code itself.

you can use 
 to define the new line character. so code will be like this

ToolTipService.ToolTip = “ ToolTip Line 1 
 ToolTip Line 2 
 ToolTip Line 3”

and the out for above will be tooltip like -

ToolTip Line 1

ToolTip Line 2

ToolTip Line 3

Free In-depth Windows Azure Training Videos

Windows Azure Jump Start Training Videos!

Microsoft hosted another new and exclusive Jump Start virtual training event, this time covering the Windows Azure Platform.

“Building Cloud Applications using the Windows Azure Platform” was tailored for application architects and developers interested in leveraging the cloud.

Who is the target audience for this training?

• Application Architects and Developers
• Customers and partners already building a Windows Azure pilot project or planning to migrate an application to the Windows Azure Platform
• Companies searching for real-world answers as they consider whether or not the Windows Azure Platform fits their needs.

Could not load type System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule

 

Just faced one problem with my Windows Server 2008 R2 server while configuring my Silverlight WCF application for demo…

my application was working fine on my localhost and it fail to start when I uploaded to my demo server, and I got following error message…

“Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.”

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

This error can occur when IIS is installed after installing .NET Framework 4, or if the 3.0 version of the WCF Http Activation module is installed after installing IIS and .NET Framework 4.

simplest solution to resolve this issue, run the following from command line:

aspnet_regiis.exe /iru

you can locate aspnet_regiis.exe at

• %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319
• %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319 (on a 64-bit machine)

PUG Live Webcasts - An exclusive series of webcasts by Pune User Group

We are pleased to announce the launch of PUG Live Webcasts, an initiative by PUG team through which you will enjoy series of Webcasts on various Microsoft technologies. We are starting with Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Development series; very soon we will be coming up with SharePoint 2010, Silverlight and many more technologies.

for more details visit http://www.puneusergroup.org/live-webcasts.aspx

Free Microsoft Press eBooks available for download

List of some of Microsoft free eBooks:

• Free eBook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (10 chapters by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines)
• Free eBook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (10 chapters by Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner)
• Free eBook: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series (DRAFT Preview) (6 chapters by Charles Petzold)
• Free eBook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) (newer than the eBook above; 11 chapters by Charles Petzold)
• Free eBook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft (8 chapters by Katherine Murray)
• Free eBook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Second Edition) (6 chapters by Mitch Tulloch)
• Free eBook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (14 chapters by Katherine Murray)
• Free eBook: Windows 7 troubleshooting tips (short eBook by Mitch Tulloch)
• Free eBook: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 (9 chapters by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker)
• Free eBook: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance (10 chapters from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and 6 TechNet articles)

^{From Microsoft Press web site  thanks to Abhishek Kant for sharing the list.}

WebMatrix Beta 2 released

Microsoft announced release of WebMatrix Beta 2 and the Web Platform Installer is available for download at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=194638

WebMatrix is a free tool which offers developers a one-click solution to create, build website faster and make their job easier. It provides easy way to customize and build Web sites from popular open source apps like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla as well as a powerful tool to build sites from the ground up using ASP.NET, PHP, HTML and a number of other leading technologies. it also provides facility to publish websites with integrated deployment tools and gallery of hosting providers that meet their needs. this is a great tool for web developers who want to find a new and easier way of building web sites, or who want to learn how to build web sites quickly.

ASP.NET security Vulnerability Found

Few hours ago Microsoft released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET.  This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET. Microsoft recommend that all customers immediately apply a workaround to prevent attackers from using this vulnerability against your ASP.NET applications.

here are details and a workaround from Scott Guthrie’s Blog as it is…

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Important: ASP.NET Security Vulnerability

A few hours ago we released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET.  This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET.

This vulnerability was publically disclosed late Friday at a security conference.  We recommend that all customers immediately apply a workaround (described below) to prevent attackers from using this vulnerability against your ASP.NET applications.

What does the vulnerability enable?

An attacker using this vulnerability can request and download files within an ASP.NET Application like the web.config file (which often contains sensitive data).

At attacker exploiting this vulnerability can also decrypt data sent to the client in an encrypted state (like ViewState data within a page).

 

Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools RTM now

Today Microsoft announced the final release of its Windows Phone 7 Developer tools (RTM) which will enable developers to create beautiful Windows Phone 7 apps that take advantage of the phone’s new application platform, unique features and capabilities. The developer community was very excited for this release specially from the day Microsoft announced its WP7 RTM and we are happy that as promised they released the RTM version of Developers tool on today.

Click here to download the web installer.

Click here to download ISO image.

as mentioned by Scott G on his blog, this download includes following tools which are required for any one to write an application for WP7, and good news is all these tools are FREE.

• Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone – Free edition of VS 2010 for Phone development.
• Express Blend 4 for Windows Phone – Free version of Blend for Windows Phone 7 Development.
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 – Rich framework for building great applications for Windows Phone 7.
• XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone 7 – Rich framework that enables you to build great 2D and 3D games for Windows Phone 7.
• Windows Phone Emulator – A hardware accelerated emulator that allows you to run and debug your applications and games without requiring a phone.
• Phone Registration Tool – When you get a device, this allows you to “unlock” the device so you can run/debug your application on it, using your Marketplace account.