There is no denying that Android is the world’s most popular mobile phone operating system with Google saying last year that on any given thirty-day rolling period there are more than a billion users of the OS. So when you are working to get your productivity software into the hands of a billion users, you can’t ignore the OS. Microsoft has already released and today they are taking it one step further with Office apps for the phone as well. If you want to try these apps out, you will…
Enable your device for development
Important Currently you cannot enable devices installed with Windows 10 Insider Preview with the System Setting Developer Mode controls as outlined in this article. This feature is not currently supported, but will be enabled in a future release of Windows 10. So you don’t need to follow the steps in the future approach in this article. But you must follow the links directly below to enable your specific Windows 10 device. Windows 10 Phone: Register your phone to enable developer mode using the existing Windows Phone 8.1 tools Windows 10…
Microsoft study shows that tech is shortening your attention span
Think the abundance of technology in your life is making it harder to concentrate for long periods? Microsoft might just have some evidence to support your theory. It recently published a study (conducted using both surveys and EEG scans) suggesting that the average attention span has fallen precipitously since the start of the century. While people could focus on a task for 12 seconds back in 2000, that figure dropped to 8 seconds in 2013 — about one second less than a goldfish. Reportedly, a lot of that reduction stems…
Microsoft offers IT guidance to prepare for Windows as a Service
When Windows 10 arrives this summer (and Windows Server 2016 next year), Microsoft is going to be making some noticeable changes to how and when it delivers security fixes, hotfixes and rollups. What can IT pros do now to prepare for the new Windows world order? Company officials provided some potentially controversial suggestions and guidance during Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Chicago. In a session entitled “Getting Ready for Windows 10: Servicing Windows Client and Server in a Managed Environment Today” (Video and slides available here; a good summary from…
Microsoft’s New Edge Browser Is A Windows-Only Play For Now
Microsoft has no immediate plans to let its new browser out of Windows 10. The software giant indicated today that it has no current intention of shipping Edge, formerly known as ‘Project Spartan’, on other platforms. I confirmed the strategy with Microsoft after the announcement. It might sound odd, but that Microsoft is not working to release Edge on other platforms is notable. The company has pursued an aggressive cross-platform strategy in recent years, shipping even its crown jewels on rival platforms. Microsoft is waging a double war: Rebuild Windows…
Microsoft backtracks on free Windows 10 update for pirates
The confusion has revolved around Microsoft’s offer to give free Windows 10 updates to people running Windows 7 and 8.1. In a statement last March, Windows chief Terry Myerson was reported to have said that the offer would extend to pirated copies, too. Microsoft quickly began issuing vague clarifications, while still implying that there would be a way to upgrade at no cost, even if pirates would be required to pay eventually. Now, we’re finally getting a full clarification: there’s no free upgrade at all. Pirates just have to pay.…
Web.config: encryption and decryption
Introduction In this article I will explain how to encrypt or decrypt connection Strings in web.config file using asp.net. Description In Previous posts I explained lot of articles regarding Asp.net, Gridview, SQL Server, Ajax, JavaScript etc. In many of articles I used connection Strings section in web.config file to store database connection. The connection Strings section contains sensitive information of database connections including username and password of database. Is it secured to store the sensitive information of database connections in plain text files called web.config and machine.config files? If we…
Windows 10 to Come in at Least Seven Packages Targeting Consumers, Education, Enterprise and Mobile
While Windows 10 is designed to run across phones, tablets, PCs and more, Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it plans to package up the software slightly differently for separate markets. Windows 10 will be released in at least seven different flavors if you count the versions offered for home, education, enterprise, internet-of-things devices as well as standard and enterprise editions of Windows 10 for phones and small tablets. To be clear, apps created for Windows 10 will run on all the flavors, with some tailoring needed to make apps work across…
Why Visual Studio Code?
Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of what developers need for their core code-edit-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool – supporting OSX, Linux, and Windows – in the Visual Studio family. At its heart, Visual Studio Code features a powerful, fast code editor great for day-to-day use. The Preview release of Code already has many of the features developers need in…
Microsoft announces Microsoft Edge
Today at Build 2015 in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its new Web browser called Microsoft Edge. This is the browser formerly known as Project Spartan. Microsoft Edge, the new default browser will ship on all Windows 10 devices including PCs, tablets, smartphones, and Microsoft’s own tablet, Surface. Microsoft Edge is the all-new Windows 10 browser built to give you a better web experience. Write directly on webpages and share your mark-ups with others. Read online articles free of distraction or use the offline reading feature for greater convenience. Microsoft Edge…
Chart.js Asp.net : Create Pie chart with database jQuery Ajax C#
This article explains using Chart.js in Asp.net C# Web Application we can create a pie chart with database MS SQL server connectivity via jQuery ajax call. You can also have a look on related article, . Now in this post here we create a pie chart by using chart.js library and bind data from our database MS Sqlserver, with jQuery ajax calling. Here we are creating a pie chart, which shows data from the database (Ms SQL server). In my database, I have a table which stores data (website traffic…
Encrypting QueryStrings with .NET
Once upon a time in the tech world, obscurity was security – this being most true in the early years of the industry, when there were gaping holes in privacy policies and confidential client information was bandied about from site to site without a care as to who actually could read the information. With the new Cryptography classes in .NET, there’s absolutely no excuse for not hiding even the most innocuous user data. If you ever need to ‘piggy-back’ information from one web page to another, whether it is within…
First screenshot of Windows Phone 10
Setting page: now a nice and clear page Outlook Mail: cute and easy to use Cortana: if Cortana understand me, it’ll be better 🙂 Outlook Calendar: ooohhh!
Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC
Index 1. Introduction 2. HandleErrorAttribute 3. Limitations of HandleError 4. HandleError vs Application_Error 5. Extending HandleError 6. Returning views from Application_Error 7. ELMAH 8. Summary Introduction Exception handling is a serious matter in any application, whether it’s web or desktop. Implementing a proper exception handling is important in any application. In most cases once we catch the exception we have to log the exception details to database or text file and show a friendly message to the user. In ASP.NET applications, error handling is done mostly in two ways: at…
Apple sides with Microsoft in closely watched patent dispute with Google
Lawyers for Microsoft and Google will appear Wednesday morning at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in a long-running dispute over patents that were originally owned by cell phone maker Motorola Mobility. But this is no ordinary patent showdown. Other tech companies are watching the case closely for its potential to set a precedent for negotiations over “standard-essential patents” or “SEPs” — technologies required to implement industry standards. The case has already created some unusual alliances. Apple (PDF) and T-Mobile (PDF) are among the companies siding with Microsoft in the case,…
OGData extension for BlogEngine.NET
How improve your posts with OGData extension for BlogEngine.NET, here step by step what you have to do with my simple component
Microsoft announces Windows 10 release set for this summer in 190 countries
Microsoft plans to release Windows 10 this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages, the company announced today, though a specific date was not named. In a blog post on the Windows website, Terry Myerson, head of Microsoft’s operating systems team, didn’t elaborate on the release time frame beyond saying it was shared at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community event in Shenzhen, China, today. The time frame aligns with an earlier Neowin report that the company is planning to finish the operating system in June to ready it for consumer…
PSC.Search: a new implementation of Levenshtein distance algorithm
This article describes a simple implementation of the string search. It can be used for approximate string matching (for more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_string_searching). Other algorithms for approximate string searching exist (e.g., Soundex), but those aren’t as easy to implement. The algorithm in this article is easy to implement, and can be used for tasks where approximate string searching is used in an easy way. The algorithm used the Levenshtein-distance for determining how exact a string from a word list matches the word to be found. Information about the Levenshtein-distance can…
Templates With Razor
Razor is a great way to create views with ASP.NET MVC. One feature I use quite often are custom helpers. Instead of duplicating the same few lines of markup I simply create a reusable helper to generate HTML. For example, you could create a helper to do something simple like render out a series of values… @helper tabs(params Tab[] tabs) {<ul> @foreach(var tab in tabs) { <li><a href=”@tab.Url” >@tab.Text</a></li> }</ul>} Then use the helper by providing the parameters it needs… @tabs( new Tab { Text = “Google.com”, Url = “https://google.com”…
IDC: Android and iOS accounted for 96.3% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2014 and the whole year
Android and iOS accounted for 96.3 percent of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2014, and coincidentally, 96.3 percent for all of last year as well. That means the duopoly grew 0.6 percentage points compared to the same period last year (95.7 percent in Q4 2013) and 2.5 percentage points on an annual basis (93.8 percent in 2013). iCharts The latest figures come from IDC, which puts together these estimates every quarter. Here is the breakdown for the full year: Above: Volume units are in millions. Google’s mobile operating system…
Introducing ASP.NET 5
The first preview release of ASP.NET 1.0 came out almost 15 years ago. Since then millions of developers have used it to build and run great web applications, and over the years we have added and evolved many, many capabilities to it. I’m excited today to post about a new release of ASP.NET that we are working on that we are calling ASP.NET 5. This new release is one of the most significant architectural updates we’ve done to ASP.NET. As part of this release we are making ASP.NET leaner, more…
SQL Server: how to convert INTEGER to TIME
I have a very simple solution. If you have a field in database in int format and you want to know how many seconds it’s, the query is: SELECT CONVERT(char(5), DATEADD(second, AVG(Avg_time), ‘20150101’), 108) as myAverageFROM T_GoogleAnalytics_dataHAVING (AVG(Avg_time) IS NOT NULL)
What is HTTP/2 and is it going to speed up the web?
The web is about to get faster thanks to a new version of HTTP – the biggest change since 1999 to the protocol that underpins the world wide web as we know it today. Hypertext Transfer Protocol is familiar to most as the https:// at the beginning of a web address. It governs the connections between a user’s browser and the server hosting a website, invented by the father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee. What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is the next version of HTTP and is based on Google’s…
Implementing Scrum (Agile) and CMMI Together
IntroductionIf you are a software engineer or IT professional, your group has very likely shown a strong interest in reducing costs, improving quality and productivity. Your group might also have looked at various pre-packaged frameworks, such as Agile (e.g., Scrum and Extreme Programming), CMMI1, and Six Sigma. At first glance, each of these frameworks might look at odds with each other, making it difficult to use two or more. This typically occurs because much of the information shared regarding these frameworks is from success and failure stories, rather than understanding…
CoreCLR is now Open Source
We’re excited to announce that CoreCLR is now open source on GitHub. CoreCLR is the .NET execution engine in .NET Core, performing functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code. .NET Core is a modular implementation of .NET that can be used as the base stack for a wide variety of scenarios, today scaling from console utilities to web apps in the cloud. To learn how .NET Core differs from the .NET Framework, take a look at the Introducing .NET Core blog post. You can check out the…