Microsoft Dev Center Benefits for Store developers

The Dev Center Benefits program is designed to accelerate your success on the Microsoft platform by helping you develop, improve and market your apps with a variety of offers and tools and is available to all registered developers worldwide of all experience levels and platforms.

There are 3 levels in the program:

Explorer, gets you started quickly with design and architecture guidance and consulting help from a Microsoft expert, Gift Cards, and Dev Center registration fee.
Expert, helps you reach more users faster with advertising offers, a publishing contract, and more.
Master, unlocks VIP access to developer marketing and support, SDK early access and more.

Register now for free:

https://devcenterbenefits.windows.com/

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Factory Method Pattern vs. Abstract Factory Pattern

Design patterns are reusable and documented solutions for commonly occurring problems in software programming or development. n one of my previous article about Factory Pattern I spoke about what are different flavors of Factory pattern and how to choose between them. But I think there are some confusion with regards to Factory Method Pattern and Abstract Factory. So we will work on it.

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Microsoft passes 9 million Windows Phone transactions daily, promises carrier payouts to developers after 30 days

Microsoft today announced the Windows Phone platform has surpassed 9 million transactions, which encompasses both app and in-app purchases, per day. At the same time, the company revealed a policy change for developers: it will no longer wait to receive app sales proceeds from carriers before issuing payment to developers

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Design Patterns for JavaScript Applications

Now a days, developers are writing increasingly larger and more complex JavaScript applications using the latest frameworks and libraries.Patterns provide a clear approach to writing structured, scalable and maintainable code, concepts which all are extremely important when developing large JavaScript applications.

Here are the following patterns:

Module pattern
Revealing Module pattern
Singleton pattern
Observer pattern
Mediator pattern
Prototype pattern
Facade pattern

For each of the patterns Carl describes the purpose and main use cases together with advantages and disadvantages.

Announcing the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate

New announce about Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Team Foundation Server 2013!  The release is available for download now on the Visual Studio product website and is a "go-live" release.  Starting today, developers can also download Windows 8.1 RTM via their MSDN and TechNet subscriptions.

New features announced by Somasegar:

Improved XAML Editor
Cloud Business App
Improvement in C++
TypeScript
CodeLens
Work Item Charting

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What’s new in Internet Explorer 11 Preview

A few areas of interest include:

    Compatibility:   Sites just work better in IE11 Preview. You get improved compatibility with web standards, other browsers, and websites. You can also update your sites to match the latest flexbox standard to simplify cross-browser code.

    F12 developer tools:   With a new UI, the F12 Tools offer a more intuitive way to debug code, solve display issues, and increase performance and stability of your webpages.

    Touch:   IE11 Preview offers more default and custom touch support for your websites and Windows Store apps. Consumers experience this support with default handling for touch-based drag and drop and hover, and the msZoomTo method enables animated scrolling effects and better control of the panning and zooming experience.

    Pinned sites:   Support for Live Tiles helps make your sites more visually interesting when you pin them, save them as favorites, or display them as frequently used sites. You can customize pinned sites using metadata values. Pin your sites to the Start screen, name your pinned site, set up notifications, and more.

    WebGL:   WebGL powers dynamic 2D and 3D graphics for games and interactive media content. You get new methods for implementing WebGL in your websites. The WebGL APIs give a powerful set of objects, methods, and properties that let you create 3D content for browsers using JavaScript. WebGL programs run directly on your computer's graphics processing unit (GPU), so they run very fast. Watch Frank Olivier's presentation from //Build to learn how to use WebGL to write content that works across browsers.

    Video:   HTML5 video in IE 11 Preview supports standards-based features for adaptive streaming, content protection, and captioning. You can change closed-caption TextTrack objects and TextTrackCue objects for your HTML5 videos, without having to create a separate Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) or Web Video Text Track (WebVTT) file.

You can download the Windows 8.1 Preview and Internet Explorer 11 Preview to start playing with the new release. And we’ve got some great testing resources, as well. Testing your sites for IE just got easier!

Make your way to modern.IE and enter your site’s URL to launch a new set of tools to help you support modern and older versions of Internet Explorer. Use the Compact Inspector to determine if any IE 11 Preview changes affect your site.

You can find a lot more about what’s new in IE11 Preview and which features work with Windows 7, Windows 8, or both, by visiting the Internet Explorer Dev Center. Dig in there, and please use the feedback link to tell us what you think!

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Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 10 browser

Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer 10 for users who haven't upgraded to Windows 8 just yet. Though developers were given access to Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 for over a month now, Microsoft has decided to make the final release available to consumers and businesses Tuesday

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Microsoft Refreshed .NET Framework 4.5 with Many Updates

Microsoft has released several updates for .NET Framework 4.5 which fixes reliability, compatibility, stability, and performance issues while working with Windows Presentation Foundation, Common Language Runtime, Windows Forms, XML, Network Class Library, ASP.NET, Entity Framework,Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.

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HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC

One of the major constraints of web applications has always been connectivity. We imagined leveraging the browser to bring fully competent web applications to the desktop, but failed due to the lack of decent browser support. Although there were some caching techniques available before, they were never really designed with the intention of making web applications run completely offline, making them fragile and complex to set up. HTML5 tries to make up for this missing browser capability by introducing the offline application cache; a more reliable way to make web applications truly available even offline.


Why should my web application run offline?

To be honest, a lot of desktop web applications would hardly yield any return on investment of being able to run completely offline. Desktops are almost always connected, I especially see mobile web applications reaping the benefits of this new feature.

Mobile phone coverage continues to be flaky or even non-existent in many areas. Being able to fluently close that disconnectivity gap would significantly improve the user-friendliness of mobile applications running in the browser.

In more specific scenarios, being able to take the whole application offline could mean the difference between having to build multiple native applications or having the luxury of building one cross-platform browser solution.

Imagine a sales person who wants an interactive catalogue on her tablet to show to her customers in the field. She could use almost any device she wanted, simply browse to the catalogue when connected, then take it into the field offline.

You don't necessarily have to be offline to take advantage of the application cache though. One could use the application cache as a super cache, storing resources offline, so they don't slow down application startup. Updated resources will be downloaded in the background, and swapped with the older ones when the update can be committed. This scenario makes a lot of sense for heavy desktop web applications.


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50 Tricks for Faster Web Applications

Jatinder Mann , an Internet Explorer PM at Microsoft, held the session 50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster at BUILD 2012, providing many tips for creating faster web applications.

The advice provided by Mann was organized around six principles outlined below.

1. Quickly Respond to Network Requests.

2. Minimize Bytes Downloaded. Minimize the amount of data downloaded when a web page is loaded.

3. Efficiently Structure Markup. For IE use the latest markup standardization since it is the fastest. Earlier IE6-IE9 markup styles are recognized by IE 10 but they are not as fast as the latest one.

4. Optimize Media Usage. Images are the most utilized resource, on average a website downloading 58 images.

5. Write Fast JavaScript.

6. Know What Your Application is Doing

Mann recommended using Windows Performance Tools to measure the performance of web pages in IE and optimizing pages for less CPU time and increasing parallelism.

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50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster

Creating high performance web apps is crucial for every web developer. Learn directly from the Internet Explorer Performance team about what actually drives performance across the web and how you can make your sites faster. This is the same team that brought you GPU accelerated graphics and compiled JavaScript, and they will share their favorite 50 best practices for web developers.

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10 Excellent iPad Apps You Should Download

1. AudioNote

Taking notes at a meeting, meet-up or conference? AudioNote lets you link audio recordings to the notes you keep along the way. Later, select a place in your typed notes and the recording from that moment will play. The app also works with a stylus, so you can also link recordings to free-hand notes and drawings.

Price: $4.99

2. Photoshop Express

This free app brings you the primary features of Photoshop without the double-digit expense.

Price: FREE

3. Sketchbook Pro

When it comes to your own artistic expression, Sketchbook drawing and painting tool provides you with a myriad of pencils, pens, markers, brushes and effects. You can upload what you make directly to a variety of social media platforms. Completely compatible with any iPad stylus, the small price tag equates to big-time flexibility and results.

Price: $2.99

4. Epicurious

Epicurious will become your go-to cookbook — it features hundreds of recipes to inspire your culinary mind and instant shopping lists that sync with other devices (such as your smartphone).

Price: FREE

5. Wikipanion

No need to access your browser for those mid-sentence references anymore. Wikipanion taps the Wikipedia database in a fresh, clean, app-based environment.

Price: FREE

6. Jasmine

If you're feeling frustrated about YouTube's disappearance on the newest iOS, check out Jasmine. It'll fill in all the viewing and list-making holes, plus give you parental controls and AirPlay compatibility.

Price: FREE

7. Star Walk

What could be cooler than this? Simply hold your iPad overhead, and the app works with the on-board camera to show you the visible (and even invisible) constellations on the screen. If you're like us, you'll show this one off at your next group gathering.

Price: $2.99

8. White Noise Pro

Traveling to a new environment? Dealing with a noisy neighbor back at home? WhiteNoisePro provides a catalog of gentle, sound-masking ambience, from nature recordings to, well, white noise.

Price: $2.99

9. MindNode

MindNode helps organize your creative life, your daily tasks and every other kind of brainstorming you might perform. Create a visual, bird's-eye view of every project, connect ideas and see things in a fresh light on this endlessly expanding canvas.

Price: $9.99

10. AppShopper

One of the coolest new iPad apps is a tool to help you buy iPad apps. AppShopper organizes wish lists and tracks prices. You get a push notice with every sale, so you can make your move.

Price: FREE

Comma Delimited Cookies in ASP.NET with Parser Tool

ASP.NET does not provide support for comma delimited cookies which you will realize if you examine the source code for System.Web.HttpRequest class. You have to make use of semicolon charcter to work with cookies.

However, HTTP state management mechanism document of W3C (RFC2309) states that semicolon and comma are both valid characters to be used as a delimiter for cookie keys. But semicolon is commonly used by developers.

In order to implement comma delimited cookies in ASP.NET, you need to create a tool which simulates ASP.NET to parse cookies with comma instead of semicolon. The steps involved for the creation of a parser tool are as follows

=>Create HttpModule class that processes each and every request
=>Check for the existence of comma in cookie header
=>Parse and extract the cookies to put them in the collection

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Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987

Microsoft is changing its corporate logo in 25 years, Microsoft, which has used its solid, boldfaced, italicized logo since 1987, is expected to unveil its new, more colorful logo Thursday at the Boston opening of the 23rd Microsoft store. It will also appear Thursday at the Seattle and Bellevue Microsoft stores, as well as on the microsoft.comhome page.

Windows 8 much more secure than Windows 7

Researchers Chris Valasek (Senior Security Researcher at Coverity) and Tarjei Mandt (senior vulnerability researcher at Azimuth Security) spend their days seeking ways to compromise security in Windows. They're good guys; if they find a problem they report it, rather than exploiting it for illicit gain. At the Black Hat conference they reported on their analysis of new low-level security features in Windows 8.

The precise details of what they discovered were barely within the realm of my comprehension. Apparently many doubly-linked lists within Windows 8 are now protected by "pool cookies." To avoid exploits that involve forcing arbitrary code or data into places it doesn't belong, Windows 8 randomizes locations for memory allocation and adds "guard pages" as needed. That sort of thing.

In between slides filled with code and intense details, Valasek and Mandt displayed a couple that anybody could understand. The column for Windows Vista was all red, meaning not secure. Windows 7 was close, with just a few green checkmarks. And of course Windows 8 displayed a column of solid green checkmarks. Expert or not, we know that green is good.

After the talk I checked in with Valasek.

Rubenking: Back in the day I would write TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) programs in DOS, and they were great, and useful. But the malware writers used the same DOS features to write bad stuff. Microsoft could have shut them down, but they would have shut me down too. It seems from your talk like they don't plan to shut anybody down. They're doing fine-tuning, working really hard to ensure that everything still works while they crank up security. Do you think it's conceivable you could write an operating system that just wouldn't be vulnerable to attack?

Valasek: No, that doesn't exist. Not as long as humans are writing the code. Once Skynet takes over and humans don't write code any more that might be possible. They have to have a certain amount of data and algorithms and structures that are needed, so there's always a potential to use this stuff for exploitation purposes. Here's the thing. If you don't make it impossible, but you make it severely difficult so only a tenth of one percent of the population can do it, you've effectively lowered the threat to decent levels.

Rubenking: And if you hire that one tenth of one percent…

Valasek: That's just what Google and Microsoft have done. Hire that one tenth of one percent, then you're good.

Rubenking: Thank you Chris!

Indeed, Windows 8 isn't perfect. Valasek and Mandt laid out a number of possible avenues that hackers might conceivably exploit. But as Valasek said, it will be severely difficult, and only the most adept will come close to exploiting the tiny vulnerabilities that remain.

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iPhone 5 coming on August 7 2012

Apple's next-generation iPhone popularly being referred to as iPhone 5 is launching on August 7, claims a blog on Know Your Mobile website. The website makes this claim citing "a reliable industry source" who, it says, has stated that the Cupertino-based tech giant will launch the device during a keynote speech.

Earlier, the same website had reported that the launch date of iPhone 5 has been pushed ahead to August in order to compete better against Samsung Galaxy S III.

11 Things You Didn’t Know About Facebook Pages

Do you manage a Facebook brand page? With all the recent changes, you may have felt a little lost on the social platform. To help you out, we’ve put together some useful tips and tricks.

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Android 4.0 source code now available: Google

Google has rolled out the source code of Android4.1 (Jelly Bean) for developers, who can receive it from Android Open Source Project.

With this release, the manufacturers who use Android in their smartphones and tablets can begin working on the latest edition of Google's open source mobile operating system for existing and upcoming devices.

Custom firmware providers like CyanogenMOD and MIUI will also use the source code for JellyBean to build the next iteration of their firmware. The team at CyanogenMOD has already stated that it will commence working on CM10, whereas the plans for the previous edition of its custom firmware are on schedule.

On the official Android building group, Android team's Jean-Baptiste Queru posted that the search giant has also rolled out the 'proprietary binaries' for devices like Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus. The same for Nexus S and Motorola Xoom are expected soon.

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