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Windows Phone: Skype 1.0 now in Marketplace

Created: Apr 23, 2012
Skype for Windows Phone is now officially available in Marketplace. Download it now here. It supports free voice and video calls to other Skype users (or cheaper calls to landlines and other cell phones with Skype Credit) along with other cool features like portrait mode video calling, support for joining audio conference calls, call-in-progress notifications and block and unblock contacts. See more information at Big Blog or at Skype Garage.

Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release)

Created: Mar 20, 2012
If you always wanted to learn how to script using PowerShell, this tool makes it even easier to learn and explore all the cool features. Very nice new experience of guidance and content. Check it out at https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=29101

Skype app for Windows Phone is here

Created: Feb 27, 2012
Finally, the long awaited Skype app for Windows Phone is here. This information has been announced today during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Please find a blog post here (original URL https://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/02/27/windows-phone-at-mobile-world-congress-2012.aspx). Just in case the Zune link does not work, please try it via marketplace (original URL https://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/c3f8e570-68b3-4d6a-bdbb-c0a3f4360a51) … this worked for me!

Windows Phone 7 - new update named Mango coming soon

Created: Sep 03, 2011
If you have some knowledge of Silverlight and .NET it will be so easy to leverage your knowledge and develop for WP7 codenamed Mango. Please see this new ad for Mango update: [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpI8252TieM&feature=player_embedded]!

Yay! my first Windows Phone 7 Mango app officially published

Created: Sep 02, 2011
Today I uploaded my first Windows Phone 7 Mango app to Microsoft’s App Hub. It is all about the service provided by OnlineTvRecorder.com. It talks to their API to view TV programs/schedules, shows your own recordings as well as future highlights and top-recordings. An integrated search lets you search the OTR catalog using keywords. I just got confirmation that it is officially certified and published to private beta test. Please let me know if you are interested in testing ;-)

Windows Phone 7: application development caveat with ViewModel entity class

Created: Aug 26, 2011
The other day I played around with the newest release of the Windows Phone 7 SDK (7.1 Beta 2) and started by using the base application template. I created a new class that serves as the entity definition for the view model. The data is bound to a list box. Nothing spectacular. In design time (Visual Studio) my static sample data that I created showed up just fine. During application start I created some “real” data and bound it to the list box.

Entity Framework Code First Migrations ... sounds like a dream come true

Created: Jul 29, 2011
Check this out: I just read this post from Scott Hanselman about an upcoming release from the entity framework team. This really sounds like a dream come true. For very long time now, I had to struggle with updates to database schemas. In almost any custom software development project you have to somehow take care of such issues. I used different tools from different vendors (e.g. Schema Compare, UDB Workbench, Altova DatabaseSpy, etc.

SharePoint 2010: 'Access Denied' when using Managed Metadata Service terms in custom list

Created: Jul 13, 2011
Within my SharePoint 2010 environment, I have created my own Managed Metadata Service including a specific term hierarchy. After doing so, I wanted to use these terms as a managed metadata column in a custom list. I was able to create new list items leaving the newly created metadata field empty. But, as soon as I started typing in the metadata field, the system prompted me with appropriate synonyms of the matching terms.

Samsung RS21KPSM Side-by-Side refrigerator not cooling (not it-related)

Created: Jul 04, 2011
By way of exception, this post is not it-related. Since I have struggled to find some information on the web, I think this still could be interesting for some folks out there. A couple of days ago my wife noticed that our refrigerator is quite warm inside and it does not get to the specified temperature anymore. As you can see on the following photo is was quite hot inside:

Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)

Created: Jun 03, 2011
If you are interested in cloud technologies, this is a great place to learn more about all Microsoft Cloud Technologies. You will find information on topics such as Hyper-V, SQL Azure, Windows Azure, virtualization and much more. I think it is a great source of information and learning experience.
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