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Windows Live SkyDrive: How To Move or Copy Files Between Folders

Microsoft has very simple and easy to use interface to move files between folders in Windows Operating system. But their own cloud storage service,Windows Live SkyDrive, complicated these simple and daily used operations. We need a guide to figure out how to perform basic copy/move operations. Couple of years ago we wrote about moving files …

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Jaw Dropping Kinect Integration With Combat Solider Game

The innovation in natural user interface for interacting with computers and other devices is riding on the brilliance of Microsoft’s XBox Kinect. The amazing technology behind Kinect lets users to plays games without touching game controllers. It enables users to control and interact with XBox 360 games using gestures(body movements) and spoken commands. Earlier we …

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Welcome to Windows 8

Microsoft has finally released the official demonstration video of  the upcoming “Windows 8” operating system at the All Thing digital conference yesterday. What comes as a surprise for many windows users the video mainly demonstrates the touch capabilities of  upcoming  operating system rather than the traditional Windows GUI. The start up screen is replaced with …

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MS Office 2010 SP1

MS Office 2010 SP1 to support Chrome

For thouse who had been thinking “Will Microsoft support its online version of Office in worlds fastest browser – Chrome?”. The answer is ‘Yes’ with Office 2010 SP1. Time frame for release should be sometime in June.  Other things that are expected along with this Service Pack is Security fixes Performance fixes  Word Web Application to add printing Most obvious Internet Explorer 9 …

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Microsoft Shells Out 15% Of It’s Cash To Acquire Skype @ $8.5 bn

Microsoft today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Skype by paying $8.5 billions in cash. It means Microsoft is forking out approximately 15% of it’s cash reserves to get Skype on board. That’s a truck load of money! This is the biggest acquisition in the history of Microsoft. Last time they …

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Using Ninject With .NET–Videos & Sample Code To Get Started

Ninject is an awesome open source library to implement Dependency Injection in any Microsoft.NET applications. Today I started a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project and for implementing dependency injection Niject was the first choice. To get started with Niject the following two videos from dimecast.net site helped me a lot. Introduction to the Ninject IoC …

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C# How To: Get Calling Class Name & Method Name Using StackFrame Class

In one of the .NET applications I’m designing, we had to identify the name of the calling method as well as the class in which the calling method is defined. This information helped us in automating our process and reduced the lines of code by several times. It’s quite easy to get calling method details …

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Windows 8 Touch Logon User Interface Is Similar To Android Unlock UI

The early builds of Windows 8 intended for internal testing are out in the wild. Guys who had their hands with Windows 8 are revealing exciting features of the new operating system. Few weeks ago we saw screenshots of logon screen with Metro UI design and then a walkthrough video of logon process and customization. …

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