.NET From India

Cloud Service Providers Comparison

Anand Mukundan — Sun, 05 May 2013 07:20:57 PDT

Nasuni came out with Cloud Storage Report in Feb and it has a number of very interesting information/performance numbers on the current set of cloud service providers. You can download the full report from their site (requires basic data to...

Wait for an Asynchronous Method

Anand Mukundan — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:27:16 PDT

The async and await pattern is a great way to ease asynchronous programming in .NET 4.5. When using await and the whole calling stack is not async (maybe it has no need to be), you will have to sometime forced...

Some Free Ebooks on New Technologies

Anand Mukundan — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:50:38 PST

Here are some free ebooks on new technologies. Most of these links are spread all over and so I wanted to create a blog post with all the links. This has been on my to-do for quite sometime and just...

Live SDK and Windows Store Apps (Metro Style)

Anand Mukundan — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:21:05 PST

Windows Live integration helps you provide cool features like Single Sign On (SSO) and integration with other services like Hotmail, Skydrive etc. from your app. Microsoft has a Windows Live SDK that provides wrappers around the core REST APIs used...

Search Innovations – Bing vs. Google

Anand Mukundan — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:41:15 PST

Search engines have been adding newer features to ensure survival in a highly competitive environment. Yesterday came across a Bing feature. The whole thing started when my colleague Arun wanted to check the status of the Australian open match yesterday....

Either C# or Objective C is the #1 programming language of 2012

Anand Mukundan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:57:12 PST

Based on which methodology you prefer PYPL or TIOBE, the #1 programming language that people are learning in 2012 is C# or Objective C. Both methodogies depend on analysing search results, to see which is the language for which more...

Windows 8 API – Types and TypeInfo

Anand Mukundan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:40:27 PDT

I am working on moving some pre-Windows 8 code to Windows 8 (i.e. making it windows 8 store compliant). There is a major change in the APIs and the documentation sucks a lot. So I am going to write a...

New Keyboard and Mouse Optimized for Win8 from Microsoft

Anand Mukundan — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:38:34 PDT

MS Hardware just announced a new Keyboard optimized for Windows 8 called Sculpt Comfort Keyboard. You can read more about the announcement at the Microsoft site. This keyboard apart from special keys to access Windows 8 features like Charms and...

The new Office 365 with Office 2013

Anand Mukundan — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:31:37 PDT

Microsoft has announced the pricing details of the new version of Office 365 updated with Office 2013. The details of the announced pricing and various editions is available at The new Office 365 subscriptions for consumers and small businesses. The...

Windows 8 App Roundup – Disk Falcon

Anand Mukundan — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:21:09 PDT

Came across this app when browsing the App Store today. This is an app that allows you to visualize your disk drive/directory and see how space is being used. This app has some interesting visualizations built into it and is...