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101 How to’s on Windows Phone – Update to Readers

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:52:58 +0000

Friends, I am keeping this series on hold for the release of the Windows Phone 8 update so that we can explore more on the new features. Initially when I started with Windows Phone and start with 2 series “Learn Windows Phone 7 Development in 31 Days” and “101 How to’s on Windows Phone” [...]

Getting Started with Windows Azure Media Services – Upload a media file (Asset) to Azure Media Service – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:47:03 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to upload a Video media file to the Windows Azure Media Service programmatically from the code using the Azure Media Services SDK for .Net. In Windows Azure Media Service the process of Uploading a media file or the asset to the Media Service is termed as [...]

Getting Started with Windows Azure Media Services – Connecting to Azure Media Services Programmatically – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to programmatically connect to the Windows Azure Media Services using the Windows Azure Media Services SDK for .NET application development. In our earlier articles we have seen What is Windows Azure Media Services () and What are the steps to configure the Windows Azure Media [...]

Getting Started with Windows Azure Media Services – Setting up the Media Services Preview Account – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:30:50 +0000

In our earlier article we have seen about what is Windows Azure Media Services and the different terminologies and operations that are involved with the same. Here in this tutorial we are going to see how to set up the Windows Azure Media Services Preview account to start developing the application with the Visual Studio [...]

Getting Started with Windows Azure Media Services – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:30:00 +0000

In this article we are going to see the new feature which is a Windows Azure Media Services which is in preview. Windows Azure Media Services is one of the much expected feature release by Microsoft recently, with this new service we can provide a media content over the cloud with feasible options to process, [...]

How to point your own Custom Domain Name in Windows Azure – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:21:39 +0000

For the last few days, I have been questioned by many of my followers on how to point our own domain in Windows Azure. Once we designed and deployed our application to the Windows Azure environment we will be provided with a custom domain i.e. <MyApplicationName>.cloudapp.net now we need to change it to a custom [...]

Deleting a Team Project in Team Foundation Services (TFS Preview) with Windows Azure – Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:27:31 +0000

Today it was a long day, was working on some tasks with Team Foundation Services (TFS Preview) on the cloud, by creating many team projects and making a continuous deployment for Windows Azure from the Visual Studio builds etc. But when I was trying to delete the unwanted team projects I don’t see an [...]

Automatically Build and Deploy Latest Code to Windows Azure Websites from TFS – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:08:40 +0000

In this article we are going to see how to automatically Build and Deploy the latest code check in’s from the Team Foundation Services over the cloud to Windows Azure Environment. Here before we step forward I suggest the readers to have a look at the article on “Configuring Team Foundation Service (TFS) for [...]

Configuring Team Foundation Service (TFS) for Windows Azure Website or Cloud Services – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:18:57 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to configure the Team Foundation services over the web for the Windows Azure Websites and the Cloud Services. Team foundation Services are in the preview still, with the new Meet Windows Azure Edition with creating a website or a cloud services application we have option to [...]

Editing Website using WebMatrix in Windows Azure – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:44:35 +0000

In our earlier article we have seen how to design and deploy a Word press Website(Create a WordPress Website in minutes with Azure Portal – #Meet Azure Edition) in Windows Azure and also we have seen how to design and deploy a website designed in Visual Studio (Create Websites with the New Windows Azure [...]

Create a WordPress Website in minutes with Azure Portal – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:15:54 +0000

In our earlier article today we have seen how easy its to create and deploy a website to Windows Azure using ASP.NET MVC4 with in couple of minutes. Here in this tutorial we are going to see how to create a Word press website using the inbuilt gallery which has the list of third [...]

Create Websites with the New Windows Azure Portal – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:28:27 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to create a website and deploy to the cloud Azure with in minutes of time. On June 7th 2012, Microsoft announced the Meet Azure Edition with new features and enhancements. Once of the cool feature is the Websites, with this feature we can create website using [...]

Exploring the New features of Windows Azure – #Meet Azure Edition

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:06:38 +0000

This blog speaks on the new features and enhancements that are introduced recently by Microsoft for Windows Azure. With the new HTML5 Azure Management Portal we have seen what changes are made and how it exactly reflects from the older version i.e. Azure Management portal in Silverlight with our earlier post “”, now we [...]

Steps made easy to Cancel a Windows Azure Subscription

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:37:19 +0000

Initial days it was a day long process to cancel the Windows Azure Subscription by contacting the Microsoft support team through chat, email or by phone, which many of the developers and administrators find it very difficult to proceed with the cancellation. I can remember my chat with one of the support engineer to [...]

Comparing & Exploring the No Silverlight Windows Azure Portal

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:48:34 +0000

Recently in the Meet Azure, Microsoft released the new No Silverlight – HTML5 Windows Azure Portal to the public. But right from the day we are aware of the preview and trying out with the new portal it was really a great interface by the Microsoft Azure team. The old Silverlight Windows Azure Management [...]

Announcing Winner of the F5Debug First Anniversary Give Away worth $1999 – Telerik Ultimate License

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:38:46 +0000

Few days before F5debug celebrated his first anniversary with completion of some excellent milestone, and on the day we have announced a Give Away of Telerik Ultimate License worth $1999 to my blog followers. I apologies for taking few days more to announce the winner. Now it’s the time to announce the winners and [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #43 – Programmatically create a Panorama Control in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to programmatically create a dynamic Panorama Control in Windows Phone 7 Application Development. In our earlier series we have seen what Panorama Control and how to use this control (Refer to the article – ) which explains the usage of the control. Here we will [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #42 – Apply styles using theme resources in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:02:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to apply a control with inbuilt theme resources so that each and every time change in the theme will affect the control automatically with out manually coding. In our previous articles we have seen how to detect the theme and how to change the theme [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #41 – Play with Theme Accent Color in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:31:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to programmatically change the Theme Accent color in Windows Phone device. In our previous article we have seen how programmatically detect the theme running in the background (). This article is an extension of the previous article where we are going to programmatically detect the [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #40 – Programmatically Detect Current Theme in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:53:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to programmatically detect which is the current theme that is running in a device from any application. It would be useful for application that are required to change the theme based on the selection or any requirement that requires for a theme change. PhoneDarkThemeVisibility class [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #39 – Programmatically controls Screen Auto Locking in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:56:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to control the AutoLocking of Windows Phone Device when an application is running, or we want to disable it permanently when an application is running. This feature is a much for security where it auto locks if its idle for quite sometime, but there are [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #38 – Word Suggestions in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:17:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to provide a word suggestion for user entered text in Windows phone application development. Word suggestions are something like a kind of intellisense providing related list of words for the user entered inputs in the text boxes. Word suggestions will be provided on top of [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #37 – Create Dynamic Customizable Application Bar in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:10:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to create a dynamic customizable Application bar in Windows Phone Application development. Application bar is one of the cool feature in Windows Phone and we can get the complete details of how to use the Application bar using the article “Working with Application Bar in [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #36 – Create Application Bar at Runtime in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 27 May 2012 03:52:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to programmatically create an Application Bar at runtime in Windows Phone application development. Application Bar is a set of Icons that can be configured at the bottom of the application for each page or also we can configure it for multiple pages. These buttons can be [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #35 – Play with Screen Orientation in Windows Phone Emulator

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:42:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the screen orientation effectively with Windows Phone development. Before we directly switch over the orientation in Windows Phone emulator first let us get some clear idea on what is screen orientation in windows phone using the article “Working with Screen Orientation in WP7”. [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #34 – Play with On-Screen Keyboard in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the On Screen keyboard effectively for user input that should reach fast. With this keyboard scope we can limit the user or provide the user with the necessary scope of keys that can be entered on the particular input box, we can say [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #33 – Get Mobile Operator details in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how we can get the mobile operator details in Windows Phone Application development. In order to get the mobile operator information we are going to use the API class which is DeviceNetworkInformation class. This class has information on the network details of the specific device from [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #32 – Use Application Deployment Tool in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Application Deployment tool with Windows Phone Application Development. With this tool we can deploy our application to test it with the registered windows phone device or as well with the Windows Emulators in 512MB ram emulator and also with a 256MB ram [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #31 – Test developed applications in both 512MB Ram and 256MB Ram Emulators in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:17:43 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to test the windows phone application developed in both 512MB ram targeted devices and also 256MB ram devices. This feature is available with the latest Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1, download and install the package using the link Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update. With this update, [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #30 – Create a Splash Screen in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to Create a Splash screen in Windows Phone 7 application development. Splash Screens are nothing but a nice animation or an image shown while an application or a game is loading background. Splash screen provides the user with real effect on how the application [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #29 – Using Isolated Storage Explorer Tool in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see an interesting tool which is used to explore the Isolated Storage file with ease. To begin with Isolated Storage in Windows Phone 7 is something similar which we have with Silverlight. In Windows Phone 7 Isolated storage is space provided to store the data locally [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #28 – Play with Save Ringtone Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Save Ringtone task with windows phone application development. We have seen similar kind of tasks in our previous tutorials like Save Email Address task, Save Phone Number task etc. Similar to those task this will also be used in day to day [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #27 – Play with Phone Number Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Phone Number Chooser task with Windows Phone development. With this task we can extract the phone number of a particular contact which the user selects to get the information. We can use this task in our application in cases like we need [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #26 – Play with Save Phone Number Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to make use of the Save Phone Number task in Windows Phone development. This task is something similar to the Save Email Address task which we have seen in our earlier tutorial, this task is also common that it will be used in our day [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #25 – Play with Save Email Address Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to make use of the Save Email Address task in Windows Phone development. This task is common that will be used in our day to day life, with this task we can save an email address on to a contact on the user selection. Basically [...]

Windows Phone Application – Announcing F5Debug App on Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:33:00 +0000

Friends I am happy to share the F5Debug application is available on Windows Phone. This application provides the www.F5debug.net complete article listing on to your windows phone. Application Download URL – http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/7c61caea-943d-4716-a436-29ba6f35a7bb Screen Shots: Please provide your valuable feedback on the app as well. Filed under: Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone App Tagged: [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #24 – Play with Photo Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to play with a Photo Chooser task, with this task if we are going to develop an application which requires adding some photo or images to the user inputs we will be using this task. Basically if the application requires to select some picture from [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #23 – Play with Save Contact Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to use the Save Contact task with Windows Phone Application development. In our earlier tutorials we have seen how to use the Address task and Email Address task to get the information of the contact, with this task we can create a contact from the [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #22 – Play with Camera Capture Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this article we are going to see how to make use of the Camera Capture Chooser task with Windows phone 7 application development. With this task we can provide an option to the end user to trigger the in built camera application and take a photo that can be used with in the application [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #21 – Play with Email Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to make use of the Email Address Chooser task in windows phone application development. In our previous articles we have seen on how to use the Address Chooser task which gets the address of the Selected contact by triggering an event. This task also works [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #20 – Play with Address Chooser Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to start with the list of chooser task, in my previous tutorials we have seen the different Launcher tasks available and we explored each one of them. Here we are going to see about the Address Chooser Task, with this chooser task we can provide an option for [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #19 – Play with Media Player Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this article we are going to see how to play around with the Media Player Launcher task, with this Media Player task we can provide with in the application to launch a media player and play a video or audio file. We can provide a list of media files that can be played [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #18 – Play with Bing Maps Directions Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use a Bing Maps Direction Task available in Windows Phone Application development. With this task we can find a shortest driving direction and distance route between 2 specific points or location based on the user inputs. Bing Maps Direction task uses Start and [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #17 – Play with Bing Maps Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use a Bing Maps task in a Windows Phone application. With this task we can launch the Bing Maps application and provide a location string to search and get the maps on to the specific location. If any search location is not specified [...]

Received Nokia Lumia 800 Device from Microsoft “I Unlock Joy” Program

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sun, 06 May 2012 08:44:49 +0000

Friends, Happy to share this. Yesterday I received a Windows Phone device (Nokia Lumia 800) from Microsoft as a claim for I unlock Joy program. Thanks to Microsoft for organizing this event and provide support for the developers to develop Windows Phone applications. I installed some of my applications developed and it looks really [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #16 – Play with MarketPlace Review Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to make use of MarketPlace Review Task, with this task we can get all the reviews of the application from which the task is triggered. Market Place Review task launches the Market Place client application and pulls the reviews for the application from which [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #15 – Play with MarketPlace Detail Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use the Market place detail task, with this task we can get the complete detail of a specified application. Market Place Detail task opens the Market Place Client application and searched for the application to show the detail information on the application. If the [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #14 – Play with MarketPlace Search Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use the Market Place Search task in Windows Phone Development. With MarketPlace Search task we can provide an option to the end user to search the Windows Phone market place for some specified application or some specified music based on the search filter. [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #13 – Play with MarketPlace Hub Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:30:00 +0000

In this short tutorial we are going to see how to use the Market Place Hub task, this task is used to launch the MarketPlace application on the device where we can specify the type of application (basically a category) from the market place. The content type can be of a music or application [...]

101 How to on Windows Phone – How to #12 – Play with ConnectionSettings Task in Windows Phone

Karthikeyan Anbarasan — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:17:29 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to see how to play around with the ConnectionSettings Launcher task with Windows Phone 7 Development. The Connection Setting Launcher task is one of the few Launchers available with Windows Phone to provide a unique user experience across the application in windows phone. With ConnectionSettings task we can [...]