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Few days back, Microsoft announced the draft version of the .NET architecture guidance. This guidance is the combined effort of the Visual Studio team and the Microsoft Developer Division. As of today, it covers only 4 areas: ASP.NET Web applications Azure Cloud Deployment Xamarin Mobile Applications MicroServices and Docker You can find more about this guidance on Microsoft's documentation.

Microsoft just announced that soon we will be able to make voice and video calls from our web browser. This Skype for Web (beta) calls will work on Firefox, Safari, Chrome and of course IE. As of now, it will work as a plugin but soon it will work natively on all browsers without plugins. So, are you excited to try this out ???

Yes, its true. Soon Microsoft is about to reveal its own Lumia having 5-inch display, 1.2 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage and 3G-only connectivity. First look of this Lumia is already out: More info

Microsoft recently released .Net Fx 4.5.2 which is in-place update for .Net Framework 4, .Net Framework 4.5 and .Net Framework 4.5.1 and is ready for download on below links: .Net Framework 4.5.2 Offline Installer .Net Framework 4.5.2 Web Installer This includes updates for ASP.Net, Windows Event Tracing (ETW), better profiling as well as for DPI settings. Enjoy...

2 nd April 2014, during the //BUILD 2014 conference Microsoft officially showcased the set of new features which will be coming as part of Windows   Phone 8.1.  In my this post, I am touching those features. 1) Cortana - new personal assistant:  Cortana is voice-based virtual assistant provided by Microsoft. It is similar to Apple’s ‘Siri’ and is powered by Bing. It can do everything that one would expect from any virtual assistant. Cortana offers advanced settings and preferences with more than the default voice commands. One can talk with her and can also give her instructions to perform any operations behalf on you. Cortana is fully based on your search queries, she learns your interests, she learns about the most important people in your life. For example, you can instruct her “Cortana, call Shweta on Skype” and it will open Skype to call the person. Isn’t it interesting ? You can also use Cortana to set reminders by saying “Cortana, remind me to go to parlo...

Microsoft has launched the 'Bing Code Search add-on'  for Visual Studio, representing companionship between the Bing, Visual Studio and Microsoft Research divisions. The Bing Code Search extension directly assimilates the code snippet search for C# with other languages, coming later into the Visual Studio.  As this add-on is a part of the Visual Studio, programmers will be able to use it to search for the code samples from a number of web-based repositories including MSDN, StackOverflow, Donnetperls and CSharp411. So, if you are using Microsoft Visual Studio for building apps, you can download the add-on, activate it, type the search string, press enter and you will get a couple of options that are suitable for your project.  You can grab the add-on from the Visual Studio directory page However, the add-on can be used to search for the code samples anywhere on the Web as well; Microsoft says that the sites it has shortlisted should be “more than sufficient” for mo...

Most of us might be aware that Microsoft is going to rename it's one of the cloud storage service SkyDrive soon due to disputes with one of the UK firm named  British Sky Broadcasting Group. You can find this official announcement at blog by Ryan Gavin.