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Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook – Book Review

by Abhijit JanaNovember 23, 2014November 23, 20141 Comment

Packt Publishing released a new title named, Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook authored by Abhishek Sur. I received a free copy of this book from the author and agreed to read the book and write the review.

As the title says, this book turned out to be a nice and detailed collection of insights on various powerful capabilities of Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5. The approach of the book made it very easy to follow, learn as it takes you through the insides of each topic with – what, why, how and so on. This book is written in the form of recipes with step-by-step guide on every topic and they are really easy to understand and to deal with complex software problems.

This book starts with few handy tips of debugging, then covers WCF 4.5, tips on Windows Phone 8, Working with Team Foundation Server etc. This book also covers Testing application using Visual Studio, MEF, T4 templates and ends with some nice touch up on Azure.

Keep Motivate Yourself by Self Reward

by Abhijit JanaApril 6, 2014August 9, 20178 Comments

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” ― Swami Vivekananda

Self-Motivation is the key of success! You know what you want and what you value the most. It helps you to get your day by day work done and to reach your ultimate long term goal. There are multiple factors that can help you to achieve your goal but “Rewarding Yourself” is something by which you can treat yourself as special. Who is better than yourself to provide an encouragement?

14 Tips and Tricks on Kinect for Windows SDK

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 24, 2014April 6, 2014Leave a comment

Here is the list of 14 cool Kinect for Windows SDK Tips and Tricks that you found very useful. Couple of months back I published a post to share the list of Kinect for Windows SDK tips and tricks that I was writing at Daily .NET tips. In the past few days; I have also shared another set of tips that are mainly related with the Kinect Speech Recognition.

.NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips : September – December 2013 Links

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 6, 2014January 6, 20142 Comments

This post is all about sharing the recent tips that were shared over the month of September to December 2013 in the Daily .NET Tips. This site completely design for sharing Tips and Tricks, useful Code Snippet which anyone use in daily development work and targeted anything related with .NET. I have categorized them in a group so that you can choose your preferred section.

I Wish you a Happy New Year 2014

by Abhijit JanaJanuary 1, 2014January 1, 2014Leave a comment

Time for a new beginning, new days and a new year. I hope this is going to be very very special year for all of us. New year brings new ideas, new hopes and of course courage to overcome all the new challenges. I wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous new year 2014. May you get more and more successes in the year 2014 and achieve all your goal that you have set for. May this new year bring many new opportunities in your way and you can take best of it.

Daily .NET Tips – Completed 3 Years Today

by Abhijit JanaDecember 27, 2013December 27, 20134 Comments

Today (27th December), Daily.NET Tips marks its third anniversary!! 27th Dec, 2010, I officially announced the launch of this web site with an objective of creating a knowledge base of different .NET Tips and Tricks that can help developer to improve the productivity in their day to day development.

Wishing you all Merry Christmas! Thank You!

by Abhijit JanaDecember 25, 2013Leave a comment

Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year in advance. May this good times become the golden memories of tomorrow for all of you and marks the beginning of a wonderful year with abundant happiness in your life . Have a joyous Christmas!

Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript – A Review

by Abhijit JanaNovember 22, 20131 Comment

Packt publisher has requested me to review their recently released book on “Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript”, authored by Rami Sarieddine . I received a free copy of this book from the publisher and agreed to read and write the review.

.NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – September 2013 Links

by Abhijit JanaOctober 2, 2013October 2, 2013Leave a comment

Daily .NET Tips is aiming to sharing useful coding tips and tricks for .NET Developers. This site completely design for sharing Tips and Tricks, useful code Snippet which anyone use in daily development work and targeted anything related with .NET. In this post I am quickly listing down all the tips shared over the month of September 2013.

.NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – July and August 2013 Links

by Abhijit JanaSeptember 2, 2013September 3, 20134 Comments

Daily .NET Tips is aiming to sharing useful coding tips and tricks for .NET Developers. This site completely design for sharing Tips and Tricks, useful Code Snippet which anyone use in daily development work and targeted anything related with .NET. In this post I am quickly listing down all the tips shared over the month of July and August 2013.

Kinect for Windows SDK – Tips and Tricks

by Abhijit JanaAugust 19, 2013August 19, 2013Leave a comment

Developing applications using Kinect for Windows SDK is always fun and interesting. Recently I have shared couple of cool tips and tricks on Kinect for Windows SDK. You may found helpful for your day to day Kinect for Windows SDK based development.

Kinect Status Notifier – Notify Kinect Status in System Tray

by Abhijit JanaAugust 8, 2013August 8, 20131 Comment

The Kinect Status Notifier, will pops up a notification in system tray whenever this changes in sensor status. This can be very useful for Kinect for windows SDK based application.

To understand the flow of the Kinect status and the scenarios on which it can occur in a simpler way, refer the diagram below. Once the device is plugged in and power is turned off it will goes to “Not Powered” state, similarly for unplugging the device from USB port will returns the “Disconnected” status. If you plugged it in back or turn the power on, first it will in “Initializing” state before turns into “Connected” state.

Instant Razor View Engine How-to – A Review

by Abhijit JanaJune 7, 2013June 7, 20131 Comment

Packt Publishing recently released a new title – Instant Razor View Engine authored by Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa. I received a free copy of this book from the author and agreed to read and write the review.

Presenting at Microsoft User Group Hyderabad – UG Meet – Hyderabad 23rd Feb 2013

by Abhijit JanaFebruary 17, 2013February 17, 20132 Comments

Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH ) invites you to monthly User Group Meet on 23rd Feb’13 . This monthly UG meet scheduled on coming Saturday (23rd Feb – from 9:00 A.M ) at Infotech Enterprises Ltd, Hyderabad.

I will be delivering a session on “Kinect for Windows SDK” and will talk about how we can build a gesture enabled and speech recognized application; this is what we called building Natural User Interface (NUI) application. I will also walk you through with different features of Kinect SDK such as capturing Infrared data Stream, Getting Sensor Accelerometer data, tracking human body joints and something around Face Tracking.