This post gives you the steps that require to add custom menu to Microsoft Lync 2013 client running on Windows 8. Key two steps are creating a register key and getting the latest Lync version.The register key needs to be created in the below location The Lync download version should be as shown in the below picture and this can be downloaded from here. Now browse to the above mentioned location...
Why use Windows 8 Applications in Enterprise
In traditional Windows operating systems you have icons on your desk-top and it tells what you can do, no other information other than the short cuts that you put on your desktop. It is valuable but it is not information, Start screen in Windows 8 has tails and pictures.Each of these tails represent an APP that you can launch.Notice these tails gives you the live information. For example Mail App...
Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
Using Developer Tools for Visual Studio you can develop new class Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013.Developing Apps is as easy as developing web applications, you can use HTML and Java Script and server side languages such as C# and VB for App development.You can then host the App in Office store or Corporate environment. The developer tools for Visual Studio 2012 can be downloaded from here...
Creating Shutdown tile in Windows 8
Shutting down or rebooting Windows 8 is pain without using the Start button. Many users may want to shutdown the system with just one click. This post shows the script to enable users create a tile on windows start screen for shutting down or rebooting the system.
In Windows 8 Start menu was replaced by Start Screen
Private Cloud IaaS basics
What is IaaS? Infrastructure as a service. How it is different from existing services in Windows Azure like Software as Service and Platform as Service? Saas and PaaS are service models where you can use the capabilities of Cloud computing to deliver services. Many customers adapting IaaS model because they have the capabilities for managing their software but not underlining physical...
Windows Azure New Features
What is Windows Azure? From platform perspective it is Microsoft computing cloud platform. It is designed and enabled to build the applications and scale it robustly. It is flexible to enable you to handle any type work and it acts as platform as service which provides a set of managed scalable services and now it is turned as infrastructures as service which is the ability to host and scale...
Deployment options for Windows 8 Line of Business Apps
Windows 8 is the platform for creating line of business applications which increase productivity and allows the employees to interact with their PC in more natural way. Apps normally targeted to the general consumer. A consumer App is marketed and can be installed by the entire world, but Line of Business application is generally deployed to the users that take part in business operations for the...
Multicore JIT in .NET Framework 4.5
Multicore JIT is a great new feature in .NET Framework 4.5. Multicore JIT parallelizes the some of the JIT compilations that happens on the start of the application, Historically .NET FW has used the Ngen Native Image Generator for parallelization. It works particularly well where this Ngen is installed. It has been with Silverlight 5 and ASP.NET. This post describes it’s features and how it...
Understanding the ASP.NET Programming Models
This post helps you to decide what programming model is right for you to start writing applications in ASP.NET. Using ASP.NET you can build great web applications. ASP.NET offers three models to build the web applications. The models are ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Web Pages The three models built on top of ASP.NET core web platform. Each model is ASP.NET. Each model creates and...
Working with Public OData Producers
There are number of public products or services which have already adopted OData in their data publishing and also provided the OData compatible interfaces for the clients to consume the application data. Microsoft products SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure Storage Service,SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services have started supporting OData. Many online services such as Netflix.com,eBay.com...