Tag: Windows 8

Win A Free Copy of Packt’s Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

Win A Free Copy of Packt’s Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

[UPDATE: The contest will finish at the end of August]

I am pleased to announce that, with support from Packt Publishing, we are organizing a giveaway especially for you. All you need to do is just comment below the post and win a free e-copy of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook. Two lucky winners stand a chance to win an e-copy of the book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky One.

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Overview of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Quickstart Cookbook

  • Designed for the fastest jump into .NET 4.5, with a clearly designed roadmap of progressive chapters and detailed examples.
  • A great and efficient way to get into .NET 4.5 and not only understand its features but clearly know how to use them, when, how and why.
  • Covers Windows 8 XAML development, .NET Core (with Async/Await & reflection improvements), EF Code First & Migrations, ASP.NET, WF, and WPF

Note: I am posting this also on my new blog, http:\\xamlguy.com, feel free to post it there (preferably) or here as I will watch out both sites.

Shape – the App conference

On the 9th of April, yesterday, I attended Shape, the app conference, in Baden, Switzerland.

There, I presented a session regarding Multi Targeting development for Windows Store and Windows Phone apps.

I had a lot of fun while writing the demo App with the surprise that on the night of the previous day, 8th of April, I tested around 23:00 pm my demo and it stopped working. After a while, saw that my demo’s OData provider was off… definitely!

You can read about it here: http://odata.netflix.com/, but to keep it short “as of April 8th, 2013, this service is no longer available.” resumes it pretty well.

Anyway this was good because It took 5 to 10 minutes to plug-in another OData service, even it was never as cool as seeing the latest movies…

My slides and demo are on SkyDrive, available <<here>>

Thanks to Microsoft for the organization and the attendees for their interest!!