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I heard about Umbraco during MIX11 and was recently reminded of it when I was doing my research on CMS for Azure. What I really like was the availability of an Azure accelerator that allows you to setup Umbraco on Azure easily. Well, I’m not too sure if its just me, but the setup process wasn’t really smooth sailing, so I thought it will be helpful to share my experiences and hopefully it will help you guys who encounter similar road blocks. I highly recommend you watch this video from MIX11 to preview the entire setup process. Go on, I’ll be waiting right here when you are done ;) Welcome back, time to start cracking, download the following: ...

This is a quick post on a simple project demonstrating how you can pass Kinect sensor values to Windows Phone 7 Mango using nodejs. This was inspired by this concept video. (Thanks to Oren for helping me out with me error on the localhost thing in getting node and WP7 to communicate with each other) Steps 1. Install NITE/PrimeSense as described in this post. This will ensure that our Kinect setup is working. This will also have the c++ source code that we will modify later (Don’t worry, no coding required). ...

Today, a bunch of SG developers registered in AppHub got their Mango Beta 2 Connect invite so they can update their WP7 devices to Mango. You can refer to this blog post titled “Developers Get Goody Basket Full of Mangos” from the Windows Phone Developer Blog to find out more about why developers are getting this update. If you’re too lazy to read, here’s the summary towards the end of that post: ...

In this post I am going to carry on from where we last left off. For those who did not get to see our earlier posts here is [part 1] and [part 2]. Am going to briefly show you how to retrieve data, specifically from project nimbus, and put it in your app. A pre-requisite for using Project Nimbus would be an account key, which you can get by dropping them an email [projectnimbus@live.com.sg]. If you wish, you may use other datasets for your app as well. ...

Thank you for everyone who attended the CTU on 25th June. We have 91 registered and 84 attended the event. A group of passionate MVPs started and lanned this together. I would like to thank them for their time and contribution to the community. A big thank should go to Desmond who played a important leading role in this CTU 2011, below are words from him. “Community Technology Updates 2011 has been a wonderful event. This is the first time I am taking up the leading role of organizing CTU and it has been fruitful for me. Apart from the usual IT Pro, Dev and Special Track, this CTU we have added in HOL and ChalkTalk sharing session. These sessions aim to share useful industry experiences with attendees and great feedbacks were collected for these sessions. We will try to arrange more of such session in coming CTU if possible. It touches my heart to see attendees leaving at the end of the event with useful information and making new friends friend. These motivations will keep me going forward and push on to organize a better CTU for the community from the community again next time. For those who have missed this CTU, join us for CTU in Dec as we learn, share and make friends in this BIG community!!” ...

Sensors Hey guys, its Shank again. It seems that quite a number of you are were quite enthusiastic about writing your very own AR app after my first post. For those who have not read part one yet, well here’s the link to that post: http://weshipcode.com/developers/wp7arparti/ In this post, we are going to continue from where we last left off. By now, you would have an application that can display the camera stream on your screen. That’s great, but for an AR Application we also need to know the device’s movements and orientation, in order to display the information correctly on the screen. In this post we are going to explore 3 sensors and see how to hook up the data from those sensors to our application. ...

Introduction Hi guys, I am Shank (Sangar), a Microsoft Student Intern from NTU. I am also a hobbyist Windows Phone 7 developer having developed apps such as ‘NewsSG’ and ‘SG Elections’. I was recently arrowed tasked by Chris Ismael to explore the Windows Phone Mango SDK and come up with tutorials that would help you guys, build apps that capitalize on the new APIs. (alright, i confess… he was making me do this as he was lazy to learn it by himself) ...

This post will get you up and running apps for Kinect connected to PC using open source libraries. Mine is running on Windows 7. We’ll assume that you don’t know what you’re doing, and you couldn’t care less about what libraries you’ll use to run this. (You can learn that later). You just want to follow the instructions, run that demo, and start to impress your friends, right? Obviously you need to have the Kinect sensor device with the power adapter for this. ...

We have some good internal folks who gave us permission to post this. It ought to be shared! Enjoy! Highlights | What’s New | Code Samples | Walkthroughs | Features RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS More Code Samples – There are 22 new code samples covering a majority of the platform features in Mango. These code samples are snackable solutions that allow you to hit F5 and go! Most of the samples are also accompanied by a walkthrough so that you can see how it was specifically built and how to extend it for your own apps and games. ...

The guys from Microsoft Redmond put together a code project that illustrate how to build multi-tenancy Azure applications. Below is an abstract of the project, “The Cloud Ninja Project is a Windows Azure multi-tenant sample application demonstrating metering and automated scaling concepts, as well as some common multi-tenant features such as automated provisioning and federated identity. This sample was developed by the Azure Incubation Team in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group at Microsoft in collaboration with Full Scale 180. One of the primary goals throughout the project was to keep the code simple and easy to follow, making it easy for anyone looking through the application to follow the logic without having to spend a great deal of time trying to determine what’s being called or have to install and debug to understand the logic.” ...