My Contributions has been recognized by Microsoft
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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AUC seminar on New Technologies and entrepreneurship
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Seminar on Latest Technologies and entrepreneurship , Creativity.
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Tech.net User Group April Event
On 23rd April 2011, we organized two more awesome community events, named ‘April Event’ and ‘LIVE Online Sharepoint 2010′ respectively. It was held The Softlink (one of our sponsors). We want at thank all the speakers, organizers and all of the attendees for making the event successful. Agenda: Silverlight by Usama Wahab Khan Presentation: Resources: Windows Phone 7 by Mauhib Iqbal Presentation: Resources: Sharepoint by Saifullah Shafiq This session was done LIVE Online. It was really amazing and interactive. I will be sharing the presentation and resources very soon. Overall the sessions were very interactive and everybody participated and enjoyed very much. Lucky Draw: I want to congratulate all the lucky draw winners. I want to thank all the speakers for their time and knowledge: Please send us feedback and suggestions by commenting on this post or emailing me atmauhib@technetug.com
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IBA Session on XAML
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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Workshop on Microsoft Technologies Biztek
Sunday, April 17, 2011
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Finally Silverlight 5 Beta Is Available
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Silverlight 5 continues the pace of rapid innovation, building on Silverlight 4's capabilities in the areas of rich applications and premium media experiences. With over 40 new features, the Silverlight 5 beta highlights dramatic video quality and performance improvements, as well as new capabilities that improve developer productivity
- Hardware video decode for H.264 playback.
- Multi‐core background JIT support for improved startup performance.
- ComboBox type ahead with text searching.
- Full keyboard support in full‐screen for trusted in‐browser applications, enables richer kiosk and
- media viewing applications in‐browser.
- Default filename in SaveFileDialog – Specify a default filename when you launch the SaveFileDialog.
- Unrestricted filesystem access – trusted applications can Read write to files in any directory on
- the filesystem.
- Improved Graphics stack – The graphics stack has been re‐architected to bring over
- improvements from WP7, such as Independent Animations.
- Performance optimizations –
- XAML Parser performance optimizations.
- Network Latency optimizations. Text layout performance improvements.
- Hardware acceleration is enabled in windowless mode with Internet Explorer 9.Silverlight 5 Features not included in this Beta
- The Beta is a step towards the final release of Silverlight 5. The full feature set planned for Silverlight 5
- was announced at the Firestarter event in December 2011 and also includes the following features not
- shipped in this Beta:
- Support for Postscript vector printing enables users to create reports and documents, including
- the ability to create a virtual print view different from what is shown on the screen.
- Improved power awareness prevents the screen saver from being shown while watching video and allows the computer to sleep when video is not active.
- Remote control support, allowing users to control media playback
- DRM advancements that allow seamless switching between DRM media sources.
- Enhanced OpenType support.
- Fluid user interface enables smoother animation within the UI. Inter‐Layout Transitions allow
- developers to specify animations to apply when elements are added, removed or re‐ordered
- within a layout. This provides smoother user experiences when, for example, items are inserted
- into a list.
- Text clarity is improved with Pixel Snapping.
- The DataContextChanged event is being introduced.
- WS‐Trust support: Security Assertion Markup Language authentication token.
- 64 bit support
- COM Interop for trusted applications running in‐browser.
- Calling unmanaged code using P/Invoke from trusted applications in and out of browser.
- The Pivot viewer control enables a visual way to rapidly sort through large collections of
- graphical data, for example a catalog of movies represented by images of dvd covers, using
- intuitive transitions to show the effects of filters on the result set
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