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Using Microsoft Ink Picture control

March 06, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 CodeProject Windows Forms

The InkPicture control provides the ability to place an image in an application and enable users to add ink on top of it. It is intended for scenarios in which ink is not recognized as text but is instead stored as ink. InkPicture control extends the default picturebox control. This post is about working with InkPicture control.

How to prevent automatic screen lock in WP7

February 11, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net Silverlight Windows Phone

If you are developing some travel applications or fitness applications, you may want to disable automatic screen locking feature of Windows Phone. You can disable this using UserIdleDetectionMode property of PhoneApplicationService.Current class.

Building a language translation bot using Skype and C#

February 05, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net .Net 4.0 CodeProject Windows Forms

In Google talk, there was some bot service available which will help to translate from one language to another. You can implement similar service using Skype with the help of Skype4COM.dll. In this implementation for language translation, the Bing soap API is used.

How to exclude test assembly from code coverage in VS 2012

January 28, 2013 by Anuraj

.Net Code coverage Visual Studio

If you are using VS 2012, by default Code coverage results are available for Test assembly also.

K-MUG User Group Meeting - 19th Jan 2013

January 19, 2013 by Anuraj

Miscellaneous User Group Activities

Another K-MUG UG Meeting, as usual the event was awesome. (Sorry I forgot to post about the event in my blog.) The first session was from Shiju Vargheese on Windows Azure Websites. A good introduction session about Windows Azure website. You can download / view the presentation here The second session was from Yanesh Tyagi. His session was about productivity tools & tips for visual studio 2010. He discussed various keyboard shortcuts and few visual studio extensions. You can download the presentation from here The next planned session was from Anoop Madhusoodhanan, on WinRT / Windows8 via C#, but it didn’t happened. Instead Praseed Pai, another K-MUG speaker and technology enthusiast, took another session on Modern JavaScript development. Another nice session from him. And thanks to the live demo.

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