Tag archive for utilities

Using SkyDrive REST API

I have created a wrapper class to simplify my work with REST API. I assume that you will be using a web application. First step is to create an application at dev.live.com. Once the application is created you will have the ClientID, Client Secret and Redirect…

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Using Cloud Power To Manage Your Source Code

Working on multiple projects but don’t have a good way of managing the projects then you are in danger. How you manage your source code? How you collaborate and work in teams? I have been working from home and have been in constant touch with…

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Free Tools Every Freelance Developer Should Have

If you are freelancing or working from home, then you must have some productivity tools which can really make your work from home a lot better. Why one has to invest in a service that can be available with no cost at all? Though some…

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MP3APP – A Web Application To Get Lyrics, Album Name, Album Art and More

I was busy in few of my freelance projects and got a very rough weekends this whole month. But still I get a bit of time to work on my so called in-house project and somehow I was able to get it completed after a…

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Microsoft Launches SkyDrive Application For Windows

On 23rd April Microsoft announces the launch of official SkyDrive application for Windows on Windows 8 blog. This is one of the most awaited applications among the developers and users. All we wanted is a simple app through which we can manage our cloud storage with…

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Introducing Visual Studio Achievements – Bringing Some Game To The Code

Another awesome stuff for developers from Microsoft! This past Wednesday Microsoftie Karsten Januszewski announced the Visual Studio Achievement Beta at Channel9. Guess what? as a developer, you are writing hundred lines of code every day without even getting noticed by the community!!? Well, you will get noticed…

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Top Visual Studio Extensions

Visual Studio comes up with loads of stuff making everyday life of a developer easy. But there are few extensions which Microsoft and other developers have created and are available for free to the community members. I have compiled a list of free and powerful…

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Bit.ly API: Shorten URLs / Reverse Long URLs / Get QR Code Image

If you have long URLs and other and want to create short URLs then Bit.ly API can help. I wrote a wrapper class which can let me create short URLs in jiffy. I was working on Bit.ly API to create my short URLs with a…

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Integrate Bing Maps With Geonames Database And ASP.NET

After Microsoft launched Bing Maps, there are few things which lead me not to use Google Maps: Bing Maps are more accurate than Google Maps. Bing Maps looks more pretty than Google Maps. And the main reason I am using Bing Maps is because I am a Microsoft fan To…

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Reverse Those Short URLs

Bit.ly is one of the major short URL service provider. There are other also but Bit.ly is used by most of the users because of it’s simplicity, API and statistics. But some notorious users create short URLs for the spam sites which doesn’t make any…

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