While searching for Third Party alternative software’s for bringing back windows start menu feel on Windows 8, I came across few interesting tools – and I introduced them in my earlier blog posts – Stardock’s Start8 (licensed version), Classic Shell, Power8 were those. [logo courtesy: AreaGuard] Today I just found another cool alternative that you […]
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Making an Offline install of Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8
In my last articles I introduced you to the latest update for Windows Phone SDK to support Windows Phone 7.8. The installer available download from here, the installer packageWPExpress78_update.exe is an Online/Web Installer – will download the necessary packages on demand at the time of installation, and it would take some time depending on your […]
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Hyper-V is a great platform for virtualization and luckily Windows 8 have inbuilt/integrated support for hyper-v technologies. Windows Phone 8 SDK uses hyper-v for emulator virtualization and it works pretty good with Visual Studio 2012. Hyper-V integrated to the Windows 8 is been called ‘Client Hyper-V’. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available […]
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