Blogs by Mahesh Chand

Watch Chris Sells and Kieran Mockford talk about tools for building Metro Style apps using next generation Microsoft platforms.

Watch Ales and John talk about platform for Metro style apps.

iPhone 4S got a better than expected start. Apple announce that it has over 1 million pre-oderes of iPhone 4S in first 24 hours.

How to Set Width of a Page in a WPF Application.

Recently, I have been working on a WPF application that has some Windows and Pages. A Page is hosted within a Windows in an XBAP application.

CNN's Sara Sidner has a sneak peak at India's new bargain tablet that's designed with students in mind.

Watch Robert Green on Channel 9 talks about using LINQ to query data on the Web.

On C# Corner, we have been talking about Windows Phone Mango for a while now. It is finally here.

Watch Reed Townsend talks about how to build advanced touch applications for Windows 8.

Watch Uday Shivaswamy talks about how to check your app is ready for Windows 8.

Ted talks about Windows Store on Build.

WPF Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Open source project on CodePlex.

Check out this free project, WPF Themes on CodePlex. It provides a collection of themes to be used in WPF projects.

Watch this video to learn about the future of C# and Visual Basic .NET.

One bit of advice I can give you from my experience is, take responsibility. When a task is assigned to you, you need to take full responsibility.

Are you ready for Visual Studio 11? Wonder what will be different in the next version of Visual Studio 1010, the best tool for developers?

So you want to be an expert developer? You want to be a “guru”? Well, I have a “Guru Mantra” for you and it’s simple.

My free book on SQL Server Compact 4.0 Programming is available now. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 (SQL Compact onwards) is a free SQL Server embedded database ideal for building standalone desktop, web, and mobile applications that need local data storage.

Here is a good news. I am writing some books with Destin Joy on SharePoint 2010 for C# Corner. TOC and plan is ready.

One more book free book is added to C# Corner books list. Last night, I finished book titled Building Standalone Data-Driven Applications using SQL Server Compact 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

Guess what? Microsoft is bringing back the native ODBC support in the next version of SQL Server, probably SQL Server 2012. ODBC is already supported by SQL Azure.

Check out Windows Phone 7 Mango on HTC Titan.