Blogs by Mahesh Chand

Another 17 U.S. billionaires, including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, have pledged to give away at least half their fortunes in a philanthropic campaign led by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

Here is a list of bunch of open source CMSs developed using .NET Framework.

Microsoft and IBM Cloud ads are already on TV. Most of the companies are trying to either build their clouds or trying to join other clouds out there. All major online websites including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Apple are already a part of cloud galaxy and more and more are being added every day.

You can use Expression Blend 4 to quickly design Windows Phone 7 applications. Thanks to Expression Blend team.

MonoDroid is a development platform to build Android-based applications using C# and .NET.

If you are interested in games programming using Microsoft technologies for Windows platform, XNA may be the way to go. Microsoft has spent so much in XNA for years and not it seems to be paying off. Read this blog to see why XNA might be the best bet for developers.

My thoughts on Apple and Microsoft strategies over development of iPhone and Windows Phone applications.

Watch videos and learn how to develop Windows Phone 7 applications and games.

Latest happening at PDC

If you have $500K, you get direct US green card without any questions asked.

I think Expression Blend may be moving ahead of Adobe Fireworks CS4.

You can be a great developer, but if you do not share your expertise with anybody, nobody will know about you. That said, you need to come out of your cave and show the world what you've got. Unleash the hell of code!

IE 9 beta is available to public now. Check out these all new features.

If you are a SharePoint admin, you must be familiar with the Stsadm command line tool. Step away Stsadm, here comes Windows PowerShell 2.0.

The idea behind WebShell is to translate HTTP requests to commands each command or more than one command represented by DLL, Command class that implements ICommand interface will include methods that ends with one one of these suffixes (_POST, _GET, _PUT and _DELET) and according to HTTP request method these methodes inside Command class will be invoked dynamically.

Windows PowerShell is a new Windows command-line shell designed especially for system administrators. The Windows PowerShell includes an interactive prompt and a scripting environment that can be used independently or in combination.

10 modules to get started with SharePoint 2010 development.

Here are the steps required to get started with Visual Studio LightSwitch

This is the first question I had in mind when I first heard about Visual Studio LightSwitch. After working with it, I found the answer.

With integration with Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010, Sharepoint 2010 is much more valuable and useful then ever.

Couple of weeks ago, I installed SharePoint Foundation 2010 on my Windows 7 development machine and started working on it.

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio 2010 family that allows you solve specific business needs by enabling you to quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills.