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How to: Pause/Resume BackgroundTransferRequest or BackgroundTransferService...
Recently, I came across a requirement where I need to perform a background download; along with pause and resume support in Windows Phone 8. The first part is quite easy and straightforward. You can...
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Stephen Elop’s The Burning Platform Memo
Here comes the latest internal memo from my collection. This time, it’s Stephen Elop’s famous “Burning Platform” internal memo to Nokia staffs, highlighting the brutal truth of Nokia’s lost dominance...
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Zoom bug in Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview
This is the first time, I’m installing a Windows Phone Developer Preview version. Rest of the time, I always wait until the final version is pushed OTA. This time I’m little hungry because of...
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Non-numeric values for enumeration using Attributes in c#
In this post, I’ll explain how you can provide string values for an enum. Usually, we’ll assign integer (by default), long or as a bit field using FlagAttribute.For assigning a string value first you...
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Fix: Error on posting data using HttpClient
Last week, I’s spending some time exploring OneDrive Rest API. While trying to send a POST request for receiving access token, I got a error as - “{"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"The...
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Fix: Annoying Adsmatte popup in desktop and smartphones
Phew! It killed a whole day of mine.For last few days, I was bombarded with annoying Adware popup from Adsmatte. I first noticed it when I navigated to my blog for updating the template. Insaneously, I...
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Universal Windows development in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
The bold concept Windows 10 introduced was Universal Windows Platform (UWP) - "Write once, Deploy anywhere" truly and literally. To make it more simple and clear, if you create Universal Windows...
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Cortana coming to Android and iOS - Deal or No-Deal?
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. That's everyone had when they first heard the flash news - Cortana is coming to both Android and iOS platform.Cortana is branded as the world's best personal assistant...
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Did you asked Cortana in Microsoft Edge?
If you are like me, you like to read articles/contents online, preferably long readings. And, many times, you might come across phrases and words whose meaning you don't know or you can't recollect....
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Fix: Start menu and Cortana aren’t working. Sign out now.
I was so excited to install the Windows 10 update. Soon after a fresh install, I was busy setting up my machine dev ready. And then it happened, on next login when I logged-in to my machine, I was...
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Debug WebAuthenticationBroker error message
Undoubtedly, WebAuthenticationBroker is one of the best API in WinRT/UWP API stack. It helps you to do OAuth and OpenID authentication without any extra work. We no longer need to use WebView and track...
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//build/ Tour - Pune 2016
I have attended this year’s exciting //build/ tour in Pune. Last time, it was in Bangalore. Those who are new to //build/ tour - this event is a one-day technology event of the biggest developer...
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Logout from Microsoft/Yahoo/Google using WebAuthenticationBroker
WebAuthenticationBroker is one of the handy API that I use to implement login in app using common login services like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. This ensures that you don’t need to worry about...
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Error: Document element did not appear. Line 1, position 1 in Unity3d
I was trying to serialize and deserialize a class instance that saves some scene details in Unity3d. Though the instance was serializes successfully deserialization was failing with error – “Error:...
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Fix: Start menu, Cortana, Notification Area not launching in windows 10
From Day 1 after upgrading to Windows 10, exactly 1 year before, there was an annoying bug which stabs me randomly when I try to use my Windows 10 PC.Below were various symptoms:Start menu not...
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Fix: The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly...
Got the below error message ever? The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file...
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Fix: Unsupported texture format - needs to be ARGB32, RGBA32, RGB24, Alpha8...
Last day I was trying to read an image via script in Unity and go error – “Unsupported texture format - needs to be ARGB32, RGBA32, RGB24, Alpha8 or one of float formats”.The fix is to override the...
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Fix: Login failed for user IFC\WIN5177$ in ASP.NET MVC
We recently moved an ASP.NET MVC website to a new provider and found out that the MVC application is no longer connecting to SQL Server database. That was surprising because it was up and running with...
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There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must...
Last week, I deployed one of the Web API website that uses Entity Framework to production server. In the publish wizard, I generated database connection string for production so that it'll connect to...
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Fix: Request blocked while sending JsonResult from MVC Action method
So this happened when I tried to use the return JsonResult from one of my action method."This request has been blocked because sensitive information could be disclosed to third party web sites when...
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