Author Archives: Madhur

Introduction to Serverless Computing using Azure Functions

One of the quickest way to get your code up and running in Azure is to use Azure Functions which makes use of the serverless architecture. When we say serverless, it means that we don’t have to worry about the provisioning and maintaining of virtual machines or servers. We just write a function and Azure… Read More »

Using RecyclerView in Android

In your Android application, whenever you want to display a list of data, you can use RecyclerView. Earlier Android provide ListView which was used for the same thing. RecyclerView can be thought of as a more advanced and performance optimized version of ListView. As the name suggests, RecyclerView also recycles the items by using the… Read More »

C# 6.0 New Features

C# 6 is available with Visual Studio 2015 and it comes with some new features. To try C# 6, download and install the Visual Studio 2015 preview. Here are some of the new features that are available in C# 6 1) Auto Property Initializers You can now assign the value to a property directly at… Read More »

Category: C#

Using Camera in Android Application

In this post we will take a look at how to integrate camera with our android application. There are two ways in which we can use Camera in our Android application. Android provides you with 2 options while working with Camera 1) Use an existing Camera application 2) Work with Camera hardware API directly If… Read More »

Introduction to Swift

Swift is a brand new programming language which was revealed by Apple at WWDC 2014 along with iOS 8. It is set to eventually replace the Objective – C language which is currently being used for Apple development. Swift is easier to learn and it has got a much cleaner syntax as compared to Objective… Read More »

Getting Started with AngularJS

One of the cool things i recently started learning was AngularJS. It is a JavaScript framework for building client side JavaScript applications which follows the Model-View-Controller pattern and ensures that your application is property architectured, easy to maintain and test. Some of the great features that it offers include two way data binding, client side… Read More »

Updating App Tile using Background Agent in Windows Phone 8 App

Background Agents and Scheduled Tasks allows your application to execute to code in the background even when the application is not running in the foreground. This is quite useful in various type of scenarios where you want to update the Live Tile frequently, show a toast notification on getting some data from web service, perform… Read More »