If you are developing some travel applications or fitness applications, you may want to disable automatic screen locking feature of Windows Phone. You can disable this using UserIdleDetectionMode property of PhoneApplicationService.Current class.

In Google talk, there was some bot service available which will help to translate from one language to another. You can implement similar service using Skype with the help of Skype4COM.dll. In this implementation for language translation, the Bing soap API is used.

If you are using VS 2012, by default Code coverage results are available for Test assembly also.

Another K-MUG UG Meeting, as usual the event was awesome. (Sorry I forgot to post about the event in my blog.) The first session was from Shiju Vargheese on Windows Azure Websites. A good introduction session about Windows Azure website. You can download / view the presentation here The second session was from Yanesh Tyagi. His session was about productivity tools & tips for visual studio 2010. He discussed various keyboard shortcuts and few visual studio extensions. You can download the presentation from here The next planned session was from Anoop Madhusoodhanan, on WinRT / Windows8 via C#, but it didn’t happened. Instead Praseed Pai, another K-MUG speaker and technology enthusiast, took another session on Modern JavaScript development. Another nice session from him. And thanks to the live demo.

From .net framework 2.0 onwards .net supports FTP operations. Like HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse, for FTP operations, FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse classes are available, under System.Net namespace. Here is the code snippet, which will help you to upload a file to FTP server, using C#.