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Well,  Microsoft is going Big with their event TechEd 2012 which will be held just in 2 days.Everyone is excited to visit Bangaluru for this awesome event and learn lot of technology

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Microsoft TechEd India 2012 -> Go Big

Working with NotificationUI on browsers with HTML5

Notification is one of the interesting thing that browsers are adding support to. Generally when we think of Web notification we always go for some HTML popup or using a new window through Javascript. But those html are generally does not follow any standards or even looks different to the user to different sites. Hence few of the notifications lacks consistency. HTML5 introduces new notification specs which enable the browser to send its own notification rather than going with custom notifications from the developer.

The notifications is now currently implemented in Chrome, but it will be implemented in latest releases of other browsers too. Let us look how to use notification  in your browser.

To request for notification use the following code :

window.webkitNotifications.requestPermission();

When the browser asks for notification, it will popup one message to the user to allow or deny. If the user allows the notification, the notification service gets enabled and the site can send notification to the browser.

if (window.webkitNotifications.checkPermission() == 0) {
var notification = window.webkitNotifications.createNotification(imgpath, 'Notification received', 'Hii, this is special notification');
notification.show();
}

So when we use createNotification it will create a notification object with the image , title and the message which needs to be notified. The show() method will show the notification to the user.

Memory Mapping file inside .NET Framework

.NET introduces a separate namespace to handle Memory Mapping files. Previously, we needed to do this using unmanaged Api's but with the introduction of managed API into the .NET framework library, it becomes very easy to handle MemoryMapping file directly from .NET library.

As memory mapping files are loaded into memory on a separate range of address space, two process can easily share the same page file instance and thus interprocess communication can be made with fast access to memory. It is recommended to back data with an actual disk file when large data is loaded into memory, so that there is no memory leak on the system when there is large memory pressure.