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Some developers recall that Microsoft does robotics–its robotics development toolkit is popular among robotics enthusiasts. This week the company announced that it is releasing a spin-off of its Kinect for Windows SDK–for robotics. Robotics developers can now download the Kinect Services for Robotics Developer Studio (RDS), essentially a wrapper that is built upon the Kinect […]

Introduction With the new Windows Phone platform announced by Microsoft last year, Microsoft completely revamped its mobile operating system offering. Direct access is no longer allowed to internals of the mobile operating system. Many new specifications, mandated by Microsoft, even on the hardware front ensure that Windows Phone users have a fantastic experience on their […]

Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace is still new, with relatively few applications, but you can count Pervasive Software’s WebDI as one of the first to be selected and validated by Microsoft for inclusion. As of today, Pervasive WebDI is available on the Windows Azure Marketplace. Pervasive WebDI is an Electronic Document Interchange (EDI) service application that […]

Windows Phone 7 definitely has some detractors, but you wouldn’t expect Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to point that out. Yesterday he did just that, however, admitting that “We’ve gone from very small to very small but it’s been a heck of a year.” Ballmer was speaking at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, and was […]

This week Microsoft will unveil a software development kit (SDK) for its Surface Multi-Touch System. Developers can download the Surface SDK for Visual Studio 2010 from MSDN beginning Tuesday, July 12th, 2011. Microsoft’s Surface 2.0 comes as a serious update to its original multi-touch system, with a higher resolution video (1920×1080), faster CPU, additional RAM […]

As a developer is going through the testing phase of application development, they will typically take the app through unit testing, where several small tests validate each unit of code. Each application will typically require hundreds or even thousands of tests to successfully validate the code. Like the application itself, the success of the unit […]

Introduction C# is primarily a statically typed language. That means the compiler needs to know in advance about the data type of a variable. In the absence of this information, the compiler will throw a compilation error and will refuse to compile the code. In spite of the advantages offered by the statically typed languages, […]

Introduction As an increasing number of mobile applications trend toward web services for making the applications appear “live”, it is important that the requests that the application makes consider adequate security procedures. Let’s understand some of the things that a Windows Phone developer should consider when designing a Windows Phone application. Only Basic Authentication is […]

Figures released recently by comScore show that Microsoft is still on a downward trend when it comes to the smartphone market. Since Windows Phone 7 debuted last November, Microsoft’s smartphone saturation has dropped by 35 percent. Android was the obvious winner in the market report, furthering its lead over the iPhone even after Apple added […]

You may have heard Microsoft use the term “Native HTML5” before, but you won’t be hearing it again. According to Microsoft’s IE Evangelist Ari Bixhorn, the terminology may change, but the company’s focus on HTML5 isn’t going away. Speaking about Microsoft’s decision to abandon the term, Bixhorn stated that “HTML5 is HTML5. I don’t know […]

What do you get when you cross cloud computing with mobile computing? The future of web apps, according to many experts in the industry. By using cloud computing, apps will be available anywhere there is access to the internet–but it will take a while to get to that point. The old paradigm of applications that […]

Microsoft this week announced the preview release of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java. Developers who are interested in developing Java applications for the Windows Azure cloud platform can now put the plugin to the test. Martin Sawicki of Microsoft’s Interoperability Strategy team discussed the release in a recent blog post, stating that […]