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Browser extension software lives inside the browser, adding new features that make the browser suitable for specific personal or business needs. The most common business needs, which are easily accomplished with browser plugins are: modify default search add side frames inject new content into existing webpage communicate with remote servers or web services search highlight […]

By not definitively defining how they collect and track iPhone users and their data, Apple got in hot water recently. To avoid running into the same problem, Microsoft clearly defined how they get that same data from their own mobile users, and how they use it, and even went so far as to release source […]

Students are learning to hack a piece of hardware that until recently, they probably only used for gaming–Microsoft Kinect. Kinect, which broke records with the fastest sales in consumer electronics history within its first 60 days of sales, is a sensor input device for the Xbox gaming console. Kinect does what it sounds like–that is, […]

Introduction While developing web sites, at times you require that the URLs being used are not mapped to any physical file. For example, you might be building a blog engine that stores all blog posts in a SQL Server database but while displaying these posts you want URLs to be SEO friendly. In such cases […]

Developers can look forward to July 26th, as that’s when Microsoft will be releasing Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, Microsoft’s cloud and desktop Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool. The tool is being targeted towards entry level developers who are interested in creating business apps for desktop, web and cloud platforms. The last release, Beta 2, included […]

Microsoft recently released Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango, the latest update to its Windows Phone operating system. The hacking community this week found a way to allow users–even non-developers–to upgrade their own devices to Mango. To upgrade the phone, a user first backs up their phone, and must already be upgraded to at […]

Much of the .NET Task Parallel Library (TPL) Data Parallel functionality is encapsulated in Parallel Loops. Parallel Loops are conceptually similar to regular loops. Like a regular loop a Parallel Loop usually operates on a collection of data, performing a computation on each element in the collection. Controlling a parallel loop’s execution is more complicated […]

Microsoft Research recently announced its visual application debugging tool called Debugger Canvas. The debugger, which only works on Visual Studio 2010, visually displays functions as bubbles, sort of like a database diagram. The Debugger Canvas project is not an official Microsoft release, and it still contains bugs itself, but at some point in the future […]

LightSwitch extension points can be very useful for Visual Studio developers. One developer recently showed how you can use the “Encrypted String” field data type in any table in a LightSwitch project that has the extension enabled. The way it works is fairly easy to implement: when an Encrypted String data field is used in […]

Windows Azure provides cloud services which allow developers to develop and deploy innovative apps, while saving time, effort and money that would otherwise be spent on hardware and support. Once an application has been created, developers are able to use Visual Studio’s local Azure Development and Storage Emulator to test the apps. By unit-testing an […]

Developers eager to get a glimpse at the latest iteration of Internet Explorer will be happy to hear that Microsoft has released IE10 Preview Platform 2 for download. This preview release enables developers to begin testing out the new features of IE so they are ready when the release becomes public. This release of IE10 […]

Introduction Windows Phone application developers will be excited to hear that the platform has support for OData – the Open Data Protocol championed by Microsoft. In an earlier article, we learned about the OData Protocol. The CodePlex site for OData http://odata.codeplex.com/ provides many client libraries to allow .NET developers to consume oData data services in […]