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Last year a Windows Phone 7 unlocking tool was released by a group called ChevronWP7. Microsoft ask the creators to shut it down, but this week they announced a collaboration with the original team and a new project called Chevron WP7 Labs, which enables homebrew developers to jailbreak their Windows Phone 7 devices–for a small […]

Old-fashioned, conventional Windows computers are getting to be a thing of the past in the eyes of consumers–and sales of such systems have been in decline. Windows 95, Windows XP and Windows Vista have come and gone, Windows 7 is here and Windows 8 is around the corner, and is said to be a game […]

The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Introduction to Collections A collection is a container to which objects can be added. This container offers […]

Windows Phone 7 is undergoing a radical change, and the latest preview, code-named Mango, is centered around personal and social communication, and ease of use–from an end-users perspective. Microsoft has provided some lucky folks with Mango devices to get a glimpse of what the future may bring for the Windows Operating System. Scheduled to appear […]

Cloud services are a hot commodity in today’s market, and are expected to bring in over $35 billion in the next five years. The combination of Box.net and Google Docs just joined in the mix as a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Azure. Box.net enables users to share files and collaborate using any web-connected device. They […]

Introduction In ASP.NET MVC applications, the requests sent by the client browser are actually "routes". Depending on the route definitions defined by the developer the requests then reach a particular controller. It is possible that requests may contain invalid route parameters, for example, a string where an integer is expected. In such cases errors will […]

By using the functionality of the Azure Cloud platform, AFS Technologies was able to create a cloud-based version of its popular order management system, or Web OMS. The Cloud OMS provides businesses and customers with a way to access sales info remotely via the web. Enhancements provided by the cloud platform include scalability on demand, […]

This week Microsoft got good news from the FTC, who has been reviewing the potential purchase of Skype by the Redmond software giant. The FTC approved Microsoft’s purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion dollars, opening the door for Microsoft to integrate the technology into its operating systems. Initially Microsoft plans to integrate Skype into Windows […]

XPath is one of the important elements in the W3C’s XSLT standard and is often referred as a query language used to help us navigate through attributes, elements and other XML objects. It helps us identify the information and process the data in xml-based data sources in an efficient manner. The rich System.XML namespace is […]

By using a little-known patent law and good ole IP, Microsoft hopes to score their latest comeback. Now that Microsoft is out of antitrust trouble, they are able to openly tie web telephony and virtualization to the operating system. By adding virtualization to the next Windows client, along with their purchase of Skype, they are […]

Microsoft had stated back in January that they would support the Windows Phone 7 developer community’s effort to create homebrew applications through side-loading their WP7 devices. This week the ChevronWP7 team announced that they will be relaunching their unlocking tool for side-loading WP7 devices–with Microsoft’s support. This time it will cost developers a small fee […]

Active Object is a common pattern for hiding access to concurrent data structures and simplifying an object’s interface. Task Parallel Library (TPL) includes all the structures needed to build an Active Object. Of course concurrency cannot always be completely hidden from a consuming client. For example, how does a method on an Active Object handle […]