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New programming languages come and go in the industry, some stick around, while others end up as legacy languages. Many developers wonder if .NET and Java are behind the times, headed for the legacy graveyard with Pascal and Assembly language. Java has been playing catchup since Java SE 6 was released–it’s taken 26 updates to […]

Many people are aware that Microsoft isn’t part of the Khronos consortium that oversees development of WebGL technology and includes companies such as AMD, Apple, ARM, Intel, Nokia, Nvidia, Oracle, Samsung and Sony. They may not be aware, however, that now Microsoft is proclaiming that WebGL is insecure and opens users up to DDOS attacks. […]

Introduction Most of the Windows Phone applications today interact with the web. There are hardly any applications that are purely local in nature; they interact with the web for functionality, data synchronization or at the least, application updates. Developers should be aware of the connectivity offerings the Windows Phone platform provides so that they can […]

Some developers have been asking when Microsoft will begin adding support for HTML5 into Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft has answered the query by announcing an update to VS2011 that includes better support for HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. In a recent blog post, Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager Lead, discussed the topic, stating that the time […]

This week Microsoft announced the beta release of the Kinect for Windows SDK, allowing developers to work with motion control and voice recognition. After initially forbidding developers to create non-Xbox 360 applications using Kinect, Microsoft stated that they purposely left the Kinect open to allow access by developers. With the Kinect SDK, the door is […]

Introduction In ASP.NET MVC applications the controller consists of one or more methods known as actions or action methods. In certain cases you require that in addition to the code written in the action method, some extra processing be carried out before or after the action method execution. To accomplish this MVC offers what is […]

Many developers are looking forward to July’s Gamefest 2011 conference in London because of all the upcoming coverage and announcements regarding the Kinect sensor. Others, however, are more interested in a Microsoft session that will provide a glimpse of upcoming graphic tools for Visual Studio 2012. Along with the Visual Studio Tools for Graphic Developers […]

Today Microsoft’s Home Server team announced the release of a new tool for integrating Windows Phone 7 with Windows Home Server 2011. The Windows Server Solutions Phone Connector for Windows Home Server 2011 RC enables remote server management tasks and relays media streams for Windows Home Server 2011. WHS 2011 provides a Media panorama which […]

Pivot and Panorama pages make for a great main page for your Windows Phone 7 (WP7). These pages allow you to provide various levels of swiping left and right to provide more capabilities to a single page. The simplest way to take advantage of WP7 Pivot and Panorma Pages is to create a project using […]

Microsoft announced the availability of a general distribution release of .NET 4 last week which included updates to the HTML5 and portable library support, along with various fixes and features that were previously available as individual updates. The update includes fixes for problems in Visual Studio, Visual Basic and ASP.NET, along with ASP.NET support for […]

Microsoft this week released a new Visual Studio debugger through DevLabs, Microsoft’s “testbed” for developer tools. The tool, which is called Debugger Canvas, involves using a new methodology for debugging applications that uses what Microsoft is calling Code Bubbles. The way it works is that a developer is shown code for each of the methods […]

This project is built to be used as a library to perform image processing on AVI files through exclusive use of Microsoft AVIFile API. The main task this library is built for is defined below: Open AVI file on a disk Read AVI video stream, frame by frame, as raw RGB data Perform some processing […]