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Microsoft has been on an HTML5 kick lately, with recent announcements at TechEd 2011 more focused on HTML5 than on former Microsoft darling Silverlight. With the latest advances that HTML5 brings to the table, developers are asking themselves if apps in the future will be created using traditional programming languages or a blend of HTML5, […]

TechEd 2011 brought developers together last month to look towards the future. The message from Microsoft to developers was lofty–the Windows Azure platform is efficient, economical and is the future for app development. How does SQL Azure fit into the picture? Mark Kromer, a Microsoft database platform specialist, believes that SQL Azure, and the DAC […]

When you are building apps, have you thought about how much time you spend populating fields and lists? You would probably be surprised if you were to keep track of the amount of time you spend performing this seemingly simple task. Unfortunately, most of the time we are used to this repetitive task that we […]

When developers are considering a cloud platform, the programming language they wish to use has to be taken into consideration. If they are considering Microsoft Azure, they have a choice of different languages, including PHP, Java, Ruby and .Net. Developers need to think about Azure as an operating system in the cloud, which adds additional […]

After last week’s peek at the Windows 8 operating system, developers are eager to hear more about Microsoft “Jupiter” and how it relates to Silverlight. Jupiter is a user interface library for Windows that uses a XAML-based approach that will be used along with Microsoft tools. The focus last week was largely on how Windows […]

The most talented orchestra will sound uninspired without an equally talented conductor. Similar conclusions can be drawn to a Parallel Programming workload conductor. The .NET Task Parallel Library (TPL) Parallel programming conductor is the TaskScheduler. TaskScheduler is arguably one of the more enigmatic TPL classes. It’s hardly noticeable; yet it’s critical to a smoothly executing […]

There are many changes occurring behind the scenes at Microsoft lately, with Scott Guthrie this month taking over management of the Azure Application Platform team. The company hopes to entice ASP.NET developers into using Azure by leveraging their investment in .NET programming. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, wasn’t happy with the number of .NET developers […]

This week Microsoft registered several new domain names, including many different variations of AppYourSites.com. Is Microsoft planning a new campaign around Windows Phone 7, HTML5 or perhaps site pinning? The domains currently point to Bing.com, another Microsoft property. Many believe it’s going to be something focused on IE9’s site pinning feature, which turns websites into […]

Introduction Unlike the Windows Mobile development platform, the new Windows Phone platform from Microsoft is completely different from its predecessor. Application developers targeting Windows Phone platform should be aware of the security model surrounding the platform so that they can develop applications that fit the guidelines. Security Model Windows Phone employs a resource capability-driven model. […]

This week it was announced that ComponentOne’s OLAP for Silverlight took the Microsoft Best of TechEd 2011 award. OLAP for Silverlight allows developers to create interactive reports, charts and other apps, providing OLAP data analysis functionality to businesses without additional infrastructure expenditures. The judges at TechEd 2011 looked at 334 products and services and gave […]

Developers got a glimpse of Windows 8 this week at the All Things Digital conference. According to reports, the next version of Windows, which won’t be released until 2012, looks very similar to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft has been focusing on tablets lately, and is working towards an OS that has some of the user […]

1. Introduction Writing an application with good practices and proven architecture design is comparatively easy if we are going to write a new application. But most of the time we are working on existing applications, where it is not easy to make changes. If we ever get the chance to rewrite the existing application, we […]