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The upcoming update to Microsoft Visual Studio, which is being called Visual Studio vNext, will focus on agile software development and collaboration between development and operations departments. Microsoft’s corporate vice president, Jason Zander, recently stated in a blog that “When we asked people what the biggest problem they faced in successfully delivering software, they identified […]

Windows Phone developers are excited by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Mango release, as it includes over 500 new features, with over 1500 new APIs–a radical change from previous releases. Mango has been available to developers since February, and the beta version is now available for download.

Developers find themselves in a situation in which they have to secure code through Obfuscation — a term that is defined as "technique to complicate code so that they are hard to be reverse-engineered". Although .Net assemblies are the easiest to be hacked, on a lighter note, someone also said: "The only things that hackers […]

Introduction Isolated storage for the Windows Phone platform works a little differently than Isolated Storage for Silverlight. Here is a compilation of the top 10 things Windows Phone developers should know about using isolated storage in their application. Application update – When an application is updated, its isolated storage location is not changed. For that […]

Including Entity Developer 3.50, DotConnect Data Providers now include enhanced database connectivity solutions which are built over the ADO.NET architecture and now support Entity Framework and LinqConnect ORM solutions. Devart has also extended the functional capabilities of Entity Framework by including functional requests submitted by product users.

The new featured smartphone by Cascade HR has been successfully piloted and released for sale next month. Their previous, aware winning .NET HR and HMRC Payroll software was considered by analysts to be a very affective solution with the new release being made even more efficient and useful for users. The technology was developed for […]

Understanding data and how it is represented is key to making use of it in a program. In this segment we’ll walk thru VB.NETs standard data types and talk about how to make use of them. We’ll also look at some of the .NET runtime utilities that make it possible to change data from one […]

Microsoft is planning to have there new Online App Marketplace ready for release on the same day as the Mango update to Windows Phone 7. The new Marketplace, via a users Microsoft Live ID account and credit card information, they will offer users the ability to browse, purchase and download Windows Phone 7 apps directly […]

Introduction The Windows Phone operating system ships with a set of resources that can be used to personalize the visual elements on the Windows Phone. These resources are called themes and are like the desktop themes that ship with desktop operating systems we have come to love over the years. Application developers can create applications […]

It looks like computers around the world will have to wait yet another year for the next version of the greatest selling OS on the planet. Apparently Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer spoke a little to soon in his statement on Windows 8. Now the question is whether Ballmer miss spoke, or didn’t know […]

Today’s Windows Phone 7 Mango announcement was followed by a hardware announcement with little details but aimed directly at the use of Windows Phone web use and the new online WP7 Marketplace. Expected to be very similar to the Android Marketplace and the BlackBerry App World, users will now have the ability to download and […]

The internet has so much to offer on any topic and there’s so much to learn; but where to start? I realized many years ago, when I first began to be intrigued by the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), that short write-ups help you gain incremental knowledge, which when combined can offer solutions to the bigger […]