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With today’s announcement of 35 new CUDA Research Centers and CUDA Teaching Centers spread over 14 different countries and over 400 universities around the world which now include parallel programming using GPUs or graphics processing units in their curriculum today and leveraging the massive processing power being afforded by this level of expertise, today’s most […]

It’s important to establish the fact that VB.NET is truly a first-class citizen when it comes to writing applications based on Microsoft’s .NET runtime. VB.NET has carried the label "object-based" for quite a long time, and many have viewed it as a "toy" language. The fact is VB.NET does support all the main tenets of […]

Introduction Developers frequently look for opportunities to squeeze the last drop of performance from their web applications. In ASP.NET web forms and user controls Output Caching is a very popular performance enhancement technique. The same technique can also be implemented in ASP.NET MVC applications. Upon applying the Output Caching techniques, the page output is cached […]

Begging tonight, 5/9 at prime TV time, Microsoft’s will begin their new campaign for Windows 7. The new ad will feature what Microsoft calls “Real Couples” who use Windows based PC’s in their homes. Microsoft launched the “I’m a PC” campaign in response to Apples assault with their very successful “Get A Mac” campaign where […]

Microsoft announces the availability of their new toolkit geared towards taking advantage of Windows Azure from iOS applications and a host of other features including the ability to apply ACS to handle authentication and authorization for your Windows Phone 7 application and a host of other great new features. The Windows Azure Toolkit will be […]

Code-Named “Mango”, Microsoft’s newest release to their smartphone OS is expected to provide many new and useful features. Many of the updates expected in Mango are currently available in Microsoft rival OS including iOS and the Android OS. Windows Phone 7.5 will include a new service dubbed “Bing Audio” helping users to discover new music […]

Microsoft has just released their latest beta their Python Tools plugin for Visual Studio. Released as Open Source and under the Apache 2.0 license the latest update will allow developers to code in Python, CPython and IronPython directly from within their Visual Studio development environment.

Introduction In a multi-page application, it is important to wire up the pages so that you can easily navigate from one page to another. If you have developed Silverlight applications previously, you will notice that the navigation mechanism is very similar to Silverlight applications. If you haven’t developed Silverlight or Windows Phone applications previously, this […]

Quite often we have a need for a VB control that has some requirements that don’t quite exist within the current control set. Recently a client required that all data-entry controls be on a single page, not across multiple tabs, and the page should scroll much like the page you’re reading now. Rather than doing […]

Microsoft has been working for years to make thin clients more acceptable in the enterprise yet they continue to fall short of users expectations. Microsoft Windows Thin PC or “WinTPC” will hopefully dismiss those preconceived notions by aiding users in ensuring that they will always have adequate disk space and secure systems simply by preventing […]

Many analysts agree that PaaS will become the dominant platform as the Cloud continues to evolve and open-source solutions appear to be taking the lead and Red Hat has just given that lead a great edge with their introduction of OpenShift. As with most other Paas solutions, OpenShift is built on JBoss. The extra edge […]

Abstract I’ve arrived at the source code of the widely known instant messenger, Miranda IM. Together with various plugins, this is a rather large project whose size is about 950 thousand code lines in C and C++. Like any other considerable project with a long development history, it has many errors and misprints. Introduction While […]