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The new service being offered by DiscountASP.NET will include the ability for Microsoft Visual Studio developers to track bugs and manage source control while using the tools to which they are most familiar with. TFS Basic Hosting service will start at around 20 dollars US allowing developers to manage unlimited projects.

ASP.NET MVC3 with Razor offers incredible unobtrusive client side validation of your server side defined models. This pattern allows you to define the validation rules on your model and have them validated on the client using slick, professional and efficient jQuery validation library right out of the box. To learn how to use unobtrusive jQuery […]

In this column we have discussed the different types of services available in the cloud. This list includes IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service, like Amazon Web Services), PaaS (Platform as a Service, like Microsoft Windows Azure), and SaaS (Software as a Service). In this article we are going to discuss the different types of clouds […]

Introduction Most of the real world web applications require security in one form or another. As far as ASP.NET is concerned Forms Authentication is the most popular and common method of protecting your website from unauthorized access. ASP.NET web forms and server controls (such as Login and CreateUserWizard) make it extremely easy to implement Forms […]

Now Industry, Healthcare and the sometimes dangerous world of Engineering are all on the table to be the next frontier to receive the ground breaking functionality of Microsoft Xbox Kinect. Microsoft is moving full-steam-ahead in developing new tools and software that will allow developers to breath new life into the slumping PC and Laptop markets […]

One thing seems to be certain, it was a mistake when Microsoft revealed “Mango” as the new Windows Phone 7.5 update slated for later 2011. And while Microsoft still maintains that no actual version number has officially been given to the update, the latest build of Windows Phone is currently at 7.1, given the update […]

In previous Animation articles we’ve covered many different methods and aspects of the animation. This article looks at interacting with objects on a playing field. As usual the article will use a game as a base for the code. This time we will work on a simple Solitaire game base, and as usual I will […]

Introduction In an attempt to provide isolation, Windows Phone 7 platform does not provide applications direct access to some phone features, such as contacts, sending email or taking pictures. This is done to provide sandboxing. However, when applications have a legitimate need to access these features directly, there are some helper APIs that provide this […]

Microsoft recently unveiled the new Mango OS. New features slated for the mobile platform will include the ability to manage multitasking third party applications allowing the user the ability to leave applications running in the background providing for longer battery life. An SDK, which will provide new tools in order to develop and edit the […]

I had a requirement for building strings for logging, but the std::ostringstream was less than optimum. Firstly, it required more than one line of code to build the string and secondly, it uses the heap for buffering. The code here describes a simple, stack based, string builder class that that uses a fixed array as […]

REST is an approach to providing a highly efficient API that can be called by other applications or by your AJAX framework. MVC3 makes it easy to define REST services in your controllers to be called by jQuery AJAX requests in your view. Why REST? Web Services were great when they came out but the […]

Microsoft’s new Photosynth app is indeed a very nice app. It provides a 360 degree panorama by merging shots which have been taken from an Apple i-device. And with the enormous acceptance of the iOS platform, its difficult to understand why Microsoft has chosen to release the new app strictly for the iOS when Windows […]