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Microsoft’s president, Jean-Phillipe Courtois announced this week that his company will be spending a great deal of money this year on exploring and improving Microsoft online services offerings and solutions. Specifically in the area of security, privacy and regulatory compliance requirements being pushed by US Federal government agencies. 90% of its research budget on improving […]

The updated AppFabric Access Control package will include support for both the Single Sign-On and the standard Web identity managers including Windows Live ID, Google, Yahoo! and Facebook making the the production version of AppFabric Access Control is available now.

Unlike other popular mobile platforms, Windows Phone 7 (WP7) uses a different scheme for navigation between screens. The first thing to point out is that WP7 screens are actually called Pages. Think of WP7 Pages as HTML pages within a web browser. While this may seem like a stretch, in actuality it isn’t too far […]

As the Windows SDK API continues to evolve with each major release of the operating system, it is critical for C++ developers that MFC is kept up to date with the new features that have been introduced. As MFC enters its twentieth year serving C++ developers (the first MFC version shipped with Microsoft’s C/C++ 7.0 […]

The Cloud Computing industry is starting to settle on some common terminology that is making it easier for customers to understand the products and services available, and how they might fit into their company’s portfolio and needs. What are the Types of Cloud Services? Three types of services have gained popularity, and I have found […]

Introduction Windows Phone application developers are aware that WP allows using both Silverlight and XNA for developing applications for the platform. The Silverlight-based WP page model might be familiar to many Silverlight developers (Check MSDN’s Silverlight Navigation Overview if you need a refresher). However there are a few points which transcend when we talk of […]

While we don’t have a release date, Qantas had the opportunity to demonstrate a working prototype of their new Windows Phone 7 airline check-in app at this years Mix 11 conference in Vegas. That app will not only allow you to check-in to your flight reservations, but it will also allow the user to use […]

With Cincom Acquire, customers will have the ability to put serious sales knowledge at the fingertips of sales team and dealers. The development allows customers to benefit from powerful guided selling, configuration, pricing, quoting and proposal tools that are integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 platform.

Mix 11 brought the announcement by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of .Net for Microsoft, that their cross-platform runtime would be morphing into something different. And with that, Silverlight developers cheered at the news. Silverlight 5 brings with it much support for HTML5 including such new features as, Reduced network latency by using a background […]

ASP.NET MVC3 builds on the caching abilities found in previous versions of ASP.NET and adds partial page output caching to your toolbox. Partial page output caching allows you to cache the rendering of a specific action on your view to enable your site to run faster. This can be a great technique to avoid unnecessary […]

With hopes of creating yet another multi-billion-dollar business, Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, wants a bigger chunk of the expected $118 billion in enterprise application expenditures slated to be spent by 2014 by the worlds enterprise businesses with a plan to invest heavily into both ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRP (customer relationship management).

Microsoft began this years MIX conference in Vegas today starting with their keynote announcing, not only the release dates of IE 10, but also Entity Framework 4.1, ASP.NET MVC 3 Tooling Update and their release dates. Microsoft also reaffirmed their commitment to HTML5 and the new CSS3 Web standards which are beginning to emerge.