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Real life development and deployment projects of Windows Phone 7 have presented many notable lessons for developers and software engineers alike. With over 40,000 Windows Phone apps having been developed, many of the lessons learned during the development of those apps are being incorporated into this years TechEd North America including Deploying Windows Phone 7 […]

Microsoft is patching another huge number of Windows kernel-mode device driver vulnerabilities in addition to a bug in Internet Explorer browser to which hackers are currently exploiting. 17 security bulletins that will fix a record 64 vulnerabilities in the Windows OS, Internet Explorer, the Office suite, and the Visual Studio platform.

Introduction to Attributes Attributes are a means of associating declarative information with your code. They are metadata of sorts that you can use on types, methods, and properties that are evaluated at runtime. The .NET Framework predefines and uses attributes to control runtime behavior. Common uses of attributes include but are not limited to the […]

This years Convergence 2011 keynote brought the chief of Microsoft Dynamics, Kirill Tatarinov who boosted a demo of Microsoft’s new Kinect. Currently an interactive gaming system but with minor tweaking, an interface to the AX ERP system. The demonstration offer a good example of how a shop-floor user using simple hand gestures could manipulate an […]

In a move by Microsoft to compete with low-end, or, inexpensive portable phones that currently run on other OS’s, Microsoft is expected to release their own version of the low-end phones into the market place all though no specs on the new phones are yet available to the public so, stay tuned!

Microsoft announced Monday at the Convergence conference in Atlanta, GA that they will be migrating their ERP platform to the Azure cloud platform, which in past had been sold through resellers via an on-premises and hosted platform. This means that the next release of Dynamics ERP will be running on Azure. Customers will still have […]

In this weekly article we’re going to focus on another topic that is often under utilized, which is conditional compile statements and how to use them in your code.B The most common place I use these is when I have multiple versions of my application.B For example, let’s say I have a full feature version […]

One of the most obvious uses of the The Transactional File System (TxF) is to write to a single file within the scope of a transaction, eliminating the possibility of the file becoming physically corrupt if the write operation does not complete successfully. However, TxF is not limited to operations on single files, and it […]

While March brought Microsoft users only 3 bulletins aimed at fixing 4 vulnerabilities, April will bring on a whopping 17 bulletins designed to fix 64 unique vulnerabilities including 9 critical bulletins, 8 listed as important, 6 are can enable remote code execution, 1 could provide privilege escalation, and the last could cause information disclosure. Finally, […]

Novell has just released a new software development framework for developers who are looking to build Android apps using Microsoft’s proprietary .NET and C# languages. Novell advised that Mono for Android will now allow developers to build Microsoft .NET applications while in their familiar Visual Studio tool without the need to learn new tools.

Microsoft has announced that they will release a major update to the fastest selling version of their office productivity suite this summer with additional details of the Office service pack at this years TechEd North America conference scheduled for this May in Atlanta, Georgia. The new service pack is expected to include 40 different language […]

Introduction Modern web applications rely heavily on client side scripting to provide rich user experience. To that end ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery are popular choices amongst ASP.NET developers to render rich user interface. These libraries make use of client script physically stored in JavaScript (.js) files. When a client accesses a web form that makes […]