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To include new and improved syncing support, Microsoft’s plan to release their first service pack for “Office For Mac 2011”. SP1 is reported to include increased stability, better security, Outlook Syncing and several other new features to the office suite with the most anticipated update being the Outlook Sync. With this new feature iPad, iPhone […]

Microsoft’s Flash killing browser plug-in has a new challenge ahead of it, other than being the big rival to Adobe’s plug-in. With the release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 there are new standards to live up to and Microsoft has a plan to highlight how well Silverlight will do that for users. Microsoft plans to […]

Two giants go to work, the world’s largest software manufacturer and the world’s largest automobile maker have announced today that they will be investing nearly $12 million US, or 1 billion yen in a new company to be called the “Toyota Media Service Company”. A company derived to deal with digital offerings for customers. Toyota […]

When it comes to processes that can take manual labor out of development, build automation immediately springs into mind. In the world of Team Foundation Server, organizations using the product can use a wide set of functionality. This includes not only build automation, but also automating a complete set of virtual machines to help with […]

This new glitch has prompted Microsoft to cease all updates to the Samsung smartphones including NoDo and also prompting, shall we say, an after-market solution to receiving the updates. Since typically Microsoft will work with their carriers to push the updates over the air and in this case, Microsoft has the ability to split up […]

Educators and researchers are about to receive the disciplines they’ve been waiting for to address the challenges facing science, engineers and students alike in the field of Parallel Computing. Parallel computing today provides the single most powerful and most efficient infrastructure designed for computing extremely complicated data crunching involved in areas such as MRI results […]

Introduction In this article we will learn how to consume an RSS feed in Silverlight. Additionally we will also look into fetching the results and binding them onto the Silverlight DataGrid. Sample source codes have also been included in this article for demonstration purpose. For the sample application I have used Visual Studio 2010 and […]

Physics and new microprocessor architectures are forcing .NET developers to tackle Parallel Programming and rethink how they build responsive applications. My previous article, New C# and VB.NET Async language features, built on the Task Parallel Library (TPL) will eventually supplant the exiting Asynchronous Programming model and TPL will permeate all areas in the .NET Framework. […]

Real numbers for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 such as, 1.5 Million downloads for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, and while only 36,000 have committed to the Microsoft AppHub fee, Microsoft is sticking that the larger of the two numbers. 1,200 new developers registering on a weekly basis. Another number is 12. Windows Phone 7 customers […]

Clearly the most noticeable change to the new version of Windows will be the Ribbon interface. And since the Ribbon UI is not in a completed state it’s difficult to say how successful the change to the new OS will be but its one of many new visuals expected to be in the final version.

Welcome to my first article as a contributing editor for C#. For my first of many weekly articles I’m going to cover coding standards and practices, a topic that is often overlooked. Define and Publish your C# Coding Standards and Practices C# coding standards and practices can quickly become hotly debated among developers when they […]

MVC3 is taking the web application development world by storm and new projects are spinning up everywhere. Unfortunately as with any new technology if you’re not aware of the implications of today’s decisions in development on tomorrows deployment to a production web server you’ll find yourself in a world of hurt. URL References During the […]