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While you’ll most likely have to wait until 2012 and assuming we all survive the impending calamity, Windows Phone 8 and ARM will be like to peas in a pod in the world of Tablets and smartphone devices. And while ARM Cortex 9 is currently provided in dual-core mode, 2012 is expected to bring us […]

The new AirMedia player for Windows will allow users to stream video from any iOS 4.2 device, to any device running Windows 7, XP or Vista OS. Prerequisites include Quicktime and the .NET framwork 3.5 SP1. Download it today and give it a run.

Why and How to Memory Profile Your .NET Applications Every application is gauged by the memory footprint it makes, be it a mobile application or a thick application running on your desktop. Believe the statistics or not, people just love applications that are light-weight. The world is rapidly changing and programmers are trying to make […]

With a max of 256 processor cores and 2 terabytes of memory, the new Intel Xeon-based Altix UV will run on Windows Server 2008 R2 providing more demanding business intelligence. The new Alitx UV server makes it possible to use the software for more demanding workloads. SGI’s new server, based on Intel’s Xeon processors and […]

The lack of operating system support for transactions has resulted in some tedious data management solutions that needed to be hand-implemented by developers to minimize the risk of data corruption in the event of application crashes or unexpected system shut-downs such as blue-screens. The typical pattern to reduce the chance of data corruption is to […]

MFC-based GPU accelerated graphics and new animations will be included for Visual C++ in the Visual Studio SP1 release. Additional updates for Visual C++ include Direct2D for hardware acceleration and Windows Animation Manager to enable rich animation of user interface elements.

The Microsoft Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 makes it easier for developers to build mobile smartphone apps running in Windows Azure. The new Azure toolkit will include several Visual Studio templates designed for the Windows Phone 7 and the Windows Azure libraries for use on the Windows Phone 7 OS. The tool includes […]

Introduction Web sites often use menus to display available options to the end user. The data required by these menus, such as menu text and URL, is frequently stored in XML files. Though this arrangement works great for small number of menu items, in certain applications it is required that you display menu options based […]

Razor allows the most maintainable view engine available with numerous sophisticated tools to define site layout, sub navigation and even the rendering of specific sub-items inside of a page. It allows you to set individual parameters including the ability to map parameters to areas of the page. Layouts Razor layouts are analogous to the familiar […]

This article looks at how to implement the print option in a Silverlight application. This print feature is bundled along with the 4.0 version of Silverlight SDK. Sample source codes are provided in the following sections. What’s the Advantage of Silverlight’s Print Functionality? In most of the web based technologies there is no core support […]

Microsoft Intune enables users to create a well-managed desktop environment. Other Microsoft cloud based services now include Azure, Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online and a hosted version of Microsoft Exchange, fulfilling Microsoft’s goal to take all of their on-premise services and migrate them to the cloud. Intune will offer Microsoft’s […]

Microsoft is pushing out several test builds of their private-cloud building blocks later this week including a beta of their public-cloud foundation technology, Server App-V. On March 22 Microsoft posted the documentation for their new Server App-V beta technology.