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Introduction to Razor Razor continues the valuable MVC tradition of model based validation that works on both the client and the server. MVC3 adds the ability to use jQuery and unobtrusive validation to the default toolkit while still allowing you to write your own custom client side validation where necessary. Razor simplifies the syntax of […]

Introduction Developers often resort to code reuse techniques in their projects. As far as ASP.NET framework server side programming is concerned classes, class libraries, components, custom server controls and user controls are popular code reuse techniques. Modern ASP.NET web applications no longer restrict themselves only to server side programming. They also make use of client […]

The final chapter of “Gears of War 3” trilogy for the Microsoft Xbox 360 has officially be scheduled to be released this September 20th around the world, with the exception of Japan who’s launch date has not yet been released. The third release of the epic game finds our hero Marcus Fenix battling Lambent who […]

Due to be released this summer, Office Communication Server 2007 will replace Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 and is slated to be Microsoft solution to unified messaging. Microsoft’s goal for OCS is to provide a means to use a single communications device, no matter what the type of messages being used, ie; email, phone call, […]

Scheduled to kick-off March 9 and run through March 11th at this years CanSecWest Security Conference, Pwn2Own will unleash some of the greatest Security researchers who will all be trying to hack through Microsoft’s IE browser and exploit the worlds most popular Internet browser. This give Microsoft the ability to address any discovered vulnerability thus […]

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Introduction In Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) you can opt for buffering or streaming mode for transferring data. Both these modes have pros and cons. While the former is well suited for applications where you wouldn’t need to transfer large files or data, the later is best suited for such scenarios. This […]

Introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 In the last installment of Visual Basic .NET Development 101 we looked at a few basic steps to start programming with Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition. The last thing we mentioned was the Properties window and Solution Explorer window. By default, you’ll only see the design surface on a […]

For the First time since Microsoft BING was launched it beat Yahoo by almost a full percent point. This of course compares in no way to Google’s dominating ninty percent of the global search engine market. And all this after Google allegations of copying search results. And since Microsoft singed a two years for Yahoo […]

Tasktop Technologies you may know as the brains behind the legendary task-oriented Eclipse Mylyn interface technology, team up with Microsoft to develop Tasktop plug-in bringing Visual Studio into ALM world. The two companies will present their new development at this years CeBit conference. You can find them in Hall 2, Booth D44.

The newest version of the Windows Embedded CE, Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC 7) is a new componentized, real-time operating system. Windows Embedded Compact 7 is a new small footprint OS targeted towards enterprise and consumer type electronics such as barcode scanners, GPS devises, digital picture frames and other small devices. The new OS […]

Introduction This article presents how to start then control a third party GUI application from our own C++ applications, particularly the Notepad text editor which is shipped with Windows operating system. Also it shows two C++ classes designed for this purpose: CApplication – a class for launching a GUI application then control it by sending […]

Keep up with the hundreds of codenames Microsoft dubs their beta products and technologies. The free codename tracker is available now from ZDNet, but it you must be registered with the site. Microsoft customers, partners, analysts, and competitors will all find this pdf useful and informative and reference no techy should be without and new […]