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When it comes to how programs open and stop, yes. On a desktop system, its the user who starts and stops the applications. However in the mobile world, the user only starts the application, its the OS that stops it. This can cause what the development community calls garbage and the more garbage your OS […]

Microsoft has announced the release of a new Windows Phone 7 connector for the Mac. This gives users the ability to synchronize all of your data and media to a new Microkia phone, which of course will be available, later this year.

Introduction This article describes how to create stack based allocators for use with STL containers. The technique requires the use of the header. The STL is an essential part of any C++ coders toolkit, but there are aspects that can make it hard to use in time critical applications. STL containers are safer to […]

Want to run any type of Microsoft Silverlight 3 media on your Linux computer? Now you can. Novell is out this week with Moonlight 4 Preview, which is an open source implementation of the Silverlight media framework. Moonlight 4 Preview is the first major release of the open source media framework since Moonlight 2 was […]

For those of you who use DataSets and are tired of trying to figure out what’s in your DataSet and having to ask for Counts of each Row collection by entering ds.Tables(0).Rows(0)(“CustomerId”) in the open window, then Dan Green has the tool for you. The Data Debugger Visualizer allows you to step through each line […]

The new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 update not only brings the much awaited, copy & paste feature, but with it comes the ability to Multitask. Another key feature of Windows, bringing the fledgling smartphone another step closer to its mother platform, Windows 7. In addition to these key feature updates, performance improvements and CDMA network […]

Already taking place with the latest updates to Microsoft Windows Phone 7, Microsoft demonstrates even more features slated with more updates scheduled for later this year during the Mobile World Congress happening now in Barcelona, Spain. Microsoft touted the booming app marketplace and further integration with other Microsoft products, offering a solid example of of […]

Introduction Named Arguments let you specify the argument explicitly by strictly associating the argument with the parameter rather than its position in the method signature. This concept allows you to forget positional appearance and target parameters with their name. Optional Parameters, as the name suggests, let you omit values for the parameters defined in the […]

Today at this years Mobile World Conference event, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, announced two very important changes to the Windows Phone 7 platform. The first is Internet Explorer 9 is coming to the new OS promising dramatically enhanced web browsing. Another keynote is improved multi-tasking. While the latter is brought to the new OS […]

Being billed as a technology demo and not necessarily something that we’ll see as a practical sale item down the road, Microsoft put their latest invention on-show and while its not something any of us will ever need, it is without a doubt very neat technology. The demo shows how, using a Windows Phone 7 […]

Nokia announced on Friday that the phone giant’s OS of choice would be the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system. The news however caused Nokia’s shares to plummet on the NYSE. The news for Microsoft should be substantially better in that such a major player in the smartphone market has made the decision to support […]

Introduction Team Foundation Server (TFS) contains a feature called work items (WIs for short). These allow the members of the development team to record application requirements, communicate with each other and work in unison with the defined process model for the organization. Work Items are part of every Team Foundation Server team project, and can […]