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Introduction Microsoft entered the source code control business with Visual SourceSafe back in the 1990s, and even today, the product continues to be used by a large number of development shops. Still, many organizations have noticed SourceSafe to be problematic: database corruption is common. Since development companies live or die by their source code, one […]

Microsoft denied vehemently that the Bing search engine copies search results from Google. The Senior VP for Microsoft’s online services division, Yusuf Mehdi stated “We do not copy results from competitors. Period. Full stop,” Mehdi’s statement of course was only in response to Google’s allegations that Microsoft’s Bing team where monitoring Google’s search traffic and […]

Beginning today users in India will have access to “Office Web Apps”. The new online companions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will all be available for free simply be logging in to the online portal using their Windows Live ID on the SkyDrive or Hotmail. The new online app will allow users to […]

Developers for the new Microsoft smartphone OS will now be able to get their own Windows Phone 7 devices without a signing up for a contract. Microsoft’s director of developer relations, Brandon Watson stated that the company has partnered with Zones.com to offer developers a Windows Phone 7 device without the need to sign up […]

Introduction When talking about software development lifecycle and the processes associated with it, many developers immediately think about the waterfall model. In this model, you first design an application, then write and test it, and finally move it to production. However, with today’s agile methods, the development process is different and contains frequent repetition of […]

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC3 ASP.NET MVC3 builds the capabilities of Web forms found in the previous versions and adds exciting new capabilities. When combined with the new Razor view engine, MVC3 allows you to create sophisticated Web forms faster than ever before with even cleaner separation between your model and your views. MVC3 data entry […]

Introduction The default constructor, the copy constructor, the assignment operator and the destructor are collectively known as the special member functions. By default, C++ programming implicitly declares (and often implicitly defines) the special member functions in every class. Although you can suppress an implicit declaration of special member function by declaring that member explicitly, this […]

MadCap will now incorporate CCC Information Services Inc. (CCC) is optimizing its online Help systems and reducing customer support calls with MadCap Flare and the hosted MadCap Feedback Service. CCC uses MadCap Flare single-source, multichannel publishing software to deliver its Web-based Help systems and print documentation. The company then relies on the MadCap Feedback Service […]

Three of the patches are categorized as critical and all twelve will be patched in next weeks Patch Tuesday. The three critical patches will effect the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer. The remaining nine patches are classified as Important. Vulnerabilities include exploits for the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine, a CSS exploit in Internet Explorer […]

Introduction As the title points out this article would be a tutorial for the drag drop files feature in Silverlight. This drag drop feature is introduced in Silverlight 4.0. Silverlight 4.0 can be downloaded here. In this article I will create a sample Silverlight application and implement the drag drop files feature. The sample application […]

Obviously the H.264 plug-in development was well underway prior to yesterday claims by Google about Microsoft stealing search engine results from the search engine giant and using them on BING. Microsoft announced last month that they would be discontinuing support for H.264 video, concerning developers that it would hold back HTML5 adoption. However Microsoft today […]

Following all the ruckus yesterday over Google’s claim that Microsoft was taking search results from Google, Microsoft’s senior VP of Online Services Division, Yusuf Mehdi reiterated that Google’s claims are totally false stating that “Microsoft does NOT copy results from any of their competitors.” He went on to say that “Microsoft has some of the […]