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Tightening up the security on email doesn’t necessarily mean that it cant be easier to share and Microsoft today unveiled an updated version of its HealthVault medical records system, during an event at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Now emails containing copies of a patient’s medical records will be […]

Introduction Now that you have seen how easy it is to make applications for the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform and have a few applications ready to be tried out, let’s explore that process for getting these apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace. Like the Apple App Store, all applications for Windows Phone 7 go […]

Many websites display a news ticker of one sort or another. A news ticker is a user interface element that displays a subset of a list of items, cycling through them one at a time after a set interval. In December 2010 I wrote an article titled Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News […]

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Joannes Vermorel, founder and CEO of Lokad, a cutting edge software development company located in Paris, France discusses Microsoft’s cloud platform strengths and limitations. Vermorel and staff decided long before Azure was released to production and while it was still in beta form, to move their company’s application infrastructure to the cloud using Azure. They […]

Yahoo offered an apology to all those Windows Phone 7 users who where affected by a glitch which left many with a huge data usage bill. The data glitch surfaced just days after Microsoft released the fledgling smartphone OS leaving many user scratching their heads and wondering if they made the right choice over the […]

NPD Group, a technology research firm, just released smartphone market share numbers for the fourth quarter of 2010. The Windows Phone 7 market share reached only 2 percent. Tied with Palm’s WebOS and lagging behind Windows Mobile which came in at 4 percent of the share. RIM’s BlackBerry stood firm at 19 percent, Apple’s iOS […]

Introduction In an earlier article, we saw how developers can use WinUnit for authoring unit test cases for their code. While the article demonstrated the use of WinUnit as a command line tool, most of the developers use Microsoft Visual Studio for their coding. Let us understand how we can integrate WinUnit into the Microsoft […]

WP7 application can support different input methods: touch, on-screen keyboard, hardware keyboard, sensors, microphone and phone hardware buttons. This article will focus on touch. Users can manipulate the applications with single or multi-touch gestures. Single gestures (operations performed with a single hand) are tap, double tap, pan, flick and touch and hold. Multi-touch gestures are […]

The new vulnerability affects every version of Windows currently supported. This is a zero-day vulnerability. The vulnerability resides in MIME HTML also called MHTML which allows Web content to render in a web browser or other apps including email. This attack allows an attacker to send a HTML email to the user which triggers a […]

With Microsoft’s latest update to the Windows Phone 7 OS slated for sometime next week, the software giant created a new Windows Phone 7 Troubleshooting guide aimed at assisting users of the fledgling OS with the latest update to the software. The new page is available via the Microsoft Support pages which confirms the availability […]

Introduction In this article we will be looking at how to consume and make use of the ADO.NET Data Service in a .NET framework client application. We will demonstrate the process by creating a simple Web application which will use an existing ADO.NET Data Service. This demo application will involve the basic CRUD operations onto […]