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Applying Themes to User Controls and Packaging Them in a Separate Library/.dll in C#, WPF & XAML with .NET Framework 4.0 Introduction This article describes how to apply themes to simple user controls, so these match the standard controls. I have written the code of 2 such controls: a numeric up/down control and a time […]

In this sixth article of the WP7 Silverlight series I will discuss the launcher and chooser APIs that enable WP applications to provide common tasks to the users, such as making phone calls, browsing the web or taking pictures. WP7 applications run isolated in a sandbox; they do not have access to stores such as […]

With the Egyptian Government cutting-off Internet access last week in the wake of civil unrest in Egypt, Microsoft was forced to redistribute the work to other call-centers. Microsoft is among 120 other businesses located in Cairo’s “Smart Village”, a technology office park opened in 2003, who were forced to move their business elsewhere with the […]

Introduction It’s that time of year again, the time for cold weather, the holidays, and ‘best of’ lists. I thought I would come up with a list of the top tools that I use for working with Microsoft Azure. Microsoft ships some great tools for working with Microsoft Azure, especially the new Microsoft Visual Studio […]

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) allows applications to use files and persistent storage when no direct file system access is allowed. Learn to use the WP7’s Isolated Storage class to make your applications better. # # #

In the previous articles of the series we’ve seen how to create WP7 Silverlight applications, use the app bar, navigate through the pages and managing the life cycle of the application and persist application data. In this new installment we’ll discuss two controls: pivot and panorama. Overview These two controls are available in the Microsoft.Phone.Controls […]

Introduction Most of the websites dealing with dynamic content store date information of various pieces of content that are managed by the system. Blog engines, micro-blogging applications, content management systems and social networking sites are a few such examples. Though these applications store dates in database-specific formats while displaying dates to the end user, such […]

Introduction Microsoft’s PEX and Moles are two frameworks that can generate test suites with high code coverage. The PEX Framework from Microsoft is an automated White Box Testing tool that can be integrated with Visual Studio IDE seamlessly — it can simply work as a Visual Studio add-in. This article presents how this tool can […]

Learn to work with Microsoft apps like Word and Excel from inside a Silverlight 4 application. Get started right away with out-of-browser applications and the COM interoperability features.

With cryptic information coming from Microsoft on the sales of the fledgling OS, its a matter of guess work to figure out what the sales are. Based on the numbers available Microsoft sold 1.5 million Windows Phones from October to the beginning of December leaving the remaining sales at 500,000 devices for the month. That […]

With the goal of supporting researchers in solving the worlds biggest challenges, Microsoft launched a new MSDN DevLabs portal dubbed TC Labs. The new portal will offer early access to Microsoft’s technical computing software along with the ability to ask technical questions and provide feedback. The initiative includes solutions on parallel computing development tools in […]

Microsoft is suing Matthew Miszewski, a former employee who joined Salesforce.com. Microsoft’s suit claims that Mathew Miszewski breached his former employment agreement by taking a job with a competitor and providing possibly sensitive information to that competitor. Salesforce.com has declined to comment on the case.