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Every process has best-practices and location sharing is no different. Some rules are obvious, don’t publicly post geo-tagged photos of gold bricks near open windows and don’t alert the world to your extended absence may be some of the more obvious practices. However not not everyone knows the basics and that’s why Microsoft decided to […]

In the previous articles of the series we’ve seen how to create simple WP7 Silverlight applications, use the app bar and navigate between different pages. In this article we’ll tackle the application lifecycle and how can we store the application’s settings. Tombstoning On Windows Phone 7 only one application can run at a time, as […]

Introduction to WinUnit Software development has changed a lot since the 70s. No longer is it simply called software development, it’s now called software engineering where the demand is not only for the product but for a product with quality. With .NET framework came a slew of tools to ensure code quality. Nothing got more […]

Microsoft posts PowerPoint slides for their new marketing strategy to combat the iPad market, pointing out selling tips and highlighting certain areas that they believe Microsoft resellers should use as selling points. These strategies include corporate security, application compatibility, line of business applications and so on. Each slide seems to indicate over and over again […]

Microsoft announced today that they are offering a free trial for their Office suite for the MAC. As with most offers from the software giant, there’s a catch, but its a small one for some. Simply provide some of your personal information before your provided with a download link. The bright side is, you’ll be […]

In an attempt to stop Tivo from importing their “Set-Top” boxes and denying Microsoft even more sales in the video services arena, Microsoft filed an International Trade Commission complaint against that company. Is this just another day in the world of Microsoft legal practices, or does it spell a bigger plan regarding the new Mediaroom?

Introduction Microsoft has introduced a new view engine called Razor that replaces ASPX as the default view engine in ASP.NET MVC3. Razor represents a major improvement for developers that want a cleaner and more efficient view engine with fewer keystrokes. Razor also allows the developer full control of every character sent to the browser including […]

Sticking with a tried a true plan of bleeding out the profits from your competition, this years CIDR 2011 Microsoft researchers presented a scale-out database architecture that may be able to do what SQL could not to Oracles bottom line and actually be able to provide a solution to businesses dealing with huge enterprise jobs […]

Microsoft laid out their plan to have Windows running on any device at this years CES. And while there is a real lack of tablet devices running Microsoft’s new OS, and said competition sold over 7 million devices in the first 3 months of 2010 alone, Microsoft still says they have a plan to position […]

While most businesses are still in the process of migrating their DBs to SQL Server 2005 or 2008, Microsoft keeps moving forward with upgrades and improvements to their legendary SQL DB and “Denali”, not to be mistaken by the automobile, is no exception. Microsoft released Denali to the CTP (Community Technology Preview) at this years […]

Introduction I created this class while trying to avoid having recv hang/block indefinitely in a simple client application I was working on, without using MFC. recv can hang for a variety of reasons most common is untimely calling of recv or calling it when the remote server didn’t send data it was supposed to send, […]

Introduction Silverlight is the Microsoft portal for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Until now Microsoft has released many versions of Silverlight, each version has been bundled with a lot of new features. The latest of them is Silverlight ver. 4.0. For more introductions, tutorials, blogs or videos visit the official Silverlight website http://www.silverlight.net/. In this […]