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Micro Focus has announced that their COBOL development tool will now have the ability of executing applications in the Windows Azure Cloud platform. COBOL programming has been around forever with some 220 billion lines of COBOL code still active in the business world. Visual COBOL R3 by Micro Focus will offer the language a new […]

While Microsoft offered the infamous hacker team responsible for cracking the PS3 and the iphone and also created the unlocker ChevronWP7 a simple “please stop, thank you very much”, the hacker team has decided to press forward with jailbreaking the fledgling OS. Microsoft’s Brandon Watson, Development Platform Product Management, jumped in and offered GeoHot a […]

Microsoft will soon release a new app for their Windows Phone 7 OS that is expected to offer access to IPTV streaming. The new client codenamed “Rome”, is reported to give access to any Mediaroom-based service similar to Xbox 360. The ship date is still a secret however the project is alleged to have been […]

Iron Speed Designer Introduction Hard-core developers who are into systems programming really seem content to use Notepad/VIM/Emacs as their editor of choice. While these are great text editors, when it comes to UI designing, Microsoft itself has spoiled developers by providing a great Rapid Application Development tool in the form of Microsoft Visual Studio. Enterprise […]

Introduction .NET Framework 3.5 introduced a generic hash set class System.Collections.HashSet for representing a set of values. It provided high performance set operations. Though it did not contain duplicate elements, it was not sorted. One would have to call OrderBy overload to sort the elements of the HashSet. In .NET Framework 4.0, the Base Class […]

In the previous articles (part 1 and part 2) we’ve seen how to create a simple WP7 application and how to use the application toolbar. But any serious application will probably require more than one page. This article is focused on navigating and passing data between pages. Creating a Simple Application Let’s start by creating […]

Microsoft stated last week that they are investigating the issue of Windows Phone 7 devices inexplicably sending data over the 3G networks, even while the phones were connected over WiFi. In one case a user claimed as much as 50 GB of data was sent with authorization. Obviously this problem will have an impact on […]

Scheduled to open in the “South Coast Plaza” located in Costa Mesa, California, this will be the latest addition to the rising chain of Microsoft retail stores. This puts the count, now officially a chain, at 3 stores. One located in San Diego and the other located in Mission Viejo. The software giant announced the […]

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 […]

Introduction Vectors are one of the single most useful and most used objects in the STL. They are easy to use, and remove the burden of memory management from the user. It is possible to partially control memory usage by using functions like reserve, but nothing is provided to free up excess memory. Users have […]

Microsoft plans to promote the new logo including the IE 9 test drive site. The logo program is intended to raise awareness that parts of HTML5 are being used by professional sites today and while there is still discussion about when HTML5 will be ready, the reality is that HTML5 is a broad range of […]

Yesterday Microsoft released a version of its OneNote note-taking application for the iPhone. The program will be free for a limited time, Microsoft said, adding that notes taken on the iPhone will automatically be synchronized and backed up to the Web using Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive.