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And since we don’t know the exact sales figures for Windows Phone 7 but speculations leans towards the first ad push by Microsoft being not all that successful. With Verizon’s announcement to carry the iPhone and Android already quite successfully, its not likely that a second push by the software giant will have much of […]

Introduction By dictating the hardware specifications for phones designed to run the Windows Phone 7 operating system, Microsoft has ensured that, irrespective of the manufacturer, the device will conform to specified standards. Microsoft has achieved this by specifying the minimum hardware specification robust enough to run immersive 2D and 3D experiences and having the same […]

Microsoft began shipping IIS (Internet Information Services) Express 7.5 on Monday. IIS Express 7.5 is a free version of Microsoft’s IIS Web server which has been optimized for developers. Microsoft also released their embedded database upgrade and an open source content management tool. IIS Express 7.5 will allow developers to both, develop and test Web […]

Microsoft’s new customer-relationship management software will help corporate sales folks manage their contacts and deals via the cloud. The launch of Dynamics CRM means Microsoft should not be able to compete with Salesforce.com. Microsoft is also scheduled to release a new version of their non-cloud Dynamics CRM 2011 software for businesses to install on their […]

Here we are, well into 2011 and still no hide nor hair of an appliance from any of the promised vendors which were to include HP, Dell, and Fujitsu. Yet Microsoft promised they would be available to customers by late 2010. So what is the new date for the Microsoft Azure Appliances?

Introduction The introduction of Silverlight has paved the way for the developers working on Microsoft Technologies to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA). The application is called RIA when the application assures the below mentioned statements. Runs on the browser. Rich user experience. Most of the presentation layer execution happens on the client side. Only the […]

In the previous article of the series we’ve seen how to create a simple Hello world application in Silverlight for WP7. In this article we delve a little further and discuss the application bar, or shortly the app bar. What is the App Bar? The app bar on WP7 is the equivalent of a menu […]

This article tries to highlight a few useful attributes/properties of ASP.NET controls. 1. ClientIDMode The ID’s that get auto-generated for the ASP.NET controls when they render, are known to cause trouble and annoyance when we have to refer them in the client scripts. Although, this auto-generation is a simple concatenation of the naming container and […]

Introduction CImage is a class shared by MFC and ATL. It provides support for easy manipulation of bitmaps and different graphic file formats (BMP, JPEG, GIF, and PNG). This article presents an extension class having methods for screen images capture. CScreenImage class CScreenImage is derived from CImage, uses shared MFC/ATL classes and plain Windows API, […]

Developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 is possible either in Silverlight or XNA. This series of articles is about developing with Silverlight. In this article I will show how to write a simple, classic “Hello World” application. Tools Before you start writing applications for WP7 you’ll need the WP7 Developer Tools. They are available […]

The creators of the ChevronWP7 back-door released a notice stating their application which allowed users a way to install apps on to the Windows Phone 7 os without the need to go through Microsoft’s Marketplace site, or the need to sign-in to an active developer account, has been “fixed” by Microsoft. Microsoft will include the […]

Expected to be released today, “WebMatrix”, a new tool to build Web sites. WebMatrix, a text-based tool for creating code. WebMatrix will be free and will support ASP.Net and PHP development. And while the tool is free, it does lack certain, more sophisticated capabilities of Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Developers will be encouraged to begin coding […]