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Introduction The ToString method of the .NET framework object has a good set of useful features. For. e.g. the ToString method is very useful as a formatting tool. This method and its overloads offer a ton of formatting functionalities, which makes other formatting practices redundant. This is possible through the string parameters that it accepts […]

Microsoft today announced Bill Gonzalez, general manager of their Worldwide Distribution and Services Sector, has been elected to the associate member advisory council for the board of directors of the National Retail Federation. The announcement was made at the NRF Annual Convention & EXPO in New York City.

Next week you will have access to an exclusive preview of the next wave of technology developments for Visual COBOL in a live webinar on 7 December 2010. Discover latest features such as Visual COBOL support for Eclipse IDE, capability to build and deploy COBOL applications to Azure cloud and JVM, and much more. Hosted […]

Beginning at 12:30PM EST (5:30pm GMT) will have the opportunity to log-in to the live stream of “Enter the WebMatrix. See how Web development has evolved on the Microsoft platforms and how WebMatrix makes it easier to create and deploy websites on Windows using the most popular community applications for ASP.NET and PHP. Log-in to […]

Screen scraping is the process of programmatically accessing and processing information from an external website. For example, a price comparison website might screen scrape a variety of online retailers to build a database of products and what various retailers are selling them for. Typically, screen scraping is performed by mimicking the behavior of a browser […]

Introduction If you’ve been following my Task Parallel Library (TPL) articles you’re probably already aware that Microsoft has made a hefty investment in Parallel Programming. An earlier article covered the task class, Understanding Tasks in the .NET Framework 4.0 Task Parallel Library. Continuations, a term for chaining tasks together, was briefly mentioned in the article, […]

Yesterday Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ public preview was slated to expire with no replacement beta available for another four to six weeks. Microsoft however was prompted to issue a workaround to the public release. And while users of the beta server platform weren’t in danger of losing data, they where to be faced with a […]

The new tile-based interface is slated to appear similar to what is currently available on Windows Phone 7 and will only be available on tablet like devices. Jupiter is not a replacement, but an alternative to ARM. This should be a cost-cutting measure for Microsoft and should allow for faster propagation of new lower-level features […]

Microsoft’s President the company’s Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia will be leaving the software giant but for reasons not explained. Is it dissatisfaction over the cloud computing direction, the Silverlight controversy, or just plain burnout? With 23 years at Microsoft, Muglia’s planned departure scheduled for this summer was revealed in a memo by company […]

With the new C++0x standardization process about to have the final technical vote we sit down with C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup to talk about C++0x, new features and future plans. Danny Kalev: Where is the C++0x standardization process standing these days? How close are we to a new International Standard? Bjarne Stroustrup: The final technical […]

Overview Today’s mobile phones aren’t dumb like they were a decade ago. Today, the iPhone or the Droid-X can not only be used for communicating via voice calls but also facilitates instant messages, and can even serve as a GPS or a mapping device. Applications like Four-Square can pinpoint location of contacts on a map […]

Amazon has solved the issue of up-front costs for Windows Phone 7 want-to-be users. For a limited time only, Amazon, the on-line retail giant will be offering a small selection of Windows Phone 7 loaded devices to be used on AT&T’s network for only 1 cent each. You will find such Windows Phone 7 devices […]