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But how much of a boost? As it turns out, that number is difficult to quantify. The Director of Microsoft’s mobile communications, business, Aaron Woodman said “It’s not the same percentage of improvement, primarily because what we’ve done is modify how memory is loaded. So more graphic intense, front-loading applications like games are going to […]

Introduction CSS – Cascading Style Sheets play a vital role in helping you achieve professional and pleasing user interfaces on the web, which makes the first impression long lasting. However, as with every other technique, CSS can also slow down your site if used in the wrong manner. Look below for ten such techniques that […]

The Highly-regarded Windows Mobile developer and XDA senior moderator Da_G has reportedly bypassed the Microsoft Genuine Advantage security protection on the Windows Phone 7 operating system. As reported, this has enabled him to get live services such as Xbox, Marketplace, and Zune to work on an HTC HD2.

Yahoo! introduces a whole new way to share your life through photos. They bring you Flickr for Microsoft. This new experience will allow users to easily share the world around them on Flickr in stunning high-resolution. Display and touch navigation controls provide easy uploading. Stay connect on the go with your friends and family.

Windows Phone 7 is being showcased with good reaction by the consumers at this years CES. The new OS unveiled on a month ago and since nine high quality phones with over 60 mobile operators in 30 countries have carried the new OS. Microsoft developers continue to add new, high-quality apps to the Microsoft Marketplace […]

Introduction The Windows Phone 7 platform was introduced to the world earlier this year in Barcelona. One of the chief highlights of the announcement was the fact that the phone will support two different frameworks – Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and XNA for Windows Phone 7. Since Microsoft has kept a firm hand in […]

While it may not be the first Sliding Tablet out there, it is the first to run Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and for that, it puts this tablet into a class all its own. The concept tablet is similar to the Eee Pad Slider from Asus which was just announced yesterday. The HTC Shift […]

TechCrunch reported this week that Fritz Lanman, the Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions was leaving Microsoft. And later in the week, AllThingsD reported that Charles Songhurst, General Manager of Corporate Strategy would also be abandoning his position with the software giant. Both reportedly had direct contact with Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft.

For starters, the first Windows Phone 7 update is codenamed “NoDo” and is currently scheduled to RTM this month. However this particular update will not ship to users until February. And as you probably heard, it will in fact include the all important “copy and paste” feature.

This ASP.NET tutorial demonstrates how to display a paged grid of data in an ASP.NET MVC application and builds upon the work done in two earlier articles: Displaying a Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC and Sorting a Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC. Displaying a Grid of Data in ASP.NET MVC started with creating […]

With more then 40 million downloads and already available on the iPhone, iPad, Android and coming soon to the PlayStation console, Windows Phone 7 is not going to be left out. The Finland-based maker of “Angry Birds”, Rovio, will be releasing their latest version for the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform of the time wasting […]

Introduction Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. In this article we’re going to explore a technique that I’ve seen used a number of times to help improve performance of repetitive data retrieval. We’ll explore it from a web application point of view and a traditional windows application point of view. […]