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The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and welcome all the new users. The team had a great time sharing Windows Phone 7 with the world over the last few months and they are looking forward to more good things in 2011. And if you are one […]

As this years CES show approaches this week in Las Vegas, Microsoft appears ready to announce tablets again. News reports are beginning to crop up that show Windows 7 running on tablet devices and some tech observers believe the new tablet devices will take a bite out of Microsoft’s Windows sales. Will tablets replace the […]

HTC India team up with TATA DOCOMO to announce the new HTC Mozart handset with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. The new Mozart is the first HTC handset to sport the new 8 megapixel camera with Xenon Flash and also includes the Dolby Mobile certification. The new handset will be available with an […]

Introduction Imagine the perfect user for your application. He/she never does anything unexpected, never clicks any wrong buttons and always chooses the right steps. That would be an awesome world to live in. But we all know that people make mistakes, click the wrong button, use software in the manner it wasn’t intended to, etc. […]

Introduction Over the years in my profession as a C++ software developer, I have to infrequently maintain XML file format for some application project files. I found the DOM to be difficult to navigate and use. I have come across many articles and XML libraries which proffer to be easy to use, but none is […]

Watch this short screencast to learn the tools needed for XNA game development for the new Windows Phone 7 platform. If you are a .NET developer using C# programming, you can get up to speed quickly with Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 4.0, part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone 7 toolset. […]

Introduction When Microsoft released the first CTP of development tools for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Visual Basic developers were left in the lurch since the first round of tools targeted only C# programming. Luckily for WP7 developers, Microsoft released a CTP version of the Visual Basic tools in September. These tools finally received to […]

The Four Peaks Brewery in Tempe will be hosting the Windows Phone Meet Up this year. The Windows Phone meet up will be very casual and everyone is welcome, even if you don’t have a Windows Phone 7 smartphone device.

The end of the year is upon us, 2010 is about to be in the books. When closing out a year I like to take a look back at the articles I wrote over the year and see which ones resonated the most with readers. Which ones generated the most reader emails? Which ones were […]

At the top end of SEO services and search engine marketing for this prediction monitor, are Alexa, Com Score, Google Ad Planner, Google Trends for Websites, and SEMrush, to name some of the prominent tools. Alexa reveals the general traffic trends in your competitor site (up to 5 sites at a time), has a useful […]

Introduction Windows Vista and later versions of Windows have a so called Kernel Transaction Manager (KTM). This makes it easy for application to use transactions. There are two big components built on top of the KTM: Transactional NTFS (TxF) and Transactional Registry (TxR). With TxF you can combine several file system operations into a transaction […]

Just a couple of the new features that were added to the new Facebook app includes support for your location based service called Places. It also also includes the ability to tag your friends in photos all from your Windows Phone 7 device. This new app and the update are both free.