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Introduction ASP.NET Ajax opens a lot of possibilities to provide users a rich user experience. At the code level developers can create components, client behaviors or controls that harness the power of ASP.NET and Ajax to provide features that are otherwise difficult to offer. Ajax components are basically client side classes that usually do not […]

While Windows 6.5 may have not been innovative, sexy, or in anyway, an awe inspiring operating systems, it was Microsoft’s big chance to hit the mobile phone market hard, and they blew, big time. Instead, they have should have delayed the launch and waited to get it right, which is what they did with the […]

Introduction Microsoft’s Bing search engine (which the company calls a “decision engine”) allows you to search the Internet, but also work with maps interactively. As you could expect from the developer-friendly company, creating applications that use the Bing Maps functionality has been made easy. For instance, you can add a Bing Maps control into your […]

Introduction Wow, what a year. Cloud computing seems to have come out of no where, and is moving fast. Of course, like all overnight successes, this one took twenty years to really happen. But when Microsoft gets behind something, you can really see the momentum. The various cloud computing and product teams at Microsoft have […]

Some improvements like LINQ are substantial, and some just make our lives a little easier. Intellisense in VS2010 has an improvement that is incremental and will make the life of a programmer a little easier. In VS2008 Intellisense listed members alphabetically by matching characters as you type them. In VS2010 Intellisense lists members using a […]

Introduction Standard C++ programming containers classes such as vector and list are homogeneous, meaning they can store only one type of objects at a time. However, in some cases it’s more convenient to use a container of heterogeneous objects, which is where std::tuple comes in handy. std::tuple can store up to 10 objects of different […]

However, instead of revealing the actual numbers in regards to the sales of the OS to consumers, Microsoft has instead announced that their partners who manufactured the handsets have sold over 1.5 million devices to the carriers and retailers selling the devices in the first 6 weeks that the OS has been available.

Introduction The Standard C++ library is the back-bone of most modern C++ applications. It provides elegant, efficient and portable classes, templates and functions to handle a wide variety of development needs ranging from strings and mathematical operations to stream support, complex collection types and locale-aware data processing requirements. Many C++ applications divide functionality between core […]

Zircon Computing announced the availability of a recently completed project in which Zircon and AMD collaborated on a key initiative to optimize the performance of Zircon’s latest software release on the multi-core AMD Opteron™ platform for embedded systems and measure that performance on the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmarking Consortium (EEMBC) Networking Suite 2.0.

Applying the thought that most smartphone users would rather have the movie app vs. downloading the actual movie, the new Paramount app is for the movie “School of Rock”. Its part of a batch of ten new film apps which will also include “Superman” and “GIJoe”. The new “School of Rock” app was built using […]

Introduction In this article we will learn how to create custom HTML helper methods and the various ways of doing it in an ASP.NET MVC framework application. HTML helper methods play important role in developing the views of an ASP.NET MVC application. It is known that the ASP.NET MVC application is controller driven i.e. the […]