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Microsoft Windows Azure has certainly become a worthy Cloud hosting platform and a very nice alternative to other hosting services. Microsoft has added several new very significant and note worth features including Full Administrative Access, IIS Access, Remote Desktop access, Azure Connect, and VM Role with more new features to come with the arrival of […]

Introduction MSDN describes it as “A query syntax that defines a set of query operators that allow traversal, filter and projection operations to be expressed in a direct, declarative way in any .NET framework-based programming language.” It allows you to query with a strongly typed syntax. LINQ has its own set of Query operators which […]

The following 5 principles lay out the steps you should be following, to make sure that your projects are completed on time, and on budget, successfully. 1) Communicate 40% of project managers cited poor communication as the leading cause if IT project failures. If everyone involved in your IT project doesn’t know what they’re working […]

These updates are to include support for HTML5 and Microsoft’s Silverlight runtime. A major update codenamed “Mango” is set to release in August or September or 2011 which is a world away from the originally rumored release date of January or February also scheduled to include the Windows staple, copy and paste feature. These two […]

H.264 is a codec–technology to encode and decode video–that’s widely used in video cameras, Blu-ray players, online video streaming, and more. It’s built into Adobe Systems Flash Player browser plug-in, but most people don’t know or need to know it’s there. Mozilla hasn’t exactly kept silent on their disdain for the patent-encumbered video technology known […]

At a news conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced the release of new features for Bing. Among those new features included items such as the ability to connect to Facebook with Bing search results, new mobile features and several other features geared specifically towards making reservations the ability to see the interior of a […]

Introduction The .NET framework provides APIs for file editing, however the APIs offered in versions prior to .NET framework 4.0 did not scale well for working with extremely large files. Of the various stream classes in System.IO, FileStream does buffering internally whereas MemoryStream does not need buffering, because it is a non-buffered stream whose encapsulated […]

The popular blogging tool, WordPress CMS platform is now available via the Microsoft Market Place for the Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS. The new WordPress platform is geared towards busy users running WordPress to enabling quick blog posts and to easily check visitor statistics and manage visitor comments while on the move. The WordPress application […]

One of the most common tasks we face as a web developers is displaying data in a grid. In its simplest incarnation, a grid merely displays information about a set of records – the orders placed by a particular customer, perhaps; however, most grids offer features like sorting, paging, and filtering to present the data […]

Auto insurance provider GEICO provides coverage to more than 10 million people in the United States, and now it’s using Windows Phone 7 to connect with them. GEICO now supports Windows Phone 7 as a corporate smartphone for its employees, and has also created a Windows Phone 7 application called GEICO GloveBox that allows customers […]

Paramount Pictures will release 10 new full movies which include all the bonus content from those DVDs and lots more that you couldn’t get with the DVD such as trivia by ‘Scene It?’ and more. I’m a huge bonus for Windows Phone 7 users who’s sales have not exactly been, paramount. We continue to see […]

Windows Phone 7 recipes are a group of open source projects geared towards helping the Windows Phone 7 development community build applications. Recipes are typically common patterns for topics that require some attention. The idea is to provide a sample with some reusable code that can be reused later and modified to fit other similar […]