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Earlier in the year Goldman Sachs expected PC sales to have grown by up to 8 percent and server sales to grow up to 5 percent while other industry analysts predicted a growth of 10 to 15 percent. However the market is now leaning towards Tablets as their sales continue to grow and eat up […]

Yesterday, Microsoft released to manufacturing Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Premium, previously codenamed “SBS 7”. Both platforms were RTM earlier in the year and both products will be available to volume customers in early January. If you are so inclined, you can download a trial copy in mid-January and availability through the OEM’s […]

Introduction Google is a great tool for finding information on the Internet. For developers Google (or Bing) are great tools for finding blogs that describe how to employ technical solutions. The biggest challenge is finding the correct and a complete solution. It is pretty straight forward to find partial solutions; it is much harder to […]

For many years now voice recognition technology has been nothing short of a novelty for most, and only because it never really worked as one would have hoped. But all that is changing now by using the computational power The Cloud. It is now more usable and Microsoft will make it even better in the […]

Not releasing sales figures is one thing, but not allowing porting of the fledgling os to slates and tablets is entirely another, and something the software giant could come to regret. Hopefully the decision is reversible but this years “Dive Into Mobile” conference provided Microsoft corporate vice president and director of Windows Phone Program Management […]

Introduction Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 includes a number of enhancements and new features for MFC developers. One of those changes is an animation API to make it easy for you to create animations in MFC applications. This article will briefly introduce this animation API. The main parts of this new API are: […]

Introduction Many Textbox fields restrict the number of characters entered in them for the sake of business validation. With single line textboxes it is just a matter of setting the MaxLength property. However, MaxLength property doesn’t work as expected for multiline textboxes. When you set the TextMode property of ASP.NET TextBox control to MultiLine the […]

The release of the new versions of dotConnect Data Providers, the database connectivity solutions built over ADO.NET architecture and development frameworks provides a number of innovative technologies. Devart ADO.NET Data Providers product line includes high performance data providers for major databases and offer a complete solution for developing database-related applications and web sites. Devart dotConnect […]

Introduction. In this article, we’ll see how easily we can add a DMO (Echo) to a DirectShow filter graph. As a result, we’ll get audio with Echo effect. Installed Windows SDK for 7 on Windows 7 and run GraphEdt.exe. Now, select the menu Graph–>Insert Filters. Filter window will pop up, See the Example below: In […]

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) provides a light-weight framework with a lot of flexibility over the base ASP.NET framework. Unfortunately, this means we lose most of the high-level control structure provided by ASP.NET. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing when you consider where web appplications are today. The focus has shifted to provide […]

Details such as the dollar figure and business partnership for Microsoft and Facebook were made public back in 2007, however the fact that Microsoft had tried fervently to purchase Facebook outright were kept secret, until now. This information was confirmed just this morning during the Le Web conference in Paris, France by Microsoft’s senior director […]

Payday is coming a little earlier than the company had originally announced. Developers wont have to wait until February of 2011, Microsoft has announced that its first round of application payouts will be the fourth week of January. So its not soon enough for Christmas, but it will help with the aftermath since developers have […]