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Introduction At a cost of $370 million dollars, the Ariane 5 Flight 501 rocket explosion in 1996 highlighted the potential catastrophic effects of software defects. The explosion was caused by an integer overflow in the software controlling the inertial guidance systems of the rocket, with the flow-on effects of wild path alterations causing disintegration followed […]

Of course Microsoft is at helm when it comes to updating their software. Clearly, they own the servers, so they control the updates. But they must also realize the fact that they have partnership to maintain with their customers. So simply pushing updates that could perhaps affect a carrier’s network or have a negative impact […]

Microsoft has simplified both the planning and the upgrade or migration to their latest products and development technologies with their new MAP or Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.5 Beta. The new tool is geared towards easier migration to both Windows Azure and SQL Azure, heterogeneous database discovery including MySQL, Oracle and Sybase db instances […]

Next month Microsoft will hold the first single day Silverlight-focused event at both of their Redmond based campuses as well as streaming the event live. The event of course is aimed at giving developers the opportunity to see what will be coming next for the Silverlight development platform. This event is scheduled to offer a […]

Microsoft today made its Essentials beta available to testers. Beta build 2.0.522.0 of the Microsoft’s next release of there anti-virus product, MSE. Microsoft Security Essentials is the company’s free anti-virus and anti-malware product for Windows.

Introduction The Model View Controller Design pattern can be used to isolate the application’s business logic from its user interface components. This promotes loose coupling and lesser cohesion amongst the components and as a result, the components of the application become easier to test and maintain. This article is an attempt to illustrate how you […]

With Microsoft’s back against the wall in regard to smartphone sales. The smartphone market-share figures just release from Gartner indicate that in the 12 months leading to the third quarter, Microsoft’s portion of that smartphone market declined from 7.9 percent to 2.9 percent. However with the release of Microsoft’s new smartphone OS, market share is […]

NEC, Intel and Microsoft announced they will build a strategic alliance focused on creating the next-generation platform for digital signage by combining each companies technologies. The newly proposed collaboration between the three businesses will result in an optimized digital signage platform created to address both the retail and digital signage market’s requirements for a more […]

Silverlight, our favorite cross-platform development environment, where once we where being led to believe Microsoft would be moving the platform towards the way of other legacy apps, now has its very own PDC day. And not just any PDC day, but a “special” PDC day. With of course it cant be a regular PDC day […]

Introduction .NET Framework 4.0 made code contracts first class citizens by introducing System.Diagnostics.Contracts as part of base class libraries. Code contracts offer a way to express state assumptions in applications and take forms of pre-conditions, post-conditions and object invariants. In this article we will see the underlying internals of how code contracts work. Sample Application […]

With Microsoft spending over $100 million on the Windows Phone 7 ad campaign and sparing nothing for the launch of the new smartphone OS, why than is the market research showing only 40,000 phones sold the first day? This compared to to Google’s Android release date sales of over 200,000 devices and let us not […]

With the latest update to the Microsoft Codename Tracker chart, the newest release of the PDF containing all the latest codenames of products and technologies coming from Microsoft has a plethora of new code names. From Alaska, we have Apollo, Atlanta, Crescent, Juneau, Roslyn, Union and more. The latest release of the codename tracker has […]