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Introduction If you hit this page through a search engine, I would recommend the first article of this series, 10 C# Programming and Microsoft Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. Volume 2 of this series brings another bunch of useful recommendations for C# developers. DataTable.HasRows? – No. This is not part of any framework yet. But […]

Microsoft has built a new layer of security into the new Windows Phone 7 and the applications available through the marketplace program which will enable the an application to be disabled remove entirely from a persons device without their consent. According to Microsoft’s director of product management, Todd Biggs, the Windows Phone Marketplace, in PC […]

Membership, in a nutshell, is a framework built into the .NET Framework that supports creating, authenticating, deleting, and modifying user account information. Each user account has a set of core properties: username, password, email, a security question and answer, whether or not the account has been approved, whether or not the user is locked out […]

Development tools expert Telerik has brought CTP of its RadControls for Windows Phone 7. An integrated suite of purpose-built UI components for the Microsoft mobile platform. Telerik is moving into the development space for Microsoft ASP.NET, AJAX, MVC, Silverlight, WinForms, and Windows Presentation Foundation technologies.

In an effort to speed up development and deployment of Windows-based websites Microsoft launched WebMatrix. With WebMatrix developers can now create and execute Web applications in an environment that is easy to install and use. Microsoft WebMatrix includes all of the components needed to build and run Windows-based websites and it also provides aids that […]

Introduction Cloud Computing is an infrastructure that enables you to develop and deploy your applications in the cloud, i.e., in remote servers. The most important benefits of using Cloud Computing Infrastructure include the following: reduced cost, scalability, flexibility and efficiency. Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform is the Operating System for the Cloud and comprises a group […]

One year after the release and Windows 7 is running on only one out of every 10 business computers according to a new Forrester Research poll. That works out to just over 240 million Windows 7 license sold in the US, Canada, Europe and the UK. The polls also indicates that 75% of all business […]

Evernote 4, a popular note taking technology has undergone some major structural changes in regards to their previous support of Microsoft .NET and the Windows Presentation Foundation. Evernote 4 is a major shift from Evernote 3.5 due to certain issues that could not be addressed while using Windows .NET and WPF.

Team Developer 6.0 is the latest release from Unify in their support for rapid application development and they introduced a new compiler and runtime to enable developers to provide support for Microsoft .NET Framework with with the click of a button. Unify began support for the .NET Framework in 2006 when they purchased Gupta Technologies […]

Introduction Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. In this article we’ll explore the use of images in your web application for eye candy such as profile photos and photo galleries. When using photos in your web application it is important to consider storage requirements and the ability to do a […]

Internet Explorer 8 and IE9 browsers have surpassed the combined usage share announced by Google last month. But the matter may be moot because IE once again lost ground to Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari. IE8 and IE9 boosted their combined global usage shares by 0.45%, and he compared that to what he called Chrome’s […]

Tools such as Java, PHP, Ruby and Eclipse are all supported for developing applications for Windows Azure. Microsoft is going to step up its Java support for Azure in the coming weeks thus stepping up the Java to a “first-class citizen” in the Microsoft cloud universe. There are many Java developers out there whom Microsoft […]