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Introduction Since HTML’s inception, it has been the “language of web”, but has been practically unmaintained after HTML4 (1997). It lacked many features which a current generation user expects from the browser experience. Developers had to toil hard to achieve those and that too not without an inevitable help of plug-ins or custom created controls […]

When building a web application, we must decide how and when the browser will communicate with the web server. The ASP.NET WebForms model greatly simplifies web development by providing a straightforward mechanism for exchanging data between the browser and the server. With WebForms, each ASP.NET page’s rendered output includes a

Only days after the software giants CSA started posting on his blog again, no sooner did Ray Ozzie announce his plans to retire from Microsoft. According to sources, Ray Ozzie will be stepping down as the Chief Software Architect for Microsoft announced Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an email to his associates. The CSA will […]

Until recently there where very few Microsoft’s own products and services running on the Windows Azure operating system with only bits of Live Mesh and the Holm energy-tracking app Azure hosted service. And several pieces of the Microsoft HealthVault program were developed for the Azure OS, but what about but what about the other business […]

Microsoft announced the new smartphone platform over 8 months ago and the new OS certainly offers strong competition to the currently available smartphone OS’s like Apple iPhone and Google Android. But at the end of the day Windows Phone 7 is not going to be an acceptable enterprise smartphone solution in its current form.

Introduction The truth be told sometimes a technology comes along, and I don’t have a user story for it. So, the technology may not be that hard to describe, but figuring out a user story just doesn’t come to me or seem compact enough to fit into an article length column. Memory-mapped files are like […]

While Microsoft Windows has dominated the OS market since there was an OS market, they have yet to make any substantial showing in the smartphone market and they will try to catch up to the Wii in the game console market. And if any business is capable of pouring endless funds into the effort, its […]

Full of new and familiar tools for Windows Phone and Xbox Live Indie Games developers. App Hub now includes extensive libraries comprised of code samples, development tutorials, reference material, videos and more. The Microsoft App Hub will also include such features as registration services, application submission portal and other management tools. Developers of Windows Phone […]

Intel reinforces their support for the new .NET SDK for other platforms as part of AppUp. With Intel’s support for the AppUp program originally launched for C/C++ applications and AIR applications in August, they now offer support for the AppUp IDE Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio.

The HTML markup of a web page includes the page’s textual content, semantic and styling information, and, typically, several references to external resources. External resources are content that is part of web page, but are separate from the web page’s markup – things like images, style sheets, script files, Flash videos, and so on. When […]

With Microsoft’s complete revamp of their mobile OS, they owned the IT news world this past week. But what does this mean for the software giant and will they actually be able to take a bite out of this market against the current winners like Apple and Blackberry.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has suffered through several widely reported problems with the context menus in the IDE containing scroll-bars. The problem reportedly, with the context menu issue has been one of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with the new Visual Studio 2010 release. The Visual Studio patch are available at the MSDN website.