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While Microsoft Silverlight is not impossible to learn, it is always evolving and can be difficult to stay on top of the technology. Since it relies on new patterns and cannot stand on its own, relying on a host of server side technologies, Silverlight developers need to be well rounded.

The Chart Web control makes it easy to display a chart in an ASP.NET web page. It’s quite simple you drag the Chart control onto the page, then set a few properties and either bind it to a data source control or write a code snippet that gets and binds the data of interest. When […]

The Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced that it has purchased AVIcode. A developer of .NET application monitoring software, AVIcode, based in Baltimore is a provider of software used to monitor .NET applications.

All the titans were present, from Motorola, Samsung, HTC to Apple, the mobile handsets, smartphones, entertainment devices and all the apps that make them work, its all present at this years CTIA conference and expo, that is except Windows Phone apps.

This makes the development of Windows Silverlight apps economical and easier to create with a one-time licensing fee to cover the distribution for the Perst for .NET object-oriented WP7 apps.

Introduction “About 80% of the time people spend with their PC is to either read or write. This should come as no surprise when you realize that text is essentially how the machine talks back to you, and until we have a technology that would allow it to interject thoughts directly into our brains, text […]

With AT&T acting as one of the premier partners for the big Microsoft Windows Phone 7 launch scheduled for October 11, Microsoft quickly edited their launch invitations.

Microsoft officials will allow “early access” to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace to a “couple thousand developers”. Company officials told developers on October 4 that those who have apps and games ready to go and want to be the first to obtain certification of their apps, need to notify the team by noon PT on […]

Just one week before the high profile event scheduled for next week in New York, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer discusses the upcoming event and the basic touch points of their new mobile OS. Microsoft Windows Phone 7 will be the next generation OS over Android and iPhone.

With the launch of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 now just days away, Microsoft has announced a new business partner with the European music service giant known as Spotify. Spotify is a service which provide streaming music in several countries including Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Spotify does not currently […]

Introduction to Entity Framework Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. Some of my prior .NET Nuts and Bolts columns have provided an introduction and examples with the Entity Framework (see Introducing the Entity Framework and Joins and UI Binding with the Entity Framework). This article is going to build on […]

Microsoft representatives have confirmed the release date of their new Windows Phone 7 on October 11th. HTC, AT & T and T-Mobile will participate in the unveiling. The mobile titans will make the announcement to the public on Monday at three in the afternoon EST.