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Introduction C# 4.0 introduces flexible and declarative style of programming by using the dynamic language runtime library (DLR). This style is called dynamic programming. Dynamic programming might not be new to you if you are a C++, Python or Ruby developer. Programmers can now use the ‘Dynamic’ keyword (the new static type) for creating typed […]

Introduction Have you ever screwed up the code of your project and needed to revert to a past version? Unfortunatelly, Microsoft Visual Studio doesn’t has a backup option. If you need to do so, you have to manually copy your solution folder to another folder or media. Tired of doing that, I decided to make […]

Even though the first release of the first release of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is aimed at the consumer market, there will be a clear shift towards the business user smartphone market very soon as developers begin to develop more business driven applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform. After all, it is still Windows!

At an inside look at Microsoft Employee meeting this week they introduces and discussed all the new technologies that the various teams within Microsoft have been working on. From the Red Halo Team using Windows Phone 7 to product introductions by Office Executive, Chris Capossela, this years Microsoft Team Meeting had it all.

Virgin airlines this week experienced its second crash of their “Navitaire New Skies” reservation system which runs on Microsoft Windows .NET framework and is used by over 70 airlines.

A ZIP file is a popular, decades-old file format used for file compression and archiving. Commonly, such files have a .zip extension and are used to reduce the size of one or more files and/or to archive multiple files and folders into a single file. Additionally, the contents of a ZIP file can optionally be […]

Introduction Memory Mapped Files are a form of Interprocess Communication used to pass data between processes. This article introduces a set of C++ helper classes to simplify using MM files. This article will assume that you know what a memory mapped file (MMF) is and understand that an MMF can be based off of a […]

Experts agree, Windows Mobile 7 misses the basic functions of a Windows OS. Lacking support for HTML5, the basic Cut & Paste feature and of course Multi-tasking. The Windows Mobile 7 Browser is based on the old source code of IE7 and not on modern technologies like WebKit/HTML5. Find out more.

Bottom line, Steve goes on to say about the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 release “We are going to have cool phones out with our software on them this holiday season?”. See whats in store for the mobile phone market.

The emergency patch is required to patch the recently discovered vulnerability to Microsoft’s ASP.Net framework which allowed attackers to refine their brute-force efforts on the cryptography protecting the data, but only on a server running the Windows Server OS. Desktop Windows OS’s remain unaffected.

Introduction For developers with huge multi-monitor setups, problems with the text displayed on the screen being too small to read is rarely a problem. For end-users that have a 13″ full-HD laptop or a 9″ net-book, the readability of text in a 9-point font during the morning commute or a business flight is a different […]

This severe vulnerability to ASP.Net is currently being exploited so Microsoft had to act fast since an attacker can easily decrypt cookies, view states, form authentication tickets, membership password, user data, and anything else encrypted using the ASP.NET framework’s API. Read more about the flaw and how to fix it.