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Promising better integration with Adobe design tools and much needed support for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 apps, the new Expression Blend 4 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be fully compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Silverlight 3 & 4, and the .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 promises to bring you the power to build complex and robust mobile applications using both consistent hardware specs and a comprehensive development toolkit. It is sure to be a all-new and full-service Marketplace for selling apps. Check out the agenda and read about what will work best for you.

If you expected your new Windows Phone 7 device to have the ability to act as a hotspot, forget it. Microsoft confirms that Windows Phone 7 will not have the capability to tether or have support for tethering at all. No word yet on future versions of the new release.

Introduction Microsoft released Windows Server AppFabric this summer. AppFabric is a new service platform for .NET developers that helps them easily deploy and manage Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) based services and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) based workflows, as well as handle high performance distributed caching. Like a web service, WF based workflows must be hosted […]

Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2010 will also support other Microsoft platforms such as Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, .NET Framework 4 and of course, Visual Studio 2010. It will also integrate seamlessly with Windows Server AppFabric and SharePoint Server 2010

According to the rumors floating out of Redmond, the British will have the new OS before the Americans, that earlier launch will also include France, Spain, Italy and Germany, all expected to receive the new OS by October 21st. While the US will have to wait until sometime in November.

More specifically, handsets with Droid, Mobile devices with Windows Phone 7. Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is now on the roadmap lets see how well the new OS will wow the marketplace.

Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 Thursday — a move that may help the as-yet-unreleased phone operating system gain apps, which in turn may help the upcoming phones succeed in the marketplace. “Ever since we first announced the application platform for WP7 [Windows Phone 7], there was […]

Introduction Microsoft has called me a few times in the past for an interview. Once to work for the ASP.NET team and once to work for what used to be called the national practices services, part of Microsoft Consulting, and for a while I worked as a consultant for Microsoft consulting services. Microsoft is building […]

Introduction T4, which stands for Text Template Transformation Toolkit is a code generator build into Visual Studio (available in 2008 and 2010 Standard editions or higher). It allows you to build text files out of templates, using C# or VB.NET as “scripting” languages within the template. In this article I will provide an introduction on […]

Microsoft unveiled a new set of online features to its free online productivity applications suite Thursday, building on its successful debut. Over 20 million people have already taken Microsoft’s online Office Web Apps for a spin since it first became available a bit more than 100 days ago.

With both the “repository” and ‘Quadrant’ in Microsoft Oslo are built on the M data-modeling language. But Microsoft continue their investment in this technology? Or will M go the way of C-Omega, begat and LINQ?