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Microsoft Silverlight is without a doubt a firm competitor to Flash and in the iOS market, its gaining a dominant share. This is going to have a clear impact in the coming days as we creep ever closer to the release of Windows Phone 7.

Binarymission, a leader in providing developers with unique user interface components for Microsoft .NET today announced the release of UIControlsSuite .NET Enterprise Edition V13. The new release offers support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7 and Microsoft Silverlight 4, UIControlsSuite .NET V13 and features a host of new additions to its UI suite. The […]

Introduction C# is a great language. It is relatively easy to learn with its simpler syntax over C++ programming and Java. Ten years down the line it still is a strong competitor. It has had improvement year after year, with new features added with its every release. It has not disappointed the C# developer community. […]

Introduction Visual C++ 2010 comes with interesting new features and enhancements to simplify more native programming. The Concurrency Runtime is an added framework to simplify parallel programming and helps you write robust, scalable, and responsive parallel applications. The Concurrency Runtime raises the level of abstraction so that you do not have to manage the infrastructure […]

Developing world class, state-of-the-art video games for the Web is no easy task. See what Bigpoint GmbH built using Silverlight to deliver cutting-edge graphics and bring unprecedented quality to browser-based gaming.

Symantec reports a new “scareware” that is circulating. In trying to leverage the recent publicly published ASP.NET vulnerability, the scam attempts to send an infected users a warning from a faked Microsoft Security Essentials. Click on the repair and pow, malicious installer is executed on your computer.

The folks over at WMPowerUser scored some close up’s of the new HTC Windows Phone 7 device and it looks really neat. As other new Windows Phone 7 devices continue to surface, expect some ground shaking advances.

These days, it’s not unheard of for software engineers to end up feeling a bit stuck – feeling like they’ve hit a dead end when it comes to their career potential, and that there’s no where else to grow. Mark Herschberg, a software engineer turned CEO, would beg to differ. Education.Internet.com recently published a profile […]

The Microsoft Chart controls are a series of classes in the System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting namespace that allow web developers to ability to add charts to their ASP.NET applications. The most pertinent charting-related class is the Chart class, which contains information about the chart’s appearance, series, charting areas, and so forth. In most of the demos and code […]

From MetroTwit to his own version of BING, Long Zheng may be a program hobbyist, but his making things happen for Microsoft. Long had a working Google instant search years before Google considered it and he built his own version of BING in less the 24 hours, so why doesn’t Long work for Microsoft?

HPC Server 2008 R2 now comes with several major upgrades from the previous version. One of those upgrades includes the ability for developers to write HPC applications that can be deployed on workstations, extended to intranet servers, and then put into the cloud. HPC Server 2008 R2 will also scale better and the Heat Map […]

In a move to align Windows Embedded Business with the Management and Security Division of the Microsoft Server and Tools Business, Microsoft today announced that the software giant will make the move to help its original equipment manufacturer partners. Details to be announced next Tuesday during the keynote speech at the Embedded Systems Conference which […]