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Introduction I was sitting on a plane from Montreal a few years back next to a math professor from McGill University and casually asked him what was new and hot in mathematics. He said: cryptography and encryption. Of course, secrets. In an information age, secrets and secret data are going to be pretty important. More […]

Tivanka Ellawala, Microsoft financial officer in statement said “It does infringe on a bunch of patents, and there’s a cost associated with that,” Ellawala said. “So there’s a… cost associated with Android that doesn’t make it free.” We’ll see how this plays out as the release of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 draws near.

In a move to block possible attacks by exploiting a publicly disclosed ASP.NET vulnerability known to the ViewState object. Microsoft published what they are calling a workaround to the “Padding Oracle” attack. The workaround offered by Microsoft will rely on implementing customErrors feature to return a custom error page for all error types.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is expected to debut along with AT&T’s Free eBooks & Guides from Microsoft. With Microsoft’s decision to launch Windows Phone 7 on AT&T’s GSM handsets and to delay the debut of the OS with Verizon Wireless will only heat up the battle between the mobile phone titans.

Introduction Let’s delve into search engine optimization and deployment options available for an ASP.NET framework website using the WebMatrix tool. If you wish to know more about the ASP.NET website development features of WebMatrix then check my previous article, Building ASP.NET framework website using WebMatrix. Search Engine Optimization What makes your website popular? It is […]

This has been a very big week for Microsoft. Between trying to keep market share from Mozilla and Google, adding to Microsoft vision of the Cloud, leveraging HTML 5 and faster browsing with the release of IE9 beta. Then the big release of Windows Phone 7 development tools, with a move to entice developers to […]

Microsoft Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing solution, allows developer to work on many languages including NET, PHP, Ruby, Python or Java. Now the PHP Azure developers will have enhanced open-source tools which are critical to business and governments.

Developers can now either incorporate IronRuby directly into the application or write entire Silverlight applications with it. And with Silverlight running on the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7, developer can now take full advantage of the DLR language and begin writing applications for it.

Microsoft has released its developer tools for Windows Phone 7, kicking off the race for third parties to finish their apps in time for the mobile system’s launch in a few weeks. However, for developers who have had their heads down working on code, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has one caveat. Any developers writing apps using […]

Introduction Applications are more and more often being written with a services based architecture. This might range from a very sophisticated enterprise service bus all the way to a simple backend service called directly by the UI. Microsoft has shipped a new service as part of the Microsoft Azure platform AppFabric family called ‘Service Bus.’ […]

The new starter kits, by DiscountASP.NET are powered by Microsoft Silverlight 4, are completely customizable and will allow hosting account customers to manage certain aspects their accounts. The new toolkits will include such features such as SQL database backup, will be able to recycle the application pool and will allow the customer to stop/start site. […]

With a month to go before the public release of the new mobile OS, Microsoft today released the final version of the Software Developer Kit for Windows Phone7 giving developers all the tools they need to start putting Microsoft back on track to attach the mobile phone market.