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Introduction WebMatrix is a light weight tool released by Microsoft to facilitate the development of a website at a rapid pace. If the .NET framework 4.0 is not installed on the machine then the WebMatrix installation will also download and install the .NET framework for you. You can download the WebMatrix tool from here. Below […]

Unlike the ADO.NET vote of no-confidence back in 2008, the Entity Framework 4 seems to be receiving strong support now that the Entity Framework is becoming a core part of the Microsoft tech-stack and now opens up the possibilities for architecting with repositories.

Right now the big debate is over Microsoft’s direction with Silverlight versus HTML5. Microsoft’s Windows and IE teams view Internet Explorer 9 as the replacement for WPF. With its hardware-accelerated video, fast JavaScript engine and support for the Canvas element for custom graphics. Not to mention Microsoft renewed move into the Mobile market to which […]

“Microsoft will be sending the mobile operating system to handset manufacturers who will build it into their products. Microsoft has said a number of manufacturers, including Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung, have committed to using Windows Phone 7.” states Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President, Windows Phone Engineering, Terry Myerson.

What Is Objective-C? Objective-C is a “simple computer language designed to enable sophisticated object-oriented programming. Objective-C is defined as a small but powerful set of extensions to the standard ANSI C language.” Created to provide the C programming language full object-oriented programming features in a simple way, Objective-C is the primary language from which iPhone […]

Microsoft’s recently formed Technical Computing Group is working hand in hand with Intel on the latest tools used for developing Windows Server 2008 R2-based clusters, The first tool is known as “Lizard,” and the other as “ClusterCopy.”. These tools will provide support for HPC or High Performance Computing.

SBS 7 beta is running slightly behind schedule since it was originally due out by August. No word as to what the delay is, but Microsoft states it’s release will be before the end of September. Both “Vail”, and “Aurora”, Microsoft’s Windows Home Server release, and the hybrid-cloud small-business offering were released on schedule.

The UpdatePanel is the workhorse of the ASP.NET Ajax library. It is responsible for defining regions of a web page that trigger partial page postbacks (as opposed to full page postbacks). Such partial page postbacks transfer less information between the client and server and have their user interfaces updated seamlessly, thereby leading to a more […]

Not only does Microsoft offer the Microsoft Azure SDK but they also offer some guides and examples available at the Microsoft Download Center: Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 Code Samples” and “Developing Applications for the Cloud – Part 2 “These samples illustrate the steps towards migration of a typical application built with .NET […]

Microsoft’s first ad has been leaked and even though some spectators have wondered whether it was created by Microsoft or not due to it’s low-budget grainy feel. Yes it was released from Microsoft and it is the first to come in a huge push to get people amped up for the upcoming release of Windows […]

The newest release of the Microsoft Azure Software development Kit is only a refresh of the previous build. The newest release contains the usual samples, APIs and tools but also contains a number of fixes. Support for .NET Framework 4: This enables the development of .NET Framework 4 based services Support for IntelliTrace: IntelliTrace to […]

Using SQL Server 2008 Table-Valued Parameters Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column! This particular column harkens back to the style of some of my early columns where I took a problem faced in my every day project work and shared the solution with the masses. In this case, the problem […]