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Who is the Audience for Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch? Microsoft LightSwitch was recently released to the public in the form of a beta product. While Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch has the word Visual Studio in its name, unlike the other Visual Studio tools, the target audience of LightSwitch is not really hardcore developers. Rather, LightSwitch […]

The .NET Framework provides a variety of classes in the System.IO namespace that simplifies working with the file system. Using these classes it’s possible to delete files and folders, to create new files, to edit existing files, and more. These classes, combined with ASP.NET’s suite of Web controls and databinding syntax, make it quite easy […]

1. Introduction This is the third part of the Tray Notify series which illustrates how a Windows client app can communicate with a Window Service. The sample application monitors file change events from the Windows service and uses a WCF service to send the change events to a task bar tray application. This article will […]

While many have predicted the demise of the Windows Phone 7 platform, given that only 3 companies are ready to release devices on launch day, others have continued to remind them that when Apple, Palm and Google went to launch, there were even less devices available. Palm had the Pre, Apple had the iPhone, and […]

Microsoft is ramping up the feature set with Windows Phone 7, bringing it up to par with the iPhone and other smartphones–almost. Its camera app simplifies the process of taking pics and sharing them on the social networks. Its mobile IE provides the same type of pinching functionality that the iPhone has, and its virtual […]

Microsoft Silverlight is now poised to engage developers, designers and end users, along with investors, as they all have a strong interest in the application development and delivery process. Everyone is interested in analytics, but Silverlight’s analytics must be diverse enough to satisfy all of their requirements. PreEmptive Solutions is working on a solution that […]

Introduction The Dependency Injection Pattern is one of the most widely used and popular design patterns that can reduce dependencies amongst the components of your application, a technique in which the concerns in an application are injected externally as they are needed. This article discusses the basics of Dependency Injection pattern and shows how to […]

What types of data you are dealing with? We will try to roughly classify them and divide into the following five categories. Naturally, this is not a comprehensive classification, but it will help us to understand the options and approaches we have to keep in mind. Homogeneous data arrays containing elements of the same type […]

Microsoft will be spending half a billion dollars to open a new data storage center in Virginia. According to Virginia governor’s office, the facility will utlize the latest modular, fouth-gen approach, and will open near the town of Boydton, Virginia. For investors, it’s a sign that Microsoft is working to add capacity for its Azure, […]

TechCrunch using guesswork and analyst estimates are reporting that Microsoft has spent in almost a billion dollars on launching and developing Windows Phone 7. Microsoft won’t make any comment on the figure (no surprise there). Other people seem to think Microsoft will have to spend a lot more to overcome the many obstacles that stand […]

Introduction Microsoft BizTalk Server has been available since 2000, and during these ten years, the product has evolved to handle even the most complex situations in communications between organizations and integrating their diverse IT systems. This integration process is commonly known as Enterprise Application Integration, or EAI. EAI solutions help organizations to digitize and automate […]

SapphireSteel has set out to add Flash development features to Microsoft Visual Studio giving developers a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Silverlgith RIA offering. Monday is the expected release date for this IDE, Amethyst ithat includes Flex, Flash, and ActionScript development capabilities for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Prior to this release there just hasn’t […]