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Microsoft is pulling out all the stops with Windows Phone 7 in an effort to get the right message across to both consumers and developers and get them on board. It is reported that Microsft will spend close to a billion dollars to do just that. So far from what has been shown I’d like […]

Introduction When considering if and how to add touch support to an MFC application, the first point worth assessing is how well the application will perform in touch-scenarios without explicitly adding any support at the application level. The Windows team has gone to great efforts to make applications work well even if they have no […]

Microsoft is planning to open up it’s security practices for software development by shifting the licensing for its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) documentation to the more accessible Creative Commons License. SDL is Microsoft’s plan for incorporating security into applications. It has been available in the past under an exclusive Microsoft license. David Ladd was quoted […]

What is a Duplex Service? A service is an application which will reside at a single place say a server and can be consumed by multiple client applications. In a normal scenario what happens is the client will send the request, wait for the response and once the response is fetched the client will proceed […]

Office Web Apps is just the normal Office on a Web platform, the Office suite that has been “webified”. Office Web Apps include Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word. Web Apps provide users with a way to to view, edit, and share files right from a Web browser (Internet Explorer 7 or later for Windows; Safari […]

Microsoft’s Russian website released details about the upcoming IE9 three weeks prior to the release date. The new browser shows off new features like quick-release tabs and a Chrome-like address/search bar. All previous details have lacked any clue regarding the UI elements. If the site is accurate Internet Explorer 9 will look very similar to […]

Custom user interface for MSI packages using C# .Net Introduction Windows installer has its own way to display installer user interface which is far different from other technologies. MSI supports few controls compared to .Net or other platform. Though it is not very difficult, still it is hard job to develop sophisticated installation package with […]

Last week’s article, Implementing the Store Locator Application Using ASP.NET MVC (Part 1), started a two-part article series that walked through converting my ASP.NET store locator application from WebForms to ASP.NET MVC. Last week’s article stepped through the first tasks in porting the store locator application to ASP.NET MVC, including: creating the new project; copying […]

Bing Search results are what you’re getting if you are a Yahoo user in U.S. or Canada. In a blog post Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division stated, “So far, Bing is only powering results in English in the U.S. and Canada, with other languages to follow in the weeks and […]

Greg Milligan, Microsoft Canada’s Mobility Solutions Manager revealed at a recent Xbox 360 event that phone-to-Console gaming was coming over WiFi to Windows Phone 7. Milligan also suggested that an initial use would be companion-type games that bring enhancements to full XBox 360 titles and likely through WiFi only due to network speed sensitivities initially. […]

Microsoft and Manufacturers are all tight lipped regarding the upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices but details on the devices still managed to leak to the web. All the phones seem to bear common characteristics, which isn’t surprising since Microsoft has been strict with specifications. Picures, video and other details about LG’s keyboard-enabled c900, the touchscreen-only […]

Microsoft blames common characteristics in Silverlight 4 and it’s predecessor for the documentation overlaps. This begs the obvious question, why release a new version if it’s som similar to the old one. “There is quite a bit of overlap between developing for Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 and so in order to not duplicate content […]