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Introduction The Windows 7 Taskbar is one of the most noticeable and useful features of the new operating system, and MFC 10 introduces a number of enhancements that make it easy to integrate the Taskbar with your application. The Taskbar represents the central point for quick access and summary information for an application running on […]

Microsoft is raising the storage ceiling for SQL Azure to 50 GB (for the Business Edition of its SQL Azure service), as of June 28. The Web edition also get a higher 5 GB ceiling, starting June 28. The business edition will be billed at 10 GB increments, and the Web edition at the 1 […]

One of the most sure-fire ways to improve a web application’s performance is to employ caching. Caching takes some expensive operation and stores its results in a quickly accessible location. Since it’s inception, ASP.NET has offered two flavors of caching: Output Caching – caches the entire rendered markup of an ASP.NET page or User Control […]

Introduction “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” –Epictetus I have been in the computer business long enough to remember removing physical disk platters–Winchester drive–from mini computers during data processing. I can remember pre-hard disks for PCs when a missing floppy caused a hard system crash and a solution […]

Introduction to MEF In this article I will be writing about Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) along with a demo application using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Have you ever thought of building an applications by considering the extensibility of the application? I suppose most answers would be ‘no’. Is this because it was not possible? No, […]

At its annual TechEd conference this year, Microsoft gave its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, only a supporting role to play. The company offered only a few more details about its new online Marketplace site for Windows Phone applications, and about OS features aimed at enterprise users. The real focus of TechEd, which […]

Microsoft’s BI message was on display at the Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2010 and BI Conference 2010 events this week in New Orleans. Ted Kummert, senior vice president of the Business Platform Division at Microsoft keynoted the second day of the event and showed how Microsoft has exposed rich, self-service BI capabilities to line […]

Introduction In my previous article “Two Way Binding To Client Side Template in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0” we looked at how to bind data to a client side template. In this article we will look at how we can create some input controls and provide a list-detail (two way) kind of flow and selecting, updating and […]

Introduction There have been quite a few enhancements and new features introduced in WCF 4.0. These new features and enhancements are a major boost to productivity, flexibility and they facilitate seamless development of service oriented applications. This article discusses the new features and enhancements in WCF 4.0 and how one can make use of them […]

Announced Monday at TechEd, the updated Microsoft Azure SDK also supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and IntelliTrace, a debugging tool. Microsoft also moved the Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network from beta to production, and increased SQL database capacity in the Azure cloud from 10GB to 50GB. While it was already possible to build .NET applications […]

Many websites that support user accounts require users to enter an email address as part of the registration process. This email address is then used as the primary communication channel with the user. For instance, if the user forgets her password a new one can be generated and emailed to the address on file. But […]

Microsoft told TechEd Conference attendees in New Orleans this week that they can expect the company’s Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS to attract plenty of business users. By combining familiar tools such as PowerPoint, OneNote, Word, Excel and SharePoint with rich e-mail, calendar and contacts, the new platform will be able to offer compelling business […]