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Introduction I really love Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) and I have a major product built around CCR. Ever since the .NET Framework 4.0 Task Parallel Library (TPL) was released, I’ve been contemplating moving off of CCR. There are some compelling reasons to consider adopting TPL over CCR. For example, TPL is part of the […]

Microsoft told designers and developers this week that it is shipping the latest version of Expression Studio, the company’s Web site construction suite. The announcement came Monday during the Internet Week New York 2010 Conference. The update, which Microsoft calls Expression Studio 4, is available for 60-day trial download, the company said in a statement. […]

Introduction Learning ASP.NET AJAX seems inevitable for most .NET developers, since it truly improves the user experience and also helps improve the performance of the web pages like partial page refreshes, calling services from the client side and so on. In addition to the basic controls like UpdatePanel which are added to Microsoft Visual Studio […]

Mobile momentum is Microsoft’s to lose. With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is making a risky bid to win a big piece of the mobile market. But its mobile news, if there is any, won’t be able to escape comparison to Apple’s expected news around the iPhone OS 4.0 release and possibly a fourth-generation iPhone handset. […]

Microsoft’s Windows Phone news, if there is any, won’t be able to escape comparison to Apple’s expected news around the iPhone OS 4.0 release and possibly a fourth-generation iPhone handset. Apple’s iPhone and now the iPad are huge successes, though they face growing competition from mobile devices running Google’s Android OS. With Windows Phone 7, […]

Introduction Dr. Clay Breshears is the author of “The Art of Concurrency” published by O’Reilly. Clay has been involved with parallel and concurrent programming for more than25 years and is currently a Courseware Architect on the Intel Innovative Software Education team, specializing in multi-core and multithreaded programming and training. Aaron Tersteeg is the community manager […]

Introduction Routing was first introduced with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 as an alternative to URL rewriting and query strings. Initially routing was limited to the ASP.NET MVC framework only but with release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4.0 developers can now use routing with web forms also. Using routing, developers can now easily eliminate long […]

Microsoft opened a joint cloud computing center with Taiwan’s economics ministry on Thursday at the Computex electronics show, and announced a plan to work with two local companies on new designs for servers meant specifically for Microsoft Azure cloud computing, the growing trend towards decentralized, virtualized computing services. When the project was first announced last […]

With no major update to Windows coming this year, Microsoft is counting on improvements to Windows Live to help boost the appeal of Windows for this year’s holiday shopping season. “We’re refreshing Windows 7 with a new suite of apps,” general manager Brian Hall said in a telephone interview. The updates to Windows Live Photo […]

Windows Phone 7 likely won’t appear on tablets. According to Engadget editor Joanna Stern, that’s the word from Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s OEM Division, who spoke at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan. If that’s accurate, and Microsoft decides to stick with a touch-enabled version of Windows 7 to back its manufacturing […]

Introduction An extract from the Wiki page on description of “Windows Management” well describes it, “…a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which instrumented components provide information and notification. WMI is Microsoft’s implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)”. This is a spot in which certain […]

Microsoft has joined forces with travel website Expedia to launch a version of Internet Explorer 8 aimed at web users looking for holiday bargains online. The Expedia version of the web browser features customised Webslices that allow web users to access content on the Expedia website without needing to open new tabs and search Last […]