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Dell is planning to be the first producer of Windows Phone 7 device called Dell Lightning, a WP7 Smartphone. The phone would feature a 4.1-inch OLED touch screen display, 9GB of storage, a WP7 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. With Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform around the corner, we expect the first devices based […]

Think about it; it’s not that farfetched. In Outlook 2010 Microsoft provides you with the Social Connector. This is a bar that appears at the bottom of the email window when you open a message and allows you to link social networking information with your email. The Social Connector lets you do most of the […]

Wednesday not only marked the availability of Office 2010 for organizations, but also the immediate availability of Office Mobile 2010 for all Windows Mobile 6.5 based phones with an earlier version of Office Mobile FOR FREE! via Windows Phone Marketplace. Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Mobile 6.5 includes new mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, […]

Microsoft’s big news of the week has to do with the unveiling of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on NBC Studios’ New York City set of “Saturday Night Live.” ( Why the company decided to host the midday event there is a question that only Redmond can answer; the debut of Windows 7 took place […]

Dan Neary, Asia pacific Vice President for Skype, told Sydney-siders today that Skype won’t be developing a client for Microsoft’s much-overdue successor to Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 (henceforth to be known as WinPho 7). The company will be concentrating instead on iPhone, Symbian and Android, with new offerings currently in development The company did […]

Introduction In most ASP.NET Web Applications interaction with the user is fairly simple and can be accomplished within the normal page life cycle. The client web browser dictates the amount of time allowed which is normally 30 seconds, so any processing must be accomplished within that period. Lets say your process takes 15 seconds, you […]

Introduction Locking and transaction support is essential in any relational database supporting multiple users. Microsoft SQL Server has provided both of these features from the very beginning, and they are present even in the latest 2008 version. Even if you have used SQL Server before, there are slight differences in these features compared to earlier […]

Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop spoke before a packed studio at the famed NBC Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. “It is a moment of fundamental change and there are a lot of reasons for this,” Elop said, noting that organizations have tighter budgets and a more mobile workforce. Office 2010 […]

As Microsoft inches closer to finalizing the Windows Phone 7 operating system, it is continuing to roll out applications of interest to the existing Windows Mobile 6.x user base. On May 11, Microsoft’s Bing team announced it was introducing tweaks to the Bing application on legacy Windows Phone devices, as well as new turn-by-turn navigation […]

Microsoft’s new Kin phones are not truly smartphones, but Verizon Wireless is charging users a minimum monthly $70 service fee anyway – $30 alone for data – over a two-year contract. Microsoft and Verizon representatives defended the fee on Tuesday, partly because of the Kins’ automatic cloud-based backup of video, pictures and other data. “Over […]

Earlier this year I wrote an article about Twitterizer, an open-source .NET library that can be used to integrate your application with Twitter. Using Twitterizer you can allow your visitors to post tweets, view their timeline, and much more, all without leaving your website. The original article, Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website, showed how […]

In this tutorial I will show you how to skin a WPF application in Expression Blend. The application you’ll create will have a very simple UI but the concepts you’ll learn will enable you to skin WPF applications with more expansive user interfaces. Skinning is the ability to change the look and feel of an […]