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Introduction Web applications have been a great enabler for business needs, because for one thing, the users are not anymore tied to physical location. However, building web applications has often required more work compared to traditional desktop applications. Especially if you wanted to have good-looking graphics and slick user interfaces with complex controls, then you […]

Last month, Microsoft officials said both the on-premises and the online versions of CRM 5 would debut before the end of calendar 2010. But they didn’t delve into which of the two releases would roll out first. Via a tweet on May 5 from Directions on Microsoft analyst Rob Helm, I learned that Microsoft is […]

The company flagship products SURF Engine and TranSURF systems now support Silverlight to power video systems for high capacity delivery to all screens, said company officials. SURF Engine is based on DSP technology, and delivered as an extension board or an appliance. Company officials said that it powers multimedia applications developed by vendors worldwide. Last […]

The early reviews of Kin (formerly known as Pink) are in. And overall, they’re not good. Most of the criticism is around price, with reviewers noting that Kins are fancy feature phones, not smartphones, but they are priced like smartphones. (There is no Kin app download capability and none coming.) Verizon is requiring a data […]

Introduction Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. –George Eliot “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the smartest of us all?” “While you Paul are smart tis true, there are millions of guys smarter than you.” Crap, now what? The mirror of vanity […]

Abstract Introduction 1. auto 2. decltype 3. R-value reference 4. Right angle brackets 5. Lambdas 6. Suffix return type syntax 7. static_assert 8. nullptr 9. New standard classes 10. New trends in development of static code analyzers Summary References Abstract The article discusses the new capabilities of C++ language described in the standard C++0x and […]

In one way, the global recession “felt like more of the same” for Microsoft CIO Tony Scott. “The boss comes in and says, ‘We want to cut costs.’” But now, as the economy shows signs that a recovery is under way, “How many of us know how to grow?” Scott said during an event held […]

Sure enough, Microsoft is now focusing on other areas besides code, but consistent efforts are in full swing to tailor VS2010 RTM offerings to customers in specific markets around the world. Specifically, Microsoft is laboring to localize the successor of Visual Studio 2010 in a number of languages. However, for customers in countries and regions […]

Windows Phone 7.0 is built from the same core building blocks as its Windows Mobile OS predecessors: A Windows CE/Embedded Compact layer at the base, with a bunch of mobile customizations on top. In other words, the Windows Phone team is an OEM of Windows CE/Embedded Compact. There still seems to be a bit of […]

The ASP.NET Routing Framework allows developers to decouple the URL of a resource from the physical file on the web server. Specifically, the ASP.NET developer defines routing rules, which map URL patterns to a class or ASP.NET page that generates the content. For instance, you could create a URL pattern of the form Categories/CategoryName and […]

Introduction This article demonstrates how to provide download of a file in ASP.net along with tracking its success and failure. It will be useful especially in e-commerce system that offers downloadable product option. In e-commerce system it is very important to keep track of status of download. For a download option there can be two […]

Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style newsgroups starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet, and MSDN sites. Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups are past their time in terms of being usable and secure. The Network News Transfer […]