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Microsoft officials have been big on promises but slow on delivery, in terms of the company’s private-cloud offerings. However, it looks like the Redmondians are ready to talk more about a couple of key components of that strategy — including the Windows Server AppFabric component, as well as forthcoming BizTalk Server releases. Microsoft has scheduled […]

The concept of push notifications (PN) is not new and is used by others in the industry. With that said, the Microsoft PN (MPN) service includes a cool twist that gives developers the power to create the impression that their application is always connected by displaying relevant information even while not running through the Live […]

The common term for such technologies is Web 2.0. For Web 2.0 technologies that apply to the enterprise setting, the derived connotation is Enterprise Web 2.0, or, for short, Enterprise 2.0. These technologies help facilitate social interaction and enable valuable information to be gathered, analyzed, and shared broadly. More specifically, these technologies provide users with […]

These examples demonstrate how forward-looking government agencies can use the Microsoft platform and related technologies to meet the records management requirements of collaborative, unstructured work as well as high-volume, batch-processed workloads. Easy to implement and use, Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help organizations address the full spectrum of records that governments need to manage today. […]

This whitepaper offers guidance and practical next steps for Life Sciences organizations to get started quickly by successfully laying the foundation for a service oriented solution environment. It identifies the core SOA components, architectural patterns, and artifacts available from Microsoft, and Microsoft partners, to help Microsoft Life Sciences customers and partners to quickly realize success […]

Introduction Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column! This time around we’ll explore optional and named parameters in C#. This is an option that has long been around within the Visual Basic language, but is newly introduced in to the C# language in the .NET Framework 4.0. Why Now? The C# […]

Hadoop offers a massive data store upon which developers can run map/reduce jobs. It also manages clusters and distributed file systems. Microsoft will provide Hadoop within a “few months,” said a Microsoft executive who wished to remain anonymous. The technology makes it possible for applications to analyze petabytes of both structured and unstructured data. Data […]

PreEmptive Solutions, the leading provider of solutions to measure, manage, and protect applications, announced today that the .NET Rocks! team has incorporated Runtime Intelligence into their “killer Bing Silverlight 4 application” used to track their progress across the continental United States in real time and connect developers across the globe The .NET Rocks! Microsoft Visual […]

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel. The downside, of course, is that to reap the full functionality of SQL Server 2008 R2 you also need to be running all the […]

Introduction The ADO.NET Entity Framework was introduced as part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and is a new piece of the .NET framework that comes with the .NET 3.5 SP1 update. The Entity Framework is a set of technologies that extends the already robust functionality found in ADO.NET. For those not familiar with its […]

Microsoft is supporting H.264 because YouTube – which is owned by Google – has adopted it, and because it’s what Apple supports in the iPhone and iPad. Microsoft is therefore doing what users want, but does it really have a choice? It does not have the market power to go against Apple and Google, even […]

Microsoft has released the latest Windows Phone Developer Community Technical Preview (CTP) for Windows 7 and the folks at XDA Developers didn’t waste any time unlocking it to see what the ROM includes. Progress has been made, but time is running short for MS to finish it up, get it to manufacturers to get devices […]