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Microsoft stepped up its push into the enterprise applications market yesterday with a battery of announcements around its Dynamics line of ERP and CRM software. Highlights include upgrades of Dynamics CRM Online, a new connector to Dynamics GP ERP and steep discounts for customers using both applications. The upgrades of Dynamics CRM Online, announced at […]

Formerly known as Project Pink, analysts estimate that if the Kin smartphones attract even a fraction of the demographic heavily into social networking services like Facebook, they have the potential to eclipse sales of Windows Phone 7 Series, the upcoming smartphone operating system that Microsoft is counting on to regain market share from competition such […]

One of the first enhancements to the IDE is the capability Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 offers for navigating a call hierarchy. Over the years, many of us have discovered the important Go to Definition and Find All References menu items, allowing us to quickly navigate through our code. But we still often have to do […]

The results were driven by a strong performance by the company’s flagship product, the Windows operating system. However, the software giant’s numbers largely failed to impress. Microsoft’s shares, which had traded up to a 52-week high of $31.58 in the days leading up to the report, slipped more than 1% to $30.96 by the close […]

The company used the parallel-programming aids provided in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 development system and the .NET Framework 4 to achieve the performance needed to support geologic models consisting of millions of individual blocks of earth – an order of magnitude more than the practical limits imposed by many competing products. Through its use […]

Microsoft created a whitepaper Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot Planning and Deployment. In addition to the fact that this paper contains architecture and design information, hardware requirements, topologies, PowerPivot / SharePoint service associations, storage requirements, and deployment planning. PowerPivot is an amazing new Self-Service BI tool spanning Excel, SharePoint, and SQL Server 2008 R2.

As data centers continue to become more complex, management tools struggle to keep up with these dynamic changes. Microsoft System Center 2007 is a suite of tools leading the pack in adapting to the changing data center model, and F5 is able to take advantage of this strong, secure platform for managing ADCs and policies […]

Introduction ASP.NET 4.0 is the version of ASP.NET bundled with .NET Framework 4.0. In this article let us delve into what I think are the top 7 features of ASP.NET 4.0. ASP.NET 4.0 application provides support to websites as well as web application projects. The default ASP.NET application provides a good starter project template with […]

As a developer, you use Visual Studio (VS) to build many flavors of applications for the .NET Framework. Typically, a new release of VS comes with a brand-new version of the .NET Framework, and VS 2010 is no exception—it ships with the .NET Framework 4.0. However, you can use VS 2010 to build applications for […]

Aptly labeled, Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 Refresh, the technology follows the RTM of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. Microsoft is offering Windows Server AppFabric to customers building and managing composite applications designed to run on Internet Information Services. The set of integrated technologies also streamlines scaling apps created by leveraging ASP.NET, […]

Designed for political campaigns, the suite works by letting candidates connect with constituents via TownHall, while Microsoft’s online collaboration and advertising tools help campaign workers communicate with each other and spread their messages. Especially for local or regional campaigns without the resources to build the specialized tools President Obama’s utilized, Microsoft’s pitch — a prepackaged […]

In my previous article, I briefly covered installing the XNA Game Studio. The article proceeded to how you how to create a simple application that displayed an image. You also learned how to change the size and location of that image within your code. Using an Xbox Game Pad with Your Applications Now, you’ll learn […]