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Microsoft will begin shipping the next major release of its media streaming competitor to Adobe Flash on Thursday. The announcement came during a keynote speech at Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) DevConnections conference in Las Vegas by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform, Tuesday. Among the new and upgraded features in Silverlight 4 […]

Microsoft Update: Let’s start by defining what a service pack is. As part of the effort to continually improve Microsoft software, updates and fixes are created and released for recognized issues. Many of these fixes and others are combined into a single package (called a service pack) that is made available for installation. This can […]

PowerBuilder is evolving into a .NET Framework development tool. As PowerBuilder developers, you’ll also know that the key strengths of the product are its productivity through Rapid Application Development (RAD), support for object-oriented programming (OOP), and simplified data access and update through the DataWindow. The DataWindow, has served us well. No other control out there […]

ComponentOne, a leading provider of third-party ASP.NET AJAX, WPF, Silverlight, WinForms development tools supporting all of the major Microsoft application platforms, has announced that their tools seamlessly integrate with the application development and testing process in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Focused on .NET developer productivity, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has new tools for prototyping, modeling, […]

On Tuesday, April 13th, Microsoft released Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 (which includes ASP.NET 4.0). To get started with Visual Studio 2010 you can either download a trial version of one of the commercial editions or you can go grab the free Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Edition. The Visual Studio […]

Introduction If you have been following this series up to this point, I know what you are thinking: When are we going to start with the physical shapes and game play? Well, wait no more 🙂  In this part of my series, I am going to cover the whole creation of all the shapes, and […]

With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is also taking the opportunity to scale back the number of different versions it sells, cutting the number of subscription options from seven to three. In a telephone interview, Microsoft Vice President S. “Soma” Somasegar said that move came from customer requests. .NET Framework 4 adds additional support for […]

Microsoft made available for download on March 15 test versions of a number of the tools that .NET developers can use to build applications for Windows Phone 7 Series devices. At the Mix 10 opening keynote, last month, Microsoft officials emphasized how Silverlight and Expression Blend will complement the XNA Game Studio 4.0 toolset, giving […]

Microsoft Surface is a surface computing platform – based on WPF and XNA, that responds to natural hand gestures and real world objects. It has a 360-degree user interface, a 30-inch reflective surface with a XGA DLP projector underneath the surface which projects an image onto its underside, while five cameras in the machine’s housing […]

Windows Server 2008 R2 was designed and built with these goals in mind and addresses cost savings across a number of areas. Read the whitepaper to find out how Windows Server 2008 R2 can improve data-center management.

The whitepaper lists the top 20 add-ons that are installed. Included are popular add-ons like the Google Toolbar, Windows live Sign-In Helper, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Windows Live Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar but also lesser known add-ons like the Kingsoft Browser Shield, Baidu Toolbar or the Adware Stickypops.

Introduction Microsoft Visual Studio has been a bit slow to embrace the database developer. Until Visual Studio 2005 for Database Professionals there was no serious Visual Studio database development environment. If you’re like most TSQL database developers you probably use features of Visual Studio Database Edition for source control and syncing TSQL code, but your […]