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The Microsoft Azure platform AppFabric provides secure connectivity as a service to help developers bridge cloud, on-premises, and hosted deployments. You can use AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Access Control to build distributed and federated applications as well as services that work across network and organizational boundaries. From simple eventing scenarios to complex protocol tunneling, […]

Introduction I love Lambda expressions. I like the way it rolls off the tongue. I like the concise cleverness of them. I like the mathematics based history, and they are just plain fun to write. (Well, if you are a geek like me.) The great thing about being a geek is that Billionaire boy genius […]

It is complete, your masterpiece report. Not only does it meet your customer’s expectations, it blows them out the water, all they want is beautifully summarised and displayed in a myriad of ways. Then…. Disaster! You try to run the report for a month against the live database and not the two days test data […]

Earlier this week, engadget, a popular tech blog has published what it says are detailed technical specifications for Hewlett-Packard’s forthcoming tablet-style , Microsoft Windows Mobile powered computer, which HP plans to put head-to-head against Apple’s iPad. HP’s yet-to-be-named slate computer features a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, an 8.9-inch, multi-touch display, 32 or 64 GB […]

Windows Phone 7 Series, which is Microsoft’s revamped smartphone operating system, and Silverlight, the company’s rich Internet application platform, might seem geared primarily too glitzy, for-fun applications. But Microsoft observers see an enterprise business application case for these two budding technologies. (Silverlight is being paired with the XNA gaming app dev platform to serve as […]

You might remember Project Pink, a little something Microsoft was working on that had something to do with Windows Phone 7? Well, the two phones, Turtle and Pure, are apparently launching on April 12 at a Microsoft event in San Francisco. Despite plenty of pictures, We know very little about the handsets themselves, other than […]

As it was the case with Windows 7, the Redmond company paid close attention to customers, .NET developers and partners with the perfecting of its next-generation development platform and tools and the successor of Silverlight 3. Eddie Amos, general manager, Developer Division, indicated that, with the availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 […]

A common question I receive from clients, colleagues, and 4GuysFromRolla readers is for recommendations on how best to store and display dates and times in a data-driven web application. One of the challenges in storing and displaying dates in a web application is that it is quite likely that the visitors arriving at your site […]

Microsoft news: With support of Windows 7 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Infragistics’ flagship product provides .NET developers with the flexible, advanced .NET controls needed to rapidly build and style high-fidelity, full-featured line of business applications on every .NET platform – Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and Silverlight. Jason Beres, director of Product Management at Infragistics […]

Midori is a technology incubation project that was born out of Microsoft Research’s (MSR) Singularity operating system, the tools and libraries of which are completely managed code. Microsoft has designed Midori to be Internet-centric with an emphasis on distributed concurrent systems. It also introduces a new security model that sandboxes applications. Singularity is a research […]

Microsoft is dropping the word “series” from “Windows Phone 7 Series,” the clunky name for the new mobile phone operating system the company plans to start selling during the holidays this year. It will henceforth be known as “Windows Phone 7.” The operating system was previously known as “Windows Mobile 6.5” until the Mobile World […]

This whitepaper explores the opportunity to promote SharePoint adoption, without demanding a wholesale change in users’ behavior, by integrating SharePoint with your email client. The paper details best practices for measuring the impact that email integration with SharePoint has on user adoption, and reviews IT options for Lotus Notes shops that want to integrate email […]