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Entity Context in the Entity Framework Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column where we’ll delve deeper in to the Entity Framework. The focus will be on the entity context and some of the various things available such as detaching entities and attaching them again. MergeOption.NoTracking When queries are executed within […]

An up-coming feature in Silverlight 4, called COM Automation has been introduced that potential lets content in Silverlight and Silverlight applications work with documents in Microsoft’s Office stored on a PC. Also, COM Automation could access other system capabilities like a USB security card reader. COM is a Microsoft architecture, not found on the Mac, […]

As one of the longest running independent developer conferences in India, GIDS.NET at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 is uniquely positioned to provide a blend of practical, pragmatic and immediately applicable knowledge and a glimpse of the future of technology. At GIDS.NET, 0n 20 April 2010 in Bangalore, expert speakers will address a wide […]

Customers wanted to know, in a recent pilot-program announcement between Microsoft and Amazon, when Microsoft was going to provide with Windows Azure the same kind of virtual machine support that Amazon is doing with its EC2 cloud service. Amazon announced the ability to run Windows Server instances in October 2008, ahead of Microsoft’s unveiling of […]

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 […]

Introduction The cloud is exciting, it is fresh, and it brings wonderful new opportunities and capabilities we haven’t had before. There is a but. That but is that not everything CAN or SHOULD be run in the cloud. That’s right! Not everything should or can be run in the cloud. Microsoft has worked hard to […]

Microsoft Update: Different is often good. Especially when it’s different for good reasons. Windows Phone 7 Series is different because we reset everything we were doing to focus on end user experience. This extends directly to the .NET developer platform. One of the implications is that “previous Windows mobile applications will not run on Windows […]

Microsoft Update: One of the challenges in adopting a new platform such as Windows Azure, is finding usable design patterns that work for developing effective solutions. The Catch-22 is that design patterns are discovered and not invented. Nevertheless it is important to have some guidance on what design patterns make sense early in the game. […]

Microsoft News: Espectador.com is the online presence of Uruguay’s oldest and most-respected radio station, Radio El Espectador. When covering the 2009 presidential elections, Espectador.com wanted to offer a dramatically enhanced Web experience to grow its audience and advertising revenue. The company worked with Microsoft Uruguay and Microsoft Certified Partner Innicia to create new online news […]

Introduction The ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0 ships with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and offers a lot of new and enhanced features. This article discusses these features and enhancements with code examples wherever applicable. What is the ADO.NET Entity Framework? The ADO.NET Entity Framework is an extended Object Relational Mapping (ORM) Microsoft that can be used […]

Microsoft News Sprint last week announced the HTC Evo 4G. It’s the first phone to run on Sprint’s next-generation 4G high-speed mobile broadband network. Sprint offers 4G service in 27 markets with plans to roll it out to more markets later this year. The phone is expected to be available this summer. One thing interesting […]

Body Microsoft News: The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 code editor and shell, rebuilt using managed code, allows .NET developers to build custom tools around extension points throughout the IDE. This is enabled by the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) library and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in .NET 4, on which it’s built. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 […]