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Microsoft News: Microsoft sold 422,000 Xbox 360s in February, up 8 percent from a year earlier, researcher NPD Group Inc. said yesterday. Nintendo, which has said it experienced supply shortages, sold 397,900 units, a decline of 47 percent. Sony sold 360,100 PS3s, a 30 percent increase. Microsoft has confirmed that it has slashed £50 off […]

Microsoft has provided the XNA Game Studio for developing games and other programs targeting not only the PC, but also the Xbox 360 and Zune devices. The newest version of XNA Game Studio also targets the Window Phone Series. By installing XNA Game Studio on top of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, you end up not […]

Introduction Simply put, cloud computing is a managed, on-demand, scalable computing service which can greatly reduce the time and expense otherwise required to manage corporate IT infrastructure. From the developer’s perspective, the implications of delegating expensive and complex issues such as provisioning, visibility, and security to a capable third-party are many, among them the ability […]

In the previous articles in this series I’ve wrote about the changes in the build system, IntelliSense and browsing, and C++ compiler. In this article I will write about the changes to MFC or the IDE in relation to MFC: new MFC toolbar controls, task dialog support, restart manager support and the ribbon designer. New […]

Gladinet, Inc. is a corporation located in the United States, founded in 2008 with the goal of turning the Internet into a virtual PC by integrating Cloud Services directly onto a PC desktop. The company believes that this approach is better than using a Web Browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox as a Cloud Client. […]

Microsoft news: Although Microsoft and its ad agency partners aren’t yet ready to divulge the actual ads, David Webster, the chief strategy officer in Microsoft’s central marketing group, offered some insights about what the company is thinking about on the ad front for 2010. On Office 2010, due out May 12, Microsoft is continuing to […]

Microsoft update: It’s possible to build Windows Azure applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, but Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 gets you out of the gate faster and generally has a more deeply integrated experience; hence, it’s the focus of this article. If you’re interested in using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, […]

The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel provides a quick and easy way to implement a snappier, AJAX-based user interface in an ASP.NET WebForm. In a nutshell, UpdatePanels allow page developers to refresh selected parts of the page (instead of refreshing the entire page). Typically, an UpdatePanel contains user interface elements that would normally trigger a full page […]

In a previous article I wrote about some of the changes to VC++ in Visual Studio 2010, new build system, multi-targeting, new IntelliSense. There is more in store for VC++ in this new version and this article will focus on the changes to the C++ compiler. I already wrote an article dedicated to lambda expressions, […]

With powerful advances in recent years like the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 automation model and the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell, Microsoft has increased support for customization of its Microsoft Visual Studio (IDE) integrated development environment by offering .NET developers broader extensibility. The .NET extensibility model in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 takes it a step […]

With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, several improvements have been made to make life easier for C++ developers. The three areas of focus for Visual C++ 2010 include a better programming model, overall performance and productivity, and support for Windows 7 applications with an updated MFC Library. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has made […]

Before you can get started installing Omnimo, you’ll need to download and install the latest version of Rainmeter for your platform; if you’re running on 64-bit Windows, you’ll want to make sure to grab the right download. Rainmeter is an awesome Windows customization tool that we’ve featured plenty in the past, but the upshot is […]