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Microsoft news: The International CTIA (Cellular Telephone Industries Association) WIRELESS show is the premier wireless event representing a $1 trillion global marketplace that brings together the wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, mobile web computing and data industries. International CTIA WIRELESS is where the wireless world meets each year for three days of intense business, […]

Microsoft News: Last week at the MIX10 Conference Microsoft announced the availability of a preview of the Windows Phone 7 Series developer tools. The buzz around Windows Phone 7 Series has been so great that Microsoft is encouraging students to be among the first to get cracking with their Microsoft Windows Mobile platform. Thursday Microsoft […]

Microsoft News: Unica Corporation, on Wednesday announced its web analytics solution, Unica NetInsight, supports measurement and analysis for Microsoft Silverlight applications. Unica provides its customers with granular analytics for application usability optimization and the ability to drive interactive marketing with individual visitor insights. “As interactions with web sites become more dynamic through Silverlight, individual customer […]

Introduction I think any developer would agree: If it doesn’t have an API, it ain’t Web 2.0. And although the big guys often don’t provide managed code interfaces for the .NET developer, there’s always someone out there who will take the time to wrap their API and provide easy access for the rest of us. […]

Building a Rollup List in SharePoint By Gatika Patel – Kiefer Consulting   INTRODUCTION A frequent challenge for me in SharePoint is finding a way to combine multiple SharePoint lists at the root level site and then performing different operations on that “rolled up” list. Third-party web parts sometimes help, but budget constraints often prevent […]

Microsoft news: Here Microsoft goes at it again: fixing a wheel that ain’t broke… Microsoft decided to shift from LINQ to SQL on the ADO.NET Entity Framework earlier this month. This decision was quite unsettling to some .NET developer, and it contributed to the confusion regarding .NET Framework libraries and consistency. .NET developers do not […]

Microsoft update: Apprenda, a deliverer of software-as-a-service products, has introduced the SaaSGrid API for Microsoft, a solution that allows Silverlight applications to be deployed as single-instance SaaS offerings. In case you haven’t heard the term “SaaS” yet, here’s an explanaition: Software as a service (SaaS, typically pronounced ‘sass’) is a model of software deployment over […]

Microsoft news: When it initially said that Silverlight was a cross-browser plug-in, Microsoft meant that it would be running on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux only. However, Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash (Silverlight) has evolved very much since it was introduced, and a Beta development milestone is now available for Nokia’s Symbian mobile platform. […]

Traditionally, .NET developers using Web controls enjoyed increased productivity but at the cost of control over the rendered markup. For instance, many ASP.NET controls automatically wrap their content in

for layout or styling purposes. This behavior runs counter to the web standards that have evolved over the past several years, which favor cleaner, terser […]

Once a report library grows to a certain size there is always going to be common formulas which are needed again and again. Having ready access to them can save a vast amount of development time. My book started life as a notepad document which was a list of 25-30 formulas I used a lot, […]

Microsoft news: Mozilla is ceasing its browser-development work for Windows Phone 7 Series — no surprise, given Microsoft has no plans to further that platform. But Mozilla also has decided against developing a Windows Phone Series 7 version of Firefox, officials said via a blog post on March 22. Stuart Parmenter, technical lead of the […]

In the latest Microsoft news, Microsoft confirmed yesterday that it has slashed £50 off the price of the Xbox 360 120GB hard drive as it tries to clear stock ahead of the arrival of the 250GB SKU on April 16th. SKU Stands for “Stock Keeping Unit,” and is conveniently pronounced “skew.” A SKU is a […]