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The goal of this paper is to look at virtual hard disk performance and providing in-depth performance data on Virtual Hard Disks. Comparisons are generally made between native, Window Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. When comparing Windows Server 2008 and Window Server 2008 R2, no virtual machines are used unless explicitly stated.

Introduction The promise of Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) is delivering the boiler-plate functionality required to build a professional Windows C++ application with minimal effort while allowing .NET developers to customize aspects of MFC behavior where it makes sense. This article demonstrates how MFC 10 delivers on this promise, showing how the new document auto-recovery behavior […]

Microsoft Update: With Microsoft having so much problems with older versions of Internet Explorer, we can only hope that Internet Explorer 9 will be much more hack-free. Internet Explorer 9 is said to have many improvements. Another so-called great improvement is the compatibility with older web pages and performance. We’ll just have to wait and […]

Microsoft Update: There is an old saying that goes: "A picture tells a thousand words". With Microsoft having the lost the plot on advertising their products in the past, one can only wonder whether the latest Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 Windows Phone 7 Series advertisement will do the trick. Microsoft’s previous attempt at ads were […]

During last week’s MIX10 conference; Dean Hachamovitch was the leadoff speaker for Tuesday’s keynote, representing the Internet Explorer team. He wasted no time in letting everyone know he was there to talk about Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), HTML 5, standards and performance. It is clear Microsoft cannot and will not completely abandon the use of […]

Introduction Infragistics, one of the premier third-party control providers for the .NET framework has sufficient controls that adhere to my common tasks. However, as we say, “One size does not fit all”, the current version too did not fit my requirements. I had to extend the Infragistics Controls with added functionality, and ease of use. […]

Introduction The ASP.NET AJAX Library greatly simplifies the process of adding AJAX functionality to a web page. The primary means for adding AJAX functionality is the UpdatePanel. At first glance, the UpdatePanel appears to eliminate the need to hand code JavaScript and in many scenerios, this is true. However, there are scenerios where it is […]

Microsoft plans to compete head-to-head with Apple in the market for mobile application downloads, or in Microsoft’s case – Windows Mobile applications. Copying Apple’s strategy this time, Microsoft said it intends to launch an online store through which customers can purchase and download Microsoft Windows mobile applications and Windows Mobile .NET applications for its forthcoming […]

Microsoft News: Windows Mobile 7, Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace can remotely revoke Microsoft Windows Mobile application licenses Body Speaking at a MIX10 session about Windows Phone 7 Series architecture and Microsoft Windows Mobile .NET development Wednesday, Microsoft’s Istvan Cseri mentioned that the Windows Phone 7 Series and Microsoft Windows Mobile .NET Marketplace – the […]

OData, the Open Data Protocol, is Microsoft’s alternative to Google’s GData. If you’ve heard Microsoft use the codename “Astoria” or talk about ADO.Net Data Services in the past, these two codenames are now under the larger OData umbrella. Microsoft defines OData as a protocol that builds on top of HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and […]

Good news for .NET developers, the CodePlex Foundation is moving forward on its goal of expanding open source participation in projects from its sponsor Microsoft. On Wednesday, the CodePlex Foundation announced the Systems Infrastructure and Integration Gallery, its second project gallery, which will serve as a top-level grouping for open source systems projects that the […]

Introduction .NET Compiler generated warnings (Code Analysis warnings) messages may not be meaningful in the development cycle, but once the code review is done you may need to suppress these compiler generated warning messages. To achieve warning message suppression you can either use In Source Suppression (ISS) allowing .NET developers to write code for warning […]