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Unlike the iPhone’s convoluted, and mostly ambiguous application approval process and other platforms that may have lacked or no specifics for their respective app store, Microsoft will provide a middle ground, emphasizing that the firm will set guidelines and will make the process as transparent as possible. Microsoft has benefit of time and experience–it saw […]

Microsoft has confirmed comments made at MIX10 that Windows mobile 7 Series devices won’t be able to cut and paste between applications – apparently users don’t want it and even if they did the in-built key-phrase-detection technology would make it redundant. It is amazing that Microsoft says users don’t want it, it is unbelievable that […]

Microsoft is building six large data centers in North America, Northern Europe, and Asia to support its cloud computing initiatives in the word’s major economies, said Matt Thompson, an 18-year Sun Microsystems veteran until a year-and-a-half ago, when he became Microsoft’s general manager, developer and platform evangelism for the Azure cloud. “We don’t want to […]

Visual Studio 2010 which is due to release soon comes with a series of changes when it comes to Visual C++. In this article I will talk about some of them, arguably the most important ones: the build system and IntelliSense. In order to show the changes I will create two simple projects, one in […]

Each server-side Web control in an ASP.NET Web Forms application has an ID property that identifies the Web control and is name by which the Web control is accessed in the code-behind class. When rendered into HTML, the Web control turns its server-side ID value into a client-side id attribute. Ideally, there would be a […]

Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows mobile 7, the next-generation mobile-phone platform from Microsoft, is set to offer a great value to music fans: every phone will basically include the complete functionality of the Zune HD. Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone program management vice president, on Monday confirmed that the Zune HD’s wireless sync will be carried […]

After a content rich day full of Microsoft Windows Mobile 7, five questions kept popping up concerning Windows Phone 7. What follows are the various questions ( not necessarily listed by importance ) and possible answers provided by Charlie Kindel, who’s spearheading the Windows Phone 7 development charge. Q: What development languages are supported on […]

Microsoft has an interesting challenge at a conference like MIX10. The event, now under way in Las Vegas, is aimed at an audience of Windows Mobile developers, who are packing into conference rooms for deeply technical nuts-and-bolts sessions on new programming tools and platforms. But there’s a second, larger audience looking over their shoulders. This […]

Introduction Multithreading can be challenging. Using a lot of threads can make an application much more difficult to debug and buggier. The Parallel FX Library was created to make your life a little easier. Now the features that were in a separate download are part of the .NET Framework 4.0, and they can add a […]

On Monday, Microsoft unveiled its new Silverlight Analytics Framework at Mix10, its annual web developers conference in Las Vegas, and it revealed support for six web analytics solutions, including PreEmptive Solutions, which offers code protection, instrumentation, and performance analysis across a variety of application types, including Silverlight. Most important in all of this, is the […]

Since Microsoft announced its general strategy for Internet Explorer 9, 4 months ago, rumors have started to do rounds. Questions like Will IE 9 be “more compatible”?, will IE 9 be more secure? Especially the last question is vital, because lately not a week has gone by when soem sort of IE flaw wasn’t discovered […]

As you may or may not know by now, MIX is an annual event for designers and developers to learn about Microsoft’s broad web platform and tools. Designers and developers will learn about Microsoft’s broad web platform and tools that help bring together the clients, servers and cloud services needed for creating great rich web […]