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This change in policy comes due to significant feedback from the service’s community asking for the ability to be open about such personal details, as well as their nationalities Up until now, Microsoft’s policy has been to bar any discussion of sexuality in profiles or gamertags, which prevented those who wanted to publicly identify as […]

Introduction The article targets the creating of a standalone autocomplete library (pure XAML) that can be clubbed into any Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application and used with minimal efforts. At the point of writing this article, there are no equivalents in the market that deliver the real-time or cached Autocomplete functionality to data controls. XAML, […]

Much of Microsoft’s investments center around “cloud” services, or online computing provided to users from hosted data centers. “Especially in light of the tough difficult macroeconomic times that we’re coming out of, we chose to really lean in and double down on our innovation,” Turner said However, Turner said Microsoft will still have a significant […]

Targeted at heavy users of social networks, the phones are being developed by Microsoft under the code name Project Pink Microsoft primarily competes in the wireless industry by selling its Windows mobile software to multiple handset makers, but it has been losing market share to Apple Inc, Google Inc and others.

Microsoft has kept a relatively low profile in China since Google announced its decision to potentially withdraw from the market over censorship issues and following an attack on its systems that it believes originated in China. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer previously said his company had no plans to pull out of China, indicating it […]

Introduction By default LINQ uses deferred query execution. This means when you write a LINQ query it doesn’t execute. LINQ queries execute when you ‘touch’ the query results. This means you can change the underlying collection and run the same query subsequent times in the same scope. Touching the data means accessing the results, for […]

The software vendor said that the number had dropped by about 1,000 sites compared with figures Microsoft spat out a year ago when more than 3,000 web portals needed “Compatibility View” support to show up on an IE 8 user’s screen. Thinking in terms of web-scale, there are billions of pages written specifically for either […]

At the DatacenterDynamics conference in New York on Wednesday, Microsoft data center general manager Kevin Timmons outlined some prototype work his unit is doing to design its next generation of data centers, in collaboration with Microsoft Research. The company is field-testing something Timmons calls IT PACs, or IT preassembled components, which are small, self-contained units […]

In December 2008, Microsoft surprised a lot of people by releasing an iPhone app — Seadragon Mobile. A month later, they ensured the move wasn’t taken as a joke or gimmick by launching another app, Tag, into Apple’s App Store. Now, they have a few, including an app for Bing. And starting today, they’re doing […]

The official launch date for Visual Studio 2010 is barely a month away. So Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is cranking up the upgrade deals to further entice developers. No surprise then that the offers kick in on April 12, the day that the latest version of Microsoft Visual Studio has its official coming out. “Today, I’m […]

Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is a syntax used to describe the look and feel of the elements in a web page. CSS allows a web developer to separate the document content – the HTML, text, and images – from the presentation of that content. Such separation makes the markup in a page easier to […]

I hate sub reports and always consider them the last resort in any reporting solution. The negative effect on performance and maintainability is just not worth the easy ride they give the report writer. Nine times out of ten reporting requirements can be met using a little forethought and planning (and a solid understanding of […]