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Over a billion people on the planet use Microsoft Office to get more done at work and at home and so while you can indeed buy it, and you were hoping to pay a small price for standalone apps that would let you create and edit documents, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Word, Excel and Powerpoint […]

These code samples demonstrate the following development tasks: How to open an external application, such as Microsoft Word. How to open a command prompt in the specified folder, run the command, and redirect the command output to the hosting application. How to open a web browser with a search query. From the Download section of […]

Microsoft’s new “Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Starter Kit 1.0,” is now available in the “preview” stage and is being presented as tool that should not currently be used development in production environments as it is in the preview stage. The new VDI kit is also designed to complements the current management console and wizards used with […]

It has been a long time since DirectX has been updated. DX10 was released in 2006 and DX11 was released in 2009. It has been roughly five years since DirectX has had a significant update and many feel it is incredibly overdue. With AMD, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm on the band wagon as all are […]

Providing a more affordable version of Microsoft’s existing cloud-based Office 365 program and being rebranded as Office 365 Personal, Microsoft has announced that the offering will be as low as $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year and will similar to the 2010-launched Office 365 Home and Office in functionality. The new and affordable Office […]

Microsoft OneNote is an application that allows users to collect different forms of information such as images and documents in files, share these items with others and add notes to the items and Microsoft is releasing four major new updates to the software which includes a version of OneNote for the Macintosh, a free version […]

Microsoft is scheduled to announce the release of the software giant’s flagship Office Suite as an apps for Apple’s iPad on March 27. Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella will take part in his first public press conference starting at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time) that day. Microsoft’s scheduled press conference is an […]

Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2014 is now officially RTM, (Released to Manufacturing) with general availability scheduled for April 1. As with all Microsoft SQL Server updates, they are important since it is the world’s top database management system in terms of sales and this update is no different. It introduces the new In-Memory […]

The Surface 2 LTE will be available for purchase in the US via the Microsoft online store and brick-and-mortar locations, as well as from Best Buy. The device will ship unlocked, and users must activate the LTE capability by signing up for an AT&T data plan or associating it with an existing AT&T plan. The […]

This tutorial demonstrates the following development tasks: C# and .NET How to perform basic string operations. How to use regular expressions with the .NET Regex class. How to retrieve the current date and time using the .NET DateTime class. Windows Forms: Windows Forms naming convention. How to control the appearance of text in the controls. […]

Most published C# books and tutorials illustrate C# programming concepts with console applications. However, console applications have very limited use in writing practical Windows applications. It is more fun to learn C# with Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). I have chosen to use Windows Forms for these tutorials because the development process with […]

This article introduces you to Big Data, Apache Hadoop and MapReduce jobs. We will also learn how to create MapReduce jobs using C#. What is Big Data? The current pace at which the IT industries are gathering data provides the huge challenge of storing and processing them. Their sizes are growing by zetta bytes and […]