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As it turns out, the new Surface Pro is not what a technician would call a repair-friendly machine. The fact is, its officially one of the least repairable devices on the market today. We thought the iPad was hard to fix, but in a teardown of Microsoft’s tablet-laptop hybrid, iFlixit gave it a solid and […]

While most developers who build apps for the Android today use Java,  a new way to create apps using Microsoft’s familiar C# language is now available thanks to  TallApplications BV’s Dot42, a new tool developed just for this purpose.  TallApplications BV’s Dot42 is a compiler that will allow you to code apps using Visual Studio […]

Launch day is always an exciting time in the world of technology and those who forgot to preorder are usually left waiting in line or searching the Internet for their beloved new devices. The same rule held true, seemingly for the new Surface which was just released. But was the problem really with the demand […]

Microsoft’s new Surface based tablet comes loaded with Windows 8 Pro and a solid-state drive promising much faster boot-up and over all read/write performance not to mention significantly improved battery life over the power hungry motor driven drives of earlier laptops leaving both Apple and Android tablets eating dust, but is it a tablet, or […]

Microsoft’s new ETB tool enables users to easily view ETL files and live trace sessions while allowing the users to create custom ad-hoc queries. Microsoft SvcPerf can also be used via the command prompt allowing the user to dump raw events or perform custom queries using LINQ over traces. SvcPerf provides support for dynamic filters […]

Among several new features, Microsoft’s updated Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 3 release provides resolution for a previous build problem which occurred after the creation of a new empty C# console application when using the Reverse Engineer Code First option. Similarly, the updated release delivers a solution where the System.Data.Spatial feature is used instead of […]

The word of Microsoft comes to us from Brussels, Belgium where one of Microsoft developers spoke at this year’s FOSDEM conference. According to the source, Microsoft is taking, what they call a “meaningful look” at producing a Linux version of the world’s most popular office productivity suite for the open-source operating system. This puts us […]

In the world of building client consumable APIs, security is always a priority. Let it be a web service, WCF or a remoting service, they cannot be vulnerable because they directly expose the operational methods to the outside clients. In this article I will concentrate on the WCF service and take you through the top […]

Microsoft has just unveiled their new modern-ie dev center bringing loads of new resources and tools geared towards helping developers to embrace the modern standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and of course their own Windows 8 platform as well as the new Internet Explorer. Currently in beta, the new modern.ie includes web page scanning tool […]

Just a few months ago Microsoft had announced a new Iaas (infrastructure-as-a-service) option for their Windows Azure cloud offering making the software giant highly competitive with Amazon EC2 SaaS, the current industry leader. Now the business offering data services is growing in leaps and bounds and Microsoft is high on the list. SiSense the Tel […]

As promised Microsoft will release their final update for Windows Phone 7 at the end of this month, bringing Microsoft previous phone OS closer to the look and feel of their current phone based operating system. Microsoft is continuing to push for developers to migrate their WP7 apps over to the new WP8 OS as […]

Microsoft offers up their new Office suite with an annual subscription including an abundance of online storage for all your files in the new cloud-focused suite. Microsoft’s new Office Home Premium 365 went on sale today for a cool $99.99 for a 1-years subscription of the modern Office suite. Bundled with the deal is the […]