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This past spring brought much controversy and developer outcry over announcement that Microsoft had made the decision not to offer an Express 2012 edition for Windows Desktop, and now Microsoft has released their Visual Studio Express 2012 ToolKit for Windows Desktops. This is the free version of the development toolkit for writing Windows 8 desktop […]

As Mozilla continues to keep Firefox competitive and relative in the commercial browser world, they also must tackle the increasing burden of the all popular interactive webpage being deployed and expected to properly display on the plethora of browser options and scripting engines. Expected early 2013, FireFox will usher in an all new JIT or […]

Indeed it’s true. Microsoft has somehow managed to prod the Windows Phone development community this week by announcing that the upcoming Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Program will only be available on a limited basis to those developers with published apps. And  the full SDK will only be released once the final release of  Windows […]

Designed to provide Windows Azure Mobile Services, without a huge learning curve, Microsoft introduced new tools. Microsoft clearly acknowledged that many mobile app developers may not have the time or the inclination to learn how to create and use cloud-based backend services. The first public preview of Windows Azure Mobile Services is designed to provide […]

Microsoft is releasing select and very interesting new design samples for Windows Apps incorporating Kinect controls in them. With Kinect coming to Windows desktop apps, this means that developers who have not yet developed or designed gestural controls are about to open a new and fascinating preverbal can of worms. Gestural controls offer a whole […]

Microsoft president of Server and Tools Business sector, Satya Nadella, has successfully led his team to providing the company’s overall vision for their new server OS. Windows Server 2012 is now available to all after four longs years of testing and development and ushering in an era of all new cloud operating system and continuing […]

In the earlier versions of .NET framework, writing code to perform asynchronous IO operations was not possible and hence the IO operations had to be synchronous. The problems that the developers were encountering with the synchronous approach were: 1. Unresponsiveness of UI – if the application is a thick client and had to perform file […]

Microsoft earlier this year had promised developers delivery of their Windows Phone 8 SDK some time “this summer”. Unfortunately for developers, Microsoft announced today on their Windows Phone Developer Blog that the projected release date has now moved out to sometime “later this year”. The new estimated release date for the SDK is now scheduled […]

Microsoft SharePoint 2012 SDK, designed for use with three different SharePoint configurations including SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview, SharePoint Online, and SharePoint Server 2013 Preview. In addition, the documentation now included with the SDK has detailed descriptions of the technologies used to develop and program in SharePoint. The documentation also includes configuration details for the server […]

Microsoft’s .NET era as developers know it is starting to come to an end. And while the .NET platform isn’t going away, it’s focus is changing to Microsoft’s preferred server environment which offers a much broader platform which includes the Windows 8 client, the Windows Runtime application programming interface, or WinRT API, and of course […]

Bundled with the new ASP.NET MVC 4 offering is the open-source ASP.NET Web API designed to streamline the development and deployment of RESTful services. Unlike WCF REST or ASP.NET AJAX with ASMX, ASP.NET Web API is a new platform versus simply being a bolt-on technology that is would be intended to work in the context […]

Microsoft is been working diligently to unify development of games for their major operating systems including Windows, Xbox and Windows Phone. Unity Technologies has announced they will support the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms moving forward thus providing gaming developers with a means to effortlessly bring their development work to many different OS’s. […]