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Windows 8 will now be bundled with a new integrated version of Adobe Flash. In addition, the Metro-style browser will offer support for Flash on a limited number of sites. This of course is astounding since only two years ago, Microsoft had declared that the future of video on the web would be powered by […]

Think the Kinect Xbox 360 is amazing? Then you’re really going to love with the folks at Microsoft Research have developed. The new gesture based Kinect motion controller makes use of a little known theory called Doppler Effect which allows the unit to detect gestures in-air within the vicinity of the device. What’s even more […]

Introduction It’s about time programmers were recognized for all of their hard work. OK, that probably doesn’t make much sense. As a programmer, you are used to working until 4 AM in the morning. Sleep. Waking up at 6AM and go to your office again. Programmers are used to it. We are tough. We can […]

Microsoft’s VP of Team Visual Studio, Jason Zander, stated today that Microsoft has now added a list of much needed improvements to the Visual Studio 11 line of development products all aimed at making the lives of JavaScript developers much easier. The next major release of Visual Studio, Microsoft flagship development suite is not only […]

Every web developer has a good impression of jQuery for performing the client side operations, doing asynchronous javascript calls and traversing through elements on a web page due to its stability and ease of use. Similarly, a library called jQuery UI, which works on top of the jQuery library providing more in-built features has been […]

The new Windows Azure toolkit will provide developers with the ability to use the cloud to more quickly deploy their applications on the major mobile platforms. The toolkit will leverage the cloud to simplify the complexity of supporting multiple devices. As a common back-end, developers can use cloud services to share common requirements like device […]

This new assessment tool includes a list of capabilities including the ability to assess an IT environment’s readiness to deploy SQL Server 2012 as well as private clouds and more. The MAP is just part of Microsoft’s new, no-cost “solutions accelerator” family of tools designed to track your IT environments infrastructure costs by delivering accurate […]

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced that Microsoft has worked with the OFA community to include Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capabilities in the beta version of Windows Server 2012 (formerly known as Windows Server “8”). This includes RDMA support for remote file access with Server Message Block version 3 (SMB3) and a new kernel […]

By following this video tutorial, you can create an easy-to-use event calendar/scheduler with DHTMLX Scheduler for ASP.NET MVC within just 10 minutes. An event calendar is created in C#. Watch the video:

Learning by example is a great way to get up to speed on new coding techniques. Microsoft has delivered a ton of examples available for download to help you see concrete illustrations of specific features of the new Metro style apps. You can download single files for specific languages such as C++, C#, JavaScript and […]

As HTML 5 has become more popular among web developers recently, another popular web client framework jQuery is also proving to be up to date in providing its support for HTML 5. In this article I will be discussing the data attribute features of HTML 5 and the support offered by jQuery with a few […]

Starting with Microsoft’s typical Patch Tuesday updates released on May 8th included the new Silverlight 5.1, or is it 5.2. We really don’t know, but so far the 5.2 version that is available for download, appears to be a simple typo. And for all those fans of the Silverlight plug-in for your browsers, web apps, […]