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The idea of a home security using the Kinect, Azure and Windows Phone 8, actually came out of a last ditch effort to develop a sweet opening Key Note at TechEd 2012 India. Out of it came a usable concept. Simply by placing your connect Kinect device in a location to which you want to […]

Its well-known that most people underestimate just how much of a leap forward IE9 actually is, in terms of internet browser technological advancements. IE9 is indeed distinct among browsers in that it offers both users and developers the best of both worlds including support for advanced features, support for the latest standards like CSS3 and […]

Now a days, most of the best websites are created with the standard WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, so on and so forth, all being  open source and by definition, free. Running those PHP-based applications on a Windows IIS web server requires serious mods. All this while Microsoft has been streamlining their process of installing and configuring […]

Microsoft announced an update to its SkyDrive service Monday and it looks like “Files on the Go” appear to be the theme of this new release. With the new update from Microsoft comes several new features including the ability to integrate the drive with Windows Explorer and Apple’s Finder thus making the drive an extension […]

DocFlex/Javadoc is both a multi-format Javadoc Doclet and a programming tool for rapid development of Javadoc-based Java API documentation generators in various output formats, which by their quality and complexity are equal or exceed the standard Javadoc. CONTENTS Key Features DocFlex Doclet + Template Sets Template Designer Doclet API as virtual XML document Abstract Formatting […]

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a distributed system technology, which can be customized to any level as far as I have seen. A WCF application can be customized right from the protocols it uses until the size of the message. Also it allows you to host the service on multiple end points, each using a […]

The BitNami team, developer of the BitNami library is proud to announce the release of their all new easy to deploy web applications. This popular library of open source web applications on the newly released Amazon Web Services Marketplace includes the web application and the other software it requires, such as a web server, language […]

The long-awaited trial over whether Google infringed on Oracle’s Java patents and copyrights in its creation of Android began in a federal courthouse in San Francisco during the week of April 16. As eWEEK’s Chris Preimesberger reported, Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison appeared to be comfortable testifying April 17 in his company’s lawsuit against […]

Introduction ASP.NET Web Forms became popular due to the wide range of data bound controls such as GridView, DetailsView and ListView. The earlier versions of ASP.NET, however, were a bit rigid about how data was bound to these controls. Most of the time developers had to use one or the other data source control (SQL […]

By Flaviu Marc (mesajflaviu) Introduction The last available version of Windows RichEdit control is 4.1. However, the MFC framework still uses older versions of this control. For example, MFC 6.0 uses RichEdit control 1, which is very obsolete and even newer MFC versions that shipped with Visual Studio 2005-2010 use RichEdit control 2 or 3. […]

Microsoft has another spin off company, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. With Jean Paoli, a veteran open source developer, at the helm, this bold move gives the new company a some serious open source cred with the community and will more then likely offer Jean Paoli the flexibility he needs […]