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The Adobe Shadow Labs Team has been hard at work on the next version of their Shadow Labs release and it’s ready for download. The team states they have addressed all of the user issues that have been submitted from the community to date. Some of the fixes and updates include Support for Localhost URL, […]

Microsoft has announcement the addition and installation of both East Coast and West Coast US based datacenter options for their Azure infrastructure. This expands their overall coverage in the US from just San Antonio datacenter and the Chicago facilities to more than double their coverage. These are warehouses as big as any warehouse as you […]

Introduction jQuery and jQuery UI are quite popular JavaScript libraries amongst ASP.NET developers. jQuery UI provides several widgets and plugins that help you develop professional looking websites quickly and easily. Though ASP.NET developers have been using jQuery UI in their websites, one downside of the jQuery UI from an ASP.NET perspective is that it is […]

It’s the latest rage, if you have billions of dollars to spend. Just buy developers, give them free phones, free tools and promise them prime real-estate in the app store. Will it work, probably not, but in the end, Microsoft will have spent a lot of money trying. And its not that the Windows 8 […]

IKVM.NET, a new JTT (just-in-tine) compiler which designed to translate Java byte code into Microsoft MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) and much more. The new compiler also includes a static compiler which translates Java classes into .NET assemblies. IKVM.NET is also a .NET port of the OpenJDK class library. IKVM.NET is also compatible with Java 7 […]

As more and more people have started using the online services over the internet to fulfill their needs on a day-to-day basis (paying utility bills, e-shopping, net banking, etc.), there is another community consistently working to hack the websites for personal gains as well as for fun. So for the developers it is mandatory that […]

If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API.  Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development.  Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces a MVC style experience.  The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer […]

The Linux Foundation issued its semi-annual report this week and in it, included recognition for Microsoft as a bona fide Linux kernel contributor. With the Linux Foundation’s recognition of Microsoft as being a major contributor,  it certainly helps to heal the wounds of Steve Ballmer’s 2001 comments during the intellectual property battle that year when […]

Introduction With more and more web applications making use of jQuery and AJAX based techniques for communicating with the server, it has become important for any ASP.NET developer to have good grasp of jQuery AJAX techniques that can be used in ASP.NET. AJAX allows you to communicate with the server without requiring full page post […]

In a video, Microsoft has recently detailed the list of improvements that are slated for the coming release of Windows 8 touch hardware. Microsoft is introducing a new set of gestures that will make up the new Windows 8 touch language. Microsoft has engineered the all new experience geared to be in line with variety […]

The .Net framework 4.0 version is mounted with lots of new features, out of which the Parallel Programming using the Task Parallel Library (TPL) is the one gaining more interest. In this article I will write about the Task class under the namespace System.Threading.Tasks. The asynchronous operations scheduled through a Task class make sure that […]

Kendo Mobile UI now allows developers to write their code, just once and deploy it to any mobile platform including Android, BlackBerry and iOS. The Kendo UI framework, including Web for desktop applications and DataViz for desktop visualization widgets was created to aid developers with creating unified Web solutions using a customized experience for each […]