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Tasks and the Task Parallel Library (TPL) will soon be entering the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) vernacular. Upcoming .NET language features will be replacing the outdated Asynchronous Programming Model (APM). WCF 4.5 will include Task based options. However, a WCF developer needn’t wait for .NET 4.5 to leverage TPL. TPL Tasks shipped with .NET 4.0 […]

Introduction Seeking confirmation of some important action, such as deleting a record, is a common practice in web applications. There are two common approaches to seek confirmation from the end user. In the first approach a dialog box is displayed to the user seeking his consent to perform the delete operation and in the second […]

This first article in a series devoted to how C/C++ programmers play with fire without knowing it, will discuss how programmers often attempt to explicitly call a constructor. Programmers are lazy creatures. That’s why they tend to solve a task using a minimal amount of code. There’s nothing wrong with this approach, in fact, it’s […]

Microsoft first introduced Windows 8 Server back in September as a preview aimed at helping developers and their hardware partners in order to prepare both new and existing applications and devices. The response from those communities, and hundreds of developers as early adopters have been extremely optimistic. So now is the time for you, and […]

Microsoft today announced the upcoming launch of the Small Business Competency within the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN). This new Small Business Competency is dedicated to showcasing the expertise of partners that provide the most current Microsoft technology solutions to help small businesses with their unique business needs. With a special emphasis on cloud services, the […]

The Beta release of the revamped system is first being introduced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the planet’s largest cell phone trade show, and borrows some of the look of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 software for Windows 8.

As entity framework has become an essential part of modern day data driven applications and ASP.NET MVC applications, it is important to know the bits and pieces of it. In this article I will explain about the validation techniques that can be used in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 to validate the model data. ADO.NET Entity […]

In a new paper, “Trustworthy Computing (TwC) Next,” Charney encouraged industry and governments to develop more effective privacy principles focused on use and accountability, improve end-to-end reliability of cloud services through increased fault modeling and standards efforts, and adopt more holistic security strategies including improved hygiene and greater attention to detection and containment.

Jinha Lee, an MIT Media Lab Ph.D. student and a research intern at Microsoft, worked with Cati Boulanger (a researcher at the company) on a new type of computer that seems like a stepping stone to something much greater. Lee describes the see-through 3D desktop in greater detail on his personal blog and in summary, […]

Introduction Quite often an application has an opportunity to extend its existence on the market but must first meet new requirements, such as being able to run service mode. Imagine that you have developed a huge MFC based server application for years. You’ve already put a great deal of effort into teaching it various tricks […]

The purpose of this article is to analyze the complexity of algorithms written using a top down approach. Most of the problems can inherently be described using top down recursion. The complexity of an algorithm, however, makes it far from usable in practical scenarios. This kind of algorithm shows exponential complexity and might need some […]

Building something out of spare parts and scrap will usually make it work, however, it’s not going to be the most beautiful or streamlined solution. This is reminiscent to how developers have been building their Web applications for years now. The day has finally come where we can install Node and insert the massive ecosystem […]