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Introduction With Windows Phone Mango, Microsoft introduced over 500 new features, big and small. One of the features it introduced was programmatic access to the alarms and reminders feature on the Windows Phone platform. Alarms and reminders are two types of scheduled notifications, both of which reside in the Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler namespace. The difference between an […]

Microsoft promising a “fast and fluidly” like experience with SkyDrive embedded in Windows 8. SkyDrive is not new to Microsoft. Its been around for awhile and claiming 17 million current users and a storage capacity of up to 10 petabytes of data, so SkyDrive has a little bit of a kick-start should the new version […]

The Secret Service API was jointly designed by the Gnome keyring and the KDE KWallet developers in order to have a standard way for desktop applications to access and manage stored passwords in both Gnome and KDE environments. In this article I will show you how to generate java code for the Secret Service API […]

Google launched their Technology Preview of the Chromium browser and DART Virtual Machine will be included. DART, designed by Google, in part to improve limitations of JavaScript. According to Google Dart is suitable for large scale Web applications, it improves web programming and it will facilitate better performance. Dart Engineers stated that DART is an […]

AllWebMenus is a web menu builder that requires no DHTML or Javascript experience to operate. AllWebMenus fully supports Joomla 2.5 and CSS Menu and UL/LI Menu implementations for Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. Check out all of the features here: http://www.likno.com/allwebmenusinfo.html

The Free Software Foundation wants you to have a way to avoid, what they call, The JavaScript Trap and to do so, they want JavaScript Developers to insert license tags into their JavaScript instance thus allowing web page viewers to have a way to identify JavaScript that is not free. The JavaScript License Web Labels […]

Applications like Windows Services and Web Services often have a demanding workload and sophisticated extensibility needs. Managing a workload on the .NET platform often means utilizing the Task Parallel Library (TPL) classes. .NET extensibility capabilities span many components, but increasingly popular extensibility features are found in the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Bringing TPL and MEF […]

Introduction Windows Phone Marketplace has stringent guidelines that an application needs to adhere to if it is to be accepted. Since the Windows Phone marketplace has been established, quite a few applications had to be resubmitted as a result of missing the criteria. To help developers succeed the application submission process the first time, Microsoft […]

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a feature introduced in .NET Framework 3.5 which, helps in querying various data sources like the in-memory objects, SQL databases and XMLs. LINQ to objects is the most commonly used one across most applications. It performs the query against an in-memory collection in a sequential manner. In .NET Framework 4.0, […]

Microsoft’s next version of their office productivity suite software will be distributed to a select group of testers later next week, while the public beta release is reported to arrive to testers later this summer. Microsoft is making a bold move with this release being the first time the software giant will update all platforms […]