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This week brings the release of Security Ninja’s Windows Phone App Analyser, an application that enables developers, and other interested parties, to evaluate Windows Phone 7 .xap files and automatically decompile the .dll files within them. Based on the static security analysis tool Agnitio, the Analyser provides a way for developers to enhance the security […]

Microsoft’s release of Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 last week was the last beta version of the software the company will release before the finished version becomes available to the public later this year. The latest beta included NuGet integration enhancements and bug fixes, and signals that the timing is looking favorable for the final […]

Exception Handling in Java is just the same as it is in real life. Let’s say you are driving from Princeton to New York. 1.How would you handle the case where in your car meets with an accident. 2.Can you do anything to avoid break failure. 3.Can you do anything if an earth quake occurs […]

Two leaders in the IT world, Microsoft and Google, are working to incorporate gamification into two of their respective products, Visual Studio and Google Maps, as part of a trend that illustrates a forward leaning interest in technology that is used to increase the adoption of said technology. Microsoft is doing their part by releasing […]

Amazon this week announced a new arrangement with Microsoft in which they will offer Windows users the opportunity to try out Windows Server 2008 R2 on an EC2 micro for up to one year. Amazon sees the platform as a way to create test environments, build AWS apps even just to host a website. The […]

A cloud-based mobile app solution provider, FeedHenry, this week announced the first commercial enterprise mobility solution which enables the creation of hybrid apps using Node.js as an integrated backend-as-a-service. FeedHenry studio allows developers to create hybrid apps using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS, technologies they are already familiar with. The CEO of FeedHenry, Cathal McGloin, discussed […]

What is Lucene.Net? Lucene.Net is an exact port of the original Lucene search engine library, written in C#. It provides a framework (APIs) for creating applications with full text search. Lucene.Net can be downloaded from http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/download.html. Currently it is undergoing incubation at Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Why Use Lucene.Net? You can use Lucene.Net to add […]

The new Metro-style user interface (UI) that Microsoft has been discussing will become very familiar to everyone once the next iteration of the its operating system, Windows 8, is released. Developers need to begin to consider how they will be using the Metro-style UI within their apps, and how they will be different from traditional […]

This week SendGrid, an email deliverability software provider, released details about a partnership with Microsoft in which the SendGrid email infrastructure package will be included with Windows Azure. The agreement will initially provide Windows Azure customers with a free email infrastructure package that includes 25,000 free emails per month. Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of its […]

Although most developers are aware that Microsoft is a player in the cloud services arena, it’s anyone’s guess if they will be among the top “cloud players” in 2012. If they are to be a key player in the cloud industry, which service or feature will they be providing with Azure that no other competitors […]

Microsoft has been steadily working on the upcoming release of its Mango OS, otherwise known as Windows Phone 7.5. Along with the standard release, observant developers have noticed another version, Mango Commercial Release 2, that recently appeared on the Nokia Lumia 900 spec list. According to Microsoft, the Mango Commercial Release 2 is actually Mango, […]