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This week Microsoft has been working to prepare a new persistent Virtual Machine for its Windows Azure cloud platform. The new VM will be available for customers who currently host SharePoint, Linux and SQL Server, and will be available soon. A recent report announced that Microsoft is constantly working to allow its customers to be […]

Recently a Microsoft exec that oversees Windows Phone software design discussed how the Windows Phone OS was reworked as a response to the iPhone. Once the iPhone was released, the then-current Windows Phone OS was already obsolete, and was not going to be able to compete. As Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore told the New York Times, […]

Service Discovery In WCF or the .NET Framework web services bonding between the client and the service is actually created only when the services are discovered and their proxy reference is added to the client. If the URL of the hosted service is a fixed one, i.e., if it doesn’t change over time the service […]

Microsoft this week released update build 8107 for the Windows Phone 7 platform, providing solutions to problems such as the disappearing keyboard, location privacy bug and voice mail notifications. Additional features of the update include enhanced Gmail syncing and a fix for an issue with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. No fix was provided, however, for […]

This week Iiobo Ventures announced the release of the ESE Toolkit, which was created so that developers can more easily use the Windows Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). The ESE Toolkit includes a C++ and C# library of classes along with a sample app. According to the release provided by Iiobo Ventures, the libraries included with […]

This week it was announced that Mouser will be a provider of .NET Gadgeteer solutions, including those from GHI Electronics, such as .NET Gadgeteer FEZ Spider Mainboard, the FEZ Spider Starter Kit and other compatible modules. The FEZ Spider Mainboard is a feature-packed .NET Gadgeteer-compatible device that provides developers with access to the standard .NET […]

In 2011, it was internet giants Google and Apple that grabbed the mobile spotlight, but 2012 is poised to be a different story with a different giant. Microsoft is taking huge steps lately with its Windows Phone 7 OS, and the coming year may once again be enormous for both Microsoft and mobile. Microsoft’s Windows […]

Introduction Most of the blogs display a set of tags or keywords in the form of a Tag Cloud. A tag cloud presents the keywords in font sizes proportional to the number of blog posts having that tag. If you are using some blogging website or using some open source blogging engine you already have […]

Introduction While Windows Phone platform brought a new and much improved mobile operating system from Microsoft, the first version did not have the platform maturity its rivals enjoyed at the moment. However with Windows Phone Mango, also called the 7.5 version of the Windows Phone operating system, Microsoft brought in about 500 changes from the […]

Introduction Output Caching is a very common and popular performance improvement technique for ASP.NET applications. In the previous versions of ASP.NET the output caching mechanism of ASP.NET was rigid in terms of cache store. For example, developers didn’t have any flexibility if they wanted to store the output cache in a disk file instead of […]

Panda Security Company this week released a beta version of its Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, a cloud based security service that was designed to protect endpoint devices such as PCs, server and corporate laptops that are remotely managed. The Panda Cloud Office Protection service can protect and connect severs and devices, preventing them from […]

In this past year many developers have attemped to jailbreak Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, but were only able to access a few features. ChevronWP7 was the first crew of developers to create this jailbreaking concept for the Windows Phone 7 OS. After some encouragement from Microsoft, developers have come up with a tool designed to […]