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Recently developers have discovered Micrsoft’s plans for the release of the next iteration of Mango, called Tango, as well as another update to be called Apollo, in 2012. Windows Phone 7.5, which is code-named Mango, will be succeeded by Tango, which will be focused on bringing the Mango flavor to more economical smartphones. Windows Phone […]

Overview Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed Mango, added around 500 new features over the first version of Windows Phone platform. One of the features is the ability to schedule tasks and execute them through background agents. They can execute even when the application is not running in the foreground. There are two types of scheduled tasks […]

A new Windows Phone 7 App adds achievements to Microsoft Visual Studio by adding a bolt-on achievement platform. Advanced functionality in this app will provide features that enable developers to write a class with both public and user retrictions. This Visual Studio bolt-on achievement platform is still not yet released in beta, but expectations for […]

Microsoft this week announced that it will be partnering with Hewlet Parkard in an effort to continue pushing forward advancements in cloud services. As part of the joint effort, Hewlet Parkard has developed a cloud-based development and migration service to accelerate the Azure cloud. Developers running this new Windows Azure cloud-based application will develop, test […]

Open Data Protocol (OData) is built on Web standards like HTTP and AtomPub. Creating data on an OData Endpoint is simply an HTTP POST that contains an AtomPub payload. Leveraging WCF HTTP capabilities, WCF Data Services implements OData for .NET code. To fully exploit OData with WCF Data Services there are classes and interfaces a […]

Qt Development Frameworks recently announced that they have released the latest version of Qt, their cross-platform app and UI framework for Windows, Linux and Mac, along with a new version of Qt that works along with Visual Studio tools. Qt was designed to enable developers to create apps and touch-enabled UI across multiple platforms. In […]

Big data came out in a big way in 2011, but in 2012, it’s about to grow like it’s on steroids! According to industry experts and venture capitalists, 2012 will become the year that Platform As A Service (PaaS)–and big data in particular–goes from the minor leagues to the big leagues. Legacy players in the […]

Open source mobile developers have a new tool available from Adobe this week. Adobe’s PhoneGap is an open-source mobile development framework that creates apps using HTML5, and it now supports Windows Phone 7, along with providing support for Android, iOS, and BlackBerry. The new release contains OSX, which will cater to developers so they will […]

Introduction Accessing Profile Properties using ProfileBase Indexer The most basic way of accessing profile properties is by using ProfileBase class indexer. Have a look at the following piece of code: [HttpPost] public ActionResult CreateUser(CreateUserData data) { MembershipCreateStatus status; Membership.CreateUser(data.UserID,data.Password,data.Email,data.Question,data.Answer,true, out status); if (status == MembershipCreateStatus.Success) { ProfileBase profile = ProfileBase.Create(data.UserID); profile["FirstName"] = data.FirstName; profile["LastName"] = […]

Odyssey’s Mobile Management System is a signature platform that runs Apple iOS, Android, and Windows Embedded CE devices. The company has just released its newest mobile management system, which is called Athena. Athena provides a fully intergrated solution for Microsft System Center Configuration Manager. This release will add many new features, such as device location, […]

Introduction Today’s world is all about instant updates. Users check their mobile gadgets the minute they vibrate indicating a new mail, instant message, or Facebook update. To support such scenarios, Microsoft offers the Microsoft Push Notification Service, which provides a reliable method to send data to your Windows Phone device. For an application to be […]

The world of cloud computing has been growing rapidly for the last decade, and Microsoft has been actively proclaiming its dedication to the cloud for some time. With its Office 365 productivity suite and Windows Azure cloud app development platform, the company is in a good position to take the lead in what is still […]