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This article takes a look at the basics of MVC Design Pattern, discusses ASP.NET MVC Framework and shows how we can implement error handling in ASP.NET MVC applications. Before we begin delving deep into the details of ASP.NET MVC concepts and error handling using ASP.NET framework, let’s take a quick tour of the Model View […]

This week Evoluce announced that is has produced its own software developers kit (SDK) for Microsoft’s Kinect. Currently the Evoluce Kinect SDK is available for download at no cost, and a commercial version will be released eventually as well. Using Evoluce SDK for Kinect and Windows 7, developers can create non-commercial apps that provide a […]

With the shift from proprietary technologies to web development standards such as HTML5, many companies are beginning to change their strategies ahead of the curve. This week reports have surfaced which indicate that Microsoft may be getting ready to end development of its Silverlight multimedia platform so it can more fully focus on HTML5. Silverlight […]

This week Microsoft and Joyent announced that the initial stable build of Mode.js for Windows servers is available. The Node.js JavaScript engine is the largest of the technologies that the Redmond company has incorporated into its .NET products, and comes with many benefits for developers. Node.js is actually a server-side JavaScript execution engine, but developers […]

Developers who are eager to get into creating services which access cloud data will be interested in Toad for Cloud Databases, a service designed to simplify cloud database functions including migration, browsing and editing, generating queries and reports and more. Toad for Cloud Databases supports most of the databases that are in use on the […]

If you plan on integrating your Android application with some form of online service than you will probably need to be able to utilize JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data. While XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is widely used and very popular it may not be the best solution for mobile apps. If you have the choice, […]

All eyes were on Microsoft recently at a Windows Phone 7-themed event, as they discussed the Samsung Focus Flash and Focus S. Many developers, however, were more interested in hearing about the alignment of the launch schedules and product development of Windows and Windows Phone 7. As the VP of the Windows Phone Management Program, […]

Developers have been upset at the thought of using the C# programming language for Windows Phone 7 game development since it was initially announced–but Microsoft recently announced that Windows Phone will support native code, but only after Windows Phone 8 is released. According to various reports, Windows Phone 8 will be released in mid-2012, and […]

Many of the largest IT companies which provide public cloud service to the masses, including Google, IBM and Oracle, are getting a clue from larger cloud services companies such as Amazon, and are joining the “big data” analytics bandwagon by using the open source Hadoop/MapReduce project. In 2009, AWS released the first cloud-based Hadoop/MapReduce apps, […]

Recently, ZDNet hosted a webcast that focused on the future for Microsoft’s assorted server products, including Windows Server, Windows Azure, SQL Server, SQL Azure, Office 365, upcoming Office 15 servers, System Center and others. The look at the Microsoft Server Roadmap is available on demand for interested developers, free with registration on the website. All […]

Introduction Today, mobile applications hardly persist data on the devices. They get their information from the cloud. A typical example is an application that streams YouTube videos or downloads data to work on. Whenever there is a large file to work on, the user experience can be dismal if the application developer does a synchronous […]

When one thinks of Microsoft Kinect, typically the Xbox 360 and gaming come to mind. Since Microsoft released the Kinect for Windows SDK, however, developers have come up with some novel uses for Kinect. This week they announced the release of Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2, and it is now available for download. It […]