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With the upcoming release of Windows 8, developers have the opportunity to create Metro and WinRT applications, but there is still an issue to be dealt with: fragmentation. While Windows 8 offers a unified OS for both Windows Phone and computer users, previous versions of Windows will be in use for many years, and that’s […]

There are several different methods of monetizing Android apps including ads, pay services as well as a paid version of the app itself. Often there is a need to create a lite version of your application, which includes reduced functionality and/or ads. Depending on the design of your application it may be possible for a […]

Intersoft Solutions this week announced the release of its ClientUI for LightSwitch, which ships with over 15 data entry controls, including masked input, currency editor, slider bar, calendar control and date time picker. The extension controls ride on top of ClientUI’s Silverlight controls, which enable developers to use the same features in LightSwitch that they […]

This week Binarymission announced the release of its UIControlSuite .NET, a collection of .NET components for platforms including WinForms, WPF .NET, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. This release includes ScrollBar .NET for WinForms and 54 sample C# projects that work across .NET controls. Many of the current controls have been enhanced, including the DatePicker control […]

Many in the IT industry have predicted the end of the PC era, and some believe that we have already entered it. Others believe that we are in the middle passage–that while the countdown may have begun, we continue to carry multiple ways of accessing information, and still cling to our old, outdated technologies while […]

They are acronyms that most IT professionals are familiar with: IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service). What are the advantages of each over the others, and what is their value over more traditional services? Because of today’s high speed networks, the functionality provided by modern […]

Introduction More and more web applications are harnessing the power of client side features of a browser. To that end HTML5 has many features to offer web developers. HTML markup, JavaScript and CSS have become more powerful and flexible than ever before. ASP.NET Developers must be well-versed with HTML5 features because all of the leading […]

Many companies are beginning to look at Windows Azure services as a viable, economic option. Microsoft is no exception, and this month they began moving their Photosynth immersive camera app to the Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service. Microsoft already hosts many of its own legacy apps, but they aren’t hosted on Windows Azure–yet. The […]

With Windows 8, Microsoft is beginning to think outside the box once again, and developers are embarking on a new frontier. With Windows 8 comes the Windows Runtime (WinRT), Metro Style apps and a whole new opportunity to create apps using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, along with more traditional languages such as C#, Visual Basic […]

This week Motorola Solutions announced RhoElements, an HTML5 application framework that is designed to enable businesses to more easily and economically create and deploy web apps on Motorola Windows Embedded Handheld and Win-CE devices, as well as the newly announced ET1 Android enterprise tablets. Motorola RhoElements is targeted towards Motorola developers, and leverages Motorola’s PocketBrowser […]

This week it was announced that Microsoft will be lowering the pricing on its Windows Azure storage service, with smaller cuts coming for the masses, and larger discounts for Microsoft’s volume buyers. A general discount of one percent per gigabyte was announced. The way it was explained, from 15 to 14 cents a month will […]

Introduction Good aesthetic design mandates that applications show the users the status of any operation via some sort of progress indicator. While Windows Phone 7.0 did not have any built-in support for progress indication, Windows Phone “Mango” has built-in support for progress indication. It includes a control called ProgressIndicator, which can be used to indicate […]