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Many online shops have already placed their faith in Microsoft’s Azure Platform as a Service, but the latest updates may come with unexpected surprises in the form of additional fees. A feature called server side in-memory caching boosts the performance of hosted .NET apps–but it’s a service that comes with extra costs. Another new aspect […]

For a while, it wasn’t Microsoft, or Mozilla or Opera that had the most up-to-date, whiz-bang web browser, it was Netscape. If you were interested in trying out the latest web technology, you used Netscape Navigator. If Microsoft has had its way and bought Netscape in 1994, we may be browsing the web today without […]

Any solution built on WCF must define three components address (A), binding(B), and a contract (C) (ABC). Address is the Endpoint URI. A sample WCF Data Service address follows: http://localhost:8000/Data Often included in the address are items like protocol, port number, and a path into the Endpoint. Binding determines how data is encoded and transmitted […]

This week Nokia and Microsoft announced plans to give developers 25,000 new Lumia 800 smartphones running the Windows Phone OS. Microsoft hopes to entice up to 100,000 developers in the next eight months, which is how long Nokia will be giving the phones away. Nokia said they plan to begin giving away the phones immediately. […]

Windows Vista is a bit of a thorn in Microsoft’s side–but Windows 8 is a totally different animal than Vista. Microsoft has taken some lessons from Apple, as well as learned some lessons from its Vista mistakes, and its upcoming operating system, Windows 8 and accompanying Metro UI, reflects those improvements. In today’s computing world, […]

Currently, Microsoft Windows is the leader in the operating system industry, and the same can be said for Microsoft Office in the productivity suite arena, and Microsoft SharePoint is an obvious leader in the file sharing platform area. If current trends are any indication, however, Box.net may just take over the space currently occupied by […]

This week’s update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM includes new social networking and cloud services functionality designed to enhance the customer relationship management platform–largely designed to square off against one of its largest competitors–Salesforce. As Brad Wilson, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Product Management Group’s general manager, said in the announcement, “By bringing together new social-collaboration capabilities in […]

Introduction Developers today are giving away their applications for free. Yes, you heard it right. Free! Zilch! Nada! Why, one may ask, would someone want to give away their application for free after all the hard work they have put into it? They would do it for advertisement revenue. Even though the initial return on […]

The Roslyn Compiler’s Service APIs, which are registered with MEF, can be used to create Visual Studio extensions. By implementing specific interfaces and using MEF-style attributes that match, Visual Studio developers can take advantage of Roslyn. A developer can use the Code Issue extension, for instance, to write their own compiler warning and error messages. […]

This week Factual.com announced the release of its Resolve API for location-based services. The Resolve API is an entity resolution API which completes partial records, matches one query against another, and works to de-duplicate and normalize location data. By using the Resolve API, developers can tell the API know the information they already know about […]

It was recently announced at the SQL Pass 2011 conference that Microsoft will be including support for the Hadoop framework in its SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft Azure. The Hadoop framework supports distributed applications which are data intensive, and those apps can process, analyze and store big and unstructured data. Many online companies are already […]

When one thinks of CAD developers or engineers working on projects, typically one thinks of the high-end software and hardware they would be using. Much as one wouldn’t expect to see those type of programmers using low-end software tools, you also wouldn’t expect professional web app programmers using basic text editors–but they often do. With […]