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The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is used to extend the functionality of .NET applications, but it is often misused by developers. What does the future hold for the next version of MEF, and what does it mean for developers? The whole concept of MEF is built around extensibility. By leveraging MEF as the standard mechanism […]

This week Motorola announced the release of its RhoElements, an enterprise mobile web application framework. The announcement was expected since Motorola announced the acquisition of Rhomobile, a cross-platform mobile application development platform, in July of this year. The RhoElements framework is based on HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3, and provides developers with support for HTML5 features […]

Introduction With the growing popularity of social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, more and more websites are integrating them in their pages. Facebook and Twitter Helpers for WebMatrix allow you to easily integrate the respective applications into ASP.NET MVC Razor based websites. Helpers are basically ready pieces of code that allow you to […]

Often developers are thrown for a loop during the application development process, and spend hours searching for a solution to their particular problem. One developer’s experience with the .NET Client Framework was less than positive, but you may learn something useful from his problems. By using what amounted to a less than full-featured version of […]

Although Microsoft was showcasing its full line of software and services at the GITEX Technology Week conference last week, cloud computing seemed to take center stage. Office 365 is Microsoft’s cloud service which serves up Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. Microsoft’s SQL Server database, which is currently being called Denali, was […]

Blocking executing code and periodically checking some value before proceeding is commonly done in asynchronous and parallel programming. Often blocking and checking is combined with some sort of timeout. SpinUntil, a static method on the SpinWait structure; combines blocking, waiting, and timeouts. It’s new in the .NET Framework 4.0. SpinUntil simplifies many different scenarios involving […]

After 12 months of a cloud speed test, Microsoft’s Windows Azure has come out on top, ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and 12 other competitors. An application performance management vendor, Compuware, conducted the tests using its CloudSleuth testing tool. After performing 515,000 tests for a year’s worth of data ranging from August […]

Next week Microsoft will be releasing its regular Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates, which will feature two critical updates and six important update. Affected software for the critical updates includes Internet Explorer and .NET Framework/Silverlight. The CTO of Qualys, Wolfgang Kandek, discussed the updates, stating that “Top priority should be given to the remote code execution […]

Research from IT job website Dice.com indicates that there is a shortage of .NET developers across the United States. Reasons cited for the lack of .NET developers include specialization concerns, and a lower salary for .NET programmers compared with other languages, such as Java. As Dice’s Managing Director Alice Hill put it, “More than 10 […]

Brazilian developers are eagerly awaiting the release of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, but according to Microsoft, they will have to wait until September 2012. The Redmond company says they expect AX 2012, which is part of Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, to become available by that date. The AX 2012 software was initially presented […]

The market for mobile apps today is quite competitive and as such you need ways to pull your app out of the pack. Aside from starting with a great design, eye candy such as animations is one way in which apps differentiate themselves from one another. Traditionally, adding animations was a fairly complex process; however, […]

When Visual Studio 11 is released, one feature it will no longer include is macros, which were used for crating ad-hock extensions to the Visual Studio IDE. To make up for the loss, Microsoft will allow fully compiled extensions to be created, and new project templates have been added to simplify the process. Macros in […]