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This week Telerik announced the release of its RadControls for Windows Phone 7 Mango devices. RadControls supports the features and user interfaces (UI) of the latest Mango release, and includes new MessageBox and PolorChart components. The functionality that is provided by RadControls enables developers to immediately begin using Mango UI controls. Until this release, the […]

Introduction Most applications have some sort of support for storing user preferences or application state. Typically, this is done in a settings file or the registry. However in the case of Windows Phone platform, there is a restriction to what operating system components a user application can access. Windows Phone application supports the concept of […]

Many developers use APIs for the development of their website and mobile applications, but APIs aren’t without their own share of problems. They need to be updated and managed like any other aspect of a website or business, and a new website, Layer 7, is an API portal designed to do just that. The CEO […]

News about the Windows Phone 7 Mango update has been coming from Microsoft in bits and pieces, and this week was no exception. At the Gamescom 2011 conference this week Microsoft announced that Mango will include additional Xbox Live functionality, including the ability for users to download add-on content for Live Arcade title. A Live […]

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 users have always tended to be early adopters of new technology. A recent study has shown that approximately four percent of Windows Phone 7 users are already running the Mango update on their devices. From the study, one percent of those users are running Mango Beta 2, and the rest are […]

Back in February 2010, Microsoft filed a patent for “streaming storage”, a concept that describes an operating system which boots up using cloud storage. The streaming storage patent provides a glimpse of what the future of Microsoft operating systems may hold. The patent itself is as follows: “Various aspects of the subject matter described herein […]

Introduction Hello again.  If you have read my previous article about creating an application for Facebook, you most probably have noticed that the application sample might not be working anymore. Why? Well, because that application was built on the REST API, which is being deprecated by Facebook and replaced by the GraphAPI framework.  Not to […]

This week Magic Software announced the release of its uniPaaS 2.0 application framework, which enables developers to create and generate fully compliant .NET applications. uniPaaS is used to create rich internet applications (RIAs) on IBM i, Windows, Linux, and Unix servers. The uniPaaS 2.0 server runtime was rewritten in .NET, and the Windows Forms .NET […]

Beginning in October, the price of Microsoft’s budget Windows Azure cloud pricing will be slashed by 20 percent. Along with the price change, Microsoft will be changing the “extra small” designations, and will instead by using “small-compute hours” going forward. The old offering, “Extra Small Instance” was priced at $0.05 per compute hour, and was […]

Introduction While today’s mobile devices have processing power comparable to some desktops, it lags on one front – screen real estate. Physical keyboards now no longer in vogue, the touch screen keyboard has become the norm. Since touch based keyboards have to compete for screen real estate, it makes sense to have the keyboard render […]

After receiving many requests for code samples from developers, Microsoft this week added code samples to the GitHub code repository. The code examples focus on the integration of data from SkyDrive, Messenger and Hotmail. Mobile developers will appreciate the new mobile client samples which integrate user data into apps written in Silverlight and Objective C […]

This week Microsoft announced a new blog called Building Windows 8 that is devoted to the development of the upcoming Windows operating system. Developers are hoping to see some of the most hotly debated topics discussed on the blog, such as the new user interface and decision to abandon the “traditional” Windows desktop. The president […]