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Earlier this month Microsoft announced the release of its Dynamics AX 2012 enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite. The release includes new functionality that will encourage third-party customization, and will eventually be released to 36 countries. Dynamics AX 2012 also features interoperability with other Microsoft software including Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 […]

A satirical video called “Hitler and the Downfall of Silverlight” recently appeared on YouTube. The spoof discusses the future for developers who are still focused on developing Microsoft applications, and showcases the concern that developers have expressed about the company’s abandonment of Silverlight in favor of HTML5 and JavaScript. .NET developers in particular have been […]

Premise I hope by the end of this article you will have a good grasp on the current draft of upcoming web standards. This includes HTML5, CSS3 and newer JavaScript updates. I’m going to assume that you are up-to-date on current web standards. If you do not know HTML5 or XHTML, CSS, or JavaScript then […]

The upcoming Windows Phone 7 Mango update will include voice-to-text functionality, Microsoft announced this week. This week’s announcement was welcomed by developers hoping to include voice commands and transcription in their applications. By using Microsoft’s Tellme cloud instead of the Windows Phone 7 handset for the speech recognition functionality, Microsoft has essentially removed the computational […]

This week Kofax released its Atalasoft DotImage 10 software developer’s toolkit (SDK) for Microsoft .NET. Using the functionality provided by DotImage 10, developers can cost-effectively streamline the usually tedious process of enabling images within cloud-based apps. The founder and GM of Kofax’ subsidiary Atalasoft, William Bither, discussed the release, stating that “Building Web based applications […]

Perceptions are everything in the media, and Microsoft is no exception. Recently, some developers have expressed concern that Microsoft seems to be leaning heavily on HTML5 and JavaScript as the defacto standard for future Windows development, and moving away from .NET. The truth is, .NET is going to be around for a long time, like […]

This week Microsoft announced the release of its .NET Gadgeteer, a small toolkit that is similar to the popular Arduiono toolkit that allows hackers to create robots and other hardware and software projects using a pre-assembled parts kit. Developers will be able to use Visual Studio for hardware programming using camera widgets, screens and heat […]

By using LightSwitch, developers are able to create full-featured applications without a mind-numbing amount of hand coding. Combine that with the data visualization functionality provided by Infragistics’ NetAdvantage plug-in for LightSwitch, and sophisticated graphing and charting can be easily added to those apps. The simplicity of use is one of the advantages of using NetAdvantage—even […]

Many developers have expressed concern over Microsoft’s apparent move towards HTML5 and JavaScript, and away from former darlings ASP.NET and Silverlight. While their concern is valid, they should keep in mind that Microsoft has always had a great relationship with John Resig, the creator of jQuery, which is already integrated into the Visual Studio and […]

RSS stands for “Real Simple Syndication” and is used for publishing updates of frequently updated content. It is a concept that allows syndication of content between two places. RSS is used in a significantly large amount of industries from banks to publishers, businesses to news, and many more. RSS files are XML based files that […]

One of the chief concerns of any business considering the use of cloud services is security and resilience. By using a global network of secure data centers which conform to strict international standards, Microsoft is able to provide peace of mind to businesses making the move to the cloud. Physically, even people with access to […]

The market is hot, and Microsoft just officially made it into the smartphone market charts with a one percent marketshare. Android is just under 50 percent, with the iPhone taking 19 percent, and Blackberry, Symbian and WebOS rounding things out. Although the smartphone market itself has grown by 73 percent in the last year, Microsoft’s […]