PDC09 Keynote Day 2 – Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops
Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX. Today Scott “The Gu” Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app... more »
Microsoft Proposes OData as de facto Web Data Protocol
Microsoft proposes OData as the web data protocol while Google uses GData. Microsoft invites Google to join forces with them in adopting OData. Will... more »
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Microsoft's Process Explorer - surprisingly good tool
Have you ever stuck on "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." error? Here's how you can deal with it.
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Microsoft Still Chasing the Competition with IE9
Serious work has begun on Internet Explorer 9, the next revision of Microsoft’s flagship web browser. That sounds like good news, right? After all,... more »
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Building Java Applications with Windows Azure
A very nice presentations from PDC 2009 - how to run tomcat on Microsoft Windows Azure.
10 Best Features of Silverlight 4
Yesterday, on November 18, 2009, at the Professional Developer’s Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft released a new version of Silverlight Beta 4.... more »
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Moving From Challenge to Opportunity: Microsoft Empowers the Future of Application Development
As developers face a rapidly evolving computing environment, Microsoft helps them create applications that can be deployed across a number of... more »
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PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie
Scott started talking about Silverlight 3 and its new features that shipped several months. Specifically, Scott discussed the SketchFlow tool for... more »
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IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine
The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE 9 is... more »
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IEBlog : An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
We’re just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9. Our focus... more »
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Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source
Microsoft has released part of its .NET Framework - the part for internet-connected smart devices - into the open-source community. The company... more »
A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements
Microsoft kicked off Day 1 of its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia. Here are the highlights of... more »
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Windows 7 Hotkeys
A cheat sheet of all the Windows 7 keyboard combinations
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Don Dodge: Thanks Microsoft, Hello Google
Thanks to all the fine people at Microsoft. It was an interesting ride. Four years, 11 months, and 20 days, and I enjoyed every one of them. Well,... more »
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Microsoft open sources .NET Micro Framework
Microsoft has 3 .Net flavors, the complete stack, the .Net Compact Framework and the .Net Micro Framework for extremely resource-constrained devices.... more »
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Power Commands in Visual Studio
A great addition to Visual Studio is an application called PowerCommands which has been developed by Microsoft. PowerCommands is a set of useful... more »
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Using Google Closure Compiler with ASP.NET - Compressing Javascript Files on-the-fly with ASP.NET and Closure Compiler
Closure Compiler comes with a Java based command line tool and a RESTful API. RESTful API works great and very fast. API can be used with a MSBuild... more »
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IQueryable: Sorting, Paging, Searching and Counting
A good post on how to use reflection sort, page, search and count a IQueryable Linq2Sql query.
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Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!
Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo, a personalized version of it. Here it is, patent... more »
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Microsoft adapts SDL to agile development
Microsoft has announced that it is evolving its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process to accommodate agile development, but experts stress that... more »
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Application Settings (C#)
There are various ways to hold application-wide and user-specific settings externally to a program. One is to set up application settings in a Visual... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/10
Firefox turns 5 and Sourceforge changes its name. In other news, Silverlight is coming to facebook and VMWare's View 4 is coming next week.
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Migration from ASP.NET WebForms to ASP.NET MVC
Migrating ASP.NET WebForms design patterns to ASP.NET MVC
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