Ruby in Steel 1.5 Leaves 'Iron' Age Behind
The newest version of Ruby in Steel, a Microsoft Visual Studio-based IDE for Ruby on Rails, is now available from SapphireSteel Software. The new 1.5... more »
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Release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 Released
Today Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2010) RC for MSDN Subscriber. It will be available for the General people on RC on 10th... more »
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RESTful proxy-less WCF clients for .NET, .NET Compact Framework and Silverlight
Use the same domain and interfaces classes across multiple client types with no copy and pasting of files, schema maintenance or proxy generation.
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Daily Dose - SAP CEO Suddenly Resigns
The CEO of SAP has suddenly resigned his post following an unfavorable year in earnings. Microsoft however, is having exceptional earnings and can... more »
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C# 4.0 New Features, Videos, Articles and Books
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I was collecting some learning material on C# 4.0 and stumbled across some useful videos, articles and documents available on C# 4.0. I am just... more »
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A marketing mistake: WCF Data Services & WCF RIA Services
There are some things that I just don’t understand, and the decision to name two apparently different technologies working in the same area using... more »
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Detecting User Inactivity (C#)
Some software, such as backup utilities, can use a large proportion of processor time and other resources. Often the user is given the option to only... more »
IE Flaw makes Local Files Public, and it can't be fixed
Blackhat demoes a new flaw in Internet explorer that can make your private files public.
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Two lesser-known features in .NET 4.0
Here's two features in .NET 4.0 which haven't gained much attention: MemoryCache and the new MSTest TestCategory attribute. Click here for a quick... more »
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Windows 7 Kills Battery, now Official
Windows 7 can cause irreversible damages to your laptop/notebook battery. Watchout.
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What's new in ASP.NET MVC 2.0?
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4.0 bring many new exciting features for developers. One of them is the improved ASP.NET MVC 2.0. This... more »
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Getting Started with SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3
Last year Microsoft shipped Expression Blend 3, and along with it the first release of SketchFlow. SketchFlow is a set of tools which allows designers... more »
DZone Tutorial - Microsoft Expression Blend Essentials (7 Part Series)
The following seven part tutorial explores all the essentials to help you get started with Microsoft Expression Blend. Joshua Eklund, Lead Trainder... more »
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How To Add Sounds To Your Software (C#)
This tutorial shows how to add sound effects to your C# application.
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Novell brings Microsoft code to Apple iPad with Mono
Novell is positioning its MonoTouch software development kit as a mechanism for building Microsoft .Net-based applications for Apple's new iPad... more »
10 ways to make Internet Explorer act like a modern browser
Like many other web developers, I definitely hate Internet Explorer, especially the version 6. At a time where new and powerful techniques as such as... more »
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LEN() function, trailing spaces and uniqueness
Recently, I was faced with the fact that I could not add the two values of VARCHAR type, which differ only in trailing spaces, in the column of a... more »
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Microsoft Announces CSS3 support for IE9
Yes, you read that right. Someone at Microsoft must have noticed that 100% of their users were spending 99.99% of their time on the internet (using IE... more »
Log In To Website Programmatically (C#)
In this tutorial, will show how to log into a website through code. I am going to use Twitter in my example.
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The Zombies on Your Network: IE6, the Browser That Will Not Die
Any business considering an upgrade to Windows 7 is already checking app compatibility for third party software and custom apps. But don't forget the... more »
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Top 10 features of WPF
In this article, we will be discussing the top 10 features of WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) which inspires many Microsoft application... more »
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State of VS 2010 Performance
Up until Christmas, I was blogging almost every day about the progress we’ve made on addressing the Beta 2 feedback that VS 2010 had significant... more »
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48 best free apps from Microsoft
When it comes to free software, the open-source community certainly has a monopoly on high-minded posturing and puffy rhetoric. Just take a look at... more »
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Fedora 12 vs Windows 7
After the grand launch of much awaited ?Windows 7?, on October 22' 2009 here comes Fedora 12, code names Constantine. In this story we will try to see... more »
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Setting up SQL Server with ASP.NET MVC
If you download ASP.NET MVC from Microsoft, install it and create a MVC website you might run into a couple of gotchas in regards to the database.... more »
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