Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime is all about cloud solutions for small businesses, focusing on the core software services (Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Office Web Apps, and Microsoft Lync), and demonstrating ways you can create, manage, and lead teams effectively using the communications and collaborative online tools. This book [...]
Most of the developers are concerned about their application upgradation. They develop an application and after some period of time it seems there should be much more functionalities and features in that application which can be made available through the latest development environment. Then they have to migrate from their old development environment to the new system. [...]
Microsoft just announce the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP which supports developer to build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business logic and database tiers as a single logical entity on the Windows Azure Platform. This CTP release includes: AppFabric Developer Tools AppFabric Application Manager The Composition Model – a [...]
This post aims at explining the component model proposed by Microsoft, namely, Component Object Model (COM). This technology of Operating Systems enables software components to communicate with each other. The component model evolved from clipboards, which evolved to DDE. OLE 2.0 removed the defects in DDE and later OLE evolved into COM. To enable communication [...]
Microsoft’s Drew Robbins has just announced the availability of Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v.1.2 during today’s keynote at TechEd North America. They have demonstrated how to build a cloud application for windows phone 7 through couple of exapmles. Some of the latest feature of V.1.2 is as follows. Support and tooling for [...]
After getting peesed of with my College schedules and university exams, finally i got some time to spend on my blog. Since a month i am trying to learn Windows Phone 7 Programming and indeed so far im going quite well for which i did my hands dirty on virtual machines and hands on Labs. I got a [...]
Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new addition to the Visual Studio family, helps you to create business class application for Cloud as well as Desktop. With LightSwitch you can create custom applications for the way you do business. LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to build business applications that target Windows Client or [...]
Every software development has its stepwise procedure of Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, and its maintenance. And testing may be kind of many types like Black-box, White-box, Alpha, Beta, Unit, Milestone etc. Many of the development through Visual Studio 2010 needs to be tested before the actual product launch or distribution. Programmer has to make sure [...]
Microsoft made an announcement of Silverlight 4 RC availability at MIX10 now they have launched special training course kit for the download. The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 RC features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4.
Through MIX Microsoft has made the availability of Developer tools for Windows Mobile 7 application development. So what are you waiting for, Get started with the Windows Phone Developer Tools, Start creating today, and See your application in the Windows Phone Emulator.
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 as General Availability and its available on different versions like Professional, Premium and Ultimate. Checkout the VS2010 MSDN page for the download links. And to check which version is perfect for u, just download the comparison chart.
WebsiteSpark is launching officially in Ireland on Tuesday, October 20th at the Guinness Storehouse. WebsiteSpark provides web designers, developers, students, freelancers and anyone else who is interested software licenses, support and business resources to help them grow and succeed. WebsiteSpark will provide you the following software licenses for three years. After enrolling here, you can [...]
The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform including: Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services. After downloading the training kit, run the self-extracting executable to extract all of the [...]
New Training Resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007 Implementer : FAST: Analyzing ESP Search Trends using Query Reporting Framework FAST: ESP CJK Support – Part I: CJK Languages FAST: Unity Plugins Click here for additional implementer training resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007 Click here for sales resources on Office SharePoint Server 2007 Click her [...]
Microsoft has released the next version of Silverlight. Silverlight 3 include: major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity. Also, in order to fully integrate all the [...]
.NET version detector is a pretty handy tool in detecting the .NET version installed on your system and download the latest .NET version available. The current version of this tool can detect up to framework 4.0. Interestingly the tool also provides link to download SDK, framework and help you to navigate to the installation folder [...]
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback which characterize rich Internet applications. It is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of [...]
VS 2010 Beta 1, VSTS 2010 Beta 1 and. NET 4 Beta 1 is released and available for download. Now can now download Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 product portfolio and .Net 4 Framework. This also includes the functionality of some totally new products that will be included in Visual Studio Team System 2010 [...]
The v0.90 release of Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework which is also called as a Windows Bridge, is now live on Code Gallery. Features added in this release are DirectX – D3D10.1/10.0, D2D 1.0, DirectWrite and Windows Imaging Component Taskbar – Tabbed Thumbnail and Thumbnail Toolbar Some of the VistaBridge features added [...]
According to Dannawi, on Monday, May 18th, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Professional, Suite and Team Foundation Server) will be available to MSDN Subscribers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20th through Microsoft Downloads. more details on Visual Studio 2010 Get the Datasheet -This 5-page datasheet gives you an [...]
Garbage collection in Microsoft .NET common language runtime environment completely absolves the developer from tracking memory usage and knowing when to free memory. However you’ll want to understand how it works. This session will highlight how resources are allocated and managed and then provide a detailed step-by-step description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. [...]