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Explorations into "M"

Having freshly converted both the Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo SDK VPC images that we received at PDC 2008 last month to VMWare images, I figure it's time to...

0 replies - 864 views - 11/11/08 by Ted Neward in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 3 Wrap-Up

Announcments from Microsoft Research The PDC 2008 Day 3 keynote was presented by Rick Rachid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. Eight different...

0 replies - 970 views - 10/31/08 by alashcraft in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 2 Wrap-Up

Windows 7, Office 14, Live Services, Visual Studio 2010 Tuesday’s first keynote focused on several different Microsoft products and technologies: Windows 7,...

0 replies - 1239 views - 10/29/08 by alashcraft in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 1 Wrap-Up

Ray Ozzie took center stage this morning at the Day 1 Keynote at PDC 2008 and everybody knew he had at least one surprise up his sleeve. He teased the audience...

0 replies - 1837 views - 10/28/08 by alashcraft in News

Microsoft Vision on Software + Services

Industry TrendsLooking at software development and solutions today then it is easyt to identify at lest 5 industry trends that the industry is gravitating to:

0 replies - 982 views - 09/22/08 by guntherlenz in Articles

Microsoft Visual Studio - Oslo

The recent announcement that Microsoft is joining the OMG is a major step to provide modeling solutions at different abstraction levels. Furthermore, the...

0 replies - 1727 views - 09/12/08 by guntherlenz in Articles

Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Released: More Controls, Streamlined Setup, Improved Start-up

The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for...

0 replies - 2418 views - 08/27/08 by guntherlenz in Announcements

Silverlight A Flash Competitor Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch

So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is more a competitor of Flash than...

0 replies - 1831 views - 07/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice - Part 2

Welcome back! In Part 1 of this tale, we'd successfully configured a WCF client and an IIS-hosted service to communicate via MSMQ on the same machine. But...

0 replies - 2673 views - 07/22/08 by tomhollander in News

Silverlight's Fate

While Microsoft is busy churning out the newer versions of Silverlight and we are all learning to cope with plurality and continunal changes in the RIA world,...

1 replies - 2013 views - 05/02/08 by Shashank Tiwari in Blogs

Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date--New from O'Reilly

As per the O'Reilly press release, now you can design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, Microsoft's second release of the...

0 replies - 1230 views - 03/24/08 by Meera Subbarao in News

What Does it Take to Be a Good RIA Platform?

Yesterday, I had a very interesting blog debate with a guy named Martin Beeby. He was arguing that Silverlight would eventually crush Flex because Adobe is...

1 replies - 1687 views - 03/15/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Microsoft Giving Away Development Software to Students

Dreamspark is the name of the Microsoft initiative to give students free developer tools so "you can chase your dreams and create the next big...

1 replies - 1176 views - 02/19/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in Tips and Tricks

Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo: the Real Story

So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...

0 replies - 12770 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News

Microsoft & .NET Titles by Apress, Manning, O'Reilly and InformIT

There are several ways to keep yourself updated in the ever changing world of IT, be it Java or .NET or any other technology; we use online forums, web sites,...

0 replies - 3765 views - 02/02/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles