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PDC09 - Parallel Push Takes Another Step Forward
Darryl K. Taft, covering the Microsoft PDC for eWeek, interviews S. “Soma” Somasegar, senior vice...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/23/2009
Silverlight 4 Unveiled at PDC09
Last week at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Scott Guthrie unveiled a Beta version...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/23/2009
Bye Bye .NET Services! Hello AppFabric
Windows Azure Platform .NET Services (Service Bus and Access Control Service) is now called Windows...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/22/2009
ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too
Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/22/2009
PDC09 – Interoperability @ Microsoft
The Interoperability Team was busy this past week at the PDC gathering all the interesting bits on...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/21/2009
IaaS, PaaS, and the Windows Azure Platform
One of the uses of Cloud Computing is to provide an environment in which organizations can run their...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/20/2009
Keith Pijanowski on Windows Azure
Barton George, cloud computing evangelist at Dell, recently ran into Keith Pijanowski, Platform...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/20/2009
Architect Cafe - Designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure
Title: Cloud-computing architecture – designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure. November...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/20/2009
Architecture Cafe – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3
Title: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/20/2009
Adding Unique Windows 7 Technical Features to XP and Vista Applications
Jason Zander put together a reference application “Image Viewer” that shows how to enable some cool...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 11/20/2009
The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity
Roger Sessions, author of Software Fortresses and Simple Architectures for Complex...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/20/2009
Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure
The Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP contains a series of new...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/17/2009
PDC09 - Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework
Peter Galli reporting form PDC09… Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC)...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/16/2009
Visiting the Microsoft Retail Store in CA
I plan to do a lot of blogging about Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference and Windows...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/16/2009
Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications
The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes several sample applications that can help you get...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 11/16/2009
Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform Release 3.0
As part of the ongoing collaboration with Facebook, Microsoft released a very exciting new developer...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/15/2009
Your Own Little (Web) Slice of Heaven
Sure, she may not know the difference between a Snake bite and a Gigabyte, but even Dolly Parton...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/15/2009
ARCast.TV – The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com
ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com ‘Twas the week before the holiday season… in this...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/15/2009
Windows 7 + Surface + Interknowlogy == Healthcare Innovation
One of the most important and fastest growing forms of electronic medical records (EMR) today is...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/15/2009
Posting your WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Search to the IE8 Gallery
Jim Cirone details how to get your IE8 WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Seach add-on listed in the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/15/2009
Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft just released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/14/2009
Test and package .NET apps for Linux with Visual Studio add-in from Novell
ArsTechinca has an article that details a new commercial product from Novell that is an add-in for...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/13/2009
Windows Azure Platform TCO/ROI Comparison Tool
The folks from Alinean have developed a very comprehensive and detailed TCO/ROI comparison tool for...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/13/2009
Bing Adds Wolfram | Alpha Capabilities
Bing has unveiled some work they have been doing with Wolfram|Alpha. Started in May 2009 by noted...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/12/2009
Firefox takes Lion’s Share (44%) of All Browser Bugs
The report is out - Firefox accounted for almost half of all browser vulnerabilities in the first...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/10/2009
Facebook Toolkit for .NET Developers
Microsoft has just released a Facebook SDK that enables .NET developers to quickly and easily...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 11/10/2009
Dell GIS Helps Its Customers Reduce Costs Through Solutions Built on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
With new power management features of Windows Server 2008 R2, such as Core Parking, Dell’s service...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 11/10/2009
Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3
Title: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/08/2009
Windows Marketplace for Mobile - The Race to Market Challenge
Windows Marketplace for Mobile helps developers transform their ideas into profitable new business...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/08/2009
NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight
NBC and Microsoft are getting the band back together for a full Silverlight experience around the...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/08/2009
ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System
In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell, VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/08/2009
SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper by David Chappell
ASP.NET is a platform for creating Web applications while at the same time it belongs to the larger...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/06/2009
Microsoft Holding BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure
We are hosting a number of startups in the Atlanta Microsoft office that are interested in moving...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/06/2009
Don Box - Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M
Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and has a rich history in the general purpose...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/06/2009
Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services
Dave Thompson, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Online Services, is an industry veteran with 30...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 11/06/2009
Webcast: Designing Multi-Tenanted Applications on Windows Azure
November 25, 2009, 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Speaker: Joseph Hofstader Abstract: Cloud computing is one...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/05/2009
Azure Blob Caching – Life on the Edge
Microsoft has just announced the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN). This is a new network...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/05/2009
ORM Comes to SQL Azure!
It was only a matter of time before Object Relational Mapping tools were extended to work with SQL...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/05/2009
The SQL Azure Tools Keep Coming!
SQL Azure is now feature complete for it’s launch at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/05/2009
What Makes Windows 7 A “Killer” OS
Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld in a recent blog post compares Windows 7 to its predecessors, XP and...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 11/05/2009
Concerned about Windows Azure?
Windows Azure provides an incredible new platform for implementing applications either totally in...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/05/2009
Azure - Helping a Non-Profit to Help Others
ITNAmerica is a non-profit organization with a very important and truly unique social...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/05/2009
10 Things to Hate About the iPhone
Well, it looks like the shellac may be finally wearing a lttle thin on that shiny new object in your...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/04/2009
Visibility and Control in a Service-Oriented Architecture
Services alone do not constitute a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Capabilities must be...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/02/2009
What is the Windows Azure Platform?
Keith Pijanowski has written a great overview on Windows Azure. In his article he focuses on the...
Author: Wzack Date: 11/02/2009
TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users
Still stuck in the 90’s when it comes to source code control? wondering what’s coming in the...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/02/2009
Two Roundtable Discussions on Windows 7 Application Compatibility
Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich hosted two roundtable discussions with Microsoft and...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 11/02/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Gallery - RegEx Editor
Regular expressions provide a concise and flexible means for identifying strings of text, such as...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/02/2009
MSDN - Developer Learning Center for Beginners
New to programming with the .NET platform? Wondering where to start in the myriad of starter options...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/02/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course – Channel 9
Wondering how to keep-up with all the new features and tools coming down the pike in Visual Studio...
Author: jbarnes Date: 11/02/2009