Category: Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…

Generating WCF/WebService proxy class using SvcUtil.exe

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Introduction This article  prepared based on my recent explorations on creating generic WCF/WebService proxy class using SvcUtil.exe tool which is part of .NET Framework Runtime. SvcUtil.exe helps me in creating a single Proxy Stub class for my WCF/web service, which can be directly reused in any project when necessary, without the need to Add Web… Continue reading

My Experiment with Windows Phone 7

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My Experiment with Windows Phone 7 Note: This article is a modified copy of a mail I passed to my team and removed all references to our work from the content. Since this is for information purpose only, I thought it would be helpful for the Developer Community out there. Recently few week back, I… Continue reading

Windows Home Server 2011 Release Candidate now available

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Microsoft announced the availability of the Release Candidate for Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (formerly Windows Home Server Code Name “Vail”). Affordable and easy-to-use, Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS) is the ideal solution to help families keep their important digital files and PC’s automatically backed up, organized, and accessible.

Released: Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Update & Other Updates

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There are few updates from Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Update, Windows Azure, & Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers – RTM Refresh. Check it out. Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update January 2011 Update to the Windows Phone Developer Tools providing bug fixes, a new emulator, and utilities. This update… Continue reading

Learning Silverlight and WCF RIA Services

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I came across a nice blog on Silverlight and WCF RIA Services by Mike Taulty from Microsoft UK. Thought of sharing it with you. Just read through it in free times. Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (1 – Overview)  Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (2 – Services)  Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (3 – Client)  Silverlight… Continue reading

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express FINAL

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Microsoft has released the FINAL version of it’s so called lighter version of IIS 7.5 called as “IIS 7.5 Express”. Which makes developers to utilize the features of IIS 7.5 in WindowsXP and above Operating system environments. Great work Microsoft!!!! Right on time.. IIS 7.5 Express enhances your ability to develop and test web applications… Continue reading

Released: ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM

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Microsoft has released the final version of ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM (Release-To-Manufacture) on 01/12/2011. ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The framework encourages developers to maintain a clear separation of concerns among the responsibilities of the application – the UI logic… Continue reading

New On Microsoft Download Center – 01/12/2011

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Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs This series of Hands-On Labs is related to the guide “Developing Applications for the Cloud on the Microsoft Windows Azure™ Platform” available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff966499.aspx. Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs This series of Hands-On Labs is related to the guide “Moving Applications to… Continue reading

Introducing Mono for ANDROID(.NET Application Development for ANDROID?)

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Today I was just in a hurry to just go through what’s interesting out there in Technological world. I came across MonoDROID, from Mono&Novell. MonoDroid is a development stack for using C# and core .NET APIs to develop Android-based applications using .NET. dotNET on ANDROID cool right?. There is also MonoTouch which a C# &… Continue reading

[Recent Releases] Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 KB2162169 – BETA, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 Beta

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This is a quick listing on some of the software updates and released happened from Microsoft in this recent weeks. So that you all can keep updated. Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – December Update Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows… Continue reading

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