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Microsoft pushes embedded to the cloud
News Software giant outlines cloud strategy surrounding embedded systems in move expected to impact device makers, developers and users, says executive.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software engineering/development, Microsoft Corp., Video Surveillance, Embedded System, Asia, Cloud computing, Server, Dallas, Microsoft Developer Network
Developers get boost for multicore apps
News Chip giant Intel unveils a suite of new tools that aims to help developers engage in parallel coding, for a future where every machine is multicore.
Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Tool, Quad-core, Developer, 3D, Environment, software, processor
Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA success
Techguide There are a lot of service-oriented architecture efforts going on out there, but with no sense if they're delivering or not.
Tags: Web services, SOA, Gartner Inc., Business Process, Joe McKendrick, Microsoft Visual Studio, blog, analyst, application development, ROI
Microsoft to fix critical hole in IE
News Microsoft said it would be releasing security updates this week for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer and a moderate vulnerability in Visual Studio.
Tags: Web browsers, Software, Security, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Update, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Software, security bulletin, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
Building a Google Android application
Blogs The new Google Android HTC G1 smartphone promises to cover the middle-ground, between the Apple iPhone and Windows Mobil...
Microsoft releases Exchange 2010, acquires Teamprise
News At TechEd Europe, Redmond offers the latest on its e-mail and calendar server. Meanwhile, it also scoops up a developer tool for creating code in multiple OSes.
Tags: Business applications, Webcast, TechEd, Teamprise, Microsoft Corp., Business applications, Berlin, collaboration tool, Microsoft Windows, senior vice president
BlackBerry dev tools target Eclipse, Visual Studio
News Research In Motion has released updated tools for developers who want to build BlackBerry Web applications within the Eclipse and Visual Studio environments.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Mobile applications, Smart phones, RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Plug-in, Tool, Eclipse, Web Application, Environment
Building an iPhone application
Blogs The iPhone has a terrific touchscreen and great features like 3.5G mobile broadband and GPS, making the iPhone highly su...
Microsoft repackages its software licenses
News Company announces two ways for small and midsize business to pay for application and server software usage, which aims to save customers up to 40 percent.
Tags: Software licensing, Software, New Orleans, software license, Environment, Server, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, IT Governance, IT investment
How to run .NET applications on Linux
Blogs In many enterprise environments we work with a mix of Windows and Linux servers. If you had to build a large, complex en...
Code concepts: Visual Studio's T4 templates
Techguide The T4 templating system is used to programmatically generate artifacts. Here's an overview about why the templates are useful and how to work with them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Business applications, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, T4, Directives, Levit & James Inc., Business applications, File, Directive, Tool
Code concepts: C#'s var keyword
Techguide Justin James explains in this overview, that var is used in variable declarations instead of a type, and also weighs differing opinions about what makes var useful.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, C#, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, Programming, blogging, Microsoft Visual Studio, PHP
Code Contracts makes validation easy and accurate
Techguide Code Contracts allows developers to create validation logic within their methods and classes without needing to write a lot of if/then statements.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Code, C, Method, XML file, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, network management, business logic, blogging
Hands on with Mono 2.2
Techguide If you are writing an application designed to work on many platforms, Mono is still an alternative but it may not be a simple matter of "recompile and deploy" in many cases.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Microsoft Corp., C, system tray, C#, Authoring, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Mono
Using Bing from .NET
Techguide Justin James shares his recent Bing experience and provides a code snippet that will put you well on your way to writing a Bing-enabled application.
Tags: Business applications, .NET, Software engineering/development, Namespace, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, Microsoft Corp., WSDL, AppID, Business applications
