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March 16, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Creating Compelling User Experiences, Powered by the Cloud

To enable developers to build immersive, cross-platform Web and mobile applications that use data delivered from the cloud, Microsoft also released SDKs for OData, an HTTP and Atom-based approach to data portability, for a number of languages and platforms including .NET, Java, PHP, Objective-C (iPhone and Mac) and JavaScript. In addition, Microsoft announced the second Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft code-named “Dallas,” an information marketplace powered by the Windows Azure platform, which provides developers with access to third-party datasets that can be consumed by Web and mobile applications. By making content and data available with an OData feed via …

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March 15, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Microsoft MIX 2010: Day One

Thank goodness for the live broadcast and Channel9 for a seat from my home to see and hear exactly what is happening at #MIX10. There was a great deal of information provided by Scott Guthrie during the keynote address and I must say it looks like it will be an exciting year for Microsoft developers. The demonstrations and talks were dead on and it is really impressive how serious Microsoft is with the products this year. Just a few key points were: Silverlight market penetration is at 60% currently whereas last year it was at 45%. Windows Phone 7 Series …

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March 14, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Microsoft MIX 2010

This week in Las Vegas, NV is the Mix 2010 conference and if you’re anything like me you were not able to make this event in person. In fact at the time I am writing this post I am sick and it is showing little sign of letting up. The next best thing to being there of course is watching Channel 9 Live at MIX10 – Who, What, When, and How!? So be sure not to miss this opportunity to tune in and see first hand what is going on. This should be a fun filled three days with a …

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March 13, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Google SideWiki: Good or Bad

Have you heard of this Wiki from Google? I had not and thought I would look a little closer at this product as it initially looked very intriguing to me. This wiki allows anyone to to comment on content as they bounce around on the internet which sounds like a great way to enhance discussions on a given topic but what control do you actually have over the comments being made? Unlike the measures you may have put into place on your own website to control and monitor readers comments this wiki does not allow you a mechanism to block …

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March 10, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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.NET Performance Counters

Recently while catching up on technical reading I ran across the subject of performance counters. I must admit that I had not looked closely at this subject in the past and thought it was time to do so. If you are not sure what performance counters are and what they provide simply put they have the ability to monitor system components such as processors, memory, and network I/O traffic. If you use performance counters in your application, they can publish performance-related data to compare them against acceptable criteria. Why would anyone want to do this? Well should you find yourself …

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March 9, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Five C# Code Snippets

A snippet is a small section of text or source code that can be inserted into the code of a program. Snippets provide an easy way to implement commonly used code or functions into a larger section of code. Instead of rewriting the same code over and over again, a programmer can save the code as a snippet and simply drag and drop the snippet wherever it is needed. By using snippets, programmers and Web developers can also organize common code sections into categories, creating a cleaner development environment. Snippets used in software programming often contain one or more functions …

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March 6, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Office Ribbon Hero

Are you a ribbon hero? Want to be one? Do you have no idea what I am speaking of? If you’re a casual gamer or a die hard then you may enjoy Ribbon Hero which is a game for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010. While it is not Halo for the XBox, it is a way that you can challenge your Office Suite colleges who think they know it all. If you do not have Office 2010 then you can download the beta here. Before you get started you may want to check out the following video. There …

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March 5, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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PowerGUI Is A Graphical Interface For PowerShell

If you have been wanting to look at PowerShell and do not relish the idea of working with the command prompt have no fear. The fine folks at Quest Software have you covered with PowerGUI, a graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell! The beauty of this product is not simply the graphical interface but combine this with the community support, support for multiple languages, and the powerpacks then you have a robust tool that can potentially make you daily activities with PowerShell much more simplified. What are powerpacks you may ask? Well simply put they are …

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