Who Wants To Beat Google?
Google has been number one in search for quite some time. This article explains three things that an alternate search engine could do to take the... more »
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Running Windows 2008 Server as development machine
Due to a new (*) IT security policy of my company, this weekend I had to wipe out my XP installation and install a BitLocker capable operating system... more »
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Most Useful JavaScript Functions
Here you can find really useful javascripts functions like SSN number validation, Zip Code validation, Phone neumber validation, Allowing Only... more »
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Engineering Windows 7 : User Interface: Managing Windows windows
We’ve booted the machine, displayed stuff on the screen, launched programs, so next up we’re going to look at a pretty complex topic that sort of gets... more »
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Team Foundation Server, very smart (not)
A futile attempt to install TFS
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100 Keyboard shortcuts (Windows)
Microsoft windows keyboard shortcuts. You might know most of these shortcuts, but probably not all of them. If you have more keyboard shortcuts,... more »
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What's Next for Microsoft and PHP?
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Despite speculation that Microsoft would make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at last month's fourth annual Zend/PHP... more »
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How and Why to Use Parameterized Queries
A parameterized query is a query in which placeholders are used for parameters and the parameter values are supplied at execution time. The most... more »
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ASP.NET - Response time is very slow for the first request to application (45+ seconds)
ASP.NET - Response time is very slow for the first request to application (45+ seconds)
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Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform
On October 1, Amazon announced that it plans to offer developers this fall the ability to run Windows Server or SQL Server via the Amazon Elastic... more »
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.NET Framework 4.0 and "Dublin" Announced
As we head towards the PDC later this month, Microsoft today pre-announced some of the things you can expect to see there. To meet the evolving needs... more »
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Anders Hejlsberg on the Past, Present and future of C#
Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0.
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Have you ever wanted to monitor a website for changes?
Here is a free and handy tool to have around for anyone that has ever wanted to monitor when a web site has changed. This is a very small install and... more »
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Microsoft details WCF and WF in next-gen .NET
Aside from reporting on how WCF and WF will evolve in .NET 4.0, this article describes how an extended version of the Windows Server Application Role,... more »
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IE8 Performance vs. Google Chrome and Firefox
... the software giant [microsoft] is getting ready to release a browser inferior to what is already available from rivals Google and Mozilla.
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Convert a String to Title Case (C#)
Text can be converted to entirely upper case or lower case using standard methods from the String class. Another common format is title case, where... more »
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Using Reflection to Populate a ComboBox from an Enumeration
A short how to on how to use Reflection to Populate a ComboBox from an Enumeration.
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Visual Studio 2010 & .Net Framework 4.0
Visual Studio 2010
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An Introduction to Threads, Critical Sections, and Synchronization
With the days of the single cored processor drawing to a close and users demanding more robust user interfaces by the day, knowledge of multi-threaded... more »
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Download, Installation and Configuration of Microsoft JVM (MSJVM)
There are still people who need or want to do this?
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New Application Architecture Guide (v.2.0) from Microsoft Patterns & Practices
Cool!, just a few days ago (Thu Sep 25 2008) Microsoft P&P have published a neat 'Application Architecture Guide' (v.2.0). It is great because "it is... more »
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Microsoft Unveils Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0
Microsoft announced the next version of its developer platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft said VS10... more »
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Getting Intrigued by Entity Framework
Although Microsoft released LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework is also a very interesting technology that has many advantages over LINQ to SQL.
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Microsoft starting to really embrace OpenSource
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After some steps to embrace the OpenSource model, specially thanks to IronRuby and IronPython projects, the day has come.
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$("Microsoft").append("excitement");
I don't know about you, but I can say with certainty that I am excited again about the Microsoft platform. With today's announcement that they are... more »
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