Many people are eagerly awaiting the release of Windows Phone 8, but one renowned blogger has posted that Windows Phone 8 is actually codenamed Windows Phone Apollo. Since the post, many people are wondering if he means that a we won't actually see a separate OS named Windows Phone 8, but rather we will simply see an updated Windows Phone 7? Read More >

What actually makes a smartphone or mobile device "smart" and which mobile operating systems are considered smart? By most people's standards, the ones that fit the bill are iOS, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry and Android. What features does Windows Phone 7 have that put it in the list? Read More >

Windows Phone Mango now allows programmatic access to the camera, opening doors for developers to write applications that use the built-in camera. Vipul Patel shows you how to build a simple Windows Phone Mango Camera application.  Read More >

Some developers played World of Warcraft, while others slaved at EverQuest. The ability to earn virtual badges, like in EverQuest, kept them playing for hours on end. Microsoft's recent introduction of its Achievements extension for Visual Studio combines that love of virtual badges with a developer kit, and many developers are ready to achieve. Read More >

Most developers are aware that Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system will include additional sensor support and new hardware sensors, and will make it easier for developers to target and use the sensor technology with Metro Style apps. Along with sensor support, Microsoft is adding automatic screen rotation, adaptive brightness and compass support. Read More >

Windows Phone 7 devices have not exactly been flying off the shelves, and Microsoft has even been reluctant to release sales statistics. Two research firms, however, believe that Windows Phone 7 devices will outnumber the iPhone by 2015. Read More >

This week OpenText announced the expansion of its global alliance agreement with Microsoft which will bring greater support for Microsoft's cloud computing endeavors. The agreement specifies that OpenText's recently created Business Process Solutions (BPS) Group will provide process management and case management solutions for Windows Azure. Read More >

Andrey Karpov shares some useful observations on error patterns, touching upon the subject of handling rare and emergency conditions in programs. Read More >

This week brings the release of Security Ninja's Windows Phone App Analyser, an application that enables developers, and other interested parties, to evaluate Windows Phone 7 .xap files and automatically decompile the .dll files within them. Based on the static security analysis tool Agnitio, the Analyser provides a way for developers to enhance the security of their applications. Read More >

Microsoft's release of Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 last week was the last beta version of the software the company will release before the finished version becomes available to the public later this year. The latest beta included NuGet integration enhancements and bug fixes, and signals that the timing is looking favorable for the final release. Read More >

The past six articles in this series have looked at how to display a grid of data in an ASP.NET MVC application and how to implement features like sorting, paging, and filtering. In each of these past six tutorials we were responsible... Read More >

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. Due to their ubiquity and layout capabilities, it's not uncommon for a websites to use PDF technology. For example, an eCommerce store may offer a "printable receipt"... Read More >

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. PDF files are a popular document format for two primary reasons: first, because the PDF standard is an open standard, there are many vendors that provide PDF readers across... Read More >

Chances are, at some point you've tried creating a new user account on a website and were told that the username you selected was already taken. This is especially common on very large websites with millions of members, but can happen on smaller websites with common usernames, such as people's names...Read More >

When a browser displays the HTML sent from a web server it parses the received markup into a Document Object Model, or DOM, which models the markup as a hierarchical structure. Each element in the markup - the <form> element, <div> elements, <p>...Read More >

Over the past couple of months I've authored five articles on displaying a grid of data in an ASP.NET MVC application. The first article in the series focused on simply displaying data...Read More >

Many websites display a news ticker of one sort or another. A news ticker is a user interface element that displays a subset of a list of items, cycling through them one at a time after a set interval. In December 2010 I wrote an article titled Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker...Read More >