Don't know about you, but personally I love Office 2007. Despite what I hear and read about it, it is much easier than its predecessor (which ultimately means it is more efficient). Having said that, the number one problem users new to Office 2007 face is the 'ribbon'. To them, everything's...
Hey, all you Facebook fans out there, Microsoft and Facebook have launched a partnership and Microsoft has released a 'Facebook Developer Toolkit' which allows you to create applications for Facebook using Microsoft Popfly and Visual Studio Express. You can even create a Windows Forms application...
New releases from Microsoft for all you developers out there: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 .Net Framework 3.5 Beta 2, and SilverLight 1.0 Release Candidate Happy downloading! Links: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx Bashar Lulu / MVP...
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I just came back from Friday prayer, my kids are out with their Aunt (probably at McDonald's), my wife's in the kitchen prepping something up for lunch, so I have the study room all to myself. I went in, and instead of firing up my laptop, I logged on to my desktop, which I don't usually...
From an online download website: 'Microsoft XML NotePad 2007 assists developers in creating XML applications. It allows authors to rapidly build and edit small sets of XML data as a test bed during the development of XML-based applications. With XML Notepad, you can create XML document prototypes...
Ever since it introduced Visual Basic .Net some six years ago, Microsoft has been striving to have developers jump the VB6 wagon and onto the .Net one. Being a VB6er myself I can sympathize with all those who still find it difficult to do so. Migrating VB6 code to VB .Net is at best, a helluva task....
Back in the VB6 days, when creating applications that required specific settings unique to a particular machine (such as screen sizes, fonts or even connection strings), I used to use either an INI file or the registry for storing these settings. A few days ago, when writing an application on .Net v2...
That's it! Its official! I'm calling 2007 the year of the mobile! First Apple announce their upcoming iPhone , then Nokia announces their new E90 Communicator . Then i-mate announces their Ultimate range. And the cherry on top off the cake, Microsoft announces their new Windows Mobile 6 . There's a Windows...