Sitting in my nth Cloud symposium last week I again heard the argument that the Cloud should be modeled after an electric power utility. You just plug into it and stuff works. This analogy has been used lots of places, most recently in Nicholas Carr’s...

While it's income season for most of us here in the States, for CCH , a Wolters Kluwer business, serving up sales tax information is a full-time job. In this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Jones Pavan and Gurleen Randhawa at the 2009...

Microsoft's Pattern & Practices group has released a new, updated version of guidance for building collaborative SharePoint applications that extend your LOB systems. This guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that...

With the release of .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 comes MSBuild 4.0. Among the many great features in this version are new mechanisms to allow you (or your build lab) to extend the default build targets files with your own customizations. While...

This is the second screencast in a series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use the taskbar to Light Up their applications on Windows 7. Yochay Kiriaty explains how to use the Win 32 API to control the taskbar's Overlay Icons and...

Prepare to be amazed at the wide range of capabilities that are now possible with Silverlight 4 via the Out-Of-Browser (OOB) mode, Elevated Trust permissions, and COM+ Automation!  Check–out this mind-boggling blog post Cutting Edge Silverlight4...

WAI-ARIA is a standard created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which empowers developers to make web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. In this short video , Matt Hester demonstrates how developers can use Internet Explorer...

Ever wonder how the Healthcare Industry could harness the full power of Silverlight to create State-of-the-Art, Game-Changing applications to lower Healthcare costs? In this episode of ARCast.TV , Jeff Barnes sits down with David Darnell from MDI Holdings...

Need to get your old IE6 web applications compatible with Internet Explorer 8? Internet Explorer 8 introduces many new features and capabilities, such as Accelerators and Web Slices for Web developers to build powerful customer experiences.  Along...

Cerabrata , maker of Cloud Storage Studio , has launched a beta for their new product Azure Diagnostics Manager . Azure Diagnostics Manager is a Windows (WPF) based client for managing Windows Azure Diagnostics . It lets you view, download, and manage...

McDonalds is leveraging an IE8 Web Slice , Silverlight and Windows Azure to introduce a new McNuggets dipping sauce. The premise is simple: McDonald’s has created a McNuggets Village to act as a hub around the Winter Olympics.  The central piece...

IT Architect Resources: Editor's Choice Claims-Based Architectures This chapter, from "A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control", shows you how to evaluate UX, performance implications, and other aspects of claims-based architectures...

Allan da Costa Pinto details the Windows Azure Feature Voting Service . Log in and tell the product folks what features you would like to have. Technorati Tags: Windows Azure    

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. Technorati Tags: Bing , Augmented Reality , Mapping Technology , TED , Blaise Aguera y Arcas    

Chris Bowen provides a brief guide to resources to help you quickly get started and learn about what’s new with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 , VS2010 , .NET 4   

Guest blogger, Jeremy Chapman, writes in a recent post that while the concept of piloting an operating system isn’t really unique by operating system version, finding the right target users is one of the first things you do when piloting applications...

Essentialapparel.com sells a wide selection of brand-name apparel, lingerie and outerwear to customers nationwide and internationally from its Web site and over the phone. In order to speed up the order process and improve customer service and employee...

Technorati Tags: Windows Azure , PowerShell Ryan Dunn of the Microsoft Corporate Developer and Platform Evangelism group has just released updated versions of the Windows Azure Service Management (WASM) Cmdlets for PowerShell. These cmdlets can...

One of the most requested features of SQL Azure has been the ability to move up and down between a Web or Business edition database. The latest SQL Azure Service Update now provides you greater flexibility. If you approach the upper limits of the Web...

Ashlee Vance writes on New York Times that “Windows Phone has a cleaner look than most of today’s smartphone software, with just a handful of large, colorful icons atop a black background.” So what are the new features in Windows Phone 7 Series that really...

Now that we know Windows Phone 7 Series are coming to the market before the end of the year, are you ready to roll up your sleeves and build some cool applications for the new mobile platform?  Join us at MIX10 ( March 15-17th, 2010, Las Vegas )...

Curt Devlin details EasySubmit , an Office Online feature powered by Monster.com . EasySubmit provides resume templates that you can edit in Word and then submit directly to Monster.com to simplify your job search. Get the details here... Technorati...

ARCast.TV - Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates When solutions fail, is it too easy to blame a given platform than for those really responsible to take responsibility? It more often has to do with one's level of problem...

Ribbit for Silverlight gives Silverlight developers an easy way to leverage the powerful Ribbit Voice 2.0 platform and create rich, communications-enabled online experiences. Ribbit for Silverlight is a suite of Silverlight controls that allows Silverlight...

Windows Explorer is one of the most frequently used Windows tools by users. However, there are times when you need to open two screens, or navigate from one screen to another, in order to, for example, copy files between two folders, or between your hard...