I am very pleased to inform that my app, Dictionary , has been nominated as one of the best apps on the Windows Phone platform in the Best Educational App category in the #WPAppAwards being hosted by WP7 App List. Please vote for the app at http://appawards...

Here's my first Windows Phone 7 App - http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=88c64ebe-e254-e011-854c-00237de2db9e Please download and rate. I promise more apps will come soon! You can either click on the link above or alternatively...

If you have created a SSIS Package in SQL Server and you use a FTP Task to upload a file to a FTP server and encounter the error " An error occurred in the requested FTP operation. Detailed error description: 200 Switching to Binary mode. 553 Could not...

While using a client to connect and fetch data from a WCF service, you may encounter an error and see the following message displayed on the screen: Error: The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information...

Today Microsoft announced the beta release of Windows 7 and the availability of the new version of Windows Live. The beta of Windows is on schedule and feature complete. The information that tens of millions of customers shared with Microsoft guided...

Microsoft has decided to keep the codename Windows 7 as the final name for it's latest release of Windows. Mike Nash, made the announcement on the Windows Vista Blog saying "Now is a good time to announce that we've decided to officially call the next...

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework deliver key innovations in the following pillars: ...

The next generation of Zune was launched earlier this week. This release combines two very important things: v A free software-and-services update, which will work on any of the existing Zune family of devices, as well as the new devices we are bringing...

Microsoft announced that it is slashing prices of its flagship gaming device, XBOX 360, in the US. This will take the price of the basic model down to $199, approximately $50 cheaper than Nintendo Wii. It said that prices for the other Xbox models will...

The IE team launched IE8 Beta 2 which can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . You can watch videos of IE8 at http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&user=-3161786097973413883 and http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer...

Microsoft has introduced new features in .NET with their Service Pack 1 (SP1) release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Most of the stuff included in the service pack releases is new features and functionality rather than bug fixes and...

Avenue A | Razorfish , one of the world’s largest digital marketing companies, and Pluck Corp ., a recognized leader in social media technology, today announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to develop and market the industry’s first...

Microsoft reached another milestone today with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V , the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. The nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version...

The XNA team has announced Dream-Build-Play 2008 , a global competition to see who can create the best game for the Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio 2.0. This year’s participants will be competing for $75,000 in prizes and the bragging rights to say their...

The 2nd CTP for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 3.5 was released recently. Download the Parallel Extensions June 2008 CTP Parallel Extensions simplifies development by providing library-based support for introducing concurrency into...

Microsoft Health Common User Interface (MSCUI) v1.3 has been released to the web on www.mscui.net and http://www.codeplex.com/mscui . MSCUI provides User Interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide range of patient safety...

The XNA Community Games Platform team has delivered on their promise to enable game development for Zune devices with the release of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). Some key features that are available in this release: ·...

Today Microsoft unveils RoboChamps ( www.robochamps.com ), a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers from around the world, that demonstrates the power of the Microsoft platform to enable a broad range of developers...

The capacity of Microsoft Corp.'s free Connector regional bus system for employees will more than double under an expansion announced Wednesday. The service, which began in September, will add new routes and expand to a capacity of 4,600 seats a day from...

Microsoft has partnered with some of the world’s top social networks on contact data portability. Starting today, we will be working with Facebook , Bebo , Hi5 , Tagged and LinkedIn to exchange functionally-similar Contacts APIs, allowing us to create...

Today, the Windows Live team released a new version of Foldershare along with their new website. New features added are: • A new website designed to make managing your FolderShare libraries and computers even easier. • A new FolderShare with a better...

In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista. For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for...

The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications. The factory includes samples, reusable code and a guidance package which automates key development tasks from within...

Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors , saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp. According to the lawsuit, Yahoo's board is pursuing "value-destructive"...

Microsoft has announced the launch of a digital advertising platform in India that aims to simplify digital advertising and create a larger eco-system connecting advertisers and publishers. Microsoft launched the platform in India with four leading publishers...