MIX10 is the fifth annual edition of the Microsoft Mix conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay. Just like other Microsoft conferences, the videos of the sessions are available online about 24 hours after the event at http://live.visitmix.com . MIX10...

Steven Sinofsky (President, Windows Division), Scott Guthrie (VP, Microsoft Developer Division) and Kurt DelBene (Sr. VP, Office Business Productivity Group) were the top speakers and headliners for today’s (day# 2) keynote at PDC2009 in Los Angeles,...

Microsoft kicked off Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia. · Ray started with the theme for "Three Screens and a Cloud”, with focus on the back end today. · Expect news on client software (Silverlight...

I see quite often customer asking what is the right type of collection for specific purpose and performance overhead versus flexibility. This is again a passionate topic and it’s easy to get into debate with your colleagues especially during the peer...

Recently few of my colleagues enquired about Domain Neutral Assemblies esp. when to build and implement them due to lack clarity around them. I did research and thought to share here so that other folks can discover the information too. Here is some background...

This is one of those topics that always generate a lot of heat among developers, architects and DBAs etc. People typically take a very strong stance on one approach over the other. As most of the IT situations, the answer to this question is : “It Depends...

Often most of my customer seek guidance on data strategy based on ADO.Net technologies stack such as ADO.NET DAL, LINQ and Entity Framework and the Data Services. The choices for developers/architects are: 1) Traditional ADO.Net Provider Model ...

The keynote on Day# 2 was all about Internet Explorer 8 and passion for design by Deborah Adler about the prescription drug containers that finally adopted by national pharmacy chain (Target). Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for the Internet Explorer...

For those of you that did not get a chance to attend the MIX09 conference, or watch any of the live streams I wanted to provide you with a summary of all the announcements made yesterday morning. Bill Buxton announced the theme for MIX this year is “Return...