If you're building Windows Mobile apps FakeGPS could be the answer to your troubleshooting worries. Learn how to test your GPS applications using FakeGPS.

Part 2 of our ASP.NET tutorial, looks at how to use the Google Maps API to include a map showing the area searched, with markers denoting the store locations using a sprinkle of JavaScript, and a pinch of server-side code to add such functionality to our store locator app.

Discover this simple way to start using Microsoft Azure tables for data storage.

At Microsoft's CEO Summit 2010, CEO Steve Ballmer tells many of the world's most influential business leaders that the future lies in "the cloud."

Part two of a series that illustrates using WCF to communicate between a Windows service and client application.

Part one of a series that illustrates using WCF to communicate between a Windows service and client application.

In this article, we will learn about on-premises Free SQL Azure development tools and how Azure developers can use these tools in their day to day development activity.

Windows Azure Diagnostics is geared to help you with the challenges of gathering and analyzing the diagnostic data you need from the variety of machines in a distributed system. Read on to learn more.

Learn how to work with the object context of the Entity Framework including how to detach and attach objects.

Microsoft Azure promises a new scenario of building hybrid applications that are both in the clouds and on-premises.

Store your PHP application data in the cloud using the Zend Framework and Microsoft Azure.

Learn to leverage the power of the cloud with your existing web applications.

Leverage the features of cloud computing and Microsoft Azure to build applications that can reside in the cloud.

Soap Panda is an application for testing soap based web services. Soap Panda takes WSDL as input and generates in memory .NET soap client proxy code for invoking web service methods. This code is compiled and stored in an executable file; executable file is then explored by Soap Panda application using reflection to create instances of the classes that exist in the soap proxy client dll.

Need your server and your site up and running quick? Let Greg Larsen show you what you need to know to get SQL Server running and configured.

An ADO.NET Data Services Tutorial covering REST, querystring operations and expressions, HTTP verbs, Linq to Data Services, security, exceptions and tracing.

This tip looks at properly closing a WCF connection from your application - whether you're using the proxy classes or a ChannelFactory.

A valuable feature of SharePoint 2007 is the introduction of an online spell check program. But, that list of words may not always fit your needs. See how you can modify the spell check to include words specific to your industry.

Learn about callback, a lightweight technique used to call server-side methods asynchronously from JavaScript without any postback and reloading/rendering of unnecessary parts of the page or unnecessary code.

Build a Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as an RSS feed using System.Diagnostics.EventLog, EntryWritten, and EnableRaisingEvents.

Learn about file access control lists and how to use C# to read and modify them to improve the security of your applications and your IT infrastructure.

By Aaron Lerch Learn how to use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to easily create "RESTful" Web Services in .NET 3.5 that can leverage the simplicity, ubiquity, and scalability of web programming.

This five-part article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas, showing how and when to use them.

Discover Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Microsoft introduced this technology, which is a part of .NET 3.0, to make your life easy when it comes to building distributed applications.

Web services can play a significant role in data transport and overall communication between the client and the server. Learn how ASP.NET AJAX can consume ASP.NET web services.