See why this aging platform manages to stay successful in the business world and how Windows Mobile 6.5 stacks up against it's competitors.

Exception handling can be a costly affair and should be used meticulously as it undoubtedly serves as an integral part of our applications and shouldn't be sidelined for any reason. The common problem in implementing an exception handling mechanism is the dependency on the library after we create a provider. This C# tutorial looks at the possibility of switching the providers easily.

If you're developing using C# programming on Windows and need to make those apps cross platform you'll want to get intimately familiar with Novell's Mono project. Read along as we look at the tools available from Novell to develop and test your applications.

At times when certain Websites are blocked, or in the case of no internet connectivity, PageGetters serve a mammoth boon. Read along as we overview the use of the .NET Framework to build an easy one in less than an hour and serve yourself as a "PageGetter" to your friends.

Windows management has a prime place in system monitoring and administration irrespective of the technology being used. The suppleness that is achieved using the Windows management native API's are far more than that which could be achieved through other kinds of monitoring and administration application.

Volume 2 of "C# Programming Tips and Tricks" covers some items related to new features of C# 4.0 along with other beneficial tips and tricks. In addition, it mentions some tools that are worth noting.

Microsoft unveils "release candidate" version of Windows Server AppFabric tools for building and maintaining composite applications. First beta of the new BizTalk Server also released.

In this installment we'll explore optional and named parameters in C# programming. This is an option that has long been around within the Visual Basic language, but is newly introduced in to the C# language in the .NET Framework version 4.0.

This article, by Scott Mitchell, examines two new features added to C# 4.0: optional and named arguments.

Discover how to use a game pad with your Microsoft Visual Studio XNA applications.

Learn about new opportunities that Cloud Computing and the Genetic algorithm make available to every person.

Learn how to use Windows Azure and Azure Storage to store, retrieve and update information in Table storage, pass work between multiple cloud service roles using Queue storage and use the Azure SDK StorageClient project to speed up Azure Storage development.

The new Windows 7 user interface features can offer Web developers significant productivity gains in terms of organizing, finding, and navigating to commonly used resources. This article introduces you to the improvements which can cut significant time from otherwise mundane daily workflow tasks.

Use the .NET framework for enumerating and finding certificates, importing, exporting or deleting certificates.

An algorithm to make any object moveable and resizable by users and applications.

Understand from this guide how and when - as well as when not - to use multithreading.

Discover how to design user-driven applications

Learn about two properties of functional languages that together define the overall style of writing functional code.

Here is your starting point for figuring out how Oslo M can solve your business problems.

Take a look at the various features of Visual Studio for working with WPF.

Discover some of the common pitfalls of using COM Interoperability in .NET as well as best practices that could help you steer clear of these pitfalls.

Work through a Continuation of the series, moving from Fields to Entities and Entity Collections.

Learn to develop a powerful and flexible application architecture.

The Records Center is an important MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) component for companies that need to save critical or legally sensitive information. Discover how to create a Records Center then secure its contents with the MOSS Object Model and one of its default WebServices.

By Jani Järvinen - Testing software applications can be hard. You might already be using virtual machines to test your applications, but chances are you are still doing this manually. Learn how to automate your testing procedures with Microsoft's new Hyper-V virtualization technologies.