Task Continuations allows developers to create interdependencies between tasks. The interdependencies can involve simple execution in response to task completion or aggregated exception handling among tasks. Read along to learn more.
Read along as Vipul Patel discusses how to use Bing Maps control in your Windows Phone 7 (WP7) applications.
The new Windows Phone 7 platform isn't restricted to only C# programming. Microsoft recently released development tools targeting Visual Basic developers. This article discusses how to get the tools and walks through a simple Visual Basic Silverlight project for the Windows Phone 7 platform.
News report claims well-placed sources gave paper the real scoop on when to expect the launch of WP7 as well as availability of the new WP7 devices.
It seems as if everyone has a hunch about when Windows Phone 7 will roll out, but Microsoft isn't saying -- and so the rumors fly.
Windows Server AppFabric was released this summer to make it easier for you to deploy and manage Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF) workflows. Read this article to learn how to build deployment packages and easily deploy your workflows to AppFabric. We will also look at how AppFabric can help us understand what is happening to our workflow once it has been deployed.
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Knowing which version of MS Office is installed on the client computer is vital; unfortunately, many programmers see this as an afterthought. Hannes du Preeze shows you four different ways to determine the Office versions installed so that you don't make this mistake.
A developer building messaging solutions with Azure Queuing and Azure Service Bus should follow a Pipeline pattern when processing a significant number of different messages. One approach to building a Pipeline is to layer a message following an Envelope pattern.
