Microsoft looks to the future with Windows Phone 7, is it enough to catch up with the competition? Read along to learn how WP7 differs from past versions of Windows Mobile and how it matches up against its rivals.

Microsoft rolls out an update to its Productivity Power Tools, a set of extensions to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 designed to make developers' lives easier.

A week after Microsoft began beta testing development tools for its upcoming Windows Phone 7, the company is sending out "preview" units meant to get phone app developers excited.

Classify a point respect to a plane polygon that can be concave (i.e. with some angle grater than 180 degrees). Good performance, excellent stability.

The article introduces the simplex algorithm, provides a useful C++ function to optimize target function parameters, and shows rich examples, figures, flowcharts. source code is also attached with the article.

This article introduces a simple wrapper template.

The tutorial talks about the grammar of C++ pointer-to-member function, their common applications, and their under-the-hood implementations.

Shell Links are a Windows feature that has been present since the very first 32-bit Windows release in 1995, and are the technology that the ubiquitous Windows shortcuts are built upon. Windows 7 Jump List tasks also use Shell links, creating renewed interest in using Shell links as a technique for interacting with applications.

Discover the new features in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and how you can leverage them in your applications.

The Windows 7 Taskbar is one of the most noticeable and useful features of the new operating system, and MFC 10 introduces a number of enhancements that make it easy to integrate the Taskbar with your application.

Microsoft releases a community technology preview of compact version of embeddable Windows in bid to deepen its ties with global device makers.

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.

Recently I faced a very interesting task, I had to port an application from one platform (Windows) to another (Linux). This article is intended for everybody who wants to write a cross-platform application.

This article outlines a few of the more common mistakes encountered when working with Sharepoint.

This ASP.NET tutorial shows how to use the free Google Maps API to build a store locator ASP.NET application.

ASP.NET Developers, do you have ASP.NET pages that are slow to respond to the user and/or timeout. Try this technique to move those processes to the background and provide feedback to the user.

Relational databases are designed for multiple simultaneous users, and Microsoft SQL Server is no different. However, supporting multiple users requires some form of concurrency control, which in SQL Server's case means transaction isolation and locking. Read on to learn how SQL Server 2008 implements locking.

ISOC C++ standards committee moves one step closers to the completion of the C++0x standard.

The article discusses the new capabilities of the C++ programming language described in the standard C++0x and supported in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. By the example of PVS-Studio, we will see how the changes in the language influence static code analysis tools.

No need to catch a plane to attend this Microsoft technical conference. The company has decided that to reach a broader audience, Windows Summit 2010 will be only available online.