Interesting Announcement from Microsoft about Kinect from KinectForWindows.ORG.. Quoting from Announcement website: Kinect for Windows hardware and accompanying version 1 software will be available on February 1, 2012 in 12 countries at a suggested retail price of US $249. Kinect for Windows hardware will be available through a variety of resellers and distributors. The price […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET – Version 2.0
This is a little old document. But very useful for people who would like to learn more about “Enterprise Solution Patterns using Microsoft.NET” , by Microsoft Patterns & Practices This document is very good for referencing for common solution patterns and provides little more focus on ASP.NET based Solution Pattterns. Nice reference though!!.
Read more →CSSCop for Visual Studio – FxCop for StyleSheet
CSSCop makes it easy to adhere to best practices for writing stylesheets. It catches common errors that affect browser compatibility and much more. You can think of it as FxCop for stylesheets. CSSCop for Visual Studio tries to help us write better CSS, by making sure we remember all the right vendor specific properties or that […]
Read more →Microsoft Research Project Hawaii
Microsoft Research Project Hawaii is a collaboration with Microsoft and all other universities across the world. Project Hawaii enables students to develop inventive cloud-enhanced mobile applications. Students at participating universities can use Windows Phone for accessing a set of innovative cloud services and Windows Azure for computation and data storage. Project Hawaii provides the tools, […]
Read more →WebGrid ASP.NET Data Grid
WebGrid generates cross-browser compatible web forms, and handles all data source interaction (update, insert, and delete) for you. WebGrid is fast loading datagrid with codeless data-binding and comes with a rich client-side of properties and tons of features with a performance that beats ASP.NET GridView. Highlighted WebGrid Features: JQuery UI ThemeRoller Ready (CSS Framework). Excel […]
Read more →SQL Server 2012 RC0(Release Candidate 0) –Released
I just received the news that SQL Server 2012 (a.k.a Code Name =‘Denali’) has become Release Candidate 0(RC0) and available for download Visit SQL Server 2012 Home Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) Download Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Express RC0
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