Introducing Mono for ANDROID(.NET Application Development for ANDROID?)

Today I was just in a hurry to just go through what’s interesting out there in Technological world. I came across MonoDROID, from Mono&Novell. MonoDroid is a development stack for using C# and core .NET APIs to develop Android-based applications using .NET. dotNET on ANDROID cool right?. There is also MonoTouch which a C# & […]

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Released: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 RTM

Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available for download. SQL Server 2005 service packs are cumulative, and this service pack upgrades all service levels of SQL Server 2005 to SP4 . You can use these packages to upgrade any of the following SQL Server 2005 editions: Enterprise Enterprise Evaluation Developer […]

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Register for Microsoft Community Tech Days – Hyderabad

–Hi All; We have our Community Techdays scheduled for 18th Dec 2010. The event is FREE and you do not have to do anything other than having registered yourself for the event and attend the event on the meeting date. Tips For Registration : 1. Use either top Menu “Registration” -> ” In-Person” event for […]

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Use LoadDataOptions class in LINQ for immediate filtering and loading of relational data

LINQ is one of the nice feature every .NET developer would love to appreciate Microsoft for. I do not wish to explain much about linq, I am getting in to topic with a belief that you will have minimum understanding of LINQ and how it helps in data access from .NET Framework 3.5 onwards. Consider […]

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Microsoft® SQL Server® code-named ‘Denali’ – Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1)

Microsoft has announced the preview version of their next generation of SQL Server database software code named “Denali” Quoting from MSDN Download Center SQL Server code-named ‘Denali’ helps empowers organizations to be more agile in today’s competitive market. Customers will more efficiently deliver mission-critical solutions through a highly scalable and available platform. Industry-leading tools help […]

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Doing Parallel Tasks using Parallel Class – Part 01(Parallel.For Parallel.ForEach)

Introduction Recently I had a requirement for performance tuning the application which my team is working on. We thought of running using normal .NET Threading. But I thought about utilizing the Parallel programming extensions(PFX) in .NET Framework 4.0. Since we have lots of For Loops and for each loops consisting of web service calls, makes […]

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