Microsoft recently announced the general availability of developer tools for their Windows mobile platform. This article is a brief introduction to the platform and what the next generation of mobile development for Microsoft looks like.
After you’ve downloaded the developer tools installer, you will go through a download process…

After downloading the remaining components, you will install [...]

One of the missing features in MOSS 2007 is the ability to recognize PDF files in a document library. It can be frustrating when all you see is a blank page icon instead of SharePoint recognizing the document type properly. This is a common portal issue that is easily remedied with a bit of extra [...]

Google has opened up their hosting services to the cloud with their free Google App Engine offering. Google makes it quick and easy to get going with their cloud offerings. Here a quick review of how to get started with the App Engine.
To use App Engine, you need a Google Account. Once you have your [...]

Microsoft is expected to remove the CTP from their Azure Platform this month at PDC in Los Angeles. Until then, you can still receive access to their free cloud services platform. To get started with Azure you need a Windows Live ID and signup with Microsoft Connect to receive an access code (aka tokens).

When you [...]

Building websites to support different browsers is easy business when you’re relying on the jQuery framework. However, building printer friendly web content is another hurdle for application developers. I recently came across some useful jQuery for printing Sharepoint web parts. The idea was pure genius – wrap the bit of HTML you want to print [...]

Unless you are a seasoned COM junky, the Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API will come as a welcome addition to anyone needing to programmatically manage Microsoft Exchange appointments, calendars, messages, or any other folders residing on an exchange server. The key difference with EWS is that it is using purely managed code. EWS itself [...]

I’ve developed many custom components for BizTalk in the past several years, but I have never had to work with very large input files (>100MB), primarily I’ve simply created output files. In a recent need to gather several years worth of historical data, it became apparent that memory constraints were going to be pushed to [...]

Today Microsoft announced that its funding $1 million to create a 501(c)(6) corporation called the CodePlex Foundation. Microsoft created Codeplex.com in 2006 to allow developers the opportunity to share open source projects completely free to the community. One of the first open source projects shared on CodePlex was the AJAX Control Toolkit, a very well-known [...]

Bookmarklets can be powerful aids for web development. With jQuery providing so much innovation in the browser landscape, many bookmarklets are pushing the bar. Here are some interesting ones that I’ve found incredibly useful and use in conjunction with (or absence of) the built-in browser developer tools.

jQuerify is a simple way to inject the jQuery [...]

If you haven’t tried out SQL Azure, you have until November 2009 to demo it until they begin charging customers for their usage. The service itself is still in its infancy, but the latest iteration finally supports relationships which is a big win in my book. Besides, what good is non-relational data (other than the [...]