Interoperability

OData is a web protocol that unlocks data silos to facilitate data access from browsers, desktop applications, mobile apps, cloud services, and other scenarios. In this screencast, you'll see how easy it is to set up on OData service (deployed on Windows Azure) for an IBM DB2 database (running on…

Launched in January 2009, Stonehenge is designed to provide a public forum to test the interoperability of WS-* protocols on different technical stacks and to build sample applications that could provide best practices and coding guidelines for better interoperability.Customers get working code on…

HTML5 can be used in Windows Phone application development. Leveraging HTML5 allows publishing a same application on several platforms reusing a maximum of code. Tools and frameworks such as Apache Cordova (previously known as PhoneGap) allow to "wrap" the HTML5 and JavaScript code into a…

This video is an introduction to the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) that allows applying a Metro style user interface to HTML5-based Windows Phone application. HTML5 elements and controls are examined as they appear with the Metro style theme applied. Theme switching…

PhoneGap is an HTML5 and JavaScript framework that allows to build cross-platform mobile applications very easily. Since version 1.3, PhoneGap fully supports Windows Phone and integrates into Visual Studio 2010. For developers who are already using PhoneGap to target multiple mobile platforms, they…

This week MindTree released the new Bing Maps Module for Drupal - an open source project with funding provided by Microsoft.  It can be downloaded from https://github.com/mindtree/BingMapsDrupal.  For more information including step by step instructions on how to use the Bing Maps…

This webcast presents a description of the process in integrating the jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone (Metro style) into an existing Apache Cordova application. Additional pointers are provided to aid developers in their task. To learn more about the theme and download it, read the blog…

CouchDB is a simple and practical NoSQL database engine. The CouchDB tools come with abundance of scripts and samples to create web applications leveraging CouchDB. This video demonstrates how to write a simple Windows 8 JavaScript application using CouchDB to navigate through a picture album.…

The MongoDB C# driver gives .NET developers the ability to take full advantage of the features of MongoDB. In this video, 10gen software engineer Robert Stam, the author of the driver, shows how to do basic create/read/update/delete operations in C#. You can download the driver from the MongoDB…

This week MindTree released the new oData Support Module for Drupal - an open source project with funding provided by Microsoft.  It can be downloaded from https://github.com/mindtree/ODataDrupal.  For more information including step by step instructions on how to use the oData…