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Ashish Jaiman, ISV Architect Evangelist, presents on Office 365 and SharePoint Online

Microsoft Research has produced two tools to dramatically simplify the construction of unit tests.  We will look at Moles, a framework and Visual Studio add-in that helps to isolate your code from external dependencies.  With Moles you can replace any .Net method with a delegate.  Next...

Marc Schweigert presents on his Per Diem App at the December 2010 Developer Dinner.

Founded in 1999, EastBanc Technologies is a Washington, DC-based software development and system integration company. It has an international portfolio of customers and specializes in mobile applications development, enterprise portal solutions, business intelligence, and cloud computing. Eastbanc Technologies...

Dr. Zhiming Xue presents on Siverlight 5 at the Developer Dinner held in Reston, VA on December 15, 2010. This session will provide an update on application development with Silverlight, IE 9 and HTML 5 and recapture some discussions from the Firestarter event currently held on December 2...

NIC’s Recovery.gov mobile application for Windows 7 puts the power of the Recovery’s website in the hands of the American citizens. It leverages the use of the Recovery’s social media presence, including Twitter, Facebook, and the Recovery Blog. It brings the visual power of Recovery projects to the...

Natural User Interfaces (or NUIs) seem to be one of the hottest buzz words in the development world these days. Microsoft is rolling out many technologies that map into NUIs, including Windows 7 Touch, Windows Phone 7 and the soon to be released Kinect for XBOX. But with this new concept in how humans...

As a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, Siemens has always been synonymous with technological excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality. Today, as an integrated technology company, bundling the comprehensive expertise of the entire organization, Siemens...

Urbanization and building construction along with overhaul and modernization of the city’s zoning code have converged with the obsolescence of the existing building, planning and zoning business processes forcing the largest IT project for the city in two decades.

The new system was built from...

The APIs in WPF4 plus the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch make building common touch scenarios easy. However, implementing many of the same touch scenarios using WPF3.5SP1 or Silverlight 3/4 involves writing a fair bit more code. Furthermore, the touch APIs across WPF4, WPF3.5SP1,...