Hello and welcome to more tech goodness. Beth Massi, a Senior Program Manager on Microsoft's Visual Studio team answers a couple questions she received recently. In particular, how do you add data to tables with a one-to-zero-or-one relationship in Visual Studio LightSwitch. Then you might remember that earlier in the week…
Some people are doubters, but WordPress core is probably one of the most secure platforms you can choose to put your site on. Jason Cosper clears up this debate once and for all. Then, Stephen Zaharuk brings us another 'Going from C# to Objective-C' post. Julie Larson-Green makes a rare public…
Today Simon Cooper talks about creating partial-trust appdomains and then Brian Harry discusses Visual Studio 2012.3 and reacts to a comment about VS 2012.3. Installing it should be quite smooth, so just run the installer for Visual Studio and TFS. If you have any questions, ask them on the Visual Studio Forums…
Having recently surpassed the 100 million licenses sold mark for Windows 8, Brandon LeBlanc talks to Tami Reller to provide an update on the progress since the launch of Windows 8. Then, on February 27, the General Availability date for Office 365 was reached, ending the preview period. The good news is…
Outlook online has some new features. When I first signed up for an Outlook.com account, I was reserved regarding how much I would use it. I have had the same GMail account since receiving an invite years ago, and I figured that Outlook.com wouldn’t come close to replacing GMail. Well I was mistaken. The more I used Outlook.com, the more I loved it. I now use it almost exclusively for new mail and contacts.
But a clean looking, incredibly user friendly interface isn’t all that Outlook.com offers. With the migration of Hotmail users to Outlook.com completed, Microsoft have been quite busy! Microsoft has moved an estimated 150 petabytes of email data over to Outlook.com. (That is a huge amount of data).
(more…)
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Microsoft poked fun at the whole Samsung versus Apple spat. This has obviously lead to the proverbial ‘My dad is better than your dad’ attitude amongst Apple and Samsung fan boys.
But seriously, the truth is that many of the services I use are so ingrained into iOS that I would rather have root canal than migrate them all over to a new platform. (Yes, I am one of those Apple fan boys, I’ll admit it)
One thing is for certain, I am not a fan of Android for various reasons I won’t go into right now … *cough**cough**malware**cough, but if there is one platform I will consider ditching Apple for, it will be Windows Phone. (more…)
Today Tareq Ateik announces the availability of Khaleej Apps. This is a one stop site where you'll find Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications in the Gulf as well as top International apps, top games, social and news apps to showcase to your customers, partners, family and friends. Be sure to…
When I started researching PowerStory for PowerPoint, I was floored by the rich set of features. I wondered where to begin in order to do this product justice. I decided to take my time and use it extensively.
Having been using it for some time, I can truly say that PowerStory offers a lot of value. I’m sure that you know that PowerStory will do the basics such as creating UI Mockups / Wireframes and so on. But did you know that it has an incredible UI Mockup Library? (more…)
Hey everyone. Welcome to a new week. Microsoft has completed moving user accounts from Hotmail to Outlook.com. During the 6-week transition period, Microsoft moved hundreds of millions of accounts and over 150 petabytes of email data. (That's a huge amount of data!) Paul Thurrott tells us more. James Michael Hare…
