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Project Natal: Minority Report tomorrow?
Gadget ·Steve Balmer, Microsoft CEO, has been quoted saying Project Natal would be the Most exciting and potentially groundbreaking product Microsoft would deliver this year.
A specific comment from Balmer did resonate for me:
Because the technology actually is very general purpose, and we’ll see come into the rest of our lives pretty soon. It’s a little camera and...
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Microsoft Docs
Solution ·Microsoft has released a beta version of Microsoft Docs, a tailored version of Office Web Apps for Facebook users.
Any similarity with a package of the same name from Google is pure coincidence :P
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Open Data Protocol
Solution ·Microsoft has moved forward with their REST data-access strategy. They’ve introduced the Open Data Protocol (oData). Formally known as Astoria, OData is a web protocol for accessing data using different formats, including AtomPub & JSON. <p>OData is supported in .NET 3.5 SP1. At first glance, it looks like a fancy way to access data, allowing a...
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Silverlight on Windows Phone 7
Solution ·I just read a nice article from Scott Gu’s Blog: Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application using Silverlight.
Scott builds two samples mini-apps (an Hello World and a simple Twitter Client). The integration with Visual Studio Designer seems to be quite good, you even see the phone while you’re designing! You still have the entire .NET to...
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WF 4.0
Solution ·After toying with Microsoft Virtual Labs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/aa570323(en-us).aspx) on Workflow Foundation (WF) in .NET Framework 4.0, I must say I’m pretty impressed.
Coupled with Windows Server AppFabric (formally known as Dublin Server), it’s basically BizTalk Server without all the schemas and adapters coming out-of-the-box with BizTalk. Otherwise, it’s as powerful and actually much easier to use.
The integration...
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