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Microsoft to launch 'Windows Cloud' this month

Microsoft will launch an operating system for the 'cloud' in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London on Wednesday. Read more »

Kaminsky details DNS flaw

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has offered more details about a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System and the extent of the vulnerability. Read more »

IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion

IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction. Read more »

Canonical wants open-source cooperation

Ubuntu Linux backer hopes its Launchpad site will help open-source projects match Microsoft's collaboration abilities. Read more »

MS, Adobe war in blogosphere

Arch-rivals Microsoft and Adobe's struggle over next-generation Web development technologies has spilled into the companies' official blogs, with mud being flung from both sides. Read more »

Sun urges Eclipse to unify Java world

Java steward Sun Microsystems has sent a letter to members of Eclipse, urging the increasingly influential open-source project to unify rather than fragment the Java-based development tool market. Read more »

Yahoo developing an audio search engine

Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet. Read more »

Flash celebrates 10 years

Can '90s-era technology for cute Web animations lead a new generation of cutting-edge Web applications? Read more »

Microsoft learns to live with open source

Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering. Read more »

Sun and Google shake hands

Sun Microsystems and Google announced a multiyear partnership on Tuesday to help spread and develop each other's software, a deal that includes OpenOffice.org, Java and OpenSolaris from Sun, and Google's Toolbar. Read more »

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Implementing the Soundex function in C#

For years Microsoft SQL Server has provided developers with a method called Soundex that is used to retrieve an encoded string. Words that sound alike have similar encodings, so you can use this functionality to provide some flexibility in searches. This article shows how to implement Soundex completely in C# without having to use the SQL function. Read more »

Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK

The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »

.NET delivers regular expressions

Regex has been around for a long time, but is new to many .NET programmers. Check out some cool apps for .NET's Regex functionality. Read more »

Save time with Visual Studio 2005 project templates

While application development provides plenty of opportunities to be creative, there are numerous aspects of every project that require developers to perform the same tasks over and over again. Automating such tasks provides you with more time to concentrate on the more challenging aspects of your work. Read more »

Handle errors in the data tier with SQL Server

Exception handling is a standard part of every .NET application. The try/catch block allows you to catch exceptions and control application execution from that point. Many errors occur during database interaction, but a lot of developers are unaware of handling errors within the database tier. This week we examine error handling in your database code with SQL Server and T-SQL. Read more »

Ask Chuck: Problem with VS.NET installer

Have you had the quirky "VC Package not available or not registered" message when installing Visual Studio .NET? Maybe this tip from Chuck can help. Read more »

ADO.NET: More than an updated version of ADO

Making the move from ADO to ADO.NET involves a steep learning curve. But the process is made easier by dispelling some of the hype surrounding ADO.NET. Read more »

Put up your fists and start boxing with .NET

Usually performed behind the scenes by the compiler, boxing involves explicitly converting a value type into a corresponding reference type. Read more »

Calling a COM object from a Web service in .NET

In this article from Robert Bogue, learn the easy way to call a COM object using the System.Thread namespace. Read more »

Work with multiple data values with arrays in .NET

Arrays are a basic feature of the .NET languages. They allow you to easily work with multiple data items in one container. Tony Patton tells you more about using arrays in your code. Read more »

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Express Yourself!

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- Microsoft has released a community technology preview of the new Expression Web Designer, their new flagship Web development tool and competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Read more »

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