Recently I’ve tried to purchase a laptop for a friend from Sony Style. All was good initially. I was able to pay for it, got an order confirmation and a delivery estimate. I waited for the assigned time to receive the laptop. After the time has elapsed (and I still didn’t get the laptop) I went online to track the product and to my amazement I noticed that it was delivered to another address with an invalid signature. I notified Sony of the problem and they issued another order with express delivery for a second laptop.
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Some time ago I wrote a post showing how to implement a generic binary search tree data structure in C#. In today’s post I will provide a way of extending the binary data structure in order to be able to use LINQ in order to query it. In order to be able to use LINQ over a custom data structure, all that we have to extend our data structure such that it implements the IEnumerable<T> interface. This is due to the fact that LINQ provides a set of extension methods that extend the functionality of types inheriting from IEnumerable<T>.
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Microsoft announced at MIX ‘09 on March 18 the release of Silverlight 3 beta. One can download the release from here. Some of the new features that Silverlight will bring in this new release include support for H.264 format, new hardware accelerated graphics and animation features, better search engine optimization and out of browser support.
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While reading some things on the Live Search blog, I came across a very interesting EntityCube which is a site informing us about some of the things that are going on in Microsoft Research related to search. Two particular projects sparkled my interest: EntityCube itself, but also Libra Academic Search.
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I’ve recently stumbled over an interesting article in which it is stated that an attacker can read the keystrokes typed on a wired keyboard from up to 20 meters away. One can read more about the article here. They created a custom device made of simple elements like a radio antenna and some other inexpensive elements.
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Today Microsoft launched the public release of Windows 7 Beta 1. This is the next version of the Microsoft operating system that builds on top of the Vista platform. As it is mentioned on the Windows Team Blog, the official name for the Operating System with the codename: Windows 7 will be… (more…)
Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) began a few days ago. For those of you who are not familiar with it, this is an event where Microsoft reveals some of their future product releases. The stars of this PDC’s edition are Windows Azure, the Microsoft cloud OS
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For those of you that don’t know what Silverlight here is a short definition: Silverlight is a web platform developed by Microsoft that targets web applications rich in multimedia content. It’s direct competitor is Adobe Flash. (more…)
Finally, the 2008 version of Microsoft SQL server is RTM. This means that it is actually ready and has been sent to manufacturers for preparing and distributing the media. Still, it is already available for download (more…)
The last 2 months have been extremely busy. I was mainly busy with Microsoft Academic Tour and with Imagine Cup. Microsoft Academic Tour is the academic version of the Microsoft Launch Tour called “Heroes Happen Here”. The tour was focused on 3 major Microsoft products: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. I had the opportunity to be part of a team of 5 students that held presentations in 5 universities throughout the country. The team
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