web applications

I realise The Water Cooler may not be the normal place to post a spell checker It is free and really easy to use and may be found of use . I post it here in the hope others may find it handy . ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a...

Travis Leithead, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, looks at how developers can use web workers to achieve new scenarios and make web applications feel more responsive by offloading complex JavaScript algorithms to run in the background. The sample used in the video and the second IE10...

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Wizards are a part of the web. Maybe you haven't thought of them as wizards, but multi-step processes such as checkout or registration are utilized by many websites. In this episode, Muhammad Usman from the Microsoft Product Quality team will show you the new system they are building to create...

The browser has become the single piece of software most widely deployed and used. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Firefox's Mozilla are in a race to develop more functional browsers. The core functionality of these browsers must be the same to comply with W3C standards, but they compete on the...

In this interview, Anders Hauge, a Program Manager on the Azure tools team, shows us how the new Web Deployment feature along with Remote Desktop allows you to incrementally publish your web applications to the Azure cloud. This means that you can make updates to your already deployed web apps...

We know what Steve Ballmer wanted for Valentine’s Day! In this episode, learn about AccessLove, an Access Web Database application built by three Access team members, as well as a few tips and tricks for making beautiful Access web applications. For more information about Access Web Databases...

You've been asking for it and here it is. I've put together some sample code showing how you can use WF4 with ASP.NET and do it the right way... the fast way with async calls. For more info see this Link Removed Ron Jacobs http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs Twitter: @ronljacobs Link Removed...

Last summer, Microsoft researchers were describing their ServiceOS project as a "multi-principal OS-based browser" designed to provide control of web applications and devices. This year, the... Source: Yahoo! News

Google's decision to transition its applications to Web standards offers telling insight into the HTML5 standardization process Google technologies are known for their extended beta test periods -- so much so that when the search giant actually ships a finished product it's front page news. But...

Summary Most desktop Linuxes are meant to replace Windows lock, stock, and barrel, but Splashtop acts as a “as needed” replacement for Windows. Ever just want to turn on your laptop and get right to work on the Web without any delay? If that’s you, even if you’d never consider...

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In this “Ask the expert” video, Evan Lew, product manager for Office Web Apps, addresses some of the burning questions from our users. During this short video, Evan talks about Office Web Apps on mobile devices, co-authoring, the benefits and advantages of using Office Web Apps, and a variety of...

eldavojohn writes "As anyone in the industry will tell you, a lot of money went into developing web applications specific to IE6. And corporations can't leave Windows XP for Windows 7 until IE6 runs (in some way) on Windows 7. Microsoft wants to leave that non-standard browser mess behind them...

When you have a Ferrari you might want to test drive it on a circuit, where there are none of the limitations of a town street. Well, when you have Internet Explorer 9 Beta you need a “circuit” on which to test it, something more than just your average Internet websites, applications and...

Link RemovedThis week on Web Camps TV, Link Removed talks to Link Removed about the new Helpers in WebMatrix. Link Removed is the free tool from Microsoft that makes it easy to build websites and web applications, then publish them on the internet with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. In...

Google said it is planning to release its free Chrome operating system to go head to head with Microsoft Windows, later this year. Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia's biggest IT trade show said the OS will be available in the Autumn and he expects it to be downloaded by millions of users...

Link Removed How does one print from a cloud-based OS like Google's Chrome when you can't install a local printer driver? Google is getting closer toward the answer. The company is in the midst of developing a Google Cloud Print system that would allow Chrome OS users to send documents from...

I've searched various forums as well as support from Microsoft and HP for a permanent solution to the conflict between Windows 7 and the IDT audio codec. It's a problem which occurs across multiple platforms: the audio driver freezes, requiring a system restart. It typically happens with web...