web development

When web development reached critical mass in the early-mid 2000's, there was a lot of discussion about what it all meant for native development and apps that are optimized for devices, but developers' penchant for exploiting what devices can do has persisted through all of that, and it keeps...

This week on Channel 9, Not Dan and Not Brian (Larry and Charles) discuss the week's top developer news, including: Link Removed SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event, Roger Doherty: Introduction to SQL Server 2012, http://bit.ly/sql2012cookbook. Link Removed Comparison Chart: New Project Types...

I write web sites in PHP and MySQL, and use an Apache web server for testing my sites. To do this I have to stop the IIS 7.5 server that runs on start up. I have been unable to find a way to prevent it starting up since I moved to windows 7, and having to stop it 2 or three times daily is...

Why do I keep getting this message? Everytime I search for an image in Google Images, and I click on one of the results I get this message, sometimes multiple times. Is there any way to stop this behavior? I have Javascript enabled and I've already tried reinstalling the browser.

Hi, first post (and I have searched for an answer) so be gentle! I have Windows 7 Ultimate, and I use my PC for general use, gaming, and web development – each of these currently done through a separate admin account -> simply so that I can personalise them for their purpose, i.e. desktop...

Fixes a problem in which a POST request to a webpage that should redirect responses to a different webpage does not redirect responses in IIS 7.0 or in IIS 7.5. More...

Hi Guys, I wonder if anyone of you chaps could help me with a website I have built. When the site is viewed in FireFox or Chrome the site display and works correctly :) When I view it is IE9 it only shows the header menu - take a look for yourselves. Lethem Christian Consultancy Its only...

I clicked on a link to "subscribe to a person's site" and I got this error."You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1". I don't have a clue how to fix this. I don't know what manual they are...

When I open my website in google chrome then it do not supports the java script of my website. The drop down menu of my website is in java script and it is not working properly in Google chrome browser. Kindly tell me that what to do in this matter.

Dear friends can somebody explain why facebook recommends to use iframe instead of FBML. I am trying to sort out of this problem, but i could not reach to any conclusion.:o Please help me

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Christian Stockwell, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, looks at how developers can use Positioned Floats, a new CSS feature in the second build of the IE10 Platform Preview. This developer sample demonstrates how to use Positioned Floats in combination with other advanced CSS constructs...

Sharon Newman, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, looks at how developers can add drag and drop functionality to their websites using HTML5 drag and drop and the File API. The sample used in the video and the second IE10 Platform Preview are available on the Link Removed. Link Removed...

Matt Kotsenas, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, demonstrates the importance of quality in a browser's graphics system and shows how developers can use HTML5 Canvas and composition techniques to create graphically rich experiences. This sample and the second IE10 Platform Preview are...

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Link Removed which launched Tuesday, works by diverting iPad, iPhone and Android phone users from a publisher’s webpage to a specialized HTML5-driven page that behaves like a custom magazine app such as Popular Science and Wired magazine’s iPad apps or The Daily’s experiment of an app as a daily...

Metro Dynamis is an early alpha release library based on JQuery for designers and developers wishing to build HTML5/CSS/JavaScript websites in a style similar to the Metro UI used by Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 . You can get an early look at it by signing up for the newsletter. Meanwhile, some...

In part two of this two-part series, Larry Waldman, Excel Program Manager, talks in detail about how to execute the migration of Excel client solutions to web-based Excel Services solutions. Larry walks through the migration of a sample Excel client application to its new incarnation as a...

Microsoft will hold a new developer conference, known as Build 2011, in September to focus on Windows 8, as well as web and mobile development - including smartphone and tablet. Link Removed

In computer science, session hijacking is the exploitation of a valid computer session (commonly known as a "session key") used to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. For example, when a user logs in to a web site, the user's PC is tagged with a session...