Participants of this contest will create a game in Silverlight and the winner will get $5000 as the first prize. The contest is open to residents of US and you must be 16 years or older to enter. You can find the official rules here.  You  are allowed to submit 3 entries which will be [...]

Microsoft is offering free website hosting and domain of your choice when you sign up for Office Live Small Business. Included in the package are hosting, your own domain if it is available, and online applications like Contact Manager, Document Manager, Project Manager and Workspaces. And this is all for free for first year. [...]

Update On Windows 7 Beta Download Dates. Thanks Jeff
“Final days: We’re just about at the limit for Beta downloads, so act now if you want to try Windows 7.” It is my understanding that it is possible that the download link is capped before the 10th, depending on what [...]

Fortune magazine released their Top 100 companies to work for list. At number one is NetApp who are having a Slashdot effect after achieving number 1 spot on the list. Interesting findings are Google at number 4 and beloved Microsoft slipping to number 38. While I take these lists with a pinch of salt, they [...]

If you are an Architect or a Developer then I highly recommend that you read Application Architecture Guide from Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft. In recent years .Net Framework has grown tremendously to include technologies such as WPF, WCF, WF over the standard offerings such as ASP.NET, Windows Forms and BCL. How does [...]

Over last few days I have been off from work and for the first time in many years I have actually stayed away from computing over Christmas break. This has been very good for me. I genuinely feel relaxed, recharged, refreshed and by all means ready to take on another year. I have setup few [...]

I wish all readers of One .Net Way a very Happy New Year. Let 2009 be an year of learning. I know it will be for me.

According to Market Share Google Chrome has 1% of browser market share. I am sure I must be a part of that statistics because I have Chrome installed on one of machines, and I think of it as just another browser. Although integrating search into address bar is a clever feature but again it is [...]

Amazon has launched a Microsoft Branded Store where you can browse through all Microsoft Press and other Microsoft related books. I am an Amazon addict and this has just given me one more excuse to spend more time on the site. I’m now waiting for them to sell Microsoft T-shirts and novelty items.

Microsoft Online Services is out of Beta and ready for prime time. List of products offered through online services is impressive. You can either go for BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard Suite) which includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting. Or you can subscribe for individual products such as CRM, [...]

For many startups one of the biggest hurdles is money. The cost of software cannot be justified. Thus attraction towards open source. Microsoft has taken care of this problem by launching a program called BizSpark. You can enroll yourself if you are a startup with less than one million USD in revenue and less [...]

An exciting news I found while reading Marquee de Sells is the launch of Oslo Developer Center. I have been following Oslo story for sometime now and I have to say that information has only trickled so far. Oslo Developer Center is the first step in taking the covers off Oslo and educating the [...]