Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Software developers are busy kicking the tires on Silverlight, Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash. This summary of not-necessarily-technical information will help IT managers identify what's ...

So I just spent an hour or so trying to figure out a problem I was having accessing the UI thread from a background thread in a WPF app. Now WPF's still pretty new to me and I'm still figuring out how ...

In a recent livestreamed .NET Community Standup on YouTube, Microsoft put up a slide indicating Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a "community run project," prompting an audience question about ...

One of the main - and somewhat unsung -- features of Microsoft's next version of Silverlight is its support for running applications outside the browser. Microsoft officials slipped in a mention of ...

I have a SQL 2008 database with some sprocs, etc... that take data in tables and export it to XML files. These XML files are used to provide sample data to test an application we use that imports XML ...

Microsoft officials are remaining adamant that they plan to stay mum about the details regarding the Windows 8 developer story until mid-September, when the company holds its Build conference. But ...