Month: March 2016

C# and HTML5: drag and Drop elements

Enrico

HTML5 API includes Drag and Drop (DnD) native functionality. The event listener methods for all the drag and drop events accept Event object which has a readonly attribute called dataTransfer. The event.dataTransfer returns DataTransfer object associated with the event This is the list of events fired during the different stages: Event Description dragstart Fires when the user starts dragging of the object. dragenter Fired when the mouse is first moved over the target element while a drag is occuring. A listener for this event should indicate whether a drop is…

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Microsoft’s multipronged strategy for bringing speech to IoT devices

Enrico

Microsoft has been stepping up its game around connecting its Azure cloud services to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. But few may realize the company also is simultaneously working to bring its various speech capabilities to IoT devices, too. Microsoft provides IoT developers with various tools for integrating speech with their devices. There are built-in Windows 10 speech application programming interfaces (APIs) for tasks like dictating a simple message and Web search. There are natural-language services — known as Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) — that are part of Microsoft…

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World’s First Autonomous Drone, The DJI Phantom 4, Revealed

Enrico

Recently, the Irish Internet of Things chip maker Movidius, has won a multi-million dollar deal with Google, and it has been revealed as the brain behind the breakthrough autonomous drone, the DJI Phantom 4. This autonomous drone, which went on sale in Apple Stores across the US last week, features a new visual guidance facet, which sticks to and follows a subject, and can stay in a fixed position without the need of a GPS signal. Described as the first in the industry, the addition of Movidius chips technology and…

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Microsoft, others join forces to work on encrypted email protocols

Enrico

In the world of the Internet, technology is constantly changing. The SMTP technology behind email, however, has not changed much since it was first released a very long time ago. Despite the invention of SMTP SMARTTM to solve this problem, most emails are still unencrypted, and thus open to a man in the middle hack. Luckily though, a team of engineers from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Comcast, and other leading companies have been working on a proposal which would cut out the middle man hacker The proposal which has been submitted…

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275 million Android phones imperiled by new code-execution exploit

Enrico

Almost 300 million phones running Google’s Android operating system are vulnerable to a newly developed drive-by attack that can install malware and take control of key operations, a security firm has warned. A proof-of-concept exploit dubbed Metaphor works against Android versions 2.2 through 4.0 and 5.0 and 5.1, which together are estimated to run 275 million phones, researchers from Israeli security firm NorthBit said. It attacks the same Stagefright media library that made an estimated 950 million Android phones susceptible to similar code-execution attacks last year. The following video demonstrates…

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Microsoft adds ‘non-security updates’ to security patches

Enrico

MS16-023, billed as a “Security update for Internet Explorer” and issued on March 8, includes six “General distribution release (GDR) fixes”. Five are innocuous as they address glitches like “Empty textarea loses its closing tag in Internet Explorer 11 after conversion from XML to HTML.” But the last item on the list item 3146449, has the rather more interesting title “Updated Internet Explorer 11 capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.” A great many users just accept all Windows updates, so will never see item 3146449. Even if you…

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Microsoft has released a Debian Linux switch OS

Enrico

Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. The software is dubbed SONiC, aka Software for Open Networking in the Cloud. It’s a toolkit of code and kernel patches to bend switch hardware to your will, so you can dictate how it works and what it can do, rather than relying on proprietary firmware from a traditional networking vendor. It also pits Redmond against white-box network operating systems from the likes of HP, Dell, and…

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Announcing SQL Server on Linux

Enrico

It’s been an incredible year for the data business at Microsoft and an incredible year for data across the industry. This Thursday at our Data Driven event in New York, we will kick off a wave of launch activities for SQL Server 2016 with general availability later this year. This is the most significant release of SQL Server that we have ever done, and brings with it some fantastic new capabilities. SQL Server 2016 delivers: Groundbreaking security encryption capabilities that enable data to always be encrypted at rest, in motion…

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Integration with C# and ReactJS

Enrico

The goal for this project is to show a list of books with ReactJS from a WebAPI written in C#. You can download this project from Github. New project Start by creating a new ASP.NET MVC 4 project: 1. File → New → Project 2. Select ".NET Framework 4" and Templates → Visual C# → Web → ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application. Call it "CSReact" 3. In the "New ASP.NET MVC 5 (or 4) Project" dialog, select the MVC (or empty) template. Install ReactJS.NET We need to install ReactJS.NET to…

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ReactJS: component Lifecycle and Rendering

Enrico

These are the functions that will be, or can be, included in your specification object when you’re creating a component. Part of these specification functions are lifecycle functions, which when encountered, will show the details as to when they execute during the life of a component. Function invocation order during the initial render of a React component Component lifecycle that happens when the state changes on a component Lifecycle of a component when it has altered props render Every React component must have a render function. This render function will…

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Microsoft now plans March Windows 10 Mobile rollout

Enrico

February has come and gone without the highly anticipated Windows 10 Mobile upgrade for legacy Lumia handsets. In an email to partners, seen by VentureBeat, Microsoft is now targeting a release this month, to occur after the regular monthly service updates for the two Windows 10-powered handsets already on the market, the Lumia 950 and 950 XL. Unlike the previous schedule this one separates the upgrade from the service update. In other words, whereas the February rollout would have seen the update bundled into the upgrade, in March they are…

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