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Bing's Best 2 – A New Theme for Windows 7
Windows 7 comes with a few carefully selected out of the box themes – Windows 7 (default),...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 04/14/2010
Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Incompatible with Visual Studio 2010 RTM
Now that Visual Studio 2010 has been officially released, you may be wondering if you can use the...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 04/14/2010
Free Book: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series
This “draft preview” book helps get you started in writing great programs for the Windows Phone 7...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 04/14/2010
.NET 4.0 & Windows Azure
Now that .NET 4.0 Framework has been released as part of Visual Studio 2010 .NET 4.0 support in...
Author: Wzack Date: 04/13/2010
Developing for Windows Azure in Visual Studio 2010
Now that Visual Studio 2010 has been released you have a new platform to enable the development of...
Author: Wzack Date: 04/13/2010
Migrating a Legacy Application to Windows Azure
In this blog post Jim Nakashima outlines how to migrate an existing ASP.net application that uses...
Author: Wzack Date: 04/13/2010
Windows Azure Performance?
The Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research Labs now has a web site (in Azure of course)...
Author: Wzack Date: 04/13/2010
What's new in C# 4
If you’ve wanted to get up to date on the new features in C# 4 that is part of Visual Studio 2010,...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/13/2010
ARCast.TV - Tool Assisted VB6 to .NET Migration
There are millions (if not billions) of lines of VB6 code out there. For many businesses, they need...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/12/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Released
The latest and greatest edition of Visual Studio, the premier developer tool suite form Microsoft,...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/12/2010
Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010
Need a good overview what’s coming in Visual Studio 2010? Check out this MSDN Magazine article...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/07/2010
Ford, Microsoft team up on electric-car system
Sarah Parsons has posted an article on Inhabitat about Microsoft Hohm. Ford Motor Co. and...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/07/2010
Windows Phone 7, Silverlight Are Business-ready
The new Microsoft mobile platform, Windows Phone 7, and the rich Internet application platform...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 04/07/2010
Expanded View of IE8 Accelerators
Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 help you quickly perform your everyday browsing tasks without...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/05/2010
Take the .NET ParallelExtensions Tour
See how to really speed things up with the new ParallelExtensions in the .NET 4.0...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/05/2010
Customizing Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7
IE 8 comes with Windows 7. Organizations who are interested to customize IE 8 as companies like...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 04/05/2010
Internet Explorer 9 posts Impressive Initial Performance Numbers
Last month at MIX10, Microsoft released a preview of IE9 and gave earlier reviewers a glimpse of...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/05/2010
Tab Isolation in Internet Explorer 8
Ever wonder what Tab isolation is really all about and and how it can help protect you from browser...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/05/2010
Using the Windows Identity Foundation SDK with Visual Studio 2010
Looking to get started building the next generation of applications using the Windows Identity...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/05/2010
ARCast.TV - Improving SharePoint Development with WCF Services
In this interview, Sahil Malik, a SharePoint expert and Microsoft MVP, shares with Zhiming Xue,...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/05/2010
Silverlight for Symbian Developer Experience
Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight might have stolen the show at the MIX10 conference last month – but...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/05/2010
Best RSS Feeds for Office and SharePoint 2010 Developers
Looking for a great way to consolidate and digest all the great information coming out on a daily...
Author: jbarnes Date: 04/05/2010
Understanding Windows Phone 7 Platform
Microsoft distinguished engineer Istvan Cseri presented a great session at MIX10 about Windows Phone...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 04/02/2010
Windows 7 Multitouch Application Helps Streamline Business-critical Operations
Named one of “America’s 200 Best Small Companies” by Forbes magazine in 2009, Tyler Technologies...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 04/02/2010
CSC Uses Windows Azure Platform to Offer Managed Hosted Software as a Service
Hong Choing has written an article that details how CSC, a global leader in providing...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/02/2010
Resources to help you create an Azure App Today!
What is the Azure™ Services Platform? It is an Internet-scale cloud services...
Author: Wzack Date: 04/01/2010
Windows Azure Design Patterns for the Cloud
Most presentations about Windows Azure start by presenting you with a bewildering set of...
Author: Wzack Date: 04/01/2010
USA Imagine Cup 2010: Vote For The Top Student Tech Innovation Now Thru April 23rd!
Students across America have been dreaming up ways to solve the world’s...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/30/2010
Partners Health Care Embraces Software + Services for Connected Health
Curt Devlin has written a detailed article on how Partners Health Care is leveraging Microsoft’s...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/29/2010
ARCast.TV - Behind the Cloud::How Microsoft Deploys Azure
One of the most impressive elements on the Microsoft PDC Show floor has been a Windows Azure...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/29/2010
MIX10 Silverlight Customer Showcase Video
Ever wonder how customers large and small are using Silverlight to power their next-generation...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/26/2010
Windows Phone 7 Content From MIX10 – Part III
Below is a listing of all the MIX10 session videos arranged into the three categories below: Windows...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/26/2010
Windows Phone 7 Content From MIX10 – Part II
Below is a listing of all the MIX10 session videos arranged into the three categories below: Windows...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/26/2010
The Architecture Journal, Issue 23 - March 2010
Contents Keeping Architectures Relevant: Using Domain-Driven Design and Emergent Architecture to...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/26/2010
OuterLink Adopts Windows 7, Bing Maps and Silverlight
Bob Familiar details OuterLinks adoption of Windows 7, Silverlight and Bing Maps. OuterLink, a...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/25/2010
Windows Phone 7 Content From MIX10 – Part I
Below is a listing of all the MIX10 session videos arranged into the three categories below: Windows...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/25/2010
Windows Phone 7 Series Dev Tools
Here are links to the tools to architect, design, and develop Windows Phone applications using...
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/25/2010
Silverlight for Symbian S60 Mobile Devices Released
Silverlight is truly a cross-platform technology – even on mobile devices! Microsoft has...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/23/2010
Facebook Azure Toolkit Released
Looking for a great (and highly scalable) way to host your Facebook applications? Want to develop...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
Visual Studio 2010 RC Virtual Machines with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs
Looking for a low-impact way to get up-to-speed quickly on all the new features in Visual studio...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
Explore Windows 7 Sensor Capabilities with Parallax Intro Kit
Ready to start interfacing with your world on a whole new level? The Windows Sensor and...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
Complex Event Processing got you feeling like you're swimming up-stream?
StreamInsight is a platform being released alongside SQL Server 2008 R2 to enable the development of...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
CSS Crunch: new IE Extension for developers
Ever wanted to scan for all the unused CSS rules in an HTML document - and then automatically remove...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit – March Update
The SQL Server team has announced the availability of the March 2010 update, which includes an...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
Microsoft on Open Source, OData, the Web and the Cloud at OSBC
Jas Sandhu has a great recap of Microsoft’s participation in the Open Source Business Conference...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/22/2010
Enhancing Silverlight Video Experiences with Contextual Data and IIS Smooth Streaming
Smooth Streaming is the productized version of technology first used by Microsoft to deliver...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
WorkFlow Migration Kit (WF3>WF4) Released
The WF team is pleased to announce the availability of the WF Migration Kit CTP at...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/22/2010
ARCast.TV - Architecting Solutions with Microsoft Azure AppFabric
In this episode, Damon Squires, principal architect at RDA, discusses with Zhiming Xue where in a...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/22/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Announced)
Today, Microsoft is announcing Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7....
Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 03/19/2010
IE9 Platform Preview released at MIX
At the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft announced the availability of an Internet...
Author: jbarnes Date: 03/19/2010