Microsoft Press has published a new book for Windows 8 application programming with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can download the PDF version of the book free of charge. For the details please see Microsoft Press blog: Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript http://blogs...

Here you can find very valuable resource from Microsoft Press, including Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold . Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/05/04/free-ebooks-great-content-from-microsoft...

We have just released IIS 8.0 Express Beta. Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.0 Express Beta is a free, simple and self-contained version of IIS that is optimized for developers. IIS Express makes it easy to use the most current version of IIS to develop and test websites in development tools...

Debug Diagnostic Tool (a.k.a. "Debug Diag" or "DebugDiag") version 1.1 is one of the most popular debugging tools which helps us to collect/analyze crash or hang dumps. However most of the features of the v1.1 is not working on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 / R2. Today, we have released Debug Diagnostic...

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including: C# 4 Visual Basic 10 F# Parallel Extensions...

A .NET application is compiled into IL (intermediate language) during compile time and it is compiled into platform specific binary code during runtime by JIT (Just in time) Compiler. You can decompile IL code to get the source code of the assembly. This is achieved by System.Reflection namespaces and...

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/amb/archive/2011/02/02/net-reflector-is-not-free-anymore.aspx ), Red Gate has decided to charge $35 for .NET Reflector. However, based on the community feedback and the success of the version 7, RedGate has now decided to release a...

"Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET" from O'Reilly is a cool book if you are interested in parallel programming in .NET. Although the e-book version is not free and you need to purchase it, it is free if you would like to read it from MSDN web site: Read free here - Parallel Programming with Microsoft...