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How do you get the Windows 8 SDK and Visual Studio? What if you have Visual Studio already? This blog is part of a series, you can find the entire series here . In Step 2 we learned where to find and different options for installing Windows 8 which is required before you download and install the SDK...

Student can publish their apps to the Windows Phone store at no charge through the DreamSpark program. Here’s how. There are perks to being a student, in this case it’s not having to pay to register and publish in the Windows Phone or Windows 8 stores. In this blog post you’ll see...

ObjectSharp is organizing a series of AppFests to help developers with their Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps, the event is free for students! ObjectSharp has put together a series of events called .NET AppFest Revolution where you can learn from experts how to design, deploy, and support your apps on...

The Windows 8 store is open for individuals to publish and students can get a Windows store account for free through the DreamSpark program, here’s how you do it. Microsoft announced this week, that the Windows 8 Store is open to individuals and that they will be providing free accounts to students through...

Microsoft launched a completely new email service few weeks ago called Outlook.com Microsoft launched a completely new email service few weeks ago with limited ads, unlimited storage and built in Skype. It’s called Outlook.com , and it’s simple and clean. Does this look like your email address: thomas91...

How can students in Canada get their hands on Windows 8 RTM and Visual Studio 2012 so they can start building cool apps? On August 1st the Windows team announced they had completed the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 8. The blog announced that developers could download the final version on...

Whether you are just learning Visual Studio because you are building a phone app, or you have been using it for a few years, here are some of my favourite and most requested links for Visual Studio resources. I taught developer courses for a number of years, and there were certain questions and requests...