When we talk about quality bars, we are not talking about the phenomenal gems such as the Kalahari Oasis in the Mabalingwe game reserve, which I visited and thoroughly enjoyed on more than a couple of hot days under the sun. Instead we are starting a...

Greetings. Perhaps you missed our live Q&A with Charles Petzold a couple of weeks ago. The session is now posted here at the Microsoft Virtual Academy . (You must register with MVA to access this free material.) Principal Technical Evangelist Jaime...

One of the challenges my General Manager put on my plate, was to tell a simple story, as simply as possible, about the essence of doing Enterprise Strategy.  Here is what I ended up with: The way I told the story is … We use scenarios to scope meaningful...

Greg Duncan: Andy and Okra is your Windows 8 App Store MVVM app building supercharger... Bruno Terkaly: Understanding XAMARIN – Create iOS, Android, Mac and Windows apps in C#. The Agileer: The CORRECT Way to Code a Custom Exception Class...

Meet the founders of Pre-Apps -one of the newest partners joining the BizSpark community . With over 30,000 new apps introduced each month, PreApps is a marketplace to discover, rate, and download the best mobile apps coming soon. They also have an exclusive...

I will be presenting a webcast for VS Updates 1 & 2. WHEN: May 29th @ 10am PST This tour of new features webcast will include the following topics and more:  Agile Planning  Quality Enablement  SharePoint Development  TFS Enhancements...

A successful game as told by GameMaker I found this one walkthrough particularly clear about what makes a great game. I wrote down some notes just to see who could call these things out if I asked them. I am not sure I could have but these are some great...

If you are an iOS or Android developer with an app in your respective market, why not expand your audience to consumers with devices running Windows 8?  To help with the process, Microsoft has provided a special learning track just for you! ...

В первой части нашего погружения в мир (ре)дизайна приложения Музыка VK мы детально рассмотрели один из возможных вариантов того, как можно улучшить плеер воспроизведения, находящийся в нижней панели приложения. И от такого исходного варианта: шаг за...

Node.js developers: add some Windows Azure authentication and access control to your Node app with the newly MS Open Tech’s released open source library for Windows Azure Active Directory service. Windows Azure Active Directory is a REST based...

The first thing about designing software is this: Design for change first and extensibility last. They're different, and so is the mindset. Designing for change is about solid fundamentals. You know from experience that the later you...

上周我们发布了重新改造的 Internet Explorer 开发人员中心 ( msdn.com/ie )，以简化开发人员快速查找全面的文档的过程。作为更大规模的 Windows 开发人员中心重新设计 的一部分，我们根据您的反馈对我们的网站结构进行了调整，以便能够： 简化跨不同版本的 IE 查找开发人员主题的过程 快速查找更全面的 API 文档 了解开发人员指南、教程和示例代码中的最佳做法 我们将新的 IE 开发人员中心划分为三个主要方面： 入门 您可以在此处下载...