Gastón Hillar, a fellow Intel Black Belt Developer, without a doubt knows what he is talking about when it comes to parallel programming. Professional Parallel Programming with C# is an excellent book for anyone looking to optimize their code for the...

Visual Studio Snippets is an open source collection of code snippets for the C# programming language, providing StyleCop compliant versions of the 38 code snippets that ship within Visual Studio along with 44 additional StyleCop compliant snippets. You...

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Achim Berg discusses the momentum, strengths and challenges of the company’s newly launched Windows Phone 7 and gives us some insight into just how successful Windows Phone 7 has been since it’s launch. You can read...

If you have ever been asked by someone, especially a child, how long is it until Christmas then this is the Windows Phone 7 application for you. Christmas Time will tell you exactly how many days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even milliseconds remain...

Want to build some exiting applications for Windows Phone 7 although you’re an absolute beginner when it comes to software development on mobile devices? No problem! MSDN’s Channel 9 has a new series of videos, entitled Windows Phone 7 development for...

Since the beginning of flight school I have been a little bit of a weather nerd and so as soon as I saw this weather phenomenon from my backyard today I had to run back inside and get the camera, hopefully you’ll agree that this is one cool cloud. I initially...