We’re excited to let you know that we’ve just released an updated version of the Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone with support for both Silverlight and XNA. We strongly encourage you to download the Advertising SDK June 2011 Update , and start taking advantage of all of the new features and...

MIX 2011 sessions and keynotes are available for streaming and download on MSDN’s Channel 9 . Microsoft's MIX 2011 conference continued this morning with Joe Belfiore , Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Windows Phone Program Management, introducing Brandon Foy’s fan video for Windows Phone 7 ( youtube...

Brandon Watson blogged ( link ) this week about the availability of the January Windows Phone Developer Tools update and I would encourage anyone developing for Windows Phone 7 to install the two updates here. Using this update you’ll have access to some assemblies that will ship with the forthcoming...

Whether you’re a Web developer interested in harnessing the awesome power of Windows Internet Explorer 9 with HTML5, a Silverlight developer developing the next awesome media or business application, or a Windows Phone 7 developer; you’ll definitely want to be in Las Vegas, NV from April 12-14 at the...

It’s that time again, time to pack your laptop along with critical survival supplies because we’re going camping in the wild, wild, Web! Registrations for the Web Camps in Mountain View, CA and Redmond, WA are now live! Web Camps are completely free of charge and offer you a unique opportunity to learn...

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 latest generation of multi-core and many-core systems...

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 can download an Excel spreadsheet containing details...

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 40 additional StyleCop compliant snippets. You can download an Excel spreadsheet containing details...

I have been using the C# programming language since before its initial release and there have been a few books that have remained by my side almost that entire time, one such book is the the C# Programming Language, Fourth Edition by Anders Hejlsberg , Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth , and Peter Golde...

Visual Studio 2010 provides 38 code snippets for the C# developer, while Visual Studio Snippets provides enhanced versions of those base snippets along with 31 additional code snippets in the October 2010 Visual Studio Snippets Release . Within the Visual Studio Snippets collection all of the code snippets...

I attended the Silicon Valley Code Camp this past weekend and presented a session on Code Generation techniques using Visual Studio 2010. I’d like to thank everyone that attended the session and as promised you can download the presentation and code from Windows Live SkyDrive. Within the Visual Studio...

I’ll be speaking on August 31st at the Sacramento .net Users Group about code generation with Visual Studio 2010 . We have had access to various techniques for code generation for almost as long as most of us have been writing software, although how many of us are really using these techniques within...

I’ll be attending the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, CA from September 13 to September 15th and will be blogging about the conference and some of the sessions I’ll be attending. Microsoft will be presenting, alongside Intel engineers, in several sessions. I’m particularly interested to see session...

CodePlex.Snippets is a collection of code snippets for C# developers that enhances the core code snippets developers use today to ensure that they conform, where appropriate, to static code analysis and StyleCop rules. CodePlex.Snippets also provides 28 additional code snippets in the beta release to...

In July last year I wrote a blog post , and associated connect item , where I discussed the possibility of executing Visual Studio Team System unit tests in parallel upon multi-core architectures. It seems that there were others on the Visual Studio Team Test team that also thought this was a good...