Mountain View, CA Friday, Dec. 7th 9:00am - 4:00pm FREE EVENT Seating is limited, so register today. A Windows Phone Camp is a FREE event where you can learn everything you need to know to develop and publish a Windows Phone application...

“Picking up a tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date.” – Tom Warren /via @verge Windows 8 Review Windows 8 Pro is now available for pre-order on Amazon for just $68.88 , pre-order your copy today and get it the day it’s released...

Updated 10/24 with final book cover design. “Picking up a tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date.” – Tom Warren /via @verge Windows 8 Review It is an exciting time to be a Windows developer.  The arrival of Windows 8...

“Picking up a tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date.” – Tom Warren /via @verge Windows 8 Review With Windows 8 launching on October 26th there are so many cool new devices coming that it’s making my head spin. I just stumbled...

“Picking up a tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date.” – Tom Warren /via @verge Windows 8 Review ASUS 11.6” touch-based Windows 8 laptop now available for pre-order on Amazon for only $599.00, will be available on October...

“Picking up a tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date.” – Tom Warren /via @verge Windows 8 Review Windows 8 Pro is now available for pre-order on Amazon for just $69.99 , pre-order your copy today and get it the day it’s released...

TypeScript is a programming language that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host.  Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg explains how TypeScript, which is a typed superset...

October 30th, 2012 to November 2nd, 2012 Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington Registration opens August 8th 2012, at 08:00 AM PST Tim O’Brien just blogged on MSDN Channel 9 about BUILD 2012 which will be held in Redmond, WA from October 30th, 2012 to...

On June 20th in San Francisco Joe Belfiore and Terry Myerson introduced Windows Phone 8 and detailed the following 8 Platform Announcements that will benefit consumers, developers and hardware vendors. Multi-core processor support: As reviewers have noted...

At the BUILD conference last year Microsoft provided attendees with a Developer Preview of Windows 8 running upon a touch-based Samsung PC. In this blog post we’ll walk through the upgrade of this PC to the Windows 8 Release Preview . You’ll want to begin...

Windows 8 today reached another milestone with the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview which is now available for download along with the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate . While you’re downloading the Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual...

During the month of June we are throwing down a Windows 8 app challenge in San Francisco. . . Join us over 4 weeks to build your Windows 8 app and a chance to win exciting prizes! Agenda: Week 1: · Business Opportunity for Windows 8 · Designing Apps with...

NOKIA is bringing another seriously cool competition for Windows Phone developers across the US and Canada with is Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge . Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge Headphones on. Tilt the seat back. Just steady codin’ as the keys get tapped...

Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, announced today from Japan’s Windows 8 Dev Days that the Windows 8 Release Preview will be available during the first week of June. /via @BuildWindows8 As always, if you’re interested in more...

Since SQL Server 2005 we have had the ability to write User Defined Types (UDT's) and User Defined Aggregates (UDA's) etc. that are then executed by the .net framework within the SQL Server process. SQL Server 2012 now uses version 4.0 of the CLR although...

A couple of years ago wrote a blog post entitled Visual Studio 2010 – Darker Shades of Blue Theme where I posted a custom settings file for Visual Studio 2010 . With the release of SQL Server 2012 you can also import and export settings and this morning...

Windows Developer Event - Windows Reimagined Learn everything you need to start building Metro-style apps for Windows today at our free, full-day Windows Developer Event. We’ll show you how to use Visual Studio to code fast, fluid, immersive and beautiful...

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 has reached the RTM milestone and is now available for download on MSDN . Read the SQL Server 2012 datasheet to learn more.

In my former life as an architect at Intel Corporation and a Microsoft MVP , I used to blog on the Intel Software Network about Microsoft Developer technologies. On April 6th 2009 I wrote a blog post discussing the need for a Team Foundation Server Express...

Please help us fight childhood cancer! I'm having my head shaved this weekend, as is our 8 year old son Andrew, to stand in solidarity with kids fighting cancer, but more importantly, to raise money to find cures. Please support me with a donation to...

Windows 8 reached an important milestone today with the release of the Consumer Preview along with the Visual Studio “11” Beta . Along with the Consumer Preview there is also the Windows Server “8” Beta (read the associated datasheet ). If you’d like...

How will you change the world with KINECT for Windows on your PC? With the launch of the new KINECT for Windows sensor today you can also download the latest KINECT for Windows SDK . Get your newly optimized for the PC KINECT for Windows sensor and change...

T-Mobile has launched the NOKIA LUMIA 710 and you can have yours for only $49.99 with a new 2 year agreement, order yours today! The NOKIA LUMIA 710 has a 3.7” ClearBlack display, a 5 MP auto focus camera, and a 1400MHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor. Subscribers...

KINECT for Windows is coming to a PC near you beginning February 1, 2012! How will you change the world with KINECT on your PC? According to the KINECT for Windows blog , the KINECT for Windows hardware will be available in limited quantities at first...

Updated for Windows Phone 7.5 , formerly known by the codename “Mango”, Windows Phone Stopwatch 5.1 has been Released to Marketplace (RTM) and so I thought I’d give an overview of this latest release and some of the new features. With 100,000 downloads...