Our team within Microsoft Global Business Support that supports developer writing Windows Store apps and Windows Phone apps have a team blog here . This is multi-contributor blog that offers advice and ideas on solving some of the common scenarios that...

Lee Culver, a software developer on the .NET Runtime team, has shipped an awesome managed code library for anyone interested in analysing memory dumps and the internals of running .NET applications.  Known as CLRMD, this library allows you to write...

An exciting competition organised by CodeProject and sponsored by Microsoft is under way with the deadline for completing stage one extended to the 3rd of May. Try Windows Azure and 5 programming challenges for a chance at Spot prizes, Stage prizes and...

An important hotfix package has been released: An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 “This article describes a hotfix rollup for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)-based and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1-based...

My colleagues in Ireland have been stretching their legs raising money for Concern Universal as part of the Microsoft CSS Malawi Citizenship project which I blogged about earlier this year. They’d still like to raise a bit more money so if you fancy donating...

If you or one of the users of a Windows Store app you’ve developed are having problems with the app, a good starting point may be the Apps troubleshooter that is available. If you go to this page: What to do if you have problems with an app you’ll find...

A few days ago the latest update to the Visual Studio Extensions for the Windows Library for JavaScript. You can find them here . HTH Doug

Our UK Developer and Platform Evangelism team have a great site designed to help get UK developers started building Windows Store apps and make them successful. You can find it here: http://www.windows-store.co.uk/       HTH Regards Doug

Great to see that we are now going to provide crash reports to help you certify your Windows Store app . In other words if the certification report comes back indicating that it crashed in some way during testing, we’ll now provide more detail about the...

Useful short, new video here explaining what a Microsoft account is. HTH Doug

Loving watching the different style adverts we are using in different countries and regions: International Windows 8 TV ads launched Roll on Friday! Doug

I’m enjoying watching the Surface videos. Here is the full set of Surface videos so far… Surface with Windows RT Drop Test Learn more about Surface The making of Microsoft Surface The Surface Movement Microsoft Surface Street Art time lapse Surface by...

#MSLearning In case you are looking for some free training – starting today for two days (Pacific time zone) – learn about developing for Windows 8 apps with  HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.  This will also help you prepare for new certification...

A team of 10 volunteers from Microsoft Customer Service and Support in Europe and North America have just set off for Malawi as the “On the Ground” team of the 2012 Microsoft Customer Service and Support Malawi Citizenship project. The aim of the project...

Following the publication of Microsoft Security Advisory (2661254) last week, clients that have applied the appropriate update may find they have trouble connecting to certain web sites that are using an HTTPS connection (SSL). This can happen if the...

More places than you might realise as this short and interesting video shows

Vance Morrison , Performance Architect on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) team writes and maintains a very powerful tool called PerfView that harnesses the power of Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) data produced by the CLR. The tool can be download here...

This article by Chris Farrell is a great introduction to how .NET manages memory for applications. But even better it is actually chapter 1 of an eBook “Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management” that is available for free ! Thanks Chris and Nick! HTH...

Nice blog post here by MVP Tarun Arora on turning IIS logs into web tests. Great stuff! Doug

My colleague Cenk in Turkey has just published a great set of IIS Best Practices . Sound advice. HTH Doug

Yesterday we launched a new Microsoft Support portal for small businesses . Lots of information around optimizing and securing your business software assets, Microsoft’s cloud offerings like Office 365 and much more. HTH Doug

A recent comment on one of my blog posts suggested that my blog was a bit too technical and did not really address the issue of why a computer might be running slowly. This is true, my blog really is aimed at software developers, system administrators...

We recently added proactive diagnostics for both SharePoint and Exchange to System Center Advisor (SCA). This is in addition to SQL Server and Windows Server which were already supported. SCA builds on the knowledge and experience of 1000s of Microsoft...

A new wizard style portal on support.microsoft.com has gone live. Additionally you can find a nice “hub list” of support portals for different products here . In particular, the support portal for the Microsoft .NET Framework can be found here . HTH Doug

The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework continues to expand, now encompassing more than 3,500 code samples to help developers make the most of the Microsoft platform!  A new version of the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework sample browser application...