Silverlight 3 Jumpstart Book Grab a copy of Silverlight 3 Jumpstart by Microsoft MVP and Regional Director David Yack . You won’t learn Silverlight in depth but all of the essential mechanics are here to get you going. How Silverlight compares...

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You can watch March Madness on CBS in HD this weekend using Silverlight plus the MLS season kicked off today - powered by Silverlight. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/neulion-chosen-as-major-league-soccers-digital-video-partner-2010-03-25?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Amazon announced this morning a pilot program that allows customers with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EA) to use their existing Windows Server licenses with EC2 . To participate in this pilot: Your company must be based (or have a legal entity...

On April 12, Microsoft will launch Visual Studio 2010. Join us at the Microsoft Visual Studio Conference & Expo and experience the launch alongside the Visual Studio team and industry legends. You'll get three days of sessions by the best speakers...

This latest version of Silverlight delivers hundreds of features and controls that, when combined with the continued innovation in Microsoft’s world-class tools for designers and developers — Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend – present...

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You can now write programs that distribute work across multiple processors without having to work directly with threads or the thread pool. Visual Studio 2010 includes parallel computing libraries for both the C runtime using the new multithreaded tool...

With Lab Management, you can quickly create multi-machine virtual environments. Visual Studio Lab Management is built on top of System Center Virtual Machine Manager and it lets you create virtual environments with multiple images in minutes. It makes...

This training kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. The content is designed to help you learn how to utilize a variety of Visual Studio ® 2010 and .NET Framework 4 technologies. Please note that some of the content within the kit will...

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP, Microsoft’s developer toolset for Windows Phone 7 Series is available for download. The Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP contains what you need to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. Specifically, it includes...

Faster code authoring. Visual Studio 2010 includes code snippets for you to write and share code faster. You can insert snippets from the snippets manager or directly from IntelliSense. Dramatically improved IntelliSense for JScript. There is virtually...

Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview including expanded support for HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new JavaScript engine. The early code is fast ...

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There has been a lot of exciting news this week around Windows Phone 7. If you are ready to start building applications, tryout our new tools at http://www.microsoft.com/express/ . The tools are part of the Visual Studio family of products and best of...

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