Mike Taulty has published an excellent series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in " Prism " or the " Composite Application Guidance " from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications...

The Improvement Map Accelerator allows you to search the IHI Improvement Map (IMap) from any site on the internet. The accelerator passes the selected text to the Silverlight based IMap tool which checks for a search term being passed in on the URL. If...

Jim O’Neil , a developer evangelist for Microsoft, has published 7 detailed technical articles on 7 features of Windows 7 that developers should be looking at if they want to really shine on the new OS. Task Bar Federated Search Extended Linguistic Services...

Now that the Azure commercial release date is just around the corner (November 17th at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference) 3rd-party applications are starting to appear. Microsoft has always had a very healthy 3rd-party ecosystem and that...

The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires solving a series of problems that are independent of a particular software platform...

Connected Show – Episode #19 – Dave Crawford on User Experience: It ain’t lipstick baby! In this episode guest co-host and Interviewee Dave Crawford of Microsoft UK joins Dmitry to discuss News such as Windows 7, Windows Stores, ZuneHD development, Java...

Recently Bob Familiar had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine , Paul Hamnett, VP of engineering at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org), and Kerri Sweeney , Director of Development at IHI, to learn about a new...

Microsoft has put together a list of online resources to help developers get started with creating Windows 7 applications, including links to application compatibility tool, Windows SDK, managed code for Windows 7 APIs, and the training kit. See more...

Microsoft has just released a set of runtime libraries to support some Windows 7 features on Vista and Windows Server 2008. This means that developers can add Windows 7 features to applications that run on Vista and Windows Server 2008. For more detail...

Register by October 30th and receive a $300 discount! Get Windows 7 Compatible PDC09 attendees can get a jumpstart on making sure their applications run seamlessly on Windows 7.  Technical experts will be available onsite at the Windows 7 Developer...

We are getting pretty close to the commercial release of the Windows Azure Platform at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in November. We recently released a set of PowerShell cmdlets that you can use to automate the management of your Windows...

  Shane O’Neill of CIO Magazine has compiled a great series of articles on Windows 7. From the introduction: From pricing questions to interface tweaks to upgrade concerns, CIO.com's Windows 7 Bible covers it all. Our guide delivers expert reviews...

Try your hand at PHP on Windows and win a complete 52" HDTV home entertainment system PLUS the opportunity to present your creation at php|tek 2010 with an all-expenses paid trip! Ok, so what’s the deal? Create a PHP on Windows application from scratch...

Resources for Architects: Editor's Choice   Scalibility: 10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million Users At the Future of Web Apps conference Kevin Rose (Digg, Pownce, Wefollow) gave a cool presentation on the top 10 down and dirty ways you...

The Channel 9 Learning Center is a new destination on Channel 9, that’s designed to provide free developer training on emerging Microsoft products and technologies. Developers of all types will find free pre-release developer training, courses including...

This past week, we released the October preview of the Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit.  The Kit includes 15 presentations, 20 hands-on labs, and 13 demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual...

What are the business considerations, the risks and benefits, when considering cloud computing options, strategies, and trends? Check out this discussion between Miha Kralj and Zhiming Xue . Technorati Tags: ARCast , Architects , Architecture ,...

In his blog post titled “Outlook for Azure – scattered clouds but generally sunny”, Vishwas Lele , CTO of Applied Information Sciences, addresses concerns over pricing, scalability, performance, remote desktop access and applicability of Windows Azure...

Check out this cool photo book tool called SmileBooks on Windows 7. Try the new multi-touch features if you have a touch screen monitor. More info at this blog post. Technorati Tags: Windows 7 , Photo Editing Tool , SmileBooks    

I like working for Microsoft (That's in case my boss is listening :-)) but it has never been as much fun as it was today.  As you know by now Windows 7 launched today.  I was asked to volunteer to go to my local Best Buy and demonstrate the...

MSNBC.COM has just published a PCWorld article by Harry McCracken that goes over some basic and advanced features of Windows 7 from the perspective of end users.  It’s a great article to read. For more detail check out this blog post . Technorati...

Microsoft has put together a collection of Windows 7 online training resources for developers at Channel9. Topics in the collection include: multitouch sensors and location taskbars ribbon shell libraries background services instrumentation and performance...

Option #1 : Use Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to check if the hardware on your existing computers is adequate; Option #2 : Use Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 to check if your applications can run on Windows 7 and how to resolve compatibility...

For those of you who are interested in programming for the Windows Azure platform (and if not why not? :-)) you should be aware that we have announced free Windows Azure Platform cloud computing use for MSDN Premium and BizSpark customers following Windows...

(Starting at 2'50" of the video clip) Why asked by FoxBusiness reporters why corporations may not put off upgrading to Windows 7 this time, Intel CEO Paul Otellini responds by saying that three are three things coming together: old software, old...