Students across America have been dreaming up ways to solve the world’s toughest problems using the magic of software. They are competing in the Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition hosted annually by Microsoft...

Curt Devlin has written a detailed article on how Partners Health Care is leveraging Microsoft’s Health Vault in its new solution called Connected Health . The Center for Connected Health , a division of the Partners HealthCare medical network in the...

One of the most impressive elements on the Microsoft PDC Show floor has been a Windows Azure showcase container. Designed by Microsoft and built by Dell , this impressive piece of hardware is a key for our datacenter strategy that reduces the time it...

Ever wonder how customers large and small are using Silverlight to power their next-generation cutting-edge RIA applications? Check-out this blog post by Joe Cleaver where he summarizes the Customer showcase video at the annual MIX event in Las Vegas...

Below is a listing of all the MIX10 session videos arranged into the three categories below: Windows Phone – General Design and Development ( Part I ) Windows Phone and Silverlight ( Part II ) Windows Phone and XNA (Part III) All told, there’s more than...

Below is a listing of all the MIX10 session videos arranged into the three categories below: Windows Phone – General Design and Development ( Part I ) Windows Phone and Silverlight (Part II) Windows Phone and XNA (Part III) All told, there’s more than...

Contents Keeping Architectures Relevant: Using Domain-Driven Design and Emergent Architecture to Manage Complexity and Enable Change Sound advice on how to keep architecture relevant, and not forgotten, after a solution's implementation. Multiple-Context...

Bob Familiar details OuterLinks adoption of Windows 7, Silverlight and Bing Maps . OuterLink , a leader in the high value asset tracking industry is using Silverlight, Bing Maps and Windows 7 to drive innovation in this safety and security focused business...

Below is a listing of all the MIX10 session videos arranged into the three categories below: Windows Phone – General Design and Development (Part I) Windows Phone and Silverlight ( Part II ) Windows Phone and XNA ( Part III ) All told, there’s more than...

Here are links to the tools to architect, design, and develop Windows Phone applications using Visual Studio and Expression Blend. Note that they are listed in recommended installation order. 1. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Release Candidate (Needed ONLY...

Silverlight is truly a cross-platform technology – even on mobile devices!  Microsoft has announced a Beta version of Developer Tools and Silverlight runtime to enable users to run Silverlight applications on the Nokia S60 5th Edition platform. ...

Looking for a great (and highly scalable) way to host your Facebook applications? Want to develop them in .NET? Check-out this new toolkit built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft to give the community a good starter kit for getting Facebook apps...

Looking for a low-impact way to get up-to-speed quickly on all the new features in Visual studio 2010? Check out this blog post for downloads for a Virtual Machine that includes everything you need to learn and/or deliver demonstrations of many of my...

Ready to start interfacing with your world on a whole new level?  The Windows Sensor and Location platform, new in Windows 7, enables your computer and applications to adapt to their current environment. With location sensors -- including GPS devices...

StreamInsight is a platform being released alongside SQL Server 2008 R2 to enable the development of Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications. So what does that mean? You can achieve the following tactical and strategic goals for your enterprise by...

Ever wanted to scan for all the unused CSS rules in an HTML document - and then automatically remove all those that are not used? Cleaning out unused CSS will not only reduce the bandwidth impact, but will also improve the performance of the browser ...

The SQL Server team has announced the availability of the March 2010 update, which includes an additional unit of new content covering Application and Multi-Server Management improvements in SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 from a developer perspective...

Jas Sandhu has a great recap of Microsoft’s participation in the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) that was held in San Francisco on March 17-18, 2010 on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog . Technorati Tags: Open Source , OData , Cloud Computing...

Smooth Streaming is the productized version of technology first used by Microsoft to deliver on-demand video of the 2008 Summer Olympics for NBCOlympics.com. By dynamically monitoring both local bandwidth and video rendering performance, Smooth Streaming...

The WF team is pleased to announce the availability of the WF Migration Kit CTP at http://wf.codeplex.com/ . The WF Migration Kit helps users migrate WF3 (System.Workflow) artifacts to WF4 (System.Activities). The high level goal is to migrate workflow...

In this episode , Damon Squires , principal architect at RDA , discusses with Zhiming Xue where in a typical enterprise solution Microsoft Azure AppFabric -- consisting of the Service Bus and the Access Control Service -- may be used, how on-premise data...

Today, Microsoft is announcing Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Detailed information regarding SP1 will be released over the next several months; but today Windows Server 2008 R2 is announcing that SP1 will deliver two important...

At the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft announced the availability of an Internet Explorer 9 "platform preview" release during Tuesday's keynote address. One of the most interesting features that was announced was how IE9 is...

At MIX10 Jason Brush of Schematic talks about the design considerations for creating successful public interfaces for applications such as kiosks, ranging from how to make a screen's touch-ability clear to users, to creating interactions that are easily...

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