The first ever New England GiveCamp will take place from June 11-13, 2010 at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (aka NERD) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GiveCamp is a community-led and executed event at which teams of developers, designers...

Vistaprint offers small businesses everything they need to market their business. They offer high-quality printed marketing materials, promotional products and marketing services such as copywriting, design, websites and postcard mailing. Vistaprint has...

Do you understand the basic principles and objectives of the IT architect? Can you describe the skills, capabilities and specializations in the field, including: software, infrastructure, business, and information architecture? Are role descriptions and...

  Looking for some quick tips regarding Silverlight development in an easy-to-digest format? Check-out these “Silver Snacks” below: http://www.silverlightdev.net/2010/05/12/silverlight-tip-of-the-day-19-using-bing-maps-in-silverlight/ http://www...

Last Month, Cameron Skinner from the VS2010 product team toured through the mid-west, speaking about the new visualization, modeling, and architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010.  During this tour, there were four main VS2010 features that Cameron...

A new version of the Windows Identity Framework SDK and developer training kit is available targeting Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4. The SDK and training kit each have a download option for .Net 3.5 and a download option for .Net 4.  Additionally...

The final version of the Silverlight 4 Tools plug-in for Visual Studio is now available for download. Please proceed to the Getting Started page at Silverlight.NET to proceed with the download or click here for the direct link. Silverlight 4 Tools for...

Now that Silverlight applications can run out-of-browser, a common question that often arises is how to provide user authentication under this new deployment scenario. The reason this does not work is that the Browser networking stack handles cookies...

To understand the financial impact of investing in the latest version of SharePoint, Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with 11 Microsoft customers that have started using the product and compiled their results and forward-looking expectations into...

Looking for guidance on how to use all the great new ALM features in VS2010 and TFS2010?   In January 2010,  the Visual Studio ALM Rangers shipped a wave of new guidance, which has been revised and upgraded on an ongoing basis. The intention...

The Windows Team just announced the launch of targeted partner and self service resources to help organizations get started with a proof of concept (PoC) or engage in our production pilot . During the proof of concept stage (5 to 50 PCs), the following...

CNN recently reported that Marco Calasan, a 9-year-old boy from Macedonia, is the youngest Microsoft systems engineer in the world, holds four Microsoft certificates and has written a 312-page book on Microsoft's Windows 7. You can read the amazing story...

Ford and Microsoft partnered to create an application platform to build custom apps for the car as part of a project called "American Journey 2.0".  The platform itself -- called "Fiestaware" -- is built on top of Windows 7 and...

This is a simple RSS reader application that shows how easy it is to build applications for Windows Phones 7. In particular, it shows how to work with XML & LINQ to XML. You can download the source code at codeplex .

According ComputerWorld , IDG News Service reports that Taiwanese laptop-maker Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to launch a Windows 7 tablet PC next week at the Computex Taipei electronics show. MSI is now the second major Taiwanese vendor to dump...

Microsoft announced last week that IIS Media Services will support a version of PlayReady DRM to enable protected HTTP streaming with IIS Smooth Streaming. You can read the blog posting here . Microsoft is working on a version of PlayReady DRM directly...

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability.  Check out episode #30, “You Don’t Find Skeet, Skeet Finds YOU!”.  In this episode, the man, the myth, the legend...

Microsoft has released two new open source projects that complement technical documentation recently released for Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (.pst). The PST Data Structure View Tool is a graphical tool allowing the developers to browse the internal...

SOASTA based in California, the company offers both internally installed and cloud-based testing applications. SOASTA developed a cloud-based testing application that it now deploys on the Windows Azure platform. Their CloudTest Service Helps Performance...

This project was motivated by an article by Christian Stitch describing an approach for financial option valuation implemented with Monte Carlo simulation using Excel Services. With Windows Azure, we have now easy access to a highly elastic compute...

The world of media as we know it is rapidly changing – check-out these case studies below about how Silverlight is helping to transform the media industry - and really take it to the next level:   Broadcast TV Reach & Convenience More than 1...

Registration is available at the links below. Microsoft main campus, Redmond, WA – May 18th and May 19th Hilton Santa Clara, CA – May 25 th and May 26th Attendees are expected to bring their own laptops and to participate in the Hands-On Labs, and to...

If you are curious about how the Windows Phone 7 emulator works, for example, how the touch function works between the host and the guest environments, you may want to check out this Channel9 interview by Yochay Kiriaty, Senior Technical Evangelist, with...

General Mills is a global producer of market-leading food brands such as Betty Crocker, Cheerios, Green Giant, and Nature Valley. Starting in 2009, General Mills worked with Microsoft and Razorfish to develop Betty Crocker Kitchen Assistant, a downloadable...

MDT 2010 Update 1 includes Office 2010 support, the ability for users to initiate and customize their own deployments using Configuration Manager, key enhancements in Windows 7 driver support, and much more. Download beta now at https://connect.microsoft...