Innovation Showcase

NET 4.0 includes significant advancements for developers writing parallel and concurrent applications, including Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), new thread-safe collections, and a variety of new coordination and synchronization...

Now that you have created that great next killer Silverlight RIA application – it’s time to think about security. Security on the Web continues to be a significant concern to consumers and enterprises alike. Security becomes increasingly important as...

Microsoft has just released the Office 2010 developer Training kit – which includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, source code, and instructor-led videos, that are designed to help you learn how to develop...

Microsoft Producer allows you to take an existing presentation file, capture and synchronize video and audio narration, add additional media content, and produce a unified set of content ready for viewing in a browser on your corporate intranet or a generally...

The Microsoft office Team has announced that they have published a new RTM Hyper-V Virtual Machine for a full immersion in the Office and SharePoint 2010 Experience.  It contains all the goodies you have come to love & a few new ones, including...

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS) enables two or more organizations to share in the management of digital identities based on trusted business relationships to facilitate collaboration, reduce cost, and improve security. Active...

Ina Fried @ CNET covers the Microsoft research TechFair2010 in Silicon Valle with these recent Beyond Binary articles Microsoft science fair hits Silicon Valley Hands-on with Microsoft's translating telephone Microsoft makes cool stills from lousy video...

Want to easily create a new Button that plays a sound and bounces off the screen when you click on it?  Behaviors will enable people to do just that by dragging and dropping the behavior onto the element they want to add the interactivity to. ...

Need a quick translation to impress your business colleagues or maybe order from the menu at a fancy French restaurant? Check-out this blog post where, at the intersection of Silverlight and the Microsoft Translator Interactive SDK -  you can now...

Do you (or someone you know) have a code base look like this? Looking for a way to get a handle on understanding your code base fast ? Sometimes a picture can speak a thousand words – and now with Visual Studio 2010 you can make sense out of that mess...

Looking for a quick way to get a high-quality Silverlight video experience in your application? The Silverlight Media Framework (SMF) is an open source project that was released by Microsoft at the 2009 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. It...

This two-hour on-line SQL Azure clinic explores the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Azure . It covers: Understanding the SQL Azure Platform Designing Applications for SQL Azure Migrating Applications to SQL Azure Achieving Scale with SQL...

This paper provides an architectural overview of the SQL Azure Database, and describes how you can use SQL Azure to augment your existing on-premises data infrastructure or as your complete database solution. SQL Azure Database is a cloud based relational...

Our Developer Evangelist David Isbitski recently completed a nice sketching application for Windows Phone 7 and documented the thought process behind the fun project in a blog post . If you are interested to see how the app works and maybe improve it...

Ruth Malan writes on her online blog ‘A Trace in the Sand’ on the topic of ‘ Do architects need to code? ’. In part, architecture is about enabling many people to work on a complex system , and still achieve something that is coherent. So the architect...

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode 29 “ Get LIT with Silverlight & WPF 4 ”.  Microsoft’s own Pete Brown joins Peter to discuss the...

Today, Microsoft announced the release of the second IE9 Preview.  This release builds on the first Platform Preview from MIX10 and now contains: More improvements to IE9’s performance and support for standards. Additional tests submitted to the...

The Microsoft Extreme Computing Group regularly publishes an extensive set of benchmarks on all aspects of Windows Azure performance at http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx .  (Note that it is itself a Windows Azure application.) We blogged...

In talking to customers one of the questions that I get asked repeatedly is how to migrate a legacy application into Window Azure . In the first of this this multipart screen cast series Brian Hitney from Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism...

Windows 7 provides native APIs for developers to create multitouch applications. However, selecting right devices, e.g., integrated PCs and notebooks, screens, panels or monitors, that support multitouch capabilities has not been an easy task for developers...

Did you know that the Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 now provides visual design support for creating Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications? You can now build XAML-based user interfaces for your applications by...

Here’s a brilliant use of the new parallel computing capabilities exposed in the .NET 4.0 framework and Visual Studio 2010 – the ability to run your Unit Tests in Parallel across multiple cores. In Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft introduced the ability...

Whether you are currently running Hyper-V or just getting started, Microsoft has released a great toolset that will help guide you towards a better, more efficient virtualization environment. You can use this Analyzer to run Powershell scripts to check...

Looking to get a great working summary of what’s new in SharePoint 2010 for developers? Check-out this blog post by the Microsoft ISV team for a complete rundown on all the cool new features for developers in Sharepoint 2010 such as: New Visual Studio...

When most people think of the cloud, they generally look at is as means of building and hosting highly-scalable, highly-available applications to their customers and partners. However, many forward looking companies see the cloud as a way to enable and...