Innovation Showcase

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Lest there be any doubt that Microsoft is “All In” the cloud, we recently were one of the primary sponsors of Cloud Expo at New York’s Javits Convention Center. Highlight of the expo was a complete Azure Data Center in a box, a 30 foot compute and...

My colleague Stephane Crozatier created a nice panorama control for Windows Phone 7. It is a sample implementation of a Silverlight control that allows to create "Hub" applications on Windows Phone 7 Series. You can find more detail about what...