Innovation Showcase

Feature Packs enable you to extend Visual Studio 2010 with capabilities that enhance and complement the existing tools. These releases expand the scenarios where you can use Visual Studio to help you create better software. Check-out what’s now available...

Yesterday at TechEd North America , Jason Zander announced the release of the Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools . This is a Microsoft-supported release, shipping on the Visual Studio Gallery. It is a package of extremely powerful Code Editor...

The Team Foundation Server team has announced the Scrum v1.0 Beta.  This is a new process template built from the ground up specifically for Scrum teams.  Scrum has become a dominant methodology in software development practices and now there...

  Curse.com is largest MMO (Massive Multi-player Online) gaming web portal in the United States and serves-up millions of games add-on’s for popular games like World of Warcraft, WarHammer, and Runes of Magic. Their users represent some of the most...

  A new on-demand series of videos shows how you can develop for Microsoft Office 2010  - Programming Microsoft Office 2010 and will show how a developer can extend Office 2010 products, by using an application such as Word as the basis for...

Microsoft has released Office Web Applications (OWA). OWA comprises Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that run in any browser. Users can create, edit and share notebooks, spreadsheets, documents and slideshows free of charge, whether or not they have...

A.D.A.M. www.adam.com , a leading provider of consumer health information and benefits technology solutions to 500+ Hospitals in the US, was looking to use cloud computing to revolutionize its business. In September 2009, they developed an H1N1 Swine...

We have just updated the Windows Azure Platform training kit (June 2010 edition). It is now available and ready for download here . This training kit has everything you need to get started and then dig deep into the Windows Azure platform. The training...

The Windows Azure team has included a new Windows Azure Storage Browser in the Visual Studio 2010 Server Explorer. This makes it even easier to develop applications that utilize Windows Azure storage. Right now the tool is for read-only access...

In this episode, Hong Choing talks to Neil Palmer, Partner for Sungard Consulting Service about the impact of Cloud Computing and new Rich Internet Application technologies such as Silverlight 4. Hong covers this solution in detail in this blog post...

The SQL Azure team has produced this video on best practices for using the SQL Azure cloud database. It walks you through the creation of a database and how to build an application that consumes it step-by-step. It also look at importing and...

Brandon Watson , who is responsible for the Developer Experience team for Windows Phone 7, reports in his blog post that Windows Phone 7 devices may be available to some developers as early as July 2010. During the Windows Phone session yesterday, Terry...

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects provide additional functionality to build and deploy Web sites and Web applications in Visual Studio 2010. This add-in provides a comprehensive UI to manage build configurations, merging, and using pre-build...

Microsoft is making several announcements at TechEd this week that developers should be sure to catch, like the introduction of our new Windows Phone Marketplace policies . We’re also providing more details about some developer features, one of which...

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability.  Check out episode #32, “CoApp: Do EPIC Schtuff!”.  Guest Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology...

If you’re using Composite Application Guidance (PRISM) to build complex, high-end, extensible RIA applications – you be glad to hear that the code base has been updated in the Codeplex repository for Compatibility with Silverlight 4.0 and the .NET 4.0...

    The lines of development and design are becoming increasingly blurred, demanding a toolset that effectively blends the two disciplines into one seamless workflow.  Great design takes passion, skill and inspiration. It also takes tools...

Looking to ramped-up on SharePoint 2010? Then be sure to check-out this great compilation blog post by the SharePoint team for links to all these materials and resources (and much more) below: Guides: SharePoint 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide , SharePoint...

Need some help on migrating your users from IE6 to IE8?  Check-out this new series of Technet Webcasts that will walk you through the process and help make the task much less daunting: Here are links to the registration for each session: 6/3/2010...

Microsoft Partner Profile eDefine was founded in 1999 as a small internet consulting firm. It's founder and President, Michael Iantosca, worked for AGENCY.COM since 1997 as the Technical Director. As Technical Director, he was responsible for working...

When you're one of the busiest pizza companies in the world, how do you scale your web site to meet regular and irregular demand? You move it to the Cloud, of course! In this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Jim Vitek and discusses Domino...

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability.  Check out episode #31, “PHP On Windows”.  guests Kanwaljeet Singla , Don Raman , and Wade Hilmo from the Microsoft...

Microsoft announced Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta would be available in July. We will keep you posted when updates on the release schedule are available. Also, Microsoft announced availability of SQL Azure 50GB...

Recently, the Microsoft Research team blogged about a cool project called CloudLab, which was developed by a team of students enrolled in CS210 , Project-Based Computer Science Innovation & Development at Stanford University. During the course...

Joel Evans at ZDNet writes in his recent post that “ InformationWeek is reporting that Microsoft has hired Touch Dimensions to build at least twenty casual entertainment games. According to the developers, the games will range form a Whack-a-Mole clone...