Windows Phone 7 Ignition Kit Windows Phone 7 promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and...

  Andrew Parsons , Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist in NY, has catalogued some of the top game submissions from Imagine Cup 2010. If you are a student and are working on your game submission for Imagine Cup 2011 , this is a great resource...

New content has been release on MSDN to help jumpstart your client development.   This includes “How Do I “ videos on lighting up your Windows 7 application,  new virtual labs for Windows Phone 7 and videos regarding Silverlight, LightSwitch...

Microsoft Silverlight 5 was announced during the Firestarter event .  A Silverlight 5 Beta will be available in the first half of 2011 with the final release shipping in the the second half of 2011.   New features were added for Premium...

In my last post I talked data storage options for cloud applications including SQL Azure.    SQL Azure takes the power of SQL Server to the cloud allowing you to leverage retional data as you do today. See what is being said about SQL Azure...

  Data is the most important asset in most software applications built today.  This holds turn for consumer and corporate applications of all types.  There are also many options regarding where to store the data and how it will be persisted...

Keynote Starts December 2, 2010 at 9:00 pacific time Hear what’s coming next from Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie Training, labs & swag Online or in-person at Microsoft HQ, December 2nd 2010 It’s just like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to Silverlight Windows...

  SQL Azure is Microsoft's database server for the cloud.   You can provision and deploy relational databases without the startup cost required by on-premise databases.   This provides the rich features of SQL with the flexibility...

S QL Server “Denali” CTP1 is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center here .  The press release is here .   This CTP features many core improvements that are fundamental to the Denali release. Please read on for more details...

A Free Virtual Seminar Focused on Next-Generation Data Warehousing Appliance Architectures Join us on Nov. 16th for the can't miss "Leveraging Data Warehousing Appliances for High-Performance BI" Virtual Seminar! As budgets languish, data growth...

Why Ignition Showcase? Ignition Showcase is a site focused on building and enhancing the vibrant ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors and start-ups on the Microsoft platform.  The goal of Ignition Showcase is to bring together the right people...

Phones available from AT&T Device Specs ​ HTC Surround ​ LG Quantum ​ Samsung Focus ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Highlights · Slide-out speakers with SRS Dolby Mobile ...

  Have you developed an applications for Windows Phone 7 and want to know how many people have installed your app?   Once installed is it used on a regular basis?   How is it used and what is the performance like on the handset...

  The wait is over. I know many of you have been eagerly waiting to get your hands on one of the new Windows Phones. With the release of Windows Phone 7 in the US here, now is the time to participate in the “experience” yourself. If you have not...

Tweet Headline In this Issue: Windows Phone 7 Windows Azure BizSpark News CRM Update Follow Ignition Showcase   Windows Phone 7 Announcements!   Windows Phone 7 PDC10 Sessions Windows Phone 7 Applications Certifications Requirements Published...

  The release of Windows Phone 7 is upon us and the excitement is growing.   If you have not had a chance to explore the platform you are in luck.   There are several Windows Phone 7 sessions on the agenda at PDC10 .   ...

FabrikamShipping SaaS is an end to end sample scenario which demonstrates how to take advantage of the Windows Azure platform for developing and running software as a service solutions. Join Vittorio for a 30 minutes grand tour of the demo structure,...

Tune in now at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/gg261723.aspx .

Interested in how AppFabric might scale and at what cost?  Take a look at the following benchmark report on MSDN. Microsoft® Windows® Server AppFabric vs. IBM® WebSphere® eXtreme Scale 7.1 Benchmark Report

October 11, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Ralph de la Vega, President & CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, will host a joint press conference in New York to discuss the latest developments for Windows Phone 7. View the live webcast here...

  Microsoft has released a security update that addresses the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability .  We recommend installing it as soon as possible on your web-servers. Please see ScottGu’s Blog for additional details.

Please see Scott Guthrie's blog for updated information on the recent ASP.NET vulnerability . His post includes an update to the original workaround and a link to the IIS URLScan module along with steps to implement.

  Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Windows Phone 7 is here – and with it comes a new world of opportunity for passionate, creative developers. Windows Phone 7 gives you the power to build complex, robust applications using consistent hardware specs...

  Today Microsoft announced the support of Visual Basic for the Windows Phone platform in the form of an early CTP.   So now with the ability to choose either C# or VB which do you prefer?    I hear many reasons for one verse...

Today is your lucky day because Microsoft is providing support for the language you love on the new Windows Phone platform. You can now download the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools . Provided in this download are all the templates,...