C9::GoingNative is a monthly show on Channel 9 focused on native development with an emphasis on C++. Each episode will have a segment including an interview with a native dev in his/her native habitat (office) where we'll talk about what they do and...

How many times have you wanted to send a project to a friend or upload it to a web site like MSDN Code Gallery only to find that your zip file has lots of stuff that you don't need to send in it making the file larger than it needs to be. bin folder obj...

Today, developers enrolled via the Windows Phone App Hub or DreamSpark members can get “Mango” on their Windows Phones, now, according to a Next At Microsoft blog post from Steve Clayton. Picture taken from: http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011...

The Windows Azure team has announced change in pricing for the Windows Azure platform that will provide significant cost savings for customers whose cloud applications experience substantial inbound traffic, and customers interested in migrating large...

SP1 contains all Cumulative Updates and Public Updates for 2010 that have already shipped. SP1 also contains new fixes for areas of each product. And there are some new features. For a complete list of changes for each product contained in SP1, see this...

On June 28, 2011, Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 365, Microsoft’s next generation productivity service. Office 365 is the culmination of more than 20 years of experience delivering world class productivity...

Full post in the AppFabric team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabric/archive/2011/06/20/announcing-the-windows-azure-appfabric-june-ctp.aspx Windows Azure AppFabric team announced the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP which includes capabilities...

S Somasegar, Developer Division Senior Vice President, announced C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) that helps you target graphics hardware from all the major hardware vendors. The idea is to provide a way you can build out your software on...

Mobile Test Drive site has launched. It provides Windows Phone developers with the functionality you can expect on the IE 9 experience you’ll find in the ‘Mango’ release. The same core rendering engines on both the desktop and mobile versions of IE and...

The second IE10 platform preview for developers is now available. The same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public “Windows 8” demos, is now available for download. With this update, IE10 continues to deliver support for site-ready HTML5 technologies as...