Mark Brown's Web Platform Blog

  It’s a busy day at the office as we have another new application up in the Windows Web Application Gallery today, AmpliFeeder . AmpliFeeder is a distributed social activity aggregator. In their own words…   You are no longer defined by your...

  The good times just keep on rolling over here on the Web Platform team here at Microsoft. We have just released a new application out onto the  Windows Web Application Gallery, nopCommerce .   nopCommerce is the leading ASP.NET online...

SQL Server 2008 offers an impressive array of capabilities for developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2005.  The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply...

  We have a new application in our Windows Web Application Gallery, ResourceBlender.NET ResourceBlender.NET enables you to quickly translate an application into multiple languages. An AJAX interface lets translators work over the internet or download...

Hey busy day blogging today about the Microsoft Web Platform today!!!   Check this out, a new SDK for PHP developers to build applications using PHP on Azure. They have 4 sample projects that you can download from CodePlex for you to peruse. http...

  Great news for web developers who are building PHP applications that integrate with SQL Server. We have just released an update to the Web Platform Installer that now includes the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.0.        ...

On May 12, 2009 we announced that the Microsoft Web Platform Installer has downloaded over 1.5 million products since January 2009.   The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 and 2.0, and the Windows Web Application Gallery, which has received more...

There comes a time only maybe once in our lives where a true hero for the web developer emerges. They are caring problem solvers but are rough around the edges, they drive fast cars from the 80’s, they drink a bit too much and sometimes get into a little...

Hey everybody. Apologies for not blogging lately. With the arrival of our baby I took a month off from work to spend time with the new baby (here’s a picture of him doing his Derek Zoolander look) and to give my wife a much needed break (well I tried...