You’re working on a Windows 8 or Windows Phone app, and you’re stuck. You could turn to the MSDN forums or StackOverflow , but if you prefer meeting in person or over Skype, we’re here to help. Here’s a list of US-based evangelists...

If you’re a student, you’re probably finishing up final exams right about now, and making plans to go home for winter break. Why not put your downtime to good use and build a Windows 8 app? As an incentive, we’re offering $100 to students...

Developers who’ve been working on Windows 8 applications can now get a little extra help from Microsoft. We’re launching a new online initiative called Generation App to guide developers through the process of building for Windows 8. Here’s...

Each year, thousands of developers descend upon Los Altos Hills for the Silicon Valley Code Camp . This year there are 223 sessions scheduled on topics ranging from client development, to mobile development, to web development. As a special treat,...

One of the best ways to make money with Windows 8 is to display ads in your Windows Store app using the Microsoft Advertising SDK. Here’s how you can get started. Prerequisites: You’ll need Windows 8 RTM and Visual Studio 2012. A free 90...

Hackathons are quite popular here in Silicon Valley, but not everyone can make it to one. Maybe you live too far away, or maybe you have family obligations on the weekend. You’re in luck! We’re running a virtual hackathon where everything...

Imagine you have millions of entities in an Azure table, and you want to page through them displaying 20 entities at a time. Fetching all entities and then dividing them into groups of 20 is hardly the most efficient way to do this. In addition, at the...

Let’s build a Node.js app which uses Azure Table Storage.  It will record notes from wine tastings, and for kicks let’s call it Wine Node book . When building a website, you'll probably want to use a proper web framework such as Express, but for...

The bulk of my career so far has been spent in the UNIX world on RISC workstations and Linux PCs. When I switched to developing on the Microsoft stack a few years ago, it took a little time to get used to doing things differently from the command line...

This post can also be reached via http://bit.ly/windows8token . Windows 8 is coming in the near future. You can download, use it, and develop apps for it today . As of May 2012, the Windows Store is not open for everyone to deploy. However, we are...

Here are the 5 code samples from the Windows 8 SDK that I’ll be showing during my session at the Windows 8 Anchor Camp our team is holding today in Los Angeles. I’ll update this post later with more details, but wanted to give people a resource...

If you’re writing a Metro style app for Windows 8, here’s how you can share it with another developer. Note that both the source and destination machines need a valid development license. Verify this with the PowerShell cmdlet Get-WindowsDeveloperLicense...

We asked students from all over the world to come up with innovative uses of technology that would make the world a better place. They stepped up to the challenge, and the Imagine Cup US 2012 competition was on. Imagine Cup is a global technology competition...

On March 15, 2012, I gave a presentation at the San Francisco JavaScript meetup about Windows 8 development . Thanks to Dave Edelhart , here’s the video. I wish there had been time to show more code and get into Visual Studio, but that will have...

Windows 8 supports two new ways to revert your system to an earlier state. From the Settings charm, access More PC settings and then click General . Towards the bottom, you’ll see these two choices: Refresh your PC without affecting your files...

At the time this post is being written, March 2012, at least some UEFI systems don't boot to NTFS USB thumb drives. These UEFI systems will only boot to FAT32 USB thumb drives. I have no idea if this will change in the future. The details of UEFI are...

Are you interested in experiencing the next great app platform opportunity, Windows 8? Do you want to learn how to get started building apps for this new platform? We are inviting the Silicon Valley startup community to a full-day, knockout, deep dive...

In Windows 8 and Windows Phone, you’ll see widespread use of a typeface called Segoe. I’ve always wondered exactly how to pronounce this. It could be SEE-goh, see-GOH, SEG-oh, seg-OH, etc. I took a look at its Wikipedia page, and learned that...

This post can also be reached via http://bit.ly/win8nextsteps . If you’re reading this blog post, there’s a good chance you just saw me give a presentation on Windows 8 development with JavaScript, and now you’re looking for more...

With node version 0.6.10 and npm version 1.1.0-3, you may run into this error when installing a module on Windows, not just the Azure module: PS> npm install azure npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/azure npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs...

Join us for an Orchard CMS developer’s meetup, which will be held online on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Time: 8 AM Pacific, 4 PM UTC ( other timezones ) Location: http://www.livestream...

With the recent release of the Kinect for Windows hardware and SDK, I thought I’d highlight the cool work my friends Matt Bell and Dave Gausebeck have been doing at MatterPort . In the early days of Kinect programming in late 2010, countless hobbyists...

As you may know, the Azure SDK for Node.js includes a Storage Emulator for development purposes. This lets you code against a local storage system using the Azure table, blob, and queue APIs rather than needing something configured in the public cloud...

I’ve been playing with Node.js on Azure for the past couple of weeks. In case you didn’t know, Node is a fully supported development option on Azure. There’s an official open source SDK, which as of version 0.5.2 supports Azure tables...

Virtualization is here to stay. It doesn’t matter if you're an IT Professional for a multinational company, or running a small business, chances are virtualization is making an impact on how you work. Developers are also leveraging virtualization...