One of my coworkers, Andres, provided this link: http://create.msdn.com/en-us/education/quickstarts It contains valuable material to help learn Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft Services has been working on a Data Center solution, its page is now Live at: http://www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices/en/us/datacenter_services.aspx Enjoy !!

Procomer is an entity in Costa Rica whose work is to convince people to invest here. They put together a funny and nice video, using Lego and stop motion animation: Enjoy at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQLTi3eGz0U

Just received an email from the P&P team, the Windows Azure Guidance is code complete: http://wag.codeplex.com/ The results are pretty good, and the team will keep improving it.

Sometimes things converge faster than expected. On April 12 BPOS became available for our Costa Rica customers. On April 26 I was requested to present to the local SharePoint community, kind of an emergency since another presenter was not able to...

Just checked, Office and SharePoint 2010 are available for download in MSDN.

Hello all, Today is a good day for Microsoft Developers, in particular those based in Costa Rica. On one hand, Visual Studio 2010 ships, and it is already available in MSDN for download. I already started my download (will take a couple of hours...

Will try to use VS 2010 Sequence Diagrams to build some customer docs, so this links are handy: http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2009/11/20/visual-studio-2010-generating-sequence-diagrams-on-the-fly.aspx http://blogs.u2u.be/peter/post...

Some videos on Biztalk ESB: http://blogs.msdn.com/pkelcey/archive/2009/08/05/esb-toolkit-how-to-video-7-a-sharepoint-adapter-provider.aspx

Found a paper on WCF impersonation and delegation: http://blogs.msdn.com/mfinley/archive/2009/09/01/using-wcf-to-communicate-between-asp-net-website-server-and-app-server-using-impersonation-and-delegation.aspx

http://anarchycreek.com/2009/05/26/how-tdd-and-pairing-increase-production/ http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2008/12/16/how-my-team-does-agile.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2009/01/06/the-joy-of-code-reviews.aspx

Well ... it seems a lot of people wants to be able to migrate easily from versions prior to Vista. Recently Laplink released a related produc: http://laplink.com/media/press_releases/pressreleases_0022.html Since I have not tested the product...

Found a couple of articles. The first one articulates the value of MS Online Services, while the second describes how to use the management tools. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cloud-computing-bpos,2313.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...

One hidden gem in today's RTM announcements (which focus on Win 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2) is Hyper-V: Why ? Read: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-hyper-v-server-2008-r2-rtm.aspx

For details go to: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14/confirming-commercial-availability-and-announcing-business-model.aspx

Here is some information regarding Office and SharePoint 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/ http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/07/13/announcing-sharepoint...

Found this interesting post: http://blogs.msdn.com/steve_fox/archive/2009/07/08/wcf-services-and-sharepoint-integrating-sharepoint-web-parts-and-wcf-services-hosted-in-iis.aspx

Some Windows 7 demos present how you can integrate other sources to be search providers in Windows 7. This is called search federation. Here are some links: Technical docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd742958(VS.85).aspx Implementer...

One topic I was asked this week isrelated Web Services Interoperability, where I used the following links to understand the current state regarding WCF: Use BasicHTTPBinding http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.basichttpbinding...

Excellent news: http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/04/24/secret-no-more-revealing-virtual-windows-xp-for-windows-7.aspx

Here are two ways of accessing videos and presentations from the PDC 2008: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

Habib is putting together a great list of where to download things related to PDC 2008 http://blogs.msdn.com/habibh/archive/2008/11/03/where-to-download-the-goods-for-pdc-2008.aspx

You may want to check: Oslo Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/default.aspx Workflows, Services and Models http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd200919.aspx

Hello, Ray just provided this news: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx Enjoy !!!

I will not be able to attend PDC this year, but there are several good sources to keep track of important announments: RSS Feeds: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/PDCNews/RSS/?tag=Announcements Main sites (some keynotes videos will be published here...