Seven Web Application Toolkits are available for download at the MSDN Code Gallery . These toolkits are aim to provide web developers with resources (such as project templates, controls, code samples, and documentation) in a consistent packaged format...

Jason Beres has posted his slides from a talk he gave at the NY MYC: http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/jason_beres/archive/2009/09/16/silverlight-slides-and-code.aspx

Microsoft's new Thrive Community offers a place to learn new skills, look for new job opportunities, and connect with your peers. The web development track of the site has comprehensive list of resources in some of the newest and hottest Microsoft technologies...

From the site : In March 2009, Microsoft added a new option for developing web applications on the .NET platform: the ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0. You've probably heard quite a bit of buzz in the Microsoft web development community about it. But perhaps...

Doloto is a Microsoft Research project that has the goal of making Web 2.0 apps faster. "The goal of the project is to make Web 2.0 applications run faster," Livshits says. "This is a whole new area, as far as software development and how to optimize...

A few interesting posts caught my attention at InfoQ today: .NETZ – Compression and Packing for .NET Libraries " From the beginning, the .NET runtime had a decent packaging system based on a collection of assemblies. While far better than loose script...

The article talks about the Math Worksheet Generator that's built on top of Microsoft's Math Engine. This tool help teachers devise new match problems for their students: " Microsoft's Education Labs launched a new project this afternoon and it's better...

News about the latest WW Telescope release : "Examine astronomical data in unprecedented detail. Take a Web tour of the universe. Explore the heavens in 3-D. WorldWide Telescope keeps expanding its horizons. On Aug. 17, the External Research division...

Interesting article by Microsoft Research's Mary Czerwinski on the new ways that we might interface with computers in the future: Muscle Interfaces, Tongue-based interaction, Bionic Contact Lenses, etc. " The idea is that by freeing people from keyboard...

A very interesting article at the New York Times by Miguel Helft about Qi Lu , the President of Microsoft's Online Services Division [ Wikipedia ]: "Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu...