Join Microsoft for the 2012 Windows Phone Community Roadshow. Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism Group will be running this 3-hour hands-on workshop across eleven towns and cities in New Zealand. Event timing varies by location, but...

You may have seen the name flow past on your twitter stream or on your facebook wall - but what is it? It's a software developer conference coming to Auckland on Friday March 30th, brought to you by Ben Gracewood and Ian Randall. It's a world-class, cross...

YOU ARE INVITED! The New Zealand SharePoint event of the year returns for a fourth year promising again a combination of powerful speakers and extensive content.  28th + 29th March 2012 www.sharepointconference.co.nz AGENDA Over 50 Sessions suited...

Hello NZ Developers! A quick introduction – I am a part of the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft New Zealand, where I mainly work with developers, students and software vendors. One of the things I have seen over the past four years...

We’re launching a competition on the Visual Studio Blog on Geekzone. Be in to win one of four Samsung Focus Flash Windows Phone by developing a Windows Phone app. We’ve worked with our Microsoft New Zealand Windows Phone Champ, Ryan Tarak to source four...

Are you subscribed to our NZ MSDN Flash Newsletter? Click here to stay up to date with the latest news for NZ developers... I’m not sure where the year went but I know that the developers and IT Pros of New Zealand have had a very busy year in...

The Visual Studio Blog on Geekzone is back! A few years back we ran the quite successful Visual Studio 2008 blog , a curated blog where some developers from the New Zealand .Net community had a space to share tips, tricks about Visual Studio , Windows...

We are spoilt for choice with three of Microsoft’s top web platform advocates coming to New Zealand next year. Scott Hanselman will be returning to New Zealand in February to speak at Webstock in Wellington. Seats are still available to attend his session...

  Scott Hanselman is coming back to New Zealand in February to speak at Webstock 2012 in Wellington. Scott works for Microsoft as Principal Community Architect for Web Platform and Tools, aiming to spread the good word about developing software on...

Are you are interested in developing solutions and hosting them in the cloud? The Windows Azure platform has turned three years old this November, and has evolved considerably in this time, providing world class cloud offerings. Here is a quick intro...

It’s never been a more exciting time for Development tools. We are on the brink of a whole new wave of favourites like Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server and a new addition in Visual Studio LightSwitch. There are a host of language enhancements such...

We’re opening the “ Invite Only: Windows Azure Foundation Training Workshop–Auckland 23–25 November 2011” next week to any New Zealand Developer. Thanks to extra funding from the Metro Team at Microsoft Head Quarters, we were able to open up an additional...

Greetings from across the ditch! My name is Andrew Coates, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Australia. I’ve been speaking on LightSwitch at TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand , and I’m currently touring Australia meeting developers, talking about...

  Microsoft Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ 2011 is the newest edition of the Visual Studio Family. It’s a simplified, self-service development tool that enables you to build business applications quickly and easily for the desktop and cloud, regardless...

StartUp Weekend Wellington is on next weekend, 4 – 6 November at BizDojo Wellington. StartUp Weekends are 54 hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products...

MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP 2012 The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the World’s Premier Student Technology Competition focused on finding solutions to real-world issues. The competition challenges the world’s most talented software design and programming students...

Training Event The Foundation Event will provide developers with a foundational knowledge of the Windows Azure Platform. The target audience for these events include Developers, Architects, and Development leads. The sessions are targeted at the 300 level...

WELLINGTON – 16 Nov Microsoft Wellington Office Mana Room Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay Wellington AUCKLAND – 17 Nov Microsoft Auckland Office MPC Room Level 5, 22 Viaduct Harbour Avenue Auckland Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch , a simple...

This month kicks of the Rugby World Cup 2011. Along with great sport and celebration, there is the Rutherford Innovation Showcase . With key partners such as New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Ministry of Science and Innovation and ATEED, they will host...

Following on from The Great Kiwi Windows Azure Competition I got a taste for the 10 hour app. I started looking across other areas where I have been procrastinating. This lead me to Windows Phone 7, despite having a phone and also having a developer account...

Rob Maher is starting a new user group in Auckland based on anything to do with the .NET stack.  The group will meet in central Auckland on the 4 th Tuesday of every other month.  Rob will be the first speaker and is hoping to get local notables...

  The latest NZ MSDN Flash is now available. Subscribe   Guest Editor: John-Daniel Trask Mindscape Co-founder Windows Phone 7 has been available for a while now and it has been great to see so many developers jumping on board with the platform...

The latest edition of NZ MSDN Flash is now available! Subscribe . Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism team will be on the road this week – connecting with our developer audience all over New Zealand. We have part of the team running a set...

The latest edition of NZ MSDN Flash is now available! Subscribe . Editor: Nigel Parker The timing of this week’s newsletter is particularly difficult. I write this editorial in the wake of the devastating earthquake that has hit Christchurch and the true...

Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010 allow teams to manage the full lifecycle of an application from requirements, architecture and design through to coding, version control, testing, release management, and ongoing maintenance. With...