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There’s a modestly popular 34 parts video series on developing Windows Store Apps by Bob Tabor available on Channel9. The series guides you through fundamentals of XAML specifically focusing on how to layout app pages that respond to resolution...

A ll local teams from Pakistan not chosen to go to the Microsoft Imagine Cup World Wide Finals as a result of our local judging will still have a second chance to go to Russia through the online competition. In order to do that every participating...

Dear Microsoft Community Member, Hope you are doing well. In our efforts to develop and enhance the skill set of Students, Developers & Startups on Windows Phone 8, we are organizing an introduction session on Windows Phone 8 Platform Please...

A picture says a thousand words. Evolution of technology has given more dimensions to this phrase as can be found true for this Windows Azure Poster available free for download.

In this very first blog post of my Kinect programming series, I am going to talk about the fundamentals of Kinect sensor followed by other posts in which I’ll be discussing Kinect from a developer perspective. In my spare time I like to develop...

Coded UI Tests help automate browser based applications built on Internet Explorer. We are now enabling cross-browser testing of such applications. Users will be able to perform functional testing of web applications across IE/Firefox/Chrome. One can...

The Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering supports running Windows virtual machines and Linux virtual machines in the Cloud. In this article, I provide step-by-step guidance for running a new Linux virtual machine in the cloud using...

Here's a good news for Windows Phone developers. Windows Phone 7.8 SDK is just announced and is an optional update. Yes, that's right. The SDK mainly adds two new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images to existing SDK installation with variation of RAM (256...

I know everyone prefers different types of resources, some of them like webcasts/podcasts, others like reading and books and articles or demos or hands on labs. There are lots of Free Windows Azure EBooks that you can download. You may find some...

You can now download the Windows Phone 8 Code Samples from http://t.co/Fqp3UdnF

You can start developing Office and SharePoint apps with Windows Azure integration easily. You can navigate to Start building apps for Office and SharePoint and Sign up for an Office 365 Developer Site . With your Office 365 Developer Site...

The BCL team has recently released preview of the Immutable collection for .NET 4.5 and Windows Store apps and can be acquired as NuGet package . When I delved in this topic I stumbled upon a really cool Channel 9 video discussing Immutable Collection...

Are you an iOS developer planning to port app on Windows 8 or Windows Phone and interested in shifting on this new and booming market? Here's a good news. iOS Resources page ( www.interop.windows.com ) is now live on Dev center. This is a great starting...

After launch of Windows Phone 8 on October 29, 2012, Microsoft observed an increase in app targeted for Windows Phone. Windows Phone 8 launch also resulted in more countries addition in marketplace and also extended developer subscriptions to these countries...

Have you built your app yet? To help you get started we've just opened the Windows 8 Area on Channel 9 . Right now we have over 85 videos and 17 hours of free developer content live. You'll learn how to build beautiful apps and sell them in the Windows...

Most of you developing apps for either Windows Phone or Windows 8 must have thought or replicated the same concept on counterpart technology. Though most part of the code (XAML and code behind) remains the same while porting an app built for Windows Phone...

There is a lot of buzz word for Windows Azure these days in the market and rightly so. Though the learning curve is not very steep, to help fellow developers Umit Sunar has come up with Windows Azure Development InfoKit which is a great one-pager resource...

There are 50 “Store Ready” templates for Windows 8 in the form of Visual Studio projects. Templates are a great way to get started. Developers can now choose a design template which is closest to their design/implementation, customize and...

I feel really proud to share that first Windows 8 application from Pakistan is now in Windows Store. The application name is Popcorn time. It’s an ultimate movies database, which gives you exclusive information about the latest Hollywood & Bollywood...

Dear Sir/Madam, At Microsoft, we work with the local software economy to foster innovation and entrepreneurship through our community and form eco-system. Following the same lines, I would like to invite you to  the Entrepreneurship Meet-up ...

      Dear Recipient,   It is with great pleasure that I would like to invite you to the Microsoft TechTalk on KINECT Programming . Following are the details of the event.   About TechTalk Microsoft TechTalk is another unique...

Dear Recipient, It is with great pleasure that I would like to invite you at the Enterprise TechTalk on Windows 8 . Following are the details of the event: Date, Time, Location & Registration Date:                     ...

Dear All, I am pleased to invite you to attend the session on ASP .NET which is scheduled on Tuesday 20th March 2012 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm. The objective of this session is to provide an over view about Web Development using ASP .NET.   Muhammad...

Dear All, I am pleased to invite you to attend the online session on SQL Server 2008 R2  which is scheduled on Thursday 15th March 2012 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. The objective of this session is to provide an over view about Microsoft SQL Server. Muhammad...

You want to change the 3D rotation, frame and layout of the picture. Which of the following tool will allow you for that? 1. Picture Border 2. Picture Effect 3. Picture Layout 4. Picture Style   How to participate: Answer the above question and providing...