Today, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2013, the next release of is integrated developer tools solution for building modern applications for devices, the cloud and on the client. Visual Studio 2013 Preview software will be released at Build 2013. ... read more

For those that aren’t aware, WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool that was first introduced in 2010 which provides a great, focused web development experience for ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js. ... read more

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, Virtual Machines and Virtual Network are now generally available (GA)! With this announcement these new services make it possible for you to move your applications into the cloud as is. ... read more

I can't believe almost 6 months has passed since the last Build conference. This year the event will be held between June 26–28 in San Francisco where Microsoft will share what's next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, and more. ... read more

January's ALM Summit on the Microsoft Campus brought together some of the greatest minds in application development, methodologies, and application lifecycle management. All of the sessions were recorded and are now available for on-demand viewing on Channel 9. ... read more

If you’ve been wanting to use Windows Azure but couldn’t because a particular open source virtual machine (VM) wasn’t available or you didn’t have the time to configure one, well you’re in luck. The newly released preview of VM Depot from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc...

In this blog post we will discuss how to migrate an existing ASP.NET Website project to Windows Azure. Before we begin you will need the following prerequisites: Windows 7 Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Download and install the Windows Azure SDK for .NET SQL Server Express 2008 R2 (This is...

Zafar Kapadia is back with a new blog post on synchronization between an on premises SQL Server and SQL Azure. The sample code illustrates how to successfully implement this functionality via the Sync Framework and is a great starting point if you're new to this type of synchronization. ... read more