Mike Wickstrand, Senior Director of Product Planning for Windows Azure, has set up a web site where you can easily share your great ideas about Windows Azure, features, tools and service offerings, to name a few.  You can vote on others’ ideas. To...

Got a question on this today during my talk so referencing a couple of articles here for those interested. SD Cards in Windows Phone 7 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dcook/archive/2010/11/08/sd-cards-in-windows-phone-7.aspx Windows Phone 7 Secure Digital Card...

The Windows Azure environment itself does not currently provide a SMTP relay or mail relay service. So how do you send and receive email in your Windows Azure applications? Steve Marx puts together a great sample application (available for download here...

FREE Public Sector ALM Training Offering - Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Training Event Series Northwest Cadence invites you to join us for our upcoming Public Sector Training Event Series at no cost to you or your organization. These live...

Are you a TSQL developer interested in developing database projects for SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” and SQL Azure? Do you want access to the SQL Server Developer Tools, Code-Named “Juneau” (SSDT) engineering team and influence...

  find out more here http://joelcitizen.com/windows-phone-infokit-for-public-sector-devel   Joel

Complimentary Two-Day ALM EXPO Virtual Conference Join us Wednesday and Thursday November 9 - 10, 2011 as ALM EXPO streams live from the Better Software Conference in Orlando, FL! Watch live keynote sessions and industry...

Please join us from 2-3pm Eastern Time for the Microsoft TechCast on October 27, 2011: Building Solutions on the Windows Azure platform for Public Sector REGISTER TODAY! Abstract What do you need to know about the Microsoft Windows Azure...

You can download the PowerPoint version here Joel Reyes put together this infokit to help developers interested in building Windows Phone apps quickly get up to speed - it can also serve as a reference to developers already building apps. This is a...

It’s approaching almost 2 years since I stopped blogging at a regular cadence.  I blogged a little bit here and there over on my blog , but definitely not at the pace I blogged when I was a Developer Evangelist for the team that owns this blog. ...

cross post from here Here’s my recommended training plan to become a Dynamics CRM 2011 developer (it’s what I used).  The foundational technologies you will need to understand are: Visual Studio 2010 .NET Framework 4.0 SOAP based Web Services OData...

cross post from here I’ve had a number of conversations with customers recently about what I recommend they install on their CRM dev environement.  In general, I always recommend that individuals do work in an isolated environment to shield themselves...

If you’re an existing Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate with MSDN subscriber, you get up to $3,500 in annual Windows Azure platform benefits at no extra charge. These benefits let you try out Windows Azure for an extended period of time...

cross post from here There are many examples that I will be blogging about.  Here is one that uses both Dynamics CRM 2011 Online and Windows Azure or Dynamics CRM 2011 and Windows Server on-prem. http://311center.codeplex.com/ Microsoft 311 Accelerator...

Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, many tools & utilities have been released by the Open Source Community, Partners and Microsoft. The best place to discover these is via the Visual Studio Extensions Gallery ...

Announcing the immediate release of three SharePoint courses to the InnerWorkings Learning Platform, covering the following topics: Beginning SharePoint Development SharePoint Data View Web Part Basics SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow ...

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Here is the schedule for the Windows Phone Camps http://www.msdnevents.com/Default.aspx?keyword=phone&slider=0 But you don’t have to wait until you go to the Camp to start playing…  Phone SDK Download is here for you! Joel Reyes

This is an opportunity to advance your IT career with Microsoft private cloud technology and solutions and become the next cloud expert in your organization. So grab a cup of coffee and get set for a fast-paced, demo-heavy day of learning. We'll start...

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Ted Kummert kicked off the SQL PASS conference today in Seattle. For those of you who aren’t familiar with SQL PASS, it is an event for the SQL Server community, driven by the SQL Server community. During his opening...

  If you are in Charlotte and surrounding areas.. this FREE CAMP is for you! http://www.azurebootcamp.com/city/charlotte Joel

  The Windows Azure User Group hosted at http://www.azureug.net/ meets 2nd Wednesday of every month from 3-4:30pm Central Time. You can sign up to attend the monthly event via live streaming or watch recordings of the past events . You can also find...