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...

Thank you to those of you for submitting an entry for the Windows Phone Samsung Competition – over 58 entries in total were published within the required time line. The four winners draw randomly are: Shane S Anderson – Auckland Bus Stops Donald Dingwall...

So you want to be a Phone Developer? Be in to win one of four Samsung Focus Flash Phones for developing a Windows Phone application. The first 50 entries also get a free Market Place account. I happen to have one of the best jobs within Microsoft - managing...

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...

Its been an intense week of technology sessions with the 2011 Tech Ed and Auckland Code Camp. You can now view some of the popular sessions online – check out at www.microsoft.co.nz/techedonline and also enter the draw to win one of 3 x XBOX360 + Kinect...

Team OneBuzz have had success at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup, after 3 days of gruelling competition, the team have wiped out 67 teams to make it to the top 6. They now prepare to tackle the final round and compete against 5 of the best teams in the...

  What  is required: A quick check on the number of apps released by NZ developers and discovered that we currently have 92 applications in the marketplace. We want to break the magic 100 mark . The Challenge: Finish, build and release your...

  2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup Festival - New Zealand Now in our fifth year with the most successful competition thus far, the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup saw nearly 300 entries and over 1500 students engaged in a competition that has truly taken flight...

2011 MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP FESTIVAL AUCKLAND, 12 th APRIL Join us at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup Festival and be inspired by our next generation of IT Professionals. This year you will have an opportunity to meet some of the most passionate and creative...

There is no better time to look into the Microsoft Cloud offering . Over the past four months there have been some great enhancements with the tooling support for Visual Studio 2010 and the features built within the Windows Azure Portal . Not to mention...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) kicks off this Friday (29 October) morning and we would like to invite you to participate in this year conference LIVE in New Zealand. This year’s PDC online event will include live streaming of the...

Organisations involved in the development of software applications are facing reduced budgets, increasing expectations from the business, and many more challenges to remain competitive. In this free ½ day session you will see a number of best practices...

Senior Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg is posting a series of WP7 tutorials over the month of October. Start developing your skills and get ready for the potential opportunities. Check out the details here: http://bit.ly/31daysofwp7 .

Be one of the first in the world to jump on board the Windows Phone 7 platform! Build your own original application or game and get the chance to win one of the first Windows Phone 7 handsets in New Zealand*! Plus, get recognized by the MSDN and TECHNET...

DEV305 Parallelize Your Microsoft .NET Framework-Based Applications with Parallel Extensions http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/DEV305 Ivan Towlson DAT201 Enriching the Design of a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services UDM http://www.msteched...

The Tech.Ed Express Roadshow 2010 Join us at your local MS Communities User Group for the Tech.Ed 2010 Express Roadshow presented by Ryan Tarak ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nzstudents/ ) and Nathan Mercer ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/nmercer/ ) from Microsoft...

Today was the first road show event at the North Shore User Group and I look forward  to travelling the country meeting the wider NZ community. Some key links around the Developer Express Content: Windows Phone 7 Resources: http://developer.windowsphone...

Tech.Ed Online is the best way to catch up on all the latest Microsoft technology updates and training information from Tech.Ed NZ and around the world. With more than 170 sessions available on-demand or for download from Tech.Ed NZ, along with more than...

  The MS Communities Crew formerly known as the .NET User Group are running their legendary Code Camp now rebranded to MS Communities Summit. This is your opportunity to get a hands on look on what’s new in the Developer and IT Pro space, the event...

Following the recent success of the Australian ALM Conference in Sydney in April, we’ve decided to bring the conference over the Tasman to New Zealand. The inaugural New Zealand ALM Conference is set to run in Wellington at Te Papa on the 21st & 22nd...

Chris Auld and Ryan CrawCour have spent the last couple of months building the new set of Windows Azure training material for Microsoft. Be among the first in the world to experience this training at the New Zealand Windows Azure Bootcamps. These intensive...

FIRST PLACE: Team One Beep from the University of Auckland have developed a system for delivering data over conventional radio transmitters; the purpose of which is to enable educational material to be delivered to impoverished schools and communities...

Reserve your seat for the 2010 Imagine Cup National Finals being held at the University of Auckland on the 30th of April kicking off at 6.30pm. This is your opportunity to check out the prototypes of the top 4 teams selected from over 100 teams. Each...

Wouldn’t it be awesome if PHP developers building reporting applications could use the wider range of ready-to-use tools and services to create, deploy, and manage their reports. Today the SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP turns that scenario...