Sometimes I get down on myself. You see, dear reader, I’ve been trying to think up a good application to write for WP7. I’ve thought of a few good apps, a couple of mine are actually up in the marketplace and earning money. But, then I say...

Gastón Hillar, a fellow Intel Black Belt Developer, without a doubt knows what he is talking about when it comes to parallel programming. Professional Parallel Programming with C# is an excellent book for anyone looking to optimize their code for the...

Visual Studio Snippets is an open source collection of code snippets for the C# programming language, providing StyleCop compliant versions of the 38 code snippets that ship within Visual Studio along with 44 additional StyleCop compliant snippets. You...

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Achim Berg discusses the momentum, strengths and challenges of the company’s newly launched Windows Phone 7 and gives us some insight into just how successful Windows Phone 7 has been since it’s launch. You can read...

If you have ever been asked by someone, especially a child, how long is it until Christmas then this is the Windows Phone 7 application for you. Christmas Time will tell you exactly how many days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even milliseconds remain...

Want to build some exiting applications for Windows Phone 7 although you’re an absolute beginner when it comes to software development on mobile devices? No problem! MSDN’s Channel 9 has a new series of videos, entitled Windows Phone 7 development for...

There is a very good event in Denver next week around the Windows Azure platform. If you are interested in Azure but haven’t yet spent much time looking at it, I would recommend you attend. Content will be at the 100-200 level so this isn’t a deep...

We just published a great paper on the Economics of the Cloud .  It does a very thorough analysis of current IT practices and gives some concrete ways that the Cloud (both Public and Private ) can lead to IT cost savings.  Unfortunately, it...

Now that Windows Phone 7 is in market, I can talk a little about some of the work I’ve been doing.  Part of being in DPE means that I’m responsible for helping the early adopters build great experiences on new products.  I’m a big fan of the...

Since the beginning of flight school I have been a little bit of a weather nerd and so as soon as I saw this weather phenomenon from my backyard today I had to run back inside and get the camera, hopefully you’ll agree that this is one cool cloud. I initially...