Join the Big Nerd Ranch and Microsoft for this free, two-day training designed to jumpstart your Windows Store app development. You will learn the ins-and-outs of the Windows platform from iOS developers who are now building Windows apps. Sessions will...

  Get ready to become immersed in the power of Visual Studio 2012. The .NET Rocks! Team of Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell are on the road bringing you presentations focused on building modern applications on the Windows platform for both client...

Following the announcement of Windows Store App Labs , we’re excited to announce a joint Hackathon with Facebook that will take place on November 30 th at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, CA. Developers, designers and entrepreneurs are all invited. Join members...

    Mountain View, CA Friday, Dec. 7th 9:00am - 4:00pm FREE EVENT Seating is limited, so register today. A Windows Phone Camp is a FREE event where you can learn everything you need to know to develop and publish a Windows Phone application...

Updated 10/24 with final book cover design. “Picking up a tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date.” – Tom Warren /via @verge Windows 8 Review It is an exciting time to be a Windows developer.  The arrival of Windows 8...

APP SUCCESS BEGINS HERE. The biggest wave of innovation in Microsoft history is creating unprecedented business opportunities for developers. Join me for a free launch event, and you’ll see how the latest developer tools and platforms can help you gain...

Windows 8 Pro is now available for pre-order on Amazon for just $68.88 , pre-order your copy today and get it the day it’s released on October 26th! Amazon is also offering those that order Windows 8 Pro a $30 Promotional Credit for orders placed between...

With Windows 8 launching on October 26th there are so many cool new devices coming that it’s making my head spin. I just stumbled upon this machine on Amazon for only $1599 with a dual screens, one 11.6” HD-LED screen as well as an 11.6” LED touch screen...

ASUS 11.6” touch-based Windows 8 laptop now available for pre-order on Amazon for only $599.00, will be available on October 26th. Order Yours Now ! Operating System: Windows ® 8 Home Premium (64-bit) Processor: 3rd Gen Intel ® Core ™ i3-3217U (1.8GHz...

It is an exciting time to be a Windows developer.  The arrival of Windows 8 is a complete game changer.  The operating system and its development platform offer you an entirely new way to create rich, full-featured Windows-based applications...

Windows 8 Pro is now available for pre-order on Amazon for just $69.99 , pre-order your copy today and get it the day it’s released on October 26th! Windows 8 will also be available as a download for those who don’t want the DVD for $39.99. ...read more

TypeScript is a programming language that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host.  Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg explains how TypeScript, which is a typed superset...

October 30th, 2012 to November 2nd, 2012 Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington Registration opens August 8th 2012, at 08:00 AM PST Tim O’Brien just blogged on MSDN Channel 9 about BUILD 2012 which will be held in Redmond, WA from October 30th, 2012 to...

Come join us at Coloft Santa Monica (920 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401), as we provide in-depth looks at how to design and build apps for Windows 8, from scratch to finish, on Tuesday evenings over the course of four weeks starting 7/24....

On June 20th in San Francisco Joe Belfiore and Terry Myerson introduced Windows Phone 8 and detailed the following 8 Platform Announcements that will benefit consumers, developers and hardware vendors. Multi-core processor support: As reviewers have noted...

At the BUILD conference last year Microsoft provided attendees with a Developer Preview of Windows 8 running upon a touch-based Samsung PC. In this blog post we’ll walk through the upgrade of this PC to the Windows 8 Release Preview . You’ll want to begin...

Windows 8 today reached another milestone with the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview which is now available for download along with the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate . While you’re downloading the Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual...

Windows 8 today reached another milestone with the availability of the Windows 8 Release Preview which is now available for download along with the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate . While you’re downloading the Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual...

During the month of June we are throwing down a Windows 8 app challenge in San Francisco. . . Join us over 4 weeks to build your Windows 8 app and a chance to win exciting prizes! Agenda: Week 1: · Business Opportunity for Windows 8 · Designing Apps with...

Come join us at RocketSpace in San Francisco every Monday night throughout the month of June to build great Windows 8 apps. Throughout the course of this four-part series, guests will have a chance to learn from Microsoft experts about the world’s largest...

NOKIA is bringing another seriously cool competition for Windows Phone developers across the US and Canada with is Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge . Ready.Set () {Code} Challenge Headphones on. Tilt the seat back. Just steady codin’ as the keys get tapped...

As you likely know Windows 8 is coming in the near future. You can download, use it, and even develop apps for it today. At this point in time the Windows Store is not open for everyone to deploy, but we are looking for the first wave of great applications...

Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, announced today from Japan’s Windows 8 Dev Days that the Windows 8 Release Preview will be available during the first week of June. /via @BuildWindows8 As always, if you’re interested in more...

Since SQL Server 2005 we have had the ability to write User Defined Types (UDT's) and User Defined Aggregates (UDA's) etc. that are then executed by the .net framework within the SQL Server process. SQL Server 2012 now uses version 4.0 of the CLR although...

A couple of years ago wrote a blog post entitled Visual Studio 2010 – Darker Shades of Blue Theme where I posted a custom settings file for Visual Studio 2010 . With the release of SQL Server 2012 you can also import and export settings and this morning...