Recently, Tina Erwee, one of my colleagues in Microsoft Consulting Services ran a session for Women in Technology aimed at getting young women interested in a career in IT. I thought this would be a great story to share because it highlights the impact...

We’re hosting a full-day Silverlight event at Microsoft in early May: Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight When: 4 May 2010, 8:30am-5pm Where: Microsoft Offices, Bryanston Costs: None, but first-come-first served Format: Typical presentation...

As part of our celebrations of the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 we’re running a breakfast for Developer Managers next week. We’re hosting Brad van Ee, the Principle Test Manager for the Visual Studio Platform from Microsoft...

Silverlight 4 is gets a really nice launch at DevConnections 2010 in Vegas. You can watch the keynote live or OnDemand here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/silverlight-4-launch/   Covering great topics like: RIA Services & Cider Media Framework...

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 RTM is finally here! and is now available to students through DreamSpark, MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDN AA) For more Information visit the following Sites What’s New in the .NET Framework 4.0 What’s New in Visual...

Somewhere in the ether, a developer called Hardy Leung got inspired and then got creative. He's come up with the next generation " Wordle " app, built in Silverlight and it's getting rave reviews all across the interweb. It's called Tagxedo...

Recently, I had an ISV phone me up telling me about an experience they had with a reporting solution. The app was taking some time when it was suppose to print. They could not initially repro the problem. After some time, they diagnosed that the app was...

I presented a session at Devdays on Windows Phone 7 Development. I promised to provide the relevant links to get you started. Getting Started Dev Portal Windows Phone Developer Portal Software (Visual Studio integration) Windows Phone Developer CTP (aka...