UK Academic Team Blog

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The Windows Mobile Team have just published three starter kits for mobile developers. Comprising a tabbed browser, plugin utility and a game, each starter kit is a fully functional application written in either C#, VB.NET or C++. To get started you'll...

Since my last post on XNA, I've been literally swamped by an e-mail asking for some clarification around licensing XNA Express in Academia. So, where are we at? Both the XNA Framework and XNA Express (and therefore Visual C# Express) are free. It will...

Across the UK, I'm always bumping into academics who are either teaching, or are planning to teach on a games programming degree. And to a man (generally), they ask whether or not they can use XBOX 360's for games dev in the classroom. And unfortunately...

Well, you heard it here last. After a very long week of competition in Agra, and a couple of days battling it out in Delhi, the world-wide Imagine Cup final results are in. Italy's team, Event .ctor (I think that's right) demonstrated a system for collecting...

For those of you that teach embedded systems, you may well be aware that Windows CE 6.0 has gone into Beta. To help you get to grips with this, we have a Virtual Lab availble on MSDN. It'll take you the best part of a couple of hours, but you won't need...

SQL Server Express is a great database for students to learn the basic on - it's a fully featured RDBMS, and it's totally free. I've been a fan of SQL Server since 6.5, and used it at all kinds of levels - from simple web sites through to enterprise data...