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I found a link to this ASP.NET and HTML5 local storage blog post while rooting around on MSDN. Author Steven Walther walks you through how to use HTML5 local storage and shows how it can help dramatically improve the performance of your data-driven web...

Short week or not, we’ve had plenty to talk about on the blog. Here’s your regular round-up – have a great Easter weekend! Microsoft at Bluegfx Expo, 12 May Converting Regular Images into 3D Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) HTML5 Labs now has a FileAPI...

Come along to Bluegfx Expo on 12 May at London’s Ravensbourne College to hear about… …the latest 3D modelling & animation technologies, how to optimise your render pipeline, the latest Cloud (CPU & GPU) phenomenon, the future of graphics card...

The boys at Microsoft Research are smart… I mean really smart, they make simple developers like me, look like extras in The Only Way is Essex (for the US readers its a bit like The Hills ). At the MIX event in Las Vegas they had a number of booths near...

The Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) extends Visual Studio 2010, providing a new, streamlined syntax for asynchronous development. Download it here and find out more about asynchronous programming in Alan Berman’s Async Feature Control Flow post...

The new version of HTML5 Labs went live last week and there are some exciting new implementations: FileAPI and soon the Media capture API These new releases compliment the current implementations which were launched back in December : ...

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There is no such thing as a free lunch, and that's also true of trips to Las Vegas. Sadly my Boss didn’t send me to the home of gambling and tacky souvenirs just to play blackjack and hangout with Elvis. No, I had a mission! Firstly I had to deliver a...

IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download now is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimised for the operating system on your device...

Find out more about the next version of Windows Phone (code-named ‘Mango’) here on the Windows Phone Developer blog . Among the new stuff: hardware-accelerated IE9 with HTML5, enhanced multitasking capabilities, Twitter in the People hub and better support...

The WorldWide Telescope is an amazing project that aims to bring together terabytes of images and information from the world best ground and space based telescopes so that anyone with a web browser can explore the universe. When you couple this project...

Smashing magazine recently published this great (and thorough) round up of useful JavaScript and jQuery tools, libraries and plugins that might come in handy with your upcoming projects and save you scouring the web. These additional JavaScript and jQuery...

It’s been a MIXed (sorry!) week on the blog – we’ve unearthed some great Windows Phone resources and brought you the latest news from MIX11. More to come next week. Have a lovely weekend, all. Get your MIX fix here MIX11 – Silverlight 5 beta Videos: Windows...

The team at MIX11’s done a great job of getting all the sessions ready for you to explore. Find out about all the latest announcements, see what other folks have rated highest and watched the most and join the conversation by chipping in with your comments...

Another cool thing to come out of MIX11 - Pete Brown walks through the features in the Silverlight 5 Beta and shows you how to get started. You’ll also find additional videos, tutorials and downloads to play with. Pete’s accompanying blog post Announcing...

As promised in yesterday’s Want help with step-by-step Windows Phone 7 development? post, here’s a stack of great videos all about Windows Phone 7 development for absolute beginners. If you’re an aspiring Windows Phone 7 developer, this video series will...

Scott Guthrie announced an refresh of ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, which enables web developers to innovate quickly and easily via new HTML5 markup support, Entity Framework 4.1 with Entity Code First now built in for easier database Web solution development...

It looks like lots of you found yesterday’s Building a Windows Phone 7 application from start to finish post helpful, so these Windows Phone Development QuickStarts might come in handy, too. These QuickStarts introduce the basics for creating Windows...

I am updating live from MIX. Tweet me at @thebeebs or @ukmsdn 18:31 – That's it folks…. Keynote over I will try and blog and tweet from sessions I attend today, but will be doing some Interviews so might not be able to cover everything. 18:30 – Every...

Sometimes the mood takes me to have a poke around on the MSDN website, and on this occasion the fruit of my labour was this excellent guide to building a Windows Phone 7 app from start to finish . Here’s a summary: This documentation and accompanying...

Some news from Microsoft Research now – this post originally appeared earlier this week on Nikolai Tillmann's MSDN Blog . Today, we are excited to announce a new project from the Research in Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research: TouchStudio...

Moving to C# and the .NET Framework, for Java Developers Are you a Java developer who is currently using tools such as NetBeans and Eclipse, and frameworks such as Spring, to build Java-based solutions? Do you want to learn how to design and build great...

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It’s far too warm and sunny outside to be stuck in an office. If you haven’t yet managed to escape for the weekend, now’s the time - well, after you’ve caught up on anything you’ve missed on the blog this week. See you next week! How do I get started...