Trying to understand why your webpage is rendering incorrectly or throwing an error can be difficult, especially if your page contains a lot of mark-up, CSS and JavaScript. Using View Source can help,  but pinpointing an issue with that alone is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you are using Umbraco or WordPress it’s now easier than ever to customise IE9 features like SitePinning and Jump lists using some recently released plugins.If your not using either but still want to support pinning then there is also a great jQuery...

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...

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...

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...

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This post from Giles Davies appeared first on the UK Microsoft UK Developer Tools Team blog . Visit the dev tools team for more posts about Visual Studio, licensing, tips, techie stuff and lots more. Over to Giles: How do I get started with Team Foundation...

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...

Get your questions answered, your strategies defined, network with the experts and build relationships with your peers at this premier event. Now 50% off! The IT&DevConnections powered by Microsoft UK conference will be held at the ExCel Arena, London...

With less than 7 weeks to go, it’s all hands on deck for the UK Tech.Days team. We’ve filled a number of tracks but there are still some spaces left in others. Here’s what’s new: Developing with Bing, Extending your Search Solutions Microsoft Victoria...

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...

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 : ...

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...

Exciting news from the Tech.Ed team! We can now announce that Tech·Ed Europe is shifting back to the summer timeframe, resuming in 2012. Mark your calendars: the next Tech·Ed Europe will be held the week of June 25, 2012 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition...

The latest addition to this year’s UK Tech.Days line up is Developing with Bing…Extending Your Search Solutions on Thursday, 26 May from 4.15-8 .00pm.   Here’s the lowdown: This session has been designed by developers for developers , to show how...

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This month’s MSDN magazine is online and ready for reading. April’s hot topic is Windows Azure – here are the highlights: Windows Azure Development: CQRS on Windows Azure Learn how Command Query Responsibility Segregation represents a shift from more...

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What goes around, comes around, as they say. There’s very little new: just variations on an existing idea. So it is with Cloud Computing. It seems to me that we are dragging the un-enlightened, kicking and screaming in to the 1950s. You know, that place...