This fortnight’s delights include Martin’s adventures with Knockout.js ( also available here ), some great how do I features and the usual round-up of live community events happening around the country. Read all about it here and sign up for your own...

The IE10 Platform Preview 2 has been released today and you download it from http://www.ietestdrive.com . The official launch post can be found over on the IE blog . What new features does it include? CSS3 Floats, HTML5 Drag-drop , File reader API, Media...

Prior to joining Microsoft I worked for a large online retailer, so I know first-hand how difficult it is to produce a good shopping cart. As a user updates quantities, deletes items or changes delivery options it’s important to update the sub total,...

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When I heard the name Mads Kristensen I knew I’d heard it before… then I remembered he’s the guy who used to be at the bottom of my blog. The founder of BlogEngine.net What I didn’t realise was that Mads now works for Microsoft and he’s been doing some...

Big news! Our Wimbledon competition is now open. Pit your wits against your fellow devs at the link below. Here are the rest of this week’s UK MSDN ramblings: New balls, please! Got an ace app idea for our Wimbledon competition? Editing the Tech.Days...

Whether or not you’ve got Wimbledon fever, we’ve got a great match for you… If you’re game , tell us about an ace app you’d develop to make the Wimbledon fortnight even more enjoyable. You can base it around whatever...

Last week we launched the tech.days site, one of the major tasks with an event of this size is editing all of the 115 Videos and getting them online. To help us, 6 students from Warrington Collegiate were recruited to produce and edit the video. The arrangement...

A new SketchFlow template for WP7 has been released and you can download it here . When I first started looking at Windows Phone 7 I got out my trusty moleskin notepad and started sketching UI. Sketching is an important part of my development workflow...

How do you fancy being in with a chance to win $5000 just for being a whizz at strategic coding? The Rock Paper Azure Challenge Grand Tournament allows you to pit your wits against developers from the UK, US, Canada, Germany, China, Sweden and New Zealand...

I talked about ReSharper 5 in the MSDN flash a few months ago. I find ReSharper an invaluable tool so I was quite excited to see the new release that’s now in Beta. You can get a 30 day trial here and it has some impressive new features. Javascript hinting...

When I say to someone out side of Microsoft “Stick it on SkyDrive” they often look at me blank faced? Do you mean DropBox? Apparently the service has around 100 million users worldwide, but I don’t think it’s really caught on in the UK as much as it must...

Last week, Microsoft launched the Windows SDK for Kinect beta. The SDK beta is a starter kit for applications developers that includes APIs, sample code, drivers and installation documents, with resource materials for developers who build applications...

Wimbledon fortnight is nearly upon us – clearly the weather’s known it for a few days now. We’ll be running a competition next week in celebration of the fun going on over at SW19, so stay tuned for some tennis-related fun. In the meantime, enjoy this...

Available for your reading pleasure on the MSDN website, this fortnight’s newsletter features its usual lively intro from Martin Beeby and a host of top stories bringing you the latest Microsoft developer news. You’ll also find a juicy list of community...

This year’s European SharePoint Conference will take place in Berlin from 17-20 October. Aimed at a dynamic SharePoint community of developers, IT professionals, business decision makers and end users, there are 90 sessions planned and more than 60 partners...

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It’s been over 6 months since we decided that we would build the Tech.Days website using Umbraco and host it in Azure and in that time there have been a number of solutions created to get Umbraco working with Azure. Today I’m going to show...

Last month we talked about ReSharper so I thought it might be a good idea to take a look at another productivity tool CodeRush. We asked Rory Becker, DevExpress Evangelist for CodeRush if he wouldn’t mind giving us an introduction and this is what he...

Windows Phone 7 Workshop, Dundee, 18 June Our friends at APPA Mundi will be holding a Windows Phone 7 workshop on Saturday 18 June in Dundee. You can get valuable one-to-one help with the app submission process from Microsoft evangelists and MVPs,...

The Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit is a set of Silverlight controls, converters, and helpers to make your life easier. The controls started as useful items when we were building out different the initial set of Coding4Fun applications for the Windows...

What's been tickling our fancy this week? The step-by-step guide to site pinning is proving particularly popular - take a look before you clock off for the weekend. See you next week! Upcoming NEBytes event: Asymptotics and Algorithms with...

If you're near a PC at 7-8:30pm on 15 June, tune into NEBytes' online meeting, Asymptotics and Algorithms with Gary Short. In the word's of the NEBytes guys: Modern development environments have made us lazy! Well maybe that's an exaggeration, but...