... or five reasons why you should use it alongside Visual Studio by Ian Haynes If you’re working on a web site or application in Visual Studio you may well be doing the design and front-end development there too. After all the web design...

by Giles Davies November saw the highly anticipated EuroSTAR event for Software testing take place - A week full of conferences, tutorials and exhibitions on all things testing. This provided the Visual Studio team with the perfect platform to showcase...

To celebrate the launch on the new Nokia WP7 the finish phone giant brought the Canadian techno music producer Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse"), to the bank of the River Thames in London’s West End where they converted the 120-metre Millbank Tower...

Database specialist Lynn Langit installed the latest release of SQL Server Data Tools and shared the experience on her blog . The idea behind the new release is to make developing with databases in Visual Studio more like working in SQL Server Management...

W3C , the web standards organisation, held its first developer conference in November. The website for the conference practices what it preaches. It uses some of the latest features, including: HTML semantic elements andclass-based metadata for...

It isn’t really an issue of “is this a secure platform on which to write this code”, it’s more an issue of “does this platform comply with a standard that has been created by somebody else in an attempt to make my life easier by doing all my thinking...

  Did you know that with Windows Azure you can <insert fact>   One after the next after the next after the next etc etc – all in just over one minute. Go on click the image to watch the video, you’ll be surprised…   Planky – GBR-257

They seem to be random character strings: ISO 27001/IEC 2005, SAS 70 Type II, SSAE-16, PCI DSS, EU DPD 9546 EC… But there is a value behind each one of them, if you understand the story. If we discount the smaller niche cloud players who provide very...

Following our previous article on new materials in the MSDN library, t here are 5 new articles for your learning pleasure, covering Windows Phone 7 development and one article on developing applications for Windows Azure. Please let us know what you think...

by Jonathan Allen We have a strong SQL community in the UK, but earlier this year the user group leaders agreed it would be good if we could encourage more people to join in. Chris Testa O’Neill and Tony Rogerson came up with the idea of SQL...

by Jen Stirrup Mobilisation is a key trend in business intelligence. Azure is ‘up and coming’. What happens if you put these things together? This article will discuss some context around mobilising Azure for business intelligence. Once...

by Chris Eargle The ninjas of legend evoke images of a mysterious figure in black, able to perform super human feats and defeat enemies with cunning tactics. Nowadays, the term is applied to those that have mastered a skill to such an extent they are...

Join the Windows Phone UK Developer Reward Programme Today! Imagine being rewarded with the latest gadgets (digital cameras, LCD TVs & Kinect) and treated to exhilarating experiences (Ferrari thrill & flying lessons) just by publishing your...

Fancy customising your own Windows Phone Camp T-Shirt? At the next Windows Phone Camp in February next year every attendee will get to make their own T-Shirt, brought to you by the crew at Hit & Run . How does this work? You will get to select the...

by Matt Ballantine I’m a generally simple soul and like to be able to express things in seven boxes (or fewer). It’s taken me a while to get my head around the way in which the world of developing software is changing to an extent that...

by Matt Ballantine I was at an event in London on Thursday last week organised by recruiters Mortimer Spinks at which they unveiled the results of a survey of 650 people working in the technology industry in the UK. The results put some interesting...

Dr. Neil Roodyn is a director of nsquared , a Microsoft Regional Director and is a Microsoft MVP for Surface. He’s been involved with Microsoft technologies since 1992 – and spent the 5 years prior to that working with IBM on AS400 and PC...

by Andy Wigley For developers, there is *so* much to like in Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’. It’s packed full of great new features, such as multi-tasking, background file transfers, sockets and database support. And with the release of...

I’ve been talking to the guys at Cube Social for a little while now and was quite taken by their reasons for using Windows Azure as the platform for their Social CRM system. It all fits very neatly in to 3 of the ideal Windows Azure workload patterns...