By Tim Leung What's the most exciting feature in the Visual Studio 11 (VS11) Beta? Although VS11 includes plenty for you to discover and learn, one of the more interesting features is that it gives you a preview of what's to come in the next release...

These 9 tutorials cover the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC Web application using Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web (it’s free). Here's what you'll learn: How to create a new ASP.NET MVC project. How to create ASP.NET...

We’re excited to announce the Windows Store is expanding to 38 supported markets and the UK is part of this expansion. Dates haven't been confirmed yet but we'll keep you updated as and when information is announced. If you want to get an app...

by Mike Fourie This review is based on the Visual Studio 11 Beta build released by Microsoft on 29 th February 2012. It’s been two years since Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 in April 2010 and over a year since they delivered Service...

Mike Taulty has created six screencasts around a simplistic Windows 8 metro style app that lets you play music from albums found in your music library, built in in HTML and JavaScript, touching on topics like: using a query against the local storage...

Microsoft Learning are offering developers a limited time "Two for One" exam offer for Visual Studio technical certifications. When you purchase and take one of the qualifying exams below at full price between 11 th April 2012 and 30 th June 2012 , you...

by Ashic Mahtab Microsoft and Open Source Software (OSS) have not always seen eye to eye. They have even been portrayed as foes – adversaries on two sides of an intellectual war. However, things have been changing in recent years. Groups in Microsoft...

K3 Retail are the UK’s biggest Microsoft Dynamics partner. They’ve built a system that allows them to expose on-premises applications and data such as Dynamics, SQL Server Reporting Services, Email and File-Servers to a cloud-based IIS web application...

As we kick off our UK Tech.Days Windows 8 tour around the country, we are excited to announced the dates and times of the Windows 8 Camps. If you are ready to start coding on Windows 8, this is the opportunity for you. The Windows 8 Camp is a hands on...

If, like me, you’d were disappointed to discover that Windows Phone development on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview wasn’t a realistic proposition (due to incompatibilities with the emulator) help is at hand. The recently released update to the Windows...

Are you a Windows Phone App Developer with a cool new app? Nokia and Microsoft have launched a new programme seeking innovative Windows Phone 7.5 apps to feature in their latest advertising campaign. If you fancy the chance to promote your app to consumers...

Are you frustrated by the lack of code samples for certain programming tasks? Have you struggled to quickly get started with a technique? Have you expected someone to write code samples for you based on your requests for free? Is a one-stop code sample...

We’re going to be running an online version of the popular Windows Azure Bootcamp on the 21st May. We’re very aware that the London and Liverpool bootcamps due to run in Early May are now full so we thought by running a similar, slightly shortened version...

Mike Ormond gave a great 2 minute demo at #devweek on using push notifications to update live tiles on Windows Phone. If this wet’s your appetite and you’ve not already got the tools download them here . Download the latest SDK (version...

April’s issue of the MSDN Magazine brings a great set of tutorials, ranging from using CSS3 queries to build a responsive web through to C++ and Kinect. Here’s the featured articles to give you a taster of what’s on offer: Using CSS3...

If you work with SQL Server make sure you catch one of the SQL Relay training days. The event is kicking off on 21 May and offers free SQL Server training at various locations across the UK. Each day will have 2 sessions. The morning session is with...

The next UK Windows Azure User Group meeting is on the 8th May and will feature Mark Bower, CTO of Cube Social talking about how they built a scalable, highly available social CRM system on the Windows Azure Platform. Their video is here. Cube Social...

At The Races were running a high-volume website in the UK that was characterized by very peaky predictable bursts. They knew when the peaks would occur (specific horse-races in the calendar) and they had a good idea of the numbers of additional users...

Not had a chance to look at the latest features of Visual Studio 11 Beta yet? Here’s a bite-sized overview from Developer Tools Specialist Richard Erwin. Why not download the beta while you're at it. Enjoy!

Missed the Dev Week conference at the end of last month? Never fear, we’ve got lots of resources if you missed out or need a refresher, kicking off with this video review of the event in less than 2 minutes. Windows Azure, Visual Studio 11 Beta...

This week’s five blog posts kick off with ASP.NET MVP Chris Love’s ‘Here’s what’s right with Windows 8’ article. The other four cover Hadoop in the Enterprise, a new feature in C# 5.0, Windows Phone performance and...

By Liam Westley If you were holding off using Visual Studio 11 Beta as it couldn’t create .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 5.0 apps using the Async CTP, then you’ll be happy to know the Async team have released the Async Targeting Pack for Visual...

Your business could be impacted by the Government Consultation on Open Standard. The consultation finishes on 3 rd May but there are still opportunities to find out more and make sure your voice is heard. Microsoft will be running roundtables on the 24...