As I know many of you are subscribers to MSDN and are every day users of Visual Studio I thought it would be a good idea to let you know about the recently released WhitePaper on the licensing clarifications that have been added to the whitepaper below...

We have received a significant amount of interest with the Windows 8 Elite programme and we wanted to provide a brief update on how you can get invited. The process is very simple and we want to ensure that we can invite as many UK app publishers as possible...

In a lot of the Windows 8 sessions that I’ve given around the UK I’ve been building out a simple demo app that searches on flickR for some photos. Over time I’ve come to build that app usually with some combination of the following; Build out the basics...

I have a simple application in the Windows 8 Store – it’s called kwiQR and it’s a QR scanning application. There’s a whole bunch of services that the Store provides to my application but one that I haven’t seen a whole lot written about is the idea that...

We’re putting on some more Application Lifecycle Management events in October and November. These are essentially an end to end demo running through Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012. We run them as relatively small and informal sessions and...

I’ve posted a demo similar to this on the site before but I was at the AppsWorld conference yesterday and gave a short example of putting together a native Windows 8 Store app in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript and someone asked me to record it and put it...

nFocus , one of our UK Gold Partners, and specialists in quality assurance and testing, are running two Visual Studio 2012 launch events specifically focussed on the testing tools. These free, half day events will include a lot of demonstrations of the...

If you're a .NET developer (or just interested in finding out more about developing Microsoft applications), come along to the Visual Studio 2012 launch event in Reading! This event includes a presentation by Shanku Niyogi from Microsoft. Shanku leads...

With more than 135,000 websites worldwide running on Umbraco, it is one of the most deployed web content management systems on the Microsoft stack. It powers websites for some of the largest companies in the world including Microsoft, Tesco, Heinz and...

We have two new dates for the ALM Visual Studio 2012 event and a few spaces for the 30th October event!  These events are proving very popular so sign up soon to avoid disappointment. 30th October 2012 – Reading, TVP (Only 4 spaces left!!!) 8th November...

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This week is the last week that submissions will be taken for apps that are being entered into the UK Windows 8 app store before the general availability of Windows 8. So if you want your app to be available on the release date for Windows 8 to the general...

This last week we have been a little bit quiet on the blog but do not fear we have plenty more interesting content coming your way.  This week we’ve had a mix of Windows 8 Apps content and Windows Azure and Mobile content. Windows 8 Apps Developers...