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By Richard Conway June saw the release of Windows Azure Websites which enable you to get up and running in testing your Web API code at no or little cost. Websites come in 3 flavours: Free, Shared and Reserved. For the purposes of this post we’ll stick...

A bunch of developers and designers got up close and personal with Steve Ballmer (yep, Steve Ballmer!) earlier this month at Modern Jago , Microsoft's new collaboration space in Shoreditch, East London. The event showcased some of the best examples of...

F1 Computing, a Microsoft Gold Learning Partner based in London and Bath is giving away free Microsoft Surface with Windows RT tablet with every Certification booking including Visual Studio 2012 and half price Surface RT tablet with every 2+ day Microsoft...

Visual Studio 2012 provides continuous value to customers, adding new capabilities year-round in addition to the features in the main product. These releases are aligned with the core software development trends in the market, ensuring developers and...

AppSwitch is designed to help people find Apple iOS and Google Android apps on Windows Phone and Windows 8. AppSwitch allows users to search the Windows Store first to see if the app they’re looking for is available under the same name. If the app isn...

The first Update for Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server is now out. This includes new features in four main areas: Windows Development SharePoint Development Agile Teams Continuous Quality Soma’s put a great summary together so take a look...

      Get ahead of your competition: Earn your MCSD certifications and start developing Windows 8 web and Windows store apps. We’ll get you started with our “Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3” course and exam. It’s all FREE...

Recommended by Dave Sussman CSS Architecture: I’ve long held the view that CSS is the way to apply layout and styling to web applications and believe that basic CSS is a core skill for all web developers. The following article discusses how you should...

Learn more about how Windows Azure has helped companies realize the true value of the cloud.  Windows Azure supports multiple development platforms, languages, and tools providing first-class choice beyond .NET for developers and enterprises. Register...

Our Six Steps to Windows Azure launched last week with over 160 attendees at our London kick off events which were run in partnership with the UK Windows Azure User Group.  Our first event Azure in the Real World showcased some fantastic real life...

RippleRock are one of our closest partners in the UK when it comes to facilitating Agile practices with Team Foundation Server. Colin Bird is the founder of RippleRock but formerly, as Conchango's CTO, he was responsible for their Agile consulting services...

The new Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012 really helps with a common problem – where does something I can see in my web application’s UI actually come from? Where in my source code will I need to look? Page Inspector provides integrated browser diagnostic...

Some of you in the mobile space may have heard recently that MVP Andy Wigley recently joined Microsoft UK as an evangelist and he is already making his mark. We are thrilled to announce a new Jump Start for developers focused on building apps for Windows...

This post draws on an interview with my Boss’ Boss, Anand Krishnan, and provides a good overview of the opportunity App developers have with Windows 8 . I won’t repeat the contents here but it covers the projected size of the Windows 8 market, the developer...

Six Steps to Windows Azure launched last week with over 160 attendees over the 2 days at our London kick off events which were run in partnership with the UK Windows Azure User Group.  Our first event Azure in the Real World showcased some fantastic...

The Patterns & Practices team have been busy and have just released their latest sample called Hilo. The Hilo end-to-end photo sample provides guidance to C++ developers that want to create a Windows 8 app using modern C++, XAML, the Windows Runtime...

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I’m sure this is written down somewhere but I’ve not come across it so I thought I’d write it down here. At our UK Windows 8 Camps we talk about the process lifecycle for a Windows 8 Store app and how a developer needs to think about the steps of suspend...

By Geoff Evelyn For those entrenched in trying to get information workers to buy into using SharePoint, SharePoint User Adoption seems to be a black art. In a way, it is because the kind of enticements and methods you use will be relative to the product...

When we put the call for content out for the up and coming MSDN Newsletter with the subject of SharePoint we really didn’t expect so much content coming our way but it’s great and we really wanted to share all the great content with you.  So here...

With Windows Phone 8 SDK being released around two weeks ago, we are getting a lot of people wondering when we are going to run a Windows Phone 8 DevCamp to get you up to speed on the new dev features. Wonder no more! The first Windows Phone 8 DevCamps...

Hi, and welcome to the new home of my blog. I started working for Microsoft as a technical evangelist a few weeks ago. In this blog, I will write on topics that will mostly be tips and techniques to help developers build apps for Windows Phone devices...

The Windows Azure team have launched a global competition to find the fastest Windows Azure users.  They have set a series of five challenges for you to enter and the prizes are pretty awesome.  It would be great to see some of these great prizes...

by Gary Pretty , Mando Group Recently I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Microsoft’s Build developer conference (http://www.buildwindows.com), which was held immediately after the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, and with the timing being...