Whatever platform you work on, testing legacy versions of IE can be a bit of a challenge. Today, the IE team is launching modern.IE , featuring a wizard (nope, not one with a wand) that scans for common coding practices that might prevent users from having...

Microsoft has launched a new contest with a very special top prize – featured placement of the winner’s app in a Windows Phone Primetime TV ad which will be broadcast in the U.S. There are many other prizes such as Nokia Lumia 920 phones and Dev Center...

Who is Jason Zander I'm the corporate vice president for the development team of Windows Azure in the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft.  I've worked on lots of products in twenty years at Microsoft with the unifying theme of building platforms...

Design and build your own electronic devices http://www.gadgeteering.net NET Gadgeteer is a platform for creating your own electronic devices using a wide variety of hardware modules and a powerful programming environment. Students with little or no electronics...

Rapid2D is the only game engine that is specifically designed to produce Windows 8 The following Tutorials are available There will be 9 templates each with a basic description released at: http://www.rapid2d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=46 There...

  This week I had a interesting email from an academic interested in exploring F# for functional programming. F# for those who aren't aware has a number of opportunities in academic teaching, learning and research including analytical programming ...

The Awesome team of Development: Den Delimarsky PM & Testing: Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez Code Review: Brian Peek Design: Arturo Toledo , Rick Barraza Audio: David Walliman From Channel9.msdn.com have released FallFury open sourced C++/DX 2D Game...

My team are putting on some more Application Lifecycle Management events in February and March. 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...

  Microsoft Partners in Learning have brought together some of the most inspirational teachers for a dedicated TouchDevelop hackathon. The educators who are all part of the Microsoft Partners in Learning Network recently took part in 3 Virtual Universities...

  Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging short-range radio technology that is poised to revolutionise how we use mobile phones in everyday interactions. Nokia are hosting a great webinar. Where they will introduce the basics of NFC and how...

There’s a number of photo viewing applications for Windows 8, including the built-in ‘Photos’ app and other apps on the Windows 8 Store like ‘Gallery HD’ and a few others. These are all good apps but, for my own use, none of them quite do what I want...

Rapid2d.com C++/DirectX 11.1 Game Engine launches an awesome competition for students, startups and indie developers with a grand prize of £10,000 But that’s not all; there will also be runners up prizes of Xbox 360 consoles and bundles taking the total...

The 4th step in Microsoft UK’s “6 Steps to Azure” programme, concentrating on Open Source software is to run as an in-person event on the 11th February in London. There is a great line-up of community speakers, all involved in the UK Windows Azure User...

Today the Windows Phone team announced the availability of the Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 for targeting the Windows Phone 7.8 operating system which replaces Windows Phone 7.5. This is an optional update that adds two new Windows Phone...

By Will Lovegrove and Ian Cox Our company, Release Consulting Ltd , is a small software development agency based in London. In 2012 we won a UK Government Technology Strategy Board research and development grant to build a highly innovative cloud-hosted...

Who is this camp for? You’ve probably heard of Windows Azure but not done anything with it. Maybe you’ve seen a few demos at an event or an online video. Maybe you’ve even got as far as trying the introductory lab in the freely downloadable training kit...

This key is a collection of resources for web developers looking to get started with Windows 8 application development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can also download a free ebook by Kraig Brockschmidt for web developers creating Windows Store applications...

A new round of the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme in EMEA started in September when 109 applications were received from 20 countries in the EMEA region. Applications comprised those submitted to the Initiative in Informatics with Edinburgh...

We always enjoy hearing about what you think of new tools and technologies. This time we are discussing all things around Windows 8 application development. Let us know how we can help you! Fill out my Wufoo form!

by Marcus Austin at Firebrand Training The New Year is always a good time to make a fresh start in life, so why not choose to start this year by creating your very first Windows 8 app? What’s that? You don’t want to have to learn a new language or buy...

  Royal Exposure for .NET Gadgeteer Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer was presented as part of the University of Southampton ASTRA project at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Prince Philip and other distinguished guests attended this celebration of engineering...

The new Agile Task Board is an excellent way of working in a Sprint, visually keeping track of tasks on either a per PBI basis, or on a user-by-user basis. If you’ve not seen the board in action before I recommend you check out this video: The Task Board...

Call for 2013 SEIF Award Applications Microsoft Research Connections issued a Request for Proposals for the 2013 Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Awards. The foundation supports top researchers who are conducting academic research that...

  Microsoft is supporting the WW competition and in the UK were having a dedicated competition at each event and online. So even if who cannot physically attend the event can enter the online competition see  http://www.ubelly.com/global-game...

I wanted to share some of the Microsoft Research collaborations to build scientific tools and data analysis services in the Windows Azure cloud. One specific story to highlight was how Windows Azure helps provide affordable supercomputing time to researchers...