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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

And another great Windows Phone competition to get started with 2013! Though I have to admit, I’m a bit late with publicising this one… sorry! Nokia and Windows Phone Geek have teamed up to offer the LUMIA GEEK 8-WEEK CHALLENGE. There’s only ….ahem… less...

Happy New Year to everyone! We start 2013 with a Windows Phone competition that is being run by Core77, Inc. and Microsoft. Now You Can Change the Future Challenge ends February 3, 2013 Design an app for Windows Phone that showcases how to create, connect...

As many of you may have heard we ran a series of competitions across the 12 days in the run up to Christmas which resulted in a final challenge for one lucky winner to receive this fantastic prize list: A MicroServer A 1 year MSDN Subscription with Visual...

TechDays Online is returning for 2013 and we want you to get involved in the process of choosing the topics, speakers and content so that you get the most out of your time with us. Last year we ran TechDays Online as a 2 day event and focused only on...

It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including: · SDKs for Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and...

  Securing your data is important and you have lots of options in Windows Azure SQL Database according to your needs.   If you read my previous article Windows Azure SQL Database - How to create Windows Azure SQL Database you know basics of...

  I’ve summarized Windows Azure SQL Database security topic in my previous post Secure Your Windows Azure SQL Database .   In this article, I’ll show you interesting scenarios that you can use with your applications or services. I’ll just give...

On my journey to keep you better informed I will throw in information as I get it sometimes. Just to be clear I’m not an expert on licensing so you should always consult a licensing specialist before making any decisions. Now that I’ve got...

Guest post by Naace , one of our Microsoft Bett 2013 partners Excitement builds as we approach our first Bett at a new location, ExCeL London. It is hard to believe that only a few short months ago we were celebrating the Olympics events being held...