Businesses can empower employees, create new business opportunities and boost developer productivity by developing apps for Windows 8. See how leading companies including IHS, British Telecom and John Lewis are taking advantage of the latest Windows technology...

Our friends at our partner RippleRock are running a free one day hands-on training course on running scrum with Team Foundation Server 2012. The course will be held 24th May 2013 at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. Sign up can be found here: https://msevents...

Cloud, mobile and distributed software services have made “simulating production” impossible while production and release cycles are becoming more frequent. At the same time, communication and collaboration between development and operations has become...

Application exceptions offer a clear and undistorted view into an application’s quality, user experience and operational service level. In fact, unhandled, caught and thrown exceptions represent one of development’s only direct sources of user-driven...

I am pleased to confirm that Doctor Who, Matt Smith, will be hosting the Imagine Cup awards ceremony !  The Doctor's mastery of technology is only matched by his creativity, his compassion, and his sense of wonder at all the amazing things people...

Scirra have teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new Windows 8-based competition with some fantastic prizes ! Create a new game with Construct 2, or port an existing one, and successfully publish it to the Windows 8 Store by June 21st to be entered in...

On the 8th of May there was a very interesting Guardian article based on research that the Windows Phone team commissioned in the UK. The key finding of the research · Over a quarter of UK parents affected by their kids’ unauthorised app purchases · Eight...

$211 million is the amount of money that Iron Man 3 took in its opening weekend according to boxofficemojo.com . When Halo 4 came out for the Xbox last year it took $220 million in sales in the first 24 hours. Look at that number again. It’s massive...

Microsoft Research Connections announced the release of the book, TouchDevelop—Programming on the Go , available in print form, as an e-book, and on the web. TouchDevelop has reached new heights as the only programming environment on mobile touch devices...

  We’re excited to announce that Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Windows Server and System Center Program Management and Jon DeVaan, Corporate Vice President, Windows Development will deliver our TechEd 2013 keynotes. Meet the Experts TechEd...

Shhhhhh.... we've heard that lots of .NET enterprise devs are dabbling in app development in their spare time. We caught up with Julius Agweny to find out about the Windows apps he's been building... What's your background? What did you do before building...

Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 Events The UK Visual team have added more dates for free events in May and June, heading out to new places like Cardiff, Nottingham and Glasgow.  We have seen a real interest in our Visual...

Register here http://kingstonmicrosoftapps.eventbrite.co.uk   With Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Stores you have a choice of, a variety of devices tablets, notebooks and all in ones, to a stunning array of phones from manufactures such as Nokia,...

Updating your game for Windows 8 and  Windows Phone 8 with GameMaker: Studio™ is easy Want to learn more? Check out the getting started resources below. Windows 8 How to get Windows 8 Windows 8 Platform Overview Setup GameMaker: Studio™ for Windows...

Following on from Sarah Lamb great post at UK MSDN “Imagine a scenario in which you were able to add new levels to a platform game immediately after they have been built. Using a cloud backend makes this all possible, and when you can also track significant...

“Imagine a scenario in which you were able to add new levels to a platform game immediately after they have been built. Using a cloud backend makes this all possible, and when you can also track significant quantities of data to keep your game flow smooth...

By Gemma Yussuf, Microsoft This article focuses on the fundamentals one must consider when designing for Windows Phone 8, highlighting why this is the platform that offers designers the opportunity to create new, exciting and innovative apps. The 8 reasons...

Next week, I have been asked to present to a group of developers who are new to Windows 8. The group have been developing their first Windows 8 store apps and wanted me to cover the following topics. 1) Design guidelines and how make your app look beautiful...

Next week, I have been asked to present to a group of developers who are new to Windows 8. The group have been developing their first Windows 8 store apps and wanted me to cover the following topics. 1) Design guidelines and how make your app look beautiful...

We’re running some introductory style developer camps for Windows Phone 8 in the UK at the moment targeted at folks who have perhaps done some .NET in the past but haven’t built apps for the Phone yet and as part of those I work through some parts of...

On Saturday the 1st of June 2013, Microsoft Technical Evangelists Mike Taulty and Andy Wigley   will be delivering a day of Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Azure and cross platform development sessions! The event agenda is a follows 1) Windows 8 – The...

I’m an accomplished developer but new to the app concept and certainly new to working for myself and the tools, resources and people at Microsoft have made the journey an enjoyable (and profitable) experience from the off. What's your background...

Time is running out to take advantage of free retakes for failed Microsoft exams. Retake an exam for free before May 31 st . Sign up for Second Shot In addition pass your exam before May 31st 2013 and you can enter a prize draw for a chance to win a UK...

   On the 3rd 4th and 5th of April, The Windows Games Ambassadors hosted the Scottish Universities Jam at the University of West of Scotland ‘UWS’ in Glasgow. The event was an intense weekend of game development based on Windows 8 games with...

There’s a Windows 8 app that I have a minor involvement with that needs to be able to display PDF documents and also capture annotations (ideally ink) on those documents. I haven’t looked in great detail at how to display PDF documents (other than to...