There’s a great MSDN magazine article that I wanted to show you that talks about creating location-aware features in Windows Phone 7 apps. You can read it in full here , but here’s the intro to whet your appetite: Visualising Bing Routes on Windows Phone...

If your in Reading on Tuesday June 7th, why not pop along to the VBUG meet up at 7.30 in Bar Copa on the Kings Road.  They have two great talks from Kiril Matev and Peter Lindsey both from Infragistics talking about how to build Silverlight LOB applications...

Last week I also attended and spoke at the Web Directions conference in London. In one of the sessions Douglas Crockford mentioned that Yahoo! is considering switching all of their server-side code from PHP to JavaScript. In particular he talked about...

And… breathe. Tech.Days is over for another year. Look out for all the sessions and demos online very soon. In other news, it’s been all about Windows Phone. Get your fill of the fun below. Top job picks from MSemploy What’s new in the Windows Phone Developer...

Itchy feet? Why not see what MSemploy have to offer. Here are their latest top jobs: Sharepoint Senior Consultant London £Competitive Gold Competency Partner Technical Tester South East – Berkshire £350 per day, contract Senior Microsoft Technical Engineer...

As well as the new Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 Beta (download now here ), you’ll find updated official documentation in the What’s New in Windows Phone Developer Tools topic in the MSDN Library. Among the fun: 22 new code samples   and 10 new...

If you came along to the Windows Phone tracks at Tech.Days bright and early on Tuesday or Wednesday you’ll have seen Brandon Watson’s great keynotes, available here very soon. Looks like Brandon’s been a busy guy - in this new Channel 9 video series,...

You’ve heard it mentioned a million times – now find out all the juicy details. Lots of resources below: Microsoft officially unveils Mango; Hundreds of improvements on the way (WindowsPhone team blog) Watch the press conference (Windows Phone Newsroom...

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Want to know what we’ve been gabbing about this week on the blog? Find out below. We’re really looking forward to seeing some of you at Tech.Days next week. I’ll be around on Tuesday and Wednesday making sure our speakers and sessions run smoothly, so...

This first release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications. As with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 we will continue to bring additional capabilities...

One of the announcements over in the US this week at TechEd was the vision for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in the next version of Visual Studio. Jason Zander, corporate vice president for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at...

Today's article is provided by Phil Winstanly , an Application Development Manager at Microsoft. Often found on twitter causing trouble (and getting into bother) via @Plip . Loves code, loves learning and loves helping developers get better at what...

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We’re pleased to confirm the full agenda for next week’s UK Tech.Days. Simply click the links below to download the agenda(s) of your choice. We look forward to seeing you in London! Microsoft and the Web ( Monday , Fulham Broadway Vue...

I asked Hadi Hariri from JetBrains to give an Introduction to ReSharper for developers that might not have come across it before, here’s what he had to say: We go to a lot of conferences and despite many users knowing our tools, there are still many that...

Here at UK MSDN HQ we’re heads down planning for next financial year, and boy, are we ready for the weekend! We’re also getting excited about Tech.Days and meeting those of you who are signed up. Take a fresh look at what’s in store – it’s not too late...

[This post was x-posted (albeit manually) from my own blog at http://bit.ly/mikeormond ] If, like me, you weren’t lucky enough to be at MIX this year, chances are you’ve got a bit of catching up to do watching session videos . I always dread trying to...

[This post was x-posted (albeit manually) from my own blog at http://bit.ly/mikeormond ] If you’re from an iPhone / iOS background and you’re looking at Windows Phone 7 for the first time, there are some useful resources on http://windowsphone.interoperabilitybridges...

A few weeks ago in the MSDN flash, I asked to get in touch if you used Azure. I got lots of email from people talking about their projects and I will discuss a few of them over the next few months. I like wine, a lot, so this little case study really...

If you want to know more about the technical details of the IE10 Platform Preview then take a look at this great documentation I just stumbled upon. It outlines all the new features that have been added. Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3) support Flexible...

MSemploy exclusively supplies certified IT professionals and developers to the Microsoft Partner Network. Find out more about the MSemploy folks. Here are this week’s top jobs: SharePoint Architect London – City £Competitive Microsoft Gold Partner Senior...

I just bought Pocket C# for 99p from the WP7 market place after my colleague  Darren Strange recommended it. At first I thought it was going to be a code snippet tool, but it’s actually a phone sized IDE. Not only can you write code, you can run...

The Jist: Entity Framework 4.1 is out now and you can download it here . Those of you that read Scott Hanslemans blog or listen to Hanselminutes (if you don’t you should) will know that Scott was less than pleased with the name " Microsoft ADO.NET...