I caught up earlier this week with Giles Davis to find out why he uses Visual Studio 2012 Premium over Professional and he wrote this really interesting article on the features as a result which I thought would be great to share with you.  You will...

By Tim Leung What's the most exciting feature in the Visual Studio 11 (VS11) Beta? Although VS11 includes plenty for you to discover and learn, one of the more interesting features is that it gives you a preview of what's to come in the next release...

Our first MSDN Flash feature article of the New Year comes from one of my colleagues at Microsoft in the UK, Simon Ince. Simon works in our Premier Support for Developers group (more details below). Over to Simon…. If you’ve never looked at jQuery, now...

When I heard the name Mads Kristensen I knew I’d heard it before… then I remembered he’s the guy who used to be at the bottom of my blog. The founder of BlogEngine.net What I didn’t realise was that Mads now works for Microsoft and he’s been doing some...

by Giorgio Sardo Cut the Rope is an immediate favourite for anyone who plays it. It’s as fun as it is adorable. So we had an idea: let’s make this great game available to an even bigger audience by offering it on the web using the power...

Trying to understand why your webpage is rendering incorrectly or throwing an error can be difficult, especially if your page contains a lot of mark-up, CSS and JavaScript. Using View Source can help,  but pinpointing an issue with that alone is...

I was answering some questions about “the cloud” with some customers yesterday and realised, unless you are inside this technology, there are a load of phrases that all contain the word “cloud” but what do they mean? What’s a cloud platform provider as...

Session links now available! At tendee s at our Build an App for That online conference enjoyed demo-rich sessions designed to help with building applications for the browser, Windows 7, and Windows Phone 7. Click the agenda links below to access the...

The IE10 Platform Preview 2 has been released today and you download it from http://www.ietestdrive.com . The official launch post can be found over on the IE blog . What new features does it include? CSS3 Floats, HTML5 Drag-drop , File reader API, Media...

David Britch is a Senior Technologist at Content Master , and for the past year has been working on a number of projects with the patterns & practices group at Microsoft. David has authored and contributed to a range of recent software development...

By Andy Hodges . So you have been given a project and been told to build your company Intranet, but you have not had experience of SharePoint 2010, where do you start? Capture some requirements, install SharePoint out of the box or undertaking a pilot...

Hi all - I updated this post today (10 January) with revised info. Don’t forget that mainstream support for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe ends on 10 July 2012 . After this date you’ll still be able to access extended (paid for) support, as...

Ryan O’Neill is a software developer working from his home office in rural Herefordshire). Work normally involves .Net, SQL Server and a good sprinkling of web although I'm a good all rounder. Richard Wilde and I run the Hereford branch of the Next Generation...

by David Britch Introduction The purpose of this technical article is to demonstrate how to build a testable Windows Phone application that consumes accelerometer data. The approach adopted here for building a testable Windows Phone application...

This week’s featured article comes from Mark Bloodworth, formally of BBC Worldwide and now working as an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft. Mark talks about PEX a framework for application testing. Pex is a tool that allows you to explore code and understand...

Tech.Days Online Conference – Create.Design.Deliver | Windows Phone 7 Last Thursday more than 250 developers joined us for the latest Tech.Days online conference – it was great to see so many of you online. We’ve now added the recordings from the event...

Over the past year I’ve been getting into HTML5 and JavaScript in a big way. Being a web developer for nearly 13 years now I’ve been using JavaScript for a long time, but to be honest, up until this year I’d not really used it for anything more complex...

Our guest writer for this fortnight’s MSDN Flash is Mark Bloodworth , an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft UK, who kindly offered to write a brief introduction to F#. Mark’s interests extend to all those “other” languages like Ruby, Python and F# so we...

With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Developer Tools being widely available for the past few weeks and with previews of great, immersive Metro style apps like Cut the Rope, The Telegraph, Flixster, Evernote and a tonne more already in the Windows Store...

Start building beautiful Windows Phone 7 apps The best apps are not only functional but also beautiful. Make your app stand out with beautiful design: Design guidance and templates Windows Phone UI Design and Interaction Guide V2 Designing Web Sites for...

by David Britch I recently joined a project developing a Windows 8 Metro application using C++. It had been a while since I’d written any C++ and I subsequently discovered that C++ has changed. A lot. WinRT is the framework and library for...

These 9 tutorials cover the basics of building an ASP.NET MVC Web application using Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web (it’s free). Here's what you'll learn: How to create a new ASP.NET MVC project. How to create ASP.NET...

Thanks to Martin Beeby, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, for this fab post. Modern web browsers use about 10% of your PCs power, Tonight in San Francisco Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 Beta and unlocked the other 90%. Internet Explorer 9 beta is...

Content Management Systems work when they are able to take ugly mark-up that users cut and paste from word documents and make it look perfect, work on any device and solve ever changing business needs. Composite C1 is a free open source CMS that helps...

Do you have a Windows Phone 7 on Orange? If so, you will be glad to hear they a giving every Windows Phone customers a free app every day during July. To download the free app, navigate to “Orange Selects” within the Marketplace on your phone. The app...