Installing Umbraco on Azure Every two weeks we ask members of the community to submit technical articles to the MSDN Flash, but I felt a little guilty about asking people to sacrifice a few hours of their own time if I wasn't willing to do it myself....

Ever heard of Layer Diagrams? Before the following video, I hadn’t (slap my wrists). In this video Michael Stephenson talks about Layer Diagrams and why they are important for BizTalk. Michael shows how Layer Diagrams can be used to communicate and enforce...

The future of the web is at MIX11, Apr 12-14 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Register by Feb 11 and save $500 + free hotel night. Find out why you should be there.

Hot off the press, here are details of the Windows Phone developer tools January update. This summary comes courtesy of Brandon Watson, Microsoft Developer Experience Developer. Read the full version here on the Windows Phone Developer blog . This update...

It’s always great to hear about Microsoft technology in action, and this case study tells a great success story between Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Black Marble, and West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service. Read the piece in full here . Here’s a...

The most exciting news for me this week was the announcement of Tech.Days 2011, coming up in May. We had such a great time at the 2010 event and I’m looking forward to seeing some familiar faces during this year’s sessions. Look out for more details coming...

I’ve been checking every day this week to see if February’s issue was ready, and here it is, in time for the weekend. Here are a few of this month’s highlights: MSDN Magazine February: Focus on Dynamic Programming Learn about the new dynamic keyword in...

Hi folks – a newly updated version of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit is now available for download .  This update provides new and updated demo scripts, as well as a new Windows Phone 7 hands-on lab (HOL) for the Windows Azure platform....

Back in October at an Odeon Cinema in Manchester, a community event dedicated to Windows Phone 7 development was held with speakers such as Andy Wigley and Rob Miles (who delivered the Windows Phone 7 Jump Start training ),  Andrej Radinger , Tricky...

10 years of MSDN Magazine is now easier than ever to explore! The folks at MSDN magazine have come up with a great way to make it easier to find the articles and features that most interest you.The new Silverlight Pivot Viewer allows you to filter through...

Organisational intelligence is a new way of looking at business improvement and survival, combining advanced software technologies with the latest management thinking to produce highly effective organisations. This 1-day workshop is intended for experienced...

Introducing Tech.Days Live 2011, 23-25 May Nine events (and counting), two locations, one week. The main attraction will be three one-day events at the London Vue Cinema, Fulham Broadway, London. In addition, there will be evening activities across town...

Newly updated for 2011, William Bartholomew and Sayed Hashimi have updated their book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build with 2010 versions of TFS Build and MSBuild. Here’s the blurb: As software complexity increases...

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To celebrate DDD9 in Reading today we're issuing a developer challenge. Paul Foster, one our favourite Microsoft technical evangelists, has put together both a Windows Phone 7 app and a game and is asking developers to download either one, play with it...

Happy Friday, people. I can see from Twitter that lots of you are coming to DDD9 tomorrow – it’s shaping up to be a great day. Meanwhile there are only two-and-a-half hours of the working week left – hurrah! Why not spend it finding out what we’ve been...

When I started writing this post this morning I thought it would be a quick one, but here I am a couple of hours later with eye strain and a thirst for gin and tonic. I think that means we can be quite good at hiding the great developer resources we have...

Here’s a helpful round-up of all the latest Visual Studio top tips from recent MSDN Flash newsletters . Now you can determine the schedule for build completion and failure notifications through Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Build Notification...

This fortnight, we've got a wealth of new product launch info from CodeMash 2011, a fabulous set of developer resources from our resident bookworm, David K Stewart, and a pile of practical info to make web development easier and get you started with migrating...

Well, here actually. We’ve updated the agenda with all the session links you’ve been waiting for. There’s also an online feedback form – we’d love to know what you thought about the event content and the speakers.

Hop on over to our UK ISV Developer Evangelism Team blog to find out more about this shiny new LinkedIn group. Eric, who happens to sit across the room from me, puts it like this: If you are developer, software architect or chief technology officer in...

When I was first shown around the Microsoft campus Learning Centre I stood, mouth ajar, in awe at the number of technical books on display and remarked "What an amazing resource!" My tour guide promptly corrected me, saying "The best resource...

The HTML5 Labs site is the place where Microsoft prototypes early and unstable web standard specifications from standards bodies such as the W3C. Sharing these prototypes helps us have informed discussions with developer communities, and contributes to...