Ah, PDC10, what a night. Refresh your memory with the video sessions from the event. The Future of C# and Visual Basic The Future of F# Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere LINQ, Take Two – Realizing the LINQ to Everything Dream Inside Internet Explorer 9 Performance...

Mike Ormond’s been busy publishing all the videos from last month’s Windows Phone 7 DDD event on Channel 9 for your viewing pleasure. You can find a growing list of video links here . Here the complete list of titles: Session 0: "Windows Phone 7...

Microsoft partner, Red Gate, is offering you the chance to win one of three $10k prizes for writing the Windows Phone 7 app that developers are going to love the most. Three judging panels will each choose the best app ‘that developers love’ from those...

The Imagine Cup – the world’s premier technology competition – has recently launched in the UK. Now in its ninth year, the Imagine Cup sees over 300,000 students from around the globe create innovative software and hard solutions to...

Well, this week saw the launch of the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7, and Martin Beeby put pen to paper to bring us a great summary of all the new features. It was also MSDN newsletter week and we were treated to a great article from Mike Ormond...

If you came along to the .net magazine awards last night at Ministry of Sound, it’s more than likely that you at least entertained the idea of entering the Ubelly.com photo booth. A couple of drinks later and I bet you found yourself crammed in with four...

A new release of Internet Explorer Platform Preview 7 is now ready for you to download and test . Coming just three weeks after Platform Preview 6, Platform Preview 7 demonstrates the improvements that have been made in IE9 performance. For users this...

It’s over to Mike for this week’s MSDN Flash article. Now Windows Phone 7 has launched in all markets and you can wander down to your local high-street retailer and take your pick of whichever device most takes your fancy (see below)…. I thought it was...

Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline. The official Silverlight site holds everything you need to know to get started with Silverlight...

Find out what ASP.NET is, what it does and build your first ASP.NET web app. When you’ve mastered the basics you can also find some more bits and pieces to further your knowledge. What more could you ask for, eh? Enjoy !

This week’s ramblings are listed below – let us know what you’ve enjoyed most, what’s been useful and also any areas where you could do with a few more details. Post your questions and comments below and I’ll do my best to find the answers. Have a great...

More treasures from the wonderful goldmine of information that is MSDN. You can grab Windows Azure training kit and SDK downloads. For more general Windows Azure resource materials, have a peek at this. Technorati Tags: Windows Azure , MSDN

Get your mitts on a trial of Visual Studio 2010 here . You’ll find lots more Visual Studio resources on MSDN , from getting started guides to ‘how do I?’ materials.   Technorati Tags: Visual Studio , MSDN

You’re invited to a very special event on 2 December 2010 Learn about the future of Silverlight from Corporate Vice President, Scott Guthrie and other experts, direct from Microsoft’s HQ. Hear about our plans for the next version of Silverlight, the latest...

If you have Visual Studio 2010 with MSDN Premium or MSDN Ultimate, you get excellent cloud computing benefits from the Windows Azure Platform included at no cost .  This three step video guide shows you how.   Technorati Tags: MSDN , Azure

Number 4 in our series of Windows Phone 7 apps is Xbox LIVE Extras, taking your Xbox LIVE experience to the next level. Customise your 3D Avatar, track your achievements and connect with your Xbox LIVE friends. See who’s online and what your friends are...

Early prototypes for the Windows Phone product packaging were admittedly a little 'eccentric'. Congratulations to our third comedy genius, James Tenniswood – your new Windows Phone 7 will be winging its way to you soon. That’s all, folks!

Here it is , there’s a PDC10 round up and a scattering of the latest goings on in Microsoft developer land. Don’t forget you can get your own copy straight to your inbox every two weeks by signing up here .   Technorati Tags: MSDN Flash newsletter

Will you be our date for the .Net awards party? What are you doing on the 18 November? The guys and girls from Microsoft will be glamming it up at the .Net Awards party , taking place at the uber-glam Ministry of Sound club in London. The party is the...

The Next Generation user group has a lot of goodies coming up on the approach Christmas, followed by the tech equivalent of some cracking January sales. Over to Ryan O’Neill for the lowdown. First up, in November we’ll be demonstrating the really cool...

On Wednesday 24 November we are delivering three Live Meetings covering various aspects of Visual Studio 2010.  The Live Meetings are free to attend and UK Technical Specialists will be available to answer your questions after each of the sessions...

Now when you’re searching MSDN for that nugget of information you just can’t live without, you’re actually going beyond MSDN and into other high quality sites, like StackOverflow and Code Project. New, improved search makes it lots easier and faster to...

You might have seen the preview of this ebook when we posted it a while ago. You can now get your hands on the complete 24 chapter, 1000 page epic in PDF, XPS or paper form here .   Technorati Tags: Windows Phone 7 , Charles Petzold

Here’s your weekly round up of this week’s UK MSDN blog ramblings. There’s still time to enter the Windows Phone 7 competition (item 4, below) – let’s see how many photo captions we can get by 10pm tonight… Martin Beeby talks HTML5 test suite conformance...