As I know many of you are subscribers to MSDN and are every day users of Visual Studio I thought it would be a good idea to let you know about the recently released WhitePaper on the licensing clarifications that have been added to the whitepaper below...

I made a post the other day pointing people at Project Daytona , Microsoft Research’s iterative MapReduce. I thought I’d make a quick post about what MapReduce actually is in the first place. I guess the big name that everybody automatically associates...

  This camp is aimed at the IT Pro. On it you will build and deploy an entire SharePoint infrastructure with a dual-machine server-farm, Active Directory Domain Controller and SQL Server. On the road to that infrastructure you will create a dual...

New opportunities lead to great development experiences on the Microsoft platform. Join us on 5 October at the ICC in London for a UK TechDays special event featuring a keynote speech from Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer. Planned sessions: A lap around Windows...

How did you learn to code? I ask because a couple of recent chance encounters have got me thinking that there are some pretty big gaps in people’s knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3. For example, I was chatting to a student who approached me at an...

MSDN Flash feature article: p&p Goes Mobile with Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure Microsoft patterns & practices (p&p) is a small group of technology-passionate architects, developers, writers, and evangelists hidden away in the woods in...

By Jen Stirrup How do you develop applications for Windows Azure, without incurring cost? Developing applications for Windows Azure is a growing business. Application design for Azure is a vital consideration, since developers need to create applications...

Registration is now open for the 2012 edition of the Windows Phone Camp (powered by Tech.Days UK). The Windows Phone Camps are learning events which will show you how to learn and build Windows Phone apps. You can work on your own projects with assistance...

We have received a significant amount of interest with the Windows 8 Elite programme and we wanted to provide a brief update on how you can get invited. The process is very simple and we want to ensure that we can invite as many UK app publishers as possible...

Want to start developing for Windows Phone, but not yet taken the plunge? Then this free day of training is the quickest way to find out all you need to know. The Windows Phone Camps will show you how to build Windows Phone apps from scratch. You'll...

The first in our new series of Windows Phone 7 app spotlights focuses on eBay , this week at number six in the Marketplace top ten list of free apps. Designed specifically for Windows Phone 7, the eBay mobile application uses a streamlined interface...

We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for TechDays UK 2011, c overing topics including cloud, the web and Windows Phone. Hear from our customers and partners as well as seeing in-depth technical sessions from the Microsoft experts...

I was chatting to my wife, who is a reception school teacher, over a box of “Number 1 Teacher” chocolates about what we used to get up to during the summer holidays. Amongst many fond memory's of karate, swimming, biking and drinking cider in the park...

I was at a recent user group meeting in London attended by Silverlight developers and others interested in the platform and a straw poll provided an interesting bit of insight. The poll question was: “Who uses Expression Blend?” The response was a very...

In our first guest post, Eric Nelson’s written a fab article for today’s MSDN Flash newsletter which introduces two key tools - Visual Studio LightSwitch and WebMatrix. Let us know what you think.   For many years being a .NET developer meant being...

In case you missed it yesterday, the release candidate of Silverlight 5 is now available for you to download and test against. Silverlight 5 has a tonne of new features for developers to take advantage of. Back at the UK Tech.Days event in May, I talked...

by Mike Fourie This review is based on the Visual Studio 11 Beta build released by Microsoft on 29 th February 2012. It’s been two years since Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 in April 2010 and over a year since they delivered Service...

If you are new to the Windows Azure platform, you might want to understand about it in a staged and phased way. This post gives you a roadmap of the content (written and video) that already exists on the Internet. You can go through the content, piece...

Take a moment for some personal development…this virtual lab helps you to take advantage of the new ASP.NET Project Templates, control server control ClientIds, enable bi-directional routing support, and control the View State at application and page...

To compliment the launch of Visual Studio 2012 on the 12th September we are running a series of RoadShow events and dropping in on 4 cities in 5 days.  We’d love for you to come and join us at some of these events.  We will be joined by Shanku...

The Microsoft engineering team has launched a new blog to start a dialog about design choices, real-world data and usage, and new opportunities that are part of Windows 8. There'll be regular posts throughout the development of Windows 8, focussing on...

We have two new dates for the ALM Visual Studio 2012 event and a few spaces for the 30th October event!  These events are proving very popular so sign up soon to avoid disappointment. 30th October 2012 – Reading, TVP (Only 4 spaces left!!!) 8th November...

Microsoft Access 2010 introduces features that are not supported in Microsoft Office Access 2007. Access 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will not open databases containing these features; Access 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will in some cases offer limited viewing...

Following our previous article on new materials in the MSDN library, t here are 5 new articles for your learning pleasure, covering Windows Phone 7 development and one article on developing applications for Windows Azure. Please let us know what you think...

by Andy Wigley For developers, there is *so* much to like in Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’. It’s packed full of great new features, such as multi-tasking, background file transfers, sockets and database support. And with the release of...