Microsoft UK Developer Tools Team

I’ve finally got my first real Windows Phone 7 App published onto the marketplace, and, although there is a vast amount of useful information available, there were a few things that I learnt/experienced/realised and felt were worth passing on. The app...

I like the Layer Diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and the idea of creating my own patterns to choose from in the Toolbox is very appealing, so I thought I’d look into it. It turned out to be very easy and although this is documented I thought it...

I’m presenting at this Black Marble event in Microsoft’s London offices, at Victoria , on the 14th December. It’s a walkthrough of the features you get with each edition of Visual Studio 2010, including Team Foundation Server. There are still some places...

Black Marble , one of our key UK partners and the first UK partner to achieve Gold certification in the new ALM Competency, is going to enter anyone who commissions a TFS “elf” check into one of four weekly draws in December for an XBox with Kinect ....

We’ve just updated our schedule of Visual Studio 2010 related events and the new list, taking us through to June 2011, is now available . There are over 40 events including a new range of LiveMeetings on topics including Azure, Prototyping, Silverlight...

I was on the tube this week re-reading the Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide on my wonderful new HTC Mozart 7 Windows Phone.  It got me thinking about all those free eBooks that I’d been meaning to read over the past few months and never got round...