The service from Microsoft named “Bing Pulse”, allows you to get live response from your audience instantly. Sign up and get started with the service is easy. More info at http://pulse.bing.com/how-it-works/ Create an Account and Get Started You can use...

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My team (vertical ISV aka vipp) is hosting a series of free workshops in various cities in the United States for the next two months. If you are an ISV, individual developer, startup, small or medium-sized company, working on apps or solutions (desktop...

I ran into several issues while trying to put together a quick demo universal Windows App using Microsoft Azure Mobile Services and the Azure Storage Client Library. I fixed the issues after a few hours of debugging and testing, and now have a working...

Microsoft and a number of partners team up to offer application development tools to students. More detail here . If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in a degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you....

When loading an existing universal Windows App solution, I noticed that the shred project failed to load in Visual Studio 2013. When creating a new one, I ran into an error as shown below. No exports were found that match the constraint:     ...

It takes me less than 30 minutes to go through the process of setting up an environment to host a live event, though I didn’t actually host one. How to get started? Here is a short list of things you will need: A computer with an integrated camera or...

You can watch the streaming session live or on-demand at http://www.visualstudio.com/connect-event-live-vs  

I discovered at a hackathon a patented smart pill bottle invented by Josh Stein and his team at Adhere Tech. As stated in Adhere Tech’s blog post , the smart bottles may look like normal pill bottles, but actually send data to AdhereTech’s servers automatically...

I attended the Medication Management Hackathon at Minneapolis this weekend where I met many leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs, and learned there are a great deal of data resources for developers who are interested to create apps for healthcare...

  This sample app demonstrates how an Azure hosted application, using Storm, a distributed real-time computation system, and Apache Kafka, a publish-subscribe messaging system, keeps track of vehicle data in real time,  from Vehicle’s speed...

  Microsoft announced at the Official Microsoft blog site a number of upcoming Microsoft conferences in 2015. Convergence 2015 in Atlanta, March 16-19 , the place where business leaders gather to explore solutions. //Build in San Francisco, April...

I’ve been doing a bit cross-platform app development lately and had a need to share or display smart phone screens on my PC and Mac for demo purposes. I came across Danielle Fernandez’s eHow article “ How Can I View My Cell Phone Screen...

Microsoft Developer Experience (DX) team has recently launched the Microsoft Vertical ISV Partnership Program (VIPP) . This program offers a breadth of new opportunities for software development organizations to accelerate and broaden product roadmaps...

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform. To meet the security and compliance needs of U.S. federal agencies including the Department of Defense, plus state and local governments and their solutions providers, Microsoft provides Azure Government...

Windows 10 Technical Preview is available for download now. (Windows Server Technical Preview available here .) After downloading the 4GB 64-bit version iso file, I unpacked it to a bootable USB drive and installed the new OS to an old Acer laptop (Intel...

Glad to be back and I look forward to supporting the Vertical ISV partnership program for the U.S. market. I will use the MSDN online asset, in-person workshops and other resources to stay in touch with the ISV developers, architects, business and technical...

At Build 2013, Microsoft made a number of Windows Azure announcements including the availability of Windows Azure Mobile Services and Websites. Read the team blog here for more detail. Mobile Services makes it fast and easy to create a mobile backend...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013 6000+ are attending the conference in San Francisco and many more are watching live streaming online…   At Build, we'll share updates and talk about what's next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure...

60+ million Windows licenses sold. On May 2, learn the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of designing, building and marketing an app for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Hear from developers who have done it and find out for yourself. Sign up now ! Keynote: The Windows Opportunity...

The event has been sold out. However, you can sign up to join the Waiting List.   When June 26 – 28, 2013 Where Moscone Center 747 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (at the corner of Third & Howard) Where to Stay We have negotiated discounted...

My Nokia Lumia 920 has been a great device since I purchased it last November. But it started to misbehave a bit lately. The Issues It first showed a static (non-spinning) gears screen as shown in the picture . I didn’t even know when and how it happened...

The registration is available at http://www.msteched.com Check out the latest news on TechEd at http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TechEd The Microsoft TechEd 2013 Content Catalog is LIVE with hundreds of Breakout Sessions, Hands-on Labs and Instructor-led...

If you are relatively new to Windows Store app development, you may find useful the resources listed below. This set of resources touches many key areas that developers will need to work with while developing Windows Store apps.  Writing code for...

You can find the detail at codeproject.com Below are some highlights. Try Windows Azure and our 5 programming challenges for a chance at spot prizes, Stage prizes and the Grand Prize. Over $16,000 in prizes total are up for grabs with 65 chances to win...