Come on and join us in this exciting contest dubbed “ Mobile America – the people hackathon ”. We are still finalizing the detail but will announce it soon. This post is to provide some basic information (subject to change) and help you get started...

Session 1: April 3rd REGISTER > April 3, 2012 | 11:00AM-12:30PM EDT Fast Track Your First App During this workshop, you’ll be exposed to the basics of creating a Windows Phone App and deploying to the Marketplace. As an attendee, you will be given...

An update (7.1.1) to the current Windows Phone SDK (7.1) has just been released. With the update,  you can now develop Windows Phone apps and games using the emulator on machines running Windows 8 Consumer Preview . Also, you can develop apps that...

I recently activated Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online with my Windows Live ID. After activation, I was able to log in to my account using the browser. You can find more info on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online here . After logging in, I was prompted...

I updated the resource kit to add a link to Windows 8 Consumer Preview developer resources. Download the PPT file here. Developer Tools Windows Azure SDK /zxazuresdklink – All tools you need to create cloud apps with Microsoft Visual 2010 Windows Phone...

You can download Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 (beta) here . The new Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 Consumer Preview makes it much easy for developers to use Windows Azure and the Windows Push Notification Services (WNS) for a Windows...

Developer Tools and Resources Event locations Select a city near you Location Date Reston, VA Mar. 27 Chevy Chase, MD Mar. 29 Orlando, FL Apr. 11 Tampa , FL Apr. 17 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Apr. 19 Charlotte, NC May 1 Waltham, MA May 22 Atlanta, GA May 23 Farmington...

My colleague Matt Harrington put together a list of Windows 8 resources for developers in his recent blog post . Check it out here .

You can download Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 (beta) here . I ran into an error with Visual Studio 11 beta while debugging and deploying a Windows 8 app locally. See the error msg below. This happened to me more than once when I copied...

You can download Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 (beta) here . While you can download Windows Phone SDK and try to install it on Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you should be aware of three known incompatibility issues, as outlined in the...

Last week I completed 30 blog posts for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Power User How to Series . Now it is time to focus on application development on and for Windows 8 Consumer Preview. In this How To series, I will share application development tips...

MobileMonday DC Mobile Monday DC and Microsoft invite you to attend Mobile In Education - How the Mobile Channel Impacts Lifelong Learning. On March 19th, at the Microsoft offices in Chevy Chase, leaders from the technology, university, and non-profit...

This revised toolkit (initially released for Windows 8 Developer Preview on 9/14/2011) has all the tools to make it easy to develop a Windows Azure service and deploy it to your users. In addition to documentation, this toolkit includes Visual Studio...

The Microsoft team will be conducting 7 separate demo sessions and running a small lab to allow for hands-on-access at FOSE 2012. Please come join us and don't worry about FOSE registration costs... just register for the "Free Expo" portion...

My colleague Brue Kyle has published a blog series on Windows Azure security best practices . You can find more detail here . Here are the links to each part in this series: Windows Azure Security Best Practices -- Part 1: The Challenges, Defense in Depth...

My colleague Mike Benkovich is hosting a webcast series - Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts . You can download and watch several recorded sessions and presentations, or join him every week on Tuesdays, to explore the possible with Cloud Computing and walk...

You can find Windows Azure-based showcase applications at http://www.windowsazure.com . Since there isn’t an industry type category, I listed cloud applications for the public sector below, including governments, healthcare and education. This list is...

Here are the Details: Windows Azure Storage Pay-As-You-Go pricing has been reduced by 12% ($0.14 to $0.125) 6 Month Plans for Windows Azure Storage have been reduced across all tiers by up to 14% Windows Azure Extra Small Compute has been reduced by 50...

Windows 8 Consumer Preview introduces two new system recovery features, Refresh and Reset, that were previously offered by some original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). There is a big difference between these two features that you should be aware of....

Restoring your Windows operating system to a previous state is nothing new, but this feature can be very handy and time saving. For example, if you installed a new application or driver and your system starts to behave abnormally, or if your computer...

Restoring File History from a backup is very straightforward. Open File History from the Control Panel. (Read my previous post on how to back up Files using File History.) Select Restore personal files.  You can restore all or selected folders to...

Prior to Windows 8, you can back up documents and files using the Backup and Restore feature available in Control Panel | Backup and Restore (in Windows 7 for example). Windows 8 Consumer Preview has enhanced the feature and replace it with File History...

With Remote Desktop Connection, you can sit at a PC and connect to another PC in a different location (the remote PC). To set up Remote Desktop Connection, open the Control Panel. (Read my previous post on how to access the control panel.) Type “Remote...

Windows 8 Consumer Preview provides on-screen keyboards for touch enabled tablet or slate users. You can easily choose one of the three layouts available: normal keyboard, split keyboard, and hand writing recognition panel. In the Desktop Mode, click...

Windows Defender in Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with a familiar user interface and includes enhanced features of Windows Security Essentials. You can show and configure the free anti-virus program using the options described below. A bit background...