February 2008 - Posts

Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope
29 February 08 01:08 PM
I just wanted to throw up a quick post to point you to this brand new technology from Microsoft Research. The Worldwide Telescope allows users to explore the Universe intuitively by combining huge numbers of extremely high resolution photographs captured Read More...
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Silverlight 2 Sneak Peek
22 February 08 03:24 PM
Scott Guthrie has just blogged about some of the upcoming features we can expect in Silverlight 2 including WPF UI Framework, Rich Controls, Rich Networking Support and Rich Base Class Library. He also mentions that the beta1 release is still only 4.3mb Read More...
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Microsoft Gold Partner Would Like to Meet Enthusiastic Technical Grads...
22 February 08 10:33 AM
Last week we held our first Imagine Cup event at our offices in Reading. Whilst there I was fortunate enough to have a chat with Steve Cox from CM Group (Content Master). CM create training, e-learning courses, hands on labs, reference applications, conference Read More...
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XNA V3 Announced with Support for Xbox Live Publishing
20 February 08 11:45 PM
What a week it's been; on Tuesday we launched DreamSpark and gave all UK students access to our developer tools and today we announced the impending release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 and game publishing on Xbox Live Marketplace! The key feature announced Read More...
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DreamSpark Verification Update
20 February 08 10:08 AM
Just a quick post today with a couple of bits of useful info about DreamSpark ... I have had a few mails from people who can't find their university listed in the 'Select your school/organization' list on the DreamSpark site. If your uni isn't listed Read More...
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DreamSpark - Free Software for all UK Students
19 February 08 05:15 AM
Today sees the launch of our DreamSpark programme allowing students around the world to download a selection of full Microsoft products for free. DreamSpark is available to students in the UK as well as many other countries (with more to follow shortly) Read More...
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Introduction to Web Development; Microsoft Web Technologies
14 February 08 10:27 AM
So you want to develop a Web site? Well you’re in luck; Microsoft offers end to end Web technology solutions giving you everything you need from hosting through to client side rich Internet applications. In this article I will provide an overview Read More...
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Introduction to Web Dev – Internet History
11 February 08 10:55 PM
This is the first article in a series about Web Development exploring the origins of the Internet, the birth of the Web and improvements in user experience from HTML to Silverlight. Origins of the Internet and the birth of the Web The origins of the Internet Read More...
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All Inspiration Tour Sessions Now Online
08 February 08 10:34 AM
To follow on from my previous post about the Inspiration Tour on Channel8 I just wanted to let everyone know that all of our sessions are now online: Introduction Silverlight   Windows Embedded XNA   Technorati Tags: Inspiration Tour , Channel8 Read More...
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Example XNA 3D Game - Video Tutorial
05 February 08 10:06 PM
I'm currently in Seattle at our annual conference where all of the Academic Evangelists from around the world get together talk about what we've been doing and start to plan our activity for next academic year. As part of this we had a presentation on Read More...
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