March 2008 - Posts

Pacman - Powered by XNA (and Silverlight)
30 March 08 10:27 AM
Those readers of the Microsoft Studentzine newsletter will have seen Ben Coley's series of articles helping you create your first game using XNA. He's walking readers through the creation of Pacman adding new code and gameplay each month. His first two Read More...
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Expression Blend and Silverlight
25 March 08 08:09 PM
Since the launch of DreamSpark I have had one or two queries about which version of Expression Blend you need to build Silverlight applications... The only version of Expression Blend that has been fully released is v1 (available free to students through Read More...
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MIX08 Sessions Now Online
21 March 08 02:20 PM
If you're interested in Microsoft Web technologies then this is for you, the sessions from Microsoft's annual Web conference held in Las Vegas are now online at http://sessions.visitmix.com/ . There's lots of cool content available including presentations Read More...
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Microsoft Student Partners - Now Recruiting for Academic Year '08
18 March 08 07:57 PM
The Microsoft Student Partner is a way for students to affiliate themselves with Microsoft getting the opportunity to represent the company at their university and pick up some cool prizes along the way. Plus it looks great on your CV. From the MSP site: Read More...
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Setting up IIS on Windows Server 2008
18 March 08 11:13 AM
Those of you who have been following my series on Microsoft Web development (see below) may be interested in a screencast put together by MSP Kris Athi showing how to install and configure IIS on Server 2008 . You can read Kris' article here or click Read More...
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Introduction to Web Development; Getting started with ASP.NET
12 March 08 02:51 AM
In the second of a series of five articles exploring Microsoft Web technologies we take a look at setting up a development environment and hosting for your web applications. The Development Environment To get you ready to rock with ASP.NET and Silverlight Read More...
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Silverlight is Going Mobile with Nokia
04 March 08 09:59 PM
Just a quick note to highlight this story from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7276907.stm Today Microsoft and Nokia announced a deal that will see a mobile version of the Silverlight plugin installed on some new Nokia devices. Initially Read More...
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