Ed Dunhill's Blog
Microsoft for Students
Browse by Tags
All Tags
»
Teaching
(RSS)
Careers @ Microsoft
Cool Stuff
DreamSpark
Events
MSPs
Software
Student
Studentzine Articles
Technology
Windows Azure Online Training for Students
20 October 09 10:28 AM
This will probably be particularly interesting for those of you who read my previous post on free student access to Azure . ICS, our partner on this offer are running a series of online training sessions later this week specifically for students. Each
Read More...
Try Microsoft’s Cloud Platform for Free!
07 October 09 06:02 PM
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform allowing you to build and deploy scalable .NET applications online. Cloud Computing is a hot topic and likely to be a key part of of many organisations IT strategy moving forward. As a student now
Read More...
Kodu is Here!
01 July 09 03:56 PM
Have you ever wanted to create your own game but don’t want to get your hands dirty with code? We now have the answer… Kodu! Kodu allows you to build games using traditional programming paradigms such as conditional statements and loops but without having
Read More...
Getting Started with Azure #1
19 May 09 06:06 PM
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform allowing deployment of .NET applications with flexible scaling. My colleague Paolo recently wrote a great introductory article for our Faculty Connection newsletter which outlines the fundamentals.
Read More...
Free MCTS Certification Through DreamSpark
08 May 09 03:08 PM
For a limited time Microsoft is offering free vouchers to sit an MCTS exam through the DreamSpark programme. The MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) stream is aimed at developers and IT professionals and is available in multiple flavours
Read More...
Student Celebration Day Slides
01 May 09 08:31 AM
To follow on from yesterday’s post I wanted to share the slides from the MSR talks: MSR Overview - Andrew Herbert Getting from A to B: fast route-finding using slow computers - Simon Peyton-Jones Curing Cancer, Halting global Disease Outbreaks and averting
Read More...
IT Academy Student Pass - Free eLearning
13 February 09 10:31 AM
A little while back I posted about a great new programme we launched which gives students free access to official Microsoft eLearning courses. To sign up you need a unique code which authenticates you as a student, the great news is these codes are now
Read More...
Free eLearning for Microsoft Certification
02 October 08 04:13 PM
Ever fancied getting some more letters after you name and improving your job prospects when you leave uni? Then Microsoft certification is for you! We're making a whole bunch of official eLearning content available to students for free through the IT
Read More...
New XNA Mini Game Available
04 August 08 10:53 AM
Video: XNA Creators Club Online: Movipa Mini Game The XNA team just announced a new mini game called Movipa . Its basically a jigsaw game where you have to reorder the pieces to make the image complete the cool thing is it uses animations rather than
Read More...
Live Mesh Now Available to UK Users
31 July 08 09:58 AM
You've probably all heard something in the IT press about Live Mesh over the last couple of months well now you have a chance to go try the tech preview yourselves! Sign up is now open to UK users and if you already have a Live ID then all you need to
Read More...
Introduction to Web Development; Popfly Input Blocks
13 June 08 12:59 PM
In this the last in a series of five articles on Microsoft Web Development we look at creating an input block to allow your web service to be used in Popfly. Building our block For the purpose of this tutorial we will implement a block that will take
Read More...
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Now Available
09 June 08 08:23 AM
The Beta 2 of Silverlight v2 is now available adding a bunch of new features to .NET based SL development. Scott Guthrie has put together an awesome post detailing all the new stuff. Everything you need is available on the official Silverlight website
Read More...
Introduction to Web Development; Silverlight and SQL
15 May 08 07:06 AM
In the fourth in a series of five articles exploring Microsoft Web technologies we'll look at implementing a Silverlight front end for our SQL database/WCF Web Service. Prerequisites For this tutorial you will need Visual Studio 2008 Standard or above
Read More...
Robochamps Robotics League - Win Real Robots!
24 April 08 10:35 PM
Today saw the launch of a new website which allows users to compete in a series of challenges to program virtual robots using Microsoft Robotics Studio (a plugin for Visual Studio - C# Express and above). Historically robotics has had many barriers
Read More...
Introduction to Web Development; Building an ASP.NET/SQL Web Application
19 April 08 10:32 AM
In the third of a series of five articles exploring Microsoft Web technologies I'll walk you through building a simple Web application which retrieves and stores data in a SQL database. Getting Started First off you need to set up your development environment,
Read More...
This Blog
Home
Links
Email
Tags
Careers @ Microsoft
Cool Stuff
DreamSpark
Events
Free Web Hosting
Imagine Cup
Inspiration Tour
MSC
MSDNAA
MSPs
Random Stuff
Software
Student
Studentzine Articles
Teaching
Technology
Archives
October 2009 (6)
September 2009 (1)
July 2009 (4)
June 2009 (1)
May 2009 (4)
April 2009 (1)
March 2009 (6)
February 2009 (3)
January 2009 (1)
November 2008 (1)
October 2008 (2)
September 2008 (1)
August 2008 (3)
July 2008 (5)
June 2008 (4)
May 2008 (7)
April 2008 (5)
March 2008 (7)
February 2008 (10)
January 2008 (9)
December 2007 (3)
November 2007 (6)
October 2007 (8)
September 2007 (4)
August 2007 (4)
July 2007 (5)
June 2007 (12)
May 2007 (1)
Syndication
RSS 2.0
Atom 1.0
