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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
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Getting Started with DeepZoom
30 September 08 11:03 PM
I've done a few events recently and showed off a new Microsoft technology called DeepZoom which is powered by Silverlight . DeepZoom allows you to publish incredibly hi-res images online (potentially we're talking terrabytes) allowing users to access
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Photosynth goes live!
21 August 08 10:29 AM
From today Photosynth is publicly available so you can not only view others 'synths' but create and upload your own using the free Photosynth tools. Photosynth is a new technology which allows you to stitch a collection of digital photos of a location
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Imagine Cup UK Finalists Touch Down in Seattle
06 August 08 10:13 AM
Part of the prize for winning the UK finals of the Software Design competition of the Imagine Cup was a trip to our head office in Redmond to work with the Popfly team. Dom and Ben flew out on Sunday night and from the video Ben's just posted on his blog
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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
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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
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Sell your XNA Games with Xbox LIVE Community Games!
28 July 08 02:05 PM
Over the last couple of weeks there have been some exciting announcements trickling out through the official XNA blog ... Firstly the release of Schizoid the first game built using XNA to be published on Xbox LIVE Arcade - from the official site: "Cooperative
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Imagine Cup Update
08 July 08 09:25 AM
Both our Software Design and Embedded development teams put in a sterling effort but unfortunately neither progressed to the final. At least we can take consolation in the quality of the entries that did progress, the quality of work produced by our international
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Make a video about S+S and win a trip to Macau
24 June 08 10:14 AM
This is a great opportunity for any budding film makers out there... All you need to do is use information from this page to write a script, film a creative video and submit it online and you could be jetting off to Macau! To find out more and check out
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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
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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
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Create Your Own Screencasts the Easy Way
21 May 08 09:57 AM
Microsoft Office Labs recently launched a new service called Community Clips allowing users to create and share 'how-to' videos about Microsoft Office. The cool thing is as part of the service they have created a free screencasting tool that is very easy
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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
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Build your own game with... Popfly!
06 May 08 12:19 PM
As if Popfly wasn't cool enough, they've just launched a new service which lets you create your own Silverlight games without having to write code. There are a bunch of code templates and characters you can use to get started (I particularly like 'Kill
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Channel 9 Video on Zune Development with XNA
01 May 08 02:40 PM
OK... I know we don't have the Zune in the UK yet but this is still very cool. Check out this video of Mike Klucher demoing games dev for the Zune using XNA. I particularly like the APIs for accessing media on the device and integrating it into gameplay.
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