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This blog post is a work in progress that gives you easy links to SQL Azure resources. The SQL Azure...

Author: Wzack Date: 06/07/2010

Windows Azure Programming Book

This O’Reilly book by Sriram Krishnan “Programming Windows Azure” is now available on Amazon. Sriram...

Author: Wzack Date: 06/07/2010

Scaling Up (and Down) Azure!

Scalability is the ultimate goal of a cloud-based, operating expenditure based application. Not only...

Author: Wzack Date: 06/07/2010

Tribune Embraces Azure

Tribune Transforms Business for Heightened Relevance by Embracing Cloud Computing Tribune Company, a...

Author: Wzack Date: 06/07/2010

Windows Phone 7 to Ship More Than 20 Games

Joel Evans at ZDNet writes in his recent post that “InformationWeek is reporting that Microsoft has...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 06/04/2010

Microsoft Plans to Update Windows Live Apps

Ina Fried at CNET reports that Microsoft will provide updates to Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 06/03/2010

Top 10 Resources to get started with SharePoint 2010

Looking to ramped-up on SharePoint 2010? Then be sure to check-out this great compilation blog post...

Author: jbarnes Date: 06/01/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects provide additional functionality to build and deploy Web...

Author: jbarnes Date: 06/01/2010

Patterns and Practices Security Guidance Round'up

J.D. Meier has put together a comprehensive roundup of our patterns & practices security...

Author: jbarnes Date: 06/01/2010

Prism Updated for Silverlight 4

If you’re using Composite Application Guidance (PRISM) to build complex, high-end, extensible RIA...

Author: jbarnes Date: 06/01/2010

The IE6–IE8 Technet Webcast Upgrade Series

Need some help on migrating your users from IE6 to IE8?  Check-out this new series of Technet...

Author: jbarnes Date: 06/01/2010

Programming Microsoft Office 2010: Getting Started with Office 2010 Solutions

  A new on-demand series of videos shows how you can develop for Microsoft Office 2010  -...

Author: jbarnes Date: 06/01/2010

ARCast.TV - Selling Pizza in the Cloud: Domino's and Windows Azure

When you're one of the busiest pizza companies in the world, how do you scale your web site to meet...

Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/01/2010

New England GiveCamp: Creating web applications for non-profits

The first ever New England GiveCamp will take place from June 11-13, 2010 at Microsoft’s New England...

Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/28/2010

Vistaprint Offers Daily Deals with IE Web Slice

Vistaprint offers small businesses everything they need to market their business. They offer...

Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/27/2010

IASA FOUNDATION 101-102 Training Course in Boston July 19-23

Do you understand the basic principles and objectives of the IT architect? Can you describe the...

Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/26/2010

Silverlight Tips of the Day

  Looking for some quick tips regarding Silverlight development in an easy-to-digest format?...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Visualization and Architecture Tools in VS2010

Last Month, Cameron Skinner from the VS2010 product team toured through the mid-west, speaking about...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Identity Framework SDK and Training Kit for Visual Studio 2010

A new version of the Windows Identity Framework SDK and developer training kit is available...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 RTW Now Available

The final version of the Silverlight 4 Tools plug-in for Visual Studio is now available for...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Out-Of-Browser Authentication for RIA Services

Now that Silverlight applications can run out-of-browser, a common question that often arises is how...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

The Financial ROI on Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

To understand the financial impact of investing in the latest version of SharePoint, Forrester...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Rangers: Practical Guidance for Visual Studio ALM

Looking for guidance on how to use all the great new ALM features in VS2010 and TFS2010?  ...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Accelerating Windows 7 Deployment with a PoC or Production Pilot

The Windows Team just announced the launch of targeted partner and self service resources to help...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/25/2010

A 9-year-old Boy Has Written a 312-page book on Windows 7

CNN recently reported that Marco Calasan, a 9-year-old boy from Macedonia, is the youngest Microsoft...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/25/2010

Ford and Microsoft Showcase Fiestaware Custom Application Platform

Ford and Microsoft partnered to create an application platform to build custom apps for the car as...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/25/2010

RSS Reader Sample App for Windows Phone 7

This is a simple RSS reader application that shows how easy it is to build applications for Windows...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/25/2010

Microsoft OEM Partner to Launch Windows 7 Tablet PC

According ComputerWorld, IDG News Service reports that Taiwanese laptop-maker Micro-Star...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/25/2010

PlayReady DRM coming to IIS Media Services

Microsoft announced last week that IIS Media Services will support a version of PlayReady DRM to...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Jon Skeet Dives Deep into C#

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/25/2010

Open-source projects ease access to Microsoft Outlook .pst data files

Microsoft has released two new open source projects that complement technical documentation recently...

Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/25/2010

ARCast.TV - SOASTA uses Windows Azure to offer CloudTest Solutions

SOASTA based in California, the company offers both internally installed and cloud-based testing...

Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/25/2010

Monte Carlo Simulation using Windows Azure

This project was motivated by an article by Christian Stitch describing an approach for financial...

Author: Wzack Date: 05/14/2010

Silverlight enables Media Transformations

The world of media as we know it is rapidly changing – check-out these case studies below about how...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/14/2010

Two FREE Windows Phone 7 Hands-on Training Events

Registration is available at the links below. Microsoft main campus, Redmond, WA – May 18th and May...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/13/2010

Windows Phone 7 Emulator Inside Out

If you are curious about how the Windows Phone 7 emulator works, for example, how the touch function...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/12/2010

General Mills Builds Rich Cooking Application on Windows 7

General Mills is a global producer of market-leading food brands such as Betty Crocker, Cheerios,...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/12/2010

Beta for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1

MDT 2010 Update 1 includes Office 2010 support, the ability for users to initiate and customize...

Author: Benjamin Xue Date: 05/11/2010

ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour #16 – Asynchronous Tasks for WebClient, SmtpClient, and Ping

NET 4.0 includes significant advancements for developers writing parallel and concurrent...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

Securing Silverlight Applications

Now that you have created that great next killer Silverlight RIA application – it’s time to think...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

Office 2010 Training Kit Released

Microsoft has just released the Office 2010 developer Training kit – which includes a comprehensive...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

Producer for PowerPoint Released

Microsoft Producer allows you to take an existing presentation file, capture and synchronize video...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

SharePoint 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)

The Microsoft office Team has announced that they have published a new RTM Hyper-V Virtual Machine...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

ADFS 2.0 Released

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS) enables two or more organizations to...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

Microsoft science fair hits Silicon Valley

Ina Fried @ CNET covers the Microsoft research TechFair2010 in Silicon Valle with these recent...

Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/10/2010

Check-out using Expression Blend Behaviors for Creating Silverlight Applications

Want to easily create a new Button that plays a sound and bounces off the screen when you click on...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

The Silverlight Translator

Need a quick translation to impress your business colleagues or maybe order from the menu at a fancy...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

Turn Spaghetti a into a nice Sequence Diagram with Visual Studio 2010

Do you (or someone you know) have a code base look like this? Looking for a way to get a handle on...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

Now Playing: Silverlight Media Framework

Looking for a quick way to get a high-quality Silverlight video experience in your application? The...

Author: jbarnes Date: 05/10/2010

On-Line Clinic: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure

This two-hour on-line SQL Azure clinic explores the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Azure. It covers:...

Author: Wzack Date: 05/10/2010

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