Microsoft Innovations You Can Use

The editorial staff over at Innovation Showcase have been busy this week compiling the top stories for developers and architects. Check out the news on Silverlight, Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Office, 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and Windows 7.

• High-Quality Touchscreens for your Windows 7 Multi-touch Applications

• Refactoring to the Cloud

• How fast is Azure?

• Second IE9 Platform Preview Now Available

• Pete Brown Lights Up on Silverlight & WPF 4 – Connected Show #29

• Do Architects Need to Code?

• DoodlePad - A Sketching App for Windows Phone 7

• SQL Azure: Frequently Asked Questions

• On-Line Clinic: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure

• Now Playing: Silverlight Media Framework

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

• The Silverlight Translator

• Check-out using Expression Blend Behaviors for Creating Silverlight Applications

• Microsoft science fair hits Silicon Valley

• ADFS 2.0 Released

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

• Producer for PowerPoint Released

• Office 2010 Training Kit Released

• Securing Silverlight Applications

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

• Beta for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1