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SQL Azure Quick Links
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