Commercial Software Engineering Team Africa
Introducing Release Management for Team Foundation Server (event)
We had a few requests around Release Management for TFS (Microsoft acquired a product InRelease a...
Author: southafrica Date: 11/25/2013
Visual Studio Launch event–Johannesburg 27 Nov
We have a few remaining seats for the Visual Studio launch event on Wed at the Microsoft offices in...
Author: southafrica Date: 11/25/2013
Rate My App Code Update
You can find an updated production ready* sample project in all supported languages (C#, C++, VB.Net...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 11/15/2013
Visual Studio 2013 Launch Events
With the launch of Visual Studio 2013 we have lots of local events and workshops in the pipeline for...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 11/13/2013
Getting Users to Your Apps
One of the biggest challenges app developers have is getting users to find their apps. Now that the...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 11/08/2013
Looking for the best application developers in SA
Microsoft South Africa is looking for the best application developers in SA. To find these unique...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 09/27/2013
Devs4Devs–Johannesburg–5th October 2013–Update 1
With Devs4Devs rapidly approaching here is the speakers list and their topics: Speaker Topic...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 09/26/2013
Join us for Techdays – Johannesburg – 31 October 2013
TechDays – an inspiring event where you’ll meet like-minded people and interact with...
Author: southafrica Date: 09/19/2013
Join us for Techdays South Africa – Cape Town – 28th October 2013
TechDays – an inspiring event where you’ll meet like-minded people and interact with...
Author: southafrica Date: 09/19/2013
Developer Camp – Deep Dive – Johannesburg – 7 October 2013
This event is designed to enable and support developers of Apps to submit their Apps to the Windows...
Author: southafrica Date: 09/17/2013
Developer Camp – Deep Dive – Cape Town – 3 October 2013
This event is designed to enable and support developers of Apps to submit their Apps to the Windows...
Author: southafrica Date: 09/17/2013
Community Night – Johannesburg – 8 October 2013
Calling all developers in Johannesburg! Join in with you fellow developers at our Community Night....
Author: southafrica Date: 09/16/2013
Improve your Apps Ranking – Get it Rated
Assuming you have a great app name and tile. Oh and the app is useful and bug free (got a bit of...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 09/10/2013
Getting Ready for Windows 8.1
The first major update to Windows 8 has been scheduled for release. Here is the official message:...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 08/25/2013
Best local Windows Phone & Windows 8 Apps
Do you have a local app that you regularly use? Tell us about it and if your app submission is...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 08/25/2013
Community Night – 10 September 2013
Calling all developers in Johannesburg! Join in with you fellow developers at our Community Night....
Author: southafrica Date: 08/21/2013
Developer Camp – Durban
Make it happen, whether on the cloud, on your phone, laptop or tablet. This one day workshop will...
Author: southafrica Date: 08/15/2013
Developer Camp – Cape Town
Make it happen, whether on the cloud, on your phone, laptop or tablet. This one day workshop will...
Author: southafrica Date: 08/15/2013
Developer Camp – Johannesburg
Make it happen, whether on the cloud, on your phone, laptop or tablet. This one day workshop will...
Author: southafrica Date: 08/15/2013
Devs4Devs - Johannesburg - 5th October 2013
It may have been a while but Devs4Devs is back and running on the 5th of October 2013. So what is...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 08/06/2013
Guest Post - Automated Builds–Why They’re Absolutely Essential (Part 2)–Colin Dembovsky
Automated Builds–Why They’re Absolutely Essential (Part 2) In my previous post I wrote about why you...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 07/18/2013
Guest Post - Automated Builds–Why They’re Absolutely Essential (Part 1)–Colin Dembovsky
A couple of weeks ago I was doing a road-show where I did demos of TFS 2012 and it’s capabilities. I...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 07/11/2013
Admin Password for Windows Server R2 Preview VHD
I downloaded the Windows Server VHD as a quick way of getting started – and to install VS2013 and...
Author: southafrica Date: 06/27/2013
Windows Ecosystem Workshop–Johannesburg
The following events are aimed at targeting specific types of application development across the...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 05/14/2013
Windows Ecosystem Workshops–Cape Town
The following events are aimed at targeting specific types of application development across the...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 05/14/2013
[Guest Post] - IntelliTrace Tips and Tricks: IntelliTrace Everywhere–Part 2- Colin Dembovsky
This two-part series of blog posts will show you how to get the most out of IntelliTrace – a...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 05/13/2013
[Guest Post] IntelliTrace Tips and Tricks: The Basics–Part 1–Colin Dembovsky
This two-part series of blog posts will show you how to get the most out of IntelliTrace – a...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 05/13/2013
TechIdols–Teched Africa
Do you have what it takes? Tech Idol is coming to Tech·Ed Africa, do you have what it takes to be...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 04/07/2013
Developing for the Windows Ecosystem Workshops–Durban
The following events are aimed at targeting specific types of application development across the...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 04/04/2013
Assign those MSDN subscriptions–and fully leverage your benefits
I work with many customers around their development and application lifecycle management...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/04/2013
Bronwen Zande and John O’Brian are coming to South Africa
In the month of March we have a surprise set of speakers popping out to talk about Windows 8 and...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 03/01/2013
#Code off 2013 – Dev Diary – Dave – Day 2–The Data & Single Sign on
So I have an idea of what I am going to build, I know that I want it to run on both Windows...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 02/27/2013
#CodeOff 2013 – Jarrod – Day 2
Ok so its now day two and I am just realizing that I will never reach inbox zero so its time to...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 02/12/2013
#Code off 2013 – Dev Diary – Dave – Day 1
And the games begin, I think the toughest things about building apps for any mobile platform is the...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 02/11/2013
mLab series – Developing for the Windows Ecosystem
The first in a series of videos on developing for the Windows Ecosystem. This is an introduction to...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 02/11/2013
#Code Off 2013 – Dave vs Jarrod.
The other day I (Dave) challenged Jarrod to a friendly Code Off to create a little bit of friendly...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 02/07/2013
TechEd 2013 Session Topics
With the next TechEd rapidly approaching and the Super Early Bird package about to expire don't...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 02/05/2013
And the Winners of the Move to Windows Phone 8 are!!!
We had a ton of great entries into the competition and thanks to everyone who entered the Move to...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 01/31/2013
Windows Phone 8 Designer Sessions
Join the App Academy community for a series of online presentations on the new features in Windows...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 01/29/2013
UDATE: Windows Store App Labs in Cape Town & Johannesburg
The registration link has changed please go here to register. Would you like to see your app in...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 01/29/2013
ALM for CRM (and other LOB) implementations
One of the core parts of my role is speaking to customers about application lifecycle management....
Author: southafrica Date: 01/27/2013
Setting up your Windows Store payout account
So you spent your December/January break coding up an amazing Windows 8 app, right? Now you want to...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 01/07/2013
Announcing Imagine Cup SA 2013 Local Finals Round 1B
We are excited to announce teams that will be progressing to the next Round of the Imagine Cup SA...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 12/13/2012
Data Binding: Windows 8 Store App using JavaScript
As the amount of data organisations store explodes we need easier more intuitive ways to navigate...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 12/10/2012
Building a Windows 8 Store App using JavaScript
Over the next couple of months I will be posting short articles covering the main components of a...
Author: Jarrod Hermer Date: 12/10/2012
Move to Windows Phone 8 competition
Do you have a Windows 8 or a Windows Phone 7.5 Application in Store? If you do we are running a...
Author: Dave Russell (Technical Evangelist) Date: 12/09/2012
MSDN Subscribers–Don’t forget to activate your Pluralsight training benefit
Quick reminder to MSDN Subscribers. You have until Dec 11 to activate the Pluralsight training...
Author: southafrica Date: 12/05/2012