PDC09 Workshop: Microsoft Technology Roadmap
For one of the day-long workshops at this years PDC, Michele Leroux Bustamante will be hosting a session where she'll walk attendees through a variety of Microsoft technologies and help them...
View ArticlePDC09: Application Deployment with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
As part of our lead-up to PDC09, I am joined today by Omri Bahat who is going to share with us some of the aspects of SQL Server 2008 R2 which will provide a more efficient way to develop, deploy, and...
View ArticleUsing Eclipse to build Silverlight applications in Java, PHP and Ruby
As hard as it might be to believe, not everybody is using Visual Studio as their development platform. Then what if they want to develop a Silverlight application? Is notepad their only...
View ArticleDeveloping Windows Azure applications for PHP, Ruby, and Java, using Eclipse
In our previous episode, Vijay Rajagopalan shared with us some of the details about a session he did at MIX09 which showed how Microsoft was providing support for building Silverlight applications...
View ArticlePDC09 Workshop: Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio...
Visual Studio 2010 recently released a new beta of Visual Studio 2010, which includes a variety of improvements for a broad spectrum of developer needs. For PDC09, Chris Tullier and Todd Girvin will...
View ArticlePDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint features
John Durant just returned from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference where a number of new SharePoint features were announced. In this episode he shares some of those features with us and describes how...
View ArticleIntegrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010
The upcoming release of Sharepoint 2010 will provide features and capabilities which will allow it to directly support Silverlight development and controls. At PDC09, Paul Stubbs held a session where...
View ArticleMulti-Core and Parallel Programming Practices
In case you haven’t realized it, the new trend in computer chip technology is multi-core. This is where most of the speed improvements moving forward will come from on our computers. To take full...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research: Tools to Help Resolve Concurrency Problems
If you are developing multi-threaded applications, there is a possibility that you may be having concurrency problems, and these problems can be difficult to reproduce and identify.At PDC09, Madan...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools
Visual Studio 2010 is a fairly important release of the developer tool of choice for writing Windows applications. One of the important advancements in the new update is how it enables developers and...
View ArticleIntro to "Small Basic" with Vijaye Raji
There once was a time when computers would boot up straight into a (very rudimentary) programming environment. You learned to write code because, well, that’s what computers were used for. BASIC was...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Development with Mike Harsh
With just a short time to go before Windows Phone 7 hits the market, there is no time like the present to start developing your applications. Mike Harsh recently presented a session at MIX10 on...
View ArticleWindows Identity Foundation with Vittorio Bertocci
One of the thorns in the sides of all Internet users is the plethora of accounts they need to keep track of for the various websites they use throughout the day. Most of the folks running these sites...
View ArticlePDC10 and the new Online Experience
PDC10 is fast approaching, and if you’ve been paying attention, you know that things are different this year. While you might know that for the first time we will be holding it at our own conference...
View ArticleUsing XNA for Developing Windows Phone Games
When talking about developing applications for the new Windows Phone platform, we usually focus on Silverlight. There is, however, another programming model for developing Windows Phone applications,...
View ArticleAndrew Clinick WP7 Application Pick: TuneIn Radio
Andrew Clinick, Lead Program Manager for Windows Phone Developer Platform joins us today to discuss some of the features and capabilities that get him excited about helping developers build great...
View ArticleClint Rutkas and "Where's My Car" on Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone has proven to be a popular platform for developing a wide variety of applications. Clint Rutkas joins us on this episode to explain what "Coding4Fun" is, and how they help provide cool...
View ArticlePeter Torr and Application Multi-Tasking on Windows Phone "Mango"
"Mango" is the code name for the upcoming release of the Windows Phone application platform. As you've no doubt read in countless other locations, there are lots of new features and capabilities being...
View ArticleThomas Fennel and Windows Phone Mango's Push Notifications and Live Tile Support
The Windows Phone interface has been designed to make it as easy as possible for users to get to the information they need in the applications they use. In the upcoming release of Windows Phone,...
View ArticleSean McKenna and Windows Phone "Mango" Database Support
Windows Phone "Mango" includes a lot of cool, exciting new features that users will be showing to all of their friends. Of course, there are some features so behind the scenes that users will never...
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