Tap into the Power of the Windows 7 Taskbar(blogs.msdn.com)

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Paul Foster’s recent blog post at DeveloperFusion discusses the new capabilities of Windows 7 Taskbar. With C# code he demonstrates how to use Windows 7 API Code Pack to add thumbnail previews, add toolbars to thumbnail previews and add a jump list. Check out the detail here. read more...

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Office 2010 Workshop Materials(blogs.msdn.com)

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Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Workshop includes videos and presentations. This content is designed to help you get started developing solutions, from Add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform. read more...

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Updated MSDN Parallel Computing Developer Center(blogs.msdn.com)

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Check-out the revised Parallel Computing Developer Center on MSDN at http://msdn.com/concurrency the new site provides a more personal guided experience, helping developers to find content appropriate to their needs, for example by managed vs native, by tooling vs APIs, or by learning style, for example: read more...

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Developing Better User Experiences with Internet Explorer 8(blogs.msdn.com)

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Chris “Woody” Woodruff and Keith Elder host the entertaining and informative Deep Fried Bytes podcast “with a Southern flavor”. In Episode 41, Woody and Keith interview Jon Box about Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). read more...

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Pluralsight launches .NET Podcast Series(blogs.msdn.com)

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The Pluralcast is a bi-weekly audio show about life on the Microsoft stack, hosted by David Starr. Each episode presents a theme with selected stories on that theme, providing different views of technologies developers use in the real world. read more...

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ARCast.TV - Vishwas Lele, CTO of AIS, on Cloud Architecture Patterns(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by bobfamiliar(3648) 2 years, 5 months ago

Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences (AIS). articulates three typical styles of applications and services that may be built to take advantages of the Azure Services platform -- complete applications using the Azure AppFabric, composite applications that are integrated with services hosted and run in the cloud, and consumable services such as workflow for other applications and services. read more...

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Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3(blogs.msdn.com)

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Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect’s perspective. We will discuss the types of applications where Silverlight makes sense and some scenarios where Silverlight may not be the appropriate technology. We will also delve into some of the architectural decisions that the architect must consider when writing applications for this platform and where some of the tradeoffs may lie. read more...

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Windows Marketplace for Mobile - The Race to Market Challenge(blogs.msdn.com)

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Windows Marketplace for Mobile helps developers transform their ideas into profitable new business opportunities. Using familiar skills and comprehensive support resources, you can create unique mobile applications, easily follow them through the certification process, and sell them to millions of consumers all over the world. Whether you’re a seasoned mobile developer or relatively new to mobility, Windows Marketplace for Mobile is the mobile application store built with your needs in mind. It’s time to become a mobile developer. read more...

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NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight(blogs.msdn.com)

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NBC and Microsoft are getting the band back together for a full Silverlight experience around the 2010 Winter Olympics. You'll have DVR control of the video, including rewind, sharing, and saving clips. There will be a Facebook Connect feature to allow you to socialize the insanity (or coolness, depending on your POV) of skiing with a rifle. Check-out the Channel9 article at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Channel-9-Goes-Live-Zune-detecting-memory-leaks-Life-at-MSFT/ read more...

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ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Stu(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by bobfamiliar(3648) 2 years, 6 months ago

In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell, VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft Regional Director and co-author of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed book, discusses five key issues that typically exist in the application lifecycle management (ALM) process – requirements tracking, code review, unit testing, automated testing (aka black box testing), and continuous integration. read more...

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SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper by David Chappell(blogs.msdn.com)

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The goal of this paper is to answer this question. Doing this requires describing what the SharePoint 2010 platform provides and looking at the types of applications SharePoint is designed to support. If your application can benefit from the SharePoint framework, building it on SharePoint will enable you to focus more on creating value and less on building infrastructure. read more...

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Microsoft Holding BizSpark Incubatio Week for Windows Azure(blogs.msdn.com)

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We are hosting a number of startups in the Atlanta Microsoft office</a> that are interested in moving their web based applications to the Windows Azure Platform. At the end of the week we are going to have a panel of judges evaluate the various applications and choose a winner. Its a great opportunity for some free exposure and a lot of PR around these startups products and solutions. read more...

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Don Box - Perspectives on SOAP, Programming Data and M(blogs.msdn.com)

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Erik Meijer, programming language and library designer, chats with Don Box about the history of SOAP, model-based programming, data and M. read more...

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Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services(blogs.msdn.com)

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Dave Thompson, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Online Services, is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in IT. In his leadership role for Microsoft Online Services, Dave is responsible for leading the delivery of Microsoft's business software products as online services. Dave has a rich history solving complex problems in computing. He's the guy that put TCP into Windows, back in the day. Today, his focus is squarely on taking Microsoft's business platform to the next level, up to the cloud. read more...

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Webcast: Designing Multi-Tenanted Applications on Windows Azure(blogs.msdn.com)

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Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in information technology today. With all the confusion surrounding acronyms ending in ‘aas’ like Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) it can be intimidating for even seasoned IT professionals. This presentation will briefly discuss the different types of cloud platforms and then address one of the key business scenarios for the cloud: Software as a Service. read more...

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Window Azure Blob Caching - Life on he Edge(blogs.msdn.com)

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Microsoft has just announced the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN). This is a new network edge caching service built upon Windows Azure that provides improved blob retrieval performance by locating blobs near the point that they are requested. Blobs can be retrieved either from a Windows Azure storage account directly or from a local point of presence node based on the request URL and whether the data is currently available at the local node. read more...

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