Interoperability

A birthday greeting from Jean Paoli, President of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., and Co-Creator of XML 1.0 @ W3C.

In this video tutorial, Ben Lobaugh of the Microsoft Open Technologies team demonstrates how to get started with Windows Phone 8 development using Apache Cordova, the free open source framework for creating mobile applications using standard APIs. Here's the quick list of steps to follow to get…

OData is a web protocol that unlocks data silos to facilitate data access from browsers, desktop applications, mobile apps, cloud services, and other scenarios. In this screencast, you'll see how easy it is to set up on OData service (deployed on Windows Azure) for an IBM DB2 database (running on…

Earlier in April, a new jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone 7 was made available to allow mobile web developer build apps for Windows Phone 7 that would integrate into the experience of the platform. The community has been hard at work and MS Open Tech helped them get this new jQuery Mobile theme…

Sencha just announced the support for Windows Phone 8 in Sencha Touch, a high performance HTML5 mobile application framework. In addition to the support for the platform, a new theme is available that allows to fully integrate the Sencha Touch based applications into the Windows Phone 8 experience.…

Ogre3D is an open source 3D graphics engine that powers many great games. Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. helped the Ogre3D community porting the engine to Windows Phone 8. This video gives you a short overview of the Ogre3D engine running on Windows Phone 8. You can learn more about recent…

We caught up with 10gen software engineer Aaron Heckman at the MongoDB Seattle conference last week, and in this video Doug Mahugh talks to him about the powerful combination of Node.js+MongoDB on Windows Azure. Aaron put together an application that streams images to the browser and lets you…

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today.  OData provides a simple standards-based mechanism for exposing information from relational databases, file systems,…

The Internet Explorer and Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. teams released a prototype implementation of the W3C  DeviceOrientation Event Specification draft  on HTML5Labs.com. This specification defines new DOM events that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a…

CouchDB is a simple and practical NoSQL database engine. The CouchDB tools come with abundance of scripts and samples to create web applications leveraging CouchDB. This video demonstrates how to write a simple Windows 8 JavaScript application using CouchDB to navigate through a picture album.…