The Imagine Cup finalists were in Redmond recently to show Bill Gates the cool applications they've created targeting problems in the health care space. In this video you will meet Sanjay Parthasarathy, VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism (and chief funder of both Imagine Cup and our very own…

This screencast will demonstrate how to learn or test an Interface from the Visual Studio 2005 platform in less than 5 minutes.  The goal is to show an easy way to test something while you're learning.  With this little trick it's really easy for instance to see what is the output…

This is the first screencast coming from the Visual Studio SDK team. The first screencast will demonstrate how to easily extend Visual Studio by building a VS Package that will integrate an existing Windows Form Application to a Tool Window. You should see more screencast from the Visual…

Windows Vista's UAC feature is designed to minimize security risks by running most applications under a standard user token, lessening the risk that an attacker could gain admin rights to the machine.  UAC allows executables to specify what privelege level they require -- if an app doesn't…

Sometimes Rand McNally just doesn't get the job done. If you've ever tried to read the street number on a building from a moving car in Seattle traffic, you know what we mean. Well a couple of UW grad students are building something that could make finding your way in a big city easier. Urban…

A teacher has created a new web site and business that allows teachers to sell the lesson plans and other teaching materials they create to other teachers. (News article here) The site is called Teachers Pay Teachers. For a membership fee a teacher can upload teaching materials, write a discription…

I recently caught up with the Imagine Cup finalists from the UK. They have built a very interesting application built on top of .NET 2.0 technologies that will help people suffering from amnesia or coming out of a coma. How? Well, watch (or listen) to the video and find out.Learn what the Imagine…

I recently caught up with the Imagine Cup finalists from the UK. They have built a very interesting application built on top of .NET 2.0 technologies that will help people suffering from amnesia or coming out of a coma. How? Well, watch (or listen) to the video and find out.Learn what the Imagine…

So you think you have what it takes to build a community and maintain a successful website? Well the people in today's segment have PROVEN that they do. Check out my interviews with Microsoft Community MVP's and some esteemed colleagues as they fill me on the blood, sweat and tears required to…

The stuff we've looked at so far in this series has been cool, but my inner geek just freaks out when I think about the fact that I now have a managed API with which to integrate camera functionality into my applications. Whether it's for business or fun, getting to code against a camera,…