Server & Tools President Satya Nadella describes the critical role Window Azure's data platform, data marketplace and access control services play in enabling developers to take advantage of the continuous services application pattern, during a keynote at BUILD, Sept. 14, 2011.

Windows Azure Service Bus Topics and Queues - Patterns, Recipes, and Guidance This session is a followup to the Service Bus session that Clemens Vasters did at the build conference: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/SAC-862T In this talk Clemens will discuss various patterns of usage…

Tune in as Dave Nielsen and Lynn Langit discuss their work with governments and non-profit organizations. They cover how not-for-profits and government entities can save money by leveraging Cloud Computing. It's a no-brainer, whether using Software as a Service (SaaS) or expanding storage, Windows…

The Windows 8 Task Manager allows you to quickly find an application and close it, view the heatmap to diagnose performance issues, understand processes through groupings, and use friendly names and web searches to find out more information about a particular process.…

This video tracks a human's eye movements as they look at the new Windows 8 Task Manager. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx

Today's project shows off using Blender, a free open source 3D design utility, and XNA. Two great tastes that taste great together... Animating single bones in a Blender 3D model with XNA There are some good examples around that show how to make animations in a 3D package and play them back in…

There's something about tracked vehicles, I mean what's cooler than watching a tracked vehicle run over something? When you do the running over with Netduino of course! Netduino powered tracked vehicle, Part 1 A couple of weeks ago I picked up this Tamiya Tracked Vehicle Chassis Kit with the…

Last week was all BUILD, so it seems fitting to highlight a project that makes revisiting BUILD quicker, easier and kind of fun. Also we've not featured a Media Center plugin before (let alone one that's OSS). And finally I'll give you some tips on building a custom RSS video feed for BUILD (and…

Kinect is all about gestures, so it makes sense that there are allot of people inventing this wheel, building a means of capturing, describing and reusing gestures... Kinect RecognizerKinect Recognizer is a fully reusable component that implements 2D and 3D gesture recognition with Microsoft Kinect…

Today's project provides an interesting means of exploring an panorama, 360 degree, picture, with Kinect... Kinect Panorama Viewer...As an intern at Balboa Park, I was asked to get a 3D panorama viewer for the Kinect working. We used the Open Exhibits one initially, but I found that its user…