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You can access the Visual Studio Achievements via an API.

To get a list of all achievements as JSON, do an HTTP GET to the achievements page like this: http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio?json=true

To get a list of a user's achievements, do an HTTP GET to the user's achievements page....

You may notice that earning some of the achievements requires FxCop.  If you have Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate, you are all set, as FxCop gets redistributed with these products. However, if you have Visual Studio 2010 Professional, you will need to install FxCop from here. Note...

We are going to be rolling out a new project soon called Visual Studio Achievements. With the Visual Studio Achievements add-in, your code will be monitored and, as you proceed, you will unlock various achievements based on your activity. When you unlock an achievement, Visual Studio will let you know...

A screencast on how to publish PHP to Windows Azure without using Visual Studio. Follows along with this blog post:  http://rhizohm.net/irhetoric/post/2011/04/18/How-To-Do-PHP-Deployment-To-Windows-Azure.aspx 

In this screencast, I show how to wire up to UI elements using Blend.  The general premise is that databinding in WPF is about more than just data; it also allows you to connect UI properties, like wiring a slider up to a progress bar. Blend exposes this is a very useable way, once you know...

How would you like to create assets in Graphic Designer and apply them to your WPF applications in Expression Interactive Designer without ever touching a line of XAML?  With some new features in the May 2006 CTPs of EGD and EID, you can do this.  This screencast shows you how it can be...

This screencast demonstrates how developers and designers can work together on a project using Expression Interactive Designer and Visual Studio in conjuntion.  It also shows how to create a custom .dll in Visual Studio to be used in Expression Interactive Designer. You can also download the...