.NET Framework

In this geekSpeak, Jason Rainwater shows us the evolution of asynchronous programming and how techniques have changed as new features have been added to Microsoft .NET. Jason covers event-based asynchronous programming and callback-based asynchronous programming, and he introduces us to the new…

Let’s talk games!  In this screencast, Chris Bowen (http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen) tours the world of XNA, from the components of the XNA Framework, the XNA Creators Club Online, and resources for learning to create games.  The bulk of the screencast focuses using XNA Game Studio, which…

The next major release of the .NET Framework, .NET 4.5, allows you to easily use Windows 8 technologies, like Windows Runtime, directly from .NET 4.5. Accessing your data is easier than ever with support for the newest features in SQL Server and support for WebSockets. Programs are more responsive,…

Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, chats with Guy Mounier, CTO at BA-Insight, about the  innovative SharePoint search solution offered by BA-Insight on top of Microsoft SharePoint, .NET. and Silverlight. BA-Insight provides information access solutions that helps…

The Metro interface has the potential to change how a lot of people use computers. You've started seeing it in the Windows Phone. More if you have downloaded the Windows 8 consumer preview. In this session, we will demonstrate how the power exposed by Metro (through live tiles, push…

In this first episode of Community Talk, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Danilo Diaz interviews Bill Wolff. Bill is an MVP and is President of the Philly .Net users group. According to Dani, Bill has been involved in community longer than Dani has been coding. Bill's passion for…

Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, chats with Guy Mounier, CTO at BA-Insight, about BA-Insight's next generation solution using Windows Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, .NET, and Silverlight. With development efforts under way, BA-Insight strives to …

This session focuses the best way to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop Windows Azure applications. You‘ll learn tips, tricks and solutions to common problems when creating or moving an existing application to run on Windows Azure. Speaker: Wade Wegner Presentation (PPTX)

Dr. Ivan Sanabria, Chief Technology Officer for ArtinSoft, and Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy, chat about how easy it can be to migrate from VB6 apps to C# or .NET with ArtinSoft’s tools. ArtinSoft has built a suite of tools that helps clients move their VB6 applications to .NET, Silverlight…

Join Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy and Actus, and Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft for a discussion around NuGet, a package manager for the .NET Framework. This free, open source developer focused package management system simplifies the process of incorporating third…