Developers

Want free beer and pizza while learning how to integrate Windows Live Messenger into your website? If so, and if you live in the San Francisco area, you should mark your calendars and plan on joining the Windows Live Messenger Hackathon taking place May 27, 2009 at Microsoft's offices on 835 Market…

Are you a developer looking to build a Silverlight application using the New York Times API? Well, now you can. The New York Times Silverlight Kit has just become an Open Source project distributed under the MS-PL license. If you’re not familiar with what this kit does, it’s something that you can…

During this morning’s keynote speech at the MIX09 conference, Microsoft made several announcements about updates, new releases, and enhancements to the Microsoft web technologies. Scott Guthrie came on stage to deliver a keynote speech where he talked about the new version of Silverlight 3 as well…

Since Internet Explorer 8 made its beta debut, there has been much talk about its new features, a lot of which lately has centered on Web Slices – those bits of code that allow for interactive bookmarks that pop-up small windows of live web content within your browser window. But while Web Slices…

You may remember hearing about Family.Show – it’s a pretty well-known and well-liked reference application for WPF development that started a couple of years back. The idea was to design a real-world app that could show off the power and beauty of what WPF could do. The application functions…

Over on MIX Online, they’re looking into the power of information visualization as a communication tool. They call this “Project Descry.” As part of the project, they’ve released a series of open source, web-based visualizations each of which are available for download from Codeplex so designers…

Last week at PDC I made it a point to swing by the WomenBuild networking event. The idea was to give groups of individuals (not necessarily solely women) LEGO® Bricks to build with as part of the LEGO® Serious Play Program (LSP). The goal was to incorporate the hands on process with…

The first public release canditate (RCo) for Silverlight 2 is now available for download by developers. While anyone can install it, the main goal is for developers to make sure they aren't hit by any breaking changes for Silverlight 2 RTM so they can fix any issues. No one will be auto-updated to…

Who says computers are for grown ups? Scott Hanselman is about to show you that not only can babies learn from and enjoy a laptop...but developing for them is just as rewarding. Check out THIS

Chris Craft has been doing something interesting on his blog lately – he has been running a series called “30 Days of .NET [Windows Mobile Applications], where, every day he is posting about a different application for Windows Mobile phones. What’s really amazing is that he’s posting about a new…