Development

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…

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…

Microsoft this morning announced four guiding principles for it's major products, including Vista, Office, and SQL Server. Ensuring open connections, data portability, enhanced support for industry standards, and open engagement with the industry have all been listed as prioritied for current and…

The insight you’ll come away with after reading, “Dogfood Doesn’t Always Taste Good,” by Mike Calligaro for the Windows Mobile Team Blog is nothing short of astounding. The boys and girls in WinMo have one of the most difficult jobs at Microsoft; developing software for devices must fight to get…

Jon Pincus (our resident Mashup expert) hits channel 10 to explain what a Mashup is and to share his thought on Mashup events.  I've been to a few of these on the MS campus and there's lots of fondue and beer.  You can get these MASHUPS and Live Gallery.  A lot of the ideas that come…

The greatest side-effect of Halo mulitplayer, at least in the realm of online video, is without a doubt Red vs. Blue. Combine that with the slick cool of WPF/E technology and you get something fantastic. One of our intrepid evangelists here at MS stepped into the RvB world recently for…

In an announcement that will surely send geeks and paranoid futurists into equal states of excitement, Microsoft Robotics Studio goes 1.0 today. Keep this man's face in your mind, as Tandy Trower is on his way to becoming the real-life Alfred Lanning.Earlier this summer Channel 9 interviewed…

Have you ever found yourself with a great application idea and nowhere to put it, either because you lack the coding skills or the necessary resources? What someone applied the same format to application development that was used to bring Kelly Clarkson to the world (alright, bad example)? Phillip…

Major Nelson stopped by to hang out with Tina and I in our studios. We laughed, we cried, we got the skinny on Xbox Live. Plus some really great insight on "The Outfit" and make sure you watch the whole thing cuz there's prizes for you!! Yay for prizes!