Interoperability

Earlier in April, a new jQuery Mobile theme for Windows Phone 7 was made available to allow mobile web developer build apps for Windows Phone 7 that would integrate into the experience of the platform. The community has been hard at work and MS Open Tech helped them get this new jQuery Mobile theme…

Sencha just announced the support for Windows Phone 8 in Sencha Touch, a high performance HTML5 mobile application framework. In addition to the support for the platform, a new theme is available that allows to fully integrate the Sencha Touch based applications into the Windows Phone 8 experience.…

Ogre3D is an open source 3D graphics engine that powers many great games. Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. helped the Ogre3D community porting the engine to Windows Phone 8. This video gives you a short overview of the Ogre3D engine running on Windows Phone 8. You can learn more about recent added…

We caught up with 10gen software engineer Aaron Heckman at the MongoDB Seattle conference last week, and in this video Doug Mahugh talks to him about the powerful combination of Node.js+MongoDB on Windows Azure. Aaron put together an application that streams images to the browser and lets you…

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData provides a simple standards-based mechanism for exposing information from relational databases, file systems,…

The Internet Explorer and Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. teams released a prototype implementation of the W3C DeviceOrientation Event Specification draft on HTML5Labs.com. This specification defines new DOM events that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a device.…

CouchDB is a simple and practical NoSQL database engine. The CouchDB tools come with abundance of scripts and samples to create web applications leveraging CouchDB. This video demonstrates how to write a simple Windows 8 JavaScript application using CouchDB to navigate through a picture album. You…

Learn how to start running Java web applications in Windows Azure cloud services using Eclipse in this "Hello World" demo by Martin Sawicki. This is an introduction to the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc), July 2012 Preview.

HTML5 can be used in Windows Phone application development. Leveraging HTML5 allows publishing a same application on several platforms reusing a maximum of code. Tools and frameworks such as Apache Cordova (previously known as PhoneGap) allow to "wrap" the HTML5 and JavaScript code into a…

The MongoDB C# driver gives .NET developers the ability to take full advantage of the features of MongoDB. In this video, 10gen software engineer Robert Stam, the author of the driver, shows how to do basic create/read/update/delete operations in C#. You can download the driver from the MongoDB…