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We' just announced WebMatrix, a new, simple IDE to build and customize Web sites. As someone who believes we need to provide a better offering for beginners and non-professional developers, WebMatri...
I see book authors, editors, bloggers, press, team members, and occasionally even a VP misspell our products, technologies, and features that I thought I would build and maintain a list of the correct...
I'm the last person to blog about this, but we've launched the Visual Studio documentary on Channel 9. I've embedded the videos below,
Part 1
Part 2
We're also doing the full length int...
Hey folks, Visual Studio Express Editions are now live and available for download! Express Versions The Visual Studio Express family is unchanged from 2008 as it ...
With a little over a month to go before Microsofts biggest and best developer event, I wanted to pick out which PDC sessions look super interesting (to me) this year:
Dans picks
Windows 7 Developer B...
After much ado, we finally launched TweetCraft, one of our new Coding4Fun applications. Shout-outs to the other members of the TweetCraft team - Gabor Ratky, Mike Sampson and Lincoln Anderson for...
Hey folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for the world to download and here's your cheat sheet of links you'll want to know about
Download: Visual Studio Team System Beta 1, Web i...
Available now on Amazon.com for $26 (34% off!) Our Coding4Fun book, Coding4Fun 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube, and More officially released to...
With PDC just about a week over, it's about time I finally got around to blogging about it. Here's the random list Windows Azure: Ray Ozzie launched Windows Azure and Microsoft's Cloud Strategy...
Since I'm a Visual Studio fanboy, I love hearing about the future of Visual Studio, now officially named Visual Studio 2010. While the team is taking a measured approach to disclosure, something...
Congrats to the Popfly team for moving Popfly Game Creator from alpha to Beta and adding a bunch of handy features. For the full rundown, check out the Popfly Team Blog. Here's a few of my favo...
Scott Hanselman recently blogged about "Ninjas on fire" as a way to describe being overwhelmed at work, here's a snippet from his post on the origin: Jesse asked me how I was doing yeste...
For World of Warcraft developers looking to build AddOns, a BETA version of AddOn Studio is now available! Here's an interview and demo with Attila Kisko and Gabor Ratky on AddOn Studio.
Gabor ...
Kudos to the Popfly team for adding new features in their July update. My favorite features are the pre-loading of assets which will pre-load images, audio, video before a game starts so it doesn't la...
Adam Nathan recently blogged about some of the new features they've added to Popfly Game Creator including the color swapper for skinning actors, guidelines and snapping for aligning characters, actor...
At TechEd this year, I gave what can only be described as an overly ambitious talk given I only had 45 minutes: Coding4Fun: The Secrets to Programming YouTube, iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Windows Vista ...
As I blogged about on Channel 9 earlier (I love that we can have text *and* video posts now), SQL Server 2008 RC0 is now available for download. On the download page, you may have noticed that there ...
I recently posted a high-level feature specification for version 2.0 of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on the projects Wiki which you can check out here. Better yet, Gabor sent me some s...
Popfly Game Creator Alpha launches today and It's amazing. Kudos to Adam Nathan as he's really shown how Silverlight can build incredibly rich applications. I can only imagine what he'll do when Popfl...
I ran into this bug today which was unfortunately closed as can't repro. I was renaming some AppSettings variable names (right click on a Project's Properties and go to the Settings tabs) and de...
We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap: - We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (...
This is Episode #2 of This Week on Channel 9 a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more.
This ...
If you're a rock star developer that loves to develop Web applications using ASP.NET, then you owe it to yourself to check out the opening on Duncan's team. You'll work directly on writing code to sup...
Last night, I caught up with Scott Guthrie and we talked about the up-and-coming technology that will be shown at Mix. I just posted Part 1 of the video onto Channel9 where we discuss IIS 7.0 and what...
As Rob Caron points out, we just release the Visual Studio 2008 Feature Comparison Chart (downloadable version) which is ever-so-helpful when you need to point to a definitive reference when a fe...
I'm late on this, but BIG kudos to the Popfly team for having the sole Microsoft entry in PC World's Top 25 Most Innovative products!
Here's a snippet from the article:
Microsoft ...
I'm proud to announce that AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is now available to download from CodePlex! This was one of those personal projects done in my "free" time, but its amazing ...
Visual Studio Express 2008 is now available for download!! Our new Web site is http://www.microsoft.com/express! Below are my top 15 things to love about Visual Studio Express 15. ...
I'm back in Seattle after attending TechEd Europe earlier in the week. It was an absolute blast and thanks to everyone who came to the overflowed Popfly session! Tony Goodhew and I did demos in Soma...
What an exciting time, the whole Popfly team has been working on towards our open beta announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit just a few hours ago and I was lucky enough to demo Popfly in action with John...
As Kathleen McGrath blogged about in detail, we're running a survey on Visual Studio content with the goal of improving this over time. Please give us feedback :)...
Check out Scott Guthrie's blog post for information and screenshots.
Yes, you'll have to sign a license for it (reference license), but this is huge and a big request from customers to be able ...
Our team has a packed schedule in the coming weeks and months :) September 24th (Me): Halo 3 Silicon Valley Pre-Launch Party (on Facebook): I'm doing Popfly workshops at the Microsoft SVC Campus ...
This 5-part blog series will help you, dear reader, to understand what new features will be directly supported inside of Visual Studio Express 2008. In this post, I'll give a quick overv...
Visual Basic Visual C# Visual C++ Visual Web Developer Express Are all now available for download for free!...
I quickly wanted to respond to questions or misconceptions raised in the comments of my previous blog post.
A common question or misconception in the comments is saying that if didnt want extens...
While Im not a lawyer, my team owns Visual Studio Express and I wanted to respond to the concerns expressed by some over our recent communications with Jamie Cansdale of TestDriven.NET. TestDriven.NET...
Mark Zuckerberg kicking things off Some insane stats, 12MM people return daily, 24+ million users, 40 billion page views Facebook provides you a Canvas that you can do anything with i...
Today at Facebook F8, Corporate Vice President Dan'l Lewin announced a new partnership between Microsoft and Facebook. Popfly Facebook Block: Available immediately, we've added the Fac...
Jason and Dawn did a podcast interview and it's now up...it's of course me rambling about key features in Visual Studio "Orcas" Express, how we need to democratize development, why we do Expre...
We just released a Community Tech Preview download of Visual Studio Orcas Express, the next version of Visual Studio Express. Kudos to Doug for arguably the coolest beta page on MSDN ever (pi...
Brian Peek just published his latest article, a .NET library for easy programming of a Nintendo Wiimote controller. His article and project on Channel9 includes the full source code for the library ...
As Soma announced on his blog, we've now officially released the Beginner Developer Learning Center, the one place designed for learning software development fundamentals. The goal is ...
Coding4Fun is off the hook lately! Check out these great apps that are pushing the envelope in fun and cool ways Scott Hanselman's Controlling a Microbric Viper Robot using Windows PowerShell...
Zach Owens is looking for volunteers to assist with a new open source CodePlex project that builds onthe existing Club Site Starter Kit. Some of the features he's looking to add include: Bug F...
A couple of weeks ago at CES, Charlie Kindel and team launched the newest version of Windows, Windows Home Server (WHS), a product aimed at making it easy for anyone, including mom, to s...
If you're a Coding4Fun reader, please respond! Earlier this week, I asked our Coding4Fun authors what they thought about moving Coding4Fun to being fully blog-based a la Engadget, Make, etc. ...
Still catching up on old email, but I did want to post that Windows Developer Power Tools was published last Friday, congrats to Jim Holmes and James Avery on pulling together a great collection ...
SQL Server Express Starter Schemas The SQL Server Express team got Barry Williams from http://databaseanswers.org to publish 10 pre-built schemas for common database designs to help ease the pa...
Congratulations to the XNA team for getting XNA Game Studio Express out the door!
You can Download Game Studio Express here
Clint has a good summary on the Coding4Fun blog
XNA Blog ...
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