Trying to simultaneously tackle a phone app, a web app, and a native Windows app is a little intimidating the first time. Larry O'Brien shows you how surprisingly easy this task becomes with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET technologies.
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Windows Phone 7 app submission is open to all registered Windows Phone Marketplace developers. Join the excitement and become part of the vibrant community of app and game developers for Windows Phone and Xbox LIVE Indie Games. Create your Marketplace developer account and submit your apps and games today!
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This SDK contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies.
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Visual Studio 2010 provides a project type that enables developers to build Business Data Connectivity (BDC) Models that produce .NET connectivity assemblies for Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010. This allows you to connect external data sources and expose them to SharePoint. In this example, a BDC Model will be created that accesses and updates data in a SQL Server database.
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A Content Type is a reusable collection of settings that can be defined and applied to data in a SharePoint list or library. Visual Studio 2010 provides project types that support the creation and deployment of content types. Learn how to create a SharePoint 2010 Content Type from Visual Studio 2010.
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Visual Studio 2010 provides a project type that enables developers to build Event Receivers that perform actions before or after selected events on the SharePoint 2010 site. Learn how to create an Event Receiver for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010. In this example an event will be added to the Adding and Updating actions for Custom List items.
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List Definitions and List Instances that are based on those definitions are fundamental part of Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provides developers with a project type that simplifies the creation of List Definitions in XML and the creation of List Instances based on those definitions. Tight integration with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 allows List Definitions and List Instances to be deployed to a SharePoint site directly from Visual Studio 2010.
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Visual Studio 2010 provides a template for the creation of a Sequential Workflows that allows developers the opportunity to build workflow solutions within SharePoint using a graphical design surface. Sequential Workflows have a pre-determined order of activities that define the workflow. Learn how to create a SharePoint 2010 Sequential Workflow in Visual Studio 2010.
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With the latest version of Windows, your users are moving into some sunny new digs. Take a look at four of the biggest new UI features they're finding and learn how to Light Up your application for Windows 7.
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Internet Explorer 9 Beta is fast. Web sites and applications look and perform as if they were native to the PC. You'll notice a clean look and increased viewing area that makes Web sites shine.
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Want to make an app for Windows Phone 7, but lack the inspiration or marketing know how to make it a success? Visit Mobile App Match. We have everything you need from creative app ideas to marketing resources and marketplace tips.
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Let's talk Windows Phone 7! Join our latest series of Bytes by MSDN as Tim Huckaby kicks it off with an interview with Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7 at Microsoft.
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This session is a practical tour of the "write less, do more" JavaScript library -- jQuery. In this session we will build an application using ASP.NET and jQuery while learning about CSS selectors, DOM manipulation, and asynchronous communications using the jQuery library. We'll also look at the jQuery plug-in model, examine common jQuery programming paradigms, and see how to invoke WCF web services using jQuery.
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For the last few years Joe Stagner has been busy working with the ASP.NET product team to simplify and educate developers on what's possible with the latest web tools. We talk with Joe about how the web developer is able to learn about and leverage new tools and techniques for building great solutions.
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Todd Brix, Senior Director for Windows Marketplace at Microsoft, explains how developers can interact with Marketplace and connect with consumers to sell apps and make money.
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This webcast video discusses some of the real world aspects of using Azure.
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Part 1 of this series explored what is Cloud Computing, what is Software + Services, and why IT Pros should care. Part 2 focuses on Microsoft's efforts and offerings relevant to Cloud Computing, and introduces Microsoft Online Services.
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This series highlights Microsofts strategies and efforts in extending the Windows experience to the cloud, and talks about how to take advantages of what cloud computing is offering by extending and transitioning existing IT infrastructure into the so-called Software + Services model. Part 1 takes a 50,000-foot view to get a perspective on what has happened in the past two decades.
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With the recent release of the the CTP (Community Technical Preview) of SQL Azure, it seemed an ideal time for David Gristwood to sit down with SQL guru Keith Burns and have a chat with him about data in the cloud, this new version of SQL Server, what it means for developers and systems designers, and how to get started.
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Trying out the Azure services is free--however, a token is required to gain access to some of the services.
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Join James Brundage, Software Tester from the PowerShell Team, as he walks through how to write a multitouch finger paint in ~30 lines of Windows PowerShell script using WPK (WPF PowerShell Kit). You can download WPK and this example as part of the PowerShell Pack.
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Datacastle uses PowerShell to work with Hyper-V for quicker tests across many configurations and for quicker and improved deployment at customer sites. Datacastle Vice President of Quality Assurance Barry Preppernau talks with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how he uses PowerShell in his day-to-day activities testing applications. He discusses how PowerShell works with Hyper-V to test on a variety of platforms and how PowerShell reports the results of the tests. In addition, Barry explains how PowerShell scripts have cut support costs during customer install.
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Join James Brundage, PowerShell Test Team SDE, as he introduces Variables, Types, and Operators.
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Join James Brundage, Software Tester from the Windows PowerShell team as he introduces how you can use the WPF PowerShell Kit to work with common UI containers in WPF.
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Join James Brundage, PowerShell Tester, as he demonstrates how to Write quick user interfaces with WPK. This video should help people get started writing rich WPF user interfaces in PowerShell script.
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This migration guide provides a brief overview of various migration scenarios that Apache Administrators may encounter when migrating to IIS 7.0.
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In the first of two navigation videos, David Poll joins John Papa to demonstrate how the Silverlight navigation API can be used to solve common navigational structures. David explains how navigation works with Silverlight, how it integrates with the Silverlight templates, and demonstrates how you can expand on its features using custom content loaders.
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Get the beta today and explore how Silverlight 4 delivers a full suite of powerful capabilities to business application developers, bringing the best-of-breed .NET platform to browser-based experiences. Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications for both customer facing and staff-facing applications.
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Microsoft Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4 enables you to create content that targets Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta and .NET 4 Beta 2. This Preview is compatible with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.
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The Silverlight Toolkit adds new functionality and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. It includes full open source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for over 26 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.
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See how to provide rich interactive applications using your existing media assets and Microsoft Silverlight. Get the power to create amazing media experiences, while supporting the highest performance video codecs, Smooth Streaming, and more.
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Silverlight has built-in support for communicating with Web services. This tutorial provides an introduction to using Web services in Silverlight.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 adds even higher mission critical scale, more efficient server management, and expanded reporting and analytics for self service Business Intelligence (BI) to the SQL Server platform. It also includes many new features of particular interest to those who are developing new database applications.
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This article and accompanying set of videos demonstrates how you can use SQL Server Express, a free version of the SQL Server database, to accomplish basic Web development tasks, from installation through deployment.
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This Developers Training Kit is ideal for developers who want to understand how to take advantage of the key improvements introduced in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in their applications, as well as for developers who are new to SQL Server.
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Explore best practices for using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in the enterprise-specifically, what SSIS does, and doesn't, do well. This Webcast also describes common struggles when learning SSIS (expressions, configurations, externalization, dynamic properties, scripting). Other topics include deployment, execution methods, security, and design patterns.
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Roger Doherty and Zach Skyles Owens explore the SQL Server Express product and its role in the Microsoft data platform.
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Guest speaker MVP Jessica Moss shows developer tools integrated in Visual Studio as part of the SQL Server Client tools install,among them SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Data Profiling.
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Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2008 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. Installation includes the Windows Azure SDK.
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Need to know pricing? Compare all of our platform packages.
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Windows Azure features a very powerful, yet simple deployment model. By focusing on your application and abstracting away the infrastructure details, you can deploy almost any app with minimal fuss.
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Connect with other users and developers through MSDN community resources. There's a growing archive of technical questions and answers in the forum.
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Get an early look into the Azure Services Platform in this whitepaper by David Chappell. Learn why using computers in the cloud can make lots of sense for your organization. Rather than buying and maintaining your own machines, why not exploit the acres of Internet-accessible servers available today?
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This open source project, announced in May, is an effort to bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables, and Queues.
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In this introduction to the webcast series on Visual Studio 2010, Mike Benkovich takes a look at what has changed and what remains the same in this latest release. From project types to the start page to the toolboxes and more we explore how you can use the new integrated development environment (IDE) to build great software.
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Learn how the new code visualization, UML, and Architectural Validation tools inside Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 come together to help you understand existing code bases, model domain specific problem domains, and maintain the proper control and visibility of those software systems.
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Watch this discussion of the Performance Analyzer Tools sampling mechanism and learn to check the performance of your application and compare between the two states.
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Get a full trial download of either the Ultimate or Professional version of the newly-released Visual Studio 2010 and reap the benefits of the newest features.
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Bytes by MSDN
Get an overview of the exciting new features in Silverlight 4 and the .NET Framework 4.
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Tim Sneath shares his excitement about Windows 7 and the latest announcements.
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Andrew Brust pontificates on the integration of SharePoint 2010 development tools in Visual Studio 2010.
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Mark Russinovich explains kernel changes in Windows 7.
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Steve Marx shares his excitement about Microsoft's continued commitment to interoperability in the Windows Azure Platform.
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Custom Walkthrough: To Do—Create an Azure-integrated Windows 7 Phone App
