There is a new guide to help you follow best practices for Windows Phone user experience design. This documentation collects advice from the experts who created Windows Phone, and from people who were the designers of many of its first applications. There are more than 35 new topics to help you.
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HTML5 brings a whole new set of possibilities for the Web and a growing set of new devices connected to the cloud. But it also means a faster site experience for your users-if you take advantage of it. Learn how here.
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With Windows Phone OS 7.1, you can store relational data in a local database that resides in your application's isolated storage container. This topic walks you through creating a basic single-page to-do list application that uses a local database for storing data.
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Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools (WPDT) 7.1 Beta and experiment with the latest tools release for Windows Phone. WPDT provides the tools necessary to target the upcoming Windows Phone OS release codenamed "Mango", and includes productivity enhancements such as an app profiler and an improved emulator.
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Get step-by-step instructions for creating a basic application that combines Silverlight and the XNA Framework. You'll target the Windows Phone OS 7.1 platform.
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This document library provides the documentation (e.g., code samples, design resources, class library reference) that you can use to build engaging consumer applications for Windows Phones (7.1)
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The Windows Phone Application Deployment tool allows you to deploy your application to developer registered devices for testing before you submit your application to Windows Phone Marketplace. The client tool is a stand-alone application that is installed automatically when you install the Windows Phone Developer Tools.
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The guide will cover what you need to know to add Windows Phone 7 development to your skill set, while leveraging what you have already learned building Android applications.
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Discover how to migrate databases to SQL Azure
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Developers always build an ecosystem of small tools and utilities around every platform they love and Microsoft Azure is no different. Take a look at seven great tools to make your cloud computing life a little easier.
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To prepare for the cloud transition, technology leaders who make investments in infrastructure, architectures, and skills have a critical need for a clear vision of where the industry is heading. Check out the extensive analysis around leveraging cloud services like Windows Azure, Office 365, Windows Live, and Bing.
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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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Microsoft Windows 7 has been enjoying rapid consumer adoption and glowing press reviews. This makes it a great platform to launch your next Killer App. Explore how to architect an application to take advantage of several compelling Windows 7 features.
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A high-level overview of the Microsoft Windows 7 API Code Pack, which provides access to Windows 7 features for .NET developers using Visual Basic or C#.
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How to Document: Selecting and Tracking Multiple Touch Points
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Code samples for Windows 7 Light up features
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Pinned Sites deliver a closer relationship between users and their favorite sites and allow sites to promote their brands outside of the browser. Watch this video for an overview of Pinned Site technology and learn how to get started.
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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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In this webcast, we look at what HTML5 means to you today, and how you can use the power of HTML5 to write applications that feel fast, rich, and native.
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In this webcast you learn how you can use the Pinned Sites feature to access your favorite websites directly from the Windows taskbar without having to first open your browser. With Pinned Sites, your standards-compliant web application is at the center of the user experience.
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Looking to unlock more advanced capabilities in Silverlight? Silverlight 5 adds significant features including Multiple Windows, Unrestricted File Access, P/Invoke, Group Policy, 64-bit, and HTML support. This session will dive into the features, their APIs, and the scenarios these features can enable.
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Using the easy to learn and expressive to use Razor view engine with Umbraco allows you to create dynamic sites super-fast with clean markup and managed content. You'll also see how to use the free Microsoft WebMatrix IDE to work with the Umbraco site and to access an incredibly rich array of Razor functionality.
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If you build sites with Silverlight and have been watching all the HTML5 hype with bemused skepticism, this session is tailored for you. We'll analyze the latest browser statistics, review the state of the spec, and discuss how to answer clients who want rich sites, but want it "HTML5 compatible". With all the buzz around this topic, you have a good reason to be skeptical; I want to help you be more informed about where to invest your energy and grow your practice.
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Oh yes. Building web applications on the Microsoft stack continues to evolve. There are lots of great tools to leverage, but it can be difficult to keep up with all the options. In this technical and fast-paced session, you'll learn from Scott Hanselman how the pieces fit together. Well look at ASP.NET MVC 3, MvcScaffolding, Entity Framework Code First (Magic Unicorn Edition), SQL Compact 4, jQuery and more.
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The Windows Phone Application Deployment tool allows you to deploy your application to developer registered devices for testing before you submit your application to Windows Phone Marketplace. The client tool is a stand-alone application that is installed automatically when you install the Windows Phone Developer Tools.
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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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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
Listen or watch influential community and Microsoft developers talk on topics they are passionate about.
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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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Jim O'Neil explains how cloud computing can be a startup's best friend.
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Cliff Simpkins and Brian Gorbett discuss the Windows Phone 7 developer experience and how they will make developers rich.
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Whurley disucsses why developing on the Windows Phone 7 platform is enjoyable.
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Chris Maliwat talks about how Internet Explorer 9 can improve site performance.
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User Experience Guidelines for Windows Phone
