Take the Rock Paper Azure Challenge! Learn the Cloud, make your move, play to win! How do you stack up against the coding competition? Play and find out! Did you play…

Did you know you can get a 30-day trial account to try out Windows Azure - no strings attached! Check out this screencast and get your head (and code) into the clouds! To stay in touch with your…

Did you know that Windows Azure is free for everyone to use, as in gratis, no cost, complimentary? Okay, there are some limitations, but if you want to kick the tires of cloud computing, the…

If you're an MSDN Premium or Ultimate subscriber, and you haven't signed up for your Windows Azure benefits, you're leaving money on the table - to the tune of about $150 worth of Windows Azure…

In this episode, the one and only Windows Azure Tactical Strategist, Steve Marx, joins Dmitry and Peter to give us an update on the Windows Azure platform. Steve talks about common real world Windows…

In this episode, guests Ben Dewey & Kent Brown join Peter to discuss the latest release of the Apache Stonehenge project. Ben & Kent talk about the .NET, Java, and PHP interoperability project…

In this episode, guest host Andrew Brust is back again, joining Dmitry & Peter to talk about all of the tech news from Microsoft’s Wordwide Partner Conference in Washington, DC. The trio talks…

Most of the attention of cloud computing is focused on leveraging the elasticity and self-provisioning power of virtual machines in the "cloud," but what about your data? Windows Azure has…

In this episode, guest Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center joins Peter to discuss CoApp, a new package manager for the Windows platform. Garrett tells us how CoApp will…

This screencast with Chris Bowen is a brief introduction to developing applications for Windows Phone 7. Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this introduces the design of Windows…

This screencast with Chris Bowen is an overview of writing parallel code using the new classes and features available in .NET Framework 4 and the tools in Visual Studio 2010. Based on a session…

In this brief screencast, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist in the Northeast, walks through a few quick demos of some of the new language features (in both Visual Basic and C#) that were introduced…

This screencast with Chris Bowen is a brief introduction to Windows Azure from the developer's perspective. Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow ("Windows Azure - What, Why, and…

In this brief look at Silverlight 4 from the May 2010 Northeast Roadshow, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, confesses he's just looking at the cool stuff here - webcam and microphone support, COM…

In this screencast, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, provides an updated version of a presentation he gave during the Northeast Roadshow in May 2010. In about 15 minutes, he provides an overview…

In this episode, guests Kanwaljeet Singla, Don Raman, and Wade Hilmo from the Microsoft IIS team join Peter to discuss the evolution of PHP on the Windows Platform. The IIS folks tell us about the…

Scott Dorman of Tampa Florida talks to us about his new "Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 Hours" book. Interview by Joe "devfish" Healy who managed to say "uh" about…

This screencast with Chris Bowen takes an all-demo look at what's new in Visual Studio 2010. Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow ("Visual Studio 2010 - That's a 10-4, Good…

In this episode, the man, the myth, the legend: C# MVP Jon Skeet joins Peter on a whirlwind tour into the bowels of the C# language. Jon talks up lambdas, expression trees, and other C# goodness.…

Back with the next screencast in the series! In this screencast, I'll go through of how to how "scale down" your Azure application by building multithreaded Azure worker roles. Download the…

In this episode, guest Pete Brown joins Peter to discuss the recent release of Silverlight 4 & WPF4. Pete talks about how to light up with COM and do some crazy stuff on your client. Mics,…

In this episode, guest Andrew Brust joins Dmitry and Peter to discuss the latest happenings from SxSW and Mix10. On tap this time around: XP Mode hardware restrictions removed, Silverlight 4, Windows…

In this episode, Microsoft's own Sara Ford joins Peter to discuss her work on the CodePlex.com open source software hosting platform. Sara dishes on how the Codeplex.com team evolved the site over…

In this episode Peter and Dmitry run solo to discuss the latest ‘buzz’ around the web, Jon Skeet jokes, marriage and other “developer” topics. Eventually the duo also covers hard news such as CodePlex…

In this episode, guest host Andrew Brust joins Peter to cover the Windows Phone 7 Series news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Also, Andrew and Peter discuss the latest developer &…

In this screencast, we'll take a look at monitoring Azure applications by capturing event logs and performance counters. We'll also look at using powershell to deploy and configure applications using…

In this screencast, I'll show some strategies when working with Azure webroles and handling settings -- particularly connection strings -- in both the ServiceConfiguration and web.config files. …

In the first screencast, we took a look at getting a simple Azure web application up and running. Now, we'll take a quick look at deploying your Azure web application and how the staging/production…

This is the first screencast in an open-ended and short form series on Windows Azure. In this screencast, we'll take a look at starting a new Azure web project by migrating an existing ASP.NET…

In this episode, guest Mark Pollack joins Peter to discuss the Spring.NET application framework. In a world driven by POJOs and POCOs, Mark tells us about how he originally created Spring.NET for a…

Kevin Wolf (@bytemaster) give us an overview of the HTC HD2. There's a general look at the device, Kevin's favorite wimo apps running on it, and a light ad-hock comparison with the iphone, android…

In this episode, guest Stephen Bohlen joins Peter to discuss the Agile software development methodology. Stephen talks about what it means to be agile, how agile can improve the software development…

This screencast with Chris Bowen looks at development using ASP.NET Web Forms, scripting, and Ajax. It's based on a session given on the Northeast Roadshow and walks through Web Forms, adding…

In this episode, guest Maarten Balliauw joins Peter to discuss his implementation of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for PHP and linking (non-pun intended) PHP to Microsoft Office Excel via the…

Wondering how WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) fits in to your developer life? This screencast, presented by Chris Bowen, is based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow and introduces …

Don't look now, but there's a new pattern in town - Model-View-ViewModel or MVVM. Within the last year or so, this architectural model has been building up a significant following among Silverlight…

There are many places to find help for developers, but there are some programs that aren't widely known. This screencast, based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, briefly reviews some of…

It's been over two years since LINQ was released as part of .NET 3.5, but there's still a lot of mystery in terms of how LINQ works. This session, originally delivered as part of the Northeast…

In this episode guests Sumit Chawla & Tim Wise join Peter to discuss offloading a Java server infrastructure to Windows Azure to save pizza money (Starts at 40:31). Guest hosts Gary Russo and…

At PDC 09, I had a chance to catch up with my former colleagues at Sybase who were in the Big Room demonstrating PowerBuilder 12. PowerBuilder, the premiere client/server development tool of the…

One of the highlights of the Big Room floor at PDC 09 was an Azure IT PAC (Pre-assembled container), the unit of deployment within the Azure Data Centers. This particular model is the newest,…

In this episode guest Milan Negovan talks about health monitoring in ASP.NET and what to do when things go wrong! (Starts at 24:47). Also Peter and Dmitry talk about Eclipse support for Windows 7, the…

Kevin Wolf of Tampa, FL has published an innovative Casual Game framework to codeplex named WiMo-GF. WiMo-GF allows a developer to target Zune, Silverlight, and Windows Mobile 5.0 to 6.5 with a…

In this video, Dani interviews Bill Volz and John Alessi of QuikSoft and SocketLabs. Bill and John discuss how their company got started and the influence that the Microsoft Professional Developer…

SQL Saturday #21 Orlando - Interview by Joe Healy with SQL Saturday founder Andy Warren. Over 230 folks attended the SQL Saturday event in Orlando on October 17, 2009. We look at the photos and…

In this episode guest co-host and Interviewee Dave Crawford of Microsoft UK joins Dmitry to discuss News such as Windows 7, Windows Stores, ZuneHD development, Java Bridge, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2…

This installment of the Northeast Roadshow screencast series covers a number of core concepts in the CLR. Beginning with a discussion of the differences and nuances between reference and value types,…

Saturday, October 3, 2009, the 2nd Code Camp was held in Southwest Florida (Naples/Ft Myers). Here Joe Healy interviews codecamp organizer John Dunagan. Also inside are pictures, videos, and more…

In this episode, Developer Evangelist Jim O'Neil, walks through a example of updating a legacy MDI application to take advantage of most of the features of the Windows 7 taskbar all the while…

In this episode of the Connected Show, guest Claudio Caldato joins Peter to discuss interoperability at Microsoft and how his team is working to make Windows Azure cloud services more accessible to…

This is an impromptu look at Windows 7 Touch Capabilities. During the Lauderdale MSDN Roadshow (aka .NET Tiki Hut) we needed a way to showcase the HP TouchSmart to a large crowd. But the TouchSmart…

In this episode, guest Paul Thurrott joins Peter and Dmitry to discuss Windows Server 2008 R2 and Virtualization. They also discuss the news about Codeplex.org, a new open source software foundation…

In this episode, guest Jon Skeet joins Peter to discuss C# 4 in Depth. Jon takes us deep into the guts of C# 4, including how the new dynamic features work. Guest host Glen Gordon joins Peter to…

Microsoft is all about options, and there's no shortage of options when it comes to data access! You've got ADO.NET DataSets and DataReaders, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services just…

Jim O'Neil concludes his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers with an overview of the new APIs that allows applications to take advantage of cool new features like libraries, jump lists and…

Jim O'Neil continues his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers by looking at a variety of features to enhance end-user and developer productivity. He shows how new features such as the window…

In this first of a three part series on Windows 7 for Developers, Jim O'Neil discusses the guidance and tools available for smoothly migrating applications from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 7. …

In the fifth and final debugging screencast by Brian Hitney, we'll look at how to use the set next statement while debugging. We'll also look at setting up the .NET Reference Source Code for stepping…

Let’s talk games! In this screencast, Chris Bowen (https://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen) tours the world of XNA, from the components of the XNA Framework, the XNA Creators Club Online, and resources for…

In this episode of Community Talk, Danilo Diaz interviews Steve Andrews. Steve is a TFS MVP and INETA board member. Steve is what you might call a community fanatic. His New Year's resolution was to…

In this episode of Community Talk, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Danilo Diaz interviews Miguel Castro. Miguel is an ASP.Net MVP and an architect with IDesign. Miguel is a frequent speaker at Philly…

This is another DevNugget screencast from Brian Hitney. In the previous screencasts, we looked at setting breakpoints and how to work with advanced breakpoints, filters, and working with multiple…

Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, closes out his five part series covering topics on SQL Server for developers with an overview of execution plan generation. Using SQL Server Management Studio it’s…

This is a DevNugget video from Brian Hitney: In parts 1 and 2, we looked at setting breakpoints, and talked about setting up advanced breakpoints using hit counts and some simple conditions. In part…

SQL Server Profiler is a tool every developer should have in their repertoire. With the use of frameworks and abstractions, we often lose sight of what is actually hitting the database, and there’s no…

This is a DevNugget video from Brian Hitney: Part 1 was a pretty basic introduction to setting breakpoints. Now it’s time to have a bit more fun! In part 2, I’ll look at using breakpoint…

Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, continues his five-part series on what developers should know about SQL Server. In this third segment, he takes a look at the components of a SQL Server error as well…

In this second of a series on what developers should know about SQL Server, Jim takes a brief look at SQL Injection attacks, how they occur and what types of things you can do (as well as things you…

This is a DevNugget video from Brian Hitney. Recently, I’ve been doing a number of talks on tips and tricks with the Visual Studio debugger. I thought it would be a good idea to start putting…

In this first episode of Community Talk, Microsoft Developer Evangelist Danilo Diaz interviews Bill Wolff. Bill is an MVP and is President of the Philly .Net users group. According to Dani, Bill has…

It’s rare that a developer doesn’t need some familiarity with the database his or her applications are targeting, so this session (divided in to five parts) provides a bit of insight into features of…

Universital Inc of Jacksonville, Florida, has released an innovative mail notification application for Windows Mobile. During the JAX CodeCamp (and incidentally, Hurricane Fay) devfish sat down…

There are plenty of new things to talk about with Internet Explorer 8, and no time like the present since it’s officially released! In this screencast, we begin with a tour of the new consumer…

Once the initial allure of the cool graphics and animation capabilities of Silverlight has passed, you’ll probably say to yourself, "Hey, my app needs data too!" Well, this session delivers…

ReactionGrid is a virtual world startup based on OpenSimulator technology. I recently drove down to Fort Pierce, Florida to talk to Robin and Kyle Gomboy, two of the three owers of ReactionGrid,…

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the unsung hero of the .NET 3.0 release. With Workflow Foundation you can model business processes as sequential flows and state machines at a level of…

There’s no shortage of choice when it comes to building applications on the Microsoft platform – traditional desktop application or browser-based application? Web Forms or Win Forms? AJAX or…

REST (Representational State Transfer) is all the rage as a lightweight, web service architecture that relies on existing web standards such as HTTP and XML. In this session, you’ll get…

In this screencast, Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, takes us on a tour of ASP.NET Dynamic Data, introduced with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Dynamic Data leverages LINQ to SQL and the ADO.Net…

The Fourth Annual Orlando Code Camp took place on March 28, 2009. Microsoft Developer Evangelist Joe "Devfish" Healy was there with his trusty camcorder to get some video and talk with the…