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Game On Virtual Event - June 15th
Join us for a free virtual event that will get you up to speed fast with Windows 8 game creation. Learn everything you need to create, upload and publ... more
Tuesday, May 21
Publish Apps, Keep the Cash
Publish up to 10 apps in the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store and fill out the form at build.windowsstore.com/keepthecash to participate.
Monday, May 20
Port your iOS and Android apps to Windows
Sign up for App Builder and select “Port an Existing App to Windows” for resources and tools to port your app to the Windows platform.
Monday, May 13
CodeProject’s Azure Cloud Challenge
CodeProject is running a cloud challenge with great prizes. Completing all challenges results in a web app hosted on Azure using everything a modern c... more
Monday, May 13

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New Windows Dev Center release
Yesterday we launched a new Windows Dev Center.  You might ask “Why are you telling us about that, Brian?”  Well, the answer is that my team is respon... more
Thursday, May 16 Brian Harry MS

Languages

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Image Processing with C++ AMP and the .NET Framework
Image processing is a computational task that lends itself very well to GPU compute scenarios. In many cases the most commonly used algorithms are inh... more
Tuesday, May 21 Eric Battalio

Visual Studio

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Use Your MSDN Benefit to Convert Your Office 365 Developer Preview
The easiest way to get started developing SharePoint apps with LightSwitch is to sign up for a free trial of an Office 365 Developer account at dev.of... more
Monday, May 20 Beth Massi

.NET framework

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How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line)
A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, i... more
Tuesday, May 21 Scott Hanselman

ALM

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Final ALM Certification Jumpstarts May 28th and May 29th
Earlier this month Anthony Borton, Lead ALM Consultant at Enhance ALM, and Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, delivered a ve... more
Tuesday, May 21 Charles Sterling

Platform development

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Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2
This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team. - Adam Testing your app throughout t... more
Tuesday, May 21 Adam Denning

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