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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

Microsoft developer blogs

Executive bloggers

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Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus
For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard... more
Thursday, May 23 ScottGu

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

MSDN – the Microsoft Developer Network

Top 10 Quick Tips for Building Great Mobile LightSwitch Apps
I’ve been building a lot of HTML clients using LightSwitch lately so I thought I’d share some quick tips that you can use to build great mobile apps. ... more
Thursday, May 23 Beth Massi

.NET framework

MSDN – the Microsoft Developer Network

JavaScript is Assembler and that's OK.
Some years ago I said that JavaScript is the Assembly Language of the Web. In fact, lots of people said it, because it's true. Later, some folks disag... more
Thursday, May 23 Scott Hanselman

ALM

MSDN – the Microsoft Developer Network

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

MSDN – the Microsoft Developer Network

Inside Windows Phone – Practical MVVM for Windows Phone
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry The cornerstone app architecture for Windows Phone ... more
Thursday, May 23 Larry Lieberman

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