Did you know that Windows Azure has it’s own store? It’s been around for some time as the Windows Azure Marketplace. Well, today an update to the Windows Azure Management portal allows both store vendors and consumers a much better shopping experience!
My handsome colleague, Bruno Terkaly, is up all night in California with a brand new baby – and he is using that time to help show Android developers how they can use Windows Azure Mobile Services as the back-end data store for their mobile applications. In this 4 part series, Bruno goes step-by-step to show developers the right way to do the right thing. 
Then again, if you are looking for quality content, solid facts, excellent in anything, or witty commentary you’ll need look elsewhere (like here). After all, it’s me – not even Nisha can rescue everything.
It was a super fun event with a really cool venue. That Club Nokia is too cool for school. But their giant screen, stage, and layout was great. If you were there and have any feedback, we would love to have it.
The video of the event is being edited now. When it is available, find it here.
Microsoft WebMatrix makes it easy for anyone to create a Drupal site. Acquia Drupal or Drupal 7 available from the Web Application Gallery is fully tested to run on WebMatrix and includes our URL Rewrite module for “Clean URL's”. Customize your site easily and then publish it on the internet from a wide choice of hosting service providers.
My colleague Developer Evangelist in Arizona, Michael Palermo, has found his true love – sort of. Read his left-brain poetry as he pines for, you guessed it, Microsoft .Net Framework. And, frankly, who can blame him?
I have a managed heap of memories regarding you - none of which are IDisposable. Therefore I am compiling my references, and persisting them to you in this file, which is ISerializable and will last for generations (at most 3).
Read the whole article here.
My colleague Developer Evangelist for Windows Phone in California, Daniel Egan, has posted a helpful article on the step-by-step implementation for consuming REST data in a Windows Phone application.
Over and over again, I see developers that have this great idea for an application that pulls cool data from a great services BUT get tied up in the implementation of “Getting It Done”. So I thought I would show you a quick and easy way to get REST data from a service, transfer the JSON data to a POCO list and Bind it to a ListBox. (In under 3 minutes)
Read the article here.
My colleague Developer Evangelist, Sam Stokes, in California has written a compelling article on dragging items in Windows Phone.
Maybe it’s because I have a problem with Sam – but probably not; he’s actually one of my top 90,000 people @ Microsoft. So, let’s talk about moving things in XAML!
Sam moves objects around by incrementing and decrementing an item’s top/left dependency property inside a Canvas.
In the code above, Sam is using the ManipuationDelta event. This awesome event allows an individual UI element to track the movement of finger gestures on it. It simplifies the typical events that have to handle and track.
My colleague Windows Phone Developer Evangelist, Daniel Egan, has set out to do the impossible. Only kidding. He has set out to measure the real differences between building an app on Windows Phone, the IPhone, and Android. I am excited to see his conclusions.
I certainly have my opinions on operating systems, and ease of development, and best IDEs etc… but I thought I would put this to the test with a multi platform development approach. Starting next week, I will be doing the same application on all three platforms (or possibly 6 if I include IPad, Android Tablet and Win 8 later). The application is called Uncorked, and it is a way to log and rate your wine collection.
Read the article here.
The Windows 8 Team has written a blog article around how Windows 8 will support sensors – letting developers built extremely robust applications that interact with the user.
To pull all of this together, our final challenge was to make the power and promise of sensor fusion available to those writing Metro style apps. To enable this, we designed a sensor API as part of the new WinRT. Through these APIs, developers can access the power of sensor fusion from any Metro style app. These APIs are clean and simple, and at the same time give developers access to the data needed to support everything from casual games to virtual reality applications. Of course these capabilities are all available as Win32 APIs for game developers or other uses in desktop applications.
Read the whole article here.
