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There is considerable uncertainty around Windows phone. I would like to talk through some of that. And I would like to evaluate if Windows p...

Holy Moses, I’ve been published in MSDN Magazine! You have lived to see it: a single Windows OS that can run across every type of Windows d...

These are becoming the golden years. Microsoft has accomplished several amazing things at one time. First, Windows Core allows a driver test...

If you want to understand Windows 10, you need to understand some of the underpinnings that make it possible. It’s more than the next versio...

Articles Accessibility Resources for Developers (Portal with many links) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28725.a...

How do your users actually use your application or website? Jerry Nixon welcomes Rahul Bagaria to the show as they help answer that questio...

You might think you need x-code to write an iOS app. You might think you need eclipse to write an Andriod app. Visual Studio, is it just for...

Microsoft Patterns and Practices has created Prism MVVM for Windows Store Apps. This lightweight framework/toolkit gives you what you would ...

Daren May and I are back to walk through the core C# and XAML concepts of Windows Store development, in our Microsoft Virtual Academy course...

November 2013, immediately after the release of Visual Studio 2013, I sat down for an all-day session with Unni Ravindranathan, the Senior P...

Like most retailers, the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store see a spike in shopping activity around the holidays. Last year holiday sales...

When the computer mouse was new, it was simple to use but unfamiliar to users. As a result, user manuals could not say “click the red X”. In...

There is no shame in copying excellence. In fact, I would say that a core tenet of excellence is its ability to inspire excellence in others...

WHAT DESIGNERS HAD BETTER KNOW ABOUT WINDOWS 8.1 Let’s be perfectly clear, the Windows Design Guidelines in Windows 8.1 are, at a high-leve...

There are two version of PianoTime for Windows 8 – a successful title from a Colorado publisher. The free version sponsored by ads, and the...

You have your idea. You are developing your app. It’s coming along great. You can see the finish line. But do you need to do more than just ...

Windows 8 is the reimagining of Windows. Sure. But, let’s not forget, Windows 8 didn’t invent the new design language, Windows Phone did. To...

Windows 8.1 is imminent. What’s the word on the consumer features new to the update? Here’s the top of the list. Search Get results form ...

Store : A Microsoft account is the combination of an email address and a password that you use to sign in to services like Hotmail, Messenge...

Often when I talk to developers the examples I provide them or the walkthroughs I give them don’t match their version of Visual Studio. And ...