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Innovation Showcase : Now Playing: Silverlight Media Framework
posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1112 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes ago
Monday, May 10, 2010 2:50:03 PM GMT
10 May 2010 Now Playing: Silverlight Media Framework Looking for a quick way to get a high-quality Silverlight video experience in your application? The Silverlight Media Framework (SMF) is an open source project that was released by Microsoft at the 2009 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. It is an extensible and highly scalable Silverlight video framework that directly answers the need for a stable core upon which developers and designers can create their own players. The code at the cen... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : DoodlePad - A Sketching App for Windows Phone 7
published 1113 days, 11 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1115 days, 20 minutes ago
Sunday, May 09, 2010 9:23:22 AM GMT Friday, May 07, 2010 8:19:20 PM GMT
07 May 2010DoodlePad - A Sketching App for Windows Phone 7 Our Developer Evangelist David Isbitski recently completed a nice sketching application for Windows Phone 7 and documented the thought process behind the fun project in a blog post. If you are interested to see how the app works and maybe improve it, you can download the source code and run it on the emulator. Filed under: Windows Phone 7 Series (more)
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tags: Windows Phone 7 Series
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Innovation Showcase : Do Architects Need to Code?
published 1114 days, 13 hours, 1 minute ago posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1116 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes ago
Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:38:35 AM GMT Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:18:53 PM GMT
06 May 2010Do Architects Need to Code? Ruth Malan writes on her online blog ‘A Trace in the Sand’ on the topic of ‘Do architects need to code?’. In part, architecture is about enabling many people to work on a complex system, and still achieve something that is coherent. So the architect needs to have technical insight that comes from technical experience, and the architect needs to be good at achieving alignment with the technical direction, and getting buy-in to the architectural decisions that shap... (more)
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tags: Architecture, Architects
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Innovation Showcase : Pete Brown Lights Up on Silverlight & WPF 4 – Connected Show #29
published 1114 days, 13 hours, 1 minute ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1116 days, 5 hours, 6 minutes ago
Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:38:35 AM GMT Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:33:11 PM GMT
06 May 2010 Pete Brown Lights Up on Silverlight & WPF 4 – Connected Show #29 Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode 29 “Get LIT with Silverlight & WPF 4”.  Microsoft’s own Pete Brown joins Peter to discuss the recent releases of Silverlight 4 & WPF 4. Pete talks about how to “light up with COM” and do some crazy stuff on your client. WPF or Silverlight?  Which one should you be lookin... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : Second IE9 Platform Preview Now Available
published 1116 days, 10 hours, 12 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1117 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes ago
Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:27:30 AM GMT Wednesday, May 05, 2010 3:15:54 PM GMT
05 May 2010 Second IE9 Platform Preview Now Available Today, Microsoft announced the release of the second IE9 Preview.  This release builds on the first Platform Preview from MIX10 and now contains:More improvements to IE9’s performance and support for standards.Additional tests submitted to the working groups at the W3C.New developer samples the IE9 Test Drive site.10-12 new samples across performance, graphics and HTML5. The goal of IE9 is to provide professional-grade, modern HTML5 support on top... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : High-Quality Touchscreens for your Windows 7 Multitouch Applications
posted by zhimingzhiming 1118 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 4:11:05 PM GMT
04 May 2010High-Quality Touchscreens for your Windows 7 Multitouch Applications Windows 7 provides native APIs for developers to create multitouch applications. However, selecting right devices, e.g., integrated PCs and notebooks, screens, panels or monitors, that support multitouch capabilities has not been an easy task for developers or project teams. On the one hand, there are only a few Windows 7 certified multitouch devices available in the market today, though we’ve seen more and more multitouch... (more)
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tags: Windows 7, multitouch
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Innovation Showcase : On-Line Clinic: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure
published 1111 days, 5 hours, 26 minutes ago posted by wzackwzack 1112 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:13:40 PM GMT Monday, May 10, 2010 2:43:50 PM GMT
On-Line Clinic: Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure This two-hour on-line SQL Azure clinic explores the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Azure. It covers:Understanding the SQL Azure Platform Designing Applications for SQL Azure Migrating Applications to SQL Azure Achieving Scale with SQL Azure Users completing this collection should have a basic understanding of SQL Server and relational database systems. At the end of the course, students will be able to: Understand SQL Server Develo... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : SQL Azure: Frequently Asked Questions
published 1111 days, 5 hours, 26 minutes ago posted by wzackwzack 1112 days, 6 hours, 16 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:13:40 PM GMT Monday, May 10, 2010 2:23:06 PM GMT
SQL Azure: Frequently Asked Questions This paper provides an architectural overview of the SQL Azure Database, and describes how you can use SQL Azure to augment your existing on-premises data infrastructure or as your complete database solution. SQL Azure Database is a cloud based relational database service from Microsoft. SQL Azure provides relational database functionality as a utility service. Cloud-based database solutions such as SQL Azure can provide many benefits, including rapid ... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : How fast is Azure?
published 1114 days, 13 hours, 1 minute ago posted by wzackwzack 1118 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:38:35 AM GMT Tuesday, May 04, 2010 7:20:12 PM GMT
How fast is Azure? The Microsoft Extreme Computing Group regularly publishes an extensive set of benchmarks on all aspects of Windows Azure performance. http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx.  (Note that it is itself a Windows Azure application.) We blogged about this before, but there have been significant updates since then.  These benchmarks are intended to assist you in architecting and deploying your applications and services on Azure. Included in the benchmark suite are test... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : Refactoring to the Cloud
posted by wzackwzack 1118 days, 2 hours, 15 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:24:39 PM GMT
Refactoring to the Cloud In talking to customers one of the questions that I get asked repeatedly is how to migrate a legacy application into Window Azure. In the first of this this multipart screen cast series Brian Hitney from Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group explores the basics of migrating existing ASP.NET web sites to Windows Azure. Using a real-world example (his popular Worldmaps application) Brian performs a step-by-step conversion of Worldmaps from ASP.NET to Windows Azur... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010
published 1117 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1118 days, 19 hours, 13 minutes ago
Wednesday, May 05, 2010 9:48:26 AM GMT Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:26:27 AM GMT
04 May 2010 Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 Did you know that the Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010 now provides visual design support for creating Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications? You can now build XAML-based user interfaces for your applications by dragging controls from the Toolbox and setting properties in the Properties window. You can also edit XAML directly in the XAML view. Check-out this new MSDN guide at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : Executing Unit Tests in parallel on a multi-CPU/core machine
published 1118 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1118 days, 19 hours, 32 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:24:06 AM GMT Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:07:20 AM GMT
04 May 2010 Executing Unit Tests in parallel on a multi-CPU/core machine Here’s a brilliant use of the new parallel computing capabilities exposed in the .NET 4.0 framework and Visual Studio 2010 – the ability to run your Unit Tests in Parallel across multiple cores. In Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft introduced the ability to run tests in parallel.  Many machines today have multiple CPU’s or a CPU with multiple cores, so it makes sense that we may want our tests to run in such a way to use all the cor... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer for Windows Server 2008 R2
published 1118 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1118 days, 20 hours, 15 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:24:06 AM GMT Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:24:51 AM GMT
04 May 2010 Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer for Windows Server 2008 R2 Whether you are currently running Hyper-V or just getting started, Microsoft has released a great toolset that will help guide you towards a better, more efficient virtualization environment. You can use this Analyzer to run Powershell scripts to check on a group of servers on how they compare to BPA or run it for a single server.  Check it out at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a serve... (more)
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Innovation Showcase : SharePoint 2010 for Developers: What’s New
published 1118 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by jbarnesjbarnes 1118 days, 20 hours, 37 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:24:06 AM GMT Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:02:58 AM GMT
04 May 2010 SharePoint 2010 for Developers: What’s New Looking to get a great working summary of what’s new in SharePoint 2010 for developers? Check-out this blog post by the Microsoft ISV team for a complete rundown on all the cool new features for developers in Sharepoint 2010 such as:New Visual Studio 2010 Templates for: Web Parts Business Data Connectivity Workflow diagrams. SharePoint Explorer SharePoint Designer 2010- A “No Code” Tool for SharePoint Developer Dashboard Connect with Line of... (more)
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ARCast.TV - Accenture: Enabling the Mobile Workforce with Windows Azure
published 1118 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by bobfamiliarbobfamiliar 1119 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:24:06 AM GMT Monday, May 03, 2010 7:03:16 PM GMT
03 May 2010ARCast.TV - Accenture: Enabling the Mobile Workforce with Windows AzureWhen most people think of the cloud, they generally look at is as means of building and hosting highly-scalable, highly-available applications to their customers and partners. However, many forward looking companies see the cloud as a way to enable and empower their mobile workforces, giving people the ability to work on-the-go wherever and whenever they need. This is what Accenture has done using Windows Azure. In this ... (more)
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tags: Accenture, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, Architecture, Architects, ARCast
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Innovation Showcase : Bring Panoramic View to Your Windows Phone 7 Applications
published 1118 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1119 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:24:06 AM GMT Monday, May 03, 2010 3:42:38 PM GMT
03 May 2010Bring Panoramic View to Your Windows Phone 7 Applications My colleague Stephane Crozatier created a nice panorama control for Windows Phone 7. It is a sample implementation of a Silverlight control that allows to create "Hub" applications on Windows Phone 7 Series. You can find more detail about what the control is at his blog post, and download the source code and two sample applications at codeplex.com.   Note: The control and sample apps use the WrapPanel control, so the Silverlight Too... (more)
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tags: Windows Phone 7
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Innovation Showcase : Financial Institutions See Benefits of Windows 7
published 1121 days, 13 hours, 7 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1122 days, 6 hours, 34 minutes ago
Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:32:38 AM GMT Friday, April 30, 2010 2:05:38 PM GMT
30 April 2010Financial Institutions See Benefits of Windows 7 Several financial services customers recently shared their Windows 7 deployment stories with Microsoft, and emphasized the advanced power management, lower TCO and utilization costs and improved performance they’re seeing. More detail here.Filed under: Windows 7 (more)
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tags: Windows 7
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Innovation Showcase : Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP For Visual Studio 2010 RTM
published 1121 days, 13 hours, 7 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1122 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes ago
Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:32:38 AM GMT Friday, April 30, 2010 1:54:52 PM GMT
30 April 2010Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP For Visual Studio 2010 RTM The wait is over; you can now download the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh from the Windows Phone web site at http://developer.windowsphone.com. With this CTP, you can develop and test Windows Phone 7 apps on the RTM version of Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010). There are several improvements in the CTP, including an updated Windows Phone 7 OS image for the Windows Phone Emulator. See more detail about the release at a Win... (more)
category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | 5 comments | | source: blogs.msdn.com
tags: Windows Phone 7 Development Tools
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Innovation Showcase : Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Technologies to Device Manufacturers
published 1123 days, 9 hours, 31 minutes ago posted by zhimingzhiming 1124 days, 4 hours, 59 minutes ago
Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:08:29 AM GMT Wednesday, April 28, 2010 3:40:07 PM GMT
28 April 2010Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Technologies to Device Manufacturers Microsoft just announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Embedded Standard 7. Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of the Original Equipment Manufacturer Division at Microsoft, shared more insight around recent OEM and partner activities with Windows Embedded Standard 7 in his blog. Developers use Windows Embedded Standard 7 to create a variety of smart, connected, and service-oriented advanced commercial o... (more)
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tags: Windows 7, Windows Embedded
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Innovation Showcase : Microsoft: We are “All In” Cloud Expo
published 1119 days, 9 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by wzackwzack 1120 days, 20 hours, 52 minutes ago
Monday, May 03, 2010 11:17:12 AM GMT Saturday, May 01, 2010 11:47:36 PM GMT
Microsoft: We are “All In” Cloud Expo Lest there be any doubt that Microsoft is “All In” the cloud, we recently were one of the primary sponsors of Cloud Expo at New York’s Javits Convention Center. Highlight of the expo was a complete Azure Data Center in a box, a 30 foot compute and storage container shipped in and assembled on the spot! (more)
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