May, 2012

Coming up next Thursday. Live stream starts at 1:00PM pacific time. Hear from Scott Guthrie and other senior technologists from Microsoft and the Bay area who will introduce you to Windows Azure and the latest in Microsoft's cloud-based development technology. Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

Good article by Yusuf Mehdi.. Am looking forward to E3.   Next week, the Xbox team heads to Los Angeles for E3. Having recently joined the team, I have the benefit of fresh perspective, and one of the things that has struck me is the amount of opportunities we have ahead. Before joining Xbox, I had the fortune of being a part of some incredible periods of innovation and incubation such as in the early days of Windows and Internet Explorer, and, more recently, with the creation of Bing. I have...

It is great to see Amazon app go live on XBox 360.. Already installed it and looks great If you've bought or are currently renting movies or TV shows from Amazon Instant Video, you'll now be able to watch them via an Xbox 360 console. It's part of the new Amazon Instant Video app that Amazon.com and Microsoft introduced today for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. The app also offers access to Prime Instant Video, if you're an Amazon Prime member. The Xbox 360 joins other devices, including...

This is the second in a series of video case studies I am doing with some of the ISVs I work with. The video is available here . Enjoy! ==================================================================== iVoteSports Baseball Edition makes you part of the action of a live Major League Baseball game using your iPhone or Android device. In this video, iVoteSports CEO and co-founder, Dennis Peters, speaks with Microsoft Principal Architect Evangelist Brian Loesgen. Dennis discusses how iVoteSports delivers...

This blog post contains all needed steps to create a generic BizTalk ESB endpoint, hosted in Internet Information Services, using the netTcpBinding. Windows Activation Services is required.

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Tom Verhoeff over zijn sessies op de TechDays. Tom presenteerde een sessie over hoe je geld kan verdienen met Windows Phone 7 applicaties. Het lijkt op het eerste gezicht zo eenvoudig, je maakt een app en het geld stroomt binnen. Maar in de praktijk blijkt het toch iets lastiger te zijn en zijn er best wel veel details waar je op moet letten.   Links: Blog: http://blog.tomverhoeff.nl/ Blogpost nav TechDays sessie: http://blog.tomverhoeff.nl/2012...

I’ve been busy making videos of a few of the ISVs that I’ve had the pleasure of working with. This is the first of those video case studies. The video is available here . Enjoy! =============================================================== Most consumers are unaware of the extent of publicly available, online exposures of their information – including phone numbers, current and past addresses, birth dates, home values, income level, religion, and relative names (including mother's maiden name...

One thing that many web sites do is to verify email addresses by sending you an email to complete registration.  I decided to build a Registration system for ASP.NET MVC using Windows Workflow Foundation. When you create a new ASP.NET MVC web site, the site comes with a simple account controller that integrates with ASP.NET Membership.  It provides basic one step registration and log-in support.  I wanted to take this much farther and provide a simple self-contained registration verification...

Source Code Recently I worked with a customer assisting them in implementing their Web APIs using the new ASP.NET Web API framework. Their API would be public so obviously security came up as the key concern to address. Claims-Based-Security is widely used in SOAP/WS-* world and we have rich APIs available in .NET Framework in [...] Blog Post by: zamd

One of the problems with running JavaScript in the browser is that everything usually executes on the same thread as the UI. With most scripts this is fine because they are short executing however if you start doing more complex calculations you might run into the vase where the UI becomes non responsive because of the JavaScript executing. And when that happens you will see one of these dialogs popup and you are at the mercy of the end user, not the best of places to be.   Fortunately there...