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64 apps, 21 phones, and one Windows Phone Next App Star
Out of more than 9,000 competing apps from 79 countries, 64 developers have made it into the quest. Vote for Windows Phone Next App Star.
Tuesday, Mar 19
Kinect for Windows New SDK
Release of Kinect for Windows SDK will be made available today. Developers will be able to download SDK 1.7, developer toolkit, and the new Human Inte... more
Monday, Mar 18
Publish an app and Get up to $2000
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
Wednesday, Mar 13
Moving Your Applications to Windows Azure
Online guide covering a wide range of scenarios for migrating applications to Windows Azure to reduce maintenance, maximize performance and minimize c... more
Monday, Mar 11

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Advanced Developers Conference 2013: C++
The Advanced Developers Conference 2013 takes place May 7-8 this year with sessions on building modern device apps, drivers, graphics development, deb... more
Monday, Mar 11 Eric Battalio
Visual Studio

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How to fix “TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred.” on your Kanban board in TFS 2012 Update 2
Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available in VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself, and you ... more
Tuesday, Mar 19 Ewald Hofman - TFS Product Team
Platform development

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Azure HDInsight and Azure Storage
In our last blog post we provided a walkthrough of the updated HDInsight Service on Windows Azure.  Today’s post, which focuses on HDInsight and Azure... more
Thursday, Mar 21 Eron Kelly