| Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications Posted: 29 Jan 2012 07:59 PM PST Introduction The Microsoft's Live SDK (or commonly referred to as Live Connect), provides a set of controls and APIs that enables applications to integrate single sign-on (SSO) functionality using Windows Live ID. You can also use it to access data...( read more )...( read more)  |
| About Orchard Governance and Microsoft Posted: 30 Jan 2012 12:29 AM PST Back in September, we did something with Orchard that is kind of a big deal: we transferred control over the Orchard project to the community. Most Open Source projects that were initiated by corporations such as Microsoft are nowadays still governed by that corporation. They may have an open license, they may take patches and contributions, they may have given the copyright to some non-profit foundation, but for all practical purposes, it's still that corporation that controls the project and makes the big decisions. That wasn't what we wanted for Orchard. We wanted to trust the community completely to do what's best for the project. This is why we organized elections for our new Steering Committee and had five members elected. Anyone who had...( read more)  |
| TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:30 PM PST I'll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I'll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I'm particularly excited about the "A look at ASP.NET MVC 4" talk as it will be the first time I've presented on it (and it is shaping up to a really great release – more blog posts on that soon). For more details on how to attend the event visit the Belgium Techdays and Dutch Techdays websites. Hope to see some of you at the conferences! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I use Twitter to-do quick posts and share links. My Twitter handle is: @scottgu Read More......( read more)  |
| Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 - #0033 Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:22 PM PST body { font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;} Windows Dev News for January 29, 2012 - #0033 [SC1209] In This Issue: Senthil Kumar B , Michael Washington , Michael Crump , Robby Ingebretsen , András Velvárt , Laurent...( read more )...( read more)  |
| 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages. Posted: 29 Jan 2012 07:00 PM PST 31 Weeks of Windows Phone Design Index In this post we'll try to answer a very common question that developers and designers ask us all the time and that in fact we in the Studio try to define always when exploring new features in Windows Phone...( read more )...( read more)  |
