300 for 320 - 320 Windows 8.1. app and code samples, C++, C#, JavaScript, in a 300MB download... (Or get language level download or pick and choose singles)

Windows Dev Center - Windows 8.1 app samples Windows 8.1 Preview Code Samples This sample pack includes all the app code examples developed and updated for Windows 8.1 Preview. The sample pack provides a convenient way to download all the samples at once. The samples in this sample pack are available in C#, C++, VB.NET, and JavaScript.The Windows Samples Gallery contains a variety of code samples that exercise the various new programming models,...

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"Utilizing SysInternals Tools for Windows Client" - The Seven Part Series..

Channel 9 - Utilizing SysInternals Tools for Windows Client Microsoft Premier Field Engineers the step through a technical deep dive on utilizing SysInternals Toolsets. This course focuses on key administrative and diagnostic utilities, and addresses key insights, and best practices. Utilizing SysInternals Tools for Windows Client  - Utilizing SysInternals Tools for Windows Client: (01) Introduction In this module you...

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Google .Net API's go portable... The v1.4.0 Google APIs .NET library is now a Portable Class Library (PCL) And now uses TPL and the new HttpClient lib too

google-api-dotnet-client Announcements - Announcing the release of 1.4.0-beta We are excited to announce the Google APIs .NET library 1.4.0-beta release. There are amazing new features in this release, the library was upgraded to support .NET 4.0, and the core Google.Apis assembly is now a Portable Class Library (PCL, see below). We support now HttpClient as our transport layer and TPL for asynchronous tasks. Resumable upload was also improved and media download support was added to the library. For users who run on .NET 3.5 or earlier...

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Goodbye Google Reader... Need an alternate app? Here's an ultimate alternate list, by AlternativeTo (GReader)

AlternativeTo - Google Reader shuts down, but we have the alternatives! Since you visit the AlternativeTo blog the chances are great that you’re one of the many people around the world that use an RSS-client powered by Google Reader to follow news, blogs and other types of web content. You probably already know that Google Reader is shutting down in just a few days. July 1 is getting closer very fast and it’s time to move on. On AlternativeTo...

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Scott (not that Scott) helps make your Live dev easier with the LiveSDKHelper

Metro Nuggets - Belatedly Introducing LiveSDKHelper while back I was working on a project that allowed me to actually look at, and use, the Live SDK in order to access information on SkyDrive. I was surprised to find just how hard it was to use the Live SDK, so as part of building the main project, I also built a little helper for using the Live SDK. The Solution So what is the LiveSDKHelper? Well basically, it’s a collection of classes,...

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SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) June 2013 Released

SQL Server Data Tools Team Blog - Announcing SQL Server Data Tools - June 2013 We are pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools - June 2013 is now available for download.  This release introduces several new features that we have consistently received requests for via MSDN forums and Connect.   From the SSDT team, thank you for your valuable feedback and suggestions! Get it here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh297027...

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RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) for Windows 8.1 already available...

Microsoft Downloads - Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1 Preview Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1 Preview enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview from a remote computer that is running Windows 8.1 Preview. Note: There are multiple files available for this download. Once you click on the “Download” button, you will be prompted to select the files you need. Version: 8.1 Preview Date...

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Getting a picture of the "Blue" Wave...

Redmond Recap - Approaching Build: What is the “Blue” wave? This week will be quite a barrage of Microsoft-related information. TechEd Europe kicks off tomorrow in Madrid, and the Build conference will get rolling on Wednesday in San Fransisco. This blog post will put some of the agenda items in temporal perspective. “Blue” was originally the rumored code name for the next update of Windows 8, later announced as Windows 8.1. But during the...

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Need some help up the WPF learning curve? "WPF Succinctly" from Syncfusion is now available (and free :)

Syncfusion - WPF Succinctly WPF Succinctly is for software developers with an understanding of the .NET Framework who have yet to dive into WPF. Author Buddy James approaches the platform at its simplest point—single-window applications that contain a single control—and gradually adds more complex controls and back-end features. By the end of the book, you'll be able to manage data flow between application elements, use WPF commands to maximize...

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A Sweet Summer Sysinternals Suite Refresh

Windows Sysinternals - Sysinternals Suite 2013.06.20 Updated: June 20, 2013 Introduction The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault. The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities: AccessChk AccessEnum AdExplorer AdInsight AdRestore Autologon Autoruns BgInfo...

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Robin's "So you're in San Francisco for Build? Stuff to do guide..."

RobinDotNet's Blog - Fun stuff to do if you’re in San Francisco for the BUILD conference Is there any tourist-y stuff to do in San Francisco? ... Any tech events going on around \\build? ... How do I find the Microsoft office in San Francisco? ... Is Rice-a-Roni really the San Francisco Treat they claim it is? ... Nice guide for this coming week if you are going to Build......

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TypeScript Succinctly - Free [Name/email-ware] eBook

Syncfusion - TypeScript Succinctly The extensive adoption of JavaScript for application development, and the ability to use HTML and JavaScript to create Windows Store apps, led Microsoft to develop TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript. Though the messiness of JavaScript causes many .NET developers to avoid the language, Microsoft's additions extend many familiar features of .NET programming to JavaScript. With TypeScript Succinctly by Steve...

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Friday Humor: Cell Reception - Can you hear me...oh oh...

Buni Gave me a good chuckle this morning... (via Global Nerdy - A Little Cellular Reception Humour)...

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Mark TechEd's you... See all four of Mark Russinovich's recent TechEd North America sessions

Sysinternals Site Discussion - Updates: Mark's TechEd Sessions, Autoruns v11.61, Strings v2.52, ZoomIt v4.5 "Mark’s TechEd Sessions Available On-Demand:  Mark delivered four top-rated sessions at Microsoft’s TechEd US conference two weeks ago, and the recordings are available now for on-demand viewing. In Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, he gives an overview of the deployment and operation of Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks; in Windows Azure Internals Mark goes under the hood of Windows Azure to show its physical and logical...

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Fighting bugs in your LOB apps? Hearing about crashes after the fact? You need CALM (Common Application Lightweight Monitor)...

CALM - Common Application Lightweight Monitor What’s CALM in a nutshell? CALM (Complete Application Layer Monitoring) is an Application Status Monitoring System that monitors, logs, and reports exceptions and application failures for custom applications built using .NET. CALM’s feature set is designed for small to mid-sized businesses, to larger organizations needing a feature rich, affordable, and scalable custom application monitoring system....

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Greg's //build bets - My total and complete WAG's about next week's //build event

These are my complete and total WAG's (Wild Ass Guesses) about what we might get, see and hear about at next week's //build (which I will be attending... ;) First off the most important thing, //build swag: XBox One (or certificate for one) WAG Factor: 99% Reasons: I'm thinking that since I think this is the first time I've seen the Xbox mentioned on a //build or PDC announcement That this is a new platform That it's not backward compatible The need for "apps" (not games, as the story there seems kind of anti-indie) and ...

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Excel as a digital art drawing platform? Yep! Beautiful digital art done completely in Excel...

Twisted Sifter - Digital Art Made with Excel Spreadsheets Believe it or not, the artwork above was made entirely in Microsoft Excel. In fact, you can actually play with the actual Excel documents in this attached zip file. The digital paintings are the work of Tatsuo Horiuchi, a 73-year-old Japanese artist who began experimenting with Excel’s artistic capabilities 13 years ago. According to Japanese art and design blog Spoon & Tamago,...

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Want the world's best Science Fiction And Fantasy Library? Come to LA... The Eaton Collection @ UC Riverside

CBS Los Angeles - The Eaton Collection: The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Library Science fiction and fantasy fans rejoice and take some time to visit the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Yes, this impressive collection is the world’s largest collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian literature. Housed in the UC Riverside Library’s Special Collection and Archives, it is publicly accessible and a wonderful destination...

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Eric triple downs on his Free Microsoft eBook List... (Windows, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Office, Azure and More)

Microsoft Sales Excellence Program Manager - Eric Ligman - Huge collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: Office, Office 365, SharePoint, SQL Server, System Center, Visual Studio, Web Development, Windows, Windows Azure, and Windows Server Last summer I put up a post that offered a collection of free Microsoft eBooks across a variety of topics and the response was incredible. Because of the phenomenal response, I followed it up...

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Log Parser Studio 2.0 now out (Log Parser GUI++)

Exchange Team Blog - Log Parser Studio 2.0 is now available Since the initial release of Log Parser Studio (LPS) there have been over 30,000 downloads and thousands of customers use the tool on a daily basis. In Exchange support many of our engineers use the tool to solve real world issues every day and in turn share with our customers, empowering them to solve the same issues themselves moving forward. LPS is still an active work in progress; based on both engineer and customer feedback many improvements have been made with multiple features...

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//build Windows Store App available

XAMLGeek - BUILD app for Windows Store In Bluefragments we love to do fun stuff. For the last couple of weeks we have been working on a BUILD app for Windows Store. We wanted to build an app that is great to navigate through the content of the BUILD 13 conference. At the same time it should work as an archive over the previous BUILD conferences allowing the user to watch recorded sessions and published slides and demos. Last week we published...

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Booting Minecraft (or maybe Assembling Minecraft) - MineAssemble is a bootable Minecraft clone, written in mostly x86 assembly

OS News - Bootable Minecraft clone written party in x86 assembly "MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same...

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POP goes the code review... Prince Of Persia Apple II Code Review Series

Fabien Sanglard's Website - Prince Of Persia Code Review: Part 1 (Introduction) Even though it is the Apple II version written in 6502 assembly language, it was a pleasant experience to dive in the code of that mythical game: As usual there were many fascinating software wizardries to discover. The Apple II apparent poor environment for game programming was actually ground to unmatched innovation and creativity : From self-modifying code,...

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So you want to be a dev at Microsoft? Here's two views from the inside...

DamienG - Working at Microsoft Ahmet Alp Balkan on the Microsoft Azure team reflected on his experiences at Microsoft. His experiences do not exactly match mine (initially on LINQ to SQL, then Entity Framework and finally xbox.com) but I recognize some of his points. Here is some further discussion along with some other thoughts that have come up over the years. A lot of these don’t apply just to Microsoft and some are useful for people new...

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"The Essential HTML5 Mobile" DZone Refcardz Cheat Sheet (reg-ware)

DZone - Refcardz - 186: HTML5 Mobile Development The Essential HTML5 Mobile Cheat Sheet This Refcard is intended to bring you up to speed, and help you jump head-first into mobile HTML5 development. The card first covers the most important HTML5 mobile technologies, including key variations by platform and device, then offers a cream-of-the-crop selection from the vast ecosystem of tools, frameworks, and communities that have sprung up to...

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