SharePoint and Office Developer Training Now Available on Channel 9
Today, Channel 9 launched two new training courses for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 created by developers for developers. Channel 9 has always been about giving direct access to the engineers and future technologies from Microsoft, and now we’re extending this successful formula to bring you training that will allow developers to get started on learning about emerging technologies at their own pace. Today you’ll find extensive instructor recordings from top MVPs on how to develop against both SharePoint and office 2010. We’ll also be publishing more content at the beginning of December that will include hands-on labs, source code, and much more! All of this free for you to consume or download at your own pace.
SharePoint 2010 Developer Training
See how SharePoint 2010 has evolved into a first-class developer platform. Also, learn how SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools such as Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 through this self-paced course.
Office 2010 Developer Training
Discover how Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and see how developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. See online presentations with demos that will help you get started developing solutions from Add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs) using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform.
We hope you enjoy this initial set of training videos and will check back with Channel 9 in the near future as we build the learning center out to support SharePoint and Office 2010 development.
Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP Team Blog : SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 is now available
In case you missed it, the SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 is now available for download with support for SQL Azure as well. The download is available via the MSDN download site. The source code for the driver is posted on the CodePlex site.
Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP Team Blog : SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 is now available
Download Here: http://bit.ly/f9tSV
Happy Halloween! Carve Your Pumpkin in the Cloud
Check out this cool pumpkin carving app. This was created by Archetype a Microsoft Partner. http://bit.ly/1glQa2
Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight
The Eclipse tools for Silverlight project, aka eclipse4SL, is an eclipse plug-in that enables Eclipse developers to use the Eclipse IDE to create applications that run on the Microsoft Silverlight runtime platform. It also enables collaboration on Silverlight projects between Eclipse (Java) developers, .NET developers, and web designers on both the Windows and MAC operating systems.
Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse
This was noted at ZendCon last week. Here’s the official link for download.
PHP on Windows Contest
In partnership with Marco Tabini and Associates (MTA) (php|architect; CodeWorks; php|tek), we are excited to announce the launch of The Great PHP on Windows contest. Do you have what it takes to win? Of course you do 
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You are encouraged to leverage existing open-source libraries and applications, including blogs engines, forums, photo galleries and other platform/components as part of your submission.
For complete details visit http://phparch.com/win
The Quick Summary:
- Write a new application designed to run in PHP on Windows using IIS—or make a significant contribution to an existing open-source project along the same lines
- The best application, selected jointly by a panel of experts and by our readers, will win a grand prize
which includes a 52″ Digital HD home entertainment system, as well as an all-expenses paid trip to php|tek 2010 in Chicago. Runner-up prizes include 2 XBox 360 Ultimate and subscriptions to php|architect. - Not familiar with Windows? No worries—we have partnered with Applied Innovations to give you absolutely free hosting on a pre-configured virtual machine for the duration of the contest.
- Registration and submissions for the contest will be accepted October 19th, 2009 through February 28th, 2010 and with judging and public voting will occur March 1st – 31st.
- For the duration of the contest, Applied Innovations will provide free web hosting to all participants (shared) and a free VM to the first 60 participants who register.
- Contest is open to all U.S. residents excluding MTA, Applied Innovations, and Microsoft employees and affiliated individuals. (MTA is the official sponsor with AppliedI and Microsoft as promotion entities.)
The contest is open to residents of the United States only—but you can still win by voting, no matter where you are.
Good Luck!
Virtual Event 0900 PDT Oct 26 – 18 Sessions focused on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Exchange 2010 Streamed Live
If you can’t attend in person, this is great opportunity to get some quality content.
Check out the event here: http://vepexp.microsoft.com/thenewefficiency
Agenda
Windows 7 Track
9:00-9:45am Taking Your Application to the Next Level with Windows® 7
9:45-9:55am Break
9:55-10:40am Beyond Human Interaction with Windows 7 Sensor and Location
10:40-10:50am Break
10:50-11:35am Building the Next Generation User-Interface with
Multitouch Ribbon on Windows 7
11:35-1:15pm Break
1:15-2:00pm Windows 7 for the Optimized Desktop
2:00-2:10pm Break
2:10-2:55pm Windows 7: Make People Productive Anywhere
2:55-3:05pm Break
3:05-3:50pm Windows 7: Enhanced Security and Control
3:50-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:45pm Windows 7: Deployment Enhancements
Windows Server 2008 R2 Track
9:00-9:45am What Developers Should Know About Windows Server 2008 R2
9:45-9:55am Break
9:55-10:40am Windows Server 2008 R2: Develop with New
Parallel Computing Technologies
10:40-10:50am Break
10:50-11:35am Windows Server 2008 R2: Web and Enterprise Solutions
11:35-1:15pm Break
1:15-2:00pm What’s in Windows Server 2008 R2 for IT Administrators:
A Technical Overview Part 1
2:00-2:10pm Break
2:10-2:55pm What’s in Windows Server 2008 R2 for IT Administrators:
A Technical Overview Part 2
2:55-3:05pm Break
3:05-3:50pm Windows Server 2008 R2: New Server Deployment & Migration
3:50-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:45pm Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization Technologies–
Saving IT Costs
Exchange 2010 Track
1:15-2:00pm Introducing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
2:00-2:10pm Break
2:10-2:55pm Voice Mail with Unified Messaging in Microsoft Exchange 2010
2:55-3:05pm Break
3:05-3:50pm Exchange 2010 High Availability and Storage
3:50-4:00pm Break
4:00-4:45pm Exchange 2010 Archiving and Retention
BizSpark, MSDN Premium and Azure
I often get a lot of questions about the Azure benefits associated with MSDN and the BizSpark Program. Here is a good posting and I’ve included the table below for easy reference.
