Redmond Protocol Plugfest 2017

Dear fellow developers and quality assurance engineers / testers, please register/participate in our annual Redmond Interoperability Plugfest 2017.

Register here
Venue: Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington
Date: June 19-23, 2017
Detailed agenda: https://www.interopevents.com/redmond2017

– It’s designed to cover interoperability topics that span Microsoft, including Office, Windows, and SQL. There will be testing, workshops, and great presentations targeted at developers and testers.

– Windows Interoperability (IO) Lab is the opportunity to test your implementation with Microsoft Windows protocol test suites. During the IO lab you have the opportunity to directly engage with Windows Protocol Support, Test Suite Development, and Windows development team as well as network with other professionals from all over the world.

For further questions, please send your email to plugfests@microsoft.com.

So please make use of this!!

Video: Every Girl Can Code with Microsoft Small Basic

Leveraging Microsoft Small Basic to teach future generations of women. Here is a video which tells how Microsoft Small Basic helps them to achieve more So please leverage Microsoft Small Basic to teach future generations of women, young girls. They can learn via Visual Programming, create programs, Games and improve their knowledge. Learn the programming concepts starting with the fundamentals and move your way up. Small Basic is based on .NET and what you learn here could be easily applied to other .NET programming languages like Visual Basic. And when you do graduate to Visual Basic, you can bring your existing programs with you using a built-in conversion utility.

Just to update you that Microsoft Small Basic puts the “fun” back into computer programming. Few of the interesting stuff I want to mention were,

– With a friendly development environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into the world of programming.
– Small Basic combines a friendly environment with a very simple language and a rich and engaging set of libraries to make your programs and games pop.
– In a matter of few lines of code, you will be well on your way to creating your very own game.
– With a new and revolutionary IntelliSense®, Small Basic makes writing code a breeze.
– Now you can share your programs with your friends; let them import your published programs and run them on their computer.

 

For more information, refer the following:

Site: http://www.smallbasic.com/
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=46392
Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/smallbasic/ 
Curriculum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16299.small-basic-curriculum.aspx
Documentation: http://www.smallbasic.com/doc.aspx
e-Books: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16386.small-basic-e-books.aspx
Program Gallery: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2013/02/17/small-basic-program-gallery-listed-by-category.aspx
Extensions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smallbasic/archive/2012/10/12/small-basic-extensions-gallery.aspx

Hope this helps.

Dev Training: What’s new in .NET 2015?

With .NET 2015 release encompasses several innovations that improve developer productivity and that can enhance application performance. .NET 2015 builds on the advancements available in .NET 4.5, 4.5.1, and 4.5.2 to deliver a highly compatible platform for building applications for the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

In this session, explore what’s new in managed languages, frameworks, and the numerous IDE improvements applicable to many app scenarios.

 

https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses-embed/leverage-the-full-power-of-net-2015-in-your-apps-13998/Leverage-the-Full-Power-of–NET-2015-in-Your-Apps-Video-Bj7GECouB_2900115881

Video: Installing, running Microsoft SmallBasic in Azure Cloud @ Azure DevTestLabs

Recently, i created a new Azure VM (virutal machine) in Azure DevTestLabs, tried burning my hands in installing Microsoft SmallBasic version 1.2.

Here is the related video:

 

So it works super fast. Now you’re good to do programming in Azure Cloud as well.

All the best for your cloud development.

Happy coding!!